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A Pat on the Shoulder in Time Saves Nine

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 / 7:43 AM

My humble abode is turning into a gambling den. Since I do not own a licence to run one, I think that my mini gambling den runs against the law. (Why is it that everything I write risk lawsuits?) Since Saturday, when the pioneer batch of mahjong addicts turned up, business has been brisk to say the least. Today the humble gambling arena welcomes its second batch of mahjong fanatics. To think I get irritated by my neighbours from the opposite block playing mahjong. Haha.

Today, my issue will be on superstition. There is this rumour going around fellow mahjong enthusiasts, saying that if anyone pats someone who is at present engaged in a round of adrenaline-pumping mahjong game, the luck of the person pat will go away, causing losing streaks. We, at the mini gambling den decided to try it out among 'brothers', and since jermaine aka daniel did not believe in such baseless superstition, amid cries of 'pantang!' coming from weiling aka kelvin, both me and yuqian aka cheeky decided to try a two-pronged approach and pat our dear brother on the shoulder. One each. Note: Children, do not try this at home, or anywhere near mahjong-ing adults or teenagers. You might get bashed.

Having tried that, jermaine aka daniel after winning three (or two, i cannot really remember such details) games, started his losing streak. Superstition or not? Hmmm.

Since this is on issues and tissues, it shall be discussed properly. I have no psychological and laboratory tests scheduled to run this aforementioned 'pat on the shoulder' hypothesis and get results, so all those that follows are just opinions. I think that all these superstitions are based one such one-time occurrence, like the above case study. Everyone at the table gets shocked at such an occurrence, and starts spreading the interesting one time phenomenon to everyone. Or better still, the 'pat on the shoulder' hypothesis might just be a made up thing of some director of some mahjong movie and it starts to spread like wildfire. Everybody knows that media spreads such information like spreading jam on bread. I remember the first time I came across any superstitious acts were from cartoons! Those Disney cartoons featuring Mickey mouse running all over the place opening black umbrellas under ladders while jumping over a black cat on Friday the thirteenth. Yeah, those were the days.

Still, no one can deny that superstitious acts do add spices to our lives. They make everything all the more interesting. I remember when the 3 of us, (June and Jermaine) walked down the dark and eerie corridor, the superstition that when walking in 3s, either someone will join your little gang or someone will be taken away set us all jittery before anything, and you all knew what happened next.

This concludes the installment on superstition at issues and tissues.
Post-article notes: Want to know the scores of those who mahjong-ed at the illegal mini gambling den? NOTE: No $$$ was involved. No calling of the police, or else I'll Jump! haha.Oh wow. since no money is involved, the activity is totally wholesome and legal. Re-typing...

Want to know the scores of those who mahjong-ed at the mini mahjong den?

Hall Of Fame/Shame:

on Saturday 9th April:
1. Yanying, Yiling, Weiteen and HC all won 2 games each. Played a total of 8 games.
Special mention, since my mini brain forgot most details of the saturday game; Weiteen likes to hold the tiles she drew from the wall with two hands ahaha. An interesting sight!

on Monday 11th April:
1.ME! HC is the ultimate winner winning 4/10 games! (YAY YAY!)
2. Jermaine aka daniel is the first runner-up winning 3/10 games. (hereby crowned as 'The One Whom Does Not Feed'/Hogger of all Flowers)
3. Yuqian aka cheeky is the second runner-up winning 2/10 games. (hereby crowned as 'The One Whom waits for Flowers/The One Whom Gets to Feed')
4. Weiling aka kelvin did not do that badly, we must bear in mind that it was her second game and mahjong is a game of chance afterall. She won 1/10 game(s). Which is a notable feat, since she managed to win at least. (hereby crowned as 'The One Whom Always get the Licence to hu2/ Flower Girl <-- always get her flowers)


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