domestic worker

Most people refer them to as "maids" but "domestic worker" would be a nicer term but of cos it's longer and living in Singapore, we still call them "maids". Anyway, I'm one of those fortunate ones to have a helper at home to help out woth the cooking and household chores. We need to have one, all of us are not home the whole day. Byt he time we reach home, it's like 7pm onwards and who still has the energy to clean and cook for you. Oh and my house consists of 4 women and 2 lively kids. But having a maid is like having none at all. The house still appears as messy, dusty and unkept. My maid is just so lucky that no one is home to order her around but we still hope that she has the initiative to do her work. Not really, judging by the looks of the house. her daily routine consists of:

~Wake up at 7am

~Mop floor, wash clothes

~Prepare lunch and bring the kid down to catch school bus

~Siesta and TV time till 5pm

~Prepare dinner

~After dinner, wash dishes

~10pm bedtime

Which maid sleeps at 10pm? It's even earlier then us! It's horrible. She not only is lazy, she also can't follow instructions.

Once I told her to bring out the toaster to heat up my curry puff. Yup, she did bring it out, and end of story. The toaster remain unplugged on the table. Zzzz, it's common sense. I already told her that I want to heat up the puff. So bring it out, plug it, line the try with foil and a job is done. It won't take even 5mins. But maids these days are endangered species. Step on their tail and the government will be looking for you or worse, you may find yourself facing her and a cleaver. So just try to live with it till the day her contract ends and I'm sorry but we'll have to say good-bye to you.
It'ss be good for all of us, we can't guarantee a better maid next time but at least we can stop my mum's endless complaints about her.