causing a commotion

12.29pm

sorry for not writing sooner. was feeling lazy. theres not much to write about really. only thing that is probably exciting enough to write probably is that within a span of 5 days, our neighborhood was visited by a phyton and a musang.(defination of musang - a small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat).

yup thats right. first came the brown phyton in our back lane, inside the drain. it was a hot sunny afternoon, when 2 indonesian workers who were repairing the drainage area of our neighborhood, spotted the brown phyton slowly slithering away along the drain.they noticed that it had just eaten something because one part of its stomach looked kinda bloated up. if it hadnt eaten, it would have moved away fairly quickly. so now long story short, one of my  neighbors came out to have a look because one of the workers gave a shout. the workers told him about the snake. so he quickly rang up the fire department. and golly gosh gosh, they took their own sweet time to come.(not surprising there). in the end, it wasnt the fire department who came but some uniformed folks from the civil defense. hahahaha... well whatever, we dont care, as long as somebody gets rid of the phyton!!

by then a small crowd had already gathered in the back lane of my neighborhood. the authorities measured the phyton and it was more than 5 feet in length. they bagged the snake and took off in their van. makes you wonder where these creatures came from doesnt it? im guessing that because there's alot of new developments being built and lots of trees being torn down, these animals and creatures have no where else to go to, thats why they are ending up in peoples homes or in sewers or even drainage areas. so sad. folks are just plain greedy. they dont bother what they are doing to these plants, trees and animals who probably lived there for a long time. no guilt whatsoever. and all for the sake of making lots of money.

another story that involved an animal in my neighborhood was the musang. one night around 10.30pm, wasn't that late at night, my next door neighbor came out and stood outside. my dad was in the living room watching telly, i was in my bedroom and mom was in her bedroom. then we all heard like sirens and motorbikes going up and down, from the front of my road to the back lane. and some had stopped outside of our gate. so my dad, being a nosey parker, he went out to see what was going on.

now apparently, my neighbor, said she had heard loud sounds up on the roof. her folks were asleep in the front room. and they couldnt hear a thing. so upon hearing these so called loud sounds, she felt afraid and therefore rang the police up. when they arrived at the scene, they went around shinning their torchlights up on the roofs of our houses, from the front and they went to the back too. couldnt find a thing. no robbers.

after like about 15 minutes or so, one of the officers spotted the musang up on one of the roofs. they reckon that that was probably what was making the noise and scaring my neighbor. they asked my dad if he heard anything, and he told them no. i mean i didnt hear anything on my roof. they ended up having a laugh and sped off. after all that commotion, my neighbor's parents both woke up and came out to see what was all the ruckus. imagine that. i reckon they could sleep thru a hurricane! alas the police couldnt do anything about this musang as it has disappeared somewhere, probably living up on somebody's roof, who knows.

was bit of a drama if you asked me. but i think that the phyton and the musang really had nowhere else to run to. their homes were probably destroyed. therefore they are ending up in our neighborhood. who knows what other creatures or animals who are left homeless? i ask you, would you like it if somebody came and tore down your home that you've been living in for ages? no warning given at all. think about it, dear friends.


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