A blog from maid in Dubai!

Notice that she didn't ever mention any tagalog word or the famous "taglish" lines in the Philippines.. if not a Pinoy definitely not a maid!

Hmm.. i think this blogger is educated. There is spontaneity in his/her writing, just intentionally doing it mis-spelled and gramatically wrong.

wow, i think sally is the dubai blog version of ederlyn and inday! the last two were fictional filipino maid characters that were created and nurtured in cyberspace and forwarded text message jokes a couple of/several years ago. far as i know, no one knows who created them. ederlyn was the first, she even had a love life and everything. but i love inday. her vocabulary is no match for anyone in ql.

i guess sally is the new one. i haven't had time to read it all yet, but i can't wait to see the rest of her story.

nice good read if you want a migraine. thanks for sharing :) yikes, just noticed that this topic is over a month old.

The paragraphs are well indented... and the story well told and each entry ends well...

better than most QLers....

cant be a maid....

getter..... how dare to use one's nationality for sympathy...

Okay then its a scam!

Lol nomad it is not a hoax, the blog does exist!!!

Hoax.

But Funny :P

FAKE

I find it really funny!

Big feet not so pain and good balance...I like the details.

It's like someone trying to take the idea of "The Help" a book, and write it for recent times. Somehow I am not buying that it is real...the english is too perfectly messed up...

yeah! ^_^

This is definately not written by a Maid from Philippines. It is a clever attempt by the author.

polkadots...good as a writer? Really? Wow.

well it kinda makes me wonder if this is real if you get anyone to help out with your kids if they will be jealous of your life .... what they forget it ...everyone of us is trying to do better in life including them if they are leaving their country to work else where ... every one of us fits specific opportunities which are mostly for the better of our current style ... right?

i wouldnt want to have someone working for me looking after my kids knowing shes not doing it from the heart.... with me ... if she makes noise just to wind me up ..... she'll be gone .... thats for sure .... dont meant to sound mean... but dont like people who envy others.... just try harder for yourself .... xxxxxxxxxxxx hope this doesnt offend anyone its not meant to

The poor "maam"....every incident, every day hung out like laundry to dry

Simple Text;A person unfit for the Job of Maid, but may be good as a writer:-)

polka...say what?

A very unethical person,bordering on dangerous, deducting from her claims of jealousy and how she can get angry for small things and latter her choice of methods of vending it!Not a Maid For Me!

ME TOOOO...

ITS FAKE

thing is.....its bloody boring!! No juicy gossip about Maam and the gardener!!! Yawn!!

Yes, journalist writing as Filipina maid.

Mandi

i have a doubt bout the blogger.

being a maid, given your educational background for writing good english. But when you check the blog elements, they have some monetary components such as google adsense, facebook like box & other social media plug ins for increase traffic. also arranged and linked to other blogs.

so you think an ordinary Filipina maid can do this?

just my opinion....

Well from what I read 'maam' was upstairs!!!

Using somebody's system , when they are not there?What else?

She should be doing some bloody work not faffing about on maams computer! Pfftt she sounds an ungrateful type to me!!!

its funny and insightful diary of maid reported by some jounalist....

lol

lol

If I took it at face value, it would reinforce the reasons why I don't have a maid.

it's multiple paragraphs. Just look at the title of this thread, do you find it grammatically right?

Either way I like the blog and I am going to take it at face value and read it.

If I am the employer I will be a bit concerned as personal details of the family can be shared by her as well. If it's just about her life, I won't be too bothered.

or maybe she is Lilibeth the Ghost Writer

It's quite funny though she expressing what she felt and how to be maid with Middle eastern family.The question is...is that real blog or someone want instant fame online?

now I need a strong BAnadol!

Philippines not filipines... ;)

From King Philip of Spain (King Philip II)...

... could be written by a filipina but not a real maid though... grammar is not consistent, it is correct sometimes... seems like she intended it to be gramatically incorrect...

we can learn those words from anywhere....may be from net or evn from ppl around who r from filipines...

blog doesnt sound authentic to me atleast!!!

how could she knows about pamahiin, regla, BFF, davao.. etc. etc. if she was not she claims to be...

interesting, but i doubt if she is filipina.

Filipina can make correct english sentence even they are elementary graduate and I don't encounter a filipino speaking english in this manner, even a contruction worker here can speak good english, 'though not so perfect...

no ways....

maybe it was the filipina dictating and the nigerian transcribing...

The author overdid it and made it more obvious that it's fake. What a foolish mockery.

We get the message, you can turn your caps off now ;-)

MAY BE ITS JST MEDIA HYPE...TO GET SOME NEW AND DIFFERNT STORYY...

but ppl can manage to catch white lie...!!

I's is thinking the same thing ;-)

Sounds like 'black' English. "I is" is typical for Nigeria.

Oui ;-) me thinks the same too... a wannabe fili :-P

I mean obviously if she's not that educated you think she'd have enough brains to use a computer and open up a BLOG?

Could be a prank blog just to fool people into thinking she's a house maid.

ya...

evn i believe ...da same

NOT WRITTEN BY FILIPINA.....THOGH ITS FUNNY AND INSIGHTFUL

BUT NOT MAIDS BLOG FOR SURE....

Colt, I think it is written by somebody pretending to be a Filipina. I actually suspect it is written by a Western person.

It don't sound like its written by a Filipina. She must be narrating her saga to someone else who's writing it for her.

This is, IMHO, not written by a Filipina.

The things stated may be how some think.

The question is: what if you were in the employer's shoes? How would you react to it - fire her, retain her with a warning or let her continue as if nothing happened!

Brit many details of Philippines are mentioned, atleast the person is probably from Phils.

Who else will know that there is a snake man in Robinson Mall :P

Call me a cynic, but i find it rather bemusing and wonder if it REALLY is from a Filipina. I personaly don't think so from the language used.

I guess you can open this: http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/the-secret-diary-of-a-maid-dubai-sally-s-blog-1.745517

too many firewalls here in the office, might as well read her blog at home later.

yes obviously she's not educated, reading what you posted made me read the sentences twice to understand it better.

Yes it is, through many blog entries she has told her life story and the problems she faced back in Philippines and in her job. She is obviously not very educated but this blog is getting a lot of attention recently.

for real this is the blog?

Good God, that was one painful read...think i'll go back to the pointless threads.

This is the blog which started it all

I so jealous of her. She have all nice things and me I have small room small bathroom. She have so many room so many bathroom. When she go out I use her thing her bathroom also. I no like her sometimes. But she my maam so I have be nice to her. I have to do thing she tell me to do even when I not want.

Like two day ago I am cleaning kitchen. It 7.30 at night. My sir and maam and two children eat dinner early so I go to bed 9 oclock. It was not like that at place I work before. There they would eat dinner at 10 and I sleep 12 midnight. And get up next morning at 5 to pack school lunch. So I cleaning kitchen and maam she tell me Children will have banana pancakes tomorrow morning. Just like that. At 7 in evening. So I have to make them at night because how I can make them in the morning so quickly before they leave for school at 7.30? How she tell me at 7 to start make pancakes. When I work at the other place before I use to make 25 dishes for iftar in fasting period but I start making them early before I take the 4 children to the park but now I have to make pancake in middle of night at 7.

I very angry but what I can do I had to do pancake. So I make lot of noise when I cleaning up bang dishes and doors. My maam she not care she just go upstair and sit on computer. In morning I wake up 5.45 this famly better about these timing than before other family and I wake up and make lots of noise again so my maam would be disturb. But she not say anything to me when she come down so I no think she hear me upstair. So next time I angry I make more noise again.

Yesterday while I wash windows my slipper broke so maam gave me her slipper. I take them even though she haves a big foot and my foot little smaller. She say Do they fit? You can have them. They were little big but I take them because they nice. Now my feet hurt. Why she give me big slippers? Why she not give me smaller ones? I tell her Maam your slippers make my feet hurt. She say Because they are big I think. But what I can do the slippers are really nice. Maybe she gave me because her feet hurt in them. But she used to wear them and no complaining they hurt. Maybe her feet are big so they no hurt her.

My friend Lilibeth she work next door say if you have big feet your balance better so they no hurt. Lilibeth very clever. She tell me lot of important things. Like she tell me not to have bath in evening because if you do then you get what you say paralize. Really. So now I wake up 5.45 early morning to take shower before children coming down for breakfast. Maam wake up at 6 and then she looks at children lunchbox to see if I put everything in it proper. She say Sara like tuna Rayan like chicken make sure you have give right sandwich. As though I would put wrong sandwich in wrong box. Maybe once I put wrong snack in wrong bag and Rayan get full strawberry instead of cut strawberry. Maam tell me with smile Rayan only 5 years old Sally he need strawberry chop.

Maam think very important this kind of thing. I think atleast he getting strawberry. My brothers and sisters in Philippine they no get anything. These children of my maam and sir are so lucky they have so many toys and thing I so jealous of them

There are many more blogs but why can't you guys open :(

I alredy tell you about Lilibeth. she my best friend. Sara saying she my BFF. Best friend forever. I like that but in my life there is no forever. Only for how many year I is having visa. Most friend can be BFV. Best friend for visa. Lilibeth is only person who be knowing I is write blog story because she showing me how. But now she knowing so much about me. she become my most important friend. Important firend forever. IFF. She promise she keeping my secret. I hope she not get angry with me one day and be tell my maam or someone.

even I is knowing her life story little. She telling me one day. I feeling so happy she is share with me. She no minding if I telling you. She be train to be doing hotel managment course in Manila. So much money she is spend to do her course. She having diploma. Very good qalification. When she is applying for job in agency they telling her she work in big hotel over here in Dubai. When she is coming here she is so excite she will work maybe as manager or something. Instead she be doing housekeep job in sirvice apartmet. She having to do all cleaning. bathroom cleaning kitchen cleaning. clothes washing. all maid work that I is do here. Imagine she is having diploma and she be do this job that I is do with no diploma. But so many people is like her. They be think they do one job when they is come here they finding the job is something else. But they is stuck because they having contrac.

She is waiting her contrac be over. In this time only one good is happen. She is meeting her husband. I liking this part of story. It like my pocketbook. Romance story. He doing like mantanence work in same building. They is getting marry in consulate because she is want be transfer on his visa. But they no is live together because they wait get marry in church. When they is going back philippine they get proper marry in the church. I asking her why she no getting marry in St Mary Church when so many filipino couple is get marry together? I know I is read it in the paper. She say Sally how I is get marry without my family? civil marriage only for visa. Proper marry in Philippine. in church with family.

Now she doing this job next door to me. It like hotel manager but only one guest staying in hotel for some day then other guest is coming. Her husband is doing all mantenence work and also driver if guest is need. Otherwise he is drive to Abu dhabi to office. I not know what he doing there. In the house guest is come guest is go. Only Lilibeth and her husband staying how you say permanet.

I is hope Lilibeth stay permanet in my life also.

Blog 1

Today I am so excite. I am open newspaper in morning and see story of my blog story. I feeling like it my picture in paper. I want shout and tell my frend and my family that it same Sally that they is knowing. But I no can do that. I have to keep it all inside my heart. My heart is feel like when you is shake coke bottle and then open it and all the bubble is come out. Like that. Only I is having to keep my bottle close.

Then I is thinking if my maam seeing this I is dead. She all time on computer. She be seeing it and she be going and looking and seeing the story. Then I having be lie to her tell her this not my blog. I tell her there so many house maid is coming from Davao. So many girl is call Sally. I thinking too much lying not good. Better I hide paper. So I quickly taking paper in my room and keeping it there. I will be keep it forever.

Maam is coming downstair saying Sally where the paper. I giving her other paper. She happy. She not notice it missing. Still I is very scare. My stomic is feeling like it is feeling when I is going in car. Like I is wanting to vomit. Maam is look at me. I thinking she is knowing. all time she look at me I thinking now she will ask me. But she just telling me Sally what we be cook for dinner today?

For my maam her life is not change. everything is same. but for me nothing same anymore. I is famus. Even if only I is knowing it.

yeah can't open the link, can you post the article instead?

So?????

I cant read it to comment...may be you can post the content here?