The Return Of The Fire Army

Heck, they are back.

Couple of months ago, my room was infested with these red ants. I don't know how the heck they got up my 11th floor apartment, but - it's a FRIGGIN' LIVING HELL.

They lurked in the cracks among the floor tiles, they crawled all over the place, and worse, they BITE me everytime they find their way up my skin. My toes were their favorite victims, and I sweared and cursed them whenever I picked them out from my poor toe and smashed/squeezed/impaled/crush them to death. And they like to crawl up my table, which I have to BANG BANG BANG smash them out and tick them off (and I don't know how the HELL they can still walk out of it).

Then, I had enough. After a few weeks, I finally brought a bottle of pesticide from home. It's not the kind of common pesticides you find out there, like Sheildtox or sort - in fact I have no idea where my family got that from, and they said it's freaking POISONOUS (though strangely it smells kinda organic, sniff sniff). Anyway it's contained inside one of those plastic sprinkle bottles, and all I need to do is just to spray that on the ants' favorite routes. And WOW after that, they are officially gone.

And then... few weeks had passed without the bites...

Today, I was sitting on one of my stools, when suddenly I noticed one of those long-time-no-see ants crawling up my leg. I was like, "What the -"

Eventually I went looking around, and to my disappointment - they're back. And this time they were residing at a hole near the corner of my room, just next to the balcony. To make things frustrating, the ants came from the level below, which I assume it's got something to do with those guys below (another bunch of foreign students from the Middle East, whom loved booming up their speakers in full bass). Whaddaheck.

I took out the sprinkle bottle from the storeroom, then sprayed a heavy dose on the nest. Then I searched for their trail inside my apartment, and continued on until there's no sign of them. Couple of minutes later, I see corpses everywhere around the hole.

Dang, why do I have to kill them everytime? Can't they just give me a break and spawn somewhere else? Sigh.