Just tucking into my free vegetarian noodles, salty dumplings and spring roll after saying a prayer to Buddha and numerous other god-type effigies. I feel truely blessed now, so blessed that I decided to see what He had in store for me...So I brought my pot of a hundred of so numbered sticks, knelt down in front of the glistening gold Buddah, (I think it was him anyway, they all look the same after a while), and started shaking the pot. At first there was a clear winner, and I could see determination and speedy progress on the horizon, but then that stick dropped back, as if it was a possible future, but currently unobtainable. Up comes the 2nd and 3rd and I started to panic about the curses that may unfold if I greedily drew
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