i hate lizards.. especially those big fat juicy ones

house lizards. i definitely definitely definitely hate 'em. loathe. despise. understatements. i would like to kill and squash and destroy them--if i manage to gather the strength to do that. but lizards are to me like kryptonite is to superman.

just the way the wriggle their fat juicy sticky bodies and splotching (who cares if it is not a word?) their gooey legs one by one. when you look closely, i swear you can hear every step the moment their feet land on the ground. splatch. splatch. absolutely disgusting. combine that thought with the body-wriggling and yucky tail-moving, and you can how they instill fear deep down in mankind.

yes, 'they', not 'it'. just how can you describe something with flesh, blood, bones, and a brain in the skull as it? it's alive, thinking, intelligent, and got a squirm-inducing detachable tail.

pure evil.

i saw one just now. i went half nuts praying it didn't splotch its way into my room. if it did, i dont know how im gonna be able to sleep tonight. what you don't know won't hurt you. yeah, but what about a lizard in my room crawling up my face when i'm asleep? it's too fear factor to me.

so i rolled up a newspaper and got ready to whack any moving thing with all my might, the moment i peeked behind the door. but i think i'll scream to create a minor distraction for my brain to process the arm-rolled-up-paper-baton movement first. and to aim it on a moving living splotching entity. things like these should come naturally when you face last-king villains.

but, to my dismay, and absolute fear, the stoooooopid thing ain't there. they seem evolved to camouflage/shapeshift/teleport while humans grow thumb. and we are supposed to be on top of the food chain?? hah!

i prayed that the slimy creature entered my brother's room. or better, vanished from the face of the planet.

i did scour the net to see how i can overcome this not irrational fear. people get scared all the time. height, tight spots, bugs. well, how do i overcome fear of lizards? anyone out there know anything? so much for information superhighway. type "overcome fear hate lizards etc" on google, and you know what i mean.

okay, my attention span on my fear of lizards has ended. still, this fear is limited to the brown-grey house lizards. not the big crocodile-type ones. or the iguana/chameleon-type. those seem okay. maybe because of their rough skin. yeah maybe that's it. maybe it's the supple skin of the seemingly innocent house-lizards that eat too much and become too fat that are throwing me off the edge here.

what abt cockroaches? well, they don't bother me this much. maybe next time. ;-)

wish me all the best tonight. no freaking eyes-popping-outta-their-heads lizards.