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Pardon me for posting the not so pretty picture below and just be happy for me ok? =)
I can kill cockroaches now. I know it sounds ridiculously ditzy but this improvement marks a milestone in my life, a huge victory for me.
If there’s one thing that can stop me in my tracks and leave me incapacitated, it’s the sight of a cockroach cruising along the bathroom wall. I don’t know what about it gives me the creeps but perhaps it’s a combination of the crunchy sound it makes and the green guts it leaves behind after it gets killed that gives me the goosebumps. I could not kill the damn thing even with a ten-foot pole. Furthermore, I think my fear stems from my bizarre and twisted belief that cockroaches are actually aliens visiting from outerspace…come on, what other creature has 2 brains, no blood, can survive a nuclear war and live for 2 weeks without its head? According to scientific gossip, only the cockroach can. (See the Cockroach Creature Feature)
Anyhow, I found out I could kill cockroaches the very night my car died a half-death when the flash floods almost swallowed it whole… as if somehow, the whole ordeal numbed me so much that I became a stronger person out of it. I used to wimp out at the sight of a cockroach, but I was so pissed with what happened that night that I didn’t even think twice about stomping at the innocent roach who just happened to be in the bathroom when I came in to wash the mud off my legs. Now the sight of a cockroach gives me such an empowering rush of excitement that I think slaying cockroaches just might be my next, errr, hobby (?!). I can’t wait to feel the satisfaction I’ll get out of wiping out my next prey 
(See this link from the Straight Dope: What’s the best way to kill cockroaches? )
Perhaps with a near-catastrophic experience to serve as a turning point, you, too, can get over your worst fear just like I did after my car got fawked up.
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Congratulations on finally facing your worst fear!
di ka naman nag iisa… maraming taong takot sa ipis! Pero you went beyond that na. weee!
I think as small as those roaches are, the whole idea behind finally finding the guts to kill one of them (and wanting to kill more) is definitely a BIG achievement.
Only a few dare to face their worst fear and you’ve succeeded
Nice!!!
I think the scary thing about roaches is that when you see one taking a stroll on your bathroom floor or wherever in your house, there’re 20,000 more of them hiding.
You have a lot of killing to do…
Cyril 06.17.05 @ 12:54 pmMorelly dear, that picture is just so gross, gross, gross and gross!!! That is just so eeewww! Call me maarte but I also hate roaches, as in, lalo na the flying ones!(*shudder*) Kadire lang talaga, I swear! I’m happy for you that you have succeeded in killing one, and a big one too!Hanggang baby ipis lang ako, as in those really small ones that crawls so fast.
Many more ipis to come!! Good luck!=)
Janah 06.17.05 @ 10:51 pmsorry honey, but you just cannot cheat my eyes… you havent killed any roach yet… and that damn roach is only acting (check the damn antennae, its spread out pilet na pilet) you really are a good photographer… how did you convinced the roach pose for you like that? the damn roach is a pro… and wha a protrusion… galing prosthetics… hmmm… or maybe its a guy wearing roach costume… i dunno… but whatever it is… ang galing…
yummy… thanks for stimulating my appetite i now have to look for a restaurant or something… can you write something about roach dishes…
galing mo! tsup!
Joseph 06.19.05 @ 5:41 pmmahal na kita!
-jose
hey dearie. you definitely are not alone in your worst fear. i share the same fear for the roaches. i almost got kicked out of my freshman dorm because i woke up three floors of dormers with my scream in the middle of the night. hahaha! imagine my stress when i had to pry open a cockroach for a bio class. from what i know, the roach family has lived as early as the time of dinosaurs, they also have a lot of hearts.. i think 11? or something like that.
May 06.19.05 @ 7:16 pmi also celebrate every time i get to kill a roach. pero now, im lucky, Paulo has committed to meeting the requirement for being my hubby ang pagpatay sa ipis whenever there is one at sight. hahaha. emotional blackmail ba?
anyway, I am so proud of your achievements sa photography and including this one on your quest to squish the roaches!!
go Michelle!
mwah!
Try using plain old isopropyl alcohol…you can squirt the damn bastards with it and you don’t even have to get near them. Although it does require some pretty good aim, or else your floor will be quite littered with alcohol. (Not recommended for expensive hardwood floors)
Bart 06.21.05 @ 8:49 amEEEWWW!!! what a picture shelly…grabe i cant believe you even took a picture of it after squishing it out with its guts and glory…urlk…i’m so happy for you:) i remember you’d call me pa at night before because there’s a roach somewhere in your room and you can’t sleep, you’d wake up the whole house until somebody gets rid of it…well atleast you dont need anyone to do that for you now:)TIP: Sometimes flying ipis can give you a hard time squishing it cuz of its aerial flight, get a can of hairspray or something, atleast thats what i do:) haha or i get someone else’s slippers and throw it like a boomerang hahaha…careful tho, you might confuse the roach and it might end up landing on you:) mwah!!!
Tatum 06.22.05 @ 8:05 am