Gambling

The first story is about Paper. Paper refers to the stocks Tay Soon bought. He bought the stocks in order to make money, but instead lost all his life savings. In the story, Tay Soon made quite a lot of money at first. However, when the stocks started to drop, Tay Soon decided to take the risk and hold on to his stocks, causing him to lose his life savings. There are two people who are responsible for conclusion of the story are Tay Soon and his wife Yee Lian.

Ah Boh uses numbers such as weighing cats and using newborn babies to get her number for 4D. She also rushes to any scene of accident to take down the license plate number of the vehicle involved in the accident. She even prayed for luck in front of her dead husband's ashes. She said she could even feel that he husband had told her she would soon be lucky. Even at the scene of her mother's death in an accident, she still wouldn't stop gambling and still hoped for that lucky day.

Paul's mother is ultimately responsible for Paul's death. She spends a lot of Paul's hard-earned
causing Paul to work all the more harder, eventually leading to Paul's death. Paul tries to help his mother have a bit of luck, as his mother was often complaining about it.