Working The House

Now let's talk about house chores. Before marriage life, my impressions of house chores was very simple. The division of work is quite straightforward. Women cook, men eat; women tidy up, men mess up; women wash clothes, men wear clothes.
But that's under the condition that men work for money and women become housewives. Now that both of us are working, the division of work becomes very blur. Who's doing what? Both of us are busy during the day and tired during the night.
Fortunately, being newlyweds, a lovey dovey that we are, we don't want the other to be tired. Unfortunately our approach is very different here. While my wife kindly says, "Let me do the cleaning. You just rest there", my approach is, "Let's both rest and NOT do the cleaning", because apparently men's tolerance towards dirt is very high.

So you can't see the problem here. While my wife pushes me to the couch to rest, I also pull her in, which usually ends up in having her broomstick stuck in my eye.
But we don't spent 4 years of dating (and fighting) for nothing. we simply came out with an agreement for our division of house work. I usually do the sweeping and moping, my wife does the laundry. I wash the dishes in the evening, my wife washes the dishes in the morning. I am in charge of everything electronic, she is in charge of anything edible. I am in charge of TV remote control, she is in charge of air-con remote control.

But of course we sometimes change role, which sometimes can be disastrous. I try to do the food and fail miserably. You see, when my wife does the food, let's say peel an apple, she just does chop chop chop and suddenly all the apples are cut in nice little shape. But when I try to do it, I take a knife and go chop chop chop and the apples come out in various unrecognizable shapes, and I guess I am lucky that I still have my complete set of fingers. That's why the kitchen is her area and the TV couch is definitely mine.