Scum

During my last trip to the US, my wife decided to send my maid away. Yes, another one bites the dust. You're probably wondering.. can anyone be so unlucky? Yes!

Anyway, my maid of 6 months was probably the cutest and sweetest maid you've probably seen (and I don't mean it in a sexual way, dammit!). Whenever it was time for me to go and pick up my son from school, she'd say "bye bye Sir!". Whenever we came back, she'd be the first to open the doors and greet us.

Little did we know that she's one scheeming bitch!

That bitch, one day when I was away in the US, my wife was wondering where the f*ck she was and found her squating in the backyard. No.. she was not taking a crap. She had this Nokia handphone in her hands (not a dildo, mind you, after all that FHM posting...). Kanina.. my wife blew her top man! Where the f*ck did she get that mobile from? Apparently she asked it from another neighbour's maid! Wah lao eh.. what's the world becoming.

Then we discovered that this maid of mine, damn freaking smart. She already worked out our timetable and schedule, and she knew when was the time we went out to pick up my son from school, that's when she'd SMS her husband and her husband would call on our home phone! And no wonder whenever our car pulls up to the driveway, straight away she greets us! She's on the lookout lah! Nahia!

Anyway, want to write abt her, can write a whole book, man... so immediately my wife sent her back!

Me? Immediately I went "oh shit, it's back to the cleaning, sweeping, mopping, laundry etc etc".

So I ordered a Roomba from Amazon!

Nice little baby!

When I first tried it out, I found that you really needed to clear as many things away from the room (like if you had any small shelves, or movable trolleys etc) to create as wide a space as possible.. then the Roomba would nicely go around and vacuum your room.

Some rooms were trial and error in terms of how to move stuff around so that the roomba can figure out how best to optimally clean the room.

Initially, my wife scooffed at it! "Wah lao, 1 hour to vacuum a room ah? I can sweep the room in 5 minutes!" Of course lah... how to compare? But nowadays, my wife agrees that the Roomba has freed us a little from some of the mundane tasks.

Here are some pictures of the roomba.

Here it is in its full glory!


These are the removable parts that can be cleaned and washed.


Here's the roomba charging! Have to buy a portable transformer since it's a US device.