An inch or a foot?

Do you have a maid at home?

We do, for 2 years now. And she promised to continue with us for another year. Good for us, we thought, since there will be new addition soon and I really have no time to train another.

Now, we have been really lucky in having her. She is quiet and she is a quick learner. Best of all, she really takes good care of my Jien.

We on the other hand are not bad as well. Let's see...

. For one, she said she is going to settle the agent's and permit fees, but it took so long for her (or her sister, to be precised) to cough out the money, so at the end, we said we are going to pay la-4k ok!! Well, it is ok, we thought, but we made a deal that she has to fair her own ticket home by end of 1 year, she said ok.

. After a year, we booked the ticket online for her, and naturally we pay for her. Nowadays the permit for a Phil maid is a year, so she got to fly back. We said it is fine since she is continuing with us for another year....

. When she was back for 2 weeks, we did not ask for any salary deduction. We gave her a full month's salary plus a month bonus without her even asking!! We separated the bonus to 2 months, one before X'mas and one after, so that she can have money to spend before and also after the very important festive to her..Considerate leh?

. I gave her son an ang pow. Amount? 2 digit...The blue colour note..

. We gave her Sunday off and most of the public holidays- off!

. She got her half day Saturday off since most of time, we are back in hometown.

. Our house is very small, very easy to maintain. Plus no serious washing or drying coz all done by the machines!!

. We gave her salary increament without her even asking...

. On Saturdays, we either bought her or made her nice breakfast. If we went off earlier and can't able to send her to station, we would give her lunch and taxi allowance...

. She got a nice bed, not a mattress on the floor.

. Whatever we eat, she will get her share. No matter how expensive is the fish!! You know how expensive is the 'mah yau' fish and salmon?

. We celebrated her birthday last year and

this year, we celebrated her birthday again, with a lovely cake. We were thinking of giving her the ticket back again as a gift.

The problem lies HERE. Now, we had discussed it earlier that it has to be during Chinese New Year cause that was the time that there would be public holidays and we could take some extra days to be with friends and families. She said ok. So when we told her the dates, she said she needed to celebrate the son's birthday. Being considerate, we push the dates slightly so that she could at least be there for her son. So instead of a 2 weeks break, she now will have around 16 days off. Plus, instead of flying Air Asia, we are upgrading her to MAS airline so that she can have proper meal and also since the arrival airport is closer to her hometown.

BUT she still give us sour face! HELLO! We are working couples! We are not staying at home waiting for money to fall down from the SKY! We ourselves don't even have a 2 weeks straight break! Sometimes we don't even celebrate our own birthday! This is so rediculous cause what if the son's birthday fall on mid year? Does this mean that she needs to fly back twice?

So till now, she has not given us the answer because she said she needed time to think. Think she could but if she takes any longer, I will just tell her - FLY KITE!!

Is this how she repay our kindness to her? Does she even know that her absense means that both me and hubby have to take turn to go on leave to take care of the little one? Does she even notice that by February, my stomach is as big as a basket ball? Does she even THINK? GOODNESS!!

Hubby said : Some people, you gave them an inch, they want a foot. Serious ah? I think in this case, a FULL YARD!