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16/07/2003
What a shock i had yesterday... i was on the way home from lifeguards training, it was already dusk, getting darker and i was walking with 2 other lifeguards to the mrt station. as we were walking and talking, about our less than satisfactory term exam results, a monitor lizard suddenly shot across the walkway. we were already pass the bus stop, nearing buona vista station.
it moved so swiftly but i managed to get a clear look at it. it was of considerable size; the length of your keyboard. i think it was grey in colour. after shooting so rapidly past us, it proceeded to cross the road. can you imagine, cross the road! i was hoping that it would manage to cross the road safely but alas it was not to be. the road is a three lane road and it was just getting past the first lane when an oncoming car just came along and crushed it under its tyre. there was a sickening splat and i saw the monitor lizard's body cave in considerably, it's head was still intact but it's body was crushed. what surprised me was that it could still move. it crawled along a little, no longer the swift and stealthly creature it used to be. it was like a death crawl. all this while, we, the three witnesses to this poor death, were just standing, looking on helplessly. the passing road users must have been wondering what we were looking at; our faces were contort with shock and it was beyond words, we couldn't say anything else but 'shit'...
other vehicles came by, buses, cars, lorries, motorcycles and some scored direct hits on the smattered body of the lizard. we couldn't bear to look any longer. whilst we were still within hearing distance, we heard 2 more 'splats' , the lizard slowly becoming nomore....
it's a really sad thing to happen. i don't understand y the lizard had to cross the road at that time.

wizzing away on 10:17 AM

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