S$10 Million TOTO Ang Bao Draw is here !!!

Well well well... it's the time of the year again.. Yearly routine event for Singaporeans ever since it started in Year 2000. Over the past 6 years, since its inception in year 2000, the Toto Hongbao Draw has paid out $137 million in prizes to more than a million people. (extracted from Singapore Pools' website)

Last night's headlines on 晚报 was about die-hard fans queuing up at 7-11 Yishun 旺地.. And the queue started as early as 5am ! OMG.. It's a pain for me to wake up every morning at 545am, CFCM, so i don't understand why these weirdos can forgo their sleep just to go and stand there a few hours for a possible (?%) winning ticket.

Best part is, usually a few weeks before this famous draw, everyone will be busy speculating when the big draw will be.. We all know that it will definitely be within the 2nd week of the Lunar New Year (dat's why it's call the angbao draw), and it will fall either on Monday or Thursday (regular TOTO days) and the minimum prize money is S$10m. Hahaha.. but this year it's an exception ! Singapore Pools made their announcement last month that the draw will be on a FRIDAY this year (10th Feb) and the time of the draw is 10PM ! Lucky no. 10 ? or purely coincidental ?

Another favourite speculation before the draw is GUESS THE MOST FREQUENT NUMBER. Statistics shown that number 30 has appeared more than 130x over the past yrs draws. And it's younger brother number 29, has done well too - but in the other sense. It has the "LEAST FREQUENCY" title to its honour. To name a few, some top favourites are 11, 17, 20, 30, 41 etc.

So for all those TOTO fanatics out there, time to take out those bet slips and start crossing those numbers ! GOOD LUCK ! ( to me !)
(Wall picture complimentary from my uncle's house)