A few days ago, I had to go back to the office at night, almost midnight actually, because I had left the power cord for my notebook there. That is not the first time I did that and most of the time, I could not be bothered to go back and get it. However, it was a different case that night. I needed the power cord since I had to meet a client the next morning and there was no way on earth for me to go to the office first and then to the meeting place. Well, unless I left the house at 6 am, which meant I had to wake up at 5 am. That's impossible for me. I could even forget to wake up at that time in the first place. I guess my memory card is already full and I find it rather difficult to commit things to my short term memory nowadays. Beats me!
Anyway, back to about the trip to the office. Since it was almost midnight when I got there, the whole place was kind of quiet and spooky. I took the lift up and opened the door. I switched on the lights and picked up the power cord and quickly left the office. So, there was no ghost playing around in the office. That was nice of them.
As I was driving home, I had to stop at a traffic light. There were 2 cars ahead of me. the light turned green and the 1st car made it. By the time the 2nd had almost made it, the light turned yellow. I was already half way by then and before I got across the light was already red. Silly! Why did they make it change too fast?
I noticed there was a 4X4 following me and suddenly some red and blue lights flashed and a siren blasted from the vehicle behind me. Great! It must have been my lucky night. I stopped by the road side and the police 4X4 pulled over next to me.
Policeman1: "Encik mengantuk ke?"
(Are you sleepy?)
Bear: "Ya, sikit..."
(Yes, a little bit...)
Policeman1: "Encik dah langgar lampu merah."
(You have beaten the red light.)
Policeman1: "Itu kesalahan besar."
(That is a big offense)
Bear: "Oh! Tapi Encik pun salah jugak"
(Oh! but you are at fault too)
Bear: "Encik sepatutnya tunggu lampu hijau..."
(You should have waited for the green light...)
Bear: "... sebelum kejar saya..."
(before chasing after me...)
Policeman1: "errr..."
Policeman2: "Encik jangan buat lagi."
(Don't do that again.)
And they drove on. It's my lucky night indeed. In reality, I was not sleepy but I was not really paying attention to the red, yellow and green lights. My mind was not really there...
Terrorized
I know that there is no such word as "zerorized" in the English language. However, it is a word commonly used to make something zero and everybody understands that.
So, I wrote an email to a client and part of it was:
In order for the Lot module to work, you must first zerorized all existing stocks in the system....
Once done, I clicked the send button and the spell checker kicked in. It suggested a few words to replace "zerorized" and the 1st word was "terrorized". I guess my mind was not there again and I clicked the OK button and the mail was sent.
Only a few seconds later I realized what I had done. I check my sent mail and to my horror I saw:
In order for the Lot module to work, you must first terrorized all existing stocks in the system....
My client must be terrified. I had to send another email to explain that...
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