Foong Speaks Her Mind

It is now almost normal for most middle to high income families to have a foreign maid, Indonesians mostly, at home. Mostly they take on maids to do their house chores, care for their elderly, care for their children, cook and even to care for their pets.

What I absolutely detest about some of these people with maids are the way they mistreat the maids and treat them worse than they treat scum in the bottom of a stagnant drain. For the scum, they will just leave it be and hope someone will come and clean it up.

Maids, they are abused, verbally and physically and they are treated like pariahs of the society. Although they were provided with the basics such as clothing, food and a corner to sleep in, that’s as far as the generosity could go.

I personally know of a few families who treated their maids worse than their pet dogs. This is what they subjected their maids to:

- make her clean the house from 5am onwards. Once her chores are done, take her along to the shop / business to clean up that premises too.

- only give her remnants / scraps from left over food for her meals and she is only allowed to squat and eat her scraps in the kitchen, not at the dining table.

- do not even give her a room to sleep in but let her sleep in a corner on a thin mattress in the kitchen or if the house has a small storage room, let her sleep there amidst all the boxes of storage stuff.

- beat and shout at her for any mistakes, no matter how trivial

- when going out, she is in charge of carrying the baby, the groceries, the bags and whatever the family needs or buy.

- when eating out, she is not allowed to eat but told to sit somewhere near but not too near to the table.

- she has her own separate set of plastic, cheap cutleries, plates and cups as she is not allowed to use any of the family’s expensive silver cutleries and porcelain plates although she is in charge of washing and polishing all these.

- she is not allowed to take even a single day off for the whole duration of working for the family, not even when she is sick.

- she is also subjected to sexual abuse and unwanted sexual attentions by the gatal men of the house.

- she is not allowed to talk to anyone unless spoken to and not allowed to watch the TV or use the phone

- she is forced to work (cook, clean, wash, whatever) from 5am to midnight, 24/7 365 days of the year. No respite, no rest, no holiday, no public holiday and no OT.

- she is treated with disdain and members of the family often sneer and look down at her and call her names.

Of course, there are a lot more other abusive actions that some sadistic Malaysians seemed to like to bestown on their hired help. All just because they are paying a mere few hundred ringgit a month as salary to the maid.

I wonder if they ever stop and think.

What would they feel if their children go overseas to work and were treated similarly?

What if their children were paid a measly RM350 each month and made to work from 5am to midnight everyday and denied their rights to days off and leave? What if their children were ostracised and treated like pariahs and were not even allowed to call home?

Don’t they know that these Indonesian maids came here to make a living, to earn an income for a better living environment for their families back home. They are mothers, sisters, aunties, daughters, cousins and yes, even grandmothers who left everyone they love and care for to come to some foreign land just to work for a better life for their families.

Is it really too much for you to treat them like humans?

Now, I am not saying all families with maids treat their maids this way. I also know of some who treated their maids like part of their families. It is those who seem to think they are far more superior than their ‘lowly’ maid that I could not stand.

Don’t forget. Your maid is the person you entrusted your children, your elderly parents and most importantly your food and drinks to every day. She is human and she can and will retaliate if pushed beyond the limit.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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Human beings are destined for extinction. The signs are all there…**enter scary instrumental music**

There are people swearing at God in the name of God over stupid matters that God does not even want to know about.

There are people banging their heads against the wall over things not in their control.

There are people becoming too anal about certain things when there is a larger picture to look at.

Then there are the bombs and weapons of mass destructions that were there and then not there.

And seriously…

There are the senseless killings of animals and let’s not forget how some monsters are left to roam the streets to prey on innocents.

Then there are the millions of air, water, earth, everything polluting devices being produced each day to kill the earth faster.

So, in the end, when there really is an Apocalypse, humans will all be destroyed and one main species will survive it all. I swear (but not on any Holy book or any God’s name) that this species is so hardy that it is practically immortal.

What is it?

Yep, your friendly household cockroach and its gadzillions of offsprings.

If anything, I really hate this bug. With a vehemence. And no, I do not jump up on chairs and screech at the sight of a cockroach. I will turn into this zealous cockroach-hunter and pick up something solid and start chasing after it to kill it. That’s the only way to kill it.

No aerosols for me because I do not believe in spraying poison in the air in my house just to kill a roach. No point poisoning myself and my family over a stupid roach.

Yep, a crushed roach is the way to kill cockroaches although it is not easy to crush them to smithereens. Trust me. I tried. They must have some sorta ‘hit-proof’ shield or something!

So, yes, these pesky, smelly, disgusting roaches will definitely survive anything (go watch Wall-E) since they’ve been around since the dinosaur age. And yes, according to some scientific research, the cockroach can withstand radiation dunnohowmanymillion times more than humans.

You wanna be immortal (okay, almost immortal) go be a cockroach. Just make sure you stay outta my way and I won’t crush you.

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Beware!

Obnoxious 5xmom aka Lilian has flushed out a perverted sick pedophile blogger who stalks other blogs too, such as Susan Loone’s and Anil Netto’s, amongst others.

He uses the moniker Albert1951 and hotmail address of albertxu2007may.

This pervert has a disgusting sickening blog albertxuling2007.blogspot.com with pictures of young girls who are barely in their teens and his perverted sexual fantasies of what he wants to do with them.

His IP address is:

219.95.3.179

So, keep a watch-out and if you see this pervert lurking around your blog, be very careful!

A note to parents, make sure your young daughters are not striking up online friendships with strange men called Albert Ooi or any other variations of Albert! This man is really sick and he apparently lives in Penang, so be very careful!

To read the full extent of his depravities, go to Lilian’s blog and read this post and its comments:

Mothers with young girls, watch out for this pedo

Susan has also posted an alert on her blog: Pedophile on the loose

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