MAH JONG . ching chang chong

A recent hobby or game that i am starting to get addicted to is mah-jong. It is a Chinese game which involves tiles on a table. In order to win, we must get a certain amount of 3 tile straights or 3 of the same tiles and you need a pair of dragon eyes to finish with 14 tiles. There is special ways to win like 13U , which involves north west south east, white dragon , red sword, green thingy, and 1,9 1,9 1,9 of each category plush one random tile. It is recommended to win either with all straights or all 3 of same tiles or all of one category or else it will be chicken win. Chicken win is basically the easiest way to win, and it is baddddd, in some places the people make you pay the other players for winning this way. there is also a taiwanese , korean, philipphino , japanese , and other variation ofthis game buttttt who cares. . .

When i was a little kid, i used to go my grandparents house on Ocean and Geneva near Daily City, to visit them every weekend. I ended up always bored because my parents played mahjong all day with them. Watching pbs was sometimes fun because mr.bean was on tv. Occasianally i watched my parents play and i got the main idea of the game.

Starting from about a month ago, the asian hang out place in park st., quicklys started having people playing mahjong there. I think it was a rainy friday where i didnt have tennis practice was the first time i went. I used to try to get my tiles all in one category but when they said we play chicken, i started playing chicken. The reason for this was because we were not playing for money.

At quicklys , you can meet very weird people. Last Sunday i was playing with Pat pat , annly and the fourth player kept rotating out. One guy needed help reading the tiles, so he remembered the number 6 = as a star and he remembered teh number 7= as a X. He was funny, he asked what a 8 bamboo was so he told him it was eight because he couldnt count. Since the eight bamboo is M shaped he said m for meanie. lol . During that day, there was these two people that notices that i kept winning with the dragon tiles, and it became a big deal. Winning with a dragon tile became an expectation. On last Saturday, there was a chinese guy called cheesy, we thought his name was gordon at first. He was quite crazy, annly and i thought he was high or drunk but he actually wasnt. And alex, the korean guy that was yelling pok gai and hak gui all the time. Oh wells i kinda learned that crazy can be good. When playing mahjong, it can be really relaxing, especially when we shuffle the 144 tiles. click clack click clack. Sitting there for 2 or 3 hours is actually fun because we want to win very badly sometimes.