Ripped Off

I'm in Timbuktu now. So far not a pleasant holiday though. Been ripped of twice for 2 days on my holidays *be te abies*

First case, I was about to have dinner at Som Boon Seafood at Surrawong, actually I've tried the one in Pathumwan 2 weeks ago, and nothing spectacular. Being curious, I wanted to try this branch. It was raining and traffic jam (yupe, what can you expect from Bangkok?), and the restaurant was closed for annual holiday.

The taxi driver said,"I'll bring you to Silom Seafood". As I was having appointment with my friends to meet at Som Boon Seafood at Surrawong, I thought ok lah, I'd promised to bring them for dinner anyway. But the taxi driver was not to helpfull to relay the message to my friends' taxi driver.

So I thought when I arrived at the restaurant, I'll asked the restaurant people to speak to my friends' taxi driver, which happened as per my expectation. But when I arrived in that restaurant I smelled something not right, as I was forced to choose the seafood from the entrance, but as I was tired of the traffc jam, I just choosed accrodingly.

I ended up paying 8000 Baht for the stupid dinner, whereby the crab was overcooked, the Cuttlefish also overcooked, luckily the steamed fish, baked lobster, tom yam goong and veggie were nice...But what the $^%^%$#$$%^$##^^! 8000 baht in that restaurant *bah*

The second ripped off was this afternoon, on the way to BITEC, I've checked from the website, we could take BTS (Sky train) to On Nut Station and there would be shuttle bus taking people to BITEC.

Arrving in On Nut, I followed direction, but there is no sign of the bus, tried to stop a few taxis they didn't know about it *sigh* Finally found 1 stupid taxi, said yes, then asked whether i would like to take expressway, which I answered,"whatever" then I realised the driver was heading back to town, and I stopped him in the middle of highway, and pointing to my destination again. Which he pointed another destination *mo maraaaahhhh gag siyyyy?*

Finally he says,"Oh okay I know, but looked like he still continued his journey to town anyway. I thought I''d get down anywhere he stopped, then I found out that actually he was trying to earn more money from me, by going around the city highway, which of course no doubt, very bad traffic *siap2 golok*

So after a long wait while trying to calm my self down, I saw something look like exhibition hall, but my thought it would probably be Bangkok Convention Centre, which luckily turn out to be BITEC *gondok abies*

But frankly speaking Thai Taxi driver is worse than Jakarta, even though some are very nice, but they will be able to refuse to take you to certain destination *sigh* and tried to bring you for a joy ride, before reaching destination, just to earn extra money *sebel*

Oh my God, hopefully tomorrow will be a better day...

Substitute

After my come back to the coffee world *blush* even though not a full blast come back, I decided to stop again.
Well, the crave still there, and I've been trying to find substitute for my crave, but to no avail.
Milo ----> too milky
Tea ----> bought from the canteen downstairs taste yucky
Decaf coffee ----> tasteless

OMG the crave is coming again *sigh*
BTW quiz of the day, yesterday posting was "Subtitle", today posting is "Substitute", the question is,"What am i going to post tomorrow?" wakakakakka....

Subtitle

I always get distracted with subtitles. No matter how long I've been away from Indonesia, every time I watch a programme, be it movies in the cinema or just a normal show in the TV, if there is subtitle available, no matter English, Indonesian or Malay (unless Chinese lah of course...can't read mah :P), I'll focus to read the subtitle instead of hearing direct from the show *frustated*
I always wonder why am I so bloody damn lazy? Do you experience the same problem?

Hospital (Again)

Due to a very heavy work loads these pas few weeks, on Wednesday nite, I rushed my self to the hospital again *sigh* Actually I was trying to fight for the whole day, as I was thinking, anyway I'd be seeing my cardiologist on Thursday.
But I couldn't take it anymore, so I decided to left office and rushed to the A&E department. Arriving there, I still tried to compose my self before I got out from the car, hoping that I'd get better, to find that my condition worsened.
Having no choice, I turned my self in, based on first round diagnosed, everything is normal (as usual), but my hand and foot started to tremble, and the doctor also witnessed, so he asked me to go for ECG, which also turned out to be normal.
Let's gossip *teteup*, when I was there, there was this auntie (let's call her auntie lah, middle age woman, which is very slim and looks like she get nose job as well) waking in with the blood flowing from her leg. Not a heavy flow, but I just think she purposedly to exagerate the things, by not wiping off the blood from her wound, just below her knee.
Then I heard she was talking to the husband,"Eh can you ask the nurse whether I need a plastic surgeon or not".
Still not believing my ears, I tried to eavesdrop again when the husband talking to the nurse,"Nurse, can I check with you, does my wife need a plasic surgeon or not?"
*gubraks*
Her wound only the size of "upil", and excuse me? Plastic surgeon? *gubraks lagi*But anyway...she is just a vain auntie...
Happy week end everyone...

Ocean Eleven

Because of one things led to another, we (as me and the gank @ the office) are very busy finishing all the projects that come continuously without any break, even to the extend they overlap each other.
Then I realised that our office has become like Ocean Eleven the movie, where computers and cables are every where...
Kayak sarang hacker geto loh...
Morale of the story capek boooow....

Janji adalah Hutang

Inget phrase itu gak?
Nah kalo janji ada hutang, bearti hutang gue buanyak ajeh donks...
1. dah lama gak blogwalking, e.g. Astri masuk majalah gue gag tau :(
2. dah lama gak ketemuan sama temen2 gue di Singapore, e.g. even my partnet in crime
3. dah lama gak nelpon sobat2 gue
4. lupa tgl2 penting temen2 gue di indo
5. suka banyak miss call, tapi gak gue call balik --->especially those who are not in my address book..cuma appear nomor doank..dan gue gag tau siapa itu...padahal gue punya kebiasaan nge-set handphone gue silent mode abis jam kerja *blush*
6. janji mo dinner bareng yang ketunda2
7. and the list continues....

Wuahhh bisa masuk neraka nih gue, janji2 surga doank....
met wiken ya semuanya....sedangkan gue terpuruk di lembah nista (kantor maksude) tenggelam di dalam barang2 laknat ( kerjaan yang gak ada abisnya maksudnye geto loh)
hiks..hiks...srott....

Bete Bin Surete

Have you ever hate somebody soooo much until you feel like killing that person slowly with a lots of pain?
That's what exactly I feel since yesterday..not only 1 person, but a few person...
I'm thinking to get somebody, may be Japanese to kill those person, because I intend to ask the killer to slice those stupid bastard, bit by bit, and eat it like sashimi...
I'll provide the knife (of course blunt knife not the sharp one *wicked smile*), japanese soy sauce and wasabi...any body interested?

Bad Experience with Holiday Inn

On January I booked hotel stays for Chinese New Year periods through Priority Club Member website, and received the acknowledgement email automatically from the system.
End of January, I tried to make amendment to my initial bookings through the website again, but I couldn't do so. I called their customer service number 1800-787-1221 to modify my bookings.
To play safe, a few days before I left for my trips, I double checked my email, to my surprised I found out that the price had changed from the original price, that I got from the automated email confirmation.
I called the customer service again, to clarify about this matter, and it became even worse, I triple booked the room after I spoke to the guy, I tried to call back, but spoke to different officer, had to repeat all over again, which is very tiring *sigh* finally he said he would transferred me to the first guy, then the line cut off #%^$#$#%^&&***
I was tired, but I still tried to call but because it was night in Australia, so I thought it must had been the staff from UK who answered my called this time. Tired of explaining, I was thinking to call again the next day which is only a few hours before I left, I had to explain all over again *deep sigh* then I asked is there any guest relation officer numer that I could call to clarify this matter. He gave a number, but I couldn't get through.
So Icalled back the same number and asked to be transferred to guest relation officer, but this time this girl by the name of Christine, insisted that she would try to solve my problems. There I goes again repeating the very long winded history of my booking...and she said I should call Hongkong to clarify, which I found very ridiculuous.
They have 1800 number, which is free, but yet they couldn't solve my problem. The point is why should I incure the cost of International call for the mistake that I didn't commit.
I still insisted to be transferred to her manager or guest relationship officer, but she also insisted that she wouldn't do so.
I also asked for explanation how could this things happened, and she just simply said, it's human error, which I found it's very ridiculous.
On the other hand I also tried my best to book rooms in another hotel, but I couldn't find any. Can you imagine, I was about to go holiday with my parents, without any assurance about the reservation and I'm only about a few hours away to catch my plane.
I did try to drop a few messages through their websites as well about this things,but I've never received any apology or acknowledgement, or anything from their side.
Finally, I did left a comment to the hotel which I stayed in Hong Kong, the manager of Hong Kong hotel sent me an apology email, and said that this matter he had to forward to his head quarter, but until this moment I haven't heard anything at all from their head quarter.
Don't you think it's damn ridiculous? Holiday Inn, which has a lots of hotel in every country could have this level of customer service?
Of course I swear that I won't stay in Holiday Inn anymore, I just think,well it's not my class anyway....with a couple of dollar more, you could stay in Hyatt, Marriott or even Westin...why should I spend my money for this type of bad customer service..
I wonder how they could they win the freddie award with such a bad attitude....
Moral of the story, don't waste your time with Holiday Inn, stay somewhere else....
Meanwhile...I want to go to timbuktu...for sure I don't stay in Holiday Inn this time