i sat on paved earth with my palms rested behind my back and my legs spread-eagled, my gut peeking out my favorite shirt. i have just finished a heavy plate of pork bbq and two cups of rice. in between packets of light burps, i was ready to take in whatever that over-hyped fireworks display has to offer. an hour and a half later i was lying down the pavement, like the million others who were there that night, still waiting for the skies to burn. clouds had come and passed, stars have shifted a few degrees, and i.. i just stared at them.
i remember failing in two machine problems on microcontrollers when i was in college. the first one required us to record 8 seconds of human voice. i blamed the microphone that i bought for the system malfunction. but of course it was because i cant get the software to run properly. the other machine problem required us to implement one of these two things: a calculator, and a stopwatch. i decided to do the calculator, for the challenge. of course i ended up doing the stopwatch, otherwise i would’ve failed the entire course and i wont be here telling you about it. and now im staring at the dashboard clock turning all zeroes. that’s modulo 12, this is modulo 60. now i know how three hours sitting stuck in traffic feels like. i have reviewed an assembly code for a scoreboard twice.
we should not wait for life to begin. because life is cruel. before we know it, it has passed us by.
