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The Beauty Queen!

Truth is stranger than fiction! .. but I’d still prefer fiction - lesser nightmarish.  Also ‘Truth’ is with what this young WOH entered our lives - even if not ..  we still want to believe so! Ok then.. while we were still coping up with the described-in-last-episode betrayal  .. it wasn’t easy for us to trust anyone! But we so wanted to .. especially this smiling and youthful WOH we had just hired.  Like every desi girl in her 20s .. this Bollywood fanatic was in search of her knight in shining armour! She was this Simran looking out for her Raj, the pooja who believed in ‘koi na koi to hain, jo mere liye bana hai’ and the Rahul ki maya - the dreamy deewani (read crazy) whose only aim in life was to look good and find that someone special and dance through .. well wait I dont know if she could dance .. mmm. “XXXX hum YYYY movie dekh rahe hai .. tumhe dekhani hai ? Aajao ..” “*nahi Bhabhi ye to Maine dekh li “* “Achha” .... “ nayi movie release hui hai Yaha Bangkok m...

The Run-away WOH

“Darwaza to kamse kam smilingly khole”; “1 Din chutti matlab only 1breakfast +1 lunch + 1 dinner off ..”; Were, now, some of the addendums to our WOH-selection-policy. Congruent to these requirements, we met and hired an amicable WOH who wouldn’t cook so well but would always be very welcoming. We were happily greeted by this short, light-skinned, hair always tied up in a bun, wearing-a-smile kind of face, when home and so were our guests.  Cleaning and tidying up the house was her forte, even if that meant a risky climb out the window. As most Burmese (with Nepali roots) who come to Thailand for work need to do , she left her 3-month old daughter with her mother-in-law to live and work with us.  *”Bhabhi uske bhavishya ke liye to karna padega na”*. No matter where you go, this ‘Mom’ creature is no different.  I remember, once while discussing our respective moms,  me and my Asian-Australian friend found out that they (our living-2-continents-away-moms) threw exactly...