How I survived one month without my mom around - housekeeping disaster

I never really understood how tough housekeeping really is until now... I guess my mom chose a right time to go to Taiwan for a month; because now I have a full crash course in household management right before my exchange program. 

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1. The doubtful trash can

I never knew how fast flies multiply until I left the trash out for 1 night. Ok, so I was cutting meat and throwing the fats into the bin that night; and being the lazy bum I am, I decided that I will only throw the trash when the trash can is full. Little did I know, the warm humid weather in Singapore and the gooey fats of the chicken seem to attract flies, ants and mosquitoes like nothing else would. 

I woke up to this weird stench in my kitchen and goodness, for once I actually lived to see flies hovering around my trashcan and a line of red ants doing their daily food delivery to their queen. Ahh... so this is why my mom puts out the trash like twice a day. 

2. My slimy kitchen rag 

I am writing this post now while smelling my hands for any remnants of that slimy kitchen rag. Argh... I didn't know that bacteria can grow so fast either. 

So today I was reaching for my good old kitchen rag - which is now in my trash can which I also need to remember to empty - and GOSH that amount of sliminess. ARGH SLIMEY. And so I bent down and took a good whiff and OMG it smells like rotten chicken juice. 

So I had to hold the rag by its edges, throw it out and wash my hands with Mama Lemon. Ok, I think lesson learnt: always wash your kitchen rag with bleach, vinegar and boiling water. :( :( :( kill me

3. My fermenting vegetables in the fridge

Thank goodness I am not dumb enough to be unable to tell rotten vege from non-rotten vege: just last week I found a bag of forgotten spinach that's now brown and watery. And I also discovered that my strawberries have grown a white winter coat to protect them from my freezing refrigerator. 

Lesson learnt: Don't buy what you cannot finish eating. :O :O :O :O 

4. Flooding in my bathroom 

I always wondered what the bathroom brush is for; I thought it was for show LOL. So last week while I was bathing, I realised that my shower cubicle was turning into a mini swimming pool; the water level was coming to above my ankles and it seemed like it wasn't going down any time soon. 

That was when I realised that I forgot to clear my hair from the drainage opening for like 3 weeks and it had become like a seaweed cake covering. AH so that's why there's a brush in my bathroom :P 

5. Flying dustballs

OK.... So I am not a very big fan of sweeping and mopping; and especially not when the weather is hot AF. Somehow I managed to survive 4 weeks without sweeping and my brother doesn't seem to really mind - or so I think. Then I realised one day that my room had random long pieces of dust flying around - and mind you those are huge pieces of dust. It's quite funny how you never thought things like this would happen...