Saturday, July 01, 2006
Have you met anyone more CRAZY than HER?

A few days back, I had asked the maid to take me to the "jie shi" (street markets). That was in the evening about 4 pm, when the maid had finished all her work. I knew that cuz I asked her if she was free to bring me out after she had finished her work and she said "yes". So off we went and we came back about 630 pm, which was about 1.5 hrs past her knock off time. (yes, she knocks off officially at 5 pm). So I was extremely grateful that she stayed past her usual working hours out of her own free will to take me shopping.

And today, I asked the maid if she could take me to the "jie shi" again cuz the last time we were there, we told the sales lady that the studs on the jacket had fallen out, so she said that she would exchange a new piece for me and asked me to come back on Saturday (which is today).

But the maid was hesistant to bring me out again....why??? The story unveils...


Maid: The HR Director (who was staying next door to Piggy & I) said that Apple was very unhappy over the fact that I brought you out on Thursday...

Me: Why? Unhappy for what?

Maid: I dunno. The HR Director just told me Apple was angry over that. And yesterday, when I was cleaning up Apple's room, she was very angry and scolded me and asked me "What have you been doing? You tell me, what are you so busy with? Got so many things in the house for you to do meh?" (as the maid related it, Apple said all these in one breath, in a very angry tone)

Me: Crazy! Just tell her that "I ask you to accompany me lah"! You finished your work liao, rite? And she got nothing for you to do what..

Maid: Maybe she wants me to clean her room? That's why she was angry that day...

Me: Clean her room? But before we left at 4 pm, she was sleeping and when we came back at 630 pm that day, she hasn't even woken up!!

The fact is that Apple sometimes wakes up at 5pm in the evening and although it was supposed to be the maid's knock off time, she will make the maid stay back to clean her room. I have nothing to say to that cuz it's her sleeping habit, but just dun understand why she has a PROBLEM with the maid going out with me, when she has done her fair share of work for the day. If really so unhappy, then come and tell me directly lah, why go through a 3rd party? And anyway, what's there to be so unhappy about? All I can say is that she is "siao"!!! I seriously think that she is metally-imbalanced or has some mental problems, which recurs every now and then. And because of Apple's crazy behaviour, the maid appears very scared of her and was afraid to go out of the house with me.

To me, I feel that there was nothing wrong with the maid bringing me out to shop for the following reasons:

1) I was the one who asked the maid, not the maid who volunteered to bring me out.

2) The maid belongs to the whole house, not just to Apple, so it should be right that anyone who has a need for her help can "use" her and especially so, when nobody else appears to need her help at that time. Apple probably thinks she is "Queen" of the household.

3) She had finished her chores for the day except for cleaning up Apple's room on that one particular day, but then it was well justifiable cuz firstly, Apple doesn't have the habit of asking the maid to clean her room daily and secondly, we left the house at 4 pm, and came back at 630 pm and just to HIGHLIGHT that on that day, when we reached home, Apple had BARELY WOKEN UP. Under normal circumstances, the maid would not have stayed behind till 63o pm (or till whatever time Apple wants to wake up) to clean her room too, since her official knock off time was 5 pm.

4) The maid willingly sacrificed her after-office hours to bring me out. Anything wrong with that? Just because Apple was on bad terms with her and doesn't get such treatment from the maid doesn't mean she should start getting angry and behaving like a "sour grape"!

Really cannot stand her behaviour! When I first knew her, I still thought she was some innocent soul, who was different from other PRCs. But time spent with her have proven my opinion of her to be so so wrong and with each passing day, I just see it even more closely, and this is with the witness of my dear little piggy, so you can't say that I am biaised against her just cuz she is a PRC.

Yup, although Apple has mentioned before to me that she does not deny that she has a wierd temper, but is that an excuse for always behaving badly and scolding people just because you happened to be in a foul mood? For goodness sake, she is not some 3-yr old kid who hasn't grown up, she should take control of her wierd temper and not be so bossy man! Some time back, Apple related to me that when she went back to China, she seemed like an "alien" to her family. Nobody really wanted to speak to her or even eat with her, so she felt very sorry for herself and told me that this was the result of giving up her everything for my brother-in-law. Actually, it made me feel kinda sorry for her at first but not after she related to me that she scolded her sister-in-law like a monster. She said her SIL didn't know how to cook properly and hygienically so she shouted at her and she was so scared that she kept quiet. Then she added that lucklily the SIL didn't retaliate, otherwise, she would have hit her! Sounds scary hearing that man, sounded like a crazy woman who would resort to using her fists if things didn't get done her way! And nope, Apple didn't sound like she was joking when she related it. She sounded angry, like she meant every word she said. Scary!!

Kimmie scribbles
4:22 pm |

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