Kennyster

Friday, January 14, 2005

The Chinese New Year Duel.

The sms exchange was brief. The date has been set. I have nothing but revenge on my mind.

Flashback(Jan 2004):(done in Kill Bill stylo mylo style.)

Exactly one year ago, my 14 year old cousin had challenged me to a game of chinese chess during house visiting, which I shrugged and said "why not".

But deep down I was actually secretly arrogant and confident because although I'm a jack of all trades master of none (or to put it bluntly "Good for nothing"), I like to think of myself as a pretty darn good chinese chess player.

After all, I did finish third in a chinese chess competion held in Dunman High. Albeit that was many many many years ago, I was looking forward to teaching my little cousin a little lesson on the wonderful game of chinese chess.

But the smile soon fell from my face and the next 30 minutes was a complete nightmare. One by one, my pieces were driven off the board.(think tsunami)

It was a bravura display of merciless attack chess. His moves had real depth and power.

I was utterly outclassed. One nil. Two nil. Three nil.

Each time that it was my turn, there always seemed to be only one move which I could make, and it usually lead to more of my pieces being eaten up.

Despite losing big time, I guess I still love playing chinese chess la.

What I like about chess is that it's open. Everything is out there on the board, that if there's a problem, the answer will inevitably be staring you in the face, that the trick is simply to think hard enough.

Not quite like life and relationships, where facts and feelings can be concealed, where there can be information which you are not given, which can be very frustrating and confusing.

Unlike life, there's nowhere to lie or hide on the chessboard, is there?

***
One of my classmates told me that she dreamt about me last night. She dreamt that she gave me a present which I threw into the dustbin. She became angry and left. And after she left I went to retrieve the present.

This is strange. Firstly, she has a boyfriend. Secondly we aren't really very close friends.

And what makes this whole episode more bizarre is that I had a very bad night sleeping as well. I kept waking up in the middle of the night and I was experiencing very strange dreams. ( such as me being back in the army and seeing someone being punished.)

Spooky eh?

Kennyster @ 1:27 AM