wah liao ! Supersized migraine. So I stayed home. It has been reduced to an ache in the neck...not good either.

Finally wrote a letter to my friend Lynn in the UK. Have known her since I was 12 & she 15. We started off as penfriends & have kept it up all these years ! Some 30+ years of friendship. She has been to Singapore 3 times & I went to her wedding in Manchester. She knows our entire family & I know her's. It has been an awesome friendship. But she hasn't quite graduated from letter writing to the computer. She occasionally emails when she gets a chance to go on a comp. But I have been rather remiss in writing. We used to do weekly letters. I have been on email with her but not as frequently.

I wrote her an 8 page letter last night & my fingers were cramped ! I didn't type okaaay...handwritten ! And so she will be pleasantly surprised cos she nags (only a little lah) that she doesn't hear enough from me. And I am guilty so she has a right. Am also sending her a CD of photos. Got a few old ones from her trips here in 1983 & 1986 lol. She will be suprised. Her last visit was sometime in 1997/98. Then I went to UK in 2000 for her wedding in August. Matron of honour some more ! I loved the visit !

Cora is going to retire soon & will go home to the Philippines. She has been with us about 8 years. And we will have to look for a new maid as she will go home October next year as that is when her passport expires. I am so not looking forward to a new maid.

Had an Indonesian maid a few years back when Cora went home for an operation & we didn't know if she wanted to come back. That Indonesian was a slut...got Bangladeshi guys calling her within a week. They would pretend to ask for a different person if one of us picked up the phone when we happened to be home. One day I pretended to be her & had a rude shock ! The guys had been passing the number around. And, her name is Lena, not even pretty ! Tomboy looks. She threatened the kids who were young then that cannot tell mummy & daddy about the uncles she would meet downstairs or she would whack them. She stole, lied, her sister got into a bus accident, died & lived within a month she was with us. Fed the kids bread, biscuits, packet noodles for lunch. Sarah said she didn't clean house only on weekends we were home.

Then we rang Cora who said she sent us a letter which we never received. She wanted to come back to work with us thank goodness. So I sent Lena back to the agent & told the agent everything. Just one month & so much crap. From the grapevine, Cora had also heard all about the stuff Lena got into !! Bladdy bitch ! Good thing we didn't keep her longer or she would start inviting men home & I have kids, plus a girl to boot. I hope Lena never gets to work here. If I ever see her with a new employer, I would have no qualms telling the new employer. Better they know than rudely find out ! Yes break her rice bowl but why not when she she lied, stole, threatened my kids, didn't care for them, had boyfriends. Very glowing testimonial meh ?? Yes yes still heated up when I think back about her. Bitch !

Cora is already in her 50s & so she should rightly retire. We will ask her if she has anyone she would recommend. If not, we will need to take on a new maid. Haven't decided what nationality. If they up the salaries of Filipina maids, we will not be able to afford them. May have to stick to Indon or Sri Lankan.

My mother in law has a fantastic Sri Lankan. We were contemplating having MIL stay with us & we also take over her Sri Lankan maid who is very used to us & loves the kids. The kids too like her much. But MIL may not want to cos she may be happy moving around every two months. But she is getting old & the moving is not too good for her. I know my sisters in law would be happy if she stayed with us permanently lol...hubby said that too.

We could do without a maid & get someone part time to clean house but I dun like the idea of leaving kids at home alone while we are at work. Ah well...we shall see.

I msgd drey a couple of days ago & didn't get a reply. LOLOL. I am finding this all amusing now.

Tomorrow very busy day...8.30am, 10am, 11am, 12.30pm, 3pm & 5pm meetings...sigh. Lucky migraine today !!! Its the monthly hormonal thing lah so I should be better tomorrow. Every few months, I get the supersized migraine, fortunately not monthly.

Lament for the day : the web of deceit is a tangled mess that can eventually be unravelled.