....was not less than 10 minutes ago, and it hasn't sunk in yet! This is a grander occasion that any birthday, bigger honour than any prize and greater achievement than any goddamn academic result! Its almost like a ritualistic rite of passage, akin to a thread ceremony, or a baptism, or a bar mitzvah - it's a really big deal, especially in a family that used to spend three quarters of its pastime on arranging letters on a board. I am no longer a minor as per the Scrabble Code of Conduct!
I do have to admit though that this wasn't an altogether fair win. Good luck and good letters favoured me. I couldn't believe at the chances opening up one after the other. As McGonagall said "Five points each....for sheer dumb luck!" Still, its a first and i am ecstatic! Hopefully I can continue to hold on to whatever spell enchanted my way to victory....or just get better at this! And kudos to an annoyed mom (who, by the way, is the Don Bradman of Scrabble) who played brilliantly despite facing the kind of vowel jumble that i usually get on my rack....it truly is the most horrible thing in this world to deal with (and that includes load shedding and traffic jams!).
The family has a whole history of Scrabble play, mostly between mom and dad. Yet, right from the age of 8, i was the 'kiddo' would butt in every game to showcase my entire vocabulary in a single turn, with articles and prepositions, like 'the', 'but', 'in', 'to', 'go'...forming the larger part of my wordplay! I guess the 'kiddo' has finally come of age (oops, conceit surfacing!). And as every win must be followed by speech (what? its what the Oscars tell me!), here's mine : I would like to thank my parents, my family who had near-dead faith in me; my teachers who participated in no way whatsoever; my friends with whom i never played the game and even my non-existent dog, Ramdayal, who is the love of my life! Thank you Scrabble and lastly 'Languauge is great!'. Cheers!
I do have to admit though that this wasn't an altogether fair win. Good luck and good letters favoured me. I couldn't believe at the chances opening up one after the other. As McGonagall said "Five points each....for sheer dumb luck!" Still, its a first and i am ecstatic! Hopefully I can continue to hold on to whatever spell enchanted my way to victory....or just get better at this! And kudos to an annoyed mom (who, by the way, is the Don Bradman of Scrabble) who played brilliantly despite facing the kind of vowel jumble that i usually get on my rack....it truly is the most horrible thing in this world to deal with (and that includes load shedding and traffic jams!).
The family has a whole history of Scrabble play, mostly between mom and dad. Yet, right from the age of 8, i was the 'kiddo' would butt in every game to showcase my entire vocabulary in a single turn, with articles and prepositions, like 'the', 'but', 'in', 'to', 'go'...forming the larger part of my wordplay! I guess the 'kiddo' has finally come of age (oops, conceit surfacing!). And as every win must be followed by speech (what? its what the Oscars tell me!), here's mine : I would like to thank my parents, my family who had near-dead faith in me; my teachers who participated in no way whatsoever; my friends with whom i never played the game and even my non-existent dog, Ramdayal, who is the love of my life! Thank you Scrabble and lastly 'Languauge is great!'. Cheers!
