My 11th post in Ahboochak's BLOG. Today's post is about calculation and numbers. Its the 4th day of CNY and I shall now talk about 1 of the event that every chinese is looking forward to in every chinese new year (other than angpows) which is GAMBLING !!! For us chinese, CNY ain't complete without gambling :D
We play card games like blackjack, chor-dai-dee (i don't know what is it called, can someone enlighten me?) etc.
And 1 of the chinese favourite is MAHJONG :D Mahjong is a game for 4 players that originated in China. It involves skill, strategy and calculation.
Above pic taken from alibaba.com.
For those who want to read up about mahjong, can proceed to HERE.
I am a very noob in mahjong, only played it less than 10 times and I find the term kinda funny.
3 tiles same flowers are called as PONG
Example:
Then 4 tiles same flowers are called as KONG
Example:
The tiles pictures are taken from wikipedia.
I seriously don't understand why must they called it PONG and KONG. Can't they just called it "3 of a kind" or "4 of a kind" ? PONG and KONG reminds me so much of PING PONG and KANG KUNG. After hearing so much of it, it start reminding me of POH KONG ... -__-'
And finally, what the spoon in the world is zhi mor (self touch) ?
I hope it is not something that I have in mind .... you know ....
Anyway, this is Devina's answer to my question ... *sweat* (please click on the pic to enlarge it)
5 comments:
Mahjong!!
Played that yesterday .. haha
i just learnt it from nanny.. and now i can play by myself ^^Y
=.= zhi mor..lOlz..
After seeing this post, my friend told me that her cousin played mahjong today and each time the cousin got 4 of a kind, he will shout KUNG KUNG !!!
And the granpa will answer her cousin by saying "YES? You are calling me?
Pity the "Ah Kong" >..<
lOlz..it's ur fault..
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