So my friend, Wei Jin posted this photo on his Facebook profile with the caption:

"Anyone seen this strange looking bug before?? @@"

I totally freaked the moment I saw it.

Pardon my language, but what the fuck is that?!?? 

It looks like a cockroach mated with a grasshopper, producing this hybrid, ghastly lobster-looking insect.

LOL If it's even an insect to begin with. By definition, insects have 6 legs.

My observation:

See that final pair of "leg"? It looks like a lizard's tail or a worm to me. 

It has wings, albeit quite short.

It has feelers, like those of a cockroach

I then gathered more details about this odd creature –

• He found it beside the kitchen table 
  
• It is about 3 centimetres in length, bigger than a cockroach (half the size of his palm)
  
• It's tail looked like the back of a snake and had white stripes on it
  
• It looked like a rat from far and when my friend wanted to hit it, it flew a little
  
• The yellow stuff is its secretion (shit and goo)

If you guys have any more questions, just ask 🙂

Any opinions of yours is good too.

Thanks! I'm just extremely curious to find out what this is.

Any help will be appreciated! Share this! We'll find out what it is together 

UPDATE! 

A few readers told me it looks like a woodlouse.

And others told me it could be a wood termite.

More of them claimed it was the famed 'Cockamouse' from How I Met Your Mother

LOLOLOLOL I quite agree. But it's a fictional creature so it's impossible

Any more opinions, guys? 🙂

BIGGER UPDATE!!!

Finally discovered what that underground monster is! 😀 😀 😀

It's called a Mole Cricket! (discovered it when I was Googling and Wikipedia-ing all night)

Ta-da! Same, right?

Your new best friend

I was sorta right. It IS a hybrid. And from the grasshopper family.

It's a cricket! Not your average cricket FYI.

This creature is nocturnal and practically spend their entire lives underground and digging tunnels.

It feeds on larvae, worms, roots and grasses.

EUREKA! 😀

Okay I promise this is the last post that has any connection whatsover with Christmas! 😛

I'm no festive laggard but haven't really been getting round to writing the Christmas posts instead of all the other posts first

So as a token of apology, here are 2 very adorable snowmen fer you! 😀 😀

So thefockers and I headed to this really nice place called Folie-Folie along Jalan Raja Musa Aziz in Ipoh for some Christmas dinner.

We frequent this place quite often as Uncle Mike knew some of the bosses and staff there 🙂

Say hello to my favorite uncle of all time!

Anyhoozers, the place was pretty packed with people, old and young alike.

All the waiters and waitresses dressed the part too – in the spirit of Christmas!

Silly me thought that these 2 waiters were the same person.

I was thinking "WHOA, he changed hats so fast?" But it's actually 2 different people!
 

Mom seemed pretty amused with the complimentary snowmen we had too! 🙂
 

Leafed through the pages of the menu and we finally settled on which Main Course to pick.

In the Christmas dinner set, there were choices of Roasted Duck Breast, Grilled Salmon, Chicken Roulade and Braised Lamb Shank

Om nom noms!
 

I obviously chose the fish. Salmon FTW forever and always!

My selection of meat is very, very predictable. It's always in this order : Fish, Chicken, Turkey, Lamb, Beef and last in line, Pork.

Or wait. Last of the last would be…. frog. Never my option! Yuck
 

So the Grilled Salmon was pretty damn awesome, just like everything else served too. Oh and the Pumpkin Cappuccino soup was really new to me! Some of thefockers didn't like it so I ended up finishing it for them 😛

The Roasted Duck, compared to the Chicken Roulade wasn't as flavourful as I had expected it to be.

This was really good. It was light and creamy, soft and frothy bursting with coffee aroma!

The perfect Tiramisu in a cup
 

The couzzies gobbled them down pretty fast! And so did it.

Anyway, couzzie group photo!

 

Yup. We're Blackberry addicts.

Sorry no Steve Jobs worshippers allowed at this table 😛
 

Without our BBs!

Looking a tad more normal here and not too Y-Generation as the previous pic
 

You've prolly seen them well over a hundred times if you've been following this blog for a long time,

but… *drumroll* the mad awesome fockers in the house!

Adjourned back home to partay at the patio 😀

Put on your Christmas hats yo!

Candid shot!
 

Our setting for the table. Pretty swell, ain't it?

It's been a longtime tradition for us to celebrate Christmas at home!

Hmmmm.. there's something missing though.

Now that all thefockers are here. Where's grandpa this year? It feels different without him this Christmas.
 

Oh! There he is. Came back perched by the ceiling to join us, perhaps? :D

I'd like to think so.
 

Do you believe that the deceased comes back in the form of insects i.e butterflies & grasshoppers?

According to the Chinese belief, it is apparently so.

So… HELLLLOOOO KUNGKUNG!! 😀 😀 😀