Booyah
Wed, 26 April 2006, 9:29 am by jadeiteI apologise for the morose tone of my blog entries of late. Upheavals and spin cycles and tension have been making me feel very low these days, and it’ll just be a matter of time before I’m able to shake off the doldrums and put on my happy face again.
I do have something to be happy-proud of - last Saturday a bunch of the old-timer masters (angel, babi, big bird, Cheah, Gan, Andy, Tony, Quek) and me (non-master extra :D) trooped over to Michael’s new condo in Ang Mo Kio (you know, the one that’s sprung up behind and beside the community library) for an impromptu unofficial mini that has been dubbed ‘Grandeur 8 Mini’ in honor of the condo’s rather glam moniker.
I bummed around his apartment the whole afternoon because I wasn’t good enough to play in the tournament I’d shamelessly cadged the invitation from Michael anyway I wasn’t playing in the mini, so I enjoyed Michael’s lovely little loft library, drank gin and tonics and entertained Tony’s youngest girl with endless games of hide-and-seek (I’m not so sure I want kids anymore). In the end Michael asked me to play his last game for him, because even though he’d gotten 15 bingos throughout the afternoon, he’d only won one game, or something like that. So I took over his last game with Quek…and thrashed him by well over 100 points. Even managed to get the highest scoring bingo of the entire afternoon, FLASHED (four-timer) for 112 points. Ha! Quite pleased and proud and perhaps not so afraid of eventually entering A div (that is, assuming I finally make the grade).
Singapore Open is in a month and I desperately need to finish in at least top three in B div to make myself confident that I’m good enough and going somewhere. Sadly though, Sing Open (being an open) will probably see the Malaysian masters and good B players coming over the Causeway to yank my chances below ground level, so I’m just going to have to buck up. Don’t want my ratings to drop anymore :(
Okay, enough scrabble talk :P I know all of you are staring at my blog and muttering words like “geek”, “crazy”, “omgwth what is a bingo” and such, so I’ll stop now, I promise :D
go girl go!!! c ya in future tournaments.
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are you…kok onn?! :D
specifically who are the 1st 3 pple mentioned?
Ah. Dylan, Ricky and JP.
yup….correct
So who won? How do u win only 1 game with 15 bingos in 7 games?
Gan won the mini.
Excluding my win, Michael did indeed only win one game out of 5, meaning he had a lovely average of 3 bingos per game - 5 for the first game, even, which he ended up still losing to JP. Most of his bingos scored 70+ points, I suppose not enough to counter his opponents’ higher-scoring moves, or he’d had other very low-scoring plays. Poor Michael :P
Michael had 5,3,3,2,2 bingos in 5 games. Opponent got 1,2,2,2,2 bingos for the corresponding match. He can only win when he has 5 bingos :-)
I only don’t understand why the 5 must be against me :-/ (not to JP, jadeite got that wrong).
hmmphh…. i miss SOWPODS!!
Darn US Open going to be in August, and I am still rated sub-1000s…. sigh…. going to be playing in last division, for under 1000 rated players, unless I cream the next 2 monthly tournaments in Los Gatos before July 1st!
Darn FE, ZA, KI !!!
*beth points at karmun and laughs*
HAHAHAHAHA :D
Aw poor you :P Move to America lah! Move! Go!
Anyway we’re gonna be switching over to new dictionary soon :(
Oh hey, let me know if you want to receive SA News, I’m sure I can wrangle it so that I can email you the PDF - but you must promise not to distribute :P
Only 6 games for 8 pple? If anything at all, it must be a string of low-scoring bingos with poor racks in between
Told you, all his bingos scored reasonably with 70+ points on average. Must’ve been fishing or something.