Lao Ye's House

Went to 老爷's new place for the first time. The 16th floor apartment was generously spacious and airy. View was good too, overlooking the surrounding buildings that were much lower. However, the main highlight was the Nintento Wii, and it's accompanying 42" Samsung LCD TV.

This is my first go at the much hyped Nintendo 3rd generation console. We tried out a range of sports based games, with Wii boxing being the obvious crowd favorite. The couples took turns beating the crap out of their spouse. My turn came and naturally I picked the easiest opponent, Mike's 8 years old daughter Felicia (妹妹). Bad mistake. Grasping the 'feel' of the motion sensor based controls within minutes, Felicia proceeded to pummel me round after round. My butt was handled to me on the proverbial silver platter. Ouch! There's nothing quite as pure and cruel as children...

Naturally, in an awkward show of gamesmanship, I conveniently blamed the controls for being unresponsive, and decided not to acquire a Wii console afterall*.

Eventually all towels was thrown and the adults decided it was more dignifying to watch the little girl beat up computer opponents instead. We spent the rest of the evening between playing cards and cheering her way to setting the new high score.

*Unless it's free of course