Today’s theme was the progress from the Congress of Vienna of 1815 to the German revolution of 1848. As good old Wikipedia puts it, “Germany” at the time of the Revolutions of 1848 was a collection of 38 states loosely bound together in the German Confederation after the Congress of [Read more…]
Two Kokushimusou , one yakitori, one loser! On the Grand Accumulated Results Table only Noda, who did not play tonight, is in the black on a stratospheric +666. After meeting Tim at Kemby’s for a couple of preliminary beers and a plate of pasta the four regular or semi-regular foreign [Read more…]
This was a fantastic day out and a great result for DEH. We won 5-1, playing on a lovely grass pitch out in the hills near Hiroshima Airport. It was especially pleasing to see the complete change in the spirit of the team. This was helped by our captain who [Read more…]
The Poor Little Cypriot were robbed! Just two tiles did it. Two nice Tempai hands but both times he drew and discarded the 1-Characters. Both times the result was a disaster! The first was in the second game when Noda, as Oya took 48,000 off the PLC. The second was [Read more…]
I didn’t play mahjong tonight because I was out celebrating the end of term with some of the TOEFL girls who I teach Friday evenings, and one of my “English Presentation” students, as well as Miree, a Norwegian of Korean heritage who was visiting Hiroshima for a few days. Because [Read more…]
With just three players tonight, Noda, David and Kenyon, it was strictly business as usual (for the last three months) on the score sheet. In short, Noda and Kenyon finished in the black. (Actually, Noda and Kenyon were never in the red.) David sank. Of six games: Kenyon came top [Read more…]
At the Doc’s today we compared the merits of the French and German models of the Enlightenment, or perhaps I should say, we read part of a chapter of Steven Ozment’s A Mighty Fortress which showed us how the German model of enlightened despotism was superior to the French model [Read more…]
Jaime invited several of his mates up to his pad in Mitaki to watch England play Portugal in the quarter finals of the World Cup, and to play a bit of mahjong. Prior to that we met at the izakaya on the second floor of the building attached to the [Read more…]
There were just three of us at our table tonight – the Old Guard of Noda, David and Jaime. The table, however, could not take the strain. After one hand had been played the shuffling and sorting mechanism inside the electronic table broke down and as all but one of [Read more…]
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