Sunday, March 1, 2009

Unsavoury Bird's Nest



So that was what I had for dinner yesterday. Kudoes to Dad's culinary skills, speciality being the art of turning the simplest of foods into the tastiest of morsels, using the simplest equipment. This corn was simply plucked from the chiller, seasoned with pepper and salt, steamed over some careful timing, and was as delicious as ever.

And today we were slapped with a shock. I still cannot put a finger on how those mynahs squeezed through a hole so small, carted along with them so many twigs and plastic substances, sanitary pads inclusive, to create a mess so huge it reeked of rotting vegetation. Pictoral Evidence as follows:



This was only the bottom half.



And here's the top.



And they even found time to spawn. That white spherical object, above the lump of plastic, is actually a hatched egg.

As if finding this mess in my grandma's house (where we used to live) was not a shocking enough surprise, the process of finding used sanitary pads, plastic sheets, feathers and live cockroaches pop up amidst the heaps of twigs as we cleared the stinking mess had to be interrupted by the false homeowners aka the mynahs, launching an assault on the house. So yes, while Dad continued to scrape through the heap and Jie and I rushed to close the windows (seal all possible routes of entry!), the only word that ran through my mind was - hitchcock.

I was not exaggerating. What kind of birds take over your house at such an alarming rate and even leave warnings to mark their presence?


A cockroach with its innards ripped out, shell left behind intact. Remember those movie scenes where the protagonist walks into the killer's home only to find a skull? Yes, that was it.

So after 30mins of cleaning and fending rabid mynahs, the house was restored to its proper human-habitating status again.

I cannot stand to have the post end this way.





This is better!

2 comments:

  1. OH! Finally! It's a Gazette's video!

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  2. Haha XD I am just amazed at the almost total female turnout at Visual kei concerts! Wells, i guess if they come to Singapore, I would be one of the girls there too haha.

    Aoi made me forget about the cockroach and the nest. So sayth Blue...

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