This semester sees me in school before 7.30am two days every week. As my lessons only start at 8am, I tend to go to the Science Canteen and grab a bite before class since I won't get to eat till 2pm (on Fridays) and 4pm on Tuesdays.

Remember there was once I blogged last semester about kamikaze birds in the Science Canteen. That one incident where a bird decided to fly itself into a metal beam, crush its skull, fall to the ground some 3 metres away from me and die there?

Now I am simply paranoid!

Whenever I'm in the canteen, I constantly inspect the metal beams above me. Everytime I hear a bird call from above me, my blood freezes. It's almost as if I'm half expecting to see a dying bird suddenly drop into the table in front of me. It's morbid, I know, I think so too. If only I could stop these thoughts but I'm sorry, after seeing one not-so-smart bird do that, I'm inclined to think that another will, eventually.

My faculty's canteen is killing birds without even trying and I'm disturbed, if only there was a way to keep them out of the canteen to begin with. I just keep thinking that

a) a bird is going to poop into my food as I'm eating (gross!!!)

b) a bird is going to kill itself by crashing into a beam/pillar and that it has to die in front of me (again).


I don't have the same trauma at the other canteens, just the Science Canteen. Now, can we pretty please get our canteen renovated? Preferably to one that keeps the birds out...