Devoted maid inherits millions from boss
I saw this news when I was about to log in and check my email account with yahoo and it caught my attention. Guess what??!! The maid is a Filipina … let’s read the content of the news now shall we?
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A devoted Filipina maid has inherited six million Singapore dollars ($A4.53 million) from her late employer after more than 20 years of service, report say.
“I am the luckiest maid in Singapore, with or without the money,” the 47-year-old single woman — identified only by the pseudonym “Christine” — told the Straits Times in an interview on Wednesday.
The maid refused to be named in public for fear of possible threats to her life in the impoverished Philippines, where wealthy people have been kidnapped for ransom and some killed by their abductors.
The windfall, including cash and a luxury apartment near the Orchard Road shopping belt, came from the estate of her employer Quek Kai Miew, a medical doctor and philanthropist who died last year at 66.
The maid had also taken care of the doctor’s late mother, and was told that she would be a beneficiary of her employer’s will when it was drawn up in 2008.
“There were no secrets between us. I was not surprised at all when she told me how much I was going to get,” the maid recalled.
“Christine” was devastated when Quek died a year ago, as the two were inseparable, and temporarily moved in with the doctor’s nephew for solace.
“It was heartbreaking for me as I saw more years with Doctor Quek than with my own mother. I would break down every time I thought about her. I could not be by myself,” she said.
“I was always beside her. Wherever she went, I was with her.”
The maid, who is now applying for permanent residency in Singapore, said her newfound wealth had not changed her lifestyle.
“I do not really think much about the money I got. I just live my life as I did before, and not as a rich person,” the maid, dressed simply in a blouse and slacks with short-cropped hair, was quoted as saying.
“I am still who I was before. I cannot behave differently because I have money now. Even my Filipino maid friends here still treat me the same.”
I’ve read about this too. She’s so lucky!
tc sis!
Comment by indigo_girl83@yahoo.com — July 22, 2010 @ 11:58 pm
She is indeed superlucky! At least she didn’t change her lifestyle after inheriting that much money.
Comment by My Pink Shoelace — July 23, 2010 @ 3:05 am
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Comment by gixxer guy — August 11, 2010 @ 10:15 am