THE 3 MILLION MAID !!!!!!!!

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The £3million maid: Filipina servant left a fortune AND a luxury Singapore apartment by grateful employer
By Richard Shears
21st July 2010

It's money well earned - but it sure is a lot of money.
A maid has inherited a luxury apartment in Singapore and nearly £3million after her employer passed away - leaving his estate to her.

The 47-year-old from the Philippines, who would identify herself only as 'Christine', said she was the 'luckiest maid in Singapore - with or without the money'.
She was rewarded by her grateful employer, a doctor, for the care she had shown him and his late mother.

The windfall of the money and the apartment came from the estate of her former employer, Dr Quek Kai Miew, who died last year aged 66.
Christine had also taken care of his mother until her death.
Dressed in a simple blouse and slacks, with her hair cropped short, she told The Straits Times newspaper that she was devastated when Dr Quek died a year ago.
'We were inseparable and I had to move in with his nephew for solace after he died.
'It was heartbreaking for me as I saw more years with Dr Quek than with my own mother.'

Christine said her new-found 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.
'I am still who I was before. I cannot behave differently just because I have money now.
'Even my Filipino maid friends here still treat me the same.'

Some 200,000 foreign maids, most of them from the Philippines and neighbouring Indonesia, work in affluent Singapore.
But everything has a price: Christine refused to reveal her full identity as she was painfully aware that if criminals in the Philippines learned who she was, they could hold her family to ransom.
There was also the risk that she could be kidnapped when she returned to the Philippines - which is why, she said, she had applied for permanent residency in Singapore.
While it was doubtful she would have achieved this under her former status as a maid, with millions of dollars in the bank she has every chance of being given the right to remain in the island republic permanently.
Stories have emerged over the years of maids being abused by their employers, not only in Singapore and neighbouring Malaysia but in homes in the Middle East.
Some have even resorted to suicide due to the cruelty they were enduring.




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