getting a maid

i have been searching for a maid and finally will be interviewing one tomorrow… let's see how things go. so far, the experience with the agent recommended to me by my ex-colleague has been reasonably good. straight forward and to the point.

i have also sms-ed my brother to tell him (and not asking him if i could) that i would be changing the address in my mum's identity card to my address. i needed to do so as under local rules, a single man cannot employ a maid. and so i needed my mum to legally move into my place before i could employ a maid. 

my brother had previous vehemently objected to my suggestion to change the address as retaining his address in her identity card allows her to stay in the hospital at better subsidized rates and for him to use her name to his favour when needed, such as to justify for his mother-in-law's short term visit pass to singapore (that his wife cannot handle two kids, elderly mother-in-law yadda yadda yadda)...

peace of mind is more important to me now than subsidies given her weakened state. and frankly, i couldn't care about benefits for him now that he accused me ill-treating my mum and chided me for not looking after her well, given that "i had not even bother to get a maid to look after her". he cannot expect to have his cake and eat it!

if all goes well, i think i should be able to have the maid by end of the month/ year or perhaps earlier.

:-)