Skip to content
Oh My Buhay

Oh My Buhay

Online diary of Manila-based entrepreneur Annie Tan-Yee

  • Home
  • About Me
  • TIPS
  • OMB Charities
  • Contact
  • iamjulienne
  • Buy A Car

Category: maids

  • Home
  • maids
  • Page 2
maids

Zero Maid Survival

February 18, 2017February 18, 2017 OMB

We survived a week of zero maid. It’s no big deal actually. Our dogs are also handling it well. We feed them before we leave the house in the morning.

Read More
maids

We have Zero Maid

February 14, 2017February 15, 2017 OMB

We have zero maid, not a single soul. Perfect timing pa mandin. After at least 10 years, I had nail polish. Yun pala kasi I will just do the dishes.

Read More
maids

Goodbye Maids

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 OMB

We feel so frustrated. The two maids (2 day old chicks) left yesterday. They had a tiff with the cook. So many alibis. One maid said she didn’t want to

Read More
maids

Maid Phenomenon

February 11, 2017February 11, 2017 OMB

We have a new set of household helpers. While I was away, my husband experienced first hand how it was like to deal with this maid phenomenon. They come and

Read More
maids

New Labandera

September 12, 2016September 12, 2016 OMB

Upon the suggestion of my husband, I stopped hiring maids from employment agencies. I’ve been spending a lot of money paying for office fees and cash advances but the maids

Read More
maids

Fired Cook

February 18, 2016July 8, 2016 OMB

After delaying it for a few months, I finally fired our cook yesterday morning. It’s been long overdue. Every night, she cooks delicious meals we never got to taste. Chicken

Read More
maids

Tsismosa and Tsismoso

January 29, 2016January 30, 2016 OMB

No one wants maids or drivers or guards that are tsismoso and tsismosa. But I think most of them are. They talk about the people who employ them. They are

Read More
maids

Maid’s political choice and interview

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 OMB

Cook C knows she’s up for replacement but ever since I told her that she’s leaving, she upped the ante. She was more jolly and for the first time she

Read More
maids personal

Whining about maids

October 25, 2015October 25, 2015 OMB

Today’s their 15th day in our household. She and the house girl arrived on October 9, 2015 at 3:30 pm. While I was signing the employment contract, I caught the

Read More
maids

I hired a new cook (again)

October 16, 2015October 18, 2015 OMB

Hired a new cook (again): Our previous cook was okay naman. I didn’t scold her and we didn’t complain about her cooking. She was friends with the house cleaner. I

Read More
maids

Love me maid H

October 15, 2015October 15, 2015 OMB

I let maid H go two days after I found out that she was using my toothbrush to scrub my toilet sink and who knows what else. She didn’t have

Read More
maids

Live Without Maids

October 13, 2015October 13, 2015 OMB

Live without maids I went to Chat’s place last Saturday. She’s an art dealer and is the secretary of our family doctor. I had a small painting framed. She showed

Read More
maids

Maid Left Her Panty in the Car

September 21, 2015September 21, 2015 OMB

I sat at the APEC conference the whole day last Thursday. In between breaks, I managed to say hellos to old friends and business organization acquaintances. On my 5th trip

Read More
maids

Maid H

September 21, 2015September 21, 2015 OMB

Maid H doesn’t need to exert effort to irritate me. Saturday morning I saw her doing something that I already told her never to do. While I was in the

Read More
maids

Maid Sells Sugar to Neighbors

September 17, 2015 OMB

Our previous maids lent our scissors, kitchen knives, tools, packaging tapes, to our neighbors’ drivers. We had no idea if they gave away some of our grocery items. An anonymous

Read More
maids

Bye Giraffe and Bag

August 15, 2015 OMB

Whenever our maids leave or go on day offs, I always have something to give to them. Oyen said goodbye to her giraffe. I gave it to Nars and I

Read More

Posts pagination

Previous 1 2 3 4 Next

HUKAB

Oh My Buhay
Oh My Buhay

Dear Readers,

OMB was born out of my desire to keep my memoir alive for my family’s future generation. And more importantly for me, when I get so very old, I have something to look at and ponder on, to remember what my life was. I want to keep a record of all my activities but it’s difficult to do so because my lifestyle is a little varied so I find it hard to keep tab.


This site has been in existence since April 2011. I don’t draft nor edit my posts. I offer no apologies for all errors or mistakes. Read and proceed with caution.


My life’s more colorful than the rainbow and it also has tremendous amounts of gloomy days. It’s my decision to keep my personal diary open to everyone. I hope I don’t influence you in a bad way. Keep the good and throw away the bad. I hope there’s no bad.


From my heart,
Annie C. Tan-Yee

* About Me

You are visitor number:

Recent Posts

  • Happiest birthday to our kind, loving, and generous daughter
  • Please read this Important Notice if you are traveling to the US
  • Hello Yen, happy birthday anak
  • Flight time from Manila to San Francisco was 10 hours and 40 minutes
  • Family Dinner at Choi Garden in Greenhills
  • The word retirement doesn’t apply in my world
  • Antinola’s fifth heartbreak
  • Nagdadalamhati ang puso ni Antinols
  • Fired and Hired
  • Antinols has a new boyfriend she met online, again
  • Nagulat yung waiter sa takaw namin
  • How can we break their cycle of poverty?
  • See you again 2024
  • Snippets of my 2024. How about yours?
  • There’s fear in my heart that life is not short but shorter
  • We’re nearing the end of the year, how has your 2024 been?
  • I cried a lot today because I found out my friend Dennis had died
  • How do we reach 91 years old like my mother-in-law?
  • I am thinking of building a cute playground for my apo
  • Edmund’s Auntie Flor died peacefully in her sleep
Merry Christmas family photo Dec 25, 2019 bride Northern Lights March 2018 portugal june 17 2018 171 Jeronimo's Monastery cascais Portugal June 20 2018 140 Disney photo December 24, 2017 family picture, Disney castle Dec 24, 2017 grand calif dec 25, 2017 060 disneyland 044 ford convention 341, mom and daughter This is my world acty july 25, 2015 OMB disney 049 OMB @ PICC Dec 5, 2017 bday card from Oyen acty picture, Nov 6, 2014 Shangrila Hotel OMB at the office Edinburgh edinburgh 043 Luau December 7, 2017 Annie C. Tan-Yee , Mylene Abiva LOL with President Fidel V. Ramos LOL with President Fidel V. Ramos One of my favorite photos, with Pres. GMA GMA 057 Thank you to bloggys bloggys In a relationship Night Market Dec 28, 2014 002 Seoul sta monica beverly hills 222 Hawaii outlet, beach, Mar 23, 2015 117 Go Uste UST, Crispa ECY album 001 30th wedding anniversary dessert I love Budapest I love Budapest My mom and I Mama and I Me and my Birkin Little Annie with her own Birkin bag Aileen and I Annie and Aileen, Reymart studio The US President cinia 061 The Boss cinia 063 Dinner with US Senator Richard Lugar at The Tabard Inn in Washington DC, September 24, 2014 Dinner with US. Sen Lugar, Washington DC Inside the U.S. Capitol Hill capitol hill 009 Jan 27, 2015 100 Snow play Winter Sonata Tour, Korea Dec 28, 2014 373 The Tans Tan family picture, hayward Stitch and Jazzy DSC01822 St. Ursula Parish St. Ursula Parish Presidential plane Presidential flight to Tokyo, Japan Winter shopping Minus seven degrees Miss Congeniality Miss Congeniality OMB banc, santana row 060 Bayang Magiliw

Recent Comments

  • OMB on Flight time from Manila to San Francisco was 10 hours and 40 minutes
  • Pat on Flight time from Manila to San Francisco was 10 hours and 40 minutes
  • OMB on Contact
  • Don on Contact
  • OMB on Contact
  • Catherina Ocampo on Contact
  • OMB on Contact
  • Marc Tan on Nagdadalamhati ang puso ni Antinols
  • Isabel on Contact
  • Marc Tan on Snippets of my 2024. How about yours?
  • Marc Tan on Nagulat yung waiter sa takaw namin
  • Marc Tan on Antinols has a new boyfriend she met online, again
  • OMB on I cried a lot today because I found out my friend Dennis had died
  • Myla Okinari on I cried a lot today because I found out my friend Dennis had died
  • OMB on Contact
  • michelle on Contact
  • Marvin on Noche Buena flooded with Tears
  • Amara on Biggest Christmas Gift
  • OMB on Christmas Tree with mismatched ornaments at home
  • Clariza Labares on Christmas Tree with mismatched ornaments at home
  • OMB on Christmas Tree with mismatched ornaments at home
  • Brazodemercedes on Christmas Tree with mismatched ornaments at home
All Rights Reserved 2010. Oh My Buhay Blog
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Fairy by Candid Themes.