The fire alarm in our building had once again, wailed it's annoying sound in the most inconvenient time….in the middle of the night when most people are asleep! Since this is the third time this month, I barely move and just try to listen for any abnormal noise outside. Nothing! False alarm! Well, if there is really a fire I won’t mind hearing it but for the last three occasions that it rang, it’s always been a false alarm. Very annoying! Stupid fire alarm!

Unfortunately, I was the kind of person whom easily awakens by the slightest sound of anything and once something woke me up, it is very difficult for me to get back to sleep, regardless of the time. Till morning, I’ll be in my bed swearing and cursing the manufacturer and the electrician who wired up those stupid fire alarms. And while I’m at it, I come to realize that false alarm doesn’t happen to building fire alarms only….it also happens to people in real life!

I remember about the woman who for the third time went to the hospital thinking it’s time for her baby to get the hell out of her. Along with her was the anxious husband who has to leave his work so that he can be with her to share that magical moment! Oh, so sweet! But wait, he’s fuming mad. That stupid doctor! How come he’s always wrong? He’d been in medical school for so long and yet he cannot tell the exact day the baby would come out. And to think that everyday of his life, all he did is stuck his head between the legs of other people’s wives and look at it with a flashlight. I bet he can almost see the baby eye-to-eye! Oh what a shame! And about the wife, how can she not know whether the baby is really coming out or not? My pet hen when I was a kid was far better than both of them! As far as I can remember, I’ve never seen my chicken had a false alarm….every time she squat in her nest, the egg always comes out. Never did I saw that hen so pissed off after squatting for half an hour in her nest for nothing. Each and every single time she went there, she’ll be a noisy, happy-go-lucky chicken afterwards! Oh, how I wish those pregnant women out there could learn from those chickens! Never made a mistake once!

But hey, false alarms aren’t always that bad. In fact, people sometimes glad that it was a false alarm. Say, the girl who misses her period for a couple of days… almost wanted to kill herself when her BF told her the he’ wasn’t ready yet. She slept that night so worried but woke up so happy after she realized that she wetted the bed…..so wet that there is a big bright colored area in it….in menstrual red! Yes! It’s just a false alarm!

And there was the family who gathers together, some of them crying because one of the relatives is dying. The man in the hospital bed is breathing very heavily in long succession with his eyes closed. The doctor said it was a sign that he is dying very soon and advised to call family members. But as it turned out, he’s not yet ready to leave this world. It was just a false alarm from the stupid doctor. He was just asleep dreaming that he’s practicing yoga with a beautiful instructor. So when he opened his eyes, he was so pissed off about all the noises and cries. Now he wants to die! Of course, he cursed the doctor for saying about him dying very soon.

Anyways, we have to understand that in everyone’s life, there are lots and lots of false alarms in this world that would come to our way…both good and bad. It is up to us to find out what’s good in the bad. For example, I should be happy for those false alarms in our building, because if it is not false it would mean that our building is on fire. Or the man and the relatives should be thankful because the doctor is wrong, otherwise he’s dead! Or the girl who missed her period, she should be thankful that she came to know how irresponsible her BF is.

And the pregnant wife, well, I’m sure there is good a thing about those false alarms, only I can’t think of any right now. Maybe I’ll just have to give her advice. You see, my chicken never seen a doctor once but she never had those false alarms either. Maybe it’s something about the doctor. So better go and see a chicken instead and get some tips!