This weekend, some friends had a game night, and the featured game was "Mexican Train Dominoes." Ellen has grown up playing Mahjong, a fast paced and somewhat complicated game where each player must make quick memorization of several tiles, all with different characters and numbers on them, and then making several calculations throughout the game while tiles are being played and discarded in pretty rapid fashion. In Taiwan, I have yet to see a Mahjong game played where money isn't gambled as part of the game. Can you imagine playing Uno here, but you have to pony up $50.00 just to join in? (Maybe some of you do that already).
Well, Ellen was playing the dominoes game this past weekend, and the whole time, she was speaking to me in Japanese saying "This is a really dumb game. Dumb people must like this game."
After two rounds, she finally had enough, and asked the host "Is there a game we can all play that needs more brain power?"
Thats my sweetie.
4 comments:
We may have to step up our gamin' skills before you guys get here. Dangit!
Does she fit the asian stereotype or what? Next thing you know she'll be driving in the wrong lane at a snale's pace.
she speaks Japanese? Does she also speak a Chinese dialect? Amazing! Too bad she didn't enjoy that Mexican train thingy..that game is just the right pace for a "Bakatare Hawaiian" like moi!! :)
lol, ohh Ellen, but you still can't compete at Apples to Apples, OR Catchphrase!!! You still have some work to do Trevor!!
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