Garden termite

On Thursday, I got the opportunity to see how a termite mound looked like. A service was required to destroy the garden termite mound found in one customer's garden. I've followed my supervisor and technician to go there and I just stood beside and 'watched the show' =P

The garden termites were belonged to the Macrotermes sp. My supervisor managed to find the centre of the nest and found the queen of the termite~~ Once the queen was eliminated, the colony of the termites were considered destroyed. The technician then sprayed the mound with chemical pesticide to kill the rest of the termites.


1st circle - workers
2nd circle - queen
3rd circle - soldier
4th circle on the right bottom - king



My supervisor asked me to hold the queen first @,@



The queen was preserved inside alcohol in the end =.=

PS: click on the image to have a larger view

Ants as pest

Ant is consider as a pest. They're included in the pest control service to be eliminated. Generally, there are 2 methods in controlling ants. 1st, pesticide spraying~~ However, this is not a good method as the chemical is toxic. Moreover, spraying may lead to budding of ants (build another new colony and result in.........more ants =.=ll) So....2nd method is better, that is, ant baiting. The ant poison is added to the attractor(food) to attract the ants to come and eat. The attractor might be something sweet like sugar or protein. After the ants bring the food back to their nest, they'll feed other ants through the process of trophallaxis* and this will kill all the colony.

* Definition from Wikipedia : Trophallaxis is the transfer of food or other fluids among members of a community through mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal) or anus-to-mouth (proctodeal) feeding. It is most highly developed in social insects such as ants, termites, wasps and bees. =)

This is what the technicians teach me today about the bait :

Biasanya kita pakai racun campur dengan madu.
Kalau semut tak makan madu, kita pakai peanut.

Kalau tak makan peanut, kita pakai susu.

Kalau tak minum susu, kita pakai spray.

Kalau tak boleh spray, kita pakai KAKI.

Kalau kaki tak sampai, kita guna............API (saying with very evil smile)

Macam tu semua benda pun akan habis, tak de semut, tak de lipas, tak de tikus ~~ semua pun tak de lagi~~~~ LOL!!! XD

~joking joking oni ya~ don take it real -____-"

Image : example of ant baiting using honey as the attractor.

Species of ant : crazy ant

Luffy!!!

I got a key chain from Chee Hui when I went to her room to visit her...erm…perhaps was visiting Dumbo in fact =P It's a plastic toy of Monkey D Luffy from One Piece~~ That time she was packing her luggage and I accidently saw this little Luffy lying on the floor. Then Chee Hui straight gave it to me as she wana clear this so called superfluous thing. Hehe~ Thank you so much~~ Muakz ~

According to her, this Luffy has been traveled to many countries, and finally fall into my hand o_O AND…. Another interesting she told me about this Luffy is….his expression is interchangeable~~!!! Whoa~ by switching the position of the head like dice, he’ll show different expression~~ ^_^

Face 1 : Normal Luffy

Face 2 : erm…I’m not sure what this expression is...maybe...imitating Sanji?

Face 3 : Angry Luffy

Face 4 : Seeing meat's Luffy

~Happy Mother's Day~

~10th May 2009~

It's Mother's Day again!! We've bought a cake to celebrate this big day for dear mama~

It's a so called horlick cake, 1/2kg and cost RM26~~~ taste not bad =)

On that day, since the whole family members were free and available, my dad decided to drive back to his hometown to visit his dear mama, my grandma. 2 hrs + journey back to Kuala Kangsar, Perak~ We've also 'visited' papa's papa's mama, my dear great grandma........cuz we're unable to make ourselves back during Ching Ming this yr >.<

After dinner at grandma's house, we headed for home~~ back to Alor Star~ that ended our Mother's Day this year ^^

Internship

Phew~~ my internship started on 4th May. Really tiring -__-"

I'm now currently an intern in NLC General Pest Control Sdn. Bhd. (i guess most of the people never heard of that company name). Well, as it's stated in the name, it's a company about pest control. They deal with all sort of pests like termites, ants, cockroaches, fleas, ticks~~~ and bla bla bla~~

Generally there are 2 departments that i'll follow : marketing and techinical. I prefer to follow the marketing people ~~hehe~~cuz the technician are all malay guys.......(and sit shabby van T.T) If you ask me what'll I do during the internship for now, I would say "nothing". Most of the time I just follow the technicians' backside, watching them do the works~ haha~ cuz the technical part need professional skill to do it and I'm not pro enough =P

Training in the company, I get the chance to see the real method of controlling the pests, like chemical spraying, fogging, baiting technique ~ and it's quite interesting also~ but sometimes feel boring cuz nothing to do. hehe~~ However, it's tiring as you have to run here and there, follow the technicians...sometimes even have to work under hot sun!! T.T

7 more weeks to go.....haiz

Labour Day Diary

Dear Diary,

Wohoho~ I'm back to Alor Star~~Home sweet home ^0^
(in fact I was already at home yesterday night =P)

Today's Labour Day! Happy Labour Day to all my friends that are already working~...For those who are still studying, Happy Happy also la ~ haha ~ =D

Since my mom didn't work, she cook 'ho liao' today ~ Hehehe ~~My favourite food--spaghetti !!!! Wohohoho~~ ^^V
My 3rd aunt from Penang came over today too, brought along 3 out of her 4 kids. Big bro didn't follow cuz his mid year exam is coming... He very gambatte wanted to read at home~ what a very hardworking and smart cousin I have ^^~hehe (he's currently studying at Zhong Lin, Penang~~famous school man~~~)
The little princess, the smallest one in the house, became the VIP of our house. Everbody gathered around her, looking at her, playing with her, smiling at her, tried to make her speak~but end up she just mumbling "papa,papa" -____-"
Her 2 brothers were busy playing computer games inside my room ~ sampai my aunt had to yell them for lunch

After lunch I had my hair cut.....shocking to recall that my last hair cut was actually half a year ago story =.= so, now, want to create a new image and be ready for the coming of my industrial training....Huhuhu T.T good bye, my long hair

For dinner, mom cooked her Hakka Yong Tau Fu (yes, she is a Hakka) 100% home made~~

~Spaghetti~

~Yong Tau Fu~

Add on : our kawaii little princess picture~hehehe