Tag: Scrabble

After the act, our good buddy TK asked: Are you going to take a picture of this and share it on Facebook?  Staring at the yellow powder, my immediate response was: No way!

My Sunday was not meant to be like this.  I was halfway through collating my travel journal and was about to pen down the captions for the shortlisted photos.  Then something happened.  Something so messed up that none of our parents knew exactly what to do.  Something so messed up that I am not going to write about that here.  I shared this domestic crisis with our good buddy TK on a Sunday evening over Google Talk.  Not only did he manage to procure a heap of yellow sulfur, he drove all the way from the east to deliver it to our home.  Gosh! When I heard that he had not had dinner, I said, “Please stay.  Cynthia is going to cook us some of her legendary bee hoon.”

Besides, I have been itching to try out my newly imported Super Scrabble from US.  Super Scrabble is a super-sized Scrabble.  There are 200 letters.  The board is bigger.  The reward is more (up to x4 letter and word score).  And the game was painfully long (click onto the picture above to zoom in).  The three of us started the game while Cynthia multi-tasked between preparing for our late dinner and forming words when her turn came.  We watched “How I Met Your Mother” on TV when we were having our dinner.  We resumed the game after our meal and 2012 was playing on TV.  We were still struggling with the game when Underworld was playing on TV.  By the time we were done, we felt this big relief.  A huge big relief.  Yes we did it, with a combined score of 1,111 after a grueling 82 turns (27 rounds).  Super Scrabble is not for the faint-hearted.  If you are a big fan of Scrabble, you would love Super Scrabble.  Best played in a very comfortable setting (read: not on the floor).

I hope we can put behind our domestic crisis.  At some point, I could picture the three of us staring in “Bones” or “CSI”.  Lesson learned.  Time to move on.