Business and Money Tips

It was 2007 when we discovered his secret. My siblings and I were helping my father move his old, worn-out mattress. And as we lifted it, we froze. Underneath that bed lay heaps and heaps of Singapore Pools 4D tickets. They weren’t neatly stacked. They were layered, like ancient ruins. A paper trail of lost hopes, accumulating over the years. What shocked us most wasn’t just how many there were. It was the stakes. My father wasn’t betting a dollar or two for fun. He was punting hundreds of dollars per draw: more than 10 times a month. At the time, we were absolutely furious. My father was a 78-year-old retiree. We looked at those slips with a mix of anger, confusion, and judgment. We thought to ourselves, "Why does a man at his stage of life need to win such 'big money'? What is he going to do with it? Buy luxury items? Live a lavish life?" We saw it as a reckless habit. A sign of poor judgment in his final years. I vividly remember some of us saying, "If I were...