July 10, 2007 By

Back-Stabbing Your Friends is Fun

lifeboat Last weekend I attended a small wedding dinner function hosted by my friend Khai. Congratulations to him and his wife – they got married on 7 July 2007 i.e 777! It was a nice, cosy dinner and we had a lot of innocent fun playing board games. You can find more photos on Edmund’s blog.

There I met Senze for the first time, one of the pioneers of Internet marketing in Malaysia. A lot of Internet marketers in Malaysia have either attended his seminar or bought his book, or both. He’s a really nice guy, quite down-to-earth and soft-spoken.

I had more than given up with board games since I suck at Monopoly and no one wants to play Risk with me. But Khai is a master of what’s called “designer board games”. Basically it means rare, less-popular titles that usually come with the signature and profile of the individual creator of the game.

A new game I played, called Lifeboat, was all about back-stabbing. It seemed pretty boring at first but as the game grew it became more interesting.

And master back-stabber Edmund Loh (second from right) was at his best, almost killed me off early. He used his Jedi mind tricks on us beginners and Jie Ming (first from left) seemed like he was falling for it.

In the end though, Khai won. Actually we let him win because it’s his big day.



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Comments

  1. Khai says:
    July 11, 2007 at 1:29 am

    Hi Rakawi,

    I bought my games on e-bay and http://boardgamecafe.net (in KL, Malaysia). You can also check the ratings of each board game on http://www.boardgamegeek.com.

    I highly recommend you play the Settlers of Catan (construction/development and trading game), I’m The Boss (negotiation and investment), Life boats (pure negotiation, backstabbing and horrendously vicious) and Citadels (4-8 players game).

  2. Edmund Loh says:
    July 11, 2007 at 1:22 am

    Hmm… me? Master Back Stabber? ;-) Gobi, that’s what the game was all about!

  3. Rakawi Ling says:
    July 11, 2007 at 12:42 am

    Sounds like a lot of fun lol They say that 07/07/07 is the luckiest day ever too :D

    I wonder if I can find that board game around here.

  4. Gobala Krishnan says:
    July 11, 2007 at 9:43 am

    Yeah but you have a natural talent at it, lol..

  5. Rakawi Ling says:
    July 11, 2007 at 5:15 pm

    Thanks for that link, Khai :D

    Hmm.. I like the sound of “I’m The Boss” lol

    And congrats on your wedding! :D