Keeping in theme with the last couple posts, a little more on cockroaches.

In Taiwan, they're also called 小強 (xiao3 qiang2 -- or little mighty) because they're hard to kill.

What I found interesting after I took that photo is that its head is covered by a protective shield. I don't think I've gotten close enough to a cockroach to notice.

Also, if you look at what you can see of the cockroach's underside, it bares a similar ressemblance to the underside (and legs) of shrimp. This is why in some places in the world, including Turkey as my Turkish ex-coworker told me, they do not eat some seafoods such as shrimp, crayfish, etc. They consider such vermin as "insects of the sea". Which, if you think about it, makes sense. Just look at those things. Bugs.