horse racing!!!

went to my FIRST horse racing section the other day, with my boss and a few other colleagues. it's VERY VERY interesting. basically, my boss decided to bring some colleagues from other office to the horse racing in Hong Kong. and because i've never been there, my boss asked me along.

basically, i think my boss is the high-class kind. we didnt go to the side where all the locals are. we actually went to a restaurant, where there's a buffet dinner waiting for us. so we ate and watched the horses run. in fact, it's pretty exciting. whenever the horses are almost at the finishing line, you can hear the crowd cheering and shouting. it's really like what you see in HK drama or movies. amazing. and you see all sorts of people at the stands - old, young, man, woman, educated, non-educated, etc etc.

basically, there are 12 races one night and when we arrived, 3 races have been run. so while we were eating, my boss was like " so, what horse do you think will win in the next race? " and i went " NUMBER 4 " heh heh. and so my boss asked "wanna bet?" and i went " SURE!" so i took out HKD 50 and put HKD 30 on "place" and HKD 20 on "win". basically, "place" means if your selected horse comes in 1st, 2nd or 3rd, you won. "win" means your horse has to come in 1st. there are other ways of betting but i have no idea how it goes and so i bought the simplest way. and guess what? my horse came in 3rd and i won HKD 110!!! hee hee. so thinking that im on a winning streak, i bought my 2nd race and i lost! then i stopped as i thought it's pretty duhz. hahaha! not quite a risk-taker huh?

a very funny thing happen. at the last race, some of us decided to place a bet. there are 12 horses and we bought 8 horses differently. and we were cheering and hoping our horses will win. and guess what? out of the 8 horses that we bought, NONE of them came in the top 3. in fact, none of them came in the top 4. haha what a joke. we have 67% chances of winning, which is pretty high, but none of us won. haha i guess we are just not the type that have the gamblers' luck.

wouldnt mind going again. it's pretty fun and coolz!!