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by seidltan » Sun, 21 May 2006 3:12 pm
Does anyone have any experience to share about maids from myanmar? I'd love to read about your experiences.
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by Quasimodo » Mon, 22 May 2006 4:04 pm
seidltan wrote:Does anyone have any experience to share about maids from myanmar? I'd love to read about your experiences.
Thanks
The new lady we have coming here a few times a week is from Myanmar and is easily the most pleasant of all.
Myanmar is large, there are many people, the next one might turn out to be an axe murderer.
One in the hand is worth two of something
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by seidltan » Mon, 22 May 2006 8:21 pm
Your reply is very comforting...

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by Vaucluse » Mon, 22 May 2006 10:11 pm
seidltan wrote:Your reply is very comforting...


Of course what I meant was that one cannot judge a population based on a few examples.
If our maid were a good representation of Myanmarese/Burmese then they'd all be lovely people.
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by Cheekybeek » Mon, 22 May 2006 10:23 pm
sometimes it's the nice and pleasant ones who crack...
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by Quasimodo » Mon, 22 May 2006 10:41 pm
Cheekybeek wrote:sometimes it's the nice and pleasant ones who crack...
Just when I calmed the OP's fears . . . along comes cheekybeek!
Ok, here's a picture of our maid, lovely lady that she is:

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by kimm » Tue, 23 May 2006 4:39 am
sound like someone is having a part time maid
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by Quasimodo » Tue, 23 May 2006 8:20 am
kimm wrote:sound like someone is having a part time maid

One in the hand is worth two of something
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by Mary Hatch Bailey » Tue, 23 May 2006 9:20 am
Quasimodo wrote:kimm wrote:sound like someone is having a part time maid

Well, it is illegal in some instances...

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by Vaucluse » Tue, 23 May 2006 10:46 am
I guess my first pot was overlooked then:
The new lady we have coming here a few times a week is from Myanmar
Disclaimers now? She's a PR and we 'got' her through an agency.
She is over 18
She is legally a woman
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by Mary Hatch Bailey » Tue, 23 May 2006 10:52 am
If she is employed by another sponser under their CPF contribution, she's not supposed to work part time. This is how the government cracked down on abusive employers who were making their maids clean the homes of their in-laws, second cousins, etc...
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by Wham » Wed, 24 May 2006 1:09 pm
V - What ever happened with the poor lady that was working for your nasty neighbors?
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." Samuel Johnson
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by Quasimodo » Thu, 25 May 2006 6:21 pm
Wham wrote:V - What ever happened with the poor lady that was working for your nasty neighbors?
Have not seen or heard from her in a while - so I guess the bitch is maid-less . . . still screams at her kids from 06.0 to midnight. Hmm, that's anotehr thing - why are 5-year olds awake at those times . . .oh well . . .
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