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15th December 2001 On Tuesday 4th Allan and DH played mahjong at the home of two of Allan's students. The Jenkins had one of his enormous runs of luck and won three games in a row (out of four played), with DH pounding the table in frustration at one stage as nicely developing hands were undercut by a sudden cry of "Ron!", or yet another "Tsumo!" from You-Know-Who... Last night (Friday 14th) Ray salvaged something from the game in the last round of play. Ray had fallen deep into the abyss of debt during the course of the evening's play, with no tenboo left in his tray, and owing both Noda and DH lots of mula. Then he made a last stand as final Oya of the South round of the last game. He paid off his outstanding debts, and then polished off the evening with Suuanko (see photo).
 Ray Gets Suuanko The Results
Yasu rolled in somewhat late. As first Oya on our table, Allan finished first, and joined Yasu and Mama's table.
5th December 2001 Tonight we played a Wednesday evening game for the first time since Jaime's departure. Don, Allan, Ray and DH sat around the table in DH's kitchen. A very quiet affair, perhaps because Ray and DH were off the beer, and because Allan had been knocked off his motorbike (flesh wounds only).
 This photo was taken by Allan last Friday evening, using Satoru's digital camera. Satoru's picture-editing skills seem to be improving.
This was also the night when Mama-san showed us more than just her shapely legs. Mama complimented the younger of the two women who made up Allan's entourage on the shape of her legs, and hitched up her skirt to show off her own shapely calves... and knees, and then went all the way up, to reveal a pair of stout thighs and tight buttocks whose modesty was covered only by the seam of her black tights...
21st November 2001 On 9th November DH suffered his most humiliating loss yet (at the same table as Akadenwa-Mama and Allan) - bottom FIVE games in a row and left with the Yakitori TWICE. However, the following week, 16th, DH reversed his form to come top three times in a row, but the beer kicked in and the luck wavered in the fourth game when Akadenwa-Mama and Allan joined the fray. Still, pride has been restored. We broke new ground last week. The last game finished at 3:30am and we took Akadenwa-Mama down to Mac bar. Unfortunately there is no photographic evidence. I found this photo of Jaime's last night of Mahjong however, taken some time back in September in DH's kitchen:
 Jaime, Tim and DH battle it out, DH's kitchen, September 2001 20th October 2001 Let's face it, the Big Swinging Dick has taken a bit of a beating recently. He was a bit down last week, and was given a good pounding this week. Last Friday, and tonight, DH was top at his table. A recent addition to the 3PMJ Club, Yasu-san, didn't say "No" when a post MJ and post-two-bars 2nd game of MJ was proposed. He went down, just before he crashed on Allan's sofa. Allan Jenkins and DH both felt a bit bad about the cash he owed us. Still, we hope he remembers his debts when he wakes up. I left before that happened. Got back home at 7am to find this scurrulous photo in my inbox...
 22nd September 2001 Satoru-san sent me the photo of the session at 赤電話 (Akadenwa) that Mama-san took a few weeks ago (early August?):
 Foreground: Neil, Jaime, Satoru, Allan. Background: Ray. 21st September 2001 It is indeed a different world. Tonight at 赤電話 (Akadenwa) Ray suddenly emerged in the South round of the first game as the new Big Swinging Dick. Until tonight, let it be remembered, his record as 親 (Oya) was to have racked up a maximum of three 100 点棒 (tenbou). Tonight he blasted through that record and reached NINE 100 点棒 (tenbou) at great expense to the other two players who were in the round, Allan and David. He went Ron on a tile given away by Allan to win 八連チャン (Paarenchan). Allan finally won a hand, which ended Ray's run. I failed to win a single hand so ended the game with my Yakitori tessera still on the table... Noda won the second game, and ended the evening up +53 points - usually considered to be a nice win. But the record win (in cash terms) now belongs to Ray. The following chart shows how well he did, and what we have to do to knock him off the perch: Final scores after two games:
7th September 2001
We marked Jaime's imminent departure, the inauguration of The Table and The Bit of Blue Carpet at 301 Yasuda Building, the launch of this website, and also England's 2-0 victory over Albania with a little bit of mahjong at the said location:  Jaime, Allan and Ray. (Tim checking out the latest on the Internet...)  Jaime, Allan and Ray. (Is Ray clutching a Riichi Tenbo?) Lovely bit of blue carpet. Top |
