Ever since the water shortage and water rationing issues hit the Klang Valley, my girls and I have to adjust our lifestyle a wee bit. As I am typing this post, my bladder is on the verge of exploding but I these days, I have to think twice before peeing and flushing the toilet. If I can still hold on, I hold on and let out a heavy one, HA HA! Peeing means having to use water, so I try to not to pee so frequently these days. In the past, I pee as and when I feel like it. Pressing the flush button on the toilet cistern used to be a no-brainer thing. We hardly ever have issues with flushing toilets. Not until the damn water rationing exercise.
These days, there is a water dipper on our sink. The water used to wash our hands will be collected in the water dipper and poured into a pail for flushing toilets. Taking showers means having to stand in a large round tub and the water is used to flush toilets. Peeing and taking shower have never been so back-breaking, mentally and physically exhausting! The same thing goes when we wash our dirty dishes. The water from the final rinse is collected and used for toilet flushing. Carrying buckets of water to and fro kitchen to bathroom and from shower stall to toilet are darn back-breaking.
Our area is in the off-water day yesterday and today. Water supply was cut off to our condo yesterday and today. Thank God there are 2 huge water tanks on the roof of each block of our condo. We are still having water flowing from our taps but no one knows if we will still have flowing water from our taps today. I am keeping my fingers crossed that we will be spared from dry taps throughout the water rationing, which no one knows will last for how long more.
On Saturday, we had a gathering with some old buddies at a restaurant and guess what the main topic of discussion was? Water rationing and ways on how to minimize water usage on off-water days, LOL!
Yesterday, I told the girls that we should just have dinner at the Japanese restaurant at our condo as I was lazy to cook but the little chef-wannabe was so determined to prepare a simple dinner for us. She volunteered to cook instant noodles and to whip up a sardine salad to go with bread, so I relented and let her handle dinner. Though I hate to cook on a Sunday, I have to say that I enjoyed the bonding with my 3 daughters in the kitchen when we cooked and washed the dishes. Motherhood is the toughest job God had ever created but by no means the most rewarding too 🙂
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