Men of the house

Growing up in my family/home requires one thing, independance. Independance from men. We do most things ourselves, save for impossible thigns such as fixing the air conditioner or drilling mega holes. My mum would've been able to do it were she a little younger, but it's always safer to get a contracter just in case you drill a hole in a gas pipe. Plus, we pay the contracter a mere $20-$30 for a whole afternoon of peace, because you see, if my dad were to attempt this task of a thousand men, he'd act as if he were a top surgeon seperating Nepalese siamese twins, having my mum hovering next to him to pass him a screwdriver, screw, drill, tissue whatever. And he'd take 10x as long and blame us if he drilled the hole crookedly.

CAn you see why we do most things ourselves? I build my own furniture which comes from Ikea and so does my mum, we help mainly when moving is required but that is it, because more hands cause more confusion. My sister normally gets a boyfriend to help her. My mum and sister make most of the furniture decisions and my mum does the most where-to-drill-holes planning and where-to-insert-extra-table positioning. I painted this house with the help of Fei, my mum set up the curtains in the living room herself, etc. So perhaps we don't have the perfect home because our window hinges are giving way, some doorknobs are dropping off, but I find it in great condition seeing that no man has lived here.

And I have become the official bug/roach/lizard get-ridder-of in the family. This morning there was a dinosaur of a lizard in our kitchen sink sitting right there and staring at me I thought I'd spew my milo on him. They (my mum and sis) very clever la, just leave me in the house with a dinosaur without first informing me. When I talked to my mum later she said she'd seen the lizard and left it there, because even though she has a long raging war with lizards since the 1990s, she won't touch/catch one even if her life were based on it. She'd call me and tell me to 'just throw out the window la~' Just!? I've 'Just' thrown plenty of lizards, roaches(small ones), beetles, random ugly huge ants, a grasshopper, etc. I've kept spiders as pets, a baby lizard for a couple of hours cos it was so cool looking through his transluscent body at the lungs and heart pumping, I've kept lizard eggs, which hatched(so cool!), and yeah, thats about it.

Here's T-Rex. He's freakin' huge la. I think it was dying though, it didn't struggle much as I covered it. And I think is by far one of the nicest photos I've taken! Taken at Rochester during my break. I saw this white spot running around the table. First, I thought it was an ant carrying food, but it was moving too fast to be an ant. Low and behold! My favourtie spider! But this one had one hellova ass. Fei calls this the Jennifer Lopez of spiders. Look at the size of the ant next to it to gauge the actual size. Here's a close up/And ya, the photo was taken in sepia mode.