1/12

I know this sounds really annoying...

" 1/12 of the Year of 2008 has passed by." :p

One of the stupidest things that I have ever said...

"How come that it is wrong? It is a TEXTBOOK!"

I wanted to bite my tongue and bang my head against the wall when I said it. SERIOUSLY!!! Shame on me.

"You do not need to evacuate out of the building. I repeat. You do NOT need to evacuate out of the building..."

I was working late this evening. Around 7:15pm, someone used the broadcasting system of the building to tell us that there would be a test of the fire alarm. At the end of his notice, he said,

" You do not need to evacuate out of the building. I repeat. You do NOT need to evacuate out of the building. Thank you."

"Okay, no biggie," I thought and went on with my stuffs.

Ten minutes later, I knew I had been so wrong. The loud and sharp siren went on over and over and over again. The siren was accompanied by really blindingly bright flashes from many "emergency lights", one every 10 (or less) feet. It pounded on my eardrum and irritated my nerves. I started to develop a headache and wanted to scream. 20 min afterwards, a maintenance guy walked past our workplace.

"Excuse me", I said,"do you know when this will end?"
"After we walk through every floor to make sure it works", he replied with a smile.
"Oh... okay."
"Yeah."
"Er... Great..."
"It will be another 20 minutes."
"Ah, thanks!"
He smiled and walked away. Although I was not very pleased with the answer, I, at least, got some hope now.

Everything did end in another 20 min. (I mean, everything except for my headache...)

Sick as a dog on New Year's Eve

I got a cold and started to cough yesterday. I actually felt worse today with sour throat and running nose. It is not a bad cold, but I haven't had a real cold for a couple of years and this is a real one, so it seems as if all the strength was drained out of my body. Of course, I still had to manage to get my stuffs done at the same time .

Being single and living by myself is not so great as it usually is when I am sick. To cope with such "emergency" time, I always have a stock of "the stuffs". The list of "the stuffs" starts with
Gatorade,
soda crackers,
water,
canned chicken-n-noodle soup,
... Oh well, I need to finish the list when I feel better so that I can replenish the stock. You can imagine how panic I was when I found out that I had no Gatorade at home last night. LOL~~~

P.S. I don't know why I am writing this. Probably because I feel disappointed of not being able to go not for the count-down. And yes, I am whining.

I should take FULL control.

I am not quite an adventurous person. One of the things that I really hate is the feeling of no control over something that I am involved in. This doesn't mean that I am trying to be bossy to others. For me, I like everything in my own world (fortunately and unfortunately not a very big one) to be, to some extent, under my control. You can imagine that I would be really pissed if I lost control of my own behavior.

As a result, for the years that I have lived, I have been practicing so hard to keep control of my own world. I won't stick my toe out of the line if I do not have some sort of idea about the consequence. After years of practice, I assume that I am pretty good at this. Although others suggest that I should let go a little from time to time, I find it hard because I know I would do stupid things if I did. Unfortunately, I found that I had tended to lose such control more frequently during the last couple of weeks. "Aha", I said to myself,"maybe I can try to 'let go' this time." Apparently I was wrong. Because I lessened the control over myself, I put myself in the most embarrassed moment since... Well, I really can't think of any more embarrassed moment than this one. I felt like and still feel like as the biggest idiot in the world.

Anyway, it seems to me that the impulsive "let-go" feeling can only bring me disasters. It may be too late to make up for the thing that has happened, but not too late to focusing more on FULL control over myself all the time. (It's hard, though.)

Behold! I brought to you, the GIANTEST PUMPKIN EVER (I mean, so far)!!!

Yeah. It was me, again. I was okay most of the time, but there are a couple of moments when I jumped to someone's face and used my movements to tell them,"I-I-I know t-t-that you don't really know t-t-this so far, but I-I-I AM a giant p-p-p-pumpkin".

Is it like what they said "once a pumpkin, always a pumpkin"? I hope not. I will take care of it.

Up at Seneca Lake

Yes... It is freaking cold, windy, and it will get worse later this week.

Yes... I am on a trip now and $#@&! I will miss the magic Tuesday night this week...

What I have learnt today

Something that starts with a stupid reason will very, very likely end up in a miserable way.

I need PERL for dummies...

Why the first printf worked but not the second??

unless(open(OUTPUT, ">$out_file")) {die "Could not open $out_file!!\n"};
if($style eq 'v') {
@head_v = qw(a b c d e f);
$format_v = ("%s\t" x @head_v)."\n";
printf OUTPUT $format_v, @head_v;
}
if($style eq 'm') {
@head_m = qw(l m n o p q r s t u v w);
$format_m = ("%s\t" x @head_m)."\n";
printf OUTPUT $format_m, @head_m;
}
close(OUTPUT);