The past one week\u00a0has been hectic for me.\u00a0 Hubby has been really busy with his catering business lately, which is good for us but we see him lesser.\u00a0 He will normally do the marketing of vegetables, fish and fruits for us at the pasar malam every Friday but last Friday, my maid, the 2 girls and I had to walk to the pasar malam to do the marketing ourselves….. which is really tiring for me as the pasar malam is located quite a distance from where I stay (15 mins walk one way).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today I had to walk to the nearby van that sells vegetables and meat to do marketing – bought pork ribs, minced pork meat, fish paste, vegetables. etc.\u00a0 then walked back to the house with Sherilyn tagging along.\u00a0\u00a0 After that, I walked to\u00a0a shop near my house to collect my green peas cookies. \u00a0I didn’t want my maid to follow as she’s already so slow with her work.\u00a0 If she follows me out, work will be piling up and I will have to end up helping her with the chores.<\/p>\n

At 11:30am, I walked to Alycia’s pre-school to bring her back as hubby was unable to fetch her back today.\u00a0 This time I\u00a0brought my maid along\u00a0so that she can help carry Alycia’s school bag and carry Sherilyn when we cross the road.\u00a0 As I was walking back from the school, I visualized myself holding Alycia and Sherilyn on both sides, with my newborn baby clinging on to me in my sling, a few months down the road. I would really look like a frumpy\u00a0Ah Soh with 3 daughters.\u00a0 I should really ask hubby to\u00a0get me a car as it is quite inconvenient without one now.\u00a0 That was really a lot of walk for me today.\u00a0 I won’t really mind if I wasn’t pregnant and don’t have painful varicose veins on my legs.<\/p>\n

My maid is now frying a huge\u00a0wok of vermicelli that can last us\u00a0till dinner.\u00a0 These days, I plan meals that are\u00a0very simple to cook and do not require much preparation coz my maid is really slow.\u00a0 If I ask her to prepare a meal with 3 dishes, say a chicken dish, a fish dish and a fried vege dish,\u00a0she would take forever to cook them and forever to wash up the dishes.\u00a0Yesterday, there were 2\u00a0huge baskets of clean laundry for her to fold and she could not\u00a0finish folding them. Each time we needed clothes, we had to fish them out from the laundry basket ourselves.\u00a0 I have\u00a0already been relieving\u00a0my maid\u00a0from many chores now\u00a0and I am doing some of the chores myself.\u00a0 I just hope my new permanent maid will be more efficient and faster than this slow coach.<\/p>\n

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