Cheap Thrills

two complimentary tickets and a poster for "the men who stare at goats" from 8 days

rocking horse necklace from pling

haven't really been taking part in contests for awhile. recently decided to try my luck again and won the above! i don't really win expensive stuff, but i do get excited from just having won something! yes, cheap thrill i know. but well, i guess that's better than nothing. :)

the first time i won a contest was when i was in primary school. at that time, i used to help my ah-gong fill in my details for the UIC contests when he bought the washing powder. and once, i won a year's supply of UIC's washing products! i wasn't exactly excited at winning that because obviously washing products did not matter much to a 10-year-old kid. but it was pretty cool when we went to collect the prize. a year's supply = a full trunk. we didn't have so much space at home to keep all of them, so we distributed some to family members and some neighbours. everyone was happy, and so was i. :)

then in secondary school, i took part in contests in lime magazine and 987 fm. and i won several cds, posters and got to meet the moffatts at the 987 fm studio! it was probably the first and last time i had a chance to go 'backstage' at mediacorp and meet celebrities so close and upfront! my only regret was i could have dressed better. i guess my dress sense then wasn't really something that i would be proud of.

in uni, i won a pair of tickets to one of adrain pang's theatre productions (totally forgot which show, but i think it was "a twist of fate") from class 95 fm. it was the first time i was on air on the radio! and that was also the last time i won something until this year. since then i did take part in contests occasionally but did not have any luck.

after some time, i realised that i usually won when i didn't really wanna win it. well, most of the time anyway. :)

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain