Once Upon A Place...

Kitchen Chicken Kitten!

Get someone you dislike to repeat this title real fast, and you'll be happy watching them eating their tongues, looking and sounding like aliens that just landed in your kitchen!

I was in the kitchen last night eating some Strawberry Icecream straight off the container, standing right in front of the fridge in my night clothes, around 10pm when everyone was getting ready for bed and the house was very quiet *who said I had Bronchitis hah?*. Any guesses why? Cos I just felt like eating Icecream, as simple as that *And Hiren you were right ;-)*. Cravings don't need an explanation or a specific time, do they? They just happen. And then I was thinking, the busiest, the most delicious and the most happening room in a house is the Kitchen. Don't you agree? In all other areas, we either rest, relax or watch TV. But in the Kitchen, we cook, eat (unless you have a separate Dining room), make coffee, have little cosy chats with friends, watch someone make something delicious, pass recipes and cooking techniques from one generation to another etc etc. Some even find it 'delicious' a place to make love. *ahemmm, watch out that's the stove top getting hotter and hotter!*

The Kitchen is a sacred place where one of our basic physiological needs gets prepared...not sex, I meant Food. So that makes the Kitchen a very special place in every home. In our place, my mum is the main chef, and me and my sis take over in the weekends. But I'm the main cleaner. I love cleaning the kitchen every night after dinner and for me it has to look spotless, clean and neat at any given time. Sorry but that's me :)...a total clean-freak and that side of me comes out best when I clean the kitchen. It's important that a place where your food gets prepared be a healthy and happy place. And while cleaning it every single day, I'm demonstrating my devotion, dedication and love of knowing that what I, my family and friends eat is safe, clean and fresh *and I look like a manic floor kisser when I do it!*. Trust me, I'd need anti-depressants if the Kitchen is messy!


A Room Full Of Habits!
Now, some pretty interesting sides/habits/qualities of both men and women in a house come to the surface when they are in different places in the same house (or even outside home), be it Kitchen, Garden, Living Room, Garage, Bedroom etc. Meaning, as humans we display many different qualities of us when we are in different rooms in the same house (and outside home). For example, a man in the house who needs to put the garbage out might throw heavy hissy fits *like Tarzan on foot anaesthesia!* when asked to do so, but would dance the Happy dance when you ask him to watch a DVD with you in the Living room. Another example would be, your partner's patience, knowldge, timing and precision may be displayed well when she/he's in the Kitchen cooking a delicious dish, but would show her/his lack of interest, dislike or skills when it comes to Gardening or being on the Computer. My sis is a disaster in the Kitchen...she puts too much salt and expects us to eat all that. That somehow shows her courage, at the same time her blonde cooking powers lol! But she's superb with cleaning bathrooms, vaccuming the carpet, gardening etc which shows her brilliance and dedication, whereas I'm good at them too but I cry while I'm down on my knees, cleaning the shower floor...that shows my apathy based on the place and the act duh! (this is a pic of my cuz and I, doing what we are very good at, outside home...and that is posing near a naked man!)

A Sanitary Death!
There was a time I shared an apartment with a girl and 2 guys (during my Uni days). The girl is a pretty quiet and a very religious chick...but she wasn't very 'religious' when it came to cleaning up...she was rather demonic! One day I opened the bathroom drawer to get something, and guess what I saw in there? USED SANITARY PADS! I'm not kidding people! *I nearly died on the spot and was in Sanitary Heaven for a minute or so, attaining tampon Nirvana*. I was wondering WTH people do with USED pads, and that too inside a drawer? yukk yukk yukk! *I sure did have a flatmate from 'bloody' hell, didn't I!*. She was probably too lazy to dispose them properly, just left them there and forgot all about it. That day I realised some people are so eager to go to the temple, pray, be religious etc etc but don't know what 'hygiene' means. I believe that cleanliness is next to godliness. So, please stop praying *while your ear-wax is displaying!*, have a bath every day, wash your clothes, dispose rubbish properly and practise hygiene. Cos a clean and healthy body leads to a clean and healthy mind. After that you may pray! *rolling eyes*. Actually, I still get nightmares thinking about that incident...I think I need therapy to get over it *Pantiliners' Rehab maybe?*. Someone help!

Placing Myself...

Ok, it's not that we change our personality in different places, it's more like we bring out different sides to us, when in different places (both in and outside home). So, what are some interesting habits/qualities of both men and women in your house, including yourself (past accommodations included) that get noticed when they/you are in different places in the same house (or outside home..maybe office, parties, mall etc)? Come on, share your views and experiences everyone! btw, I'm a serious professional at work but a total maniac at home..shhhhhhh don't tell my workmates!

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