Of ants and laptops

ants do me no harm. when i am in good mood, i spare their lives, letting them go even though they have been lurking around my favourite muffins, egg tarts and milo. when i am in semi good mood, i squash them softly but not deadly enough so that i can still see them scurry away zig-zag-ly. but i will squeeeeeeezzzeeeee them kow kow when they crawl out from my laptop.

red ants have been crawling out of my keyboard and speakers for quite some time. at first i thought, there must be crumbles of biscuits somewhere on the table near my laptop which attracted ants. so, everytime when i see ants crawling out, i'll clear and wipe my table but the problem still persists. and this stupid-ant-crawling-out-of-my-lappie problem annoys me alot especially when i am watching movie. imagine you watching a movie, a few ants crawl out of your speaker, two or three crawl out from your keyboard every 5 minutes and a few more ants crawling on your screen which makes you wonder why the heroine grows a mole all of a sudden and dissapear the next second.

then today, having nothing better to do, i google for "ants in laptops" and voila~i'm not the only one having this problem. ants have been found crawling out of the keyboards of compaqs, acers and macbooks! apparently, ants LOVE warm surroundings..geeze..anyway, some forums suggested having the laptop dismantled, clean the components and essemble the parts. some solutions are rather funny.

one guy suggested shaking the laptop for about 1 minute to stimulate earthquake for ants before placing the laptop on the floor and placing a cube of sugar near the ventilation hole to attract the ants. another suggested placing a cup of honey to bait those ants. sounds weird but it might work. who knows? another funny answer: bring your laptop to the zoo and throw it to the tenuk(ant eater) because tenuk eats ants..lol! in that case, i'd rather trade in my "infected" laptop and buy a new one, ngam boh? then, i read somewhere a solution that involves placing the laptop in an air-tight enclosure to deprive those ants of oxygen. yeah, everyone knows living things respirate with oxygen. that's logic.

another interesting post:
title :damn ants creep into my laptop
post: my laptop has encountered a dangerous situation....etc etc...
reply: I would have thought it was more dangerous for the ants

lol! hahaha! true! initially, i thougth the same thing too. those ants are not afraid of the heat wan meh? don't they worry if they got fried up, all shrivelled up in the heat?

these ants are surely high-end ants. they choose to live in my toshiba instead of their usual habitat. luxury taste.

hopefully my laptop won't explode while i am engrossed in movies and surfing. shoo! shoo! ants..quit gnawing at my speakers and wires..this is no hansel and gretel story, y'know? ah...and please dun breed in my laptop,ok?!





*3.21am already? wow! my sis's already asleep on her bed with the portable dvd player on. so much for the advise and complains that i waste lotsa electricity. boo~*