CNY is not about the red packets. Its about what's in them!
CNY approaches.I really think we had the gathering like so early for nuthin. To accomodate certain pple, other pple also couldnt come. Who wants another gathering? Haha.
We must all thank yc for letting us into his house to use his television, warm his sofas, stain his mahjong tiles with our fingerprints, traumatise at his fishies, and torture his frisky gerbil.
And all the guys did not bring their NGKB. That included myself. Ahahaha
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Mahjong.
Everyone ought to learn mahjong cos its really fun and easy. Once you learn the basic rules then you can start memorising the intermediate rules, and youre on your way! For me, i actually know a whole lot of rules but of course, forget most of them, and therefore i am able to 'smoke' my way through the game by claiming i simply dunno leh. As the saying goes, act blur live longer. As long as you dunno anything pple will give you chance.
When you start a game you will have 13 tiles except the banker who has 14. So the banker starts the game by throwing away one tile. Simple. 14 minus 1 is 13.
You win a game by making 4 sets of 3 tiles, and one pair of tiles. That makes 14 tiles. 4 times 3 plus 2 equals 14. Who is lost so far?
In a poker card deck, there are 4 suits, spades hearts club diamonds. In mahjong there are 3 suits, bamboo, buttons and.. er.. numbers.
Just like the poker card deck, the mahjong suits also has numbers 1 to 9, but no jack queen king nor ace.
To win a game as mentioned above, you have to make 4 sets of 3 tiles. 1 set of 3 tiles can be any suit with a progressive sequence eg. 123, 345, 789 etc. Or else, you can make a set of 3 identical tiles. The remaining pair must be 2 identical tiles.
These rules are what you need to at least KNOW what mahjong is about. If you have never touched mahjong then you still dunno nothin yet. If you must play in order to learn.
But wait a minute. Who doesnt know how to play mahjong yet? All i know who will read this knows mahjong.
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My specs broke again! Ridiculous. I should just wear a suit of armour with lenses.
In a weeks time i will have 1 week of leave, followed by 3 whole months of staying-out (8 to 5) cos i will attend a construction course somewhere in bishan or braddell, learning how to built shelters. Like the time we went to udon thani.
So HH, wanna have dinner everday? wahahaa
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Being on 'standby' is sort of fun.
Explanation: If you are on standby, you have to run back to your barrack and grab all your stuff and fall in at the parade square in a very short time, when the damn siren sounds. The siren can sound ANYTIME.
So the other day in camp i was supposed to be pacing my men (who failed soc) at the soc ground for their retests(which never seem to end). 8AM. I was just chatting to my older commanders bout the screwed up army life, and then the sickest of things happened.
POOOOORRRRRRRRRR..............
I looked at my fellow commanders. They looked at me. We looked at the men. And then, like wooosh! All my fellow commanders were alr 50 metres away running back to the barrack. i was still glued to the ground.
And the funny thing is, i had never seen the soc failures run so fast before.
That day was just sick. SICK. SICK. Although i might say, quite fun.
Cos when i returned to my bunk to grab my stuff, there was like a mini warzone up there, clothes flying around, pple ramming into each other, pple screaming, "Where the **** is my ******* SBO!!!!!! ****!!!!!!"
And for once i pulled the biggest stunt of all my army life. I DID NOT BRING DOWN MY RIFLE.
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