Sunday, April 08, 2007
Sunny Perth
Sunny Perth
House keeper
Sometimes I envied my girl friend and my in laws for having "housekeeper'. I do not like to call them servant as that is degrading, they are helper who are there to lessen your work load, to help you with housework; and they should be appreciated.
In the western society very few family has the luxury of a housekeeper. It will be so nice to have someone to do my housework,scrubbing my bathroom, hanging up my clothing while I sit down,enjoy my TV , and cutting my toe nail at the same time, just once, maybe three times,that will be nice. Instead I have to stay up till 1-2am washing my piles of clothing after a hard day at work, hanging them out at 2am while the rest of the world is asleep. How about vacuuming at 10pm while I should be watching "sex and the City"?and the many Friday, rushing out half naked, in my night attire, chasing the garbage truck so that the garbage wont be left there for another week.
One of my relative was a housekeeper till the day she died, Aunty Ah Tow was my 2nd Aunty's sister and we called her aunty too. Her mum was a housekeeper for English rubber plantation manager and she followed suit, working for a Chinese manager in the rubber estate. She worked all week and has day off on Saturday. She used to take my younger sister , Penny, for movies. I went once or twice. AH Tow was a sweet girl with a big mole on the left side of her forehead. I used to hope that she will get together with my eldest bropther and married him, this was not to be as grandmother thought that Ah Tow was not good enough for her family.
Ah TOw worked for French Diplomatic and went to America. At last she met a nice American, married him, but unfortunately, she was diagnosed with cancer and had to return to Singapore/Malaysia for treatment,the new husband accompanied her, nursed her and stayed with her till she died.
Some people had terrible life, my poor sweet, kind Aunty Tow Yee never get to know her own father, lived with her widowed mother, never went to school (but spoke perfect English)went through life with struggle; when at last she found some one she loved and who loved her, she died.What a sad life.Seeing my brother's "housekeeper" remind me of Aunty Ah Tow.
House keeper
Sometimes I envied my girl friend and my in laws for having "housekeeper'. I do not like to call them servant as that is degrading, they are helper who are there to lessen your work load, to help you with housework; and they should be appreciated.
In the western society very few family has the luxury of a housekeeper. It will be so nice to have someone to do my housework,scrubbing my bathroom, hanging up my clothing while I sit down,enjoy my TV , and cutting my toe nail at the same time, just once, maybe three times,that will be nice. Instead I have to stay up till 1-2am washing my piles of clothing after a hard day at work, hanging them out at 2am while the rest of the world is asleep. How about vacuuming at 10pm while I should be watching "sex and the City"?and the many Friday, rushing out half naked, in my night attire, chasing the garbage truck so that the garbage wont be left there for another week.
One of my relative was a housekeeper till the day she died, Aunty Ah Tow was my 2nd Aunty's sister and we called her aunty too. Her mum was a housekeeper for English rubber plantation manager and she followed suit, working for a Chinese manager in the rubber estate. She worked all week and has day off on Saturday. She used to take my younger sister , Penny, for movies. I went once or twice. AH Tow was a sweet girl with a big mole on the left side of her forehead. I used to hope that she will get together with my eldest bropther and married him, this was not to be as grandmother thought that Ah Tow was not good enough for her family.
Ah TOw worked for French Diplomatic and went to America. At last she met a nice American, married him, but unfortunately, she was diagnosed with cancer and had to return to Singapore/Malaysia for treatment,the new husband accompanied her, nursed her and stayed with her till she died.
Some people had terrible life, my poor sweet, kind Aunty Tow Yee never get to know her own father, lived with her widowed mother, never went to school (but spoke perfect English)went through life with struggle; when at last she found some one she loved and who loved her, she died.What a sad life.Seeing my brother's "housekeeper" remind me of Aunty Ah Tow.
# posted by SunnyPerth @ 1:18 pm 
