the night the cockroaches in my house decided to have a CNY gathering...
(before i proceed, let me just state the fact that my house is always kept in a tip-top clean&tidy state. darling Mom is a cleanliness freak.)

so i was happily chatting on MSN and out of no where, a cockroach decides to appear behind my laptop and scare the hell out of me. i screamed and mom came to the rescue. whacked it several times and it never lived to see living daylight again.

so i went into the kitchen to take the broom and dustpan and lo and behold, another cockroach appears on the kitchen wall. now it has been eons since i last saw roaches in my house. just my luck that they decide to have CNY gathering while i'm at home. so i screamed again but this time the roach ran into the back of the fridge. now my wonderful mom took out her cockroach poison and placed it at a corner of the kitchen. now this poison is a bait aka delicious roach food. the roach eats it and goes back to its nest and dies there. and the rest of its family will feed on the dead poisoned body and die off like flies.

so the tamjiak roach comes out from behind the fridge and heads straight for the poison aka delicious roach food. by this time, i'm standing on a dining chair observing these proceedings. now this is the national geographic channel moment...the roach stays stationary at the poison for around 5 minutes and savours every mouth full of it. after eating to its hearts content, it runs around happily on my clean kitchen floor (and i just mopped the floor few hours ago). it must have been the happiest roach alive at that time since it could run around freely under broad nightlight with no one whacking it.

now this was the disgusting moment. the roach appears to have forgotten where it came out from. so it runs around the kitchen floor trying to find some hole to get into but it couldn't. and my mom just refuses to whack it coz she said it'll waste all the roach poison that this cursed pest just ate. she wants the roach to go back to its nest to die there and curse its whole family. yew yuck. seeing it running around just made every hair on every single inch of my body stand.

so my dad comes into the kichen. not knowing what went on earlier, he whacks the roach dead with the newspaper he was holding before mom could say anything. so much for mom protecting the roach. well at least it didn't die on an empty stomach.

now to end the whole episode, my dad said: ying ar...it's just a cockroach. like that also scared. our children cannot be like that one! so i came down from the dining chair feeling the guilt of having disappointed my dad. oh well, thing is...if my parents won't around, i would have whacked the roach anyway. no really...i would...

enough about those abominable pest. i would like to have my first kid at the age of 28. so that at the age of 50, i'll still be able to play touch rugby or tennis with my kid. oh well just a thought just a though.