4 Musketeers

Few days ago i blogged about KC asking me to throw out a feast for his fellow Japanese colleagues as a way to say thank you to one of them who brought us cup noodles from Japan, and also to introduce them to our famous Bak Kut Teh, or should i say Chi Kut Teh. Since none of them had been to Malaysia, i thought might as well do KC a favor.

So we had the feast 2 days ago and i woke up very tired yesterday. I decided to do a bit of hibernation the whole of yesterday and am feeling better today. 

The last time when we had the feast, it was amongst my dad, Yasso-san and Yakouchi-san with us. It was more like a business dinner. They talked about business over dinner, over dessert and even over tea.This time, it was more like a gaming cum Bkk feast. Kc invited 3 new colleagues, all ranging of the age 25 years to his. The only same person was Yokouchi-san.

First we have Watanabe-san. He is a shy and cute young chap at his 25 and he was the one who brought us the cup noodles. Well I have to say the picture i took didnt really justifies his good looks. I was told that he was rather popular when he worked in Korea some time ago because he looks similar to a very well-known Korea actor. Too bad i dont know who. And when i said i wanted to snap picture of him, me gave me this awful look!

And then we have Kengo, if i have spelt correctly. He is about the same age as me and he has been working in Algeria longer than KC did.  And i was amazed that he could speak French and even Spanish. He is a very funny guy with a lot of weird thought and also big gestures. Really like this guy!

Now he is some-san. So sorry to him because i cant recall his name. I knew it starts with Hano...something. Anyway he is the typical well-mannered Japanese guy who got all tensed up with Yokouchi-san came because Yokouchi-san was more senior than him. A very shy but nice guy overall with kids. 

And we have Yokouchi-san again. Poor fellow is still waiting for his permits to be granted. Apparently now Algeria government is tightening the issues of work permits because there are too many expats coming into the country these few years. And poor Yokouchi-san has to eat alone all the time and he was complaining how difficult it was to buy vegetable for himself only and also cooking. So i told KC to invite him to our house for dinner more until his wife and kids are here. And i told KC not to invite Yokouchi-san for another round of BKT because there is only so much a person could take. Being the nice Japanese in him, he will not decline the invitation of course!

Anyway before the dinner started, the boys decided to play around of Street Fighters. Kc was rather happy because finally he do not need to play solo with the machine and he got to show off his controllers what he purposely bought over the internet just for this game. It was fun to watch them play because they were so engrossed with the game and they were shouting and doing all the ooohhs and aaahhhss during the fight! The whole house was bombarded with their shoutings and echoes such as "wakata".."Kc-san,Kc-san".... "dame!dame!"..."gambate!" ... It was funny even to watch!

Finally i got to play with a human!

Watanabe was rather good. He won so many rounds that KC refused to play with him.

Kengo was very funny because he was sort of a newbie. He said "this is the best time for me today!" when he finished a game even though he lost.

I wonder how they know which is whose. They all look the same! No fun!

And their work bags are like super heavy. I dont know what they put in. 

Local dessert bought by Yokouchi-san. Very very sweet coating.

And then Kengo-san found hidden treasures inside the cabinet. He shouted "Oh Mah-jong!" And started pointing to each one asking if everyone knows how to play. He was so excited and kept saying "We can play, we can play!" and decided to take out the set of mahjong to check around. Apparently the Chinese and Japanese share the same tiles of Mahjong but with a slightly different rules. Well my dad told us previously that Japanese mahjong are rather boring. 

So when we explained to Kengo, i told him the Chinese style will be quite violent. He starred at me with his eyes wide opened and began to gesture and said "Violent-neh?" (gesturing turing table and punching faces) "This violent-ka????" So funny guy! Anyway i think i will be seeing them around very soon for mahjong.