squeaky clean
the flat is. yesyes.
at the quarterly flat dinner (also celebratory birthday dinner for the three of them), the south american suggested that we spend this saturday cleaning the flat. everyone agreed. and i was glad. because i intended to clean the flat on my own, anyway. but now i don't have to. happy happy joy joy.
i expected to start in the morning, but apparently noon is the normal waking hour in this flat. oh well. as long as the flat gets cleaned. which it did.
the fun started around 2pm. we drew lots to see who gets to clean what... and i got the bathroom. whee. i would have preferred the kitchen, but i'm also glad i didn't. because we were done cleaning the bathroom even before the other two were halfway through with the kitchen. (if you find it incomprehensible, just imagine six month's worth of grease and grime collecting on all surfaces.)
and don't think that we (the chinese guy and i) didn't clean the bathroom well. i scrubbed the bathtub with bleach 'til kingdom come. it is now WHITE again. and my hands smell like bleach to prove it.
so, being that we were more efficient cleaners, we waddled over to the kitchen to help out. (you know better than to expect the chinese girl to do a good job housekeeping, don't you???) and what site greeted me? the south american scrubbing the stovetop. and the chinese girl washing dishes that were supposed to be washed one week ago. d-uh. at least she scraped the oven grill clean. (sort of.) and she cleaned and washed the dishrack and cutlery tray. three cheers for her.
so who ended up cleaning the cooking area? everyone but chinese girl. as expected. the chinese guy cleaned the oven (good job, by the way!!!) and the chilean scraped the toasted grime off the hobs. and i scrubbed everything down. but to her credit, chinese girl vaccuumed the kitchen, and (finally!) took the trash out. all three bags. good girl.
i have to say, i feel really happy seeing the kitchen in pristine condition. i can't wait until she leaves for china next week, so i can relish living in a clean flat for at least three weeks. oh, the sheer pleasure of not having a grimey kitchen!
oh, and here's the kicker. the south american asked her to scrub the pot clean. the second one that she burned black on the inside. how sweet is THAT??? (side note - the first pot she burned black, i scrubbed clean. and it was in worse condition than the one she had to scrub. i kept it in my room for my own use, because when i asked her to clean it... she put it in the rubbish bin. harhar. proof of damage follows.)
before . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and after.
applause, applause.
at the quarterly flat dinner (also celebratory birthday dinner for the three of them), the south american suggested that we spend this saturday cleaning the flat. everyone agreed. and i was glad. because i intended to clean the flat on my own, anyway. but now i don't have to. happy happy joy joy.
i expected to start in the morning, but apparently noon is the normal waking hour in this flat. oh well. as long as the flat gets cleaned. which it did.
the fun started around 2pm. we drew lots to see who gets to clean what... and i got the bathroom. whee. i would have preferred the kitchen, but i'm also glad i didn't. because we were done cleaning the bathroom even before the other two were halfway through with the kitchen. (if you find it incomprehensible, just imagine six month's worth of grease and grime collecting on all surfaces.)
and don't think that we (the chinese guy and i) didn't clean the bathroom well. i scrubbed the bathtub with bleach 'til kingdom come. it is now WHITE again. and my hands smell like bleach to prove it.
so, being that we were more efficient cleaners, we waddled over to the kitchen to help out. (you know better than to expect the chinese girl to do a good job housekeeping, don't you???) and what site greeted me? the south american scrubbing the stovetop. and the chinese girl washing dishes that were supposed to be washed one week ago. d-uh. at least she scraped the oven grill clean. (sort of.) and she cleaned and washed the dishrack and cutlery tray. three cheers for her.
so who ended up cleaning the cooking area? everyone but chinese girl. as expected. the chinese guy cleaned the oven (good job, by the way!!!) and the chilean scraped the toasted grime off the hobs. and i scrubbed everything down. but to her credit, chinese girl vaccuumed the kitchen, and (finally!) took the trash out. all three bags. good girl.
i have to say, i feel really happy seeing the kitchen in pristine condition. i can't wait until she leaves for china next week, so i can relish living in a clean flat for at least three weeks. oh, the sheer pleasure of not having a grimey kitchen!
oh, and here's the kicker. the south american asked her to scrub the pot clean. the second one that she burned black on the inside. how sweet is THAT??? (side note - the first pot she burned black, i scrubbed clean. and it was in worse condition than the one she had to scrub. i kept it in my room for my own use, because when i asked her to clean it... she put it in the rubbish bin. harhar. proof of damage follows.)
before . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and after.
applause, applause.
posted by super inday at 9:32 pm
1 Comments:
Hi! So you just finished graduate studies in the UK? I'm thinking of studying there, myself, next September. Did you apply for a scholarship? How did you find a flat? Is that better than the university dorms?
Hehe. Sorry for all the questions. I'm just a bit fidgety nowadays because of this grad school thing...even if it's still 10 months away. :P Too many things are starting to change, and I'm not even in London yet! Hehe.
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