What, You’re Practicing Hygiene Just Because of H1N1?
It’s no secret that I am the world’s biggest hygiene freak. For starters, let me share with you some of my antics at home.
- When I reach home after a day out, the first thing I do before anything else is to wash my hands and feet. Yes feet too. You have no idea the luxurious feeling of having squeaky clean floors that don’t have muck stuck on them.
- I never throw my bags or items such as wallets on my bed. Never. Well except for my phone because I’ve been busy SMSing someone for years. *wink wink* Why? Sometimes you’re left with no choice but to place your bag on the floor or the carpet of your car. Okay I wouldn’t mind that, but no way am I introducing germs into my BED.
- Don’t even get me started when you’re forced to place your handbags on the sink when you’re at a public toilet. Ever seen bloody disgusting dudes sneezing or hacking their life’s worth of scum in a public toilet? It’s bad enough WITHOUT the threat of H1N1. I have no idea why people never pondered about this.
- I change to fresh clothing when I come back home before I sit on my couch or my bed. After sharing public facilities such as seats (often stained) with unknown people, I really don’t wanna transmit any unnecessary particles to my household items, thank you very much.
- I absolutely despise it when people sit on my bed after a long day out. Or dump their bags on my nest. I won’t be anal to visitors to my house lah of course. I’m a good host. :D
- Once, I visited a skin specialist who was also a sex specialist (talk about the sexpert! XD), my bf was being reluctant to sit on the couch. It was a sex specialist clinic and most probably the patients are struck with herpes or some scary STD. He couldn’t imagine how many patients with rotting crotches sat on the couch before.
- That’s when I pounced on his point and told him: ‘Okay, so you picture this: If our herpes patient went to Pavilion, sat on the nice clean-looking sofa, and you’re the next guy who sat on that sofa, how leh? That’s why NEVER sleep on my bed after you’ve come back from outside! And always, always wash your hands and change your clothes!’ And he kept quiet. XD
Some people may be saying that I’m way overboard with this whole ordeal, but living through the H1N1 pandemic, do you see my rationale as to why hygiene must be practiced as a lifestyle habit, not due to fear only when a pandemic strikes?
In fact, H1N1 is spreading like wildfire, and one of the reasons being - a lot of people simply do not practice the fundamentals of keeping themselves and their household clean!
Do you really need H1N1 to teach you how to maintain your cleanliness? Just because other diseases are not as contagious as H1N1, it doesn’t mean that they don’t exist.
Keep clean, and be safe!
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Reasons why I’m so worked up about this whole H1N1 thing:
- It ruined Project Akonana. Akonana was supposed to come to India but not anymore no thanks to this shitty virus. Screw H1N1.
- Bf imposed a 3 day home-quarantine for me when I come back. Okay fine, which means no kissing when I finally get to freaking see him in 3 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lose-lose situation. Screw H1N1.
- On the same day I land, there’s a party going on! Out of respect of the house owner, I’m not going. I have not been involved in any form of social activities since I freaking came to India. Except for the McDonald’s guy who is friendly with me. XD And now got a party on the same day I land and I can’t go out of caution as well as courtesy. FML. Screw H1N1.
- I want to go for a facial before I see anyone in KL and I *might* need to do it 7 days later, depending whether the salon permits me to go or not. Need to be nice and ask whether they mind mah, right? Screw H1N1.
- Certain cities in India have no finances to buy any thermal equipment and if you’re saying that KLIA scanning is abysmal, wait till you check out India. When I first landed in India, I was given a form to fill about my health condition, and nobody took it from me. People who’ve visited high-risk zones were never tracked down and now they’re panicking? Screw yourself, you idiots. It’s your fault that your people are dying. Eat more lah eat more! Corrupt sial. Screw H1N1.
- My dad will be escorting me to the international airport. Never mind if I kena Jackpot or Toto, but my dad, I don’t want anything happen to him during our trip together. I’ll be worried sick. Screw H1N1.
Perhaps it’s time to set up a website similar to FML, but instead of ending the posts with FML, you end it with Screw H1N1.
Hahahaha bye.
More Sauce to Whet your Appetite
- Definition of ‘Clean’.
- The Chaborkia Goes To ‘Incredible’ India.
- Oh My God.
- Project Akonana: Failed. =(
- Rendezvous with India’s Locals: Facts about Gujarati Weddings.
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OMG… finally someone who makes sense of what I am preaching to my family all this while. I am a hygiene freak too, identical “policies” we have. So troublesome for me to change bedsheets whenever my siblings or mother sit on my bed aft they went out. Like they still don’t understand my OCDness, gosh, tired of preaching them already…
womaigod i really didn’t expect someone to practice what i’m preaching! hahahahahaha~ cheers Ira. may the cleanliness be with us. sadly most of the population disagree with us, i believe. they prefer to think of us as mad nutters running around washing off every speck of dirt on ourselves. your household should be pretty clean! go on with the spirit yeah~ :)
Haha you know the glass dividers next to seats on the subway? And how people put their heads against them and fall asleep? I’ve heard from friends that *stuff* gets smeared on that glass so..probably shouldn’t squish your face there. It’s a filthy world out there!
LOL. i totally agree. i never leave my bag on my bed. and i will never ever sit/lie on bed before i bathe. i change towel daily and bedsheet like no one’s business at all!