DIRTY inside-out, CLEAN outside-in.

Some relative just got their house, and as usual, the massive hacking and rebuilding has to take place before those 'expensive' humans could live in it. Anyway, that was the usual procedure for Malaysian houses, seeing that our local developers are mostly 'F-class' (what an alphabet to use, F**ked-up, Failures, Fools, etc), you do have to hack the hell out of it and rebuild everything, in other words, It's just the S&P document that you were paying for. The rest , would be, rubbles and rubbish, for the dumpbin. Back to the new house. Then came the time for a 'house-warming' grand party. I guess they call it house warming in the western countries, due their weather mostly on the cold side, so they need more people to come and give the hollow house some 'warmth'. This 'warming' thing isn't quite needed here in Malaysia, because we already have HOT climate, and we have those 'F'-class developers building us 'cement boxes that are WARM enough' (more appropriately named: OVENs), so much so every house owner has to hack their walls and attached some 3 - to - 6 air-conditioners (again, air-conditioners here should be rebranded as "freeze boxes", mainly because Malaysians never use those a/cs to CONDITION the AIR, in fact, the thermostat would be SET ALL THE WAY TO MINIMUM TEMPERATURE and MAXIMUM FAN BLAST). The house warming event, of course has to engage a caterer to help cook some refreshments (so-called F&B) for guests, because the official hours for house-warming would be "dinner time".!!! At the party, I inquired why this relative engaged a caterer to prepare the food, since he have only a small crowd. He only need to get some relatives to prepare one or two dishes each and pool together the food, and you get good homecooked food plus savings. The answer I got was terrifying:" He did not want to DIRTY the new kitchen". I had the choke of my life. Knowing that cooking does create some rubbish and mess up a kitchen, I couldn't comprehend the idea of "Avoid DIRTYING the NEW kitchen, and consume food prepared from DIRTY kitchens, DIRTY the stomach instead". Ya, no matter how DIRTY your INTERIORS be, better make sure you look CLEAN on the EXTERIOR. I know of some government bigshots who have herpes covered up with F-class ('F' again, for 'FIRST') designer underwear. Wait, I also know of a country which have lots of citizens ransacking dustbins for food, BUT SUPERFICIALLY sporting a grand and expensive PALACE.....WOW.