drama weekend

My maid has to be sent back home.

And it's not her fault.

According to our maid, there was this freaky guy (whom i've never seen before) that's been practically stalking her from her previous employment, to her home in indonesia (asking for her dad for her hand in marriage as the second wife =.=) to our place now.

The worse part is, she went to try and plea with the wife for help. But the wife turned postal and called us up to say she'd made a police report accusing our maid of having stolen her jewellery and stuff (how silly is that, our maid hardly leaves our house!). And how she wants to come over to beat her up.

Of course we won't let her do anything like that (would you?!) at our place and we'd warned her we'd get the police over if she came without the police. Ending of the story? For her safety, we have resorted to sending our maid back home. The crazy woman was still harassing her yesterday or something... but my parents would prefer to have less trouble and send her home instead.

The trouble is, come CNY, we're going to have one pair of hands less to tend to our guests. And our household chores will have to be done by ourselves. Not that I mind. We'd been doing that before we started hiring maids. Dumb crazy woman who can't rein in her husband properly...@#$%

On a lighter note, Rachel and I had been fooling around in the kitchen *cough*. On pineapple tarts lah! We baked these (okay she did, I helped) little pineapple tarts for fun and they tasted quite lovely too! ^^ We were drop dead tired by the time we were done after about 3 hours of slogging but it was fun haha...

And check this out! Just saw this on channel 52 and they mentioned this. It's kind of cool to know that my ancestors (my parents were pretty sure of that) dated all the way back to the days in China having lived in this structure they termed as the "Gan Family's Big Garden" supposedly having 99.5 rooms. I think the 0.5 is just for the effect of having so many rooms in the first place. AND apparently the reason they could build such a building is because at some point in time somebody in the family was actually an official with the royal court or something. Real freaky!

*yummy home-made pineapple tarts!*