Everything, throw!

I love throwing things in my room and leave it clutter-free. I simply can't stand any magazine or cd or any other items that are not meant to be there lying around in my room. I'll either throw them away or chuck them into the drawers or cupboard or anywhere as long as it's out of my sight.

That's why I always get very excited when I have the opportunity throw away stuff in my boyfriend's room. The first time I went to his room, I knew at once that I'm the right girl for him. His room, I tell you, was so filled with stuff that you can hardly see a piece of wall that has nothing leaning against it or not covered for less than 60%. As for the uncovered floor area, it's barely enough to place a mahjong table.

There were:
- old shelves that were home to bookmarks made by him from kindergarten kept in the ancient biscuit tin, crayon drawings, used jotterbooks and the square-boxes exercise books from primary school and other books and worksheets, notes, etc all the way to poly level.
- Childhood toys, like the spiderman with a broken leg, transformers and small cutie comic figurines that collected so much dust over the years.
- Cards (that's where I found out that I was so much better an artist than any of his ex-gfs :) ), letters, heaps of outdated Times, hardware magazines and reader digest.
- Army uniform, boots and other army-related items like candles, dirty-green socks, grey t-shirts, st luke's powder, etc all kept in either ziplock bags or plastic containers.
- PVC cabinets filled with towels of all sizes, hand, face and bathing, all which belong to his mum.
- Training weights and dumbbells partially covered with spider-webs at one corner of the room.
- A clothes-stand filled with his mum's clothes.
- A desktop computer plugged with lots of black entangled wires and connected to hundreds of speakers, big and small. (Maybe hundreds is abit too much.. erm, about 8-10?)
It's a nightmare just recalling his room then...

Spring cleaning for his room obviously became the activity for our next date. I still remember as we were having our "dating" session, his poor mum was stationing herself outside his room to examine all those items that I deemed to be thrown and took those that she deemed to be still useful or of sentimental value back into the storeroom. In the end, for some of the items it was merely just a transfer of locations. However I still managed to dump about 40% of his stuff that day.

Subsequently, other spring cleaning dates were minor operations, each clearing only about 5 - 10% of his total assets left in the room. Till now, some of my major accomplishments include a room with no PVC cabinets and outdated reading/ educational materials, new set of white and blue curtains sewn using his mum's sewing machine, a brand new white study table, out-of-sight army containers (which are all hidden under his bed), relocation of the clothes-stand...

There are still a few pieces of eyesores lying around in his room and I've sworn to get them removed soon. CNY is coming soon, and my boyfriend has engaged me for his annual spring cleaning... ngak ngak ngak.. he will have to decide between the eyesores or me :)