Battle with the Monster

It was a Monday morning and we were later than usual bcos... it was a Monday morning. Haha.

I was at the table, rushing the kids to finish their bfast. Daddy Lim was in the toilet, unblocking his system before he starts his day. Just then, there was this huge something that looks like a bee. It flew in from the balcony and into the living room. The something was hovering around the ceiling light, behind the kids' back.

My panic button was hit but the kids couldn't care more and was happily eating their bfast. I was warning the kids about the bee lookalike while slowly retreating into the kitchen; nobody cares much about me despite my repeated pleads for the kids to join me in the kitchen hideout.

The flying something started flying around the living room. I started to yell for the kids to join me in the kitchen. My fear definitely penetrated into them bcos they were soon scrambling to join me in the kitchen.

Behind the safety of the kitchen glass door, we saw that flying something dancing from light to light, happily exploring the living room. The poor us were huddling in the tiny kitchen. Then brave Lil Shauna suggested that she would leave the safety of the kitchen to go switch off the light. She did just that and ran back to huddle with us in the kitchen.  It was pitch black in the living room and we couldn't see if that flying something was still there.

We stood in the kitchen for a good while until Daddy Lim was done and exiting the toilet. We too decided to get out of the safety zone and out of the house for school and work. That thing must really like the light bcos when I was leaving the kitchen, it flew right beside me into the brightly lit kitchen! Bloody hell!

Though my knee buckled, I had the decency to shut the glass door behind me. We then see the thing fly into the glass door a few things trying to get out. Ahhhhhhh!

Behind the safety of the glass door, we were trying to determine what the insect was. I thought it looked like a big black bee. Daddy Lim said that bees are with yellow stripes and furry and cute, thus that cannot be a bee. He said that it must be a hornet or wasp!

We were trying to decide if we should kill it with insecticide only to realise that the ONLY insecticide was inside the storeroom, accessible through the kitchen! Boo! Note to myself that we need more than 1 can of insecticide at home and stored at different location.

Without the insecticide, we thought we should at least cover the Monster with something so that poor Popo wouldn't need to battle with it later in the morning. I found a transparent container and the Monster was stationary on the floor; our perfect chance. Just as Daddy Lim opened the door, it started flying and I saw Daddy Lim threw the container at it and quickly shut the door.

After the entire commotion, it was still flying everywhere in the kitchen while the container lays dead on the floor. Lol. At least we were still separated by the glass door. The noise did wake Popo up and we did at least warn her of the danger. She simply said that it would fly out from the window later. Ok lor.

In the car, we were still googling and checking if it was a bee, hornet or wasp. We didn't have the answer bcos it doesn't look like any of them. Anyway, Popo said that it was gone by the time she woke up. Chey. We were busied over nothing and were almost late for school and work. Lol.

Mummy Lim