Maid

Maid. What is that? What is the true meaning of hiring a maid? A helper or a trouble-maker?

Not that I hired any maid but it was my aunt who had hired 5 maids so far. Only the 1st and the 3rd maids were good and responsible with good time management.

Other than these 2 maids, I would almost daily hear complaints from my mum and she'll go nag & nag non-stop about what they did...

Well, previously, I was working, so at most I only see the maid for a short while on Saturday except that I had to endure what my mum wanted to complain. So it wasn't that bad.

This time, I had become a full-time student. And unless I had lesson early in the morning till late, if not, I might have to face this 5th maid, Nora. She is from Philippines and she is around 39 to 40 years old. She had got her own kids and even a granddaughter recently before she came here to work. She had worked at Taiwan before and another household before coming to my aunt's place.

She is very busy-body. She would want to see what you do. For examples, if you are looking at photos, she would want to take a look also. If you are playing the piano, she would run in and listen and worst still. She would humm outloud some melody of her own which is very distracting.

Her time management is super bad. And not sure if she did on purpose of what. She would only go to the washroom and take her own sweet time when we need to go out already. Just that day, she only wanted to take her breakfast after she saw my cousins had already woken up. Can't she just ate earlier?

She is also very dumb. She can vacuum the floor and mop the floor and when my cousins had done their homeworks or had taken their meals, she would just sweep the table with the cloths. Yes! I did not write wrongly. It's sweep and not wipe away all the dirt, etc. So all the dirt will fall onto the supposely cleaned floor. Super no brain.

Even my cousin, Michelle scolded her stupid as she took Michelle's Barbie doll sport shoes instead of her brother, Nelson's school shoes to bring over to my house when Michelle don't have any school and not even going out. That happened on Thursday. My mum made her go back to take Nelson's school shoes as it was impossible for him, a boy, to wear a Barbie doll sport shoes to school. Guess what, instead of removing that Barbie doll sport shoes and just taking Nelson's school shoes, she added Nelson's school shoes to that plastic bag that contained the Barbie doll sport shoes and brought both shoes over to my house. OMG!!! She is very stupid leh. Why must she bring excess things.

Not that I wanted to suspect her. She had stolen the instant coffee before even though she admitted few days later, my mum told me that whenever she washed the eggs before placing them in the fridge, they will be bound to be 1 missing. My mum didn't notice on purpose but had heard that from my aunt. That day, my mum happened to help her put the eggs into the fridge as she need the basket that the clean eggs were temporary placed after washing. And my mum realised that there is an egg missing. My mum questioned her many times but she just simply kept quiet till finally when my mum raised her voice, Nora then said she accidently broke the egg. Yet there is no 'corpse'. No egg shell in the waste bag. I told my mum to take more notice of her. I also do not want to accuse her for nothing but there will be some suspicions especially after that instant coffee incident.

And guess what... Today, my mum called me at 10.40am asking me to bring umbrella to her as the maid was supposed to be meeting her as 10.30am but was still no where to be seen. Thus, I had to quickly changed and grabbed the umbrellas and rush down to find my mum and mind you. It was raining very heavily. And I planned to practice my piano at that time as I did not have any time to practice for the past few days. My mum was so mad at her and refused to let her help hold my cousins' hands, take any of the things, etc. I was also mad so I kind of just simply ignore her. What do you expect me to do? She is not my maid. I do not like to command people to help me do things. And I am not paying her salary. Yet she is here giving me more trouble. I do not expect her to do this or that? I just want her to do what she needs to do, what she is hired her for by my aunt.

If not because my mum can't walk so much as her feet will swell and pain and my aunt got 3 kids to take care, I might have asked my aunt not to hire any more maid. This maid don't even help much as my mum still had to bring my cousins to school, etc. So what is the purpose of hiring her?