I was in Hong Kong last November. It was 9 pm on a Tuesday night. I heard from the TV news there was a superjackpot of over $30 millions for Mark VI, the betting of which would close by 9:30. (Mark VI is a lottery in Hong Kong which is similar to Lotto in Australia.)
So I hastened. I scrambled through my phone books to look for the telephone number for the Telebet Centre. Things were usually not there at the time you needed them most.
At 9:15, I began to panic. I was nowhere but to resort to the internet for help. I keyed in 'Mark VI' to a search engine, hoping that it would return some relevant websites which I might find the phone number to place my bets. I forgot whether it was Google or Yahoo. Anyway I did, and guess what came back!
It returned:
'St. Mark's Gospel, Chapter Six'
"Oh no. Not at this time." I sighed. It was 9:25.The search engine was so smart to try to stop me from plunging all my fortune in that go at the very last moments. Thank you.
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