14 Jiak Chuan Street, Chinatown, Singapore
“My advice is to go for numbers 5 and 8,” said 13-year-old Pang.
The elder Ken Loh pondered for a wee while, then asked Ying and Chong, “What do you two think? The numbers suggest that if we choose 5 and 8 as the winning numbers, we tend to gain a lot. It is the second best gain for us in the twenty-five options presented.”
“I’ll go for numbers 1 and 5, the best option,” said Chong, who had just been nominated to this leadership position ten months ago.
“No,” said Ying, the only lady member of the leadership team after more than fifteen years in the group, “I’ll opt for numbers 8 and 12, four positions down. Give the buying public more winning cash to attract more new customers to our lottery. We are facing increasing rivalry from the “Siew Por Two Four” group and we need to increase our clients. Going down a little means that there is more cash in our payouts and words will spread. Tomorrow we will certainly have a greater number of participants.”
Ken pondered for quite a while and then he turned to young Pang and asked, “Give me the figures if we go further down, say three more down.”
Pang went through his papers. “Come on, kid. This is not the Maths whiz boy I know.”
Pang nervously said, “According to my calculations, on the combination you chose, 5 and 10, we have to pay out $63,458 and we have an income of $82,589 - only a much smaller gain to us, Sir,”
“That’s it,” said Ken with finality. “Go for 5 and 10 then.”
The entire group of workers immediately went to action mood and started scribbling the result on squared yellow papers, wrote the phrases meant to be the prediction (the phrases coined by Ying) for the next day on to the same papers, rolled the papers up and placed these into tins ready for distribution in the next hour.
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The above event happened on an ordinary night at 11:30 pm at a central table in a large room on the upper floor of 14 Jiak Chuan Street, Singapore’s Chinatown at the very heart of the notorious gang of Sio Loh Kuan Secret Society, way back in 1954.
The group was in the midst of choosing numbers for “Chap Ji Kee” - the subject of another article in the future here. Take a look at the website below for more information of this for now.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chap-ji-kee-%E5%8D%81%E4%BA%8C%E6%94%AF-francis-lai
At the present time, 2017, the entire area bounded by Jiak Chuan Street, Keong Siak Street, Neil Road, Teck Lim Street and Kreta Ayer Street is a precinct of upbeat restaurants, boutique hotels, and drinking bars, deserving a visit by tourists. In fact, 12 Jiak Chuan Street is now a famous Spanish Restaurant with high ratings.
Read the following googled article on Jiak Chuan Road.
Jiak Chuan Road (Chinese - 若泉路; Ruò quán lù) is a two-way street in Chinatown within the Outram Planning Area in Singapore. The road links Teck Lim Street to Keong Siak Street and is the home to several budget boutique hotels and rows of shophouses mainly occupied by restaurants. The place was formerly part of the Keong Saik Street red light district with a concentration of activities of underground gangs.