The Ripped Soul

Went to HQ last night for the CNY gathering - courtesy of the Yam's. Had fun[?] I guess. Dawn made it even tho she told me earlier she wasn't coming, so that was a nice surprise. Then.. hmm. We had ALOT of food, and just this once, Dicky's bee hoon tasted wrong. Probably because it had too much Soya Sauce, or maybe cos.. I didn't bring my usual dish - the devil curry. Fried Rice by Randall was okay as well.. but in preference, I'd rather Daryl's one. Chicken drumlets/wings by WHOEVER was as hard as stone. The kind that when "you throw it at the dog, the dog will die." kinda thing. Hah. Then yeah.. I didn't really get to chew on other dishes. The murtabak by Aloy was probably the best dish of the night. I think. But that wasn't made by him, so that isn't really counted. Haha. Whatever.

ANYWAY... but yeah. That's just my personal opinion. So don't get offended okay? It's just an opinion.

Just like how Aloy commented bout my jap seaweed chix. "Seaweed dishes are just NOT meant to be fried. It tastes wrong."

So next time, if I ever do fry that dish again, I'll just leave some unfried and boiled instead, and that'll be his share for the dinner so that he won't complain.

Then we ate, drank, burped, [maybe even farted] and then.... the POPULAR [read: popular people and the nobodys] girls were joking around at the table. The popular guys were gambling with cards. Us girls just talked about mysterious faces appearing everywhere.... [read: the face on the wall of the altar of the Yam's house and the 'orb' that appeared in Dawn's picture of her altar at her house].......

and we played the LAMEST game of all time. Mindtrap.

Let me give you an eg.

Someone cleans the windows of a high-rise building using the 20-metre ladder. How is it that when he falls down to the concrete pathways below, he won't get injured?

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Give up?

HE WAS JUST STANDING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER! THAT'S HOW WHEN HE FALLS, HE WON'T GET BLOODY INJURED!

Lame, honestly.

Then yeah. After dishing out more cards which was damn lame. Like the detective question of how the man could get shot at when his door was bolted from within and the windows were all closed at the scene of the crime.... and the answer being because there was a block of ice at the window minutes before, leaving it open, ...

Come ON lah. Why the hell would the man even leave an ice cube at the window?!

So yeah. We decided to give the game up and play a game of mahjong. Dawn was particularly VERY particular about the game. Like, REALLY. If you don't play, then just shut up and let someone else who's a pro play. No point for rules to be taught last minute like a damn tutorial.

That's how she was like. Or so, I felt. So much so that when she started sounding DAMN ngiao, I wanted to back out already.

So you might be wondering.. "Why would Jess want to play mahjong?" I thought I knew all there was to it. Afterall, at JJ's reunion dinner last year, all she told me was "All you have to do is just get 4 '3 of a kind' or 'serials/numbers in ascending order', and a 'pair of eyes'."

How wrong.

If Dawn was my mom, I think I'd have been slapped right, left, up, down and centre. THERE WERE SO MANY RULES BEHIND THAT. And not forgetting mahjong etiquette?

But I'm not going to go through them here.

Passports [flower/animal/insect cards], winds, "peng-hu".. "zhi mo" "pong" "kang" ?....... and God knows what the hell else.

I don't even know the proper hanyu pinyin for it.

But w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.

It's addictive though. I only managed to pull away when Andrea was leaving and when I realised I lost $3.40 already.

Sian.

Oh, and I had guides and shi-fus throughout the game. So special thanks to Verena and Ernie who taught me things here and there, what card to throw, what card to look out for..

I lost, but would have lost more if I was without any guides at ALL.

So yeah. That was mahjong. But considering mahjong and pool....

I think I'll still stick to pool.

Speaking of which, I got friends online who're waiting for me to join them at Yahoo! games for a round of pool.. so yeeahh.

I'm ooooout!