Rats!

As much as Chinese New Year is over and we are officially in the year of the ox, some still are living in the past...

so yes! There are rats in the office! actually the rats are in the whole building... since we're right beside the MRT station, and since there's a whole lot of underground construction work going on at the main road in preparation for a new MRT line, the rats have been activated into action inside offices... and our office has not been spared! We have found rat droppings, rat pee, stashes of food bits, chewed up paper bits as evidence on the floor and on some desks... It's almost like they're taunting us!

so we had to call in the office management people... and here's what they did: put sticky boards in the ceiling, put food on the boards and hope that it catches one if not some of them...

Here they are in action, placing the boards up in the ceiling...

And this morning, they found 1 victim! (last week they caught 3 but I didn't get a photo of that).. Here's the unfortunate rat stuck to the board... it's quite small, just like the 3 from last week... my colleague says it's because they're young and inexperienced that they got caught... the bigger, older rats are smarter and know to avoid the traps...

Now this is something you don't usually see in Singapore for sure...