Sampah Nonsense

Oh, The Humanity!!!

- Trashed by SampahMan @ 12:09 AM

I just got back from an escapade to the office, to prepare some stuff for work tomorrow(Today's a SUNDAY!). No, this is not going to be another rant at the establishment, so keep the daggers in their sheaths.

It was 10.15pm by the time I arrived, and first thing I did was to check on the undisputed star of the office, the fish-killing, flesh-ripping, red lobster. How the mighty have fallen, because lying on its back, with both claws outstretched, like a defeated heavyweight boxer, WAS our star. The waters were murky and bubbly at the surface, and the 2 fish that we left as weekend fodder, one died of internal injuries(but not eaten), and another one was barely alive. I cannot begin to understand why the lobster ended up dead. Oxygen? Food?

If you think the carnage ended there, I looked into the aquarium(nope, no guppies died this weekend), and one of the shrimps jumped above the surface of the water and stuck to the side of the aquarium and dried up (as YS said, 虾米). The bloody corpse was infested with ants. In words, this doesn't sound too gruesome, but it certainly looked like a maggot infested rat to me(yes, I've seen a maggot infested rat). For the record, 1 hour later, the entire corpse was polished off, no ants left. So god knows how many suicidal shrimps where polished off the same way over the weekend.

If that was not enough, I went to check out the 'special' group of shrimps, the ones with eggs in their bodies, that were incubated for breeding. Lined up side by side, and really, I mean, they were lined up side by side, and the bodies were in the upright position, like they were still alive. Well, I gave it a shake, just to check for signs of life. None. 3 bloated shrimps stared back at me, with the eggs still visible in the bodies. I started imagining Sigourney Weaver and Aliens. So this has to be the end of the deaths right? Well, there's one more shrimp, and it belonged to Eric's guppy. Well, that one's not doing any better than the rest of the shrimp either.

OK, to those who have been keeping fish for a long time, this might not be as gruesome to you, but heck, I honestly hate having to deal with dead bodies. And yes, I apologize for not making any effort to clean up and sanitize the carnage before work day on Monday. But hey, try to understand that this is coming from someone who paid his YOUNGER sister 20 cents to dispose off the dead body of a fish that he owned when he was a wee kid. I kept the body in a Nescafe jar for weeks, when it finally disintegrated.

I guess, with all the carnage that has transpired through out the weeks, we should have a more responsible way of keeping our fish, without having to separate any of them. So I think someone should be appointed 'Aquarium Repopulation Consultant' for the office aquarium. Suggestions?

A final word for our departed star: Thank you for the Gladiator style entertainment. And best of luck in Lobster heaven, or hell, wherever it is you're supposed to be going.

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