Mahjong.

For this week's blog post, I will be writing about mahjong. Mahjong is a very famous game for four players that originated in China. Many people use this game as a form of gambling and others coughunderagedkidscough just play for fun and amusement. There's also a Korean varuation that allows for three players only. The Korean variation is just like Japan and Malaysia's. According to wikipedia, this game involves skill, strategy, and calculation and a degree of luck. But my own opinion, is that the game of mahjong requires every ounce of luck you have in you. If you don't have luck, don't play mahjong. But I guess you also need to think about each tile and try to ruin your opponent's plan or strategy.
To begin I will tell you about the basics of mahjong, there are exactly thirteen tiles in everybody's hand except for the first person who starts. The person who starts it off has to discard a tile and then the next person has to pick up a new tile and discard one and so on. This keeps going on until someone plays all pongs or kongs or straight and so on. Pong is three of a kind and kong is four of a kind. I'm still a beginner at this and still get confused but I'll get use to it.
Now time to tell you about the most recent game I had. It was on Sunday May 9th. It took place on Park Street in Alameda. We were just hanging around around and we all just ended up at Quickly's. The person who would usually carry a mini mahjong set was named Pat Pat Long or Hao Ming Long, everytime you see him he has a set on him. So Nathan Wong, Pat Pat, me, and some random asian guy grabbed a table and moved some chais and played mahjong.
I lost so many rounds and then suddenly I won a round and then another, two in a row! I'm so proud. Then during the last round, before I had to leave, I think Nathan Wong or Pat Pat won. I forgots.. hehehe. xP
Oh yeah, Nathan Wong's way to win is to keep most of the dragons to himself. In mahjong there are white dragons (the tile with the blue border), green dragon (green tile), and the red dragon (the tile with 5 red strokes). The first time that his plan became effective was when two other people waited for the a green dragon tile, and he had one or something. But I shouldn't be complaining or anything since he helped me win with that one tile, he helped me stall the other players until I got the tile I needed to win. Hehehe. He helped me without knowing xD. When he reads this post, he will know. (Some information in this blog post may be false because of my horrible memory but it's okay, I guess.
Oh yeah and we're going to play again tomorrow which is Wednesday May 12, 2010. xD Yay.