So Far So Good...

Errr... I know that I said that I won't leave the maid to cook on her own in my last post.... BUT I did. H wasn't coming back for dinner, and I had a heavy Korean BBQ lunch with some friends this afternoon. So, just took out some chicken thighs and broccoli, and got her to cook for the boys. She made it in her style. The chicken in soya sauce was a tad salty...otherwise the taste is alright. Though I didn't eat dinner, I did have a quick taste of the dishes. The broccoli was slightly over-cooked for my liking and again, too salty. Told her to REDUCE the salt/sauce next time. She's gonna make Fried Rice for the boys' packed lunch tomorrow. She seems quite eager to make all sorts of foods for the boys' breakfasts and lunch... asked me about Spaghetti, nuggets, egg sandwiches, seafood fried rice, sausage omelet, squid tempura etc etc.... Told her that I would bring her grocery shopping one of these days when H has dinner at home (he's busy whole of this week...), and she can whip out her various la-sau-siu-choy!!

I thought I would have to spend ages explaining to her about the different cloths and mops in my house; i.e. kitchen cloths MUST be separate from other cleaning cloths; outside mops from inside mops etc etc.... I think she must have worked for a STRICT household. Not only that she knows that the cloths are to be separated, she even requested more CLEANING cloths so that she could segregate "Cleaning furniture cloth" from "cleaning windows cloth". This is the first time, I have a maid requesting MORE cloths!!! She said it would be cleaner. 

Normally, I am only picky that my kitchen cloths are NOT mixed with the other cleaning cloths...

She told me that she would mop the floors morning, and then evening..... She had a really SHOCK look when I told her NO NEED. Once in the morning is good enough. Hahahahh... Really. Aiya...boys are at school till 4.30 pm three times a week. The floors are clean enough with a mop once a day. 

The only hitch was yesterday's laundry..... My front-loading washing machine takes awhile for one cycle.....I had quite a lot of laundry (since I didn't do any on Sunday, plus my sheets were changed yesterday too), and she waited and waited...At 2 pm, most clothes were still un-laundered. I told her to just hand-wash the rest...rather than wait for the washing machine.  She did hand-wash them, but then waited for the washing machine to do the "SPIN". She said that with the rainy season, it's best to spin the clothes so that they would be dryer... FAIR ENOUGH lah... Today? Things went more smoothly.... Hehehehehe... 

So...hopefully things will work out...