Iya Buk...??

Ok.,the maid is finally here. And since she came after our previous one had left so I had to pretty much teach her everything lah. Not something I relish doing. First impression, ok, ok lah, but becos I found out from here she had gone for a brief beauty course before that makes me a little cautious. Maybe becos our previous maid never even bothered to paint here lips at all. But my colleague tells me I should find out if she can give me at least a foot massage from time to time..! A common friend of ours has a maid at home who gives her a good body massage whenever she asks..

Anyway, I briefly wne through some of her stuff and so far have found she has a whitening product and a set of make-up or rather a color palate on her dressing table.. Even I don’t own one of those color palates ok.. One thing though - because she likes these beauty courses and all, she knows how to take care of herself so she does not have body odor. But she strikes me as one of those maids who would be enjoy a nice chat with the other maids at the padang in the evenings, something our old maid never did, or had any interest for whatsoever.

She is still very slow of course and does not know ginger from mushroom. Yesterday I taught her how to clean squids and although I showed her how to remove the purplish layer on the outside, I did not specify the slight purplish spots on the small elongated tentacles are fine. She seemed to take forever to clean them squids, and later I realized she was trying her best to remove those tiny spots on the tentacles as well.. no wonder she was taking forever.

On the first day I had showed her how to use the washing machine and yesterday morning even loaded the first load and told her to just turn the faucet on and put in the detergent. I then left for a 30 min errand and when I came home she asked why the machine wasn’t spinning well. “Penuh sangat ke buk..?” she asked. Goodness, dah lah my washing machine is so damn old, (older than Shaf who turns 14 this year!!), no wonder the darn thing wasn’t spinning. She had filled up the load even more, and so the clothes had no room to move at all…!

She seems afraid to talk to our precious, maybe because Haqim speaks mainly English. I tell her that it is an opportunity for her to pick up the language but so far she just nods and smiles.

Well, in short, I can expect a tiring first few weeks. Hubby and I have long thought our previous girl was good and quite dependable. She hardly gave us any real problems and was very happy to stay in the background. Now I do kinda miss her deep throaty voice and just hope this new one will learn things around the house soon enough.

I just rang the house and when asked what she was doing, she said, “enggak apa-apa, beres beres aja di dapur”. For a moment I was stunned. She then elaborated and I realized it really meant dia tengah kemas dapur....oh my, what an interesting time I’ll have these upcoming weeks..