Attack of The Slugs

Slugs started appearing this few weeks ago. They are always spotted in the kitchen area, on the walls and floor. A few even made it to the basin area where we kept our washed dishes (Ewww). Thus the war against slugs was announced a few days ago.

Sadly, we only have dad on our side. He's the one man army, our universal soldier, our Rambo. My mum is afraid of worms. Ruru dare not touch them. I have goosebumps just thinking about slugs....

Dad's weapons of choice :

1. Hot water (take no prisoners)
2. Forceps (POW for negotiations purposes)

BTW this is just a sample pic, not a real slug seen in my house

Where did they come from??? Somehow I think there is a slug queen lying hidden around in the garden. Rux even mentioned that the scenario is (quite) exactly like Starship Troopers, except slugs aren't really bugs. Would you like to know more?

P/S : How I wish the circumstances were different, especially if the 'G' is subsituted by a 'T'... HAHA!

Scam?

I think I'm just about to be a victim of a scam. Just yesterday, someone called from a 'newly established' electronic company asking about the usage of Motorola and Nokia handphones in my house. Today, another called from the 'same company' called and woke me up from my dead slumber, and started questioning about the usage of electrical appliances in the house.

Both of them speaked mandarin with a heavy chinese dialect. When I asked for the location of their shop, I didn't even know what building are they talking about. Today's cheeky caller even said that she just arrived from Taiwan and doesn't speak English so she couldn't name the complex in English?? Huh... You have to try harder than that, dear, at least you can attempt to SPELL out the building for me? Don't tell me you don't even know ABCs? Do you want to lose your customers just because you couldn't name the address?

Which stupid company, by the way will let a non-english or non-malay speaker call up the public to determine their usage of electrical and electronic goods? Do they think that everyone in Malaysia understands Mandarin? This is not Taiwan nor China nor HongKong nor Singapore. Shouldn't they at least talk in a local dialect? I have TROUBLE understanding her perfect chinese LOLZ, I very very seldom watches Taiwan shows. I've never heard an operator who insisted talking in Mandarin before... Next time she call though, maybe I'll suggest that her position be replaced by someone more qualified (unless, of course, the company prefers to lose customers than replace the nice mandarin-only lady phone operators)

One last thing, the 'busy office sound' aka background phone ringing, number dialing and hello-s seem to be repeating itself in a loop. @.@ It is way too synchronised...

GGed Harddisk

Took the laptop to a shop just now. Just barely into the first second of the harddisk diagnostic test, the tech guys were shaking their head. 'Your harddisk had been GGed, too many severe BAD sectors' Quite true, a lot of errors popped up as the test progresses...

Sad! Now I have to buy a new harddisk, the 80Gb one just RM30 more expensive than a 40Gb harddisk, so what's stopping me?

Going to collect the laptop at 3pm.

Sad though, I'd lost all my songs, and my pictures taken in UM... I'm too hasty! The decision to format the C: drive was a bad one... I should back it up with the external casing first. Stupid me!

Sick Society

A pair of molested sister in the ward. Sisters? Both were routine victims of their father (who reportedly was treating them 'very well' since young) I went @.@ father on his children....? One of them was even molested later by a stranger in a public toilet, after being lured with some notes. Sigh! Nowadays, even a mere 4 year old understands the importance of cold hard cash!

Another instance, a bus driver, suspected nodding off behind the wheel, killed 20+ people including himself when he drove the bus down a 5m ledge. WTF?!???!? Now what we get is another knee jerk reflex, which will die down after quite a while, until yet another bus crashes. How I wish this knee jerk right now persists as a clonus. Only then lives will not be lost to stupid accidents like this...

Now, to cheer up the mood, I welcome ckwkta88 to unveil our newly crafted nursery rhyme, the 'twinkle twinkle little star' ;

Twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the sky sohai,
Like a radiance in the sky,
Twinkle twinkle radiant star,
Now I wonder what you are...