playing, photos

New photos are up! Find them here. Yeah, we don’t play very often.

playan

Played a game with friends, took some photos. Bad camera, so you’ll excuse me for that. Might have forgotten to take photos of one hand (actually, I don’t think I did), but eh. Since wordpress sucks and won’t even let me post photos 800 wide, I’ll link to my very hastily made gallery, hosted over [...]

I made a thingy

I could blurb on about teaching mahjong and all that, but I won’t bore you. My players wanted a reference sheet, I gave them one. A few basic deals: This is a yaku reference sheet – it doesn’t contain any scoring tables or rules; you’re assumed to know the rules yourself, and most mahjong sets [...]

EMA Tournaments

Now that TACOS has finished the tournament post, I’ll continue with a few thoughts I’ve gathered through playing in EMA tournaments. EMA’s tournament system is based on total score. You play a number of games – amount depending on the organizers – and the person with the most points at the end of the day(s) [...]

EMA Correspondence

A while back I contacted Tina (vice president of EMA) regarding why there’s no Open Tanyao in the EMA rules. A little while after that, ReachMahjong.com’s Gemma posted about Open Tanyao again (since I’d mentioned my dislike of it being concealed only in EMA rules), and a forum discussion was suddenly underway. Now, Tina isn’t [...]

wat

A short while ago, someone joined the channel. Nothing weird with that, we’re pretty hueg as it is. But, as we shall see, he had shadier things in mind than just playing mahjong. [00:05:36] * mib_iqrz2j7h (cgiirc@37389662.32478467.3B043F6.IP) has joined [00:05:45] mib_iqrz2j7h> any parents here? [00:05:58] @CRiX> ya i got 2 kids [00:06:30] drob> “in the [...]

Tournament. Travels. Thoughts.

Let’s get something straight here: when RM.com says “All smiles and happy faces start the day”, you start to wonder if the person reporting it has got a few screws loose. I was not “all smiles and happy face”; I was shaking badly because I’d gotten shitfaced last night. Indeed, it wasn’t even a hangover, [...]

Opera Girl. Feet. Water.

Figured I’d go with two British guys I met two days ago, so yesterday night we went clubbing. Met a girl from LA that studied Opera. Quite a fun one to talk with, until we drunkenly stumbled into a pool of water, and she ruined her $200 shoes. Me? I don’t DO $200 shoes. Anyway, [...]

On my way to 三段

Sometimes, you end up in a deep pit of DESPAIR AND ANGST AND HORRIBAD LUCK. This pit is known as the 二段 pit on Tenhou. I was up to 790 points a few days ago. I went down to 550. Now I’m back around 685 points, and decided to play another game, in the hopes [...]

Gucci Mahjong Set – Limited Edition 2008

So while browsing auctions over at Yahoo! Auctions Japan, I found this little gem. A mahjong set from Gucci, Italia. Limited Edition 2008. Now, Japanese are a lot more into Gucci than western people are – or so I’ve gathered – but it still seems a bit overpriced at 888,000 yen (that’s €6,580, or almost [...]