Y2K

 

 

 

 

        this is a bug
        a millennium bug
        in each and every PC it tugs

        this is a bug
        a millennium bug
        charming or ugly like a pug!

        it is an ugly pug
        for you need to fix the bug
        before it fixes you and sucks

        it is an ugly pug
        for as it ruts
        you can't carry it over & lug it around

        indeed, it was a supply by the trucks
        IT staff, the world over
        relentlessly, fixing the bug

        indeed, it was supply by the trucks
        new PCs, the world over
        relentlessly, affixing the bug

        it is a charming pug
        for it chants like a lark
        as it chimes

        it is a entralling pug
        for fixing this bug
        only happens once in a millennium!

         

        Lin Hsin Hsin
        April 11, 1999

         

        📝Nores:

        📖  first published on p.15 Between The Lines, 2004,
        ISBN: 3-937034-51-X (German Edition),
        ISBN: 981-04-9512-9 (Singapore Edition), 196 pp, 16 color

        Lin Hsin Hsin discovered the Y2K bug as early as 1993
        while she was creating a financial forecasting model on her 486 PC
        After some explorations, she asserted "PC hardware and software
        were only valid up to the end of the year 1999
        As such, she penned an article about the problem & submitted to Business Times, 🇸🇬
        However, they have rejected the prediction of the said article for publication.

        April 22, 2000, Lin was asked by 🇸🇬 government to digitally inaugurate
        the opening ceremony of the APEC Y2K Symposium held in Shangri-La Hotel, 🇸🇬