{"id":145,"date":"2007-02-08T09:13:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T01:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=145"},"modified":"2007-02-08T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T01:13:39","slug":"bombs-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2007\/02\/08\/bombs-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombs Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image146\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/blog-birdie-dropping.jpg\" alt=\"blog-birdie-dropping.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>One of those things that Singaporeans have to live with is the large amount of bombs that land on us everyday. Serious; and these bombs explode, cause anguish, trauma, tons of cleanup &#8211; even if they\u2019ve yet to kill a living human being.Oh yes, I mean the bird shit that lands on us, on our roofs, on our sleeves, and on our cars.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason though, our car is often subject to these unwanted sky droppings, and more so that other cars. That\u2019s what our car looked like the other day; and it was the more painful because we\u2019d just sent it for an overhaul servicing that included a $150 buff and polish.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been thinking about it, and I\u2019m starting to wonder if it has something to do with Ling, who usually is the person who uses the car. I mean, mosquitoes are drawn to her too; every morning she\u2019ll wake up with bites all over her; just several nights ago she whimpered in despair after one of those insects gave her a big love bite just above her eyelid.<\/p>\n<p>I joked with her and said she\u2019s the best insect repellent I\u2019ve ever had; because whenever I\u2019m with her, all those things go for her instead of me haha! She snorted that she\u2019s a \u201canimal lover\u201d, so maybe there\u2019s some logic to the suspicion.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those things that Singaporeans have to live with is the large amount of bombs that land on us everyday. Serious; and these bombs explode, cause anguish, trauma, tons of cleanup &#8211; even if they\u2019ve yet to kill a<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2007\/02\/08\/bombs-away\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Bombs Away!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","wpcat-6-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}