My kampung is surrounded by trees and other greenery; it offers a spectacular view of Mount Kinabalu, and mist-filled evenings.
However, if you have romantic notions of the quiet, uneventful village life, you are wrong, for you will never be left alone: there are many creepy crawlies lurking outside, and more often than you think, INSIDE.
It’s only quite recently that I resolved to take photos of them as they make their presence known.
Recently, this multi-legged creature was spotted on the floor downstairs around 10.45pm:

There have been at least two occasions where red-green coloured centipedes suddenly dropped from the ceiling onto the floor upstairs, right next to where we were sitting.
I have seen baby scorpions inside the cracks of the concrete floor downstairs.
As far as I can remember, I have been stung by bees while inside the house on a few occasions.
If not shooed away, birds like to set up home right in the middle of the house. In fact, various types of insects have set up home at various parts of the house.
Many years ago I saw what I thought was a goliath spider - reddish, with very long legs, under the kitchen sink.
I was once attacked by a larger than average spider whose spouse I killed earlier for suddenly appearing beside me as I was studying.
Skinny spiders with long black arms, we call them “sindawang” has a penchant for setting up their web on the house balcony; we used to feed them insects and watch intently while it grabs the prey and spins it round and round with its web until all you could see was a white blob.
In the early evening a few days ago, just outside the house, there were some fire ants:

You do not want to accidentally walk in there!
Whenever we walk upriver to check on the water pipe supplying water to the house, we occasionally get entangled in giant spider webs with the spider itself hanging startling close to our faces.
Snakes are a common occurence - the biggest one I remember was a python caught trying to get away with some chicken.
Early last year around noon, I almost stepped on this beauty as I was walking out the door:

Welcome to village life!
… So keep in mind that these things can appear at any time, for example while one is doing things in the house, like affixing an LCD mount …