Monday, February 27, 2006

Sometimes, Id Rather...

when i first arrived here at Tassie, of course my 1st priority was to get a permanent place to settle down. and that was further broken down to another set of priorities. they are:

number 1: gives me access to fast/reliable internet connection with a reasonable allowance.
number 2: my own toilet
number 3: my own kitchen

the place which im in now (80th, King Street, Sandy Bay, 7005 Hobart) well its a shared house. so i could strike 2 and 3 off the priority list. with the landlord promising me hes gonna set up an internet connection, i had no other choice but to book in this one. houses were running low because its the new year and more students just came in..

its the 2nd week that ive been living in this house now, together with 4 other chinese from Mainland China (2 male 2 female), now, more than ever i really wished i had more of a choice so i could fulfil the 3 main priorities/prefference i had.

starting from 3.
i really hesitate if i should use the cooking oil, salt, pepper my housemates had left around the stove. but after 2 minutes of thought i decided not to, so i got my own set. its nice that they always wash up everytime they use the pots and pans, but maybe it hasnt wore in yet when they start to get lazy and take things for granted. lets hope they wont. ill keep up my end of the tidyness. but because we are not intimate, we cant jsut, cook dinner or lunch for everyone...yet... i wouldnt want to anyway, its plain weird.

so we make our own dinners. that causes 1 problem. 5 people, have 5 different dinner times. so starting from 6 all the way to 9, the kitchen is busy.

2: same goes for the toilet. you have approx 5-10 minutes on every morning use where everyone is going to uni. you have got to finnish whatever you have to do in the toilet before coming out. say you took a shower and wanted to shave or comb your hair. if you forgot to bring the comb or the shaving cream with you into the toilet, you can forget about it. because once you leave, its gonna be occupied for another 10 minutes or so.

there are 4 sets of shower gels, shampoo, tooth brushes and facial accesories etc on the bathroom sink.

but the worst has yet to come.

because the house has 2 males excluding myself, the toilet bowl...well...isnt always at its most hygenic state. when 1 of the males just moved in (i was the 1st residence there btw) i realized theres a patch...almost like a small puddle of liquid at the front of the toilet seat on the floor.

having watched one too many CSIs i know that pattern can only be made by someone of an above average height because well, the penis has to be some distance from the endge of the seat to miss by that far. so its easy to assume that at the end of every "business" the stream of liquid will lose in pressure and the distance into the bowl would surely be reduced. thus the puddle in front of the bowl.

i know...its bloody disgusting. i had to clean it up with toilet paper everytime i use the water closet. i just cant stand that shiny reflection i see every morning against the rising sun.

yesterday, one of the female resident told us that she wanted to live with her boyfriend, so another male would be taking her place. now im not immediately accusing this malaysian bloke with what i have to say next. but this new hygene problem wasnt apparent before he moved in.

this morning when i had to put on my contact lens (yes i waited 8 minutes becauce i forgot to bring in the case 1st time round) i noticed a new menace. at the back of the toilet bowl. on the rear end of the seat...it was merrily hosed down by someone, i know that because, water is transparent and the liquid behind the seat - wasnt. cant possibly be the girls unless they had a masculine anatomy.

foncusing...

so far the ladies hasnt been contributing to this little grotesque awareness of mine, and im sure they wont. its the blokes that i have a slight problem living with.

i once had this problem as well,sure it took me sometime and my sisters were very against me littering the bowls hygene, but i still got it done,in the end.

if you guys ever see this post, i have nothing personal agaisnt you, its the flaw of the male design and it irritates me you have not yet made amendments to it, as i have.

3 Comments:

Blogger davors said...

1. same here... and worse... dun even have a telephone line... stil the coverage here sucks...

2. hmmmm... guyz toilet always like that la...
two ways to settle...
a.) buy those blue coloured fragrant solid detergent and dump into the tank...
b.) bomb your toilet bowl and replace it with a squat one... hahahaha!

3. kitchen? stick to the fridge enough la...

5:33 PM  
Blogger Mz said...

hey bro, i'm so glad dat u've finally understood the headaches er jie n i have when u still had dat problem. n i'm so proud of u, coz u've came such a long way.

btw, it's the same everywhere, i lived with 6 other ppl during my 1st yr in melbourne n we had 5 sets of salt n pepper, 5 loafs of bread, 5 tubs of margarine or butter etc. good thing is dat we had 2 baths n 1 separate toilet.

oh, ur housemates are disgusting by the sound of it. i suggest u go talk to them, n see if they see pee around the seat is a problem? it may help, after all dat's how i got u to start changing.. :P

anyway, i'm so proud of u, u've came a long way, n u deserve all the best of everything. keep up the good work n enjoy ur uni life! muakz~

9:20 AM  
Blogger Killl_Roy said...

if this is a nightmare i wanna wake up...

neway Dave, know where i can get TNT around these parts?

12:56 PM  

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