When Popo Not at Home

Despite the heightened phase, Popo's Dream Cruise remains in operations, though with heightened restrictions as well. For a while, she was hesitant and I encouraged her to go - fully vaccinated and she doesn't need to work or study. Why not? We need to live with the new norm. In a bad case, she just earned herself an extended 2 weeks "staycation" in one of the hotels. Didn't sound too bad. So on Friday afternoon, her bags were packed and zoomed off.

Nice! Hohoho. I can taste freedom!

We aren't that bad and survived very well without Popo. While I can't cook, food options are plentiful and we even "made" pizzas for Saturday bfast. Nobody went hungry. What we did instead is a lot of cleaning. 

On Friday and Saturday, I scrubbed down the kitchen. It is not that Popo hasn't been cleaning but with failing eyesight, stains are often overlooked. I scrubbed away the many patches of mould and wiped away the dirt and lizard shit on the wall corners. I hate lizard shit. Zzzzz. It is hard work and these if not cleared, becomes impossible to remove after months of accumulation, like what happened to Centris. 

The kids got their fair share too. There is no Popo to 伺候 them. They have to take their own water, wash whatever dishes that they used, helped wiped the table, etc. On Saturday evening, bcos it had been exceptionally windy, the whole balcony and living room were covered by dust and dirt from the nearby construction. I got the kids to vacuum and mop the floor and scrubbed the balcony. Yay, there were a lot of complaints. I is 听不到..

I cannot deny that it is hard work doing the household chores and working full time. Kudos to the working mummies. I doubt I can do this for long and I didn't even do any laundry or wash the toilets. 

Popo was back at Sunday noon and started her whole cleaning regime like we had turned the house upside down or play with mud in house while she is away. 看不到, 看不到.. I had a hard time trying to shut away her constantly telling the kids not to do that and this, that this and that is dirty. Haiz. 

Lil Shauna had to practice her "cooking" in prep of her FCE WA3 on coming Thursday. She had to make a fusion burger. While the result didn't turn out too bad and the burger was delicious, the kitchen was a mess. 

I can tell that the cooking talents and genes didn't skip generation and go to her. Hohoho. 

I was very glad that I didn't have to clean up the mess that she left behind though. Hohoho. 

Mummy Lim