Night of the Gecko II

I think my house has a serious case of Gecko Infestation. Something so horrible, so disgusting happened to me last night that I was having second thoughts whether I should even blog about it.

The terrible images, the flashbacks in my mind whenever I think of the incident still give me the creeps. Even as I am typing this, my fingers are trembling. Oh, maybe that's because my fan is at the maximum setting now. Ha. Curse the darn hot weather.

So, what the heck happened last night? NO, a gecko did not drop down from the ceiling into my soup while I was having dinner. YUCKS, that would really be one heck of an experience. And no, I did not find a gecko sharing my delicious bowl of mee siam. I don't think geckos like spicy stuff anyway. Ha.

Rather, the incident happened while I was in the bathroom, in my birthday suit and scrubbing my sports shoe. You want to ask me why I was in my birthday suit with my sports shoe? No, not because I enjoy scrubbing things while naked. Ha. Because I was about to take a shower and my sports shoes needed to be cleaned.

Aha! Siu kai, you must be scrubbing the sports shoe halfway when suddenly a gecko dropped down from the ceiling and onto... you know...

Ha. No way man. That would really freak me out. And maybe the gecko. Ha. Shall not go there, or else the MDA will have to slap a R21 rating on this blog entry. Ha.

Anyway, don't keep thinking that Geckos fall from the ceiling. Accordingly to what I learnt from Discovering Channel, they have rather "sucky" feet's that enable them to stick onto the walls rather securely. Thank GOD for that!

The only time I saw a gecko fall was when I was about to open the door grill and heard a tumbling sound. To my horror and disbelief, I saw one large gecko on the floor, desperately trying to get back up. I'm sure it was a drunk gecko because I swear I could smell alcohol. Oh, maybe it was my own breath. Ha. No lah, everybody knows that siukai can't and don't drink. :)

Kk, shall stop the suspense and get back to our main story. So, there I was happily err.. maybe not that happy lah. I don't really like to scrub dirty sports shoes. Ha. Okie, so I was scrubbing the shoes and I decided to soak them in soap water so as to remove the dirt quicker.

I filled up a shallow bucket with water then proceeded to add Dynamo washing powder, Dettol, Pantene Shampoo, Follow Me Conditioner and some Lux Beauty soap. Ha. You must be asking me why the heck did I add all those stuffs? Well, I figured anything that smells nice will help to clean my dirty and stinky shoes mah. Ha.

So, once I got a rather nice lather from my "secret" potion, I proceeded to dump my shoes into the bucket and let it absorb the cleaning agents for a few minutes. Then I took one shoe out and started scrubbing it.

Well, being the impatient guy I was, I scrubbed the first shoe for a good one minute before I went for the next one. I picked it up and was about to scrub the interior of the shoe when I saw the little baby gecko at the center of the insole. It was a bit pinkish and rather thin.

I was so stunned that I threw the shoe back into the bucket. The shoe made a splash in the water before sinking to the bottom of the bucket. Luckily I did not scream. That would be embarrassing!

It was a while before I regained my composure. And my first thought was, "Was that guy already dead before I started scrubbing? It seemed so because it looked a bit dried up."

I took a quick peek at the bucket. The baby gecko was floating. It was not moving. "Thank the Gecko Gods!" I thought. Then it started to twitch. WHAT THE HECK!!!

Have you seen a dying gecko swim? I assure you that it's not a pretty sight. Think those Japanese horror movies where the ghost moves awkwardly. It looked something like that.

Before I could react though, it stopped just as sudden as it had moved. I think the lethal combination of the Dettol, Pantene, Follow Me, Lux and Dynamo took their effects.

Gosh, I couldn't believed I actually took a life on Vesak Day! I said a silent prayer, hoping that the baby gecko will go to Gecko heaven and then flushed it down the hole. As for my sports shoes, another one or two scrub and I was done. No way I was going to continue scrubbing after what just happened.

You know what, I think I actually saw the baby gecko before. Yah, it was living under the basin, where my sports shoes were located. Now, I'm sad. :(

Yes, there's a whole generation of geckos living in my home. There's Daddy Gecko and a few mummy Geckos I think. Because I keep seeing Daddy Gecko with another mummy Gecko every few nights. They will normally come in through the window and Daddy Gecko will make some gecko sounds to indicate that he's home.

Then there's Grandpa Gecko who moves rather slowly and he's rather big-sized. I think it was him who felled from the door grill a couple of weeks back. Grandma Gecko I have not seen for a few days... Maybe she went to Gecko heaven too...

There's Boy Gecko who's rather daring because when I wake up to go to the toilet at night I will see him on the kitchen floor searching for food. There was one time when I was watching soccer and eating my usual potato chips when he actually dashed towards my packet of chips and tried to grab a bite.

Luckily I reacted quicker and managed to save my chips. But I still took pity on him and threw him one large chip. Surprisingly, he took a whiff and ignored it. It was then I realised that geckos don't like spicy stuffs. The chip was hot and spicy from Jack and Jills. Ha.

Finally, there's Uncle Gecko who I believe is a Man U fan like me. Most of the time, he will accompany me to watch late night soccer. And whenever man U scores, Uncle Gecko will make a strange sound; It sounds something like that, "Grooook" I think that's how Geckos say "Goal!" Ha.

You see, with such a close knit family of Gecko living in my house, I'm quite devastated that I actually took the life of one of their dearest. Accidentally of course. I hope Grandpa Gecko will start telling his grandson geckos to stop treating my sports shoes as a playground, not matter how tempting it is. Or else another accident is bound to happen.

And finally of course, please take everything you have just read with a pinch of salt. Not literally pls. Ha. The drowning really did took place but NO DAR, I DID NOT throw a potato chip to a gecko. :)