The school is becoming more and more unhygienic. Jialat. Almost dangerously so. First, there was this huge rat lurking outside one of the classrooms on the first floor; then there was that maggot in my lunch, and today, i saw a small rat in the gym. When i came into the gym at 7.45am today, it scampered underneath one of the treadmills. I could even bend my head below, look underneath the treadmill (from a distance of course) and say hi to it.
Back in the army, i had a lot of experience with rats. There was this rat which stole tissue paper from my bedside chair over a period of time and made a nest with it below my bed. And i only discovered the nest a few months later; guess that's punishment for not doing a thorough area cleaning. I always wondered why my mucus-filled tissue paper kept disappearing from my chair the next morning, nearly every day. The whole time, i thought the fan/wind was blowing my mucus-filled tissue out the window or something. ^_^" Back in signal school, we'd also get rats sneaking into our lockers (despite there being a lock!!!) and tearing up our milo 3-in-1 packets and biting into our toothpaste.
The point of my last statement is that these rats can sneak into really tight spaces VERY EASILY. It's like they're all meat and fat and organs and no bones, so they can flatten their bodies like crazy if they need to. Meaning they can sneak into our classrooms. They can sneak into the gym and hide in all those smelly shoes that people dump into the shelf cubicles.
AND they can sneak into the lounge. As every NUS law student should know, the lounge is a very fun place. It is ALSO a very dusty and messy (and i'd daresay dirty) place, and the carpeted floors and cushions and the flaps covering the space below the cloth/wool sofas make for good hiding places...for rats.
Gulp. I'm not even going to bother looking below the sofas. Unfortunately, as quite a few law students know, there's this year 2 called Gregory who likes to take power naps in the lounge when he's short on sleep...yikes. :|
But ahwell. To be honest, i'm quite used to sleeping among rats already. I had more than a year of that, after all. I'm just being a little dramatic because, otherwise, i really have nothing else to write. But i AM quite worried that those rats would sneak into my bags while i sleep and nibble into my tissue paper, my notes, my computer power cables, etc...just like those rats did with my iPod charger cable back in army.
...I'm still using that charger cable though. 0_o
