Home sweeeeet home.

When JC wakes up early in the morning..the first living thing that greets him would be..

a shade of light brown on its exoskeleton,feelers, hairy legs and has a shape of a rugby ball, some of them are capable of flight too.

if you had not guessed it..its a COCKROACH(es). i managed to look it up and its species is call Blatella.


This is how it looks like

I have been sharing a fridge with JC since i moved to australia. As time passes by, more and more cockroaches seeked refuge in our fridge. They chose to stay between the rubber insulation on the fridge door. This must be the best place since the inside is cold and the frame is hot. So its an IDEAL place. Thus staying between the rubber insulations, its rather convinient to just crawl to our food and grab a bite and head back home. or head back for supper like we go mamaking.

Everytime i open his fridge in the morning to grab some cereal, ill see "friends" of ours everywhere. from the lower compartment where you store your veggies, to the egg storing cases.

The infestation is soo bad, when you flick or knock the rubber insulations, you will see a few of out friends coming out from a small hole. Yes, many sizes of cockroaches. from sizes to a grain of rice to sizes of a sweet. one big happy family

Recently the infestation got worse. You can see at least a cockroach crawling around the fridge, on the floor and yes.. on JC's study table. which is by the way.. less than a meter away from where he sleeps.

What have we done? tupperwared any foodstuff. kill any cockroach on sight. Jc got a can of insecticide to declare chemical warfare on them. And according to him, they are kinda immune. they still get to run away. they dont die on the spot. I think we need more powerful stuff like sheltox or baygon.

The most annoying thing now. is that... i just spotted one near the toilet sink on the bathroom cabinet, where we put out tooth brushes, facial wash, and contact lenses. The toilet sink is less than 3 meters from JC's room.

Smalls, JC and Hua Sim, things are getting serious. Smalls' room, by the way is 3 meters from JC's room. so..smalls..your room is next in the line for infestation.

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Jc and I have decided to move the fridge out of his room and temporarily store all our food stuff in smalls room for the time being. When moving the foodstuff out, we found 2 live cockroaches in the egg container, 1 near the vegetable storage area and a few small ones all around. We then sprayed insecticide into the hole between the insulation and the frame. We also filled the whole fridge with insecticide and set it to the coldest setting hoping to freeze it to death.

here is a shot of the cockroach eggs we found on the carpet under the fridge after we moved it out