Mega Millions

In the US we have a lottery called the MEGAMILLIONS Lottery, it has several states that participate in the drawing and because of that it can reach amazing jackpots. In March 6, 2007 before changing its name from the Big Game, to its current Mega Millions it had a world record jackpot of 390million dollars. After taxes the 2 winners of this jackpot shared 223 million dollars. When I checked the current pot it was up to 145million dollars and has been running for nearly 2 months with out a winner. I was however surprised to see that someone in my hometown won $200,000 from it.

It makes me wonder what in the world I would do if I ever won the Mega Millions jackpot. Some how I think that the first thing I would do is pass out, ha-ha. After that I think that I would buy my self a new house here in Taichung, maybe one of the new luxury high-rise apartments or a larger mansion style house near where I currently live and furnish it lavishly. After that maybe I will buy a nicer scooter than the one I have and since I already have a nice car maybe I will skip that step. I could use some of the money to go back to school and study a new subject to get my Masters and the PhD degrees. Finally I think that I would like to start my own business. It has been my dream for a long time to own both a book store and a cafe, so maybe I can combine the two and have a dream business. Living in Taiwan that 145 million would translate into NT$4.67billion, that’s billion with a ‘B’. That’s enough money that even If I worked the barest minimum 14hrs a month teaching I could live a full and relatively happy life here for the rest of my life.

I still before I do any of this I should take care of my mother and family, so I would give my mom money to live happily, buy her a nice new house, give my youngest brother some money to finish off school even if it takes him 10years, give my middle brother some money to play with. Give some money to my grandmother so that she can live with out worry in her old age, and can travel if she wants, and she can care for her health with out worry.

I wonder what other people would do with $145million?
If anyone would like to share their dreams or plans with that kind of money please feel free to. It is always good to dream about things like this, in my humble opinion it is something that gives us strength to move on and give us hope for the future. Because even if we can’t win that Mega Millions we can still take the items from our list and through hard work and determination make them into reality.

This has been the random thought for the day, from Chububobcat who wishes everyone a safe and happy 10-10 day.

>Edit<
The Megamillions lottery dragged on for another week reaching a total of 200million dollars before being won by a single ticket holder in Virgina. Ahh 200 million dollars, what to do with it?