Back to 1 maid

We sent our old maid back to her country on Saturday. Now, we're left with only one 2 weeks old maid - the one that we are still getting to know...

The old maid had served us well. She was also very patient and experienced with taking care of kids. Furthermore, she could communicate very well in English. It's definitely a loss to us now that she's gone. I remembered she wanted to collect all of Singapore's notes and coins to show to her 3 children, and I knew that she's still missing the two dollars and five dollars (from checking her luggage). So, I made a red packet (our diy cny ang pow) and put in two five dollars and five two dollars as farewell gift.

The new maid had all her freedom on Saturday as we were out the whole day in MBS. These few days she was doing good, the transition was smoother than I thought. I started hearing her speak some English and I was quite ok with her except for one thing: She wasn't very well-trained in the kids department! I guess some more time is needed for her and A to bond.

While she's settling in and coping well with the household chores, we also realised that we need to be more firm with this maid as she was much younger (only 24) and perhaps not as mature in thinking than the earlier one who is 38. In fact, she requested not to go to DC's parents house yesterday. On Fri, the old maid translated to me that she wanted to keep her own salary and not put in the bank. We also know that she loves to sing. Singing is ok but the problem is she sing too loud and she sings out of the window such that the Bangladeshi downstairs would ogle at her sometimes! Those are the things we know now that we felt are not acceptable. I guess we'll have to find the appropriate time to let her know, one by one... subtly...


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