HA! Got you didn't I with that title!! But I ain't kidding coz we did gamble in college... Hehe...but... not with $$ but with... *Guess what*... Sweets!! And it wasn't becoz we're too bored or what... Our mathz lecturer asked us to do that...!
Okie, I better backtrack or you won't know what I'm talking abt... Well, we're supposed to go to a long-due mathz replacement class... That'd mean 5 hours of mathz in one day! Wah...! Can make a girl go crazy eh... I arrived at college at abt 7:35 am and only went home at 7 pm.. Really bad horr! Imagine! Almost 12 hours at college! Ish.
But thank god Mr Goh was kind enuf to not torture us wif mathz the last 3 hours (i.e. the dreaded replacement classes). Instead, he lets us explore "Probability" in a different and totally refreshing manner! By gambling!! *He did say that the morale behind this was that we wouldn't want to gamble again. Hmmm. Maybe.. Considering all...*
At first, we played a game Mr Goh had devised himself. Pretty cool.. Moi won quite a lot at first.. My instinct was dead-on during that game... [Btw, each of us started out with 20 sweets each, to be fair.. Prior to this, I went to the mini-market to get 20 coffee sweets... I love those!! Yum Yum... Felt quite hungry looking at the array of sweets in front of me... But I can't eat my "money"!! LOL...] After a few rounds, sir started talking abt probability and all... Quite good. *Hungry*
After that game, we did all sorts of types of gambling like those in casinos.... Like Roulette and dunno what... The names of the games were not stated. After playing each game, we all examined the probabilities of each choice... and to our immense dismay, the casinos had devised the game in such a way that the profit we had expected to get were: NEGATIVE!!
Arrgghh...! [Note: In the long term, short term is not reliable, beside, sum casinos operate 24 hrous a day, so that is considered long term lo] Btw, devising all this sort of games were supposed to be da work of actuarial scientists... *Hungrier*
Anyway, after that, sir asked us to play a skipping rope game.... Very easy only, well for most ppl la... Okie, here's how it is done: 2 ppl are supposed to swing the rope in the same direction, while other ppl are supposed to pass thru below da rope... 1 person must go thru each swing. Cannot lapse or whatever. If somebody gets caught up by the rope or miss a swing, everyone will have to start all over again...
Sounds easy, right? Not so for a few ppl... They cannot seem to anticipate what time to go thru below the rope.... Or they juz seem to have an irrational phobia of swinging objects... :O *Is there such a phobia? Hmmm...*
Sir asked them to practice a few times... and get this: Eventhe 2 ppl swinging the rope were suppose to pass thru to... so have to exchange hands at a point. And after many many x 4 attempts, we finally got thru... Oh ya. Moi did okay with this... I think my reflexes are good... *Smiles smugly*
The last game sir showed us was a card trick! Woah! He managed to give us the correct card {diamonds nine} Almost every time... I said almost becoz sumtimes he fumbled so the wrong card was given... Anyway, it was something to do with the deck of cards! It was filled with half of diamond nines and the others are random cards lo... and the random cards were slightly longer *Really slightly* and the diamond nines were slightly shorter...
So, each time, we flip thru the deck to show ppl, we juz hold the longer cards so ppl can't see the diamonds nines... That's all... The other parts are kinda diff to explain here... Whatever. Feel like getting myself a deck of trick cards myself. Haha. Sir said that there is a magician shop in gurney plaze or sumthing... Maybe lo... *Hungrier and hungrier*
Btw, I couldn't resist anymore... Started eating my sweets ade... Oh ya. I was left with about 7 sweets left only... Haih... Really losing horr? :( *Haih* and I ate 5 sweets that made me so full... Not hungry ade!! Hehe.
Then he told us the morale and all that lo... I think it really works. I don't think I will play in casinos too much now... I mean I'm juz going to lose in the long term rite?
Yupz... Good job sir! You managed to put us off gambling ade... Thumbs up!
And that's all la... So long ade this post. Still want summore? Wait other day la! Haha! =D
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