MY COLLECTIONS OF WEIRD PETS

i ve to start this narration from my kampong days in BANSIEWSAN which was located at this obselete road called JALAN BANGSI.
ve any of u heard of this road.
the new name is called HENDERSON from telok blangah leading all the way to bt merah.
BANSIEWSAN was the kampong where i was born and spent my most enjoyable primary school childhood days.
my attap home then was spacious with 2 rooms, a big hall and a super long, dark and narrow kitchen. this kitchen was the scariest of the whole house cos it was always very dark and eerie....it never failed to give me the creeps!
this was also our toilet where we could only pissed but cannot shit. to do the big time business, i had to walk a few houses though dusty clayey path to what we had PUBLIC LAVATORIES.
these are wooden holey shacks with a zinc roof. it simply had an oval hole where u squatted and dropped ur bombs into a black container aptly called the nightsoil container.
every wee hours of morning, the nightsoil collectors would come and replace the overflowing stinky yucky containers. the 6 lavatories were shared by the whole kampong. could u imagine every morning there would be a queue to use them. yes, first come first serve!
the lavatory stink like hell! when u finished ur business, the stench sticked onto ur clothing and followed u for hours!
now after intro u this, we get on to the real business....the kind of pets i used to have.
kampong kids, what could we have?....practically nothing. so we had to improvish and catch our own pets.
DUNG BEETLES - yes the shit feeding crawlies were among my pets. why? so gross!...yes, gross but very interesting.
u put the male rotund beetles together and they would start fighting. natural. males are always fighting over females....hahahaha....;9)
from beetles, together with my cousin peelepian (who's now a power pastor), we would equip ourselves with plastic bags n go to some barren sandy or clayey land to catch TIGER BEETLES.
these were very nasty beetles with threating monstrous biting hooked jaws. they were really fun insects and are very rare to find now.
u put 2 of these beetles in a closed jar and they would fight to its death! very fun to watch. in the open space, they fought too. the loser would just fly away. but in a jar...hehehehe...they killed each other mercilessly.
.....to be cont'd