I find myself being drawn to frivolous competitions these days.
Like "email your suggestions to this email address and win free tickets to Singfest" or "SMS the correct answer and win daily cash prizes of $50".

Being a logical person, I have never bothered with these feather-brained competitions. I never saw the odds of me winning it. The probability of winning is small (if not impossible), and I've never been a particularly lucky person.
And somehow the cynic in me eschewed all these get-rich-quick schemes. How can you become rich overnight just because you sent an sms?? It violates my very Singaporean belief of "work hard to succeed".
But of late, i see myself being drawn to these competitions, mainly for the prizes. The $50 dollar prize money has become more attractive.
And this greatly troubles me as its a slippery slope. Whats next, 4D and other forms of gambling? Its a step to a sin.

But, i am starting to empathize with those people who brave long queues to buy 4D and TOTO. I watched Money No Enough (the first one back in 1998) and found it to be a very heart-warming and honest movie.
Henry Thia's character in the movie would regularly buy 4D and TOTO as he sees it as his ticket out of the middle-class vortex. And I find that extremely dis-heartening. Is there really no way out other than chance and luck?

(That reminds me of another quote
"You thought we could be decent men at an indecent time. But you were wrong; the world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced and fair")

I guess it all boils down to faith.
The moment we lose faith, is the moment where we fail.