There's really nothing more therapeutic than manual labor to free the mind. It makes me focus on nothing else but the monotonous task at hand.
The mates descended upon the kitchen to fry giant woks of vegetables and stir cauldrons of soup and porridge. The rest brimmed with enthusiasm and chatted with the oldies. I wasn't in the mood for anything of the sociable sort. But menial labor was good. After all, I did want to keep the muscles taut, aye. So I put on the rubber gloves, pulled on the rubber boots and went about washing the toilets.
Bend. Flush, disinfect, scrub, disinfect, scrub, flush. Squat. Rinse, wipe, disinfect, wipe. Squat.
Throw chlorine and water across the floor. Mop, rinse, mop, disinfect, mop. Bend.
[Repeat for 5 cubicles x 10 toilets.]
I tell ya, even with 4 of us washing the toilets, it was helluva individual workout. Even with the dri-fit gear, I was drenched in perspiration. I could feel the flush in the cheeks. Best of all, I felt the muscles protest.
When I casually raised the arms to brush back the hair, the girlfriend went, "Fwaah. I can see your biceps and triceps!" I grinned. Yes, over these couple of weeks, my arms toned up fairly fast. If only the abdominals could come along as quick, stretch out the latissimus dorsi and I would lose another inch off the waistline easy.
The mates descended upon the kitchen to fry giant woks of vegetables and stir cauldrons of soup and porridge. The rest brimmed with enthusiasm and chatted with the oldies. I wasn't in the mood for anything of the sociable sort. But menial labor was good. After all, I did want to keep the muscles taut, aye. So I put on the rubber gloves, pulled on the rubber boots and went about washing the toilets.
Bend. Flush, disinfect, scrub, disinfect, scrub, flush. Squat. Rinse, wipe, disinfect, wipe. Squat.
Throw chlorine and water across the floor. Mop, rinse, mop, disinfect, mop. Bend.
[Repeat for 5 cubicles x 10 toilets.]
I tell ya, even with 4 of us washing the toilets, it was helluva individual workout. Even with the dri-fit gear, I was drenched in perspiration. I could feel the flush in the cheeks. Best of all, I felt the muscles protest.
When I casually raised the arms to brush back the hair, the girlfriend went, "Fwaah. I can see your biceps and triceps!" I grinned. Yes, over these couple of weeks, my arms toned up fairly fast. If only the abdominals could come along as quick, stretch out the latissimus dorsi and I would lose another inch off the waistline easy.
18 comments:
babe, u damn cute lah. u made it sound so funny!!! it's damn hard work k?!!
now, you're making the chore seem so fuss-free, muscle-building and rather hip.
so do you need more volunteers??! hahah!
You really went down and dirty :)
With so many cubicles, you had a cleaning toilet orgy...of sorts. haha.
i like manual labor! it takes my mind off alot of things! and i kinda feel happier at the end of it!
menial work is good antidote for being in office all week. I had fun pulling out weeds at Pierce Reservoirs for NParks before but definitely never felt sexy. :P
How come so many toilets? Where is this? Boot camp???
jazzgal: waahahha. it is!
phil: oh yes. what about making u scrub the floors with toothbrushes??! ;P
carrie: hahahahah! i lurrve ur description!
queenie: exactly!
wildgoose: agreed! wah! pulling weeds! hope u wore strong gloves!!
sesame: at the old folks' home!
wow, really applaud you, woman!! I think the last time i did this was when I was in Pri School! we were rostered to clean the loos. It was the smell that made it difficult. Thanks for the thought about building muscles!! :)
corsage: heheh. i can't cook! so i actually regularly wash toilets, be it at the flats or the big Home. :) which is strange, coz i don't even do any sort of housework at home. wahahahahah!
I did plenty of loo cleaning in my school days at the school. Not volunteer, mind you. Was detention.
sinlady: hahahha. i just had to laugh!!! poor you! that wasn't fun at all!
Wow, you wash the toilets while your man cooks. Is that role reversal or what?! You are so cool lor!! Haha
jemej: hahaha. but i don't do toilets at home!!! so not counted!
I will be doing this very soon after next Tuesday. I have three toilets to wash. And lots more!!! :(
jomel: hey, hire a part-time maid for the sweeping and mopping lah! i do it weekly, quite alright. but it's no joke for u to do it daily!!! back-breaking work man.
I definitely won't be washing toilets on a daily basis.. maybe twice a week. but the mopping and sweeping upstairs and downstairs, back and front plus the cooking plus the childcare (three monsters!) cannot not do it daily. These are things that the ptimer won't be able to help me, so I thought no point hiring. besides, when the person is here, I have to wait in the house, cannot go out and run errands and such. So restrictive. Might as well I do my chores in my own time right. *scared* Maybe by the time my maid returns in Nov, the house will be full of cobwebs and the kids malnourished.. kekekeke.....
jomel: one sentence- slap on the heavy-duty moisturizers! buy the soft work gloves!!!
Wow..! that's alot of toilet to wash.. and if not mine.. i rather not wash.. muahahhha!! ya... i'm a very freaky clean freak.. ;)
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