Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 1:14 AM: Classic Convos
Convo No. 1:
Zehan and I were playing against the pair from D'Rakes at the Swiss Consols on saturday and here is an exercpt of our conversation:
The bidding went 1D by my LHO, doubled by zehan and without hesitation, I bid 1H. Zehan raised my bid to 2H.
Now it is my turn to bid and a confident 4H came from my pencil. A weird look from zehan came and I knew instantly what he was thinking...
As the RHO makes his opening lead, I confirmed with him, "your double and support shows 16-18 with at least 4 hearts right..."
His face remains stunned and he says, "I've got good reasons to justify my actions" as he shows his cards: 14 pts and a good 4-card heart suit.
I remained unperturbed and told him, "My bid shows a max of 8 pts leh, never mind I shall make this contract" and there it went 4H + 1.
And the fact is that I have misbid first with 12 pts where I could have bid on opps' suit and zehan should have passed my 1H bid. What a nice partnership understanding coz his bid has saved my blushes!
We went to clinch the match at 25-0 and that was the critical first board for us which started the momentum.
Convo No. 2:
Person X and Person Y (one of them is me) were talking at the sofa in the office one day...
To share with u some background of the story, it is basically abt the bee X and the not-so-hardworking worker, who is the Y. It always seems that the working hours together each day makes up 24. X is contributing the 20+ and Y, the single digit.
Y: Now life is so shagged... I'm so fed up that day when I went to the office and saw almost everyone playing the PSP (btw Y plays PSP almost everytime he is resting and has even made a reputation of helping others whenever PSP problems arise; while X has to cover all the work Y leaves behind)... Life is so unfair. Do you think so? And my working schedule isn't easy after all (Y has the best schedule in the entire world though)
X: (After a long pause, then finally a faint smile) Now you know how unfair life is, right? (How X wishes to say all the grumbles he suppressed in himself whenever he sees Y up in the bunk playing/sleeping while X slogs)
Moral of the story: Always put yourself in others' shoes (esp the one whom u are having a convo with) before expressing your point of views. If u have done that, then try do not be a b***ard.
thank you for bringing me memories...
