Unfortunate

I am looking forward for the interview tomorrow. However, after calling to HR dept was disappointed. They made a mistake. They thought I did not went for the interview last week. For me, I thought they called me for the second interview..

They are still doing the selection for the first round till Jan 5th. From the feedback, it look positive. I am keeping my finger crossed, but as the day gone by, my spirits is getting lower and lower...

I am still hoping for a miracle to happen.......

Drowning

I felt very disappointed as the days go by.. it's bye bye 2009 and hello 2010.

Basically, I do not know what I have done in 2009.
I hate it.

3rd day of unemployment

I had finished serving the last day of the company and here I am ..

3rd day at home, while every one is heading to work.

I woke up about 9 am plus, had breakfast at 10 am plus, send a few emails out, check facebook then went to gym for 4 - 5 hours only 1 hour of bodystep, the rest are sauna steam taking bath, doing nothing , came home about 7 plus, had dinner and here I am facebook, checking email and watching tvb series at the same time....

Seriously worry

In another 3 weeks, I will be officially out of job. Both my parents had already knew about it. Till now, I had been to quite a number of interview and yet neither one of it came back for a second interview. I am getting really worry. If I still do not get a job by end of this month what will become of me?

Every one will not be changing job as most of them are waiting for the bonus before they plan to move on. It's worrysome. I will be unemployed in another 3 to 4 months. What will become of me? I know I shouldn't be discouraged, but I can't help it. Who would ever figure out such things happened? Then again, with the current situation restructuring is not unusual.

I have to have hope that I will get a job soon. Be positive. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. However, I dare not put my hope too high if not I will be very disappointed..

Everyday, I have been wasting my time going to office, seriously doing nothing. Looking left and looking right. Doing nothing. I do not want to go anywhere at all. When I am at home, I just stayed in my room watching tv series. I am really worry.. I am slowly crawling into my own shell and stay in there forever.....

Oh please, I pray to you, please please let me have a job soon... I am depressed.

My Book List

I am sure most of you have heard of BBC’s must read book list. It seems that the average person would have read 6 out of the 100 listed books below. The red highlighted are those that I have not read. Those that I had watched, I will consider read too!! Ha Ha.. Cheat!

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (I watched the movie)
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling (I watched the movie)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee ( I read halfway and I never got to continue it)
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (Finally, a book that I had read and I forgotten what's it about)
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens ( I forgot about the content too!)
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (I read this too, one of my favourites!)
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling (I watched the movie)
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling (I watched the movie)
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling (I watched the movie)
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (I watched the cartoon)
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery ( I watched this, one of my fav!)
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (I thk I had watched this)
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden (I watched this)
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dicken
s64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding (I watched this)
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot (I watched this)
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie


Look like I watched movie more than I read... haha. How about you?

Something Cute

I am not the usual me nowadays.. I have been doing a lot of stuffs out of the ordinary which I don't do usually.


Eg. I won't be tempted to buy any cutie stuffs sold in the market but this time I did.


I bought something very cute during my visit to the night market last saturday.


Ta daaa!!!









Cute little pumpkin, bunny rabbit and porcupine bun. Each contain custard, lotus paste and pandan leave paste...


Ordinary taste but I bought it because it's cute....


Cute or not??

A piece of blank paper

I'm not happy. I want to leave earlier. I still have no job. How?

worry

I'm getting worry. A week has passed after the news. My family and the bf still doesn't know about my current situation.
I'm worry that I couldn't get a job by the time. What would happen to me? I still has commitment. My house, my car and my family! I do not know what will happened to me if I have no job. I am really worry.......

Unexpected event

I have so many things to post but let talk about the unexpected event.

I'm 4 months into the job, and the things I've been doing has not been better. Initially, when I joined the company, I was offered Channel Manager. Eventually, a colleague had resigned when I was with the company for 2 or 3 days. So, immediately I was assigned to be a Product Manager replacing the vacancy. Work had been tough on me as I never handled any product before.

Two days ago, after coming back from a 2 days of sick leave, I was asked to see the MD. I was caught by surprised. He told me that the company is going through restructuring and I am asked to go end of the month. Of course with compensation of a month's salary. Reason being, the company no longer need a PM. All PM's work will be handled by the regional, and those who stayed are handling channel. I felt the company me treated me so unfair. I was employed as a CM, but given a PM's job. Now, the organization is going through restructuring, they don't need a PM anymore and I asked me to leave. Hello, remember I was employed as a CM. You need a CM so ain't I a CM but doing a PM's job. I find it really ridiculous.

I'm not the only one. So basically for the PMs, meaning me and another colleague are asked to leave and being offer a package. For her, looks like she wants the VSS but to me, eventhough I'm not happy with the job I still want to give it a chance.

Asking us to leave the company and Yet, they are employing some Management Trainee's role doing a CM. I don't really understand what does the company wants to do...

Anyway, after discussion with my good samaritan boss, and conversation with him and the MD, it is agreeable that I'll work till end of Oct plus the additional 1 month compensation. At least, I can buy some time to look for a job.

I had not told anyone else, not even the family and the bf. I will wait till I find a job then I'll tell them.

I had been very down for the past two days because of the unexpected event. On the day itself, me and my colleagues went out for a good jap lunch. I ordered a green tea ice cream dessert to satisfy my "downness". The bill cost about RM200. I had been doing things out of the ordinary recently. Usually after work, I will head straight home, but on that day I didn't went home. Instead, I went to the bf's house and bought some food stuff from pasar malam as dinner. Today, still feeling down, immediately after work, I went to the night market for a walk and dinner..

Guess what I bought myself?? Some pretty little hair clips for fun....

Tomorrow, the marketing team are basically not working. We are heading to FHM at KLCC.

Tactical Meeting

It's the tactical meeting for all the sales and marketing personnel in Unilever. The whole theme is military holding on to the believe 'Command and Conquer'. To me, it's more of fire fighting internally rather than fire fighting in the battlefield among the other competitors. Sad isn't it spending the time and effort among one another rather than focusing on enemy.

Lunch time moment! My colleagues and me

The whole group with military attire. For the marketing dept, it's FBI. In full, it's follow boss's instruction!! So obedient!

No Longer Happy

I'm no longer happy with what I'm doing any more. I do not have the passion for it. However, in everyone's opinion it is a good a big company accompany with potential in developing my career path. Shall I stay on just because of everyone or I do something I am passionate of?

3 months

Well, life have been hectic for me for the past 3 months. Working life in Unilever is stressful coupled with load of reports to submit with datelines as well plus meetings and meeting one after another. No life besides work.. Sad.

No more going to gym, just work...

I had been working from morning to 9 or 10pm latest.
I had taken mcs for at least 4 to 5 days for the passed 3 months.
Sad, isn't it.

Anxiety breakdown. Mild depression seizure. Sigh....

I want my life back!!

1st day of work!

I started work on the 1st of April, yeap it was April Fool's Day.

Guess what, my new colleagues pull a prank on me by calling each other different names. I only realised it after lunch...

Another thing was, they placed 3 bets on me... 1st will I be wearing pants or skirt, the second was how old am I and the last one is am I single or married... Some win and some looses....

Haha... wacky colleagues I have here... overstressed I guess.

Recap in my last work

Well, this one of the things that I wanted to do during my transition to a new job. I wanted a list of all the reviews and some contests that I had done for my ex company. To all my food bloggers who had agreed to eat at the restaurant thank you all. It's for my memoirs..

From the most recent reviews:-

1. http://yilinglim.blogspot.com/2009/02/coca-steamboat-restaurant.html
2. http://www.sixthseal.com/2009/02/coca-restaurant.html
3. http://www.suanie.net/2009/03/16/coca-steamboat-meal/
4. http://www.sixthseal.com/2009/02/coca-restaurant-rm-150-contest-winners.html
5. http://www.sixthseal.com/2009/01/contest-3-pairs-of-coca-steamboat-set-meal-for-two-worth-rm-150-each-up-for-grabs.html
6. http://www.suanie.net/2009/01/15/coca-restaurant-cny-giveaway-win-a-steamboat-set-meal-for-2-worth-rm150/
7. http://bigboysoven.blogspot.com/2009/03/coca-restaurant-subang-parade-discovery.html
8. http://thenomadgourmand.blogspot.com/2009/02/coca-restaurant-more-than-just.html
9. http://www.foodpoi.com/2009/02/coca-restaurant-at-subang-parade-thai-food/
10. http://www.foodstreet.com.my/food-street/bpage.s?by=Coca+Restaurant&bid=112
11. http://alilfatmonkey.blogspot.com/search/label/Subang%20Jaya
12. http://drownedglassdua.blogspot.com/2008/11/stuffed-pig-and-things-they-stuffed-me.html
13. http://ipohwav3.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/coca-steamboat-subang-parade/
14. http://kampungboycitygal.com/?p=414
15. http://cumidanciki.blogspot.com/2008/09/coca-means-kekou-means-appetizing_29.html
16. http://timothytiah.blogspot.com/2008/09/when-you-eat-with-bloggers.html
17. http://kyspeaks.com/2008/09/08/ky-eats-restaurant-coca-at-subang-parade/
18. http://www.suanie.net/2008/09/03/scrumptious-thai-food-coca-restaurant/
19. http://food-4-thot.blogspot.com/2008/09/coca-restaurant-subang-parade.html
20. http://www.haveyoueaten.net/2008/07/03/coca-restaurants-not-just-steamboat-but-thai-food-too/
21. http://www.vkeong.com/2008/food-drink/coca-steamboat-buffet-contest-submit-comment-and-win/
22. http://www.vkeong.com/2008/food-drink/coca-restaurant-seafood-steamboat-buffet-review/
23. http://cheeserland.com/2008/02/this-is-so-cheesy/
24. http://www.minishorts.net/2008/03/21/a-date-at-coca/
25. http://www.minishorts.net/2008/02/13/valentines-day-surprise/

These are really a lot. I think I miss out 1 or 2 blogs. I can't find it.. Any food bloggers who are around coincidently bumping into this site, if I miss you, just drop me a comment.

Trying

This is what I found from the net:-

7 Habits of People Losing Weights and Keeping It OFF Permanently!


1) Expect failure, but keep trying
I'm still trying...

2) Don't deny yourself
I'm not denying

3) Weigh yourself often
I'm doing this right!!

4) Exercise regularly
If only my heart listen to my head...

5) Find ways to add little bits of physical activity into your daily routine
Still trying too...

6) Eat a high carbohydrate, low fat diet
Am trying very hard...

7) Eat about five meals a day starting with breakfast
hmmm.. not much time though............

- from "CNN Presents: Fat Chance" based on research by Dr. Jim Hill, Director, Center for Human Nutrition, University of Colorado


Well, what can I say. I'm trying!

Start afresh

It had been a couple of months I had been trying very hard to loose those weights after stopping my gym workout. I know that I still do not put on my 101% best yet but i'm still trying. With so many temptations to dinners, invitation parties and events doesn't justify the reasons that I should be loosing weight. Well, the good thing about me is I am forever trying. I knew that I had done that, been there and going back to weight I wanted shouldn't be any problems.

Perseverance is the key. Determination and stubborness are the key on losing weight. I had actually started yesterday, to try to control my food intake and start to go to gym. I did an hour of workout, my effort rating is 35%. I know it's not the maximum but at least I have to start somewhere. Furthermore, with not working out for 6 months while pilling up at least 6kgs/13.2lbs, it is just not justifiable. I know, I know, it's just plain silly excuse and I shouldn't be doing it but I'm couldn't help it.

Went to gym yesterday, was a good start. This morning, I took a good morning walk with my dad at the park is a good start. Although my muscles hurt from yesterday's work out I still persisted. My knees hurt as well.. but still I persisted.

Food?!?! How about food? I'm a dessert person, give me chocolate, ice cream yeah, anytime but I'm trying very hard. Yes, taking in control of what I had eating is also a good start. I'm selective with what I put in my mouth... Yes, I need to do some grocery shopping too as the food at home are totally not healthy at all... Seriously!


Current Weight : 66kg / 145.2lbs
Target Weight : 58kg / 127.6lbs
Total Weight Loss to Achieve : 8kg / 17.6lbs
Target every month 2kgs /4.4lbs

Life during unemployment

Today is the third day after my unofficial last day. Life has been fun. A friend came back from Singapore for a week of holiday... So we spend two days of window shopping. Nope, it's shopping for us.. hee =)

We went to Curve for our first day. We walked around, waited for her to do her IPL, ate some german dinner @ Bavarian and watched Marley and I. Basically, it was a lot of catching up. It was FUN!

On the second day, we went to Sungei Wang shopping, ate at Jalan Alor, continued shopping, went back to Jalan Alor to buy fried fritters, and shopping again..

I felt like those rich tais tais going out on a weekday shopping. The feeling was so different but nice.... I wish we can do this more often!

Today, doing nothing much, went to gym to work out.. My first session, torturing, period.

Joyeux anniversaire!

Happy Birthday! Many greetings and wishes either via sms or facebook. I'm turning 31 today. Let me rephrase, I am 31 today. Birthday is suppose to be a happy ocassion where one celebrate it either with friends and family and love ones. Unfortunately, I don't feel happy at all.

A couple of days ago, I was looking forward for today. I even have the intention to post some birthday wishes I have in mind.

Something is troubling me..

I tendered resignation, and now still waiting whether is it possible for the co to release me earlier.. I really hope that they do. I have strong intuition that they will make things difficult for me. They would not let me off so easily. They will with held my pay and will not release me earlier. Why would a company do that? Don't they are afraid that they may have an employee who may wants to sabotage the company. No point holding on to someone where their heart is no longer with the company, right? sigh...
Update: The company decided to release me on the 31st March 2009 earlier then I expected. I know I should be happy but I feel disappointed.

I had made choices that I do not want to make. I''m feeling very bad right now in my heart...

I really don't feel happy at all eventhough it's my birthday.

grateful

Finally, after 6 weeks of job hunting, an offer had came in. Had been to 3 second interviews but only one came back. PW had even asked me to go for a third interview but I didn't. I realised that the beauty line was never for me. Food and beverage is always my passion. I attended CJ's second interview but no news. U is the one being offered.

Initially, I was hoping very much to go into U because it is a big mnc. U is a reputable company which will add value to my profile. It will help me in the future. My sis's bf had an offer, and even my sis had an offer. I want an offer too. Then again, it is the profile that I'm going to be responsible which makes me hesitates. I am grateful. I am, really am!

When I received the news, that they had selected me. I was jumping with joy. I want to leave the current dreaded place.

Well, I could say in general the pay package is good enough for me. I'm happy with what they had offered.

Now, I'm to wait for my offer letter. They may call me to collect it even today!
Nice....

I'm looking forward to work in U eventhough, I'm not really into the profile that I'm going to be responsible of, but I'll do my best. I am challenging myself to it.

For a better future....

March babies

I received many forwarded emails and this is one of it.


March Babies
Attractive personality.
Sexy.
Affectionate Shy and reserved.
Secretive.
Naturally honest, generous and sympathetic.
Loves peace and serenity.
Sensitive to others.
Great kisser.
Easily angered.
Trustworthy.
Appreciative and returns kindness.
Hardly shows emotions.
Tends to bottle up feelings.
Observant and assesses others.

So true..............

c'est la vie!

Life can be very cruel.
Life can be very unfair.
Life can treat you badly.
C'est la vie!

Well, to some people it has been a bed of roses, they just had the lady of luck by their side taking things for granted...

For instance, my sis had been very lucky on her career path. After graduating with a master certificate, she had been offered a job in Klang working with a public listed company. I would said her pay was good among her friends who had same qualification and studying the same course. They are getting much lower then what she is getting. Every year, the company had given her at least 4 months bonus every year and yet she complaints! Never in my life, throughout 11 years of working never... Let me said this again, I NEVER received a 4 months bonus... well, ....

Now, she got another offer, eventhough is this dark and gloomy economy, mind you... yes, she got a better offer and yet higher paid salary.. The other day, the hr from her new company, just called and said they are offering RM300 higher then what they are offering her before.... I was like WTF!!!

What can I said? She is just damn lucky lady. I'm not envious of her, happy for her the matter of fact..

Guess what, her boyfriend had also just been offered another j0b with higher salary and better future...

Her bf got!! She also got!! Why I don't have?!?!?!? I want it too!!!!!

Life is so unfair... Well, that's life babe!

pourquoi?

Air Asia - Now everyone can Fly with difficulties‏

Me and my group of friends travel very frequently, be it a family trip or a friends trip, it would be at least twice per year either locally or internationally.


Our last trip was a disappointment with Air Asia service.... What ever had happened happened.. So what else can we do but wrote a letter of complaint to Air Asia.


We wrote the following to Air Asia's customer service and even to Tony Fernandez.


"Hello,

My recent trip to Vientiane on Air Asia with 3 friends ended with much disappointment in Air Asia’s level of service and professionalism in meeting customer’s satisfaction.

During our check-in at Wattay International Airport on 21 Oct 2008, we were being asked the question “Do you have any alcohol/perfume?” We, being honest, replied that we have 3 bottles of mulberry juice wine, a typical Lao organic farm product. However, much to our dismay and amazement, we were told strictly no alcohol allowed to be checked in!

After much exchange with the local officer, Mr Anolak Kingsada of Wattay International Airport, we were given only the following solutions:
-Sell the wine back to the duty free shop (Why would I want to do that when it is meant as a souvenir to family and friends?)
-Leave it in the airport to be claimed within a month before it is being disposed (You are expecting us to travel back to Vientiane again?)

I must say that solutions are not customer oriented. We even offered the organic farm telephone number to verify the content of the bottles. But the officer is not willing to cooperate to provide us a win-win solution.

We also suggested clarifying this item with the KL head office. This was only accepted after much debate. In Mr Anolak Kingsada’s office, we called back to the KL head office. We would also like to clarify this point with KL’s officers but was not allowed to speak directly to them by Mr Anolak Kingsada. In this emergency situation, we then tried Air Asia Call Centre (603-86604343) around 10 am the same day. However, there was no answer even after 30 minutes!

Here we would like to clarify the following items:
1) What is the solution given to Air Asia’s customers who bought wine from holiday location and intend to bring it back home?
2) Is perfume not even allowed in Air Asia check in luggage?
3) Define specifically which are the limits and what type of liquid that can or cannot be checked-in. We did a check with the officer in LCCT KL (Pari Bala) and we were told that even shampoo cannot be checked in!
4) We know of other passengers with bottle of wine and yet able to check-in and board the plane since they did not declare the alcohol. What does this say about Air Asia’s level of security control? And this is an issue of discrimination to honesty!
5) What is the purpose of a call centre if there is no answer after 30 minutes? What if it was an emergency situation?
6) Is it not possible for customers to speak directly with the KL head office? Isn’t it Air Asia’s priority to clear customer’s doubts?
7) When we tried to get a clarification from your officers in LCCT, no satisfactory explanations. We were even told that liquid cannot be checked in. This is quite appalling since we also have shampoo etc checked in. It seems that your staff does not know their terms and condition and yet have the cheek to state that we have not read the document. This says much about your level of service and staff knowledge.
8) We also got some explanations from the police officers in LCCT. We were told that as long as the liquid/alcohol bottles are sealed together with receipt it can be hand carried. Why is this not offered as a solution in Laos?
9) We traveled widely with MAS, Tiger Airways and Jetstar but there is no such ruling. Why is Air Asia so special? How does Air Asia maintain its competitiveness with these airlines in terms of service? In my opinion, it is not at all at par with any of them.

I am very disappointed that this is the results of being honest. Air Asia seems to be encouraging dishonest customers and has no interest in customer’s well being. We would like Air Asia to compensate us for the losses (the mulberry juice wine & phone calls made to KL). We were told that you will reply with solutions in maximum 14 days. Hopefully this is demonstrated as claimed and hopefully we now get a satisfactory response.

If you need any additional information/receipts for your investigations, please let us know. We are very willing to assist you in any way so that a fair solution is presented.

Thank you.

Regards,
Andrea Chua
Angeline Ng
Sean Ng
Sylvia Gan "




No response from them , so we send another one to the KLIA authority.




Sent:Tuesday, 4 Nov, 2008 11: 36 PM
To:webmaster@dca.gov.my; klca@org.my
Cc: guestsupport@airasia.com;


"Dear Sir or Madam,


I am really sad and dissapointed and really do not know who should i contact for the help on below. We had sent the email below to Air Asia support email and we have waited for more than 2 weeks and yet to hear from them on the explanation on our incident that we had faced during our trip to Laos.


This is not the kind of customer service that we are expecting. We have made our complain on the spot when we arrived KLIA airport. Sadly to say that Air Asia's staff asked us to write an email to their office as they couldn't help much on our case and we did and followed what they told us but till now we haven't received any email from them.


We are definitely being overlooked and it seems that they just wanted to push us away from complaining on the spot and hoping to get away from the issue. As a consumer, we do know our rights and deserved to ask for explanation. As a passenger of the air flight, we would like to seek advice on the rules and regulations that have been implemented across world wide international flight for the incident stated below.


We are really lost now and do not know whom we should seek for help/assistance to follow up our complaint. Please do reply our email if you receive our email. At least we know that someone who is kind and responsible to follow up our case. In addition, we feel like we are been punished for being honest. Shouldn't we all been taught to be honest when we were kids? Why would we been punished but other people could escape from it? We are looking forward to hearing from you ASAP!


Thanks, Sean Ng "



I, myself forwarded the initial email to Tony Fernandez directly, unfortunately an automated generated response from the computer instead!


"Dear AirAsia Guests,


I notice that lately we have received numerous complaints on our Call Centre response time. This is due to the huge success of AirAsia X, especially with the Perth and Melbourne route announcements. These new, exciting long-haul routes have resulted in longer talk-time between callers and our agents and subsequently caused our lines to be congested.We did not anticipate this sudden surge in calls volume. However our Call Centre team headed by Sri Velayuthan has now identified and worked with our IT department to upgrade the Call Centre facility.By Nov 6, our Call Centre will have enough agents and sufficient IT infrastructure to deal with the influx. By this, we aim to improve our Call Centre performance to 90% i.e. a drop call rate of 10% only. By January, we'll be moving to a high-tech Call Centre to cater to more calls.We sincerely apologise for the frustrations caused by our Call Centre congestion but this is only due to our overwhelming business expansion. We have always been mindful in increasing cost as it will certainly lead to increasing fares. As the People's Airline, this is the last thing we want to happen.We acknowledge that technology will cost us more but at the same time we are committed to giving you excellent service. On another note, I have been working very hard with the team at AirAsia to look at reducing our fuel surcharge and you should look forward to the good news in the next couple of months.In the meantime, if you have any problems or enquiries, do not hesitate to email Sri Velayuthan (srivelayuthan@airasia.com) or Hani Mohamad (haninurlena@airasia.com). Having a combined experience of 15 years in customer service between them, they will be happy to assist you.



Best regards,Tony Fernandes"



Well, here we are with a couple of pictures of us getting ready to get drunk at the Vientiane Airport before boarding the plane!

I'm planning to send this to The Star!

Je me déteste

Je suis desolee. Je me déteste pour je t'aime.

career movement

My career movement for the company will be stagnant for the next two years. Of course, it is due to the unstableness of the economy of the country. Other neighbouring countries are deeply effected too.

I had tried my very best to propose to my boss to advertise in the papers to continue on the brand's awareness but unfortunately each time, he decline. Basically from what ever I had proposed, even with a very good affordable package offered by the media owners. He rejected and prefer to invest the money in doing good the restaurants.

For me, my expectation for the company, whatever he had promised no longer happening. All talk and no action for the next two years.

Basicaly it's pretty monotanous for me. Whatever, marketing plan that I would intended to propose will make me think twice before submitting to him basically for approval. Why waste time, when you know it is not going to happen, right. Nevertheless, I still tried..

While waiting for the grass to turn greener, I had to think for myself. I can't keep on staying in this company where empty promises are meant to be broken.

I had attended quite a number of interviews :-
1. 22th Jan, Thurs Mandom - fmcg
2. 5th Feb, Thurs Popular - book
3. 12th Feb, Thurs Philipwain - beauty

Unfortunately, none of it was successful,
However, I'm still keeping my finger crossed for the upcoming interviews arranged for the coming week
1. 23th Feb, Mon Tangs - retail
2. 24th Feb, Tues Unilever - fmcg
3. 25th Feb, Wed Aspac - fnb

I'm praying very hard that I can leave the very gloomy place as soon as possible, with no friends but foes unfortunately to accompany throughout the past few weeks of working...

oh, please end my misery.. I do not want to ask for more, just a place for me to work happily. No more expectation cause it brings nothing but disappointment

hopeless

I am hopeless in my diet thingy...

I had stop taking herballife and my weight is still 65kg. I'm speechless.. Plus with so many invitation with food related, it's difficult. Personally, I feel the best result is to go gym...
Sigh... Any takers to accompany me to the gym?

demande en mariage

It's funny thinking back on what happened on the day where he proposed. It was a V's day. As usual, most couples were succumbed to the most commercialised dinner with gifts, chocolates and flowers. Me being a marketeer, I know the usual gimmicks..

The night before V's day, he had given me a stalk of rose. Simple, yes. I do not mind at all. Caused I knew how expensive flowers on that particular day. Eventhough, it was simple, you could see my facial expression beaming with joy when he gave it to me. Simple things like this can just make me happy.

On V's day itself, he gave me another stalk of rose during the day. Well, I do not know what did he had in mind but I went along with it. He came to pick me up for the dinner. I was clueless of whereabouts he wanted to take me. Never did I expected that he brought me to the most expensive dinner in my life that I ever had.

We drove past downtown, heading to KL Tower. I never being to KL Tower before taking into consideration I was residing in KL since 2 years old! KL Tower as I knew of, there are this restaurant overlooking into the KL nightlife. It is Seri Angkasa Revolving Restaurant. As the name suggested, it revolves slowly overlooking the night of KL.

Since he wanted to make it a special night for both of us, a night for us to remember.. and I will surely remember. He reserved for dinner for two. Heading to the restaurant, at the reception I saw the price for RM200 plus, thinking to myself, 'Wow, that's really expensive for two'.

Upon our arrival, at the restaurant entrance, I was surprised with another stalk of rose, a box of chocolates containing a la Ferrero Rocher and a cute little teddy. All these come a long with the reservation. He mentioned 3 stalks of roses means I love you.... Awww so sweet....

I was seated near the window overlooking at the spectacular KL night view. It was a buffet with 2 buffet counter and 1 dessert counter.

I was having my first plate of food and when I got to know that the dinner for the night was RM288++ per person with our bill total up to RM662.40Nett. I got the shocked of my life. It was way overpriced and the food I would say it was so so, nothing much to shout out. After knowing the value for the dinner, I was distracted and could not even enjoyed the food. Do you know how expensive was it? It is equivalent to a month of my car installment! Nope, it wasRM8.40 more then my car installment. Basically, at that time I was having "tooth ache" literally for the price we had paid. Do you think that I can eat that worth of food? Nope, I don't think I can eat that much worth of food either.

I'm a dessert person, when it's time for dessert, whatever unhappiness I have will slowly disolved in the dessert. Like ice cream melting.. So while taking a break after my session o dessert, he suddenly held my hands underneath the table, caressing. Suddenly I felt pain. He was slipping a ring onto my finger while asking me, " Will you marry me?" and I nodded my head and here we are now after 5 years of marriage. Time flew!

no longer virgin

With this title, I strongly believe that more perverts and strangers are lurking around this blog. Why, cause the statement itself caused a lot of peeps to be curious.

I reserved a session of brazilian wax and IPL (Intense Pulse Lightning) for both myself and a friend of mine to Strip, Curve on Sat eve of CNY's eve. Brazilian wax is a type of hair removing method for the unseen area. In this case, it will be 'the muff'. IPL is another permanent method electric current is used to destroy the hair pores. Brazilian wax take about 30 - 35 mins and IPL is about 15 mins. So my friend went in for her session while I'm looking around the shop. It's made out of carton box material for the wall with a cement floor. Very bare and interesting industrial concept for a shop like this.

My name was called, and the strip therapist lead me to a room.

She said, "Remove your pants and panty". She is a lot friendlier then what I'm trying to portray here.

She left the room. Obediently I followed her instruction and laid on the bed covered myself.

She showed me a packet of personal hygiene wax pack, where the Stripette ( that's what they call their customers) will have their personal wax pack containing some cottom buds and some waxs strips to use. It's individual packed for hygiene purposes.

After examined my muff she said, "It's too short to have brazillian wax. Furthermore, you had been shaving and when you wax it will give you a slight pain. The pain will be slightly more than the usual due to the thickness of the hair".

She added," Your skin is too dried and wrinkled. It's like a 40 years old rather than my age."

My expression was horrific... -_- Like wtf ....

She explained further over cleaning will caused the skin to be dried and wrinkled. Well, I had been using feminine wash for quite some time for cleaniness and now she told me I over cleaned. It's not recommended to use it daily, however I can use it during the time of month. Washing too much is another cause of overdrying. Gosh, I'm just trying to be clean and I am too clean!?!??!Ridiculous, yes?


Well, She recommended me to do IPL instead it would not be to harsh on my skin.. plus it would be painless.

Agreeing to her suggestion, noting the price of IPL is so expensive

Changing to another room, where the IPL machine is located. Here I am laying on the bed waiting for the therapist to do her job.

She shaved all the hairs. Then, she used a piece of steel to place at the area. The steel plated is very cold against my skin. According to the therapist it is to numb the area so that I don't feel the current when she is doing IPL on my muffs... She did it repeatedly. I can feel the current on my skin when the utensil is working. Short current lightly bolted across the skin, it's not painful....
According the therapist, the hair will drop only 50% and to some individuals it would be more. I would need to come again for another round so that it work but looking at the price point, it's really expensive.

IPL needs 6th sessions to make sure that pores are death and no more hair growth and a yearly maintenance.

Updates: After 10 days and more, hair can even be plucked/ pulled out easily by fingers. No tweezers or what nots needed. It's fun.. hehehe
Now hair is growing...

Shall I go for another round??

Last Weekend - Food and more Food

With so many invitations for lunch and dinner last weekend, it will be very tough for me to stick with this so called strict diet. However, I tried to be in control with my food intake closely.


Sat - Dinner @ restaurant
Sun - Dinner @ sis's house
Mon - Lunch @ restaurant
Dinner @ hun's house

I can't remember what was my food intake throughout the weekend, but it is a lot! it's has been 8 days. My current weight is 64.5kg.

Food intake for the day:-

Breakfast: 2 small muffins + 1 glass choc milk

Midbreakfast: 1 glass fresh orange juice

Lunch: F1

Dinner: CNY cookies + pcs of bak kuas

dream wedding or dream off!!

Both of my favourites actress are on screen together! Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway. Bride Wars is the usual chick flick which I won't be doing a review about the movie. It caught me thinking. Normally for a gal, she should had or already had and knew what she wanted for her dream wedding. For me, eventhough I have been living on this earth for 31 years (in another 1 1/2 months) I had never thought of what I want for my dream wedding!

Surprise? Yeah, that's me. I could not imagine myself in a bridal gown or even marrying to someone at all. I enjoyed looking at bridal magazine though. I would consider myself as confident elegant young woman in reality do not have the slightest idea of what I want for my dream wedding. I know clock is ticking and the shares are declining....

Huh! Take That! *Slap at forehead*

Maybe it's time for me to figure it out...

4th day

My weight still maintain 65kg. No difference. I won't be posting for the next few days about herbalife. I'm bored. However, I will keep on posting about my food intake daily.

Food intake for the day:
Breakfast: 3 pcs of garlic bread + 1 pc of fruitcake
Lunch: 2 pcs gyoza, 2 pcs black pepper beef, 1 pcs tempura ebi and 2 -3 pcs of sushis (a lot?!?!)
Mid lunch: 1 glass of tea mix
Dinner: 3 - 4 pcs of duck, vege + 1 bowl soup
Supper: hehehe I knew... 1 bowl of tan cha (tong shui) + 1/2 egg + 1 deep fried fritters with red bean

3rd day with Herbalife

This morning my weight is 65kg. Very motivating, eventhough yesterday's nite was heavy dinner. Too much of temptation when you stayed home. Bottles and bottles of CNY cookies lying on the table calling out to me.. "Come, come, eat me, eat me!!"

Cookies are plentiful during this time of the year, not to mentioned my favourite: bak kua!!


Yesterday, I managed to drink 1 bottle of water during working hours... going to toilet too many times is troublesome.



I almost forgot that I can eat fruits if I have temptation to eat. Totally forgot about it till yesterday, well I have to stock up more and more fruits now....




Food intake for the day
Breakfast: 1 mandarin orange + F1
Mid Breakfast: 1 Teamix
Lunch: 1 local orange + F1
Dinner: less than 1/2 bowl rice with meat, vege and tofu + 1 bowl soup + some popcorn

Day 2

So call very very strict diet... The temptation is so much when I am staying with my parents. The fridge are full of junk and plenty food to eat. I believe, if I do not have money to buy food it can last me for the whole month.

My weight for today is 66.5kg.

After confirmation with my friend, she was taking only F1 for breakfast and dinner. Cheaper too. Plus must drink a lot a lot of water. So I'm targeting to drink two bottle of water in the office. Keeping my finger crossed...

My plan is to take F1 + F3 for breakfast and F1 alone for dinner. After finishing F3, I will just continue with F1. Very very expensive meal replacement plan.


My food intake for today:
Breakfast : 1 small bowl of Porridge with groundnut and meat + 4 pieces of fritters
Lunch: F1 + F3
Dinner: 2 small bowl of porridge with groundnut and meat + 4 pieces of fritters + 1 1/2 big piece of bak kua + 2 mandarin oranges

First Day of Herbalife

After a long break of Chinese New Year and just food, food and food.. My weight had just balooned to 67kg. Drastic I would say. I am starting my first day of Herbalife. It a meal replacement plan, somewhat similar with Cambridge Diet. I was very successful with Cambridge Diet, where my weight went down to 59.5kg lowest even without exercise. When I stop Cambridge Diet, my weight slowly increase back to 65kg. I would said my official weight without dieting and exercise but with eating with care can only manage to sustain at 65kg.

So officially, I am on very very strict diet today Day 1 : 2nd February 2009.


So my Body Mass Index (BMI) is
= My Weight/ (My Height x My Height)
=67/(1.65x1.65)
=24.61

A healthy weight falls between 20 and 25 on the index and this show that I am almost overweight.

My short term and long term goals are as following

GOAL 1 short term = I would like to be in size L weighinng at 62kg in 8 weeks
GOAL 2 long term = I would like to be in size M weighing at 52kg in 6 months

Let's keep my finger crossed.

Now, I am getting confused. I read on the internet, that with weight loss should only consumed F1 and not F1 and F3 together. Only at a later stage the need to consume F3, this is when you need to build protein.

And I just took F1 and F3 together for lunch. I'm getting confused now....


My food intake for the day
Breakfast : 2 piece of small piece of bak kua & 4 tsp of anlene milk and 4 tsp of oats.
Lunch : 2 tbs of F1 + 1 tbs of F3
Mid Afternoon : 3 pcs of suan suan + 1 glass of teamix
Dinner : 1/2 bowl rice, vege, 2 pc chic meat, 1 bowl of soup + 1 1/2 big piece of bak kua (thanks to a friend) + 8 pcs of cookies

virgin muff

Great! Guess what... so after so much hearing about brazillian wax, here I am. I'd made the appointment tomorrow for IT at 6 o'clock @ The Strip, The Curve. Very anxious, after all it's a virgin experience. I will post about it when I have done it, very private. Well, it's my life and I will blog about what ever happened in my life.... It will be virgin muff soon.....

Drumming finger waiting anxiously for it.......

hit and run

On the way to work today, something happened. A typical hit and run case. A malay motorcyclist hit an old lady while she is crossing the road. It was pretty bad.. The old lady should be crossing the road when there is no car but it's a busy road.. the motorcyclist hit the old lady, she was twirled around then falled, the motorcyclist kept on riding while looking back towards the lady. Her arm looked twisted... She had an broken arm. Called the ambulance and they came later...

So irresponsible.. Bless him! He will face the karma....

Yay, Finally!

Heee... finally, something good happened to me.. It's not fantastic, it's not superb... well it lifted my mood for that day, though....

I received a sms from Women Weekly's Magazine stating that I won myself a moview premier... Hehehe, not bad paying RM$1 for a sms and get 4 tics for FREE... Of course, not to mention, I spend about RM5 for other contests as well.... Well, no pain, no gain. So Bride Wars here I come!!! weeeeeee....... I collected it yesterday on my way to 1 Utama.....

Now, looking forward for the movie...

my heart is uneasy

Everything I do right now, I do it with extra extra care. I have always being careless, but while working I will be extra careful. It is not eye for detail. Meticulous you could say that I am. I will be extra careful with every single item. Hence, the feeling of wanting to do something out of the box deter me from doing so. I'm trying to avoid any future problem and even fault finding and blame which will against me. I am worry. My heart is very uneasy.

I have seen how the situation are when faults finding with every single thing you do eventhough what you have in mind is purely for the benefit of the company. Yet, there are always faults and faults and blames for doing something that you didn't do. Getting framed for something which you didn't do is not worth while. I do not want to have such things to happen to me...

My heart is very uneasy. My heart is concerned with what I am doing... Work is no longer the same...

empty promises

I hate people who like to make empty promises and break it!
I meant every word I say and I'll do it.
Try me if you don't believe what I said.
I'll mark my word......

Period....

early thirties

guess what!?!? I'm in my early thirties!! No more late twenties.....


Geeez.....

Somewhat Deep

From a close friend,

Remember,
Life is short,
Break the Rules,
Forgive and Forget,
Love Sincerely,
Laugh Uncontrollably, and
Never Regret the Decisions You've Made This Year!

Welcome the year 2009, no matter what it is going to be......


Lurves, Hugs and Kisses,
nette