My bridge career thus far (0)
Along the way back from the Gold Cup match, and during the next morning, a thought popped up in my head to start writing down what I have learnt in my 6 years of playing bridge thus far. Along the way I have taken some detours, learnt many things, met many great people and not-so-great ones as well. Hopefully, one will find this useful in any way possible.
I mean this to be an objective and constructive piece. No personal offense is meant towards anybody in this. Where possible, I will try not to name names if I feel that I am referring to something not very glorious. In any case I will try my best to make this as positive as possible. Yes, this is a disclaimer.
I would like to think of my bridge career as being split into:
1) RJC Days (2004-2005)
2) Restarting in NS (Jul 2006-Sep 2007)
3) Between NS and Uni (Oct 2007-Sep 2008)
4) Life in Uni thus far (Sep 2008-present)
Each section is rather different, and in fact I would say the first part has contributed very little. This is the objective truth – it is not to say that I did not learn anything during those 2 years, but it would be more right to say that for practical purposes, I “started” in July 2006.
How did I start bridge? I learnt what is commonly referred to as “floating bridge” in 2000 in RI Choir. So in 2003, right before graduating and going onto RJC, I heard of the bridge club where they play contract bridge. Thus towards the end of 2003 I started picking up contract bridge. 2004 came and I joined the bridge club in RJC. The main problem I had at this point in time was having a partner and I ultimately ended up with Andre.
(to be continued)