murphy's law

i was a student for 16 years. and i’ve been a corporate slave for 8 years now. all of the assignments, projects, deadlines, conversion, and deployment activities i had to go through excruciatingly, made me a firm believer of murphy’s law. during “crunch” time, your hard drive will crash sending your philosophy paper to nothingness, your cobol code will suddenly not work even though you're fully aware that you’ve tested it a million times, your car will not start and you have to meet a client in 30 minutes, and the list goes on. in other words, expect the worst because it's always an imminent possibility.

i guess that’s why i'm rarely flustered during pressure-laden-nerve-cracking-brain-numbing situations. i’m fully aware that in any given moment, something most probably will go wrong. and you don't really have a choice but to roll up your sleeves and deal with it.

got this somewhere in the internet. it's actually pretty funny.

MURPHY'S LAWS

THE PRIME AXIOM: In any field of scientific endeavor, anything that can go wrong, will.

2. If the possibility exists of several things going wrong, the one that will go wrong is the one that will do the most damage.
3. Everything will go wrong at one time.
3.1 That time is always when you least expect it.
4. If nothing can go wrong, something will.
5. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
6. Everything takes longer than you think.
7. Left to themselves, things always go from bad to worse.
8. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
9. Given the most inappropriate time for something to go wrong, that's when it will occur.
10. Mother Nature is a bitch.
10.1 The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it.
11. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
12. If in any problem you find yourself doing an immense amount of work, the answer can be obtained by simple inspection.
13. Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
14. If it doesn't fit, use a bigger hammer.
15. In an instrument or device characterized by a number of plus-or-minus errors, the total error will be the sum of all the errors adding in the same direction.
16. In any given calculation, the fault will never be placed if more than one person is involved.
16.1 In any given discovery, the credit will never be properly placed if more than one person is involved.
17. All warranty and guarantee clauses become invalid upon payment of the final invoice.
18. Murphy's Law: "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."

this week is going to be hell. so, wish me luck. i’m sure there will be quite a number of fire-extinguishing activities for me. my personal/social life may need to take a back seat. it will be a loooooooooooooooong week.

damn. i need an inspiration.