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…]
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…]
When you find yourself in a losing streak, such as my losing streak this quarter, you search around for excuses… Unfortunately, as this latest mahjong session amply demonstrated, all excuses are invalidated by Noda. Excuse no 1: I got drunk. The Noda Disqualification: Noda regularly wins while drunk… Excuse no [Read more…]
After a couple of weeks in which no mahjong was played at all, the four regular players met up at Kodama on Friday night to resume battle. Noda, who has shed a few points in recent encounters, racked up an early lead finishing the only winner on +46. Jaime took [Read more…]
On Friday 21st April Noda, Jaime and Ray met at Kodama and played a couple of games in which Ray made a bid to move off the bottom of the Grand Accumulated Points Table by racking up a healthy lead of +72. David arrived in time to join the third [Read more…]
We supposed that it must have been pay day at Mazda because shortly after we started playing at Kodama tonight the place filled up with salary men and then with smoke. Nor were there so many of the usual crowd but various geezers who we had never seen before – [Read more…]
Tonight was an ideal evening for a cherry blossom viewing party – not the “freeze your bollocks off” weather so typical of early April hanami parties… A small group of ex-Lang students had arranged a party and four regulars from the Cockseye Mahjong Club joined them for a couple of [Read more…]
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