Vini vidi ........

It has been a month since i last posted .... (The whole of february i think ). Meanwhile people around me having been belting stunners in their blogs........ for eg : Coke has recounted his enitre story with some occasional poetry !!!!
So past one month on a day i am bedridden with some unknown ailment affecting my intestines i have the time to update my blog.
The topic for today : Cockroaches ....
Since i do remember ... this evil malicious beast (insect) which was (and is ) scary , black and had this huge eye like thing on the top of its head ..... which had the uncanny habit of lurking behind dark corners and suddenly jumping out to scare you like hell. No it didn't bite , but worse it seemed to have this feeling inside as of a beast whom you couldn't control. From the days of Baygon to Hit , to Laxman Rekha, i have seen a numerous antidotes applied to irradicate this menace but still the the population just refuses to say quits. I remember my dad telling me one day that roaches were supposed to be one of those primitive animals which have survived for so long and would infact survive any nuclear holocaust where the entire human population would surely be wiped out . So tell me, wasn't it common sense to get frightened of such a beast !!!
Strategic points : Roaches didn't bite as mentioned earlier but something is malicious about it's saliva, some points about it causing a skin disease! But i seriously doubt people being victimized by roach saliva. So why are people afraid of roaches (Sorry this isn't what i am thinking now but i used to think years ago).
The conclusion which hit me : Roaches are worse than ghosts , they scare you out of your wits when you least expect them to ... they have the audacity to do so in broad tubelight .... they hover around the kitchen at the time when you feel like having a post dinner snack and worse ; the scariest part .....they can fly and they take the aeriel route without any prior warning. It makes a man feel so vulnerable when the roach is just next to him one moment and in the next , its dangerously hovering round your had perhaps contemplating whether to sit on your head or on your shoulder. And the thought of having a roach on your skin eeeekkkk !!! gives you the creeps ... after all its stinky, dirty, hover round sewage pipes and other places where the human nose has asphixiation.
But i am a human being , i wouldn't be bullied by a cockroach. SO i found out my answer to the menace ..The Bata hawai chappal ... easily accessible, firm yet flexible, has a larger surface area but easily fits in the palm of your hand .But the most important point that hard sound it made once you got your kill really gave you an immense satisfaction..One down several more to go !
As time progressed i got better with my weapon , making it take the aeriel route when a roach would take the same . And with each kill amazingly my fear subsided till the time came when i finally began to feel confident with a chappal in hand while facing a cockroach.
And when just yesterday my next door neighbour was standing timidly outside his room, complaining that there was a cockroach inside , a confident me opened the door and started searching for the puny insect .
Deep down i was having this feeling inside me .. I came I saw ............. I conquered .

N.B. The identity of my next door neighbour is reserved for those who respond to this blog .....:D