Yaya, What’s for Lunch?
From what I remember, we had more or less ten yayas ((Translation: maids)) since the 90’s. Some were irritating, lazy as hell, and irritating. Oh, have I said that they’re irritating? While others were friendly and they do their work as how they should do it.
The first maid that we’ve got, as far as I can remember was an old woman from Leyte. We had her for more than ten years. She did what she ought to do: clean the house, take care of us, prepare food, etcetera. But as time passed by, she became irritating and very slow. Talking about of “depreciation.” A whole day is not enough for her to finish ironing our clothes or wash them. She fought verbally with my parents when she don’t like whatever she had to do.
I’m not sure of the reason why she left. But from what I’ve heard from my parents, the wife of her son died and she had to take care of his son — who is by the way blind — and her two grandchildren. Now, she’s getting very low pension from SSS.
From the time she left and when we got our present maid, we had several maids. All were irritating!
I’ve listed here some of the things that made me irritated:
- One of them loves to cook at the wrong time so we end up eating cold food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- Another one let strangers inside the house. Won’t that freak you out?
- Most of them clean the house a few minutes before my parents would arrive.
- My clothes always get mixed with those of my siblings. I always end up looking for my clothes.
- One had met the other maids in the neighborhood. They always talk whenever they get the chance.
The present maid that we got — who is on leave for a week — is the most industrious among the maids that we’ve got over the years. According to my mother, she is the best. She does whatever my parents told her. Actually, before she left for Bacolod yesterday, she washed all of our dirty clothes. And to my siblings, she’s not just a maid but also a friend.
But even though we’ve got a maid that do almost everything of the household chores, my mother still insist that we do some chores. Yeah, she’s right. We should. Why? It’s for our own good, when we got older, I’m sure we will also be doing those household chores, like it or not.
And this reminds me that I still haven’t got to clean my room since the start of the summer vacation. I badly need to clean my room!
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I’m 50% sure that I’ll attend the iblog3. What I’m thinking now is how I’ll get back home from UP. My friend who goes to UP said to me that I can go back to SM North Edsa, but that means that I’ll have to wait for a bus and that could take for ages. He suggested that I can go to Cubao and look for the bus that’ll go to Bataan there.
