= LifE Of a GaL =

hi. after a million yrs of not updating my blog, i am finally here. why am i here. cos i think i am pretty troubled.

let's not mention the troubles thing first, now i will be focusing more on my nick today: a gigantic rat jumped on me. scary.

no i am not being sarcastic, nor am i exaggerating. it's true. somehow, ever since the construction sites came up around my house area, there's been lots of rats. i remember once i was talking to sheng lian at the roadside downstairs of my block, and a rat-like thingy brushed past our legs. then i saw a shadow of black stuff running into the contruction site. then sheng lian was asking me, wad was tt? i said, it could have been a cat, but from the shadow of the shape of the tail, it looks like a rat. "a rat? there's rats here?" i guess we always prayed it was a small cat, but more encounters have confirmed our suspicions: it is definitely a rat.

many a time when i walked past the bus terminal (a air conditioned container actually) that is near my block, i will see a rat jump out from somewhere on my front right, to a hole under the terminal. the first few times, it seemed pretty shocking to see a lump of black fur jumped out and go into the hole. but after a few times, i get used to it. i knew there was a rat hole there, i knew a rat like to jump out from the right at that spot to go into the hole.

but somehow today, i was walking home alone today, then i reached tt very spot where it always jumped. i was thinking about some stuff, when suddenly on my right this black rat, the size of a small kitten, with a tail of goodness knows how long, flew past me. i know rats are not supposed to fly, but it jumped so high (at least my shoulder height) from those quite tall green dustbins around. i guess if i walked 2 steps faster, it would have crash onto me. yikes. it was so sudden i can't really scream, i just eeekkkks!!! and made a stupid jumping motion so that i won't step on the rat. it was pretty scary. especially when the rat is so big.

then i was telling practically everyone in my family about the rat encounter. so my brother told me his share of rats stories. which sounds pretty interesting.

for the rats jumping out and into the hole part, he has seen quite a few cases of it. so he told me a funny story about this particular rat. one day, he was walking past that bus terminal as i described. he heard some noise made by the rats, then he turned towards the noise. he says that he saw a rat looking at him right outside that supposedly rat hole, and the rat was staring at him, and he stared back, and the rat's tail was like waving (i think maybe not waving, but i dunno how to describe.) then he stared back with a "if you come over, you are dead" look, oh well. i guess he walked away after that. but it's pretty amusing that they were staring at each other. lol.

end of rat stories. pretty tired. =)