Life is like "Chor Dai Dee"

During the eve of Chinese New Year, apart from the food fiesta and the fireworks, one of the most exciting moment will be the gambling session.

 

Or so the chinese people used to say "Hoi-toi" (Open table).

 

                                     

 

One of the most popular game will be the "chor dai dee". For those of your who have never played this game before, the easiest way to describe this game is to compare it with the game of "Black Jack".

 

(If you don't even know what a black jack is, then either you are not a chinese or your armpit hair has yet to grow)

 

In black jack, what you need is luck.

 

However in "chor dai dee", not only that you need luck. Without prior planning and strategy, you may ended up like this.

 



 

I would not dwell too much on how the game is played.

 

Because i am not going to start a gambling class here and having my ass ended up in kajang prison.

 

Funnily though, during the course of the game, somehow i got enlightened.

 

Something like "Eureka!!"

 

"Chor Dai Dee" is a game of life. What i meant here is it it just like our life.

 

In our life, we worried about money.

 

 

 

 

We worried about our enemy in office/competitors in businesses.

 

 

 

 

We worried about workloads that drives us nuts. 

 

 

 

Worried about love at times.

 

 

You see, we worried about basically everything. In the game of chor dai dee also, we worried about the cards we had, how we going to kick the shit our of our opponents and etc and etc.

 

Worrying is something, but not doing something about it is more worrying.

 

As i said earlier on, without planning and strategy in this game, it is as good as leaving your money on the table and just walk away.

 

Even if it means you have a handful of "dee" (the card with a higher face value such as "Ace" and "Dee" - 2).

 

Same thing goes in life.

 

I used to have this habit of collecting succesful people's autobiography. They came from all walks of life and excelled, be it in sports or businesses.

 

However one thing's common with every single one of them. They say, with all their hard work and perserverance, it still does not guarantee you success.

 

It also means you have to "grab your opportunity" whenever it comes banging on your door.

 

You should know when to hold, when need to push. Same thing in the game, it is all about the hardworks, perserverance and timing is just as important.

 

But if you just sit there doing nothing and waiting for miracles to happen, then good luck to you.

 

Last but not least, with all my hard works and my never-say-die attitude, this is what i won from a two hour session of chor dai dee during chinese new year.

 

Nah.

 

 

 

 

 

Still better compared to working in starbucks for two hours, right?