So I went to the wet market and got all the ingredients to make my very own Mee Kuah. Since it was a hot sunny day, I decided to make some sweet Longan drink as well. Just to cool off the heat =) So I brought some dried longan as well and rushed back home. I was all so excited and can’t wait to start cooking.
Long story cut short… I was done cooking at around 2pm. I’ve prepared the kuah and was about to make the longan drink la konon. I opened the back door to go and get some pandan leaves and there was it was!!!!
Yup! It was a snake… slimy dying snake lying on the ground right in front of me. Terkejut biawak I tell you. Its head all bloody probably cos it must have had a fight with something, a big huge cat maybe... or someone must have hit it really hard and throw it in our backyard. I suspect it’s the work of our next door ‘botak head’ neighbor. That pakcik is quite a pain I tell you. Not only will he sing loudly at times, but he also like to talk to his chickens. Pelik or not! There was once, I was sweeping the backyard and sambil tue I was talking to my mum who was also standing there. Tiba-tiba this orang tua tak sedar diri started to sing lagu "Hitam manisss.. hitam manis.. yang hitam manis.. pandang tak jemuuu.. pandang tak jemu... oh hitam manisss" Rasa macam nak baling penyapu lidi tue kat muka dia. His house is very filthy and to make situation worse, he rear a lot of chickens and birds. Kalau lalu kat belakang rumah sure boleh bau tahi ayam. uWek!! Anyway, back to the snake story. Aduh! Though the snake looks motionless, but it’s still a wild snake and it’s in my backyard! What should I do?
You can see from the pictures below that the snake appears dead but to our horror, it was still alive and breathing. And I realize that after I took these snaps. Very excited to take picture konon, I took my camera so close to the snake just to take a good shot of it when suddenly its body started to going up and down breathing. Sigh! Nyawa-nyawa ikan la... scary! So, do you think I would still be standing there? Nope! I actually ran inside. But unfortunately, mum was not around that day and only the girls and I were at home. We had no choice but to pull our guts together and went to ‘check out’ the snake again. It was still lying there. So, we took a long stick and poked it. IT MOVED! But it still didn’t try to run away.
Later that evening, that snake eventually died... Poor thing. It was indeed a tragic way for it to die and no one actually knew what happened to it, how it got hurt and how it got there at the first place. It’s just not the right habitat for it to be in. We are afraid of snakes… but we also need to bare in mind, snakes are afraid of us too.
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