Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Very eventful day today. Time passed seemingly faster coz I spent more time traveling from place to place. Compared to every other monotonous day where I could spend 6 hrs straight in the shop listening to the ticking of the second hand drone pass, today has been a flash of a lightning.
I had a mini tour around sentosa. First to my future home at siloso, then to IOS and then to the sentosa office. I guess all the routes we took were relatively new to me. And so were the things we came across, as could be deciphered from my exclamations at the slightest gimmicks, such as the snake charmer (who has been there forever), and the wail of a peacock. I was fascinated by the new sights while jasmine was fascinated by my ignorant reactions. Haha but it was fun. Sentosa is actually quite a lot more than just the 3 beaches. (:
Later in the day I mustered more courage than I had ever shown for the past 18 years of my life, and murdered a bloody hornet’s nest of worms. What an apt reminiscent of my dear friends in ubin. I’m sorry but it was really f-word worthy. The sight was simply too revolting and hard to bear. Imagine 4 or 5 bright green worms falling out sprawled on the ground of your shop as you break open the mud-cemented hive the size of your thumb. And as you aim your insecticide spray at the most hideous looking creature on earth, it writhes and contorts in pain as though involving itself in an act to gain your pity. I felt the pain but my compassion for corporal death sentences clearly showed no extension to whatsoever. Minutes after its death we decided to sweep it into the sand for a proper burial. But as much as we wanted to preserve the perfection of its corpse, its fragile body could not take the sweep of my broom, which was performed under much mental stress and panic, and hence it tore apart and green slime started oozing out.
Yes, the actual gore and horror stopped there. But like watching a horror movie, the terror actually comes in the aftermath where the sights keep haunting you. And now I’m being haunted like I’ve just completed a serial on ‘The Exorcism of the Emerald Worm’.
posted @ 10:16 PM