Aftermath...

Last weekend (Saturday) we gathered in one of our friends’ house for our annual gambling session (during Chinese New Year)
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Let me deviate a little bit…
The other day, I was wondering, ah… when did we start such session… at first, I thought I cannot recall… then, I realized, it’s when her family moved to this new penthouse condominium… ya, that year, when we visited her parents (her parents are super friendly and opened… I mean, they don’t poke their nose into our business, they’re cheerful, oh, super cheerful, also her sis, and of course, SHE!! ^_^;; even when the father decided to “poke his nose” into our business it’s when he wants to be part of us, in the game… see!!! Where to find this type of parents!!! Kakaka!!! And then… oh… maybe I’ll sound very impolite and manner-less a bit… and we’re used to her kitchen and fridge… ie. She’s always welcomed us with her food and drinks in her kitchen and fridge… so, tell me, where else to go… ok… I’ll say, I’d do the same things to my dear friends as well… well… cos, I’ve stayed with her family zillion years ago, mm… when my car was involved in a minor accident and need to be sent for repair for a month, and that I stayed with her and family in their old house, for a month, I ate and dined with them, and she sent me to and from work… oh!!! What else can I say!!! ^_^)
Oh, back to the track…
That year, when we visited her parents, and somehow, a card game got started… from then onwards… every year, after we’re back from our different hometowns to KL, we’ll gather in such place, to err… ok… exchange $$$ hahaha!!!
I’ll have to admit, most of the time, I enjoyed the companion rather than the game… though, I do like to play card games from time to time… ^_^

Our game, started from big-D, to later.. the easiest one is blackjack… then, this year…
Oh, horrible… one of us introduced this “in-between” no-brainer game… (but shame to say, I kinda enjoyed it, again, I guess, it’s mostly because of the companion… this year, we’d an extra crazy gambling buddy!!! Though 1 usual couple quit, and 1 new couple joined… ha… people come, people go!! ^_^)
Ok… the aftermath was…
That night itself, I’m not sure if it’s solely because of my sitting position during the entire game THAT LASTED TILL 3 A.M. (we started from about 10 P.M.) my lefthand suddenly gave me this super-duper uncomfortable irritating pain, like it’s coming out from the bone… or some sort.. and it lasted me for 1.5 days… well… it could be because of my posture, or, because I carried my handbag (one that’s like doraemon’s front pocket, that contains a lot of things, ie. Heavy!!) with that hand the whole of that day…

The problem was… I woke up in the middle of the night of Saturday (well… not so middle of the night, it’s about Sunday morning already, since we only got home and got ready for bed around 4 A.M.) due to this pain in my left hand, really couldn’t sleep at all… I’ve never experienced this before…
Then, on Sunday, he’d another small gathering in his colleague’s house in the afternoon… so, I played my TAI-TAI part… trying to social-social with the rest of the TAI-TAI… with my painful lefthand… and lack of sleep…

Until after I talked to my mother about my ‘condition’ only I realized that, I should have put a salonpas on it… so, I did…
The next day, Monday, I went to pick up my letter of offer, and they asked me to go for a simple medical checkup… gosh… my blood pressure was high… which I couldn’t believe… cos, usually (well… the last check was in 2005 thou, when he’s still working in s’pore) OK… plus this and that, with some possible infection, on top of that I was still in the midst of recovering from my flu, which… oh!! Which I got when my dear husband went out till 3 A.M. still hadn’t come back to ‘blanket’ me… ^_^ that I caught the cold that day!!!

I was not satisfied with the result, so, I went to my own clinic, the one that I did my last check in 2005, result still come out similar, but then, the doctor bothered to explain a little bit more, which gave me a peace of mind…

Oh, anyway, these are all side-track stories… the point is I’m telling you, I HAD A PAINFUL LEFT HAND FOR 2 DAYS, due to the crazy “in-between” card game!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, then, what’s this game about… basically it’s really a no-brainer game… each player was given 2 cards, opened… and the next card that you’ll draw is your bet, you bet if it’s a card in between your existing 2 cards, with a sum of money… you’ll basically win/lose the amount you bet… or to the maximum of the pool of money in the middle…
See… the point is… we all are very stingy people… so, our base bet is like RM1.00 only… so, the superduper game was dragged for such superduper long duration of time… compared to previous years, it’s because this year, there’re 1 + 1 superduper crazy gamblers where the 2 superduper crazy gamblers basically won the most money… as they’re willing to bet to the max… m~_~m huh!!

Ah… before we wrapped up… one of us (in fact, most of us, the male basically, who’re always lack of patience!! ^_^) insisted on raising the base bet, ie. RM10.00… for the final round…
Ya, the pool got to about RM100.00 at one time… however, as the amount was big, so, crazy people got less crazy (oh, that proves that, afterall, they’re not that crazy, ^_^) and in the end… I’d say… no loose no win…
The difference in our hands, from the real winner to the real looser, probably was about 10 odds to 20, something like that…

Ah!!! Sounded I wasted my entire night to gain a painful lefthand!!! Heh!!!