Seeing a Monitor Lizard

If you see a Monitor lizard in a zoo, reservation park, or in the jungle, I'm sure you won't be surprised. But if you see one lurking in your neighborhood in the city, would you be surprised? I bet you would.

I was actually finishing some of my clothes designs on the staircase that day. When suddenly my elder brother, Kakah Haneef shouts. "Look! Theres a big lizard!!"

As I rushed down the stairs, everybody crowded by the door. My eyes made no mistake when I saw the Monitor lizard. When it spotted us, it ran slowly into the garden and went up the fence leading to our neighbor, Mrs. Mastura's house.

Two days later, it was seen wandering in the middle of the street. Upon seeing it, the carpenters who were renovating the house in front of us caught it. One of them got hit by the lizard's tail on his hands. They said they were going to eat it for supper. It is said to taste like chicken...

That night, we smelt something simmering... It smelt delicious!

Along came some shouts, "Faster, catch it! Don't let it get away!", from them.

We found out the very next day that the Monitor lizard had escaped to the canal. It was because one of the carpenters made a hole in the sack for the lizard to breath (LOL!), and the lizard grasped its chance to escape. The carpenter on the other hand, got a wound on his face from the lizard's tail when attempting to catch it again...

I'm glad that it's free!

-Wassalam