THEY spent many nights together huddled on the floor of their living room, cutting, counting and sorting The New Paper Dollars (TNP$).
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| HAPPY COUPLE: Mr and Mrs Koh with the TNP$ they collected. |
For newlyweds Benjamin and Priscilla Koh, The New Paper Auction not only won them a 47' Philips TV sponsored by Courts, it also provided them with a chance to bond.
The couple won with a bid of more than TNP$600,000.
'Every time we finished cutting and sorting, we would wash each other's hands, and compare to see whose hands were dirtier,' said Mrs Koh, 25, a private tutor, laughing.
The couple was at the Singapore Press Holdings Press Centre yesterday to have their TNP$ counted by marketing staff. It took marketing officer Emily Peh an hour to count all their TNP$.
Mr Koh, 26, a civil servant, said: 'We would often joke about spending quality time together cutting out TNP$.'
They would start cutting and sorting TNP$ at 8pm, and end as late as 1am, he said.
The couple started collecting TNP$ in early May, buying up to 400 copies of the newspaper in a day.
'Collecting TNP$ became a common goal for us,' said Mrs Koh. 'We would SMS each other every day to check how many copies we'd already bought.'
What kept them going, said Mr Koh, was the 'thrill of it'.
They were kept on their toes predicting how much TNP$ would be printed on the front page the next day.
'We got worried once because we hadn't seen the TNP$500 bill in a long time,' said Mrs Koh.
So when the TNP$500 bill was printed, they rushed to snap up copies of The New Paper - more than 400 of them, said Mr Koh.
He laughed: 'We got many weird stares at newspaper vendors when we cleared the shelves of The New Paper that day.'
The couple has since spent more than $1,000 on copies of The New Paper.
But they said it's worth every cent.
The Philips HDTV they won usually retails for $6,599.
The Courts series of The New Paper Auction ended last Sunday.
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