I got the vanity case! *clutches it to self*

Thank you, Chung Jia Min!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

I spent the afternoon arranging all my makeup stuff in its compartments and organising each different cosmetic by its type. I will never be messy with my makeup again!

However, I did make a few surprising discoveries. For example, I have 3 mascaras, 2 eyelash curlers and 4 eyeliners (2 liquid and 2 pencil!). What am I doing with so many?!

Secondly, my Maybelline Lash Discovery Mascara smells.

It is quite disturbing. Luckily it is the worst of the lot, in terms of unsuitability with my eyebags.

But what’s EVEN more disturbing is this:

I spent about half an hour picking bugs out of the rice bin.

It is a disgusting job. But someone has to do it. It is almost as bad as pulling shit out of ikan bilis’ bellies.

The bugs were tiny and thank goodness they couldn’t fly. So even though my arms were perpetually covered in goose bumps, I continued picking them out of the beras.

Step 1: Stir rice, looking for small black specks in the middle of white sea
Step 2: Use fingernails to pick bug out
Step 3: Drop bug on scrap paper (you can use old SPM trial papers)
Step 4: Fold paper on top of bug and squash it to death. If you’re lucky you can hear a crack sound. I think that’s the bug’s back breaking.

After I couldn’t find anymore, me and Brother Ooi set up a system.

Apparently, these bugs lay eggs inside grains of rice. Then as the egg hatches and the baby bug stays inside the grain of rice and slowly eats its way out. So the rice grain will be left hollow after the bug grows up and gets out. Shit I’m getting goosebumps again thinking about it.

Anyway, the system was like this: Brother Ooi picks out rice grains that look greyish, because
the presence of the bug inside gives it a grey hue.

Sister Ooi then, with most macho-ness, uses her nail to crush the rice grain open thus exposing the bug inside. If it doesn’t move, I just drop it on the paper. If it does, I use a pencil to stab it to death.

Brother Ooi’s job requires: super sharp eyesight and nimble fingers

Sister Ooi’s job requires: super sharp nails and lots of guts

Food for thought: If the bugs are inside the rice grains itself, wouldn’t it mean that we would cook the rice and eat it together with the bug inside?

Nice.

::Rice bug itself::

::That is my hand. Am I macho or am I macho?::

::The murder weapon::

Food for thought: I actually saw the birth of a rice bug.

Brother Ooi handed me the rice grain. When I took a closer look, I saw a small hole in it and a rice bug trying to climb out. It’s head and four of its legs were out and it was struggling quite badly. We studied its efforts for some time.

Then Hero Audrey decided to give it a Caesarean. I crushed the rice with my nail and out fell the bug, in a tizzy trying to crawl away as fast as it could.

It did not seem to be grateful at all for the Caesarean I gave it.

I did not like its attitude.

Therefore I stabbed it to death with the pencil.