The Invasion ...

I've been invaded or rather my desk has been invaded! Wait, before you start saying that maybe I need my head check or anything like that, let me start from the beginning.

'Oh, oh, here goes one of his long winded posts again, better get comfy!'

You're still here with the sarcastic remarks I see. Anyway, I bought this urrmmm packet, bar or whatever you call it of sweets. It's one of my favorite ones called Halls Vita-C with real fruit juice in it. While I'm no sweet addict, I just happen to love this particular one. It has about 9 pieces in there and it comes in different flavours of lime, orange, strawberry and grape fruit with lime being the one I love the most.

I'll always have this with me whenever I'm in the office and I totally forgot about it when I left work on Friday and so it was left lying on my desk the whole weekend. When I came in this morning, There were ants crawling all round the sweets. Drats, there went the sweets. I took the whole thing which actually only had 3 pieces left and dumped it in the bin, cleaned my desk of the few ants that were having a riot on my calculator and thought that was the end of it.

So, this afternoon, I went for lunch with wifey and when I came back to the office, I looked at my keyboard and it looked like it was moving! I cautiously inched closer to it. I'm a coward remember and moving keyboards bordered on the supernatural. But I was even more amazed when I got closer and saw that there was this huge colony of ants swarming all over my keyboard! They were crawling out from every single alphabet key like they was a sale or something.

I ran out of my room and got the insect spray and sprayed the suckers. Man, I sprayed like there was no tomorrow and I think I got them all but my keyboard bit the dust from all that spraying! I did try to open my keyboard and clean every single component in there but no luck, I couldn't resuscitate the lil fellow :( Now I've got to go inform the papa keyboard that his little fellow bought it but not before going down like a hero ... LOL! Ok, ok, I think I inhaled just a wee bit too much insect spray!

This really wasn't the first time it's happened to me. It's like the third time already if I recall correctly. I have this habit of leaving my sweets on my desk and forgetting all about it and next thing I know there's a whole colony of ants having a time of their life on my desk. This is also the 5th keyboard that bought the farm with me. Three were invaded by ants and 2 had a tsunami happen over them with some coffee ... LOL! What to do, I'm a junk food addict. There I've admitted it!

I just love junk food. Everytime wifey and me go grocery shopping I'll always get stocks of junk food for myself. And I'm very possessive with my junk food. I don't share them with anyone, including wifey and the boys. And they know better than to touch my junk food stock. I have this habit that I need to munch on something while watching TV or even reading. I can't simply sit there without something to chew on and just watch TV, it doesn't work for me. Somehow I won't enjoy the show or the book or the papers as much.

I know it's not really the worlds best habit to cultivate but I've been like that ever since I was a little kid. Even back then, I'd always run to the sundry shop opposite the house I lived in back then and buy tons of junk food and put it on my mom's tab. My mom had a line of credit at this particular sundry shop which she paid for every beginning of the month and so that made it easier for me to just pop over and buy my junk food and say charge it to my moms account! That was my version of American Express back then ... LOL! I used to buy this ready to eat instant noodles snack called Mamee Mee by the dozens and I really mean dozens. In fact I still do buy it right up to this very day (*blushing*).

There was also this sweet called Hudsons that I used to buy quite a bit right along with that Mamee Mee snack. I'm a sucker for sweets and I still am (which probably explains the toothache I have right now). Back then you could get four pieces of these Hudsons sweet for a mere 10 cents! Now you only get a miserable 2 pieces and they just don't taste the same. I used to hoard loads of junk food back then and my cousins would always try to steal them from me. No matter where I hid them they would somehow find it and sneak off with one or two packets and I'd get so mad at them that I'd go running and screaming to Grandma (I was Grandma's pet remember) to complain and Grandma would buy me some more to replace the ones that my stinking cousins stole! LOL! Gosh, I sure miss good old Grandma :D

I'm glad my two boys are not into junk food like I was. They do ask wifey and me to get them snacks when we go out grocery shopping and stuff but they don't ask for it all that much, unlike me when I was small. As long as we get them something, they'll be happy. My younger boy just loves this cultured milk drink and would everytime without fail get a whole six pack of it. At least it's healthy and it does come with a free toy ... LOL! He can finish the whole pack at one go. A regular drinker isn't he? Well, I can't blame him for this addiction cos he's been drinking that cultured milk ever since he was a little lad of 2 years old. He just adores the stuff.

'Are you through with this post already Nick or are you going to bore them to death all day?'

Awwww shaddup! Ok, ok I think I'll stop here. You guys know me la, once I start 'talking' I can't stop. LOL! Besides I need to get some work done before I head home, well, not work really it's an assignment I got on some Cat6 products that needs to be completed by tomorrow or was it today? I forgot already, better go check if it's expired yet or not. Till then, have a beautiful week ahead people :D