My very first blog entry… of all things, was about how much I hate cockroaches. Hahahaha.
I take it back. If there’s one thing I could make extinct on earth, it’d be mosquitos!!!!!
If you follow my Twitter you’d see that every once in a while I’ll be raging against mosquitos. >:((((((((((
Our apartment for some unfathomable reason has seasonal problems with mosquitos one T_________T
Went back to see my own tweets and got angry all over again wtf.
For most of the time I cannot figure out where all the mosquitos are coming from! On advice from Wendy I actually went around the whole house (and out to the balconies) to check for stagnant water because it seemed like the more mozzies I killed, the more came to take their places.
But no stagnant water. Granted they come more when it’s rainy season but we usually try not to open windows and we still get mosquitos in.
I was going crazy.
Mosquitos only seem to bite me not Fatty. Many a night I’d wake up in the middle of the night cos I could hear mosquitos in my ear or cos I was itchy all over. T___T
I tried spraying the room with pesticide. Mosquitos didn’t die!
I don’t like the traditional green coil that you have to burn because it’s smoky and smelly and eventually turns your ceiling yellow. So I bought the electric appliance where you insert the pad of pesticide in. Smelly but still didn’t work either.
I googled and tweeted for solutions and went out and bought this.
Oil burner + citronella oil.
Ok this works but it doesn’t work to destroy mosquitos. The smell of the citronella oil confuses mosquitos but once I step further away from the burner, the mosquitos would detect me again and start nomming. -_-
2ndly, I put the burner near my bed for max protection and because it’s an open dish, the water and oil in it gets spilled a lot all over my carpet. -____-
3rdly, I DON’T WANT TO CONFUSE MOSQUITOS I JUST WANT THEM TO DIE.
I’ve actually been waiting for the day where I can blog this. The day I found a satisfactory solution to my mosquito troubles.
This is called a lantern the Khind Aedes Buster.
All the parts. With all their powers combined….
I tagged them to show how it works.
1 – The top part which has the slat windows for evil mosquitos to get sucked in. There’s a fan in there to create suction. There’s also a UV light tube inside to create light and heat to attract the mosquitos.
2 – Glue tray which goes right at the bottom to catch mosquitos so they can’t fly out again.
3 – Funnel which sits above the glue tray to funnel mosquitos through.
4 – Bottom part which holds the glue tray and funnel.
5 – Shade which sits on top to focus the light.
Quite simple to assemble! Glue tray goes first, followed by the funnel then the whole big top part.
Just screw on the top.
Done!
The Aedes Buster works to attract mozzies in three ways:
1) Odour – The Buster is coated with a layer of Titanium Dioxide Coating. The Titanium Dioxide interacts with the air to release carbon dioxide, which mimics carbon dioxide exhaled by human beings. Mosquitoes can detect carbon dioxide up to 100 feet (36 meters) away and that’s how they get to you. >:(
2) Light – The ultra violet (UV) light produces a strong visual attraction to mosquitoes within 30 feet.
3) Heat – Heat released by the UV lamps mimics human body warmth and lures mosquitoes within the vicinity of 10 feet from the buster.
Once the mosquitoes get near to the Buster they will be sucked into the mosquito collecting compartment and stick to the glue tray muahahaha. Then they have no choice but to die there muahahahha.
I stationed it in a corner of my room. There’s a timer so the buster automatically turns off after four hours. Four hours is enough to clear the room of mosquitos and saves electricity as well as the longevity of the UV tube.
Just leave it in a darkened room for four hours (so the UV light will be more effective in attracting mozzies). Try not to stay in the room, or if you have to, put the buster at least 10 feet from you to avoid conflicting sources of CO2 in the room wtf.
I just tried it officially for the first time last night!
I was in my room the whole night watching Downton Abbey so I didn’t turn on the Buster. Then I went to sleep and woke up half an hour later with an itchy hand. -____-
MOSQUITO I KEEL YOU.
I jumped out of bed, pulled out the Buster and turned it on, making sure I put it at least 10 feet away from me.
Then jumped back into bed and pulled the covers over me so I wouldn’t release CO2 lolol.
Slept peacefully for the rest of the night. ^^
This was me before. LOLOL damn funny this video.
Me now! ^^
Khind Aedes Buster comes in dark blue or maroon, 2 spare UV tubes and 2 spare glue trays for only RM132. Don’t need to keep buying refills like the other mosquito traps!
And for Fourfeetnine readers I have TWO Khind Aedes Busters to give away!
Just comment in response to this blog post with your most extreme (pitiful/miserable/hilarious) mosquito story so I can judge whose life sucks (HAHA GEDDIT) the most and deserves the Buster hahaha.
Remember to put your email address IN the comment (not just the email box) in case I can’t pull it up then bye bye no winning for you.
Contest ends this Friday, 5 July at 12am.
For more product details and where to get one
Khind also has a running if you don’t win here on my blog!
Comments (51)
The mosquito bit my eyes and it looks freaking swollen. You may google a frog or an ET or Bugsy (from the movie bedtime stories). Mosquitos are freaking hideous!!! They should D.I.E. nnnEmail: shelliemay19@hotmail.com
After a day of hectic work i try to have my 8 hours beauty sleep unfortunately Mr mozzie keep on attack me so I have so many sleepless night for months.nnemail: ameliachiangkarmun@gmail.com
Suffered from dengue recently, and almost died due to extremely low platelets count.. I thought im suffering from food poisoning initially.. so I juz took some carbon pills and when ahead with the genting trip.. worst decision ever.. damn mozzies u destroyed my holiday!!
Forgot my email: ariesger86@yahoo.com.sg
there was once i got bitten by mosquito on my middle finger (the lower part where my ring is),and i kept scratching and rub my finger without realising that there is this girl who cock stare at me thinking that i was a pervert.I was so blur until i got home and told my wife about it..my wife then reminded me and we both laughed out loud! nandycsl18@gmail.com
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Hi! nI’m a reader from singapore! Is this item available in singapore? Would love to buy one for my family! The dengue case in sg is really bad now 🙁
karleenchong@hotmail.comnHate mozzies for my whole life. Am still trying to find the best way to get rid of them. Tried mats, liquids, spray, coils, nets, applying vicks, sleeping with lights on and my latest venture, buying mosquito plants. Mosquito bites aren’t only itchy, but they’re somehow scarring my legs :((. Fight them till the end!
Once upon a time, i need to pee badly, stopped by car by the road side, found a lamp post and quickly unzip and pee. Out came mr.mosquito, a battle took place, i tried to spray my per like how the fru did to the bersih protestors. I lose the battle and the mosquito proceeded its mission of sucking my sweet blood from the tip of my little brother.
Oh my gosh, the mozzie faction and the “Me” faction have been at war since the beginning of time. I will always get bitten despite there being 4 other people in my house. And the worst part is the bitemarks that they leave behind do not disappear even if I try desperately not to scratch, so I am unofficially the “moley” girl. A tiny sandfly bite will swell into a normal mozzie bite and a normal mozzie bite will swell into a “orc” size bite and so on and it take up 1 week for the bites to stop itching completely. My worst experience was when a mozzie decided to pay my lips a visit and bit me on the corner of my mouth. I had my dream pouty lip (lopsided) and I could not leave my house for 2 -3 days. Please include me into your crusade against this flying beast!rnMy email is eden8619@yahoo.comrnMy email rn
I heard that mosquito only bite people who has more acidic blood. So maybe that is the readon why they dont bite fatty but u xD
Walao mosquito very sexist is it?How come I also always kena my boyfriend rarely kena one?Same room ok? and I have to put my legs up when I work so that the mosquitos can’t have a blood feast under the table. There are times I tried to bunk with the boyfriend but will always have to wake up in the middle of the night, scratch like mad, give up and go back to my own room (we rent the same house with few other friends). Damn relationship spoiler and sleep spoiler. No matter how hot the weather is, I will always have to cover myself with blanket otherwise the mosquitoes will come again. So I’ll be sweating under the blanket and when I just open a small opening for some air, they will come liao. Super sien. Maybe this Khind one will solve the problem. Stop attacking me can or not stupid mosquitoes
I HATE mosquitos too! nI was hospitalized for a whole week due to dengue and it was a real nightmare for me. My first time staying in a hospital and I will never forget the how I crunch my teeth every morning at 5am when I hear the nurse pushing the trolley coming into my room. The inexperience nurse will try to push the needle in to my arm (whatever available part is left) everyday to take my blood and it was gawd damn painful. nAll this because of the mozzies. Kill them with the buster!
I am simply a mosquito magnet. Wait for bus kena, go bbq kena, sleep at home kena, standing outside car kena. I can scratch till it bleeds. Its that bad. The bites can target from my face, ear, lips to anywhere on the body. Its just simply extreme. nmeiwei.sim@gmail.com
Haha omg super in love with the video looool.
I hope not to become deaf one day just because of mosquitoes buzzing around my ears and I start to whack my ears so hard with my palm. My boyfriend helps me in the middle of the big by playing badminton in the room with the mosquitoes killer electric racquet. Poor boy have to work the next day. The next morning he would see mosquitoes on the floor for the effort during the night. Then he will pluck the mosquitoes leg one by one and say “HAHAHAHAHAHA YOU MOTHER BLOOD SUCKER BUGGER HAVE TO DIEEEEEE ON MY HANDS!!! ” and he goes to work happily!!
Typo * in the middle of the night. My email is lersaint@gmail.com 😀
soooo.. did you check the glue tray and see whether there are mosquitoes stuck on the glue? i want pictures!
Or the worst still when you couldn’t hit them with your hand because you’re eating or washing dishes, you just get to blow them away .. -.-” mosquitoes ~
Hey Audrey! I cant believe we share the same fate haha. Whenever im in the same room as my family almost everyone does not get bitten except for me which is super annoying becayuse everyone just mocks me ~.~ I remember there was once where I was sleeping and I could hear the sound of the stupid mozzie at my ear. I totally smacked my ear so hard that the next it was all red FML. the worst thing was that my entire body was bitten including my ass. I mean how in the world does the stupid thing fly to your ass in the middle of the night?? I really hope i can win this so that i can kill those assholes once and for all!
Oops i forgot to include my email! its osmanthuseio@live.com
My most mortifying experience with le mozzies was when I was out with a guy whom I like. We were happily chatting away and bonding by a lake when a mosquito landed on his cheek. Guess what happened next? It was just pure reflex and I slapped him. Hard. The “penyek” mosquito and blood was all over his cheek and my hand. The poor guy just looked so confused. Good thing he saw the humor in the situation after I explained what had happened and we had a good laugh over it. Happy ending 🙂
Sorry! Forgot my email…nnshingyee.tan@gmail.com
Dealing with Aedes/Dengue is my life. I had spent the last months of working with people complaining about mosquito, dengue fever and horrible stigma from people who thought I don’t put an effort tryna prevent all this diseases from happening. But that’s just part of my life I have to deal with. If you think mosquito in your house is a pain in the butt, imagine all those pain in everyone’s butt but instead of 1 house, its 1 whole district. I’m gonna need that lamb, as big as the petronas tower so it covers the whole district.
I love your puns haha! <3
I HATE MOSQUITOS! *didn’t purposely copy your title for this post but I really hate them much!* I have no idea why but since young mosquitos seem to love me a lot! My friends told me it’s because my body temperature is relatively high. 🙁 The worst thing about getting mosquito bite is where the bite is between my fingers or toes! It’s freaking hard to scratch these parts to stop the itchiness! >.<nnlomoonghua@gmail.com
Oops my email is angelinecheah81@gmail.com
Put yourself in my shoes (literally). Picture yourself wearing a tie-up thigh-high pair of boots to work. Then while working, you feel an itch on your foot but untying the boots is troublesome, and removing your prolly stinky socks and scratching the itch in front of your colleagues isn’t so proper. So you have no choice but to put up with it and stomp your feet, praying it would help get rid of the itch long enough until you reach home and finally unleash your sharp nails on the bite.nnillegal_lea@hotmail.com
Hi Audrey! Me too, is constantly facing the same problem. Since young, I seems like the only one among my family and friends who attract mosquitoes the most. I remembered there is a time that I was admitted to the hospital because of dengue, on the day before my vacation to Singapore. In order not to waste the money that I saved and paid for the flight and hotel, I insisted to be discharged and continue the vacation as plan, regardless all the advice from my family and friends. But of course, the vacation did not turn out to be a pleasant one and I really hate mosquitoes to the max for ruining my first not-Malaysia-vacation. Not to mention that in the usual day, my legs are constantly full of mosquitoes bit scar, which lower down my self esteem in wearing short pants! I really hope to get rid of those world’s most annoying mosquitoes!!!! =(nnamykhoo0101@gmail.com
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I still remembered back to when I was young, I used to attend tuition classes at a rural kampung house and that place was surrounded by lots of mosquitoes. I used my hand to clap mosquitoes to death instead of concentrating on what the teacher was teaching. I even competed with my friends on how many mosquitoes we killed and displayed in on the table in the tuition centre. My highest record was 7 mosquitoes if I’m not mistaken. Haha!! Those were the days yet memorable experience for me 😉 nnemail: splendy_ess@live.com
I have always hate Mosquitos especially when they buzzing around like nobody’s busies during your bed time. But my worst encounter was my recent Taiwan trip where I saw Mosquitos flying around in the hotel room and I started to worry how am I gonna sleep. But to my surprise, I’m able to fall asleep easily but the worst has yet to come. When I woke up the morning, I noticed I’ve got 13 mosquito bites on the same leg starting from my thigh all the way to the ankle. Can you imagine it’s 13 in one leg!! And they even form a pattern a straight lines with 5 mosquito bites on the thigh. From that day onwards until now, it has been about a week plus, only long pants for me to cover up those ugly bites!!! I swear I’m gonna kill them all!!! Lol
Hi Audrey,nImagine you sleeping not-that-peacefully since they keep making noises at your ears. nI just ignored them but one of the ‘kind’ mozzie want to entertained me that night.nHe actually got into my ears and want me to have an ampilified version of his singing.nWell it definit!ely making me woke up wide awake.n I screamed while moving my head like a crazy person coz I’m trying to get the mozzie out of my ears. nBecause of the head banging, the mozzie think I’m entertained enough and actually fly out.nnn_syahirah@hotmail.com
Hie, my experiences was horrendous yet funny. Was sleeping with my roommates at hostel. We joked about whose blood is the sweetest to attract mosquitoes. The most horrendous part is the next day my hands was full of mosquitoes bite BUT I forgot about the joke during the previous night. End up i thought i was down with Chicken pox and went to see doctor instead.. Doctor laughed at me by saying “Girl, this is mosquitoes bites, not chicken pox ! I give you cream to apply then the red dots will reduce eventually”…… 🙂 and i hate mosquitoes sine then :(nnEmail add : nicegal16@hotmail.com
Hie, my experiences was horrendous yet funny. Was sleeping with my roommates at hostel. We joked about whose blood is the sweetest to attract mosquitoes. The most horrendous part is the next day my hands was full of mosquitoes bite BUT I forgot about the joke during the previous night. End up i thought i was down with Chicken pox and went to see doctor instead.. Doctor laughed at me by saying “Girl, this is mosquitoes bites, not chicken pox ! I give you cream to apply then the red dots will reduce eventually”…… 🙂 and i hate mosquitoes since then :(nnEmail add : nicegal16@hotmail.com
Hey Audrey! I’m glad you found a solution for mozzie probs! I studied over on the east coast and stayed in a hostel and the mosquitoes there seem to come in a clan. There were mosquitoes everywhere?! In the room, in the toilet, just wherever I go sure the mosquitoes come and feast on me. The worst thing is nothing seems to work >:( Mosquitoe repellant, coils, etc. I had so many sleepless nights and mosquitoe scars that time. It was really stressful and one of the worst mosquitoe bites that I have ever gotten was on my lips and on my eye lid?! Imagine waking up to an eye and part of the lips bengkak. Gosh it was a very terrible and horrible experience! Guess we just have sweet blood that mosquitoes love. LOL. Haha. nnkim2tay@gmail.com
I heard rubbing dryer sheets works pretty well? And of course, OFF mozzie repellant!
mosquitoes haters unite!!nnmy story is that, there will always be mozzies in my room day or night and they always hide in the closet! and since they literally stay in my room, they got used to the repellant already so they can still feed on me every night. worst, when the boyfriend stay over, he got bitten too so now he refuse to spend time with me in my house. :cnnso yeah. :Dnnjazmintlee@hotmail.com
Hahaha I have the same problem with my boyfriend and I. I always get at least 5 bites when chilling at his house and he gets none. Ever. So frustrating. I’ve tried to cover myself with extra duty mosquito repellent but they seem to still get me and I’ve tried the coils and the electric mosquito repellent. I really wanna try the device you use though. Now to try and find it in HK….
My friends call me their mosquito repellent. I’m like a mosquito detector for them. Everyday mosquitoes will fed on me at a specific time. nnHere’s my story:nA year ago I went to the interiors of Sarawak to do some volunteering work for a month. The mosquitoes over there are ferocious. They attacked me when the sun is setting everyday. Even sandfly won’t miss the fun. In a week my legs were filled with marks. After 2 weeks of biting, itching and a bit of scratching, my body had an allergic reaction where the bites became wounds. Everyday I have to clean the wounds but I won’t heal until I came out from the jungle and see the doctor. Now the scars remained with me even until now. Worst ever experience. nnMosquito feeding zone nnenweilow19@yahoo.com
This is not a miserable story I’m about to share lor, it’s a everyday life thing. There’s only my dad and I at my house. I guess being the younger and always staying up late (releasing more co2 and yadda) causes the mosquitoes to love me more. I’m so freaking sad because mosquitoes only chose places like sole of my feet & the bridge of my nose. What the hell is wrong with them? I too tried those green spiral stuff which stinked and with no result. I’m like the minion with three red blaring alarm – one at the top, two at the sides showing mosquitoes the way to food. So yeah, that’s how miserable they make me T_Tnnmadelynwong@hotmail.com
Mosquitoes are my archenemies. Due to the nature of my skin (wtf) all the mosquito bites turn into scars and they never really fade! I have so many scars! They made my self-esteem super low and I always wore only long pants or skirts, and even when I went to school (mid-length skirt so legs are visible!) I wore my socks knee-high. I always got laughed at / criticized / side-eyed. One girl even criticized me by saying that I was following the Japanese fashion wtf okay. Sure, whatever you say. nnEventually I discovered the awesomeness that is Bio Oil and my scars faded but I ALWAYS HAVE NEW ONES so I can never stop using it T_TnnAnd I have always hoped that ALLL the mosquitoes everywhere would die and mosquitoes will go extinct, so I was very devastated when I learnt in school that if mosquitoes go extinct the whole balance of nature thing will get screwed.nnfionachan.jf at gmaildotcom
My boyfriend is a huge mosquite magnet and last month developed dengue fever! He was a sweating, weak, feverish wreck for 2 weeks. We chalked up a huge medical bill and I had to change his sheets twice a day and make chicken soup for 2 weeks. I can’t go back to living that life again! In all seriousness, if he kena dengue a second time, there’s a huge likelihood of him developing hemorrhagic fever and dying and I can’t have that! Since we have no more money after medical bills, please let me win this!nnThanks! monkeys meow@gmail.com
This advertorial would have been much much more convincing/genuine, if you would have show us the tray of the dead mozzies the morning after! 😀 Oh well..
Sometimes I wonder if mosquitoes are my best friend. Very often, people loves going outdoors with me because I am like a mosquitoes magnet, luring the mosquitoes to me all the time. To make things worse, I have had dengue fever not once, but twice. Although I recovered, I have been doing crazy preventive job to avoid any hazardous outcome.nnHence, I sincerely hope that I can win this so that my whole family can be less paranoid on this issue. I sincerely do. nnjaysern88@gmail.com
I think a mosquito’s toxicity increases in areas of high pollution. I lived in a mozzee free country for years, thus when I moved to HK I was fresh meat. My mosquito bites were the size of 20 cent coins, but what was worse was the dark brown scars I was left with.. those marks took about 3 years to fade.. >.< I had to use concealer on my arms n legs! But my brother had it worse.. his boarding school had so many mozzees, he had hundreds of brown scars on his legs…and they were actually scars layered on top of older mozzee bite scars a bit like bubble art *shudder * nStellamcms@gmail.com
I’d say I have fairly tough skin that possibly even breaks mosquito’s beaks when they try to kiss me. Even if I get bites, I don’t have marks lasting more than 12hours. Terengganu mosquito? No problem. KL mosquito? Bring it on. Aussie mosquito? Ha, Kiddy play.nnBut mosquito in Kulim is different. I suspect these animals are mutated due to waste from fabs (semiconductor fabrication plants) and factories in the area. They’re seriously like zombie mosquito. They attack in a swarm, and the scars… they’re just crazy! They’re humongous and don’t fade away for months. Everybody at my workplace noticed and I had to admit to using drugs because the size and amount of the marks is impossible to be caused by mosquito! I probably will have to go for drug test next time because of these bloody zombies.n
I think mosquitoes are attracted to certain blood types. My mom and I are O and we always get covered head to toe in bites while my siblings and father, who are blood type A, won’t geet a single bite. Sigh…=___=nnHave you bought a mosquito net to hang around your bed?
hmm my mosquito story happened back when i was in high school. i snuck out of home in the middle of the night to meet up with my then crush wtf. hahaha. sat with the guy by a water feature fountain thing and the pool as well. had so much fun that night lolol the mosquitoes that were biting me didnt bother me at all! was on cloud 9 wtf. then whaddaya know.. the next day demam panas, one week later diagnosed with dengue. thanks a lot ah mosquitoes -_-
Those vampires -_- nLiving in Japan for almost 2 yrs now and its amazing how ive never seen/get bitten by mosquitoes.yet.nCockroaches are damn gigantic though *cries* but like the people, japanese roaches are damn polite hahaha …if in malaysia the more u scare them, they chase u like barbarians. Here, they kinda politely bow to me and run away bahaha. Thats how i imagine it -__- nOk……goodluck xD