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When I was young and still single, one of my favourite pastime was to clean my room and rearrange the room furniture LOL. Don’t ask me why haha..but I feel that by rearranging the furnitures, it gives a good feel, like something new. Maklum lah can’t afford to buy new furniture, but by just rearranging it will make me feel good too. You know it feels like getting a hairdo or changing hairstyle once a while. That’s how I feel.

So 2 weeks ago, since no photoshoot and weekend quite free, I thought I should do something to the abandoned room. Kids didn’t want to sleep here, so dusty (no thanks to my maid!!!), toys all over the place, books not arranged properly…the list is endless. Hence I started the furniture rearrangement project :).

Here’s how it looks like previously, something like this, but with more mess (just imagine OK).

With just the bed, it’s quite OK, but hubs wanted to have that big table there, which took up alot of space!! Then we even put a shelf (courtesy of Tesco) on the table (since no more space right). At the window, we stacked up the Ikea chest so that all can fit into 1 room LOL. At the side, there’s also Ikea chest and the kid’s clothes rack was there too (can’t see the clothes rack cause I hid it under the bed).

Very cramp and I didn’t like it, especially having the table there.

So after living with this for almost 1 year, here’s what I did 2 weeks ago:

1. Moved the table out and went downstairs (since they are doing homework downstairs, might as well lah)
2. Pasted the Little Mermaid wall border on 2 sides of the room. Wanted to do this so long ago, but Mr. Hon keep dilly dally, so I do lah. It was actually pretty easy!!
3. Rearrange the bed to L shape to free some space
4. Moved 1 Ikea chest downstairs, Kept 1 Ikea chest under the bed
5. Got a new curtain. Since this room will be Faythe’s room eventually, and she likes purple. got her a purple curtain with bees on it.
6. And a few more arrangement to move the furnitures all to the side to create more walking space
7. Moved the clothes rack right to the end

The photos are with alot of mess cause I practically dumped all the toys & books at one side while moving all the furniture, then sort them accordingly, asked the maid to wash all the washable toys (and the chest!!).

Basically I created more walking space.

And here’s the finaly result:

After sitting there over the weekends and a few nights (also shouting at the kids not to enter the room), here’s the finished product, before the next wave of messiness comes :P.

1. Rearrange all the books according to category: Scholastics 1 tier, Hardcover books 1 tier, workbooks 1 tier, boardbooks 1 tier, puzzle based books 1 tier. I also gave away some books of which they’ outgrew to Jayden.
2. Sorted out all the toys: 3 chest for masak masak (1 for food, 1 for plates, 1 for rest of the cooking utensils, all cutleries in a box)
3. All the cars went into 2 smaller boxes and 1 of the chest, together with some bigger cars that can’t fit into the small box
4. All robots into 1 small box and 1 of the chest, together with some bigger robots that can’t fit into the small box
5. They had plenty of uncategorised toys (like those from McD, KFC, loose ones bought fr here n there). All these into 1 chest. I also put them in small boxes based on category (Kungfu Panda 1 box, KFC 1 box, Monsters vs. Aliens 1 box)
6. Barbie dolls and her accessories all in 1 chest
7. Faythe’s girlie stuff 1 chest (hairbands, bracelets, fake lipsticks, mirrors, etc)
8. Puzzles 2 chest. Sorted out all the puzzles and each of them either in their own box or in ziplock bag LOL
9. Blocks 1 chest
10. Stringing materials (Montessori) & blocks puzzle 1 chest
11. Placed the radio on top of one of the chest at 1 corner

Notice that I hid 1 chest under the bed. I decided to keep all the stuffed toys there since they don’t really hug them but occasionally likes to play with it (pretend play). So that their bed is not cluttered.

The chest which I’ve moved downstairs, I kept all the painting, colouring materials there. So anything to do with art, writing, drawing, all downstairs. Room is strictly toys and sleeping.

Oh and what’s with the giant chair next to the book shelf?

I moved that chair from my room to theirs. Since it’s sitting at one corner look so pathetic LOL and we only use it when we need to massage our leg with the iSqueeze.

Why put there?

1. In case I want to take nice photos of them I can ask them sit on the chair LOL (no lah that’s not my initial purpose, just thought of this haha)

Actually when I was pregnant, I always have a wish that someday, I can have a nice lil corner where I can sit down and read them books while putting them to sleep. I happen to see alot of angmo photos have something like this.

So to make my wish come true, I move the chair there, right next to the book shelf for easy access. So I can read the book to them while they are trying to fall asleep on their bed *dreaming still, since haven’t even start retraining them*.

I’ve also placed a standing lamp beside it, so I can actually off the main light and leave that on..muahahaha…

The turtle on the chair is actually a night lamp that projects stars to the ceiling. Redeemed this from Credit Card Points :).

Few more things to complete the summer project:

1. Over the weekend, went to Ikea to buy a flower shape lamp, need Mr. Hon to mount it on the wall where Faythe’s bed is. Will put this at the edge just next to the chest so that she doesn’t accidentally get tangled with the wire while sleeping.
2. Hang up the Safety Poster. Need Mr. Hon to drill also
3. I also want to use one of the wall to put some pictures (their art work or photos), still thinking where’s the right place

Note: If you notice, there’s something hanging down from the main light at the ceiling, that’s a Hari Raya Deco LOL. Faythe told me that it looks like Princess Jasmine’s Castle and we bought it last year. She wanted to hang it there, like the castle over the cloud LOL. Memang alot ideas.

OK, so now gotta start retraining again, hope they’ll sleep in this room…gotta have new strategy, anyone can share with me kids sleeping strategy that you have successfully implemented? Hope they don’t need any sleep aid to get them to sleep in their room.

It was a long weekend last week. And it’s a pity that Daddy had to leave on 25th, just missing the long weekend, sigh.

And I have 1 photoshoot scheduled on Friday. So I thought I must be a bit rajin since it’s weekend. And I did :). On Friday night, we had dinner at Lala Chong with Jayden & Family. Hence I didn’t cook.

On Saturday, did a whole list of stuff. Early morning went to do marketing. So I actually woke up at 6am to plan what I want to cook for the kids for the weekend. Yeah..I seldom cook, so whenever I need to cook, I have to dig out all the recipe books & go thru my feedreader (read those cooking blogs LOL).

After marketing, I packed my PC and went to digitalmall to get it inspected as the Display is giving me problem :(. And it still is right now *fumes*.

Then went to SP Setia to cancel off the house that we booked 2 months ago. No no, we are not moving, but someone itchy somewhere just went to book 2 units of houses in SP Setia for investment, then decide not to take it later. So I had to go cancel it off.

When we got home, all so tired…apalagi..nap time :P. Woke up at 4pm and did a photo session for Faythe.

Seriously, when I start taking photos for my kids, I realized how much they’ve grown before my eyes. Their feet are no longer wrinkly like the ones of the newborn babies. They no longer like to pose in front of the camera (cause they get so sick of me pointing the camera at them LOL). I even have to negotiate with her to take photos.

And here are 2 photos which I like most.

Yoh..so young already got eyebags O.o.

After that, I drop Faythe off to art class & went home and cook up a storm :).

Vyktore is a picky eater. Sometimes I really don’t know how to describe him. He’s not those type that refuses all food, but only certain food. Since I had plans to cook Spaghetti, I had to think of something for him, cause he doesn’t eat Western Food. But he eats Nuggets though :P.

So I cooked Pumpkin Spaghetti for Faythe & rest of us. While for Vyktore, I fried Nuggets. Yes, we had homemade Chicken Nuggets!! Simply delicious..slurpss….We had so much that I even manage to freeze some uncooked ones for this coming weekend.

The nuggets were a hit for Vyktore. He easily polished off at least 10 pieces. Faythe ate like 5 pieces and she finished her spaghetti as well. She told me that the Spaghetti not nice haha..but she still finished it. She wants me to cook the bologna spaghetti next round.

On Sunday, I woke up at 10am :P. Why? Cause at 1am, Vyktore had a very horrible nose bleed. So I had to clean him up and put him back to sleep. After that I couldn’t sleep. So I decided to finish up 2 photobooks to rush for the 40% off. Yes!! Then after I woke up, continue to finish up another photobook (shiaks..got addicted to making photobook O.o).

1. 40 pages book for Eelaine’s baby
2. 136 pages book for my Australia Trip back in 2008
3. 40 pages book for Phuket Trip in 2009

This also means I’m so so broke..even with the discount I still had to pay RM600 for book 2 & 3. Gotta be more rajin to paid post :P.

Then we had simple lunch, Lotus Root Soup & Rice.

Later on, put the kids to sleep for their nap while I do my own stuff.

Sent Faythe to art class at 5pm, then cook up a storm again. This round I cooked Mustard Cabbage Rice. It’s a 1 pot recipe. Just dump everything into the rice cooker and cook. Simply delicious. I got the recipe from Women’s Weekly Magazine. Will share with you later when I have time to put down the recipe hehe..

Didn’t take any picture cause too lazy liao.

With so much of cooking & eating, I wonder when I’m gonna find myself diets that work for me.

So that was our long weekend. And here’s a photo of Vyktore, pretending he’s listening to music :).

He’s slowly loosing his chubbiness and getting taller by the day.

I’ve not blogged about my maid for sometime. Not because she has gotten worse or anyhow better from the last I wrote about her. But I rather not pollute my blog with all maid dramas. But this round, I simply can’t help to write about this, just to serve as a reminder to all readers who has a maid at home.

FYI, my maid is a Cambo, and she has worked for me for 1.5yrs. She understands English perfectly, she can even answer me back sarcastically.

On 2nd day of CNY, I had friends over at my house. After dinner 2 of them continued to lepak around my house and we decided to play some dice game (a game which requires you to drink when you guess it wrongly). So Mr. Hon asked the maid for some ice to chill the diluted Whisky.

Our maid told us that we ran out of Ice. Fine. It’s never a practice to make ice cubes at home, we usually buy them from 7-eleven in a bag.

Few minutes later, she said got ice, and passed us a cup with ice inside. So Mr. Hon happily drop those 4 cubes of ice into the diluted Whisky.

Then my friend spotted that the Whisky looks weird, like a slurpee texture. So I told her wow..our Whisky turned Slurpee…yummy. And I asked Mr. Hon to add some water.

As we continued to play the game, it was my friend’s turn to drink. She took a sip of the drink with the ice, and she immediately spotted that something is wrong.

Then Mr. Hon tasted his and it tasted like jelly in whisky O.o. And we all tasted it, it is definitely not ice!! It’s either Bird Nest, jelly or something else. But 101% sure not ice.

It can’t be Bird Nest, cause I’ve not been boiling Bird Nest for sometime. And I don’t freeze my Bird Nest.

It’s definitely not Jelly, cause I don’t make Jellies as well. The only possible Ice I would have made was Ribena Ice for the kids!!

We instantly call the maid and ask her what was it she gave to us. And she proudly acclaimed that “It’s ice lah” (Can say lah somemore O.o)

Mr. Hon: Where did you get the ice from?
Maid: in the fridge lah
Mr. Hon: Where’s the plastic bag?
Maid: Throw already, outside the house.
Jasmine: Go search the plastic bag where it’s used to store the ice you gave us and show us.

She went to dig for the plastic bag (with a face black as Pau Ching Tien - that’s her usual expression when she gets scolding)

While she was digging, we already suspect that she gave us some Desicant/Silica Gel as Ice. I have those “Techni Ice” in my freezer, been sitting there for 3 yrs. Ever since I stop transporting BM from office to home, I just kept them in freezer. Only 4 cubes. And I notice it was missing from the freezer!!

Minutes later, she came back, don’t have….

Jasmine: How can don’t have, you just threw the wrapper outside, not 10yrs ago. It has to be there.

So I asked her to bring the rubbish in and pour everything on the floor and search again.

She pretend couldn’t find, cause I was there searching with her thru the smelly rubbish. But I saw!!

A plastic like Ice Wrapper.

I took it out and inspect.

She quickly claimed, “Ya this the ice lah” (Somemore so confident, you silly woman)

Seriously, she opened up the Techni Ice and gave it to us as Ice for us to consume!!

I can’t imagine if she opened it up for my kids to consume O.o.

Those 4 cubes, I’ve actually put it at the door of the freezer so that the kids would never spot it. Also, for so many gazillionth times that we organise parties (be it big or small), we always use ice from 7-eleven. Never never that we use ice in cubes or any of such that is found packed nicely like Techni Ice. So who on earth did she learned to use Techni Ice as Ice for us to consume. God knows!!

She personally told me that, “I tell myself this is ice, so I give it to you lah”.

Wah liao eh…I shall not explain further what happens next, as all employers who has a maid at home, you’d probably do the same as what I did after I found out what was actually THE ICE!!

Good thing I don’t bake at home, if not she would have mistaken my night cream as icing for the cake!!

In the previous post, I mentioned that we booked lunch @ a Japanese Restaurant. Actually we’ve wanted to go to Umaiya Japanese Restaurant during my birthday back in February, but it was fully booked :(. Hence we postponed it till this round. Good thing it was not fully booked.

Why I booked this place, I’ve heard so much bout it from my dearest colleague that I must go try myself someday. Moreover it’s just 10mins drive from home :).

There are actually 2 Umaiya Japanese Restaurant, 1 in Damansara Perdana, 1 in Damansara Uptown. I booked the one at Uptown.

We were there at 1130am, 2 adults & 2 kids. Yah..not a romantic lunch :P. The buffet starts from 1130-230pm.

Being 1st timer, we were actually unsure how the ordering go about. What I liked about this buffet is it’s ala carte, and they only prepare the food when you order. So it’s freshly made :). Nice right!!

We ordered so many sushi that we stuffed ourselves silly. And I must say all of them deserves two thumbs up. Even Daddy keeps saying it’s yummy kekeke..he seldom say this whenever we eat Japanese food. And because of that, we didn’t manage to order any grill fish, which I saw another table did. We only ordered the beef on the hot plate and boy that was delicious. I finished almost the whole plate :P.

Another thing to mention is the sashimi. Each qty you order comes in pairs of 2 pieces of thick sliced fish. So juicy, slurp slurp. We saw this table, they ordered a giant bowl of sashimi (mix of salmon, tuna & white fish). Giant as in like 30 pieces of each fish :|.

Oh not forgetting free flow of beer for beer lovers hehe…

As for the kids, we ordered Garlic Fried Rice for Vyktore. Faythe had Chawanmushi, some sushi, a whole bowl of edamame and or course macha ice cream for them.

Kids below 3 pays RM10 only, for kids above 3-12 pays half the price. Adult is charged at 45++.

I am sure I’m going back there again as the other day actually I haven’t finish eating, but cause the kids were turning the restaurant upside down and Daddy was already full, so we went off at 1pm.

(I hope Vyktore’s face didn’t scare you cause his mouth so huge LOL)

Wow…are we still celebrating Faythe’s birthday LOL…seems like that post took forever for the next updates. Seriously, I’ve been so busy to even sit down and think straight what I want to blog.

This whole week was a mad mad “photoshopping”. We’ve been engaged (two-pixels) for photoshoots over every weekend since like Christmas…Crazy rite. So I’ve been caught up with photo editing at nite, when the kids are asleep. Day time busy at work. Well do we call it good news or bad news. Seriously, I love my current job (oh, I didn’t even announce I got a job rite…*bleah*) and I also seriously love the photography business as I realise that it could actually be something that I’ve always wanted to do but never got to do it (due to the passion found so late, if I had found this passion earlier I would have been some renowned photographer by know - self flattering).

If I have to choose which one I’d go for, seriously, I don’t know. So there’s still no concrete decision if I’m ever gonna quit my full time job (which I have a love & hate relationship with) to chase the passion of my life. Anyways, so I’m still gonna be running around on 2 sides till god knows when.

So what’s been happening with the 2 kiddos at home:

1. School coming into 3rd week before the CNY break. Faythe is doing very well as the *BIG SISTER*, she reassures me she’ll look after the brother.
2. Vyktore, we do worry bout his speech, but I can see it slowly coming, we just gotta be a bit more patient. His latest addition is pek-kui. Can you guess what is that LOL…And he calls me Meh…yikes!!
3. They run riots at home every weekend and weeknites, by asking me to draw, to sing, to read, to sing, to sing, to sing..whoa..alot of singing..and also to play of course

So what’s for CNY? I’ve done my CNY shopping 2 weeks ago. Today went to Petaling Streeet for a while with Sue and we went drooling over the red lanterns haha..so I bought 1 for my house. It’s soooo beautiful (later I take pic and upload ok). It’s a lantern made of cloth, and has silk flowers stuck on it, protruding outside the lantern, nice eh ;). And I went to buy 2 more pieces of CNY clothes for the 2 kids!!

Are we all ready for CNY? Of course. I’m starting to pack my bag, yeah you read me right, we won’t be in town this round :). Celebrating in Vietnam with Daddy this year & my Dad too. Then when we come back, Daddy comes home too. Yay!! Lets hope I get to see some interesting stuff while we are in Vietnam.

I think I’ll be taking a breakkie (very likely) till CNY. So Gong Xi Fatt Chai to all my readers.

Do you believe in fengshui? I don’t!! But sometimes, even if you don’t believe, you’ll end up believing it after sometime because life just gets tougher!! Some people say, when bad things happen to you, it happens 3 times berturut turut (in a row).

By looking at these pictures, I’m sure everyone is shocked. Me too!! I just can’t imagine how it could happen.

On the day after Christmas, we were all sleeping very nicely. At 630am, I was actually awake, but lying down on the bed thinking if I should get up now. Then the air cond went off…and it came back again…after a few mins, it repeated it’s on off stint.

Then I was thinking, what the he** is happening man. But I continued lying down on the bed, till suddenly I heard fire crackers sound. And so happen, my whole house went blackout. The I thought, OH SHIAKS…IS THERE SOMEONE STEALING DADDY’S BIKE!! Yeah, it sounded like someone started the bike.

Then next thing I knew, there were people outside my house and my neighbour was banging the gate, “Fire, fire”.

I was upstairs in my room when I open the window and heard my neighbour shouting, “Fire, Fire!!”

Then I rush down to check what happened. To my amaze, the meter outside the house was on FIRE!!

This time I really panic…cause I had to open up 2 locks to get out of the house (Thanks to the you know who, we’ve added extra security, which turns out to be cumbersome at times like this).

Once I opened the sliding grilled, I rushed to the gate as one of my neighbour was already holding his FIRE EXTINGUISHER. And while he run in, I quickly pull the hose and wanted to open up the water, but thank GOD that he manage to pull off the fire with the extinguisher and it ended up with another bang!!

After that, it was SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES time. My whole house smelt of burnt rubber. One of my neighbour offered to let us take shelter and settle down the kids. While I went back inside and got my handphone and start making call.

First call: Mr. Hon for sure. It’s only like what 5am his time, so when he picked up the phone. I told him, eh house on fire just now. Then he went, you joking right? I was like duhh…you mean I call you at 5am to tell you house on fire as a joke, c’mon lah, it’s not April Fool. No, I’m serious, really it was on fire!! The electricity went berserk and it caught fire. Then the neighbours came and pull it off.

He put down the phone after that, after telling me what to do and giving me a lecture the house must be overloaded bla bla bla…and the maid so blur, bla bla bla…what I did, bla bla bla….

Anyways, after that he called again and ask me to call this n that…oh, and he never forget to ensure his dear fishie was alright, despite the fact that the trauma happened to me and the kids…”kanasai betul laki ni”. I know him, if I can pick up the phone and call him, means I’m still alive and kicking. So no need to worry bout me.

I call TNB and reported the incident. And I specifically ask them to come ASAP if not my hubs is gonna be so mad about what is gonna happen to his fishie due to lack of oxygen in the tank.

Then I called MIL and told her I’ll drop the kids off early.

Then my boss & colleague. I thank GOD that my boss is very understanding. Somemore just started work. I think if other boss, they would have skin me alive for taking EL every week :|.

Then I sent a few sms to get electrician contact and my good buddy replied me with the contact. So I quickly call the electrician and ask him to come over.

I drop the kids off at MIL’s house and went home. The floor was oily…don’t know why!! So I decided to mop it while waiting for TNB & electrician to come. But it’s still oily after that..eww…anyways, since they took so long to come, I decided to snap some photos of the incident as proof (in case I want to sue TNB for causing such a havoc in my house) & testing my new camera (yes, I went to get myself a big present!!).

While waiting for them, I made calls to Alarm man, Roof man as well. I’ve actually made appointment to meet them in the evening, but since I’m at home, might as well the whole bunch come one shot and rob my purse lah…*big damage everywhere*

The people finally came at 10am. TNB checked and confirm the mains were crossed and it was the one giving problem. Arghh…wear and tear wohh…bla bla bla wohh….

So they changed the main incoming wire. Then the electrician spent a good 2 hours drilling, hacking and what not to fix up the temporary bypass electric for us.

TNB says they do not bring meter, so gotta wait for the meter (from meter dept), meanwhile use FOC electric (but according to Eve, they don’t give free, they backdate & charge you…grrr…).

Seriously, I think I’ve had enough of bad luck.

First it was the water tank. Yeah…we used up 400 Gallons on water in the house (till the vy last drop) and yet thought that something was wrong with Syabas, till later I realised it wasn’t and finally when we call the Plumber over, we found out the float was broken and caused the water not to fill up the tank.

Then it was the break in last week.

And now it’s the fire.

It all happens to the house, hurting my pocket so much…so do you believe in fengshui…I do, at least for now for these 3 cases.

Lets hope that’s the end of it.

At night Daddy called while we were at Atria getting something. He seemed to have mellow down from his wake up call and start to talk some sense in him. At least he asked what’s the outcome and all the other stuff (apart from his fishie). As usual, the super wife has settled everything. And he hung up the phone with a “Bye, Love you darling”..wuaahh…so senang only…

Now, I think next thing I really need to buy home insurance. Choi choi..must go call my agent now.

Taking a blog break for now. Need to settle the things at home. Merry X’mas & Happy New Year, in case I don’t put on any post till 2009.

I read all the comments on the maid posting that I posted up last week. Some very frustrating, some not, some giving advise, and many others. Some even commented that I treat my maid too nice, but some say vice versa.

When I read these comments, I think back, did I mistreat my maid? I don’t think I’m in that category of abusing my maid, though I admit yes I punish her by not giving her lunch. I did whack her head slightly. Yes I admit that, because I was just too upset at that time. Apart from that, I don’t think I’ve ever treated my maid as a maid (mui chai), but better than that. If I had treated her badly, I wouldn’t have bought her McD to eat. I would have just asked her cook her own maggi mee!! And despite the fact that she ate Vyktore’s portion, the 2nd time I bought McD, I even bought her a bigger share (Big Mac) mind you!!

I’m a believer that if I treat you nice, you’ll do the same. I won’t expect that she’ll treat me McD, but at least do her work properly. That’s all I ask for. I don’t set any standard, and I don’t practice White Glove Investigation (using a white glove and wipe every corner of the house to check for dust). But to a certain extend, I’d expect what is delegated to that person, is done. It doesn’t have to be spanking clean, but at least it is done, that’s the least I’d expect. To be spanking clean, that’s a bonus really.

I still remember once a Mommy asked me, do you give your maid to eat when you go out? (That was my previous maid). In fact, I admit sometimes I bring her out, we go TGIF to eat, I’ll let her order from the menu, instead of giving her fried rice at home and let her watch us eat. Many might say I’m crazy or pampering my maid. But I feel that that’s how I appreciate her hard work, by rewarding her with some good food. She loves eating by the way (but she never dare to steal food from the fridge, etc.). It’s not that we go TGIF everyday, probably once in every 6-9 months, so I don’t see there’s an issue. How much can she eat anyway…

And also there’s a story behind, why my ex-maid gets such a good treatment. There was once, when Vyktore was still 1 yr old, we went to Penang. We were at the pool, playing water & chit chatting. Vyktore, was using the float at the baby pool as his feet couldn’t really touch the pool floor. We were all keeping an eye on the kids, but all a sudden, Vyktore kicked too hard and he went turtle (legs up, body down and stuck at the float). My ex-maid, with the speed of lighting, jumped in to the pool (with her clothes all on, that time she was only inches away from Vyktore) and grabbed him up instantly. She was so quick!! It was as though she never have 2nd thoughts, not even a single second of panic, she just jumped in.

That was a true moment which I see in my maid and I can really entrust her of taking care of my kids. If I was in that situation, I would have probably screamed or panicked.

Back to the current maid. Do I really want to scold her all the time? No. But in fact I’ve given her many chances, each time telling her how to do, but still happens. I admit I’m not an angel, sometimes I raise my voice. I’m not a saint. Even a saint can get upset or angry. I don’t think there’s anyone out there who has not raised their voice before in their life on incidents that makes them upset. Nobody is perfect. I am truly aware that my kids might take on my bad examples, but then again, you can’t be lying to yourself all the time by pretending you are not angry when you are!! But to know how to control your temper and release it at the right amount & right time is the success part of it. Not by just keeping all your anger within, I think someday you will go crazy.

Thanks for all the comments. I really appreciate that as it allows me to think back the +ve values and -ve values behind all that is happening. I’m not offended or anything by any of the comments. These are just my thoughts that I’d like to express for self consciousness.

Many many thanks for the comments and advise. No worries, I haven’t jump from 11th floor (off my office building :P). I’m fine. I just wanted to post up the rant to relieve my tension haha…

in fact, I wish I could change the maid, but seriously I can’t. There’s actually a history behind this. When my goody maid (that worked for me 3.55 yrs) wanted to go back, we applied for an Indon. She came in July. Yup she did. In fact I purposely arranged my exiting maid to be here till Aug, to make sure she can help to train the new one and go off. But after a week or 2, it went bad.

That bloody brand new maid came to me one night and said, “kakak, saya sudah tak boleh kerja. Tolong hantar balik agent”. I was flabbergasted. What the $)($%)_#($)_#($….So I asked her why? She said she can’t watch my kids as they are too naughty (out of her expectation). My eyes nearly popped. I know my kids are one of a kind, but they are definitely not those that’ll climb up the grille or play with a knife. After lecturing her, she still wants to go home. Hence I gave up. Moreoever she hasn’t been performing well during her days working with me. I do not want to keep someone who doesn’t want to work with me. Risk of running away. Risk of not doing work. All the thoughts in my mind.

Hence next day, we send her back to the agent. She got a whacky long lecturing from the agent. And we proceeded to order our replacement (with a lil bit top up). We decided to try on Cambo instead of Indon because it’s only RM20 difference. So that’s how I ended up having a cambodian maid.

Now that I’m not happy with her (at least for 90% of the time), I can’t change, because that is what the agreement with agent. Blame it on the agent..memang kanasai one their rules. And mind you, if I get a new one, it’s going to cost me a whopping RM8k at least!! Do I mind the money, yes I do, definitely.

Can I live without one? Sadly to say NO. As most of you know that I’m like a single mom most of the time, if I don’t have a maid to help me up, I think I’m just gonna lock myself up at home every weekend haha…I seriously don’t have a choice, if I do, I wouldn’t have gotten a replacement in the 1st place.

There are also changes in life that’s happening currently (post to be up tomorrow) which will affect the family entirely. And living without a maid is definitely not an option.

How do I feel now? Well, I’ve sort of did a half reset button and still trying to tell her and improve her. Yesterday, her performance is like thumbs up. I check her work at night and she has finish all on time. Hence I spoke to her and told her that she should do like this, fast and good. Then I won’t scold. If she doesn’t improve or forget things she’d sure get scolding. Probably after skipping 1 meal, she realised how important that plate of rice is for her. Well of course, I always have benefit of doubt on this woman. And I’d still put on my 007-spying mask all the time to catch her.