Mahjong Life and Living

I had written a fair share of entries long before I ever started playing mahjong.  I did it via LiveJournal, along side with a number of online friends associated with a past anime community.  Connecting past to present, I shall link it here . Here's the thing: I lost both the password and its associated e-mail.  So, I cannot nor would not change any of my writing then.  I turn back to it once in a while just to look at it.   I may actually regret releasing this material, but it's a part of me.  So have at it. Despite everything that has happened so far, my general attitude to blog writing is the same.  I have my thoughts, and I jot it down: either directly typing into an entry or pen-paper.  Even now, I have a collection of incomplete draft entries to post.  They just sit there waiting to be edited, amended, posted, and/or deleted.  Plus, I have more on paper waiting to be typed, if I get around to it. Deep down, my general p...

In the very last month of 2015, I managed to pull a +100 before the year ended.  The game was as follows: E 1-0: Shimocha - mangan tsumo E 2-0: I tsumo'd baiman. E 3-0: Shimocha tsumo (4000) E 4-0: Ryuukyoku: Kamicha and myself tenpai. S 1-0: Shimocha ron on Kamicha (1000) S 2-0: I tsumo'd for 4000. S 3-0: I ron'd Shimocha with kokushi. http://tenhou.net/0/?log=2015120818gm-0089-0000-f727c7f5&tw=2 E 1-0:  Toimen as first dealer called riichi on turn 6.  Then shimocha calls for oikake two turns later.  By this point, my hand was 2-shanten.  So it cannot fight at all; and no need as shimocha got ippatsu tsumo anyways. E 2-0:  Takame ippatsu tsumo for my ittsu.  Initially, I must've been thinking honitsu dropping 7sou immediately.  However, that changed when 6pin paired up then 8pin came along.  Then the hand became convenient with the pairing of the haku dora and the completion of the 89-man penchan.  Finally, dora bec...

Here is the translation to the Kizuna Project post (Japanese) provided by Kenji Baba of Riichi Mahjong Central. As for me, I shall look to make comments on this later, as I look it over.  In the meantime, feel free to look at this over yourself and develop your own opinions. Section 1: We’d like to share something that we were able to prove while running LAPOM, and that is “Nothing is impossible if we all come together”. It was generally thought that inviting Japanese pro mahjong players to events overseas and contacting them was a difficult thing to do.  I believe that LAPOM was able to prove that it isn’t difficult at all as we made this possible with in person events as well as online events. We also hear many voices in the community where people want more contents, and there is an on going project that we are working on, that will most likely surprise many of you. While the history of mahjong in Japan dates back to about 100 years, mahjong has been embedded in...