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Theft and unjust enrichment

Last Friday, we had pizza delivered at home. When I placed the order over the telephone, I specifically asked for change for a thousand pesos. When the delivery guy arrived, he had no change with him. Sam had the exact amount and offered to pay. I replaced the one thousand peso bill inside the right pocket of my shorts and forgot about it. A few days later, Speedy brought...  (more »»)

Job applicants

Within a few days after I fired the house helpers, we were able to hire a gardener. A manang who comes around daily. Even before we hired her, we already knew the quality of her work because she tends to some of the neighbors’ gardens so she’s really a familiar face in the subdivision. With someone to take care of the garden, a huge amount of work was taken off...  (more »»)

Nanny cam

This is a two-year-old video clip of a maid (nanny?) physically abusing a young girl. I first saw a truncated version in Facebook and I had to do my own search to find the source. It is authentic, it happened in Kuala Lumpur, the children’s parents were the ones who installed the camera and that was how the abuse was discovered. The maid (nanny?) is Indonesian and she...  (more »»)

Emergency

At 10.30 a.m. today, one of the house helpers came up to my study to tell me that we had no more rice to cook for lunch. Wow, and I was hoping for a leisurely day. We had a huge bowl of leftover stir fried beef and vegetables that I cooked for the kids’ packed school lunch and it was just a matter of one of the house helpers cooking the rice and that was that. I was expecting...  (more »»)

The agenda of the prejudiced

When the civil case filed by the former domestic helper of Lauro Baja Jr. against the ex-Ambassador to the United Nations hit the headlines, I was a hundred and ten percent certain that three extremist camps would make themselves visible, each taking a different stand as to which party is guilty and which is innocent. Those who, by reason of upbringing or screwed thinking or...  (more »»)