Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Y
Days without Krus have been hard, full of sweat and messy hair and late showers but at the same time with an element of fun. Like Mary Poppins said it, "In every job that has to be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and... Snap! The job's a game."It's been ages since I've handled the laundry and the cooking and the cleaning.. Of course, occasionally I do the washing of dishes and the cooking even with Krus around... But since Krus went back to Indonesia for holiday, I took over her job, taking over the cleaning of the whole house, the laundry, the cooking. Well, I don't mind the cooking part cos I enjoy cooking! It's a good thing it's holidays for me right now, cos I won't have the energy to do it every single day if it's on sch nights.Talk about bring your work home!!! Usually when I cook, I juz look for whatever's in the fridge, and try to whip up something from whatever ingredients I could lay my hands on. But then, since Krus is away and the fridge isn't stocked with a wide variety of food, and I juz had to slap myself in the face and give myself more work by wanting to cook something out of the ordinary...I did what I can.... I brought my work back home, literally.Using the phases I use when I teach:1st, I plan - What to cook for dinner, who's my target, what do I have in the fridge and what are my limits.2nd [part 1], I implement - I brought ingredients(materials) which I lacked or can't find in the fridge, then I try to create dishes out of the ingredients I have obtained, together with an idea of the final product in my head with the recipe in my mind(from memory, from experience and from imagination).2nd [part 2], After I cook, I eat, and then clean.3rd, I evaluate - Was it too salty/bland/sour/spicy? Was my estimation of the quantity enough? What were the problems faced during the cooking phase? And what can I do to solve this problem?Tell me... does it sound alot like bringing work back home? LOLZ!
Thinking abt my mom made me clean harder, faster, more precise. It's hard not to when you picture your mom having to do all these AFTER she returned home from a whole day of hard work in the office.
So I clean the whole kitchen as if I were cleaning it and transforming it into my dream kitchen: floor's swept, stove's oil-free, sink's clean and dried, bin's washed and put away to dry, plates and cups dried on rack and put away in cupboards, lights on and off necessarily, and NO CHANCE OF LETTING ANY PESTS ENTERING THE KITCHEN. Had help from sis..she cleaned the stove and the big bin, I did everything else.Then I swept the whole house... -.- I can't recall when was the last time I did that...Probably when we first moved in when Krus was back at her hometown the very first time...? But seriously, cleaning the whole kitchen yesterday was my very first time, ever. Usually I just do the dishes...After these few days, it made me realized that I haven't appreciate Krus enough. The usual "thanks Krus" for dinner, cleaning and everything else was just so fleeting and light. These few days made me learn to appreciate her more than just what she does, evenwhen she has her faults at times and do (in my opinion) a sloppy job and I just couldn't see eye to eye with...
Y The Lady @
11:04 PM
