our 2 years 2 months at Bermuda & Onion

It was really silly cos I was under the impression that the dinner was for our 2y2m but Tat thought he was taking me out for my birthday eve (like a man, he forgot).

Jm: Happy anniversary darling!
Tat: What anniversary? (blank stare)
Jm: … (death stare)

So funny! Well it wasn’t very funny then though.

Mr. Forgetful. but to his credit I think it was cos he was too caught up with the birthday thing :p

I had baby back pork ribs and no guesses if I finished the whole plate :p soft bone heaven! MMN

thank you baby, ilu xxx

my 22nd

with the whole family at Daorae- mother and sissie’s back from Melb :)

the Chens- Max is throwing a fit cos he can’t have the birthday cake

with Tat and Max looking somewhat more subdued

yeay!

mother and daddy :)

with sayang

The whole I’m-a-year-older-damn has inspired me to jot down as much memories before they slip through my life into nothingness; therefore you can count on seeing me here more often ;)

Bermuda & Onion
03-2145 8333
41 Changkat Bukit Bintang
50200 Kuala Lumpur

Daorae Garden Korean BBQ
03-6203 2616
No. 9-1 Flr Plaza Crystal Ville Center
Jalan 23/70A, Desa Sri Hartamas
50480 Kuala Lumpur

Suet’s

 
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I do think that I’d learnt to be a bit more thick skinned after spending a weekend with The Club.  

Walking through a room full of people with a garbage bag over our heads

It was pouring with rain on the second night. While we were in the cafeteria wondering how to walk back without risking pneumonia, we realised that we had nicely left our umbrellas behind in the room. So it’s safe (and a little ironic) to conclude that the purpose of bringing the brollies over to Redang was to shelter us from the… sun.

We had no choice but to ask the kitchen staff for a big black garbage bag (those you see murderers stuffing their victims into for an impromptu disposal). After receiving it, Tze  told us to “Fuck, practice first so we won’t get wet!”

And the four of us scuttled through the cafeteria full of unsuspecting diners with the big black garbage bag held over our heads, caterpillar style. I only noticed the whistles and laughter halfway through…

Underage flirting

Aud and Tze were a little disappointed over the percentage of eye candy at the resort (read: 0%). So disappointed that they settled for a decent looking… boy, who looked no older than 15.

At the beginning, Tze and Aud were subtly hiao- but Tze deduced later that at the age of fifteen, boys prefer girls who are more… rebellious. A round of aggressive flirting (from our side) ensued, and the boy escaped to the balcony outside for a snooker game with his (sigh) younger brother.

Oh well… your loss, kid.

Dealing out threats to annoying people

While gingerly making our way to the ferry, some juvenile delinquents up front decided that it was fun to scare us by rocking the floating jetty with their weight. We shrieked as we tried to maintain our balance, but amidst the yells we could hear Aud’s voice loudly declaring, “IF I FALL IN, IMMA FUCKING BREAK HIS BOOMBOX OVER HIS HEAD”.

Being kiasu at the airport

Despite the curious stares, we were already standing in line at the counter a whole half hour before the gate was announced open. And when it finally did, we started running- then sprinting to the plane. Unfortunately we ran to the wrong door… So our anger at being overtook by almost everyone in the end was pretty justifiable >((

What can I say

I am now equally as shameless. I love you guys to bits :)

♥ “Kam tin ngor…” wtf

In contrast to the angry post below, here are some happy photos from the weekend getaway! However it slipped my mind to bring the camera charger (doiiii) so there was enough juice for only one day :((( Never fear there are three more cameras! Will post the other photos up when the rest are done with ‘em.

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I have never been so disgruntled in my whole life.

On failed trust

Two months ago, we made the mistake of purchasing Firefly air tickets from Kuala Terengganu back to Subang after our Redang trip. Mistake because not only our initial 5pm flight was delayed to 10pm ten days ago (we were still fine with this)- at the very last minute while we were on the ferry back to Kuala Terengganu from Redang island, we were notified BY A TEXT MESSAGE that the 10pm flight was pushed to ONE THIRTY MIDNIGHT.

WHAT THE HELL WERE WE SUPPOSED TO DO AT KUALA TERENGGANU UNTIL 1.30AM?! Thanks for the heads up, Firefly! Not.

The reason for the delay was because one of their planes was grounded. Apparently Firefly has only three planes and too many routes to cover, and having one plane down didn’t help. NOT MY EFFIN’ PROBLEM NOW IS IT? A simple solution could be- STOP TRYING TO GAIN EXTRA INCOME BY OVERBOOKING.

Budget airline or not, us paying customers expect and deserve PROMPT if not good service. If you’re able to pull such stunt, you’ll HAVE to face angry customers ie MY FRIENDS AND I. We are seriously this close to burning the head office down. Or filing a lawsuit. Or both.

On compensation (or the lack of it)

It was after our trip. We were tired. All we wanted to do was to go home. Of course we were furious that we were stranded, of course we demanded for compensation- and we hoped that it might be in the form of an earliest available flight out no matter if it was MAS or another airline, we’re not picky.

NO SUCH LUCK. Firefly had the audacity to tell us to write in a complaint letter and their management will DECIDE whether to compensate us or not.

WRITE IN A BLOODY LETTER?! WHAT’S WRONG WITH DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM AT THE VERY MOMENT ITSELF?! How responsible and efficient of Firefly! Not.

So we talked to Ajimat, an MAS officer we met at the Kuala Terengganu airport. He reassured us that if we purchased an AirAsia air ticket (we really had no other choice besides pulling a Terminal Man), Firefly will reimburse us for the ticket price difference. He even gave us free lunch! Such a nice man.

NOT.

Today, Suet and Barry headed to the Firefly office along with the AirAsia tickets for the claim- AND THE LADY TOLD HER THAT IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE. So they quoted Ajimat- AND MR. NICE GUY AJIMAT STATED THAT IT WAS A “COMMUNICATION BREAK DOWN”, HE NEVER SAID ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

Communication breakdown, Imma break something over his…

In conclusion

Thanks to Firefly, we have now lost RM1200 due to THEIR stupidity.

And thank goodness we hopped on to AirAsia, cos SO I HEARD the 1.30am plane could not land in the end as the Kuala Terengganu airport closes at 11pm- they did not have permission to do so in the first place. Another nice one Firefly!!!

I will be spreading the word as nobody deserves to be cheated of their time and money like that.

Other disgruntled versions:-
Tze’s
Suet’s
Aud’s
People I don’t know

Update: Su kindly wrote in to Firefly about our sorry situation heh. If you agree with her, please do help by signing and sending it to info@fireflyz.com.my thank you! Let’s teach them not to mess with us paying customers:-

Hi,

Just to let you know that I’ve personally decided to never fly with your company after reading these blog entries:

http://www.jmeei.net/blog/boycott
http://sweatlee.blorc.com/index.php/2008/07/28/firefly-sucks
http://tzeching.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/fuck-fireflyz
http://fourfeetnine.blorc.com/?p=649

Budget airlines or not, in this day and age, you can’t expect to compete in the market without the right customer service. I hope more and more blog readers find out about your unscrupulous ways and inevitably force you out of the competition. Either way, looks like your company is already heading in that direction:

http://www.google.com.my/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=7il&q=fireflyz+sucks&btnG=Search&meta=

Good luck. (Since that was the only thing that kept fireflyz in the business)