You can’t deny that Yahoo News are getting more and more interesting to read. This was indeed a capture of the day:

Gambler sues casino for lost $23 mln fortune

SEOUL (AFP) - - A former South Korean company boss who says he gambled away 30 billion won (23.5 million dollars) in three years is suing a casino for allegedly fuelling his addiction, according to a report.

The man identified only as Chung, 67, is appealing a court ruling last November which ordered the Kangwon Land casino to pay him 2.8 billion won in damages.

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Chung says he knew nothing about gambling until he first visited the casino six years ago and believed he could recoup his losses by placing more bets.

"Then I got addicted," the JoongAng Daily quoted him as saying.

Chung, chafing at the 10 million won per-bet limit, hired up to five people as subordinate betters so he could wager up to 60 million won at a time.

"I still get the feeling that I can win back the money at the casino," he was quoted as saying, adding he is currently undergoing weekly therapy for his gambling addiction.

Lawyers for Kangwon Land say Chung lost his fortune in a "voluntary and normal way."

 

After reading this piece of news, I was somehow inspired to work my way to my first million by doing something similar, while I’m jobless.

To Sue Facebook For 2 million loss

I am claiming that Facebook has been fueling my addiction which has then somehow or rather made me lose an estimated amount of SGD2 million since 2007. I started off as a Facebooker way before Facebook has created a craze in Singapore (I remembered how the whole world around me says Facebook is super uber complicated and when there are merely 10 friends in my pet society).

I knew nothing about internet/social media addiction until I first tried installing all the various games and applications in Facebook and believed they could take away my loneliness and empty nights. “Then I got addicted”.

It has become a daily routine to log in to Facebook every few hours to check all the notifications popping up from the right bottom corner of the laptop screen, the posts that friends have left on my WALL, changes in the status between couples, photos that my friends have tagged me, status of my pet in pet society and etc.

Because of the time I have spent and wasted playing Facebook, I have thus lost my passion in pursuing a PHD that could make me a Doctor who can simply earn about to 15k or more by just giving some lectures and talks at schools. If I’m counting an employment period of 5 years after i graduated with a PHD, I could have earned a total amount of estimated SGD900,000.

Okay, I know 2 million = SGD2,000,000. Like I say I’m counting only a period of 5 years. Thereafter, I will actually meet and marry a suave gorgeous rich young entrepreneur at some extravagant cocktail parties, which are attended only by the rich upper-class people. My rich and suave husband will then make up the rest of the amount. In fact, I think the rough estimation of SGD2 million was in fact humble to say.

I therefore would like to demand a compensation of SGD1 billion from Facebook for all the abovementioned allegations. Afterall, the value of Facebook is much more than the peanut SGD1 billion, ain’t it?

OKAY! I am just amazed by how people from around the world can come up with such fantastic strategy to cheat money out of people. LOL! Well, the above crap was just a joke k! So the management of Facebook! I was kidding, please do not remove my account!!!!! mmm <—Ain’t this a display of addiction?

Let’s bargain. How about 5 millions will do? =D