Tina tagged me this on 19th August! Oh dear…forgive me girl…*wink*


According to the rules, I am to list down the household chores I hate and why I hate them. Then copy the image provided and tag as many people as I want. Add your blogs links to the domesticated divas linky love and leave a comment at Stripe and Yellow to be added to the master list.

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Can I tell you I don’t really have a chore that I hate…?! I’m serious! Ok, so I guess I’m not from planet earth afterall….

But I do hate something which my dad made me do EVERY SUNDAY, which I’ll never gonna do again unless its really in a too-horrible-and-smelly state…then maybe, just maybe… I would do it again.

I was not even 11 years old yet, I remember, when I was assigned to this task on every sunday!

I was made to sit infront of the Rubbish Chute with a scraper in my hand and a pail of water. I am supposed to scrub the rubbish chute opening.

(for those of you who do not live in Singapore may never know what the hell I’m talking about, so took a photo of the ‘hell’)

In the high-rise housing estates here, we have this thing called the rubbish chute in EVERY household.

We throw whatever rubbish into it, so long as it can go through that 35cm by 25cm opening.

The moment you open the ‘door’, you are in for a surprise treat.

Either a cockroach or lizard or some unknown insect may crawl or leap out to greet you;

or (if you are that lucky)look into the ‘dark‘ hole and you may even get to see your neighbour’s hand putting a bag of gooey stuff into his ‘box’ and slammed the ‘door’ at your face (almost);

or the people staying above you may have just dropped down a ‘water‘ bomb to give you a splash of your life….. that is if it hits onto the edge of the (your) opening; (unless you are staying on the top floor then this will never happen to you)

or even a piece of rotten meat may slide into that (your) little ‘box’, just to say ‘hi‘ and then waits for you to close the box, so that it can continue its roller coaster ride down 70feet (this depends on how high you stay), where it can join the rest of its own kind, waiting stinkily in the big rubbish container at the bottom.

In order to minimise the ‘surprise attacks’, many would just OPEN – DROP WHATEVER IN – CLOSE in super high speed.

But what was I doing every Sunday? I was forced to leave it open, it was a ‘sign‘ to all the insects and my neighbours above me to give me whatever ‘surprises‘ they have; as I was pouring water and scraping all the dirt left there by the ‘gifts’ from above.

I had to scrape all the sides and before I can call it a day, my inspector – Papa, will need to check on my work and the reward I get from this is, “ok, done so go clean the scrape now.” That’s the most delightful sentence i hear in my life!

For 7 years (my dad died when I was 18), I had to do that, sitting in-front of the stinky old and almost rusted metal box for about 10mins….*sigh* that was an order I couldn’t say ‘no‘ to.

Any of you have done this before?

I am tagging:

Suhanya and Cendrine