After idling away the morning at a ceremony to mark the beginning of the new school term David and Jaime, all dressed up in their best suits, ambled over to Mario del Sole at Shoko Centre, where they were joined by the less salubriously attired Human Computer, and a little [Read more…]
Tonight, Eri moved up one place on the “Grand Accumulated Points Chart” – without even playing a hand! What happened was that the “Ray Revival” never materialized and so Ray sank from the shallows to the depths – not quite as deeply as Kenyon, mind you, but still quite deep. [Read more…]
I felt something like old Banquo when I woke up from an afternoon snooze: a heavy summons lay like lead upon me and I would quite happily have slept for another couple of hours. The leaden feeling lasted all evening. Brutus-like, I was not gamesome and every time I made [Read more…]
Kodama jansou was busy on Saint Patrick’s Day with most of the tables in use (not that the Japanese were aware that it was Saint Paddy’s Day) and the Cock’s Eye Club also had a good turnout with five players playing and five games played. Of those five players, four [Read more…]
Parkside Hotel – scene of the last act of the Ash Wednesday Supper – glimmered and glowered at the Poor Little Still-Feeling-Rather-Delicate Cypriot as he disappeared into the Kodama mahjong parlour just across the road. With the Poor Little Cypriot officially off the sauce the only imbiber at the table tonight [Read more…]
There were only three players in the mahjong parlour Friday evening, Noda, David and Ray. Mama was complaining about the unpredictability of business these days. Mind you, all three of us ordered grub and Noda and David drank their way through the evening so she did ok out of us. [Read more…]
Kodama was packed tonight, with five tables busy and the atmosphere thick with smoke, just like it used to be every Friday a few years ago. I wonder if mama had expected them because she had made some extra good side dishes for the drinks. This is what I got [Read more…]
This evening started off quietly enough with Kenyon taking top spot mainly at the expense of David. Jaime and Tim strolled in to Kodama about half way through the game, just in time to observe the beginnings of David’s collapse. Jaime joined in the second game and didn’t look back [Read more…]
Four long and eventful years have passed since our friend Allan had his fatal motorbike accident. As the anniversary fell on a Friday the obvious thing to do was to meet in the ramen shop Bizenya for dinner and then head over to the mahjong parlour for the rest of [Read more…]
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