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      moonee
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      Nah, not Tailor M…, I ve only use United Channel and the mymnmar that is their interpreter was based at the other branch at Katong then. I decided to try a smaller agency cos I Ive never seen the boss of Utd Channel and all is handled by their employees. I walked around Bkt timah shopping Cte and came across a small office called Check employment n decided to try my last mynmar. He recommended me one that was rather young and she could work but was very smart but cunning. All went well till she mixed up with a malay taxi driver and another malay man. Thats when she demanded for an off day and left the house for 2 hours leaving my mum at home alone when I was out of town. She told me she went out to drink beer. No choice, had to send her back or she will probably land up in geylang.

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        Fatty Mum
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        Burmese maids are quite stubborn n set in their ways. They are also not great with older kids. Mine had insisted that her agent told her that she will be able to hold a Hp after 6 months. Although I was not willing to let her hv the Hp I relented by lending her my old Hp from Sat to Mon. Then she said she is unable to call her family during the weekend as they are all over the bloody country! She wants to hold the Hp everyday now. She said she is more free to use the Hp during the week!! The thing is, telephone calls to Mynamar is very expensive and to apply for SMS service there takes a very long time to come through according to her. So who is she calling and sms-ing daily???


        I let her do whatever as I am planning to send her to her agent soon. She needs to be told what to do, like clean the inside of the car every weekend, clean the fans every month, keep her own room and toilet clean, etc. No need to wash car as we hired a car wash guy to do so.

        She sleeps by 9.30pm everyday and wakes up at 5.45am weekdays and 6.30 or 7am weekends and holidays including school holidays. Sometimes they forget why they come here for. Sigh!!

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          moonee
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          Fattymum… your maid must be very young and not too good in telling lies. Mynmar does NOT provide messaging facilities for h/ps (unless they just started today) only calls are allowed and not all parts can receive. I believe shes messaging someone in spore and is so overwhelm by the h/p cos its like a new toy to her. Better check who she is in contact with before she leaves. Dont be fooled theres no messaging for any h/p, even emailing can be difficult.

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            1amber
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            Hi hi


            I have used 2 myanmar maids - one 6 months and one 2 months. Fired them and now still allergic to myanmar maids.

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              Fatty Mum
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              moonee:
              Fattymum.... your maid must be very young and not too good in telling lies. Mynmar does NOT provide messaging facilities for h/ps (unless they just started today) only calls are allowed and not all parts can receive. I believe shes messaging someone in spore and is so overwhelm by the h/p cos its like a new toy to her. Better check who she is in contact with before she leaves. Dont be fooled theres no messaging for any h/p, even emailing can be difficult.

              Really?? Then my gut instincts were spot on.. She is 29 years old according to her passport.. I thought since she is so religious n has been reading her bible, she was more trustworthy. She is taking the Mickey out of me and her religion then.

              She even told me most Burmese maids at a certain school in Bt Timah are secretly holding hps wo employers' knowledge!!

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                soonlee.012396ng.012396resources-sg.012396com
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                Fatty Mum:
                moonee:

                Fattymum.... your maid must be very young and not too good in telling lies. Mynmar does NOT provide messaging facilities for h/ps (unless they just started today) only calls are allowed and not all parts can receive. I believe shes messaging someone in spore and is so overwhelm by the h/p cos its like a new toy to her. Better check who she is in contact with before she leaves. Dont be fooled theres no messaging for any h/p, even emailing can be difficult.


                Really?? Then my gut instincts were spot on.. She is 29 years old according to her passport.. I thought since she is so religious n has been reading her bible, she was more trustworthy. She is taking the Mickey out of me and her religion then.

                She even told me most Burmese maids at a certain school in Bt Timah are secretly holding hps wo employers' knowledge!!


                Depending on where your maid comes from, some may be holding India or China lines as it is easier and much cheaper. My ex maid from Chin contacted her family thru an Indian HP line and can text anytime. My current one from near China contacts her family thru China HP line. It's a lot cheaper to call the family and can sms too.

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                  Fatty Mum
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                  ER:
                  Fatty Mum:

                  [quote=\"moonee\"]Fattymum.... your maid must be very young and not too good in telling lies. Mynmar does NOT provide messaging facilities for h/ps (unless they just started today) only calls are allowed and not all parts can receive. I believe shes messaging someone in spore and is so overwhelm by the h/p cos its like a new toy to her. Better check who she is in contact with before she leaves. Dont be fooled theres no messaging for any h/p, even emailing can be difficult.


                  Really?? Then my gut instincts were spot on.. She is 29 years old according to her passport.. I thought since she is so religious n has been reading her bible, she was more trustworthy. She is taking the Mickey out of me and her religion then.

                  She even told me most Burmese maids at a certain school in Bt Timah are secretly holding hps wo employers' knowledge!!


                  Depending on where your maid comes from, some may be holding India or China lines as it is easier and much cheaper. My ex maid from Chin contacted her family thru an Indian HP line and can text anytime. My current one from near China contacts her family thru China HP line. It's a lot cheaper to call the family and can sms too.[/quote]She told me that her family lives near Yangon. From the previous times she called her sister (I think it was her sister) my phone bill itemized the call to Mynamar. I do have a feeling a man is involved in this whole matter of wanting a Hp at all times. After all nothing is greater than love!! :evil: She also told previously that it is very difficult to contact her family as only her sister has a Hp but no SMS service coz it takes very long to apply for it. She is holding a M1 line.

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                    soonlee.012396ng.012396resources-sg.012396com
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                    Really?? Then my gut instincts were spot on.. She is 29 years old according to her passport.. I thought since she is so religious n has been reading her bible, she was more trustworthy. She is taking the Mickey out of me and her religion then.


                    She even told me most Burmese maids at a certain school in Bt Timah are secretly holding hps wo employers' knowledge!!
                    [/quote]


                    Depending on where your maid comes from, some may be holding India or China lines as it is easier and much cheaper. My ex maid from Chin contacted her family thru an Indian HP line and can text anytime. My current one from near China contacts her family thru China HP line. It's a lot cheaper to call the family and can sms too.[/quote]

                    She told me that her family lives near Yangon. From the previous times she called her sister (I think it was her sister) my phone bill itemized the call to Mynamar. I do have a feeling a man is involved in this whole matter of wanting a Hp at all times. After all nothing is greater than love!! :evil: She also told previously that it is very difficult to contact her family as only her sister has a Hp but no SMS service coz it takes very long to apply for it. She is holding a M1 line.[/quote]

                    My experience with maid from Yangon was not good. They are city girls and I did have one with a BF issue. Take the more kampong ones got better chance of managing them.

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                      Fatty Mum
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                      Dear ER and Moonee,

                      Thank you so much for your insights… I think I want stay away from Burmese and Filipinos helpers now.

                      My last indo helper turned out be gay! But I was ok with that as long as work gets done. Towards the end of contract, her attitude changed… She demanded I increased her pay to 550.00 from 450.00. When she came in early 2010, her agreed pay was $370.00. I increased to 450.00 after a year when i saw ST reporting maids getting higher salaries. But from there onwards, her work performance went down the drain.

                      I decided not to renew and then she realized a renewal of her contract was not on the cards, she announced that she wants to work for a Caucasian family. To me, this was fantastic news and I gladly let her go for interviews. The day she left, I was so relieved and free. My older girls were so happy that they clapped and jumped for joy!

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                        moonee
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                        I have not come across any mynmar that states the correct age on the passport. My 1st mynmar was 29 too, she was small built but later found out she was 33. My 2nd was 21 but she was so straight she told every one her real age alto her passport stated 25, well she did look older. My third mynmars passport stated 23 but u could see that she is definitely below 20, she looked very young, I found out that she was actually 17.


                        My last mynmar was a christian and claimed that she studied theology but shes crazy over beer and sneeks out to drink beer with some malay guy.
                        My aunts mynmar maid claim her dad is a pastor but shes downright rude, stubborn and answers back. She too read the bible and pray b4 she eat even in public, my aunt caught her with a h/p and left the gate open to meet up with guys.

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