Has any one of ya been haunted by something ya did in da past and it has been bugging you ever since? Little gecko has..., sometimes, he wishes he could just go back in time and do something about it to seek a closure....

Little gecko does not live wid mama gecko. However, he visits her on a bi-monthly basis. Back years ago, mama gecko has a Philippino maid known as Helen. She's great and a heaven sent, and little gecko likes her very much. Like every other maid that came to S'pore, Helen too had a story to tell... Mother of 2 kids, husband who ran away etc... such is da plight of many of da bottom rung foreigners who come to our shores to seek a better life for themselves and their loved ones...

Little gecko dropped by mama gecko's house one day to bring mama gecko out for dinner. It has been about a month since little gecko last visited mama gecko as he had been busy at work. As mama gecko wasn't back yet, little gecko decided to raid da fridge for some munchies. Sitting in da fridge was a new bar of chocolate that little gecko has never seen before. Just as little gecko removed da aluminium foil, Helen appeared and started a casual conversation wid little gecko. And so together we chatted and took a walk in da garden.

One bite of da chocs and... eeewww..., little gecko fed da balance to da family dog, Ricky.

"Oh, not nice nice ah?" Helen enquired,

It was only during da car journey back from dinner dat mama gecko revealed dat Helen had just come back from da Philippines to attend to some urgent family matters and had brought back that bar of chocolate as a gift......

Little gecko was stunned at da revelation... He did something totally unacceptible but didn't know how to make amends then. Soon however, Helen returned again to da Philippines never to return...

Sometimes in da quietness of da nite, little gecko would recall dat incident vividly... how he chatted wid Helen in da garden, how he ate dat 1 piece of choc, how he fed Ricky a few pieces of it... all in Helen's presence... Now dat she is gone, it seems there's no way to seek a closure to da matter anymore....

Sometimes in life, we intentionally or unintentionally hurt da folks around us. Do any of ya have similar stories to tell too? Relationship bonds are a fragile thing. If ya have da chance to make amends den do so; sometimes there's no second chance in life...

 

There will be no fat turkey being served here at da reptile workshop dis Christmas. Instead, dis poor doggy which little gecko's viet lizards found and 'adopted' 2 months ago will take da place of da turkey. Dey have been trying unsuccessfully to fatten it all dis while but some how dis canine seemed to be blessed wid Kate Moss genes... Kekekeke.....

Little gecko feels so sorry for da mutt. One lizard aunty quietly lured da canine to a faraway place early one morning 2 weeks ago, hoping to free it from its impending fate but somehow dat mutt managed to find its way back to da reptile workshop 5 days later *ggrrr....* Little gecko wonders if he should just sponsor a leg of ham for da meat hungry viet lizards dis Christmas instead.... Then again comes da question : why should a pig or a turkey deserves to die more dan a stray dog? Hmmm......

As some of you might know, little gecko suffers from low blood pressure. And these low blood pressure episodes have been getting more frequent lately. So one day, one of little gecko's viet lizard workers had dis 'guaranteed to cure' home remedy from Hanoi.... Trung Vit Lon or better known by its pinoy name Balut. Dey eat it back home to boost their libido too. Kekekeke....

It is fertilized duck egg of about 17days old. Oh wad da heck, after da doctors here in da rainforest said da only cure is to eat more salty food and drink 100PLUS, wad is downing a fertilized duck's egg, rite? Kekekeke....

A week later, dat viet lizard came to da office bearing da precious consignment of trung vit lon which came from some obscure farm some 30km away in Ulu Tiram. Little gecko decides to buy da eggs over from him instead of accepting it as a gift just in case da viet lizard would be offended if little gecko should decide to throw da eggs away ;) Da instructions given were :

1) Store da eggs at room temp because da foetus is still alive. Keeping them in da fridge would kill da duckling hence rendering da eggs bad after a while.

2) Dun store it any where warm too or da eggs will hatch within days.

3) Boil for about 15mins before consumption.

With dat said, little gecko began his culinary adventure... Kekekekeke......

Ok, dey look just like normal duck eggs. 2 to be taken a day from effectiveness. 10 eggs for RM10.  Little gecko decides to try just one for a start...

Notice ya can see some black portion thru da shell. Dat should be da duckie rite? Kekekeke....



After some boiling, little gecko was ready for his first taste of trung vit lon! First ya break da top portion of da egg, add some salt to taste and suck out da juices or embryonic fluid. A pong greeted little gecko when da shells broke open. Da juice was still palatable albeit a little strange in taste. Think of century eggs but wid da pong concentrated 5 times over :o Ok, ya see only da white, so dat's still safe. Nothing however prepared little gecko for wad's to come though...


Even da shell membranes came laden wid blood vessels. And wads dat lining da yolk? A severed vein? 
 And why are da blood vessels where da egg white is still a fresh blood red in color?? :o :o


White first or yolk first or... duckie first? Little gecko decided to go wid da safest option... da white. Added lots of Maggi chicken soup powder to mask any funny taste from da egg and.... kaoz, leave da white out if you can! It was like chewing on a piece of rubber tire! It took over 2 mintues just to down da white and of coz you could taste da funny stuffs by den! Eeeewwww.........


Wads left looked rather disgusting. Little gecko decided to eat da yolk first wid mouthfuls of fried rice courtesy of some lizard aunties... Again sprinkle wid generous amounts of maggi chicken soup powder.... Surprisingly, da yolk was soft and easy to swallow. Phew!!!


Ok, how is one gonna eat dat bird!!?? Will da bones be hard? Will there be a strong taste of liver and other internal organs? Will da feathers be easy to swallow!!?? again, little gecko gave da duckling a good powder bath of maggi seasoning before psyching himself to think dat it is like eating anchovies... Ya eat anchovies c/w heads and tails rite? Ya eat those yummy Long Beach Seafood's deep fried crispy baby squids whole too rite?

In the end, da bird took less dan a min to go down little gecko's throat.... wid lots of spoonful of fried rice and lots jumping up and down as if da jumping and flinching wid make any disgusting thoughts go away. It didn't, da vile taste lingered like a durian for over an hour :o

1 egg downed... and 9 more to go... Verdict? Has little gecko's blood pressure been raised??! After 3 eggs, little gecko gave da balance back to his viet lizard telling him his blood pressure has miraculously been cured.

Ok, some of you skeptics may think this is all an exaggeration. Below is a youtube file of a pinoy lizard attempting his first balut. You'd think consuming these eggs would come as second nature to dem rite? Think again... little gecko's reaction was exactly da same....

 

Wads next? Maybe little gecko can take part in Fear Factor liao. Kekekeke....