It's unfair

Life's so unfair for so many people. What happens if you have mortgaged your future - after having made all the calculations and carefully considered all the risks - only to have your means to redeem it taken away?

Our domestic help from Cambodia had arrived just 3 weeks ago, and we have to send her back straightaway. She failed her medical. She's diabetic. Eap, that's her name, must have gone into debt to come to Malaysia and I don't know how she's going to repay that.

And I can only imagine the emotions involved in her first deciding to bet 2 years of her life on a chance for a better future, and then finding that she has lost even before she's begun. What's infuriating is that Eap could have been so easily spared this trauma. It is horribly irresponsible of the employment agency in Phnom Penh to be so negligent in its health-screening process.