cockroaches

this is gonna an aimless post about cockroaches. just thought i'd write something about it cos for whatever reasons, the topic of cockroaches came up a couple of times over the last 24hrs...  

firstly, last night after watching the rise of the guardians, as we were on our way home, we encountered a cockroach. you see, bee and i were both in the car and i was driving. and for reasons unknown, i looked at the car seat where bee was seated. and i saw a little baby cockroach on the seat. quietly, i told him there was a cockroach there and he quickly (but calmly) picked it up with his cupped hand, wound down the window and threw it out... hmmm, it was a sure gonna for the baby cos it was raining badly outside. poor thing. but that was bee's reflex action - catch it and throw it out of the window...

secondly, today as i entered my toilet to pee, i saw a huge cockroach by the side of my bath tub. i quickly finished peeing, calmly walked out of my toilet, took a t-shirt and threw it over the cockroach. with the cockroach trapped within the folds of my t-shirt, i picked it up and threw it out of my window. once free, the cockroach took flight and flew into another unit a few levels below...

and lastly, i supposed it was due to the encounters with cockroaches. bee asked me how would james react to cockroaches. well, for a start, he would scream and he would be totally paralyzed with fear. james has this unexplained fear of cockroaches, especially flying ones. over the 7 years where he lived with me, there were probably at least 4-5 occasions where he screamed and ran out of the bedroom (or living room) when he encountered a flying cockroach (that flew into the house). and i had to catch it and throw it out of the house... also, as a routine, my condo management would fumigate the rubbish chute monthly and during these occasions, there would be tens, if not, hundreds of cockroaches crawling out from the chute and eventually die along the public walkways... and it is during these occasions that james would be terribly disturbed...

anyway... yup... as i said, it is an aimless post. 

good night!

pictures from http://ipkitten.blogspot.sg/2006/03/inventors-fight-over-cockcroach-killer.html 
and http://www.rebelpestcontrol.com