I was on my drive home from Cyberjaya around 4.30pm today, acting cool in the car [syok sendiri] while chilling to the radio. Ross was on air carrying through the ‘Drive Home’ session on Mix FM. It’s been well over a month [I think] since he moved from hitz.fm, and he seems to be the same football-crazed nut he always has been.

So anyway, a few days ago, Mix FM decided to play smartass and asked their whole bunch of listeners for a neat game with them. All the listener would need is the freaking radio [duh] and their handphone [of course it has to have some credit you stupid little turd, now shut up and let me finish!]. It’s pretty much a game of Bingo blown out of proportions, so to speak. As participants, instead of holding a lucky number card, they will have their own set of numbers. The last 7 digits of their own handphone number. And much like a normal game of Bingo, the current DJ will announce a set of 5 digits over a period of a little over an hour, with 15-minute minute intervals between them.

And being the smartasses that they are, they decided on a little wordplay and named this funky contest Phingo, with cash prizes in the hundreds of ringgits. Yeah, we’re talking BIG loot, here.

Back to me driving home today, the clock hit 4.45pm and some crackpot weirdo ad came playing and said that today’s cash prize was RM 500. Sure, big deal, like I’m gonna win that, lah. My number is made up of the digits 0, 2, 3, 5 and 7. So, came the announcement for the third digit, which was ‘3′. After that, Ross made a quick recap of the previous numbers, which, to my surprise, were 5 and 7!

Like, OMGWTFBBQ!!. 3, 7 and 5 !? That’s a freaking good chance for me!! Knowing that this session will run until 5.15, I made a rather weird decision today.

You see, I have two routes that I can follow to get home. One is a high-speed highway with a low amount of traffic, I will have to pass through two tolls that will total up to RM1.60. The other one is about the same length, maybe a bit shorter, but will have heavy traffic during peak hours because it doesnt have any tolls across it. I try to avoid the toll route as often as possible, and I usually do as I often leave home and/or campus way off from peak hours. In cases where I leave for home during peak hours, I just avoid the jams [because it's insane, and it drives you so as well] and take the toll route.

Which is what I would have normally done today. But noooOooOoo….

Since I decided to spend a while longer in the car, I decided to take the toll-less route and plow through insane traffic. True enough, I’m surrounded by cars with 1.8-litre engines that move slower than a crippled snail. You do the math yourself to figure out how much time I spent in the car. And then the clock hits 5.

Felix [whatever that clown's name is] announced the fourth digit, which was ‘2′!!

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG I CAN FUCKING WIN THIS SHIT!! FIVE FUCKING HUNDRED BUCKS EASING ITS WAY INTO MY HANDS!!!

So I listened to Ross’s instructions carefully, and noted down that I have to be the second to send the message Phingo to 32328, and if my message is the second to get through, I have to answer Ross’s phone call with ‘Mix FM am I the one?’ and 500 bucks is mine!!. Allright, I can do this, I can fucking do this!! Give me a ‘0′ and I’m gonna fucking win!

Gone were the crippled-snail cars, gone were smokes that spewed out of the tens of lorries, gone were buzz of motorcycles slicing through left and right. I only have my mind on my money, and my money on my mind.

But I decided to save dreams for later, and waited patiently. As I made the turning into my small town, I drove slowly as it was already 5.10, a mere 5 minutes away from my loot. I reached my front gate at approximately 5.14, but decided to stay in the car for a while longer, just so I can claim my prize. 5.15, and Felix announced the final digit.

Felix : “the number is….”

ZERO!! ZERO!! WHOOHOO!!!!!! YEEE-

Felix :“…ONE!!!”

Ross: “That’s right, so its 5, 7, 3, 2 and 1. Be the second to sms through….”