It has been a long week, and I hoped for it to end without any major incidents.

After watching Enchanted, I finished up the set of Soci notes that I had read halfway and headed to brush my teeth before I went to bed. I usually brush my teeth without my specs, so I removed them, placed them on my bedside and headed to the bathroom. I walked into the bathroom, squeezed some toothpaste onto the toothbrush and started to brush.

Suddenly, (gosh, using the word is like a blast to my primary school days) I felt something collide against my toe. I looked down and saw something long and dark brown. As I was not wearing my specs, I had to bend and get closer to see what it exactly was. A LIZARD. It looked really gross, not the typical home lizard, it had tiny spikes and had stripes. URGH.

You have to refer to the above diagram to understand the next sequence of events.

The lizard PROBABLY came out of the hole where all the water on the toilet floor empties into. That is shown as a red circle on the diagram, though in real life it is located under the sink. My Jedi instincts kicked in naturally.

I remembered how Obi-Wan Kenobi defeated Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode 3 because he had the high ground. In one swift leap, I jumped on top of my toilet bowl (black dot move from '1' to '2') while the lizard scurried away (pink sausage move from '1' to '2') to the shower area. I looked around and grabbed the high pressured jet spray and took aim.

The battle involved a lot of water, a stupid lizard that kept on trying to scale the wall or run around the floor (pink sausage move from '2' to '3' and other places in-between that is not reflected) and a lot of lousy aiming cause I wasn't wearing my spectacles. After a prolonged battle that the PUB (and my parents) would disapprove of, I managed to used the jet of water to send the lizard back into the hole where it came from.

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