CNY ^.^

I have finally have time to sit down and update my blog. It had been an outing marathon for me last week starting from Chinese New Year eve. We went to watch CJ7 on CNY eve, the movie isn't all that bad, it just not a typical Stephen Chow's movie anymore. In fact, we didn't see the old Chow Sing Chi for quite awhile now, Kungfu Soccer was kind of a turning point. His facial expression and body language are less exaggerate.

After the movie we went to ming's house to gamble, something that we won't miss during Chinese New Year. We were all expecting a revenge and win back the money we loss to him last year, however, we were once again disappointed. We were only playing black jack that night and ming seem to have very good luck during his last round of being banker. (we were rotating banker) CNY eve ended up to be such a disappointing night but it's not over yet!

First day of CNY was business as usual for me, visiting two of my relatives during the day; and of course it is not a cny without gambling. I played black jack again at my auntie's house and losing money yet again, seem like it's not my year..haha...Nothing much happened that night except watching another movie, kungfu dunk. I hate it when Jay not speaking in his own voice.

I usually have lion dance at my office house on the second day of CNY.

Relatives are gathering at my house to visit my parents. ( my father being the elder now, two of his elder sis already passed away). I didn't take part in the gambling session at my house this time because I needed to head out earlier to karaokes with friends. We booked a 10-12 people rooms but in the end only had 6. One of our friend, Mok, who usually join us had to go back to penang earlier this year to pay a visit to his father and mother -in-law (just married last year). Later that night we gathered at Leong's house and try to revenge on ming! This time we added one of our favorite game (because ming usually lose money in this game) , 'in between' and a new game which none of us know the name so we just called it 'eddie'.

For 'in between', every players will place a bet which everyone agree upon, let say, rm 0.50 or rm1. Hence if the bet is rm 1 and we have 8 players, the pool of money is rm 8. There is no banker, everyone takes turn to deal the cards and every player get 2 opened cards. Player who has more than 3 numbers in between the 2 opened cards get to participate to win from the pool of money. For example, let say if I get 2 to 5 as my opened cards and since there is only 2 numbers in between, I don't get to bet on the money and turn goes to next player. If i get Ace and King, that's mean I have 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q, 11 numbers in between which is the best open card combo one could get. Let say I bet all the money in the pool, which means rm 8, I will win all if i get any numbers from 2-Q. However, If I get the number Ace or King, I will have to pay double the money to the pool, which is rm 16, and the size of the money pool will increase to rm 24. When everyone had their turn, the game proceed to next round with any leftover money plus every player placing bet into it again. We choose not to place the bet again this year due to the 'fear factor' of the game. Chun was the highest double payer last year, which is around rm 100+. (hahahahhahaa....)

'eddie' 's fear factor is lesser and it gives the banker a good chance to make a lot of money. Here's how the game works, each players get 1 card including banker and there is also one opened card out there. Player will have to add up the number on the open card and the card player holding and see the sum you get. (J,Q,K count as 10) Only the last digit of the added sum is taken with sum of 10 counted as 'burst', so we have 1-9 with 9 being the maximum number you could get. (with the exception of triple picture cards, I will explain later) Each player get to add 1 card if they are not satisfy with their sum, 3 cards will then be added for a new sum. (could be a lower sum!)

Example : Card opened is 9, I get a 5, so my sum will be 14, hence 4 is my number. If banker number is greater than 4, I lose, otherwise I win. I can choose to add an extra card, let say if I get a 10 then my sum unchanged, If i get a 8 then my new sum will be 2, which is even lower!
Card opened is 9, I get a 9 so my number is 8, if the banker can't beat me, he will have to pay me double, vice versa.
Card opened is 9 and I get 10/J/Q/K, so my number is 9, If banker can't beat me then he will have to pay me triple, vice versa.
Card opened is picture card ( J Q or K), I get another picture card, my sum is 0 and I will add an extra card for sure. If i get another picture card, which means I have 3 pictures in hand now, then the banker have to pay me quadruple if he couldn't get 3 picture cards.

Here's the thing, when banker get either 8,9 or 3 pictures, every player will have to pay him double, triple or quadruple if they couldn't win or draw with the banker. In the case of 3 pictures, a rm 2 bet will become rm 8, rm 10 bet will become rm 40!!! Very nice profit !!

Ok enough about these 2 games, at the end of the night, we had a small taste of our revenge! The next day we went to have seafood lunch at sitiawan and we were cheated!! ('chop vege head') The dishes taste ok but there really weren't any expansive seafood ( no crab! no big fish and big prawn!) on the table and it costs rm 230!!!

Photo taken @ Teluk Batik

Some video footage taken on 3rd day of CNY. ( Only for people involved to view, sry! )
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