twisted logic - when one door closes, another opens

Friday, April 14, 2006

first entry: gambling

i bought toto today! an investment with potential returns of 2.8million ah!

haha. it was likedat.. went dinner with parents n grandma just now, den while waiting for food to arrive mum suggested i go buy some toto, cos got this logic tat first time buy will strike one. ha no harm trying, since she sponsoring the cost too ahhaah. i just had to go fill up the form and be the one making payment.

the singaporean dream: striking toto, 4D, big sweep.

in the case of toto, my $3.50 investment buys me the power of hope. hope tat when i strike it big i can do some big change to my life and to those of ppl i noe.

but seriously even at age of 20+ reaching 21 real soon i cant tink of wad to do with 2.8million.

yea yea i read rich dad, poor dad, and know all bout the financial intelligence stuff. but how much can i learn frm reading?

and i dun have anione close enuff to learn much about financial planning frm, so frm how i see it, 2.8million in my hand is just 2.8million waiting to be redistributed back to everione who din strike it big.

yes with 2.8million i can do so so many things, but with that also comes the inevitable drawback.

tat ill keep hoping a windfall can turn the tides of my financial situations.

if i keep tinking tat one day i COULD strike it big, i wun be so motivated to work hard animore.

and it wun be ever just $3.50. soon ill be tempted to bet more to increase my chances of winning.

and before i noe it will be obsessed with this and more forms of gambling, just to make ends meet.

nawh no way im gonna let tat happen.
luckily i dun like gambling ahah, i believe in doing things the safe and right way.

ill probably be an employee after my uni, and earn my first million systematically.

but i wun be contented for sure, and tats not a bad thing. i wan to be able to make a name for myself, and working for others i noe tat sure wun happen.
yeah but first i need my capital, i dun wanna be gambling with future money here man.

aniway, im saddened by e fact tat so so many aunties and uncles i see spend so much of their earnings on pieces of "hope-paper". tinking tat each piece will somehow fetch them tonnes of gold.

gambling is only a game, are u gonna gamble ur life away in a game? pls dont, especially if u have families to support. dun gamble their future away too. u dun own their future u bastards.

the real cost of gambling is loss of real work, and over-reliance on nature to save ur screwed up life. never hear before the chinese saying that if u keep on waiting for the rabbit to come it wun ever come?

u gotta go hunt ur own rabbit u understand. hunt one male one female, and soon u'll get the whole 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 (fibonnacci) thing going. money can be 'grown' frm money, so u gotta earn ur capital money first. earn.

and i remember reading this Dilbert comic:

[[ Dogbert set up this store selling lottery tickets. he has two kinda tix for sale - one tat costs $2 the normal one, and one tat costs $0.50, the discounted one.

the only diff is tat with the discounted one u have 0.0001% LESS chance to win.
duh, of course buy the discounted one la! and so some idiot go n buy, and the reader soon realise that the 0.0001% is the chance of actualli striking lottery.

the discounted tix are actualli expired tickets of previous draw dates. ]]

hahah. ok my phrasing din sound too good if some of u cant catch e joke the comic intended. paiseh! if only i can find a way to put the comic up man w/o infringing copyright laws. k must go ask around n learn.

oops. i just realise i kaobei so much just cos of one toto ticket tat i bought. haha. yeah but i hafta write down, to remind myself tat relying on luck is just not the way.

to get good results, u gotta study hard. by relyin on luck u might as well hope for an examination paper given to u with all the answers already filled in. chances of tat? 0.0001%?

i promise to put in my best effort in uni man! ha. to catch up for lost time. ive wasted way too much chrono-energy arghs.

but aniway, hope the $3.50 i spent today fetches some return! ahah. walau money spend liao of course must hope for the best la, where got ppl buy liao den hope dun strike money??!

ha den again, lady luck always visits those who dun expect it. maybe i shud go reverse psychology this time ahha.

ok dun win! pls dun let me win 2.8million! =)

aniway, Dota section now! ahhaa

[[hero of the day: faceless void

item build: ring of regen, boots of elvenskin, boots of speed, gloves of haste, power threads, mithril hammer, maelstrom, eaglehorn, butterfly.

early game strat: pump up backtrack, helps ALOT. being able to dodge physical and MAGICAL attacks 25% of the time is more effective than increasing ur life by 25%, since u totally siam the attack. imagine lion's finger of death or a level 4 dagon triggering ur backtrack. machiam strike 4D. haha. yea get last hit on creeps, shud be easy at low levels since ur attack is above average. be wary of nukers nevertheless. life is a problem for faceless void at any level.

mid game strat: with good farming and some luck, churn out ur power threads and maelstrom asap. with threads and level 4 timelock(bash attack) u alreadi can own single heroes, but with maelstrom u can farm AND also get some double kills along the way.

late game strat: get a butterfly flying fast, for e high evade. basically no one can hit u now(as if u get hit a lot previously) dun bother adding life, ur life is too low aniway. get aegis if u are so scared of getting fragged.]]

ha ok. tat seems veri brief a guide for Dota. first attempt la give some support k! ill be better as time passes. yea aniway late alreadi n im starting to blur out, haha. write more when i wake up!

hengster @ 1:43 AM
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