Mixed Marriages

You know how there are so many mixed marriages nowadays? It's so common now and I love checking out their kids cause they're all so adorable! Well obviously they have this Asian/Caucasian mix vibe that's present in their faces that kinds of draw you into admiring them. I also like checking out what kind of accents they pick up. Their dads'? Or their moms?

Josh and I were waiting for a taxi at Far East Plaza the other day and I noticed this couple because of their little daughter's angelic face. I thought this Caucasian guy queuing up at the taxi stand was standing next to his wife but turned out it was his maid. You know how the division between home employers and their house helpers are really distinct in Singapore? Like there's a class division that's extremely obvious.

In Europe, if you're a helper- you have your family to look after, an average salary, you get to go home and more important actually to have a life/rest after work.

Here in Singapore though, there are many families that require the maid to be the first one up and the last one to go to bed and certain families have some crazy rules.

I hate

1) Those that wear a tee shirt advertising their "company". Do they get paid loyalty fees or something? I certainly hope they do.

2) Maids do not get to eat at the same table as the family, or maybe at a different time

3) Maids are now known to be closer to their employers' children then the employers themselves

4) No off days or free time for the maids

5) My maid has a very bad habit of leaving the table to eat by herself alone. Why is it so difficult to seat with us? It has to be with the training of the employment company that brought them here. Every time we offer her and she'll gobble her food down quickly so she won't have to seat with us for too long.

So I was thinking about this particular maid. I wonder how she feels standing next to a lady who comes from the same country married to a Caucasian and is definitely living a better life than she is. I mean it's pretty obvious they're abusing their authority with the task given to her. There was a pram and a number of shopping bags. When the taxi came for them, the lady went into the taxi's back seat first with her little handbag. Her husband sat their daughter down in the middle of the seat and joins them! The maid is stuck alone struggling to put all the bags into the boot, then folds up the pram and keeps it in too all by herself. All that time, the entire family was waiting in the taxi. Don't they feel ashamed?

Why is the husband so useless??? Even if the wife wasn't keen on giving a hand, he should have at least offered. It seemed like the maid was invisible or a machine that could lift all that nonsense into the boot herself. She is tiny by the way!

I was so pissed. People need to appreciate what they have. Plus it's not that difficult to help out with a few shopping bags. If you can carry it off the counter, you shouldn't have a problem putting it into the boot.

So angry! :(