The long queue in lotto outlets got me curious on how much is for the taking. And as expected it is a huge sum -Php 107M!!! (roughly US$ 2M) And at around 8:30 the pot money for the megalotto draw reached Php 120M++. Since nobody won the last draw, my wild guess is that it will again increase by another Php 20M or so. Nice!
Winning the lottery has always been a dream for almost everybody. Well at least most people I know. I have not encountered a person who wouldn't want to win in it as it is the fastest and easiest way to hit big time.
Based on my short reading from the interlotto.com website regarding Lotto History, the term lotto is an Italian word meaning destiny or fate. And it is also written there that the game dates as far back as the time of Moses, wherein the system was used in order to determine who will be given pieces of land west of the River Jordan.
In the Philippines, when I was a kid the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office used to print Sweepstakes coupons and you get to choose from the pre-printed set of numbers. It was cumbersome in terms of choosing the coupon and a lot of cost for PCSO in printing it. An old man would come regularly in our neighborhood carrying booklets of the coupons and he would let the adults in the "hood" take their pick of their favorite number combinations. He would entice them by calling out "supistik!(his slang for sweepstake), taya na kayo sa supistik!" And he would tell success stories of people he knew who won the last "bola" (lottery). Which does generate a lot of interest and actual sale (and justifies the term bola! he he. Bolahan lang ito).
Nowadays, people still go gaga over lotteries. Dreams and the elements of dreams are associated with numbers that one should pick as their winning lotto entry. Birthdates, anniversaries, addresses are constantly put in betting stations but some do get tired of placing the same combinations and just take the electronically suggested ones called "lucky pick".
Hopes are built around would be lotto winnings and it has been a staple question even in beauty pageants. Usually the query is - "What will you do if you win a 100 million pesos in a lottery?" And the standard answers would be, buy a house, buy a car and the classic - "give some to charity or to their favorite parish church". Half wishing that their chance of winning the lottery and/or the pageant will greatly increase because of the charity part.
Whatever it is that one desires though whether for oneself or for the world entire a windfall from a lotto winning is a great high. Call it fate, destiny, luck -I call it a gift. And thus as with gifts, what you do with it makes it more special and everlasting.
Teka, maka-taya na nga.
Winning the lottery has always been a dream for almost everybody. Well at least most people I know. I have not encountered a person who wouldn't want to win in it as it is the fastest and easiest way to hit big time.
Based on my short reading from the interlotto.com website regarding Lotto History, the term lotto is an Italian word meaning destiny or fate. And it is also written there that the game dates as far back as the time of Moses, wherein the system was used in order to determine who will be given pieces of land west of the River Jordan.
In the Philippines, when I was a kid the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office used to print Sweepstakes coupons and you get to choose from the pre-printed set of numbers. It was cumbersome in terms of choosing the coupon and a lot of cost for PCSO in printing it. An old man would come regularly in our neighborhood carrying booklets of the coupons and he would let the adults in the "hood" take their pick of their favorite number combinations. He would entice them by calling out "supistik!(his slang for sweepstake), taya na kayo sa supistik!" And he would tell success stories of people he knew who won the last "bola" (lottery). Which does generate a lot of interest and actual sale (and justifies the term bola! he he. Bolahan lang ito).
Nowadays, people still go gaga over lotteries. Dreams and the elements of dreams are associated with numbers that one should pick as their winning lotto entry. Birthdates, anniversaries, addresses are constantly put in betting stations but some do get tired of placing the same combinations and just take the electronically suggested ones called "lucky pick".
Hopes are built around would be lotto winnings and it has been a staple question even in beauty pageants. Usually the query is - "What will you do if you win a 100 million pesos in a lottery?" And the standard answers would be, buy a house, buy a car and the classic - "give some to charity or to their favorite parish church". Half wishing that their chance of winning the lottery and/or the pageant will greatly increase because of the charity part.
Whatever it is that one desires though whether for oneself or for the world entire a windfall from a lotto winning is a great high. Call it fate, destiny, luck -I call it a gift. And thus as with gifts, what you do with it makes it more special and everlasting.
Teka, maka-taya na nga.
