Jan, i find use hand hor, will be too much leh. I normally use scoop leh. You try with friso scoops, take 5 scoops and cook. Dun forget, the rice will puff up, so if you see like miserable quantity, its ok.
angel_z, me older than you hor, no more young gal liao. Dun see my mum as if everything she knows. She also can forget one or dunno how to do things one hor. I always tell pple, she is staying in her era, the 70s. Didnt want me to go study higher lar, yet want me to marry to rich guy (cinderella fantasy), always say last time etc, etc till we have to remind her its millenium now. Maybe you get your mum to interact more with her, so she will be ok lor. But really, with MIL helping out, really have to close one eye and ear one hor.