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It just made me so mad when I could not find the things I wanted in my cluttered fridge. My instructions to my maid to clean it plus clearing all the unwanted food once a week fall on deaf ears no matter how many times I told her since the day she started work.

With still a painful shoulder I decided to do the job myself. I discover some bottles of expired sauces, some leftovers which had been there for don't know how many weeks, and a box of not properly closed chopped garlic which emit their pungent smell all over inside. Wonder why these maids never bother to look at all these detail while keeping food in containers!! Must be pure laziness on their part.

I felt so good after clearing and cleaning the fridge , seeing things in their places with no 'sampah' (rubbish) inside anymore.

I found some yesterday left over roasts and will be recycling it in my fried spaghetti for dinner or lunch.

The nightmare of having maids is not over yet and still I could not do without them with my condition. Just wonder with the new laws coming out given them more freedom and what more one day off!! which I can predict will bring more nightmares and headache to employers like me.

It is not uncommon to hear about runaway maids after a few months of work. But mine ran away after 3 years with me. This is her fourth year after I just renew her application and passport 2 months ago. She sneak out on Christmas eve before midnight with only her 2 bags of clothings leaving behind her passport and a lump sum of her salary which we have kept for her. It was such a shock as who would be so crazy to leave behind almost 10k of money and passport behind her. I know she left with one or some of the Indonesian workers who have just completed their renovation work next to where I stay. After seeing some handphone numbers written on the renovated building just in front my balcony few weeks ago ( the second time which I forgot to take a pic) I had question her about her liason with those workers which she totally deny having any connection. I just have to belief her but much recently I saw her acting very strangely but take it as her being homesick but never knew of her plans after her sudden disappearance.

Our last outing on the 19th Dec and she ran away on the 24th.....

Now I have second thoughts of getting a live in maid now that I was betrayed of our trust for her. This is the first time I have a runaway maid after more than a decade of live in maids. Just have to settle for hourly ones and do some housework myself.

This is a shot I took just right in front of my balcony in the apartment that I am now staying recently. I did not notice this number on the pillar until my son H told me about it. It has been a few days now that the next door was constructing a building up to the first floor and as my place was on the first floor too these Indonesian workers were an attraction to my happy maid. She will always be happy to wave and made sign language behind my back or even worse still ask them for their handphone number even though I have given her my usual warning.

I have caught her using my phone to call up Indian guys staying on another floor of my block. She secretly meeting them upstairs when I am not around or when she is out on her rubbish throwing errands. We always forgive her after so many times of lies and yet this never to be trusted maid still manage to get her way to socialise with these strangers.
One day I caught her in eldest son room with the blind wide open while these workers were working on the same level. They could just look right into the room. Much scolding and threatening gets me heated up the more and I had to watch on her like a watchdog.

Now this phone number coming up right in front is really making me mad. Anyway I still have the consolation now that my place were fitted with cameras all around some months ago. As she is going to leave in a few months and me moving to a new place with much better security keeps me from wasting my anger on her.