Still Taking Ang Paus, Thank You for Gambling

It's a popular tradition for chinese folks to give and receives "Ang Paus" or pocket money during the chinese new year celebration. Usually, those who gives ang paus would give willingly and happily if they have many children, like the couples in "Cheaper by the Dozen". But those with no child / one child / two childrens would be rather depressed because they will burn a hole in their pockets, because they don't have enough children to ''Breakeven". The happiest person in the whole wide world (well, at least in my household...) is not the children though... It's actually the adult and single / unmarried folks. Why? Children get standard rate ang paus ranging from RM2 to RM 20. But the singles actually get ang paus ranging from RM2 to RM 200, and the ang paus with more than RM50 inside are the majority.

So at least one of the singles would of course be very happy because he can then give his pocket money back to his folks and also donates some to charity.

It's also a very popular but unspoken tradition for chinese folks to gamble during chinese new year celebration. There are two types of gambling (well, at least in my household...), You get folks who drove all the way from Northern Penisular Malaysia to Genting Highland, and Sentosa Island just starting from this year. They didn't go there for the views or for the theme park rides. They were on a mission to be more properous and accumulate more fortune. These are serious gamblers who occasionally praise the handlers in the casinos when they won, and definitely curse and acold the handlers in the same casinos when they lose. But my dear friend who works in a casino (as the handler who always definitely get cursing and scolding from losing gamblers... Unfortunately) said that everything boils down to control...i.e. WHEN TO STOP GAMBLING... AND WALK AWAY... Gamblers on a losing streak are not exactly having excruciatingly depressive bad lucks, they lack the CONTROL and always think way too positively in terms of winning their losses back...

And i quote my friend : "Thank you for gambling in ???? Casino. We hope that you get more and more optimistic whenever you lose your money so that we can get you to lose more money when you are on your losing streak. Just don't curse and scold me due to your lack of CONTROL." End quote.

Another type of gambling is with your family (parents, relatives, cousins, friends too if you're close enough). I personally like this type because it's not exactly gambling per says since you're chatting and catching up with your fellow gamblers most of the time. Your mind is not focusing on winning, but rather just to chillax with those close to you. I was goofing around BIG-TIME impersonating different personalities / celebrities with my folks. I didn't even feel bad losing because i only lost RM50 but the jokes, stories and times i get with my folks were just priceless...

Of course my cousins (who learnt the art and different games of gambling from me when they were young) were always happy to win my money and of course they thanked me for gambling and losing to them...