Murphy's Law

There are 3 Murphy's laws that I learnt, (I thought there are only 3, but when I googled it, I realised there are alot), but one that I really remembered was illustrated to me like this:

For all the days that you bring out your umbrella, it wont rain. On that only day that you dont, it pours!

Why am I talking about this? Since this is a journal for myself, it must have related to me...

Up till today, I have been through 5.5weeks of unassigned time (some say it's worse than 5.5weeks of peak)... So, for 4.5 weeks, I guai guai (chinese for obediently) stayed in the office or at home(to study for my CPA *YAWN*).

Then at the end of the 4.5 weeks, an intelligent friend asked me and ZY:"Since both of you are unassigned, why dont you take off to somewhere out of town?"

I thought:"Good idea! (my trademark phrase) Why dont we drive to San Antonio, which is merely a 2.5 hrs ride away? Since they didnt need me for 4.5 weeks, despite the fact that I begged to be assigned, they surely wont need me for another week, let alone, just 1.5 days of me being away. (1.5 days divided by 28 days(4.5 weeks) is a mere 5%!!! Immaterial, leave)"

So we headed out on the Monday afternoon, since Monday is usually the most probable day that we will be called to start engagements. No news by 1pm, so off we go....

The trip was pretty amazing in itself. We spent some really quality couple time along the river walk of San Antonio till abt 11pm... MUST GO!... then went back to watched TV till about God knows when... (planned to wake up at 9am to have the free breakfast)

*Cue* Next morning

*look at the watch* WAH! 10:55am!! We must check out at 11am, or we will be have to pay late check out penalty! I immediately went to bathe and wash up. After which, I woke ZY up to ensure that she suffers the same surprise.... haha.. And in good speed, I managed to have my shower, and "reported" to the check out counter at 11:03am!

We werent made to pay extras, thank God!

Being more and more like Thinmothy (this crazy guy who will go out and play until 12 midnight the day before he goes back to work), we decided to go for the Spurs Basketball game that night(usually ends at 10 to 11pm) before heading home. So we drove to the SBC Center (now known as the AT & T Center) to buy the tickets for that night's game. Being the Kiam Gana that we are, we chose the cheapest tickets, at $10.

Right after the purchase of the tickets, we received a prompting... (Thank God!) "maybe we should check our voice mail to find out if there are any messages for us"

So we went back to SA downtown, hoping to find a free car park slot, like the day before, we didnt eventually. However, when we were in the process of doing that, a kind friend of ours called us to inform us of the only news that we feared.... WE HAVE BEEN BOOKED FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON! If it's one day earlier, we would have been able to attend to that... if it had been one day later... we will be back already... why must it be it!! I laughed to myself... murphy's law!

Anyway, I wasnt bitter, I felt rather guilty actually... we should have been there to answer the call.... But we couldnt go back in time, so we had to proceed with our original plan.... which is to continue with our trip in SA, and the basketball game later.

The game was at 730pm, it ended at 10pm. By the time we hit the main highway back (I10), it was almost 11pm. Since it takes 2.5 hrs to get back, the ETA time would be 1:30am!!

We were armed with a large cup of coke, for the supply of caffine. Thank God! I managed to survived the whole journey without feeling the least bit sleepy. We got back on time, and went to bed quickly.

The final twist to the story.... we got to the office at 825am the next day, hoping to impress the manager.... haha... But... she didnt get in till afternoon, and duely released us from the 2-day engagement as they have "already met their urgent need yesterday".

Sadz... unused again... but Thank God that nothing major happened..... and I had my fair share of fun.

Moral of the story: I must learn to be vigilant at all times in the aspect as a Christian. Jesus may return anytime. As it was told in Mark 13:35"Therefore keep watch, becoz you do not know when the owner of the house will come back...... 36 If he comes back suddenly, do not let him find out sleeping. 37 What I said to you, I say to everyone:'WATCH!'"

So... as a Christians.... I wanna warn myself to be watchful... I pray that God will prompt me, like He did this time, to be wachful.... to prepare for the 2nd coming of Jesus... to always read his word diligently...