Saturday night

Jeff is Sleepaholic's friend, and he has a "gambling open house" every CNY. We started off with BlackJack, followed by In-between. The In-between cards seems to be really jinxed that night. What's the probability of numbers appearing outside of A and Q? 24/104 (We used 2 stack of cards), including A and Q. However, there is a just-married guy (ROM that morning) who is so suay (unlucky) as to hit nail every single time we encouraged him to go for it. In the end, the pooled money ballooned to more than $300. It was cleared only at the designated time, 1am, when all the players split it up.

Everybody left by about 2:30am. KV and I stayed back for a mahjong session with Jeff and another guest, Sandy. KV is my secondary school classmate and another of those people we would see about once a year, usually during these CNY gambling sessions. The first round of mahjong set Sandy and me back by about $100 each! We kept egging on the guys for subsequent rounds so that the 2 of us can try and recoup the losses. This went on for another 3 rounds until about 11:30am when all of us were ready to just fall flat on the table and sleep. I managed to limit my losses to $40. Phew.

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Sunday night

I dragged myself out of bed at about 6:00 pm after 5 hours sleep as Nic-aholic has organized a Lao Yu Sheng session at Crystal Jade Kitchen, Takashimaya.

With no activities after dinner, we thought that we might as well gamble again since it's nearing the end of CNY anyway. However, as Sexaholic's house is not available, we had nowhere to play. In the end, someone came up with the idea of getting a 2-hr room at the budget hotel, Hotel 81.

First, we went to the new Chinatown branch. The front-desk person must have thought that we were up to shady business. Seeing that we had such a big group, he insisted that we get 3 rooms instead of 1 but we refused. We then proceeded to the Bencoolen branch. This time, KV and Alcoholic registered for the room, while the rest of us split up into 2 groups and went up after that. Hahaha, the desperate measures we had to go to in order to get some entertainment.

We left at 2:15 am and went for roti prata (sort of Indian pancake) supper.