Maid in Singapore

We finally decided to get a Maid, previous week me and the missus pop in to an agency and being first timers at this we got to know of the little things that were needed just to get a maid employed here. Now I’ve never really had a maid myself, during my early years I remember we had a malay nanny who was a really nice lady I remember even after her services were not needed we would still visit her during Hari Raya but we drifted apart after both families moved. The rest of my early years I was looked after by my grandparents. The only other time a maid ever stepped in was to look after my elderly grandfather and we had a Sri Lankan maid. But that was for a short while. We did some looking around further and finally decided on an agency. Picked a maid, paid the fees (it’s like a human auction) and the missus did get to talk to the maid over the phone the other day and so far she seems ok. The agency said they need to do the paper work and some additional training was being conducted for them which was fine by us as we only needed her to come in around mid-Dec. The missus had to take a test as well and we needed to print out the cert (it was an online test) at the end as proof that someone in the household took the test. So now the big shift to get the babies and maids room in order.