FollowIt’s been almost a month since Maria, my part-time helper of nearly 13 years, hasn’t come to work. She’s struggling with bad morning sickness, leaving her unable to continue as a domestic helper for now. While I could search for a new part-time helper, the thought of training someone else feels too exhausting. After all…
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Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Just when I thought that Haru is recovering from a stomach flu, she threw up again yesterday evening and this morning. I noticed that she would only barf after eating kibbles. I only fed her about 7 small pieces of grain-free kibbles and several hours later, she threw up everything, water inclusive, till she had…
9 August 2022 ¬ Random Updates
Last week Maria (our part-time helper of 11 years) Whatsapped me a photo of a receipt and meds. The receipt has the name of a maternity centre in Cheras. When I saw the photo, I knew that something went awry with her pregnancy. She was about 11 weeks along. And I had the hunch that…
Cocky Maid
Crap of the day from the drama queen part-time maid today… She called me this morning to inform me that she would like to start work again. I told her that I have already found a new part-time maid. Nonetheless, I will still be calling her whenever the new part-time maid takes leave. I then…
Maids Issues
For the past 4 days, my back-up part-time maid (Maid H) has been unable to attend work. Last night, she sent me a text message subtly telling me that she would like to stop work. I was really disappointed after reading the message as this meant that I will have no part-time maids coming to…
Ill-Fated With Maids, sigh…
I guess I have to resign to the fact that I just do not have luck with maids, whether full-time live-in maids or part-time maids. Ever since my supposedly permanent part-time maid stopped working for us, I have been searching high and low for part-time maids. I have and am still recruiting maids from road…
Joys And Throes Of Motherhood
After splitting our hairs trying to find a 63cm x 63cm space to fit in a dishwasher into our shoe-sized kitchen, our conclusion is that the kitchen has no space. There is an empty space in the dry kitchen, but that would mean lots of hacking and sacrificing 2 kitchen cabinets… and more $$, on…
The Day Is Here!
The Time Has Come…
Do You Deduct Your Maid’s Salary For Damages Done?
For those of you who employs a maid, whether part-time or live-in maids, do you make the maid pay for damages that she had done to your property and belongings? I have been having live-in maids for almost 10 years and I have never deducted my maids’ salary for damages that they had done whether…
To Have Or Not To Have A Maid?
Our helper has followed my mil to the market early this morning. Over breakfast just now, I roped the 2 older girls to help out after breakfast. They helped to put back the jam and butter into the fridge, bring the dishes and cups to the sink to wash, wipe the table, sweep the floor…
Learning To Live Without A Live-In Maid
Remember my earlier post where I ranted that I had headache, backache and stress? I also mentioned that after giving Sherilyn a good whipping, this mischievous rascal sat down quietly, fuss-free and did her writing. Here’s the picture of her doing suku kata (phonics in Malay language) writing, which I had given her. She knows…
Headache And Backache And Steressss!
I’m in no mood to blog today coz I’m having a heavy pounding head and feeling a tad dizzy. All these are symptoms of steresss! Stress over petty things – my maid, my kids, etc. The sight and sounds of my maid ‘step-mothering’ and tongue lashing my kids, the sounds of my kids retaliating when…
Interesting Maid Stories… Again
My maid has a tendency to take instructions wrongly and she likes to perform a task hastily to complete it, without thinking whether it is done correctly or not. This morning, my mil asked our maid to boil ‘choke cheh mar tai’ (sugar cane with Chinese water chestnut). After chopping the sugar cane, my maid peeled the…
Do You Allow Your Maid To Discipline Your Children?
Alycia and Sherilyn can be quite difficult to discipline at times, especially Sherilyn who is really mischievous, hyper-active and willful. Even I find it hard to discipline Sherilyn and sometimes I spank her to discipline her. Sadly, it is only through spanking and threats that Sherilyn obeys. Distraction, sweet-talking and talking in a nice cultured…
Maid Stories – Dubious Character (Part 2)
Today, my maid did something which further stoked up my suspicion over her character. We were at the church in the morning. Before we went into the church, we brought Alycia and Sherilyn to the toilet. While I was still inside the toilet, my maid brought the gals out to have their hands washed. When…