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Random mussings
Sunday, August 19, 2007 ( 11:53 PM )
Random Mussings
I bet you wld find this picture vaguely/alarmingly familiar, if you're a NTU student.During the first week of the sch term, I was washing my hands at the basin and when I peered into the mirror to check out my face, I saw this humongous cockroach perched on the surface of the wall opposite the basin. Freaked out, I hurriedly left the toilet and thought to myself, eee, why NTU cleaners never do a good job in cleaning the toilets, the kaka come and become the permanent resident of the toilet. I tot to myself, "Standard of hygiene dropped during the holidays. Tsk tsk."
Little did I realise that, It's actually a DECAL! Kenna conned. I was thinking why lemme see the image of a kaka when I'm looking at myself in the mirror. So gross, the person who designed the decal no taste, choose kaka. I'm not one who will scream at the mere sight of a cockroach. I still have a tolerance limit, as long as the cockroach dun crawl up any single inch of my body, I wldn't react violently.
But, I think getting us familiarised to the sight of cockroach during our frequent visits to the loo, really desensitized me to a point whereby I didn't even flinch when I was at near proximity with one recently. I was in one of the toilets, happily combing my hair before lecture started and then suddenly the girl behind me, tapped my shoulder and pointed to my leg. One freaking frantic cockroach was approaching my toes and I just shifted my leg away from the cockroach and resumed combing my hair, like nothing big happened, while the frantic pest ran up and down the floor beneath the basin.
But I wldn't adopt the same attitude if a HUGE cockroach crawled its way into my room. I would feel threatened at the mere sight and thought of it climbing and dirty-fying my bedsheets that I would run into my parents room and summon mom or dad to kill/whack it repeatedly with the broomstick, until it faints or its leg come off, den proceed to throw it out of the window with a tissue paper. Throw into the ground floor's garden. Let the aunty who mends the garden make noise lah, since she always wakes me up with her loud voice early in the morning.
I dun care, a cockroach must be eliminated if it enters the sacred boundaries of my bedroom. I was so frantic once cos I was greeted by the sight of a HUGE cockroach when I looked down from my chair in front of the computer. Not wanting to wake my parents, I thought I would be brave and kill it by dropping the Engineering Math textbook on it. But everytime when I was about to drop the book, the cockroach ran away and I squirmed at the thought of having a flattened, squashed, badly disfigured cockroach sticking to the textbook. Ran into my parents' room and called daddy to wake up and get rid of the cockroach. Pathetic Me.
(digress digest 1: my tuition kid can't spell cockroach during his recent spelling test.)
(digress digest 2: regretted buying the charles and keith shoe on a whimpage. Cos now charles and keith got storewide 30% sale! 30% SALE LEHZ. wah piangz. Heart pain, pocket pain. I was practically screaming into jing jing's ear when we walked by city hall link, where I was bombarded several times by the word SALE. The temptation that starts with S...ALE. Everywhere sale, told jing jing, you must stop me from running into any of the shops and tell me not to buy anything. Well, we made it out of city hall link safe and sound, without any shopping done.)