House Assistant

Instead of the more well-known title of maid, I prefer to call her my house assistant and address her by her name; after all, I myself hate people calling me by puan or cik. Macam bagus..

So basically, her main job was to look after little Aisyah if I were to go out working. Other work is to help me take care of this small and humble house.
So kerjanya,
Pepagi
-basuh baju mama n aisyah
-kemas memainan aisyah yang ditabur2 sesuka hati
-sapu sampah
-potong bebawang etc utk masak
-masak sup n goreng anything for Aisyah

Then, habis kija, around kul 10 tu, I let her watch the tv dari pagi sampai kul 2pm. Dia pegang remote n suka atilah nk tengok cerita dari seberang ker 2 berang ker.. kul2 sampai kul 5, still tengok tv tapi kali ni Aisyah (n mama) nak tengok wonderpets n katun2 nick di 9. Somewhere in the middle of this, Cik S akan bawa Aisyah g tido, n of coz dia tido sekali la. Kul5 saya start masak. Kul7 camtu2 dia tengok drama apa2 ntah kt tb3, pastu malam pun saya still tolerate klu dia nk tgk apa2, provided that sy takder mender nk tengok sangat.

I didn’t allow her to
-cook for my husband (saya jeles ok? kot2 husband puji dia masak sedap..hehe)
-to wash/iron my husband’s work shirts (no way, don’t touch)
-to bathe or feed or play with Aisyah, etc, if I’m around (possessive gilerr…I admit)
-to clean our bedroom (private territory, right?)

And she has the right to choose whether she would like to stay at home or follow us if we were to go out. Selalunya klu ke rumah member, dia malas/malu nak ikut, tapi klu ker shopping complex, dia akan ikut.

Best tak jadi pembantu kat umah saya?…Ngehehe…

Dengan gaji rm400++ (termasuk tambang pergi balik untuk dia balik kampong tiap2 bulan, sebulan sekali), husband saya kata tak sepatutnya kita menzalimi anak orang dengan bagi gaji yang tak setimpal dengan workload. Saya pula sentiasa merasakan saya bagi workload yang tak setimpal dengan gaji. …tapi being me, saya malas nk suruh2, paham2 sendirila…kalau saya suruh pun, saya make sure saya akan tengah buat kija juga, baru entitled to boss around.

I met someone yang bagi pembantunya rm200 sebulan, untuk jaga 3 anaknya, mandi, tidorkan, masak, bawak jejalan, dsb…seorang dah sekolah, seorang lagi baby…duhh, tak termasuk jaga rumah seharian. n the girl wanted to quit (of coz la kan, sapa yang tahan) but persuaded to stay by her ‘boss’…Isskk, saya rasa cam zalim jerr…

To be honest, I felt a little bit sad when my house isn’t in tip top condition like few of those who have someone else paid to do the ‘housekeeping’. Clean and tidy, yes, but not tip-top..To have some stranger around in your house also mean to have less privacy. It wasn’t her fault after all; it was mine since the end result would still be the same regardless of who my house assistant is.

Umpama menarik rambut di dalam tepung,
- I want her to enjoy working with us (she said she like it here) but I wanted every single penny paid is worth it
- since she isn’t burdened with house chores that much, I want her to be nice, very2 nice to my daughter while I wasn’t around, but less works for her means quite some works for me, I don’t want to end up looking like a maid in my own house
- I want her to love my only daughter honestly, dengan seikhlasnya di depan mahupun di belakang kami, but I don’t want my only child to be close to her, susah nak jaga kalau dia takder nanti, plus, im jealous, ok, I admit it

Susahnya..

The perfect ideas of having maid is to have them around only when you want them, so that you would have more privacy, and to have them do what you wanted them to do, without being ordered to do so. Hahaha, I wish.

So, memandangkan saya sangat2 tidak suka playing the boss, saya akan menyiapkan senarai kija2 yang perlu dibuat within one week/day..ala2 milestone or duty roster..tampal kat dinding. So kat milestones tu, saya akan tick kija yang saya dah buat and she will tick hers. Ok tak?

Cik S takder nih, dia bercuti sebulan sejak raya tempohari. To be honest, I kinda like it this way. Sometimes, we need to have our own time jugak. I missed the moments of us, only three of us, together. Im afraid if i sound so sombong and arrogant now, He knows I didnt mean it (if i did) but I need some other opinion from third parties.
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Oh ya, walaupun rumah kami betul2 di tepi/belakang kubur, saya tiada masalah untuk tinggal seorang ever since pregnant lagi (sebab dia banyak berkursus). Tapi semenjak cik S ada nih, tiba2 pintu cam kena sentap dari luar la, pastu rumah sebelah ada something la. Ada bekas garam kt luar rumah sebelah la (sebelah kiri). Kononnya, kata cik S, klu ada bekas garam kat umah kosong, itu menandakan sesuatu cuba dihalau…
Macam2…
So saya fikir2, nak letak sebekas lagi garam kt umah sebelah kanan pulak (kosong jugak)…ngehehe, agak2 dia takut tak?