Little Sunshine

Been a while since I posted Axel's pictures. Here's my little sunshine...

Reaffirmation

Lately I have been having some negative thoughts again. I started to find faults... I started to concentrate on the black dot. Is this a post-CNY holiday syndrome??

I actually wrote a post about these negativities just now but I decided to delete it. Instead I think everytime when I have such thoughts, I should reaffirm myself by listing down the things that I should be grateful for on that particular area of which I am feeling unhappy about.

So here goes:

I am grateful that I have a job that provides me with a decent income.
I am grateful that I have a "superwoman" boss whom I can learn a lot from.
I am grateful that I have supportive colleagues who make life at work so pleasant.
I am grateful that I have the chance to be more technical.
I am grateful that I can keep in touch with my friends via IM at work.
I am grateful that I can access the internet at work for research or leisure.
I am grateful that I can go home on the dot most of the time.

Deal or No Deal?

Ever wonder how SMS contest on TV works?

Well last night I did an exploration of my own while watching "Deal or No Deal".

Looks pretty simple from the screen, just send DDE to 39868 to participate. I thought well... it's only RM1, what the heck! So I went ahead and sent the SMS.

In return, I received this:

Such an easy question, right? So happily I sent my reply. Then came another SMS.

Oh oh....not an easy one. Nothing that Wikipedia can't solve yah? So after finding the answer, I quickly send my reply again. A few seconds after that, my phone beeped again.

Oh such an easy one. I got my confidence back again. You don't even have to think, right? So off I sent my answer.

Gosh...who cares about such things??? Anyway Wikipedia is always a good friend in situation like this. After finding the answer, I sent my reply again.

Oh...so that's the last of the questions. I am sure if you are in my situation, you would be damn curious to know how you did. So I sent DDE RANK to check on my ranking.

My ranking was 71... which means it is totally hopeless to win 20% of the Deal or No Deal participant's winnings.

So what did I get to lose? RM4.60 for the received SMSes. I wonder how much I get charged for sending the SMSes to this shortcode.

Anyhow, every lesson comes with a price. For this, it cost a minimum of RM4.60.

Now I finally know how SMS Contest on TV works. Is it worth it?

Deal... or No Deal?