Vivienne, another of the prospective housekeepers, didn't even make it past two hours in Gabriella's house, the difficulty here being that Vivienne turned out to be looking for servants to boss around as well.
The confrontation outside Sheik Yassin's house highlighted the difficulties faced by Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, in trying to move against militant groups like Hamas.
And so, when the holidays come to an end, we hear from our colleagues at work only about the new chapters in the American serial Doctor House, and the difficulties of repairing the light in the kitchen.
At the time, the City Planning Commission attributed the slivers to what are again familiar trends: rising real estate values, the demand for luxury housing and the difficulties developers were having assembling large lots.
Having a criminal record also leads to problems finding a house, increasing the difficulty of finding paid work.
This did not go down well with many less well-off Singaporeans, whose main daily grouses are the cost of housing and the difficulty of getting onto the underground at rush hour.
A still-depreciating housing market, the difficulty of getting development money and mortgages, higher risk coupled with lower profitability and organized community opposition have all played a part in nearly halting teardowns, local officials and real estate professionals say.
Their disapproval was almost identical when it came to traffic, the affordability of housing and the difficulty in paying for college.
She spoke of having dealt with housing problems, with the difficulties of raising a child, of living on a limited income.
But looking through these temporary movements, underlying housing activity appears to have firmed only a little since mid-2009, with activity being weighed down, in part, by a large inventory of distressed or vacant existing houses and by the difficulties of many builders in obtaining credit.
