Thursday, July 2, 2009
Lesson 4: Gambling
PaperThe title,
Paper, refers to the stock certificate, which is worthless like paper at times. Gambling is risky and so is investing in the stock market. Once the money is invested in stocks, you are left with a certificate - paper. The money is no longer yours directly, but indirectly. That's when the risk comes in. Just like gambling, you either gain money, or you lose them. The gains in the stock market are lies. The stock market is addictive. Once you start, it will be hard to stop. When you start winning money, you will continue to gamble until you start losing money. It is the same for the stock market. When the stock value increases, you will not sell them. When it starts to decrease, by that time, it would be too late.
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Paper, Tay Soon and Yee Lian invested in stocks and enjoyed a sharp increase. However, the money was just imaginary. Just paper. Then came the decrease. In the end, they lost much more money than they could have gotten.
LotteryAh Boh believes that gambling is the fastest way to obtain money, thus she goes all out to get the inspiration and tips for gambling. From dreams to accidents, so long as they involve numbers, Ah Boh will surely be there and remember them. Even if they are totally unrelated, she will find a way to get numbers out of them. To satisfy her gambling habit, she would rather use her salary to gamble than to provide for her elderly mother, who sometimes go hungry. At the end, when her mother died after a car accident, she even got the car number of the car and assured her that she will win the prize money this time.
The Rocking Horse WinnerIn The Rocking Horse Winner, Paul himself, Uncle Oscar and Bassett are responsible for Paul’s death. Gambling is addictive. Uncle Oscar and Bassett, being grownups, should have known better than to support Paul and let Paul bet. In fact, they might have done this for their own good, getting sure-win money when they bet for the horse that Paul recommends. They should be have been more responsible and discourage Paul from gambling instead of joining him. Paul himself should also have realised that gambling was addictive and could indirectly hurt someone physically and mentally. In this case, Paul paid the ultimate price.
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