Thursday, March 05, 2009

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....

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

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..............

Monday, March 02, 2009

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!

Friday, February 27, 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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!



Friday, February 20, 2009

Je me déteste

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

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

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?