Filipina maid inherits millions from employer

ဖိလစ္ပုိင္အိမ္ေဖာ္တစ္ဦး အလုပ္ရွင္ထံမွ ေဒၚလာသန္းနွင့္ခ်ီၿပီးအေမြရ...

စကၤာပူနုိင္ငံတြင္အႏွစ္ ၂၀ ေက်ာ္ႀကာမွ်အလုပ္လုပ္ေနေသာဖိလစ္ပုိင္အိမ္ေဖာ္အမ်ဴိးသမီးသစ္ဦးဟာ

သူမရဲ ့အလုပ္ရွင္ ( အိမ္ရွင္ ) ကြယ္လြန္သြားၿပီးေနာက္ ေဒၚလာေလးသန္းေက်ာ္ခန္ ့အေမြဆက္ခံခြင္ ့

ရရွိခဲ ့တယ္လုိ ့ဆုိပါတယ္...

" အခုေတာ ့ကြ်န္မဟာစကၤာပူမွာရွိတဲ ့အိမ္ေဖာ္မေတြထဲမွာ ကံအေကာင္းဆံုးၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ရပါၿပီ "လို ့အသက္ 

၄၇ ႏွစ္ရွိ တစ္ကုိယ္ေရတစ္ကာယသမားၿဖစ္သူ ခရစ္စတင္းဟုနာမည္၀ွက္၀ွက္ႏွင္ ့သာသိရသည္ ့အမ်ဴိး

သမီးက စကၤာပူနုိင္ငံ၊ စထရိတ္တုိင္းသတင္းစာႏွင့္ေတြ ့ဆံုေမးၿမန္းခန္းတြင္ေၿပာႀကားသြားခဲ ့ပါတယ္..

သူမရဲ ့မိခင္နုိင္ငံဖိလစ္ပုိင္မွာ ေငြေႀကးခ်မ္းသာႀကြယ္၀သူမ်ားကုိၿပန္ေပးဆဲြကာၿခိမ္းေၿခာက္ေငြေတာင္း

ၿပီးသတ္ၿဖတ္ေလ ့ရွိတာမုိ ့သူမရဲ ့အသက္အႏ ၱရယ္အတြက္စုိးရိမ္ရတာမုိ ့သူမရဲ ့အမည္အရင္းကုိေၿပာ

ဆုိဖုိ ့ေတာ ့အဆုိပါအိမ္ေဖာ္အမ်ဴိးသမီးကၿငင္းဆန္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

သူမယခုလက္ခံရရွိခဲ ့တဲ ့ကံေကာင္းမွဳေတြထဲမွာ ေငြသားအၿပင္၊ စကၤာပူနုိင္ငံရဲ ့နာမည္ေက်ာ္ ႀသခ်တ္

လမ္းမအနီးမွာရွိတဲ ့အဆင္ ့ၿမင္ ့ဇိမ္ခံတုိက္ခန္းေတြကုိ သူမရဲ ့အလုပ္ရွင္ၿဖစ္သူ ဆရာ၀န္၊ လူမွဳေရးဆုိင္

ရာအမ်ားအက်ဴိးလွဴဒါန္းကူညီေလ ့ရွိသူ မစၥကြက္ကုိင္မ်ဴး တစ္ေယာက္ လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ႏွစ္က အသက္ ၆၆ မွာကြယ္လြန္ခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ရရွိခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

အဆုိပါအိမ္ေဖာ္အမ်ဴိးသမီးဟာ သူမရဲ ့အိမ္ရွင္ဆရာ၀န္မႀကီးရဲ ့မိခင္ၿဖစ္သူႀကီးကုိလည္း ကြယ္လြန္

သည္အထိၿပဳစုေစာင္ ့ေရွာက္ခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ၿပီး သူမရဲ ့အိမ္ရွင္ၿဖစ္သူ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္မွာ ေသတမ္းစာေရးခဲ ့

စဥ္ကတည္းက သူမအေနနဲ ့ထုိေငြေႀကးဥစၥာပစၥည္းမ်ားကုိအေမြရမွာၿဖစ္တယ္လုိ ့ေၿပာႀကားအသိေပး

ခံခဲ ့ရတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

" ကြ်န္မတုိ ့ႀကားမွာဘာမွ်လွ်ဴိ ့၀ွက္ခ်က္မရွိတာမုိ ့သူမက ( သူေဌးမ ) ကြ်န္မကုိ အေမြေတြဘယ္

ေလာက္ေပးခဲ ့မယ္လို ့ေၿပာခဲ ့စဥ္တံုးက ကြ်န္မအေနနဲ ့ထူးၿပီး မအံ ့ႀသ၊ မတုန္လွဳပ္ခဲ ့ပါဘူး..." လုိ ့ 

သူမကသတိတရနဲ ့ၿပန္ေၿပာၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

အလုပ္ရွင္နဲ ့သူမဟာ အၿမဲပဲမခဲြအတူတူေနခဲ ့ႀကတာမုိ ့သူမရဲ ့အလုပ္ရွင္ မစၥကြက္ လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့တစ္ႏွစ္

ကကြယ္လြန္ခဲ ့ေတာ ့အိမ္ေဖာ္အမ်ဴိးသမီး ခရစ္စတင္းဟာ စိတ္ထိခုိက္ခံစားခဲ ့ရပါတယ္...
သူမစိတ္သက္သာရာရေစဖုိ ့ကြယ္လြန္သူအလုပ္ရွင္ဆရာ၀န္မႀကီးရဲ ့တူၿဖစ္သူနဲ ့ခဏတာသြားေရာက္

ေနခဲ ့ပါေသးတယ္...

" ဆရာမေဒါက္တာကြက္ခ္ နဲ ့ကြ်န္မအတူေနခဲ ့တဲ ့အခ်ိန္ေတြက ကြ်န္မရဲ ့အေမနဲ ့ေနခဲ ့တဲ ့အခ်ိန္ေတြ

ထက္ေတာင္ပုိမ်ားခဲ ့လုိ ့သူမဆံုးပါးသြားေတာ ့ကြ်န္မအသဲေတြကဲြေႀကသလိုခံစားခဲ ့ရပါတယ္... 

သူမအေႀကာင္းစဥ္းစားမိတုိင္းငုိခဲ ့ရပါတယ္...သူမ မရွိပဲကြ်န္မဘ၀ကုိဆက္ မေနတတ္ေလာက္ပဲၿဖစ္

ခဲ ့ရပါတယ္...
သူမဘယ္ကုိသြားသြား ကြ်န္မဟာသူမရဲ ့နံေဘးမွာအၿမဲပဲရွိေနခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္..." သူမကေၿပာႀကား

ခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ယခုေတာ ့စကၤာပူနုိင္ငံမွာ အၿမဲေနထုိင္ခြင္ ့ေလွ်ာက္ထားတဲ ့အိမ္ေဖာ္အမ်ဴိးသမီးႀကီးက သူမအေနနဲ ့

ယခုလိုခ်မ္းသာလာေပမဲ ့သူမရဲ ့ဘ၀ေနထုိင္မွဳပံုစံကေတာ ့မေၿပာင္းလဲခဲ ့ပါဘူးလို ့ဆုိပါတယ္...

" အခုအေမြရတဲ ့ေငြအေႀကာင္းေတာ ့ကြ်န္မသိပ္မစဥ္းစားမိပါဘူး ...ကြ်န္မဘ၀ကေတာ ့အယင္အ

တုိင္းမေၿပာင္းလဲပါဘူး...သူေဌးတစ္ဦးလုိလည္းမေနပါဘူး" လို ့သာမန္ဘေလာက္အက်ၤ ီေလးနဲ ့

ေဘာင္းဘီအေပ်ာ ့စားမ်ဴိး ( အိမ္ေနရင္း၀တ္တဲ ့ေဘာင္းဘီ ) ၀တ္ထားတဲ ့ဆံပင္တုိတုိနွင္ ့အမ်ဴိးသမီး

က ေၿပာၿပခဲ ့တယ္လုိ ့ဆုိပါတယ္...

" ကြ်န္မဟာအရင္ကအတုိင္းပဲဘာမွမေၿပာင္းလဲပါဘူး...အခုေငြရွိလို ့ဆုိၿပီးေၿပာင္းလဲမွာလဲမဟုတ္ပါဘူး...

ကြ်န္မရဲ ့သူငယ္ခ်င္းဖိလစ္ပုိင္အိမ္ေဖာ္ေတြဆုိယင္လည္းကြ်န္မကုိ အယင္အတုိင္းပဲေၿပာဆုိဆက္ဆံေန

ႀကတာပါပဲ..." လုိ ့သူမကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ခ်မ္းသာႀကြယ္၀ၿပီးလူဦးေရငါးသန္းရွိေသာ စကၤာပူနုိင္ငံတြင္ အမ်ားအားၿဖင္ ့ ဖိလစ္ပုိင္၊ အင္ဒုိနီးရွားနုိင္ငံ

မ်ားမွနုိင္ငံၿခားသားအိမ္ေဖာ္ ၂ သိန္းနီးပါးလာေရာက္လုပ္ကုိင္ေနႀကပါတယ္...

မိမိရဲ ့အလုပ္ရွင္နဲ ့မိသားစုကုိ တစ္ကယ္ ့ေစတနာအမွန္နဲ ့လုပ္ကုိင္ေဆာင္ရြက္၊ ၿပဳစုေစာင္ ့ေရွာက္ေပး

လို ့ဒီလုိအေမြရတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

ဒီလုိမ်ဴိးရွိေတာ ့ရွိတယ္...အလြန္ပဲရွားပါတယ္ေပါ ့ဗ်ာ....

A Filipina maid inherited six million Singapore dollars (more than four million US) from her late employer after more than 20 years of service.“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. 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.”

Nearly 200,000 foreign maids, mostly from the Philippines and Indonesia, work in affluent Singapore, which has a population of five million.