Don't understand why I went to bed before 12 and yet woke up late this morning. Errr...maybe it's cause quality of sleep was bad. Loads of funny and made-no-sense dreams, I guess. Anyway, it could also be because of such conversations of late.
Me: So, which room is going need change in flooring?
Designer: All lor....the whole house mah.
Me: ??? Why lah?
Designer: Once you hack the walls, then got to change lor. No choice liao
Me: Cannot hack 'gently' meh?
Designer: Eeer....mumble, mumble, mumble (this bitch don't understand the renovation industry)
Me: OK OK OK....so the lighting all kow-time hor? Including the bathrooms hor?
Designer: Lightings sure kow-tim but don't include the sink, the tub and the toilet lor
Me: Then how much everything?
Designer: More or less *bleep* *bleep* *bleep* thousand lor
Me: WHAT??? (Niamah)
Designer: The flooring already *bleep**bleep**bleep* thousands lor....
Me: So.....back to the hacking gently bit. Possible kah?
I was kind of a little sad when I read the news about this - there will be no live-in Indonesian maids in Malaysia anymore . There are pros and cons to having a live-in maid, as with everything else, but for us, we enjoyed more pros than cons. Back then, when my kids were little, we brought in a family of maids to help with...well, just about everything, and we were like two families merged into one. They ate what we ate, we sleep, they sleep, we shop, they shop, they joke, we laugh, we joke, they laugh...for me, the maid I hired was more like a sister and side-kick to me. For that few years, I was dependent on her to mind-read my schedule and when I need or don't need help. She picked things up quickly and we ended up having lots of moments whereby we were in sync. Today, two of them are on my Facebook and we were gleefully chatting over Facebook Messenger since they've just discovered the wonders of the Internet and Social Media. Since we were more like partners in crim...
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