White Shirt

-
It breaks my heart to see my white shirt stained by dirty water. A few years ago, this happens to my shirts. I always thought that it was due to the 10 year old washing machine we had when we were in Sinar but I alway suspect it is the bad water quality we had in Malaysia. Since then, I never buy white shirts. That's why you see me wearing blue a lot. I can't trust the washing machine nor the water we had.

I remember one time, when I came back from Hong Kong, ZipD, Miss Peace, his sister, Bahija, Anti Ringgit and I went for a movie in GSC Mid Valley. Someone commented why my T Shirt was not as white as ZipD's sister's. And that T-Shirt was a new one I bought from Hong Kong ie less than a week old.

When we moved to the new house, we bought a new, state of the art, wash machine. My faith returned. I bought two nice stripped shirts from G2000. In less than 3 months, both turned yellow. I know that it's not the wash machine now. My mother said she hand wash shirts so it cannot be the machine. It must be the murky water we have! Can you imagine drinking this water everyday - water that stains your white clothes.

Anyway, I was doing my laundry and ironing yesterday night and I realize I bought two shirt in USA that is light in colour. Oh no... I bet these will get stained. I guess I won't be wearing them in MY.

Seriously, it sucks.

Do you guys have any tips? Do you get stains in your white clothes/t-shirts? How do you clean your shirts? Washine machine? Hand wash? And if handwash.. did you soak the shirt for a long time? Perhaps I should not soak it. Perhaps soaking is what's staining it. HELP!

Comments

  1. rotitelur1/25/2006 09:14:00 PM

    First, when you machine to wash, you need to separate the while in color (remember Rachel's first laundry). Second you need to blech the cloth. Try the Kao beach, it is quite good, use that for years. Third you add some softener before the machine spin it dry because the blech make the cloth hard. Forth you should always becare and not to stain white shirt. If you do stain it, rub some liquid detergent on it and wash it as soon as possible.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Bahija1/26/2006 12:14:00 AM

    there u go .... expert rotitelur gave u the tips. FIRST thing on my list, never ever campur white clothes with colored clothes - be it soak, hand wash or machine - my white has the highest priority in its own baldi. My testimony - using machine, did it ONCE only - I campur white and colors together, after one wash, all the whites turn greyish, very kotor like..there on, no matter how hard i wash - sudah kaput. Washing whites only - can use bleach easily - this handy thingy really make it WHITE :) So far, i use machine for my whites - so far so good ...plus my hse has external water filter - so water shld be better kuah ... for ur hse, u can get a lower end simple filter - just pipe it next to the water source which go into your washing machine , that will help to filter water sikit ( this is most cost saving filter lah ) , high end - letak water filter for the whole hse.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Ringgit Me1/26/2006 12:27:00 AM

    Thank you for your advice. What if it is not pure white shirt? What if there is some pattern or stripes in it? Can I still use bleach?

    ReplyDelete
  4. Bahija1/26/2006 12:36:00 AM

    Ringgit - as far as i know , including my mum's practise, bleach removes colors. We only use it with pure white clothes nia. Tapi my info may be outdated, let's hear from rotitelur. If my white shirt ada color striped - i wash by hand alone - no soaking as well ...I dun even mix this baby with my pure white clothes...very kek sim to have whole load of clothes turn into 'dirty' clothes ... white memang sensitive. When a pure white baju lama tak pakai, then ada 'kuning' spots...this kuning spots machine wash entah berapa kali also tak keluar, best and easy way - bleach and bleach - and it turn white-white..

    ReplyDelete
  5. Anonymous1/27/2006 10:37:00 AM

    Send it to the laundry - take before and after pic. If got stain, ask for refund of the price of the shirt.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

One million daimoku

-
Image
In April 2008, Anne and I started our resolution to chant 1 million daimoku in one year. It's already Jan - and I am only one-third of the way. I really need to WORK HARDER - coz I made another 1 million resolution from Jan - Dec 2009. The chart you see on the right of this post is a chart that we put beside our butsudan. It tracked our chanting progress. Every 20 minute, we coloured one box. Mine is the one on top, Anne's at the bottom - you can see that she made much better progress than me! Hmmm.. come to think of it, I am not even at one third!! --- Edit 22 March 2009: Thanks to Google, a couple of friends in faith found this post and they want to know how many hours of chanting is required to achieve one million diamoku. Here it is. Based on our publication in Malaysia, 20 minutes of chanting is equivalent to 1,000 daimoku. So, one hour is 3,000 daimoku. 1 million would take about 333 hours. --- Edit 8 April 2018: Checking my blogger stats, this post is pretty hig...
Read more

Amazon Alexa in Malaysia - does it work well? A review...

-
Image
Feels like Christmas in September. Thanks to Doktor Cinta, my friend who live in Australia. Back in July, Amazon Australia had a Prime Day. I joined the trial using my usual Amazon account and ordered an Echo Dot, Echo Plus (the taller one with a built-in hub) and a Kindle Paperwhite, shipping them to a dear friend in Australia. My friend visited Malaysia and brought the Echos with him two weeks ago. You can imagine my thrill to get my hands on Alexa and start using it... in Malaysia. As a side story, sometimes, you can't believe how events are aligned properly to prepare my place to be a connected home - I bought a superb new mesh network router, eero (by the way, I'd say it's one of my best electronic purchases after an iPhone! It is that good), which acts as a strong WiFi backbone as it blanket my double storey house with a reliable and fast WiFi. Then, maxis launched Fibernation program which let me to upgrade my internet from 6 Mbps (pathetic) to 100 Mbps wit...
Read more

GoDaddy Discontinued Catch-All Email Forwarding

-
I had a few domains with GoDaddy. I started with GoDaddy and I stayed with them for a long time. Recently, I moved most of my domains to Cloudflare. Main reason was cost. Cloudflare hosting is very cheap -  I think they are not making any margin out of these domains. They are just transferring the cost the authorities charges direct to their customer without any markup. But I had one domain which I still maintained with GoDaddy because I love the one feature they have, which is mail forwarding and, more importantly, a catch-all email forwarding.  What is email forwarding? It means that any emails that were sent to the domain will be forwarded to another email. For example, if you send an email to [email protected], it will be forwarded to a secret iCloud email. That way, my real email address is hidden. What is catch-all email forwarding? Say you accidentally send an email to [email protected]. I still forward that to another email, for example, a throw away Gmail account. Whe...
Read more