Olympics and the Click of the Tile
I'm starting a new catagory called Hong Kong Night.
Tao and I have been having one day a week for his Hong Kong friends to come over. Tao will usually cook up some chinese food. He's made some really good dishes.
We usually get started around five or six in the evening. Our friends show up with their pockets fat with cash for the taking! Ha ha ha. Just kidding. I don't play Mah Jong but I often sit in to watch. We pull the couch aside and put the Mah Jong table in front of the TV. We put the Hong Kong chanell on and dish out the food. The boys can really put away a lot of food! Thank god for Costco. The dogs go crazy for scraps, circling beneith our feet like furry pirhanhas. Terris and Annie bring thier dog, Coffee. He stayed with us for a year while they lived in student housing. Coffee is an old, fat, pug. He can't hear very well or see for that matter. He knows where the food comes from though! He will post guard outside of the fridge waiting for me to come. He knows I will always pull out something for him too
After dinner the dishes are cleared and the Mah Jong tiles come out. They take turns playing, four at a time. Usually there are small bets. At this time I will usually retire to the garage to work on my projects. Last night I finished up the Tao Amp while they played. I can hear the tiles swirling around on the table, and the laughing and the cantonese language. I enjoy having this bolus of foriegn culture in my kitchen. It's so important for Tao to have his countrymen around him this one night a week. His friends also enjoy this time immensly. I can't imagine being in a foriegn land and never having an opportunity to speak english or eat a cheeseburger!
The night usually runs very late, often till well after 3AM. I will usually come out and roast up a batch of coffee for us. I home roast coffee and have made a post or two about it here.
Last week someone brought over a Wii fit. Tao was performing some kind of ...hoolahoop action I think. I swear it looked exactly like tardive's diskensesia. They were laughing up a storm.
Tao and I have been having one day a week for his Hong Kong friends to come over. Tao will usually cook up some chinese food. He's made some really good dishes.
We usually get started around five or six in the evening. Our friends show up with their pockets fat with cash for the taking! Ha ha ha. Just kidding. I don't play Mah Jong but I often sit in to watch. We pull the couch aside and put the Mah Jong table in front of the TV. We put the Hong Kong chanell on and dish out the food. The boys can really put away a lot of food! Thank god for Costco. The dogs go crazy for scraps, circling beneith our feet like furry pirhanhas. Terris and Annie bring thier dog, Coffee. He stayed with us for a year while they lived in student housing. Coffee is an old, fat, pug. He can't hear very well or see for that matter. He knows where the food comes from though! He will post guard outside of the fridge waiting for me to come. He knows I will always pull out something for him too
After dinner the dishes are cleared and the Mah Jong tiles come out. They take turns playing, four at a time. Usually there are small bets. At this time I will usually retire to the garage to work on my projects. Last night I finished up the Tao Amp while they played. I can hear the tiles swirling around on the table, and the laughing and the cantonese language. I enjoy having this bolus of foriegn culture in my kitchen. It's so important for Tao to have his countrymen around him this one night a week. His friends also enjoy this time immensly. I can't imagine being in a foriegn land and never having an opportunity to speak english or eat a cheeseburger!
The night usually runs very late, often till well after 3AM. I will usually come out and roast up a batch of coffee for us. I home roast coffee and have made a post or two about it here.
Last week someone brought over a Wii fit. Tao was performing some kind of ...hoolahoop action I think. I swear it looked exactly like tardive's diskensesia. They were laughing up a storm.
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