nutty and friends

around a week ago a friend was sharing her experiences of squirrels as a common delicacy in laos. heaps of lifeless squirrels are common in markets. housewives would take out these soft furry corpses bought from the market for comparisons in songtiaw rides. whole squirrel corpses are commonly gored through a stick and sold barbequed on roadsides.

since that conversation with my friend, i seem to be attracting more squirrels than before. over the last three days, seven squirrels have crossed my path (in nus, my estate, and jurong lake). in the past, usually squirrels tend to keep a safe distance away up in the trees. recently in these seven incidents, the squirrels have come into 1-metre vicinity from me, on the ground, and did not hop away as i approach. some of them were actually hopping towards me.

i wonder how long would this nature of encounter with the fluffy denizens last.