Rayyan and his new bibik

At last.. we finally got one since last Sunday. That was after a series of trial (and error) with the agent Ja dealt with.

The agent first gave us one person... Fatimah, orang Medan. She was a Christian, converted to Islam when she got married few years ago. She came here to work, leaving her hubby and her two kids in Indon. She had problems with the hubby and his parents. Of course she wouldn't want to leave her kids with her Christian parents takut jadi Kristianlah pulak anak2 dia. And she couldn't leave the kids with her parents in-law either. So she just left with the agent kat sana. The deal with Fatimah was that the agent let us put her on trial for a few days and then, if we like the way she worked, the agent would arrange so that she would go back to Indon and settle her work permit and come back straight to our home. She was on tourist Visa.

So what happened? She left, and never came back. The agent had to give us another maid to try. After a few weeks, the agent gave us another one, apa ntah nama dia... oh Iis.. pronounced "IS" or something like that. This lady is quite matured (not that old), from Medan, but used to be a secretary in Jakarta... kerja bagus, cakap orang putih pun boleh sikit2 (very important! especially nak jaga Rayyan.. hehe) but susahla pulak kita nak mengumpat pasal dia depan2... haha.. anyways... adala pulak banyak problem pasal Iis ni.. dah hantar balik dah and was about to proceed with her papers.. then dia pulak komplen kaki dia sakit.. and that she only wanted to work for 1 year... but she told her agent that we were nice people.. and that sayang pulak tak boleh kerja dengan we all.. we also don't want to have her for 1 year.. pastu nak kena bayar lagi beribu2 to get another one.. for what??? So that was it.. another one down the Selat Melaka...

Weeks after that... after Ja pressuring the agent.. barula dapat lagi sorang. This time, Ja went to the agent's house terus interview calon maid kitorang. Takyah nak susah2 datang trial pastu tak datang2 balik. So after the interview, Ja said she was satisfied with the girl... kitorang tunggula.. pi Putrajaya to settle everything and wait for about 1-2 weeks to get this girl to start work in our home.

So this new one is okay.. Rani.. just got married for one and half years... laki kat sana.. takde anak.. but she is good. Pernah kerja kat Seremban but didn't want to continue sebab majikan punya emak buat asyik cari masalah dgn dia.. haha.. and she also takut kena tinggal kat rumah dgn anak2 majikan for long periods of time 'coz according to her majikan dia kerja kapal terbang.. pilot and stewardess la kot.. so it's their loss lah nampak gaya. Don't want to jinx anything but I think if she keeps up her work like this and willing to stay long.. kitorang pun dah taknak carik orang lain... I prefer to work with maids who can grow together with our family sampai bila2... tapi kesianla pulak dengan dia.. dia pun nak berfamily jugak kan?

I've known people who have their maids work berbelas tahun dengan diorang.. my mom pun the longest she kept her maid ada la dalam 6-8 years... sempat la jugak kak Esah tu tengok sekor2 me and my siblings kawin and sampai beranak-pinak... but then since diorang ni too long in Malaysia, and ada handphone, diorang pun dah start naik kepala pulak...

So, so far everyone's happy with Rani. But she couldn't understand English. Haha kesian la pulak kat dia... dia nak main dengan Rayyan tapi tak paham pulak Rayyan kata apa. Dia kata Rayyan cakap macam2 kat dia but when she asked him to talk to her in Malay dia kata Rayyan senyum je.. hehehe

Just now, they were playing together... I heard her asking Rayyan to talk in Malay. I overheard, so suruhla Rayyan cakap Melayu. Rayyan said "I don't know" senyum-senyum malu.. hahaha but then immediately said to her "can you tolong help me susun this thing... " haha... masalah lah pulak budak boleh cakap omputih ni.. nak cakap Melayu tak reti sangat.. sometimes I wonder since he is already thinking in English, yang kita dok marah2 dia in Malay dia paham ke tak? I know he understands Malay... 'coz everyone around him speaks Malay.. I think his Malay vocab is not as strong as his English. That shows Malaysia tak cukup program TV yang bagus2 untuk budak2... hehehe yang ada pun poyo gila!

If they wanna teach through TV program, you can easily see what they are trying to teach.. the characters memang nampak ikut skrip macam drama Yusof Haslam.. but those programs on 613, 615, 616, they can really teach kids without even us noticing.. and that's good 'coz they are done in a fun way. Even the kids don't realize they are actually learning!!!

Even Rayhana is enjoying her morning doses of 613.. hehe she can bore herself watching TV and playing with her fingers and eventually sleep...

Oh and one last thing to update... Rayyan goes to school today. I'll pick him up in about an hour. Masa hantar tadi he was sebak as usual, but after seeing his class teacher, terus dengan bangganya bukak bag dia keluarkan buku homework dia yang dia tulis "alif" and "ba" that was supposed to be handed in last Monday.. hahaha..

I already wrote a note in his "Message Book" (that's the book for parents/teachers to communicate with each other) to give him all the writing work he was supposed to do for the past 4 days as his homework over this CNY weekend.