WE were happy to know that all tenant's dirty clothes would be washed by Aunty who is landlord herself without additional charge. Imagine where got such thing in the whole island? Who wouldn't be happy to enjoy it? So S$300 per head, and our room cost us S$ 600 inclusive of laundry and room cleaning service. That time our previous room charged us S$750 plus PUB. So I was happy to pay their demand without bargaining. Once I request her to allow us cooking as we don't afford and like outside foods. She and her old Singaporean husband easily agree with my requisition and ask me to pay additional S$10 for cooking gas used. I gladly agree with extra S$10 for our cooking habit. But I needed to make frequency of cooking as once a week for heavy cooking and minor cooking like noodle boiling at weekdays.
Few days after moving in new house, my wife and I noticed that our clothes come back as a less colorful. The house is bungalow and landed property and it has 6 bed rooms and 2 bath rooms. The landlord couple stay on a big room and the other 5 rooms are rented out. All available rooms are filled with different age of people from different countries. Some are workers and some are students. So the atmosphere within the hostel is strange. There is no warm relationship among hostel-mates. They have one washing machine that is only used by Aunty. All tenants are supposing to send their dirty clothes to a place nearby washing machine. Aunty knows which clothes are belong to which room and she used to return dry clothes to the respective room in the plastic basket.
She waits until good enough for full load of washing machine and wash. So she don't bother if it is woman or man outfits. She don't think if it is expensive or cheap. She don't consider if it is easy new or old. She don't guess if some clothes are easy to lose their color and transmit to others. What she always consider is how to save water effectively. Still agreeable with her until this point for you? Please continue read what is she going to do. She normally uses rain water for washing clothes. She don't mind to carry collected rain water from front yard to laundry room. She would collect water by big plastic container right under the zinc roof edge. There are so many such container on the side of the house. Once all container are full loaded, she would transfer water from open plastic bin to extra storage plastic bin with lid that are putting inside the roof. She would be busy whenever rain, no matter what time raining. She won't fail to manage plastic containers to properly collect water.
So no wonder she has a secret ambition to use those rain water in somewhere else. It come to washing machine when the machine is running. The problem is she don't discharge used water after one time usage. She usually reuse those used rain water in another cycle. Worse? She uses bleaching powder to wash clothes rather than bleaching powder. She thinks of easy washing and saving time by using bleaching powder which is considered mild acid. At first, we didn't know the methods she is utilizing. As a curious man, I carefully studied her daily life work especially we notice our clothes come back bald. My wife and I was so disappointed to realize the true story and later don't give our expensive office clothes to her laundry service. We requested her to let us wash ourselves. She permit us to use her rain water infront of house and from that day onwards we started to enjoy hand washing every weekend. My wife and I were afraid of that time coming in despite we all love weekend naturally. But we were doing this in the self-claim 1st world country. I'm just sharing my living experience of a developed country only, doesn't mean to disappoint you at all if you are one of locals.
(To be continued)
Few days after moving in new house, my wife and I noticed that our clothes come back as a less colorful. The house is bungalow and landed property and it has 6 bed rooms and 2 bath rooms. The landlord couple stay on a big room and the other 5 rooms are rented out. All available rooms are filled with different age of people from different countries. Some are workers and some are students. So the atmosphere within the hostel is strange. There is no warm relationship among hostel-mates. They have one washing machine that is only used by Aunty. All tenants are supposing to send their dirty clothes to a place nearby washing machine. Aunty knows which clothes are belong to which room and she used to return dry clothes to the respective room in the plastic basket.
She waits until good enough for full load of washing machine and wash. So she don't bother if it is woman or man outfits. She don't think if it is expensive or cheap. She don't consider if it is easy new or old. She don't guess if some clothes are easy to lose their color and transmit to others. What she always consider is how to save water effectively. Still agreeable with her until this point for you? Please continue read what is she going to do. She normally uses rain water for washing clothes. She don't mind to carry collected rain water from front yard to laundry room. She would collect water by big plastic container right under the zinc roof edge. There are so many such container on the side of the house. Once all container are full loaded, she would transfer water from open plastic bin to extra storage plastic bin with lid that are putting inside the roof. She would be busy whenever rain, no matter what time raining. She won't fail to manage plastic containers to properly collect water.
So no wonder she has a secret ambition to use those rain water in somewhere else. It come to washing machine when the machine is running. The problem is she don't discharge used water after one time usage. She usually reuse those used rain water in another cycle. Worse? She uses bleaching powder to wash clothes rather than bleaching powder. She thinks of easy washing and saving time by using bleaching powder which is considered mild acid. At first, we didn't know the methods she is utilizing. As a curious man, I carefully studied her daily life work especially we notice our clothes come back bald. My wife and I was so disappointed to realize the true story and later don't give our expensive office clothes to her laundry service. We requested her to let us wash ourselves. She permit us to use her rain water infront of house and from that day onwards we started to enjoy hand washing every weekend. My wife and I were afraid of that time coming in despite we all love weekend naturally. But we were doing this in the self-claim 1st world country. I'm just sharing my living experience of a developed country only, doesn't mean to disappoint you at all if you are one of locals.
(To be continued)
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