YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG!!! I FEEL SO DISGUSTED!!!!!


*shivers*


I was waiting for my hair to dry... then I went to the bathroom and when i came out, i caught sight of a COCKROACH crawling its way to my living room!!!

So made a long cloth damp and followed behind it but of course, at least like 8 feet away... I just couldnt bring myself to smack it coz i was afraid it'll run towards me! Tsk. cockroaches are disgusting la! and their sense of direction is damn annoying. They always like to run towards me! ARGH!

If it stayed in the kitchen, I'd have just ran back into my room. But it went into the living room and hid under the massage chair!!!!!! :S


I tried to jerk the massage chair bt didnt work. After like 5 minutes i tried again. Nothing.

Exasperated, I went bk into the kitchen and sat on a high chair and watched intently.

Another 5 min went by. I was still clutching on to the damp cloth.

Just when I was about to give up waiting, I spied some movement from under the massage chair. It's antenna and head was peeking out!

It crawled out and did like 2 rounds in front of the area and went under my mom's black sweater which was sprawled beside the massage chair, on the floor. (ignore the fact that my mom's clothes was on the floor in the hallway.

I thought I should just wait for it to crawl into an open area so that there was nothing to obstruct me and when i smack it, it has no where to hide.

But no. It stayed hidden in my mom's sweater!!!
TSK.

I waited for like ten minutes. Nothing. I thought it might have crawled under the chair again. So i tried jerking it agn.

Nothing.

This time, I reckoned it might be hiding under my mom's sweater. But it was just a lump of black. And I didnt wanna risk lifting the sweater only to find the cockroach crawling up my hand!!! That wud definitely cause a ruckus...

so anyway.... I went to the kitchen and took a long pole. The one used to hang our laundry. Heh.

Back in the living room, i used the pole and poked the sweater.

Nothing. Decided to lift it with the pole. and THERE! I saw some movement. It was the cockroach! Nesting on it! YUCK!

Am having goosebumps now.

I continued to poke at it and it came running out the sweater and scattered into the open space. i seized the chance and tried to whack it with the damp cloth but missed.

Swiftly, it darted and made a run into the kitchen!

So i caught up with it and sensing it was about to hide under the cupboards, in a desperate attempt, I threw the cloth at it!

Nothing.


Quite uncertain if I hit the target...

Apprehensively, I lifted the cloth (the pole aside this time).

BY GOLLY! It was there! and it started to escape!

And there was a small black thingy that dropped on the floor as well. More abt that later...

The cockroach was obviously hurt, it didnt managed to move more than 2 inches. So this time, I seized the chance and used the cloth on it. Hard. And the pole to "minced" the cloth for good measure.


Think I've killed it! I killed my first cockroach! :D



Back to that black thingy. It's just a black little knob. No more than 6 mm in diameter.

I didnt pick it up of course. dubious.

Then it struck me. IT MUST BE THE COCKROACH's EGG SAC!


YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


THe cockroach is a female!!!!



AND IT WAS PREGNANT!!!



YUCK! IM having goosepimples again. EEeewch.


(At this point, if u're rollin ur eyes thinkin why I'm still going at it, it's because I'm EXTREMELY grossed out by cockroaches.)



The Egg sac... Eew. I cant have it lying around! There must at least 14 nymphs in it waiting to hatch!


Eewch

*goosepimples*


Soooo.... I thougt I shud use tissue and pick it up. And like burn it.


WAIT! I'm not done yet.

THis time, Out of the corner of my eye. I spied some movement!!


Nah.. I know what u're thinkin. It's not the cockroach. I think it's dead.

IT IS ANOTHER COCKROACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


but thank God it's only a nymph. There's only this much "excitement" my heart can take.


Btw. I hate that my kitchen floor tiles are black. No wonder I didnt see the cockroach when I entered the kitchen!


So this nymph. It's small. No more than 8cm.

I rolled up some toilet roll. And squashed it. I did the same with the egg sac with a tissue. The tissue wasnt very thick so I can feel the sac. It was hard. YUCK.


I couldnt burn them so I tossed them in the toilet bowl and flushed.



Hmm... I couldnt bare to clear the body of the dead one I just killed. So I left the crime scene and went into my room. WRote a note "COCKROACH! Killed it. I think."

I returned to the kitchen, and set the note on top of the cloth. Heh. Hopefully canida sees it and doesnt touch it or I'm sure as hell she's gonna freak.


I still cant help thinkin there might be other nymphs around?!
YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Alrite. That concludes my cockroach episode.


I feel grossed out.


still having the goosepimples. :S




YUCK.




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the other day, Robs and I googled cockroaches to check if cockroaches fly.

Apparently, the cockroaches that we normally see here are either American cockroaches (which seldom fly, thank God!) or German cockroaches (doesnt fly). Btw, the German cockroaches look weird. They have a weird butt. Lol. As told by Robs.