I communicate with Tham, my maid, in Cambodian. So where's the problem? And how did I manage to do so? Learn through YouTube, lah!!
Since my previous maids, an Indonesian and a Cambodian, made off together, I vowed to speak her language for selfish reasons......so that she won't be able to communicate with people around her, especially the scavengers, the road sweepers.... and stage a runaway!!
Today, I've left home entrusted solely to her on many occasions while I traveled. Come beginning of August, her two year term ends and I am fretting now!
She had agreed to renew her contract. However, she's sceptical now, since the recent call from her brother, sharing that maids assigned to Hong Kong being very much better paid!!
Tough still not to my expectation, who would be, huh?.....being the perfectionist, I am??, it is nevertheless better than to train another!!
You bet, going through the process of educating them especially in the area of HYGIENE is horrendous as is seen in Tham!
Despite almost completing her term of service, acts of opening and closing doors without first washing her hands after the clearing of defecation of my pooches, still persist!!!
Good or bad, I have become too dependent on the maids and can't imagine life without them!
Hoping off the bed each morning to find the entire home sparkling clean provided you do not look into the nooks and corners, itself is a bonus!
But then again, given the worst scenario........being the adaptable person I am, as with whatever the situation, I trust I'll be able to iron out the maid dependence over time......
