Several days ago, on cloudy Sunday afternoon, I was left alone in our house since the husband was going to buy some lunch. In the quiet time, I heard a noise from somewhere in front of our bedroom in our yard. It was like someone walk or something crawls on the grass. Because I can see nothing from the bedroom so I went to the living room and from the wide window there, I can see clearly outside.

Ooohhh.. I was so surprised. At the terrace in front of our main door, there was a monitor lizard that for me it should be categorized as a giant lizard. It was so big! Panic, I got our SLR camera so later I can show to the husband. But because of the shutter click sound from the camera, the lizard run away from the house so that I can get a good picture.

At night, the husband was again going out. I was ironing in our bedroom. When the husband arrived at home, he got into the house through the garage door. By this access, he will come in to the ‘real kitchen’ area and then he will pass the bathroom. And it happened again. He suddenly screamed calling me. When I came, he showed me something black and thin crawling heading back to the outside through the drainage hole, so I just saw the half part of it. It was a mid-size snake. O my God, it was so scary. Fortunately up to now, it never shows up again in our house.

Actually, before this bigger-size animal showed up in our house, we already have many other ‘smaller-size’ wild animals in our house. From caterpillar that I can’t even count on how many of them that has come to our house, maybe more than five hundred, centipede that is absolutely bigger and scarier than the caterpillar, spider – from small to big, poisonous frog, mosquito – that is much bigger than what I usually find in Jakarta or other place, the husband said that it’s palm plant’s mosquito, etc.

This house is a real animal playground..
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