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Re: Screwing maids

Lonely maids, prey and predators

By Jeremy Au Yong & Khushwant Singh. The Straits Times
Publication Date : 2005-09-18

Sometimes, all it takes is a meeting of the eyes and a quick smile to start a relationship.

Many men -- both Singaporean and foreign -- have been known to turn on their charm to prey on the loneliness of Filipino maids in Singapore.

But it isn't just the men who are doing the looking and the smiling.

"Some of the women are out to look for men, especially in the clubs," said Revlyn Mandac-Faizal, 31, who works at a provision shop in Lucky Plaza.

"They dress sexily and sometimes they will make the first move."

The social lives of the nearly 100,000 Filipino domestic workers in Singapore have come into sharp focus after speculation that a possible love triangle led to the grisly murder of 26-year-old maid Jane Parangan La Puebla.

Last Friday (Sept 9), her body was found chopped up and the parts dumped outside Orchard MRT station and at MacRitchie Reservoir.

Her close friend, Guen Garlejo Aguilar, 29, has been charged with the murder.

They were apparently fighting over the affections of a handsome 27-year-old Singaporean man, described as Aguilar's boyfriend. Both women are married and their husbands are in the Philippines.

Maids tell stories of men coming on to them everywhere, from clubs to shopping centres. Some are even hit on in cabs.

Said 23-year-old shop assistant Ane Alfaro: "Sometimes in a cab, the driver will ask if I am from the Philippines, and then they'll ask if I want to get some coffee before going to my destination. It's happened to me a few times."

Dyesebel Lobaton, 30, meanwhile, told The Sunday Times she was once chased around Lucky Plaza by a persistent Bangladeshi worker.

"He kept following me, wanting to give me his number.

"In the end, he shoved this piece of paper into my handbag. I took it out and threw it away," she said.

But some of the maids are no angels.

Bold ones have been known to simply go up to men and invite them to parties, to church or even to hotel rooms.

There are also some who moonlight as prostitutes to earn some extra income.

Alex, 34, runs a provision shop in Orchard Towers and estimates that as many as two in 10 maids may be part-time prostitutes.

He recounted a personal encounter with one: "Once I was talking to this Filipino maid in a club and then she just told me if I wanted to have some fun with her, it would cost me money."

The tea dances organised by clubs in Orchard Towers, Lucky Plaza and Balmoral Plaza are the most popular pick-up spots for men and the women. Most women are allowed in free as their presence attracts men, who have to pay a cover charge of between S$13 and S$17 (US$8 and US$10).

About half the men there are Singaporeans while the rest are workers from the Philippines and Bangladesh.

Operations executive Benji, a 33-year-old Sunday regular at the Naughty Girl club in Orchard Towers, is always there with his girlfriend, Aileen, 25, a Filipino maid.

While she was dancing with other maids, he whispered: "If you are having an affair with a Filipina, you better behave yourself, as they can get very jealous."

The couple had a big violent fight a month ago after he bought a drink for another maid.

The crowd which the clubs attract can be a nuisance to businesses in the vicinity.

Said Danny, who runs an electronics shop near Ipanema Club in Orchard Towers: "It becomes very noisy and rowdy, so on Sunday I close and go home at 3pm. If not, I open until 9pm."

Successful hook-ups -- in clubs or shopping centres -- often lead to trysts in budget hotels.

Some of these establishments in Balestier Road and Joo Chiat Road, especially those that charge hourly rates, are often full on Sundays. It is not uncommon to see scores of maids and their boyfriends waiting in the lobbies for rooms to be available.

But many of the maids interviewed stressed that the wild ones were the minority.

"I'm here with other maids on my day off and I don't want anything to do with any man, Singaporean or otherwise," said Rose, 33, a Filipino maid at a tea dance in Orchard Towers.

Others simply avoid such places.

Bergie Borja, 33, was furious at how a few bad apples had given Filipino maids a bad reputation.

She has been working here as a maid for 13 years and has never been to a tea dance. Instead she spends her days off playing volleyball with friends from the Filipino Association of Singapore.

"It's very unfair to us. I can see the way people sometimes look at us. It's just the few behaving badly but they spoil the name for the others," she said.