the giant red ants

while i was waiting for someone to go eat lunch today, i smashed a giant red ant with my umbrella out of boredom...which didn't alleviate my monotony all that much.

a few minutes later when i turned to look at the ground again, there were a lot of other giant red ants crowding around the carcass of their companion. at first i was disgusted, thinking that they were canibalizing on the dead one, cuz we all know how giant red ants bite with vengence...but then after a second look, i saw one of them actually put the deceased into his jaws and started carrying him away. this kinda caught my interest, so i followed that particular giant red ant (for fun, let's just call him osama) to see where he was going.

osama reached the edge of the sidewalk and proceeded onto the grass...where he was met with a gigantic leaf of monstrous proportions...overcoming this barrier nomally would have been a difficult task in itself, but osama, stretched already with the dead ant (for fun, let's just call him saddam) on his back, managed to clamber up and around the afore-mentioned obstruction...but not without many falls and trips along the way.

i was watching this ongoing strenuous activity with much amusement...over the oceans (small puddle) and through the woods (twigs and grass) went osama and saddam...when eventually, they reached the ant hole where they disappeared into hiding. so tickled i was by the show, that i didn't see the other small critters taking their positions...

two seconds later, i feel a thousand needles being stuck through my work pants and into my hairy legs. the war had begun...


dedicated to pei hwan...i is stupid =)