Man VS. Beast

Encounter # 1 : Dog

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I was dropped by our car at home after class. I got down carrying my schoolbag (I was in Elementary then.). All of a sudden, the neighbor's dog got out of their gate! As a kid, it was normal to be terrified of a dog, even if you are twice his size, more so, a running dog! So as I stood beside a parked car, the DARN dog chased me! And as dumb as I was, I ran frantically around the parked car as fast as Flash could! Actually, both me and my sister was chased but she had a little brain more that I did so after 1 round around the car, she directed herself to the car that dropped us and hopped on. So what about me? I ran around the parked car again! Yeah...I was chased by a dog ans I ran around the car...TWICE!!! And so they say your perception becomes wider in mild to modern anxiety! tsk, tsk...I got dumber instead!

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Encounter #2: Frog

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I am terrified of frogs. I have this feeling that if I come near them, they will leap at me and stick their eew-ey slimey jelly skin at my exposed body part! Yuck! And so, I had several encounters of this beast. First up: I was in high school. It was just another school night when I went in our gate. I was one of the last ones to enter. But as beast luck gets to me, I was the only one who saw a frog sitting with their usual stance at the step of a stair. It looked at me like I'm the vulnerable taget and it was ready to leap. Shit! My heart pounded so hard similar to my scream! It was big. It was a toad I think. It was a yellow frog with streaks of green. It was just simply a monster! Yellow's my favorite but not on this one. I dispise it! OK, so on with the story. After I screamed, it was just then that the others notice that a beast was at the stairs. I won't go up. I can't. I feel like crying by the mixture of fear and of getting off guard. So Papa went up then covered the DARN frog in the corner with his foot so that it cannot leap. But I won't go up still. "No! I won't go up! You might kick the farog toward me when I go up!"...Aahhh...Fear..It really gets you vulnerable. The solution? Trust. I just gathered every strength of my leg muscles to sprint up the stairs so that I could escape the beast! I did.

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Encounter # 3: Laboratory Frogs

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All of us had that nasty experience of having to find a frog or toad for next day's Biology class. Lucky me, I was not assigned to do it. I refused to! So that day was exciting and jerky! It was not as if frogs will be leaping everywhere from beaker to beaker but the mere prescence of frogs alarmed me. Our frog was so little, the can of sardines is practically a palace for it. haha! Emil's was a toad. A big, huge, pregnant toad! They were working beside our table. I jerked everytime a group screamed because their frogs leaped. The horror! I was not at ease for the whole period. But luckily, no frog got me that day.

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Encounter # 4: Rain Toad

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When it rains, it pours. It pours beasts! You notice that frogs show up when it rains? I was in Janiuay for an on-call duty in the RHU Delivery Room. It started to drizzle when we were called that someone was in labor. We ran from the staff house to the Heath Center. We hurriedly put on our unifors then zoomed. We were laughing since we haven't gotten over such craziness of having to put on our scrubs over our clothes , leaving such a mess in the staff house. Then all of a sudden, Queencie screamed! I was behind her when a toad leaped over her foot while running! Luckily, I heard her and my gut instinct, told me to jump! I saw it. I saw that DARN toad! It was big! But it did not touch me...harharhar! After we arrived at the RHU, I was catching my breath! I didn't know if it was from the rush of dressing up, the run or the toad! haha! You can read the original story here.

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Encounter #5: Mother Rat

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Of all beasts, I am terrified of rats the most! They look so sneaky with pitch black, tiny shiny eyes and those thin whiskers, the dark skin, their little pink beast ears, their quick feet and their long pink whip-like tail! The horror! On goofy days, whenever I see a rat sneaking and running in corners, I always imagine a cartoon sound effect just like in Tom and Jerry. haha! A suspense sound when they stop and look around then a quick music whenever they continue running. This happened one sunny morning after I woke up. When I went outside, I was greeted by a topsy turvy house and loud screams. Our house was a mess! They rearranged the boxes and furnitures so that it will serve as a maze and a trap. I pitched in a few ideas while staying on top of the table. I feel like the chair is low enough for the Mother Rat to reach me. Heck! It looks like a cat! I had a funiture moved and placed 2 fly catchers in the end so that the rat will be directed to the sticky trap. The darn rat won't stick! The trap is too weak for its feet. It just jumped over it and ran to our living room! While the rat was running, all of us, all 6 of us in the house was screaming on top of our lungs and finding a higher ground to climb on! The Ultimate Man vs. Beast experience! I was still on top of the table screaming and trembling! I saw my shorts quiver as a result of my trembling feet! I was really really scared of the mother rat! mother effin' rat! It nearly gave me a heart attack! After which, I transferred to a table beside our aquarium carefully stepping on chairs and not touching the ground. They rearranged our sofas to make sure that the rat cannot escape. But we weren't able to find it anymore. It didn't squeak anymore but we are sure that it was just somewhere there. Then..dun-dun-dun-dun...I saw a long tail under the drawer table! I screamed! The rat was there! Apparently, the drawer had a haloe and it managed to cling there! The rat has a brain. But it still is a BEAST! They poked the table with a broom and the rat fell down and ran. Of course, people on the ground were climbing on chairs! How are you supposed to catch an effin' rat if you're even afraid of it?! haha! That's why this is called Man vs. Beast and man is going down! And so, the rat escaped under the sofa and off to a corner of the house. Who knows where its mouse hole is?! Racumin, here you come!!

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Encounter #6 : Plain ol' Rat

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This was 2 Sundays ago. This is what I meant from my previous blog entry. I was quietly reading a book when I heard a rattle from the blinds. I heard this same rattle the night before when I was about to sleep but I didn't mind it. I thought it was only the wind though it's strange since the windows are closed. When I looked up, I saw a head looking at me. Waahhh! A rat is peeping between the blinds and it is looking at me! I felt terrified I moved the box container away from the blinds so that the rat can't fall there and I transferred to the other bed to observe the rat. Eventually it went away. Darn George Graham! (My brother names the rats George Graham) I turned off the lights and went to sleep. Minutes after, my brother went in the room and talked to me while lying in his bed. Then, there came the rattle again, I screamed and said that it is a rat. We both got scared. After which, I tunred my back and saw the effin' rat on top of the plastic in the box container! (you can see the blue plastic later in the video) Waahh! I screamed, ran bast my brother in his bed and went out the room barefoot! He just called out my name confused as I ran out of the room! haha! Luckily, I did not step on my brother in the sofa bed or knocked his swollen cheek! I went out and sat in our living room. I'm not going back there. I'm not sleeping with a rat! I don;t care if I've got no slippers on. I'm going to sleep in my parent's room. But then, I realized I was about to make Shoti drink his antibiotics so I have to go back there and get the meds.

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My siblings got a fly catcher to place in our room. After they went in, I also did and grabbed everything on top of my bed, put on my slippers and grabbed the meds. I went out. I left the putting off of the aircon since and placing the trap to them. My heart was still thumping. I watched Eraserheads: The Final Set, their last concert, while hearing their plans inside the room. 'Twas good to watch..hehe..brushing up on my pop culture. After a while, I took a peek in the room. They suggested it was good to take a video of the darn rat slipping through the blinds. So I went out to get my phone. I was such a clumsy schmuck that when I handed my phone over, my entire forearm was stuck in the fly catcher they my sister was still holding. I had no choice! I had to peel it off as quick as possible and get off that room! Shit! Nagpilit pa ko! Of all things unexpected! I got out and cleaned my arm as they went on to place the fly catcher. haaayyyy.... Mapatay ako!

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Hazel: This is Man vs. Beast and man is going down! Shoti: No! I'm the beast! (haha!)

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This was the video! It's a bit blurry since my phone is bulok! Just wait for the rat to come out the blinds... Give some credit to the darn rat because rats spelled backwards is star! (yuck!) I was not there when they got the video. That will explain why there are lesser screams.

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I am not afraid of dogs now. But don't you ever play a prank on me involving frogs or rats! I will not forgive and forget you for doing such forever! Please...Please...I beg of you...

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Love and Bliss!

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Listening To: One Friend by Dan Seals