When You Have More than 2 Women in 1 House...
It is not easy to keep 2 women happy in one house. Me and my maid, we are ok. But that being said, I am always the one to pass comment and so 'sir' in the house is always the better and nice person la...And so the saying of having a lady boss is always more 'complicated'.....
But when you have 2 'maids' in a house, that could be more chaotic. I am not having 2 maids to be clear, but I do have a confinement lady (CL) at home now. Being a more senior person, she has her comments and she wants certain things to be done her way, maybe (being the more relaxed me, I have shy away from the kitchen and work for quite some time). My maid pulak, having another person to cook and wash makes her a bit relaxed too; from observing and washing the dishes, she literally forget to help cook the rice and prepare Jien's dishes, hoping that autie CL's dishes will just be it (CL told me this). Poor Jien has to eat take in all the wine and gingery food, ahhaha!! I watched all these drama unfold but I zipped my lips to see what will happen next.
One fine day, lunch time. My maid was sitting in the living room (not helping out in the kitchen) when I woke up from my morning nap with baby. Auntie CL was preparing lunch and brought it to the dining table for me. She said the noodle was not enough for all, so she said asked your maid to maybe fry her own fried rice since there are left over rice last night. Fair enough I thought. Since CL is not supposed to cook for others except for mommy and baby. After lunch, I saw my maid weeping in the kitchen. Then, at the balcony. Ever so reluctant to 'bump' and have eye contact with anyone. She did not help out for dinner as expected but did clean and tidied up the kitchen before she went to bed.
I confronted her the next day when I found a chance to do so. I asked her if there is anything happened back home in the Phillipines. She kept silence. I asked her if it was auntie CL? She kept mum but I could see tears rolled down on her cheeks. She said nevermind. I pressed on for more details but she kept quite still. I then explained to her that aunt CL will only be here for a month, whatever it is, try to face it happily instead. Look at the bright side, aunt CL is so experienced, she should grab the chance to talk to her and learn from her. They were ok actually for the 1st week initially. Something must be wrong some where and I believe is trivial and just misunderstanding. If just the 'lunch' thingy, my maid is just too sensitive and should realise that she SHOULD actually be cooking for herself this whole month!!
Then, I could sensed that she is more relieved. At least, she is back in the kitchen to help and sort of 'back to the normal' herself. *smack-head*
Aunt CL did told me that we actually spoilt our maid too much. Maybe we did.
Anyway, this good aunt will leave me this Saturday and would be replaced with another aunt. Not that she is not good enough but she got a client who delivers a good 10 days earlier in Singapore and no one wants to replace her for 2 weeks there. So instead, she has to get somebody to replace her HERE. She told me this earlier on and she hoped that this client of her would not call earlier but she did!! Anyway, I thought this could be a solution to the 'women' problem in the house la, at least!! I trust aunt to give me a good replacement and I know she would still call me when she comes back and we could still enjoy her cooking one of these days!! :P
By the way, tonight I will have 2 confinement ladies, 1 maid plus myself - 4 women in the house!! I wonder what happen next? Hahahah!!
But when you have 2 'maids' in a house, that could be more chaotic. I am not having 2 maids to be clear, but I do have a confinement lady (CL) at home now. Being a more senior person, she has her comments and she wants certain things to be done her way, maybe (being the more relaxed me, I have shy away from the kitchen and work for quite some time). My maid pulak, having another person to cook and wash makes her a bit relaxed too; from observing and washing the dishes, she literally forget to help cook the rice and prepare Jien's dishes, hoping that autie CL's dishes will just be it (CL told me this). Poor Jien has to eat take in all the wine and gingery food, ahhaha!! I watched all these drama unfold but I zipped my lips to see what will happen next.
One fine day, lunch time. My maid was sitting in the living room (not helping out in the kitchen) when I woke up from my morning nap with baby. Auntie CL was preparing lunch and brought it to the dining table for me. She said the noodle was not enough for all, so she said asked your maid to maybe fry her own fried rice since there are left over rice last night. Fair enough I thought. Since CL is not supposed to cook for others except for mommy and baby. After lunch, I saw my maid weeping in the kitchen. Then, at the balcony. Ever so reluctant to 'bump' and have eye contact with anyone. She did not help out for dinner as expected but did clean and tidied up the kitchen before she went to bed.
I confronted her the next day when I found a chance to do so. I asked her if there is anything happened back home in the Phillipines. She kept silence. I asked her if it was auntie CL? She kept mum but I could see tears rolled down on her cheeks. She said nevermind. I pressed on for more details but she kept quite still. I then explained to her that aunt CL will only be here for a month, whatever it is, try to face it happily instead. Look at the bright side, aunt CL is so experienced, she should grab the chance to talk to her and learn from her. They were ok actually for the 1st week initially. Something must be wrong some where and I believe is trivial and just misunderstanding. If just the 'lunch' thingy, my maid is just too sensitive and should realise that she SHOULD actually be cooking for herself this whole month!!
Then, I could sensed that she is more relieved. At least, she is back in the kitchen to help and sort of 'back to the normal' herself. *smack-head*
Aunt CL did told me that we actually spoilt our maid too much. Maybe we did.
Anyway, this good aunt will leave me this Saturday and would be replaced with another aunt. Not that she is not good enough but she got a client who delivers a good 10 days earlier in Singapore and no one wants to replace her for 2 weeks there. So instead, she has to get somebody to replace her HERE. She told me this earlier on and she hoped that this client of her would not call earlier but she did!! Anyway, I thought this could be a solution to the 'women' problem in the house la, at least!! I trust aunt to give me a good replacement and I know she would still call me when she comes back and we could still enjoy her cooking one of these days!! :P
By the way, tonight I will have 2 confinement ladies, 1 maid plus myself - 4 women in the house!! I wonder what happen next? Hahahah!!
Labels: confinement
posted by blinka.Li at 3:43 PM
3 Comments:
yes...too many hens in the coup, is a biiiggg no-no.
but..since it's temporary, hope ur maid can bite the bullet and take it la.
4 women..wow, good luck!
Should be ok, short term only, right?
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