Of rodents and MNite
Last night there was a rat in our apartment!!!
At first it was in Lance's room-cum-dining-area, I was tearing the cabbage leaves at the dining table when I spotted it scurrying about on the floor near his desk, which is just 2 metres behind me! My instant response obviously was to scream at the top of my voice and dash towards Alan in the kitchen (all the while still screaming), who thought I had found a caterpillar in the cabbage or something like that. Come on, Alan! A caterpillar wouldn't have produced such a long screaming episode from me, maybe just one shriek but that would be it! Lol. Anyway, I stood as far away from the rat as I possibly could, and even made Alan bring one of the dining table chairs to me for me to stand on while I continued acting out my part as damsel-in-distress, hahaha! He, on the other hand, armed with a small cardboard box decided to confront the thing one-on-one - so brave Alan!!! At this point, Melissa who was in Alan's room doing some programming, had heard the ruckus and me screaming "RAT!!!!" and had quickly closed Alan's room door (but only to find out later on that the rat was small enough to go under closed doors). Once I had calmed down a little, Alan told me to bring the food to our my kitchen instead since there was no way two terrified girls were gonna continue being in the same room as a rat. So I made my escape to my own room.
While I was waiting for Alan to come, I heard a commotion next door pulak and so I pasted my ear on the wall adjoining my room to Alan's room, and clearly heard Melissa exclaim "That means it went to MY room?!?!?". For the yet uninformed, Melissa's room = my room, and you could have imagined how scared I was! And the next thing I knew, I saw the rat - the same small black rat - in my room under our desks!! I don't know how I had managed to somehow end up on the other side of the room but yeah, I found myself standing next to our double-decker bed but not on the side with the ladder. At first I jumped onto Melissa's lower bunk, screaming and calling for Alan while the rat scurried around near our kitchen area and then as the thing came nearer to me, in my desperation I actually clambered up to my top bunk of the bed (without using the ladder, mind you! The physical feats people are capable of when they're desperate/frightened... I tell you....)! I was HYSTERICAL! I was half-laughing and half-screaming at that point, really felt like a mad woman. And to think I'd run away from Lance's room only for the rat to follow me to my own room!
Thankfully, Alan heard my cry for help and let himself into my room with Melissa's set of keys. At this point also, Melissa messaged me a warning on MSN from Alan's computer: "MAY THE RAT RAN OUT"! (I only saw the message after the ordeal was over but it was SO funny!). Hahahahaha. We had such a good laugh over it later on! Anyway, Alan was in my room in no time, this time armed with the tong sampah, inverted, determined to pounce on it and trap it under the tong sampah. But lo and behold!- the rat was nowhere to be found, we waited for it and jolok-ed all the stuff in my room but there was no sign of it. I suppose it must have left my room somewhere between the time when I was on my bed and when Alan actually reached my room. Just to make doubly sure, we made Alan search through all our belongings (while Melissa and I were in the safety of our own beds) and the toilet and the closet. We still don't know where it is right now but let's hope it's no longer in the building!
Oh, and if any of you were wondering why my MSN display name reads "It's a RAT, not an ACROBAT", that's what Alan indignantly/exasperatedly said to me when I was fretting and wondering out loud if the rat would be able to somehow make its way up onto my bed by leaping from rung to rung on the ladder. *blush* I knowwwwwww.... I felt VERY bimbotic and still do.....
All that, over one tiny little baby rat.... aduhai! Girls will be girls, what can I say. d=
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Oh yes, MNite! All I'll say is that it only gets better every year (=
At first it was in Lance's room-cum-dining-area, I was tearing the cabbage leaves at the dining table when I spotted it scurrying about on the floor near his desk, which is just 2 metres behind me! My instant response obviously was to scream at the top of my voice and dash towards Alan in the kitchen (all the while still screaming), who thought I had found a caterpillar in the cabbage or something like that. Come on, Alan! A caterpillar wouldn't have produced such a long screaming episode from me, maybe just one shriek but that would be it! Lol. Anyway, I stood as far away from the rat as I possibly could, and even made Alan bring one of the dining table chairs to me for me to stand on while I continued acting out my part as damsel-in-distress, hahaha! He, on the other hand, armed with a small cardboard box decided to confront the thing one-on-one - so brave Alan!!! At this point, Melissa who was in Alan's room doing some programming, had heard the ruckus and me screaming "RAT!!!!" and had quickly closed Alan's room door (but only to find out later on that the rat was small enough to go under closed doors). Once I had calmed down a little, Alan told me to bring the food to our my kitchen instead since there was no way two terrified girls were gonna continue being in the same room as a rat. So I made my escape to my own room.
While I was waiting for Alan to come, I heard a commotion next door pulak and so I pasted my ear on the wall adjoining my room to Alan's room, and clearly heard Melissa exclaim "That means it went to MY room?!?!?". For the yet uninformed, Melissa's room = my room, and you could have imagined how scared I was! And the next thing I knew, I saw the rat - the same small black rat - in my room under our desks!! I don't know how I had managed to somehow end up on the other side of the room but yeah, I found myself standing next to our double-decker bed but not on the side with the ladder. At first I jumped onto Melissa's lower bunk, screaming and calling for Alan while the rat scurried around near our kitchen area and then as the thing came nearer to me, in my desperation I actually clambered up to my top bunk of the bed (without using the ladder, mind you! The physical feats people are capable of when they're desperate/frightened... I tell you....)! I was HYSTERICAL! I was half-laughing and half-screaming at that point, really felt like a mad woman. And to think I'd run away from Lance's room only for the rat to follow me to my own room!
Thankfully, Alan heard my cry for help and let himself into my room with Melissa's set of keys. At this point also, Melissa messaged me a warning on MSN from Alan's computer: "MAY THE RAT RAN OUT"! (I only saw the message after the ordeal was over but it was SO funny!). Hahahahaha. We had such a good laugh over it later on! Anyway, Alan was in my room in no time, this time armed with the tong sampah, inverted, determined to pounce on it and trap it under the tong sampah. But lo and behold!- the rat was nowhere to be found, we waited for it and jolok-ed all the stuff in my room but there was no sign of it. I suppose it must have left my room somewhere between the time when I was on my bed and when Alan actually reached my room. Just to make doubly sure, we made Alan search through all our belongings (while Melissa and I were in the safety of our own beds) and the toilet and the closet. We still don't know where it is right now but let's hope it's no longer in the building!
Oh, and if any of you were wondering why my MSN display name reads "It's a RAT, not an ACROBAT", that's what Alan indignantly/exasperatedly said to me when I was fretting and wondering out loud if the rat would be able to somehow make its way up onto my bed by leaping from rung to rung on the ladder. *blush* I knowwwwwww.... I felt VERY bimbotic and still do.....
All that, over one tiny little baby rat.... aduhai! Girls will be girls, what can I say. d=
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Oh yes, MNite! All I'll say is that it only gets better every year (=
Labels: gripes, imperialcollege, london
posted by may at 6:37 PM
4 Comments:
Over 60 lines about a rat, just 1 line for Mnite... tsk tsk =P
omigosh, you're right.... ahhahaha
well that goes to show how disturbed i am by it! lol. anyway, we've set three traps in the house, the glue trap kind. apparently very effective. let's hope so! lol
why trap when you can poison?
hmmm because if you poison it, you dont know where it's gonna die- what if it dies in some unreachable corner or crack in the wall? and it'll stink... lol
trap's been laid, now i'm just praying the rat walks right into it! (= keep ur fingers crossed for me yeah hahaha
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