It's an infestation. But I'm not surprised... for 2 reasons:
a) Our house is next to the jungle. No freaking wonder we get giant mutant flying cockroaches. Eh, that sounds like the Ninja Turtles theme song... Giant Mutant Flying Roaches, Giant Mutant Flying Roaches...
b) Our house is filthy. Seriously my housemates are disgusting. The fridge smells weird, I don't know what expired objects they have left to rot in there. Used plates and cutlery can sit in the kitchen sink (and sometimes even in the bathroom) for two days or more. And when they wash, they empty out their food just like that. Mana la sink x tersumbat. Yuck.
In the past 4-5 days, I've seen 4 or 5 cockroaches. Come let's share stories...
Cockroach 1:
I went into hysteria. It ws in my room, it was HUGE (the size of my palm) and it was FLYING. I ran out of my room. I came back a few minutes later, it had disappeared from sight, but I just KNEW it was still in the room. So I changed quickly, went out of the house, took a walk around utp for an hour, then went back. In that hour, I had a fight with my boyfriend, who didn't understand why I was so hysterical over a bug (settled fight edy). Guys. It's called a phobia, geddit? Phobias aren't supposed to be rational.
Cockroach 2:
Saw it in the bathroom. I was putting on my contact lens. I didn't see it before I wore them... I'm blind without lens. Put on the first one, saw the cockroach staring at me, moved to a different sink, hurriedly put on the second lens, then skedaddled on out of the bathroom.
Cockroach 3:
In my room again, exactly the same as Cockroach 1. Might have been the same one, for all I know. Saw it fly into the space between my bed and the wall. Freaked out mightily, because no way in heck was I going to sleep with the high chances of a cockroach walking over my face while I slept. The last straw. Went out with my roommate to 7-Eleven at 3am, bought roach spray. Emptied out a third of the can on the crevices between our beds and the walls, though we weren't even sure the cockroach was still there.
Cockroach 4:
Saw it in the bathroom at night, when I was going to brush my teeth. Turned around, went back to my room, replaced my toothbrush, toothpaste and facial wash. Picked up the roach spray, walked back to the bathroom. As calmly as I could (which wasn't very), I emptied out another third of the can on the roach. It fell into a mug that was sitting on the sink and promptly died, drowning in the water that was in the mug. Btw, said mug had been sitting on the sink for about a week, with a spoon and some dirty water in it. So serves them right for getting a dead roach in it.
If it had happened to me, I would have thrown away the mug. Or if I really really wanted to keep the mug (not bloody likely), I would have thrown away the roach and scrubbed it clean immediately. Not so the lucky mug owner. About a day later, I saw the mug in the kitchen sink, minus the roach, but still with the spoon and the dirty water, and clearly not washed. Some people just don't learn.
Cockroach 5:
They were baking cupcakes in the kitchen, then I heard some commotion. Apparently there was a roach in the kitchen. I didn't bother to look, I didn't want to know.
A cockroach a day keeps the... what the hell. It doesn't keep anything away. I want the roaches themselves to keep away. Get rid of them!!
Saturday, 14 March 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
since you being half honest, im going to spare the half detail to your blog readers.
when i was baking cupcakes with love,
the cockroach came from your room to the kitchen. senn was being heroic and smack it with newspaper and throw it into the bin, no spray was used.
and what bothers me is to know your room has roaches? ewww! i swear i never seen one in one of our room(minus urs then). pity u, pity adreen too.
the mug was there for half a day, as the owner told me, and its plain water not dirty water before the roaches?
btw, if u r so not filthy and disgusting, how come i never seen u clean the kitchen. i did it every week, adreen did it, the girls did it. whens ur turn?
please approve above comment, let em know the half detail.
Have you ever wondered why YOU are the one, only one actually who's always bumped into roaches around our house? Its clear that the thing lives near to you. Frankly speaking, I have never seen even one tiny cockroach inside my room, or even other rooms in this house except for the bathroom.Hmmmmmm,wonder why.
Love,
Your Disgusting Housemate
I had no idea the cockroach came from my room to the kitchen. Which is weird, because I was in my room at the time, and I never noticed the cockroach.
We've never had roach problems before this. Just dunno why they came storming into our house that one week.
As far as I know, my room is messy, not dirty. >__> and fyi, I don't clean the kitchen because I don't use it. But if you want me to help out next time you do, just ask.
dah la,malas nk gaduh. sorry for watever misunderstanding. >__>
owh, and I guess I owe the mug owner my apologies and a new mug.. that one I admit I may have misunderstood/over-reacted.
sila claim lepas cuti mid-sem~
and btw, beware of leaving things in the bathroom overnight... reen told me that week she saw a cockroach sitting on somebody's toothbrush when she went into the bathroom. now that, you have to admit, is really gross. >__>
Post a Comment