As of the latest draw by the PCSO last Saturday night, no one has won yet the much coveted pot price of half a billion pesos(close to 13million US dollar)in the grand lotto. It is more than enough to last a lifetime and more to spare for charitable causes so who wouldn’t be enticed if not obsessed with the thought of getting the winning six digit combination. Everyone has high hopes I guess, including my parents, who never tried to bet and doesn’t even know how the lotto works only until recently when they’ve heard in the news about some Congressmen and Senators who admitted to buying lotto tickets because of the ever -rising pot price which is so far the highest in the history of PCSO. At 20 pesos a ticket, it is a small investment and a very small chance of winning at 1/28 million but still there is a chance. No wonder said my mom that the super long lines that would usually bring out the monsters within people didn’t have that effect, rather it had shown the glitters of hope in the eyes of people from all walks of life. Funny but true, superstitious Filipinos have their way of interpreting people, things and events in their dreams into numbers. Others opt to go to churches to pray that their number combinations will the the lucky one. Well just so you know it, this practice has been tagged as wrong by a retired Catholic bishop because it is a form of gambling according to him. For the majority of the Filipinos, this I believe is their way out of poverty but for some, it a chance of a lifetime to experience the best of what life can offer. Who can blame them? With the cost of living getting higher by the hour to exaggerate who wouldn’t want to be an instant millionaire, anyone?




Instant Grand Lotto Millionaire, Anyone? by PamG is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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