cny

when cny comes, it is all about red, gathering, food, angpaus, poker cards, mahjong, visiting and cny songs. if its not merry, loud and full of laughters, it is not cny. and what makes all these to happen??? gambling! yes, gambling is something you must do dur cny. it is like a package where it includes visiting, gathering, poker cards/ mahjong and angpaus. so fun, so exciting and so risky as you may not know you will lose all your angpaus money or add up to it.


i still remember how i spent my cny gambling almost every year. from 10 cents, 20 cents bet to 50 cents, 1 ringgit note and slowly increase and increase to 2, 3, 5 and now to 10 and 20. it was real crazy how the notes look like waste paper when it comes to gambling.


yesterday was the peak of cny this year for now. initially it was a visiting to my uncles's house before heading home but it turned out to be a gambling day. i was a little reluctant since i've won after gambling from day1 of cny till day5. its smtg uncommon cause i was known of donating almost every year. but c'mon it cny! besides, usually in cny my family will played dank (i dont know the exact term but it sounds that way. thats what we called it. its a card game something similar to baccarat) this year even though every night is gambling night, from black jack to mahjong and rummy but we had not play dank yet. so, i took my seat and settled down with my initial small bet.


now thinking back, no wonder i was winning cause i was playing other games. dank is the game i played and lost almost every year. its too late to realise, as i played, i wasnt aware how much i actually lost until i refused to take out another 50 ringgit note. unlike mahjong and rummy besides luck, you need skill. but for dank, its like black jack, more to luck than skill. and the winning losing activity was way faster than those skilled games which was why i wasnt noticing i actually lost up to three figures. i was like 'wah, wa su a ni ceh lui liao'.


what to do...so i took a late lunch break while the rest still busy betting.


after a break from my refusal of taking another 50 note, i was back to play since it supposed to be the last 3 rounds. but banker's pile of 50 notes getting higher and higher, making his win up to four figures. the atmosphere was getting tenser and hotter. almost all the players were losing with me at the bottom of the top loser list. so our going home early plan was postponed and the gambling session continued.


but my weird superstitious funny aunt disallowed me to play. according to her, the additional players caused her to lose so she asked me to bet on her bet. so, i was like okay since she convinced me that her spot was very 'ong'. after 2 rounds, my 50 note gone, left only red notes. i was like, 'tua ee ah, lu u pian wa bo. ko kong lu eh ui ong. wa eh lui si ka ceng hu cuik tui lai eh.'


with not much hope, standing and watching them playing, suddenly there's a twist of luck. it was a right choice to make a comeback. every rounds, i would grab two red notes from her and the best thing was it was continuousssssss. oh my, it felt so GOOD!!!!!!


not too long, the money i lost was back to me. in fact i was now winning a little. AWESOME!!!!!! thanks to my aunt. it wouldnt be that fast and easy if i was the one playing.


around half an hour, the banker called it off after no longer bear distributing most of his winning notes. and so we kuai kuai got ourselves ready to continue our journey back home. all well ends well =)

happy chinese new year people!!!!!

*happy birthday bro and belated birthday to sp and ej!