if you ever read 'the diceman' by rhinehart then you will kinda know wot i am talking about.........
of course the game i play doesn't involve you killing anyone, but then again this game's first rule is that there are no rules because you make them up along the way, so if human sacrifice is something you feel the urge to perfrom then play to your hearts content (and just don't tell anyone or else you go to prison) .............
okay...........the first time i played this was in copenhagen with hakan (pronounced haw-kan but i don't have that special 'a' with the 'o' on top)........... i can't quite remember why we were in copenhagen, i think that we both needed a break from studies and hakan needed to buy alcohol (thats wot studying too much does to you) so we decided to go to copenhagen because alcohol was cheaper there then in sweden (this is very true ask anyone!!!)............ anyway.......... we were both in a games shop messing about and on the counter were alot of dice............. hakan then suggested 'hej wouldn't it be fun to explore copenhagen with a dice' and guess wot happened next???............ yep, we bought a dice..................and the first place we came to was the toy shop, no surprises there, but it was also the place i got my faithful purple parasol (no not umbrella, parasol!!!) ................
the rules we had, were very simple in our game........... for instance if there was only one street we said '1-3 go left' or '4-6 go right', if there were several ways to go, we named each walkway 1,2,3,4,5,6 and whatever the number fell upon we would walk down that route................ if we came across a place of interest we said '1-3 we go in and look' or '4-6 we move on', and if we were in a shopping area we played '1-2 go left' or '3-4 go right' or '5-6 go forwards' .................. there was no logic to any of it but basically you take it in turn to make the rules beforehand and then roll the outcome with the dice................. in the beginning we just threw the dice on the street (catching alot of attention along the way) but found this impratical in crowded areas so decided it was best to roll the dice in the non-rollers hand (how smart were we!!!).....................
that was one of the most memorable days in my life because i got to see alot of interesting things; like the little mermaid, the modern art museum. a fort or battlement of some kind, toys, a lovely park, a private exhibition, some second-hand shops and almost the chance to sleep at the train station (almost, we said '1-3' we go home or '4-6 stay there as tramps', thank god it was a three!!!)................ of course finding the station again was amusing to say the least......... after walking around for 6 hours straight we were lost (that tends to happen when you obey the dice!!!) after asking directions from one dane, we started walking towards where we thought the station was, only to find out half an hour later by another (this time a kind local dane) that we needed to head back in the other direction!!!..................... that day playing dice was the break that we both needed, something so strange and random that we would want to come back to reality in order to enjoy fun more......................epecially hakan who was doing his final paper on manipulating computer characters or generated images??? (something tells me that was not his subject)............
hakan was one of the best friends a person can have, hes the type of guy that can think up really kool and fun things to do and is never a bore, hes a great conversationalist (even if he hates ppl) and if you ever get to meet and befriend this introvert then you will be very lucky indeed because not a day will go by that is not full of surprises.............. he also makes a good cooking and sparring partner (so miss our play fights in the kitchen as well as our wall paintings with corridor money!!! or smashing up of the furniture, don't ask) seriously, hakan is a good person that is kind as well as calm. so much so, that i have decided to have him as my maid-of-honour at my wedding...............don't look so bewildered, half my bridesmaids are going to be guys ( i will have hairy bridesmaids i know, but it will be a masquerade so you won't have to look at their faces??? not sure if that is good or not)
anyway............. like i wrote before if you've got time then go out and play 'dice', take a camera with you and take pictures of the day to remember................ if you are feeling extra adventurous then use the dice to go 'bus-hopping' or 'train-hopping' to see where you might end up and be surprised at how you would never have planned to go there or at the new things you discover!!! it can be fun if you are up for it but errrrrrr you might want to keep a record of the route you took or else you won't get home (yes it happened to me, tried to use the dice to get home but errrrrrr got even more lost hahahahahahaha).....................this experience won't change your life but may make you view it in a different light??? who knows??? just have fun hahahahaha
for more videos from that day please go to:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7188B430B18B1B1A
(this has nothing to do with the blog but, i will wirte it anyway........ bon nuit, gut schlaf, mann-on, vislat, buenos noches, god nat, oyasumi nasai, bonne notte, no star, wan-shang, annong jumishipsiyo and good night hahahaha )
(i just had to add these photos because it was of a dice... yeah no logic at all :-p)
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