I have an Optus pre-paid mobile phone. Whenever I recharge Optus sends me a text message inviting me to a Website to collect a prize I have won. Oh, it's exciting. There is the possibility of winning free text messages (only to other pre-paid Optus customers now), mobile phones, cameras, trip for two to NYC for the MTV Awards and the like. I always win free texts but live in hope.
Just now I entered the competition and started it - this is where it runs through pictures of the prizes and they slow down to reveal the prize. Much like a spinning wheel does. Only this time before the prize was revealed I received a text message informing me that I had won 40 free SMSs. So, it was already decided what the prize would be. Rigged I call it.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Thursday, August 02, 2007
My Boy Won A Radio
A couple of weeks ago during the school holidays the boy and his mum went to the museum to meet up with a music school classmate and his mum. As it was the holidays the museum had an exercise for them to do - Queen's Quest. They had to find certain objects and write down certain letters on a form. When finished they would put their name to it in the hope of winning a prize, in this case a radio.
The boy came home and told me about the competition but added, "I won't win it. I never win anything." I said that, "You've got to be in it to win it." Lo and behold about a week later the museum rang and asked him to come and collect a radio that he had won. Talk about one excited child. I was rather hoping that it had an MP3 player as well.
So, on the weekend we made a special trip into the city to collect the radio. It's not all that expensive, the 2xAAA batteries that we inserted are probably worth more than the radio itself, but it works well and is quite a treasured item. And that's just the way it should be. As it was a cheap item, which will last for ages if looked after, the museum was able to provide a great many radios as prizes and that's a great way to get kids to appreciate their museum.
Now I'm sure that he'll be bugging me to go in any competition that he sees from now on.
A couple of weeks ago during the school holidays the boy and his mum went to the museum to meet up with a music school classmate and his mum. As it was the holidays the museum had an exercise for them to do - Queen's Quest. They had to find certain objects and write down certain letters on a form. When finished they would put their name to it in the hope of winning a prize, in this case a radio.
The boy came home and told me about the competition but added, "I won't win it. I never win anything." I said that, "You've got to be in it to win it." Lo and behold about a week later the museum rang and asked him to come and collect a radio that he had won. Talk about one excited child. I was rather hoping that it had an MP3 player as well.
So, on the weekend we made a special trip into the city to collect the radio. It's not all that expensive, the 2xAAA batteries that we inserted are probably worth more than the radio itself, but it works well and is quite a treasured item. And that's just the way it should be. As it was a cheap item, which will last for ages if looked after, the museum was able to provide a great many radios as prizes and that's a great way to get kids to appreciate their museum.
Now I'm sure that he'll be bugging me to go in any competition that he sees from now on.
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