International Business Park
Jurong East, Singapore
89.6° F (32° C)
Recently, there has been alarming number of dengue fever occurrences around Singapore (see this map for recorded locations). The reason I mention this is because my colleague from our partner company in Singapore and I are engaged in a life and death struggle against the tiny vampires that, not only deprive us of our blood and leave us digging (with our germ-ridden fingernails) toward the source of seemingly insatiable itch, but also, escalate our chances of death by dengue fever. Since the first bite, my senses have been heightened into kill mode and been scanning for stealth attackers. So far, I have been bitten twice and killed three. 2 to 3. Not bad.
As a side note... has anyone looked into breeding dragonflies as controlling agent for mosquito population? The insecticide fumes are pretty to look at, but the smell has to go. Oh yeah... insecticide also kills everything else, at least by little or indirectly. How about bats? They eat mosquitos, don't they?
Before I finished this entry, I killed another one. This one was bloodless. Preemptive kill/strike. Score? mosquito 2, the mosquito slayer 4. I rock!
sång om dag:
Under the Weather
Eye to the Telescope
by KT Tunstall
2 comments:
hmm... seems like ur trip back to S'pore wasn't as good huh..
No lah. Other factor(s) in Singapore make(s) my trip more than worth risking death by le dengue.
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