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Nov 30, 2008 19:44
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  • KATRINA
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Mahjong was invented by Kim Il-sung? Haha, I can't help laughing. Maybe, it was invented by Chairman Mao.
Nov 30, 2008 21:08
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Gambling is Chinese hobby. Mahjong is popular entertaining game in China. In holiday, lots of families stay up til next morning playing Mahjong with small money involved.
Dec 3, 2008 19:46
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COOLSPRINGS, can you play mahjong?
Dec 4, 2008 20:06
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What about you Katrina? Do you want to learn to play Mahjong? I can. But I seldom play it. If you can't, maybe I can teach you, Haha.
Dec 4, 2008 22:05
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No I cannot. But i try to learn and play after retirement. Just as Jimmyb said, it's just an entertaining tool when you get bored.
Dec 8, 2008 19:41
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Coolsprings, I can't play mahjiong either.

Leopold219, thanks for your kindness. But I don't want to learn to play it. I am worried that I would be addicted to it if I learned how to play mahjiong. Like Coolsprings, I might learn to play it after retirement.
Dec 10, 2008 04:11
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Coolsprings mentions that gambling is a Chinese hobby. In an area of a large city where I lived for a while the community consisted of closely built 6 story apartment blocks. Several of the ground floor apartments were like garages or shops with roller shutter doors. From afternoon to quite late at night these turned into what looked like small "gambling dens" with men and women of all ages playing card games and mahjong. In winter they would still have the shutters open but have gas heaters close by. I even saw a woman discretly breast feeding a child while playing. Of course I didn't see any money, they were probably playing for peanuts ;o)
Dec 10, 2008 19:37
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Of course I didn't see any money, they were probably playing for peanuts ;o)

Gaffer, they might gamble. I heard some guys playing mahjong just for winning cigarettes. Actually, they didn't play for cigarettes. One cigarette meant some amount of money, for example, 5 yuan or 10 yuan. At the end, they exchanged their cigarettes for money. Do you know why they didn't place money on the table? If they were caught by the police with money on the table, they would be detained or fined. Without money on the table, the police couldn't do anything about them.
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