Caught a cockroach lurking around the corner as I was doing some paperwork in the hospital. Spent a good 10 minutes staring at it, just to make sure it’s really dead.
Damn cockroaches! 
You know what’s the bravest thing I ever did? It’s not actually this, but dissecting a cockroach. Even to hold one up by the antennae using double-gloved hands, I was petrified and utterly disgusted. The spiky projections on the legs, the soft underbelly, the patterned wings, the stench…I’m nauseated already.
This creature has the power to reduce grown women to silly, over reacting girls. I’ve broken spectacles while ducking flying roaches, thrown away personal effects they have crawled on, and screamed in public when one sneaked up on me.
But this one, this one is dead. Or I wouldn’t be so boldly sitting here to type this. 
*blattodephobia = fear of cockroaches
*Oggy and the Cockroaches happens to be one of the most irritating cartoons ever
September 25th, 2007 at 8:01 am
hahaha…you know what, i saw a cockroach on my gate as i was messing around with 5 metres of coiled up garden hosing yesterday.
5m hosing = very heavy
it didnt have a chance!
September 25th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Interestingly enough, hubby is the one with this phobia not me hehe
He was soooo grateful to my Mum for introducing us to Shieldtox Cockroach Kill some years back. Very effective — just one squirt will do the trick!
September 25th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Hi 5 lorrrr…i oso same..Hubby lagi teruk..at least I berani to whack it with rolled up magazine..hehe..
September 25th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
I have no problem with it at all.
Piak it with slippers, the wooden ‘kek’, newspapers… whatever.
Then take it with bare hand to throw it away.
Washing away the smell is troublesome, though.
September 25th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
I once made fun of my female colleague during her birthday in university. I inserted 5 live cockroaches into a box together with the gift I given her. Can you imagine how her reaction was?? But, I had a tough time too catching those creatures in the guy’s toilet cause I am blattodephobia too, believe it or not.
September 26th, 2007 at 7:56 am
AM : Too bad for the cockroach!
Dobbs : You mean there is a specific roach-ticide? I’m so buying it!
Eve : And then you’ll have to throw away the magazine…the roach plasma (or whatever) really stinks!
Yenjai : Bare hands to throw it away?
Cytusm : Who’s the unlucky girl? If you guys had heard screams coming from the girls’ dorm in the middle of the night it’s the roaches
September 26th, 2007 at 8:03 am
Yup Cockroach Kill is specifically for cockroaches, not the regular Shieldtox we use for mosquitoes. As I mentioned earlier, just one squirt usually enough to bring it down (no need to empty half a can of insecticide) It may not die immediately but once it’s down (and flipped over) it will definitely die.
However you may need hubby to dispose of the dead cockroach. Palmdoc just squirts and leaves me to get rid of the corpse! Like yenjai, I have no qualms picking up a dead cockroach with bare hands to throw it away. However ever since we started having the house regularly sprayed by the pest control ppl, I rarely come across any live cockroaches nowadays.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Believe it or not, both me and my wife are afraid of cockroaches! We were trying to train our daughter to bet unafraid and do the exterminating but unfortunately she seems to have inherited our phobia. Our son is our last hope!
September 26th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Dobbs, good idea to employ pest control. There’re also lizards at home…
Jimbo, child labour ah?
September 26th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I was going to say child exploitation!
We actually got in the pest control ppl due to Termites, and decided to continue with a maintenance package on the safe side. Palmdoc’s really happy about the decrease in cockroach sightings since!
September 26th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
yup. I employ a company to do spray of my shop too
They come every two months.
Wow, real difference. After the 3rd month (2 spraying), I would say that there is ZERO cockroach
September 26th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Oh, about lizards.
I dunno.
Everytime I talk to any ladies about pest control, the first thing is : do they spray lizards?
September 26th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
I don’t think the spraying affects the lizards, not that there are that many in our house. I don’t mind the lizards (except for their deposits), but on the plus side they help to eat up any mosquitoes.
September 26th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
I got peed on once by a lizard.
And I’m convinced there’s a huge lizard living in the kitchen cabinets of my parents’ house. Sightings have been reported.
September 26th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
I also had baby lizards doing anti-gravity moonwalk on the ceiling land on me many times.
I think this calls for a separate blogpost on lizards.
September 26th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Oh dear me, no wonder you asked about lizards. My parents’ place also has many lizards. But they certainly can’t beat the snake I came across in their letterbox. Eeeeeeeeeeeeek!
September 26th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
I have not seen a single cockroache during my stay here. Many big spiders and wasp but not those smelly little thingy. Well, i may have seen the hissing madagascar hissing cockroach but that was in a zoo where i was allowed to pet it… hehhe…..
September 26th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Dobbs : Ok, note to self : Never stick my hand blindly into the mailbox!
Docperineum : Eeeeuw! Why would anyone want to pet a cockroach? (Hissing one some more!)
September 26th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Blattodephobia, finally I found a medical term for my fear
I feel much more relieve now…
seeing so many ppl have the same problem as me…
And they are doctors.
HEHE…
September 26th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
No worries CK. You shouldn’t encounter any roaches in your line of work!
March 1st, 2008 at 6:04 pm
hahaha.. got roaches talk here
what else u attract besides Mr Roach & Mr Liz?
March 1st, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Chen, actually I also attract birds-in-flight-but-need-to-poo!
Sure hit me one!
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:46 am
omg, i really hate roaches. i saw one today and started screaming and my brother was just laughing at me, then he saw that my reaction wasnt fake so he took the spray and killed it so i would stop freakin out. it was the worst day of my life. i keep finding them in the strangest places ever. like in my bathroom draw and in my kitchen in the box for random but usefull items. its so weird. eww gross.