This evening I spied with my little corner of my eye a huge brown roach running across my room! That maked me freak out alright. It really doesn't help one bit that my flooring is parquet (that's a kind of wood, for some of you who don't know), and that means the colour is BROWN. Great - brown roach and brown floor. The whole camouflage didn't help me at all. I raced downstairs desperately looking for my insect spray (hoho! my best friend!) but i couldn't find it. Drats, just when you need it. There were plenty of other kinds of sprays - rust spray, polishing spray, WD40, but no insect spray. Why!? I could hear Alanis Morisette singing " It's like 10,000 random can of sprays when all you need was an insect spray!" Not funny. :(
Plan B: Drive to 7-11 to buy roach kill (It's only a 3 minute drive from my house) Found that good stuff! It was actually meant more for mosquitoes rather than roaches, but that'll have to do. I saw another girl walking into 7-11 - quite hurriedly, too. Guess what she picked up off the shelves? Sanitary Pads! Haha - we all have our reasons why we go to 7-11 in the middle of the night, each of us fighting a different battle in an emergency, if you know what i mean :)
So i came back to my room, could not find that darn roach. I know he's hiding somewhere. I'm going to get him squashed good. I remain skeptic if i can get any peaceful sleep tonight, because it's not good knowing that thing is lurking around. I detest roaches because they're disgusting little creatures that carry diseases around.
Speaking of nuking roaches, i am on to another topic of the insecticide companies having to change their formula to a stronger dose to kill pests these days, reason being that insects have mutated into a much stronger species compared to years ago. It's really a concern because the last thing i want is using up half a can of my new insect spray to kill 1 bug. And if it's short of dead, it might just crawl away and survive and spawn many other critters - with a much stronger DNA. That's how viruses work and how influenza pandemics seems to strike every few decades and kill by the million.
Statistics from The Economist magazine:
1million in 1968; and perhaps 100 million in the " Spanish" flu in 1918-19.
That's a scary number if you ask me, especially with the H1N1 virus that the world is currently wrestling with. I just read that article in the magazine earlier this week.
So with that in mind, i think hunting the roach down tonight and making sure that it is no longer a threat doesn't seem so farfetched. At least i know i'd be saving my sanity....well, this time anyway.
