Thursday, November 25, 2010

How to pay your insurance premium even without billing notice

Great Life Financial allows payment of premiums even without a billing notice although it is not what is stated in their “how to pay your premium” data, provided you make your payment on its RCBC bank branches (not RCBC Savings Banks as the latter does not entertain premium payments). All you need is your policy number and premium due or the amount you wish to pay.

Just fill out a Billing Collection form (this is how they call their Bills Payment slip) and indicate the aforementioned data then proceed to the cashier or teller. You will receive the official receipt from the company in a few weeks.

This is exactly what I was instructed to do upon query when I failed to receive my latest billing notice.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Lotto 6/55

The jackpot for this new PCSO product has reached around P380 million last Wednesday, and for the nth time nobody got the perfect combination to amass the big pot. This phenomenon enticed both the old time bettors and newbies. I for one was encouraged to try my luck, and I participated in around four draws. I did not get even 3 numbers right. And I said, "winning this should be really hard."

But contrary to my experience, my roommate who has no idea about the ballooning prize and I was the one who encouraged him to try his luck at the last minute of the closing time, even got a 3 number combination. He got 150 for it. Luck, as they say, comes when you really are lucky.

But how really hard it is to win in 6/55?
PCSO insiders say a person who bets on a number combination has 1 in 28.9 million chance of winning, and only 25 per cent of these numbers are being bet on. This means 75 per cent of the 28.9 million combinations have no bets placed on them. This explains why after so many draws, the prize is still at stake. On last Wednesday's draw, only 1/4 of the total combinations have bets placed on them.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Lexing TV

Months ago, my friend bought a 17" television for a measly P2,500 pesos somewhere along Avenida street in Manila. The TV was branded as Lexing. I was surprised to learn that Lexing now has a tv product as they are only known for their cheap dvd players which, based on unofficial reviews from online fora, are proven to be durable after some testing. This brand is known to be made from China.

Now that they also ventured into tv products, it is imperative for the sake of curiousity to know whether these products also match its dvd counterparts. To tell you, so far, my friend's tv still works well after almost five months. And from the way it looks, it seems like it will last a long time.