my ambivalent attitude

Friday, June 16, 2006

I never thought much about gambling, and for a far-from-avid social occasional gambler like me, the activity never brought with it connotations of $$, but rather was more associated with fun, laughter and joy. Needless to say, I never understood why compulsive gamblers could not seem to curb themselves from binge gambling, more often than not slipping into heavy losses and creating unnecessary social ills, thus smearing the country's image, well that's beside the point. That was until the advent of the Germany 2006 World Cup!

You see, one has to experience the process himself before truly appreciating the significance of it all - the heart flutterings when the match goes your way, the greedy winner's thought of increasing the bet amount the next time round and the loser's attitude of recouping the losses by pumping ironically more money into betting. I was in a trance when Ecuador won 3-0 yesterday, already formulating in my mind the next bets to take and uncontrollably having the urge to up my bet for the next few matches. And it took me quite a while to snap out of my reverie and to come back to reality, reminding myself not to allow my leisure small-scale betting to spin out of control. That's it, the devil's advocate in everyone's deepest creek of the sea of thoughts. And most importantly, the key is to subdue it. Haha.

Anyway, here's my first winning tickets from my first trip to a Singapore Pools betting outlet. Let's BURN ourselves, save the fingers:), in the World Cup FEVER!!!

scribbled at 5:06 PM