The End – Chapter 10 – A Game Of Money

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…online. Time for a rest and tomorrow will be a new day, hopefully, a better one. If all else fail, I think I may have to wait for my “1-million-ringgit-in-a-book”.

The next morning, I checked the internet and not to my surprise, nothing was in my mailbox except for some junk advertisements. For a start, it seems like those job portals aren’t doing a good job at helping people get jobs. Or perhaps, they don’t like “beggars” like me. I have nothing to lose but also, nothing much to offer. Later, I gave it some thought and searched my university and instead, found a contest on a board game called Next Level that claims to teach entrepreneurship. I can really use a day off and so, I applied. The contest had started last week and participants would be allowed to choose the day of competition and play the board game as long as there are 3 other participants present. Nothing more was mentioned about the game. Is this part of the marketing strategy? Never mind that, I was all into this game upon laying my eyes on the words “contest” and “entrepreneurship”.

A few minutes later, I was replied and was offered a game at 11am. “This will not be another useless day for me,” I told myself, almost to the tone level of a shout. I then went on to a shower and quickly put on my clothes. Joining activities in the university either as a participant or part of the organizing committee has given me pleasure as well as pain in the past. I’ve had the chance to meet cute girls; which would be the pleasure, only to be turned down when I asked for a contact e-mail; the pain. Other than the attraction from opposite sex, I got to learn a lot on how to work with people, control myself when I go through anger, fear, shyness, and stress. The only one that I still have would undoubtedly be stress.

As I approach the old canteen used as the game venue, I glared upon a scene I’ve not seen. A few people were running around a board, apparently out of joy for winning over a large amount of money from another and dozens of people holding calculators and writing on sheets of papers full of numbers which almost every single player held. Is this a brain-washing session turned effective or is the marketing for this board game that good?

“Hi, are you here to join the Next Level board game contest?” a young and fairly confident student asked me. “Yes, I’ve registered and got a reply in a matter of minutes, and I must say; that alone impressed me. The young student turned out to be the mastermind behind the board game and he has been experienced in the subject of accounts apparently. I have never seen such commanding or controlling power by a product, and who would have thought that the product is a board game. This reminds me of a quote from Albert Einstein on learning

knowledge from learning gets u from a to b, imagination from experience or growing takes u everywhere

I am already convinced and would go anywhere this young student would lead me to…

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