{"id":152,"date":"2007-03-28T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2007-03-28T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T03:10:00","slug":"are-there-really-lucky-people-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/are-there-really-lucky-people-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there really lucky people out there?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am curious. I am very curious. Is there really lucky people out there? I mean, lucky people who actually win stuff from contests. My “Am I lucky?”<\/a> post stirred some relatively negative remarks on such contests. Sadly, I understand the cliches but how do these contestants actually win deals ? Are they the lucky ones ? Perhaps their persistence<\/span> just paid off?<\/p>\n

I’m sure most would agree that snail mail contests requires effort. Getting a stamp, an envelope and posting are effort. I always think that people who wins from such contest are deserving.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Recently, one of my student was casually chatting about winning stuff from an online game website with his friend in class. I overheard the conversation. I wasn’t ears dropping, I couldn’t close my ears. Winzy<\/span> <\/a>is the website name. <\/p>\n

I remember during my younger days, where I was hooked onto online games. The addiction was so intense<\/span> I could forget my meals and even forget the hour of the day. I have no idea how I finally managed to get rid of that bad habit. I didn’t go into any online rehabilitation centre for sure. The internet<\/span> world has evolved since I left the gaming world. Now, it is a reward to play online, so the student of mine claims. Collecting points on online games <\/a>to win prizes. Being a concerned tutor, I checked out the Winzy<\/span><\/a>. Ok<\/span>, I admit, I’m just nosy. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Indeed you can actually win stuffs from this site. The reward ? Cash, iPod<\/span>, Nintendo to name a few. I dug further. There’s even pictures of winners ! Then, it happened. I did the unthinkable, I played one of the free online game – Deal or No Deal. <\/a>Was it fun ? Was I hooked ? No and no. If you have nothing to better to do, perhaps playing the game <\/a>might add some excitement into your life. <\/p>\n

Ironically, this online game <\/a>may seem dull to some, I found the core essence<\/span> of this website was its marketing strategy. Giving out prizes to use its search engine. Now, that’s<\/span> something more useful. The catch ? Only valid for Americans and Canadians. I wonder if the student of mine knew that his points collected are of no use ! <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am curious. I am very curious. Is there really lucky people out there? I mean, lucky people who actually win stuff from contests. My “Am I lucky?” post stirred some relatively negative remarks on such contests. Sadly, I understand the cliches but how do these contestants actually win deals ? Are they the lucky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-cents-review","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}