I have never been a fan of having maids in the household. Nothing personal against them but after seeing a couple of friends and relative having troubles with their maids, the worry will always be there. If they are angry at you, disturbed about things back in their home country, etc, what would happen to the people or child that they are taking care of and even to you? The drama series on TV is not helping much coz all the more that I am convinced and keep telling myself that I can manage on my own. Not all are bad though. I have has friends and family members that have had exceptionally good relationships with their maid and have been with the family for numerous number of years. The husband and I concluded that it all points down to sheer luck.

Since my dad is no longer working, my parents have offered to help out with when the babies arrive. Initially, we are more than glad to have them around but now with two, I don’t think I can bear to have my dad take care of both and help around with the house. Just doesn’t feel right… Being the stubborn Scorpio that I am, I was telling the husband that I’m sure that I am able to manage coz if our parents could do it before, why not me. He tried to reason out with me that I’d still have Lola, with work shifting over to the east side by the time I finish my maternity leave, etc. So I gave in. But I told him I was not willing to pay the agent fee and touch wood, if anything were to happen and we’d require to change maids, we still have to fork out a sum.

My aunt/ grandma was suggesting for me to use back my aunt’s past maids since all of which have had good relations with the family plus it’s someone we know and no reason to doubt them for now, etc. I was already sourcing for direct employment, meaning minus the agent fees and dealing with my own paperwork which is big difference from what the agents are charging. But probably just not my luck yet, coz they have yet to confirm and the recent maid said she still misses her husband so may not want to start anytime soon.

I’m banking on my my brother’s friend who has a kampung in batam and that’s where he got his current maid from and hopefully there are some who might be interested to take up the job. I know having one will help out significantly but my concerns and worries are still lingering around.

Click here to download the step-by-step procedures that I got off from the SG Mummy’s forum. I have yet to try it coz I’m still waiting on my end. Hopefully the procedures and paper works are as straight-forward and it seems. Below are the breakdown of the estimated costings.

Hopefully all goes well for my end.