Discussion thread 1

Paul's weaknest is the moment whereby he lose money and all that will make him feel sad, even to the point whereby he goes crazy and mad, ruining every single thing and finally his life. That is why he was unable to live to the age of seventy. The cards were stacked against him by his greed and weaknesses. Everything was ruined, by the hands of the winner. Although he was lucky in winning the race bets, he did not had the ultimate luck of living till the age of seventy. Perhaps that was the result of his weakness.

Discussion thread 2

Tay Soon was haunted by his greed of money when the market stocks suddenly go on a downstride. He certainly did not want to give up when he lost all his gains and was hoping to gain back his money. It was hopeless and yet he endured on, hoping a miracle will happen, having the blazing desire to win back, to take revenge, to bring back the nerves, the time, the brain. Everything was brought down to nothing after all the efforts are wasted because of greed.

Lottery

Ah Boh was simply mad about her lottery. She had translated all the objects that she think could be her 'lucky number' into the numbers she think that will win the lottery. From dreams, to newborns and even accidents. She did not cared much about the bodies of the accident as she is fasinated about the money that she will win but it will not come by easily.

The Rocking Horse Winner

I think it was Oscar Cresswell and Bassett the garderner and partly the mother's fault. If Oscar and Basset have not lent him the few pounds he will never go into horse-racing gambling. Now that he is winning more and more, he sort of gone crazy. The mother who wanted to send him to the seaside decided not to at the end and that was her mistake. If she had stopped him he will not die of his craziness over luck.

1. I think that the author longed to return to the past where days were carefree. He also thought about the funny moments. He felt the warmth of his school life and wished he could go back and experience it once again for it is a wonderful memory. Its the goodness of those days that I think he wanted to remain forever at the carefree days of school life.

2. I am writing a poem of 4 stanzas of couplets below. It was when I am still young and childish. My memories came to me and I composed the poem.

It was those days,
That my precious time flew away.

I flunk all my homework,
And my examination results are junk.

Talking about computer games?
I can name a thousand of their names.

So what about my friends?
They always ask me to go and play LAN.