As all things go, I’d decided to put up a poll to allow people to vote in their choices for TT on Wednesday of every week. Alas, that didn’t happen! Well, the poll is up now, but it wasn’t then! So after a quick round of email choices being sent out, followed by choices streaming in, we decided to call it a Board Game Night. And what a night it was!
Our intention was to play Scrabble and Monopoly and see if we could squeeze in a game or two of cards. Yeah, right. *tsk tsk* What was meant to be a night of board games turned out to be a night of Monopoly alone!
My C3 partner Claudio was on time – as always – met me in the parking lot – we drove to Sev and Samir to follow them to Samir’s place – our man was in no mood to drive – so we left his car off – got everyone in my car – gave Samir a feel of what a sports car sounds like – since mine only sounds like a sports car and drives like an 80 year old hag – reached Sev and Claudio’s and got the ‘goods’ ready – Rohit showed up shortly with the board games I’d requested him to bring along – Sev and I caught up in the balcony, just like old times – while the boys did what they do best – surf the net – and all of us ended up watching extremely interesting YouTube videos – “Dear Penis” being a clear favourite – as Sev tried desperately to give Rahul directions to get to hers – he’d driven all the way from Abu Dhabi to be a part of TT – that’s how cool we are – he didn’t make it cuz he kept overshooting their building – so he decided to be a part next time – and we finally got around to opening Monopoly after stuffing our faces and having the maiden drinks – 9.15 pm is when all of us settled around and picked our little play pawns – while Rohit all but drooled over the credit card machine and practically got down on his knees in prayer when it automatically calculated the millions it was fed – slowly, all of us were mesmerized – but we snapped outta our fascination – all except Rohit – and went on to play – the first half an hour or so went by rather quickly and uneventful – everyone was getting reacquainted with the rules – most of us hadn’t played it in over a decade – Claudio was the first to pick up a property – and gloating with happiness and joy – foreshadowing his upcoming fate, going by exactly what happened in Dubai – and Samir kept feeling uncannily unlucky with no property, only cash in hand – the men kept going at it and before us women knew it, auctions were taking place – the 3 men were giving us 2 women nasty stares – and smirking, saying “there’s a reason why women aren’t good businessmen” – while Sev and I just kept quiet and watched while the men went at it – before long there were apartments and hotels being built and everyone having to pay up rent – Claudio got his knickers in a knot and was pulling his hair out – at one point he was at Sev’s feet, cuz of the lack of anything else to do – boy thought he could get solace there, but she kicked him right back to his place for having mocked us intelligent women earlier – Samir sat in one corner calculating his growing millions, utterly disappointed that he didn’t have more property – Rohit got kinda fed up with the ‘ka-ching’ sound of the credit card machine and started to sly-ly negotiate with Claudio and Samir for property – I merely sat and waited for Sev to give up the one property I wanted, while she waited for the same from me – soon, her and I were sitting on pots of money and tons of rent and the boys were exasperated – I yawned at one point, saw the time and practically screamed – it was 1.30am – just seeing the time made me drowsy and I passed out on the couch while the other 3 played – Claudio declared bankruptcy and saved the little hair on his head in the bargain – Samir and Rohit fought it out for second place while the clear winner of the game with $ 32 million was Sevda – aptly name the Donald Trump of our Board Game/Monopoly Night!
*phew*
That took a while! And to think that we didn’t even get to open another board game!
Here's a peek at the different sentiments and moods of our Board Game Night!
My experiments with the D3000 continue...
Rohit and Sev - model material, the pair of 'em!
Rohit getting carried away with his role as a banker! :)
That tongue-in-cheek expression says it all! My fair lady chants: Just you wait, I begin...just you wait!
You can see the pain behind that smile, can't you? Good attempt, Samir. His heart was breaking around this time...he'd lost too much!
"Here!" answers Sev.
My Cinderella hour (+ 1.5 hrs). :P
..."Saaaaaaave me, baby...please!!!"...
...and finally...
*giggle* Told ya! :)
The following Thursday was 26 November and we were all off for Eid. I’ll put up a quick post on what happened on individual fronts, since we didn’t end up having our ritualistic TT.
We’re off to…um…er…well, we haven’t decided yet. We’ve got 3 votes in and all of them for different things. So, we’ll only find out next time where our little TT gang landed up tonight.
Here’s to TT – toodles!
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