Housework Dice

So it was the last day of my visit in Kuala Lumpur. I went to Central Market with my family to buy souvenirs for my relatives and friends. Apart from my family, I walked alone through the corridors of eye-catching shops. I finally stopped at a Chinese shop selling Chinese stuffs and souvenirs.

While looking for souvenirs for my friends, I saw a display full of stuffs. There were also dices with Chinese characters on each sides. I found it unique and asked the shopkeeper about it since my Mandarin is not good (I'm so sad). Then the shopkeeper explained that the dice is purposed to decide housework should be done by each family members.

买菜 [read: mai cai], means buy veggies (grocery shopping)

The dice is called "housework dice" (家务骰子). Well, I think this is such a fun way for a family to decide what should be done by each family members. Sometimes a member refuses the housework he or she is asked to do, and sometimes it seems unfair when a member can be so free meanwhile the other members have to do the housework. So the dice will decide what to do, and it's exciting somehow.

There are six things on the dice:

• Cooking (especially rice)
• Buying veggies (grocery shopping)
• Mopping the floor
• Washing dishes
• Washing clothes
• Doing nothing, which means "relax"

The housework may be vary, but overall the housework on the dice will not be far from the common housework I've explained above. A family can roll the dice weekly, or probably monthly depending on the family rule.

I sometimes roll the dice, just for fun. I'm not ready yet to do it with my family member since the consequences are (actually) not as easy as it looks. I may get "洗衣" (read: xi yi, means washing clothes) or "洗碗" (read: xi wan, means washing dishes) and it's simple thing to do. But since I'm busy with my assignments and classes, so I do not have much time to do even such simple things.

擦地 [read: ca ti, means mopping the floor]

I just rolled again and I got "擦地" (means, mopping the floor). Oh, I hate it!