It may sound incredible, but a Filipino woman who was hired by a Saudi family in 1987 as a domestic helper is now stranded at the Philippine Consulate in Jeddah after working as a shepherdess for 18 years in Al-Baha and weathering unpaid salaries, ice storms and being arrested several times by the police. “I [...]
Do you read that? What I don’t understand is the new rule they have implemented recently. The first time I went there, the validity started the day I entered their port. Now, it starts the day your passport was stamped. Since I applied for a visa a month before my departure, I’m losing one month. [...]
Last Friday, I got up at 7am and did a general cleaning at home. Since I was busy doing the house chores, it was my husband who gave Deye a bath, changed her nappy, dressed her up and made her food. We didn’t have to cook that day as we still had some leftovers kept [...]
I was a certified technobobo back then. Every time I remember my first job “embarrassing” experience, I still laugh about it. But I always had an excuse, I’m not inclined with computers or anything related to it. I was an Engineering student, unfortunately I wasn’t able to finish the last year when my father lost [...]
