The GeGao Master Strikes Back

Finally I updated my blog... with new skins and new posts in anticipation for the upcoming Spiderman 3!! (duh) I must say the trailers are to die for. Especially the recent newer ones focusing more on Venom. I swear I am so going to orgas in the cinema on May 2nd. (Sigh, May 2nd because got paper on May 2nd so cannot go on May 1st... Dammit!)

On a less stickier note, the ge gao master strikes back! Today, he shall complain about more ge gao things. Actually not so ge gao but more of I sway kenna this kind of stoopid people in stoopid situations. That concern money la of course.

GeGao situation #1 Alibaba.com

I helpch xy order clothes from this online shop called alibaba (name changed for obvious ge gao reasons), she ordered 33-40 pieces of clothings (it's a spree!) and then hor, we painstakingly confirmed with them which clothes were instock before transferring the money to them (they are in korea!), then hor, we decided to wait 1 week coz 1 red dress we bought for lindy hadn't come yet. (yes people, april bday ppl are going to get dresses from me) so hor so hor, the day before we send the money hor, we confirm online like 35 pieces in stock (including added orders) so next day we send the money. then hor, we wait 1 week. eh. how come they havent notified us of items being shipped? or confirm with us anything before shipping? nevermind. i think near end of 1 week we finally got the seller on msn (one of the only staff in the company that can speak engrish) and asked her. she say shipped already. like 2 days ago. so should come soon. but some stuff out of stock, so refund us some money. we also lan lan. in the end shipped 30 pcs. or so she say. when goods finally came, not 30 pcs lor. 29 pcs! waaa i so gegao. i was like waaaaaa. u all dare to cheat our money arh. so we of coz try to contact her again la. wa. msn her for 4hrs only reply one sentence one. damn jialat. near to 1 week after receiving the goods, we still dun have refund nor hear about how they were going to settle the missing pc. first make sum excuse abt paypal, say no money inside to refund. then after that tell me that for my missing pc, i have to pay $20 sgd more shipping just to ship 1 pc. i was pissed la. like your company fked up the order still wan me to pay money. and i bombard her with 3 qns only she also take forever to reply. until i fed up, msn the lao da in the company. using my negotiating skills honed over the years (wahahhaha.. thick skin anyhow say one... dunch vomit blood prease), i told her it's unreasonable for the company to make me pay for their mistake basically and i do want my refunds back since it's been over a week plus since i received the goods. so finally after much hoohah of which time was supposed to be spent on my research papers, i finally got the refund today. weird thing is, she got someone from singapore to paypal me the refund. i have to take it out of paypal soon in case she revokes the transaction. once i take it out, paypal cannot revoke it coz then it'll be monies had and received! hurhurhur. dunch play play. At least that one is settled. For now. if they reverse transaction then i gonna gegao again!!!

GeGao situation #2 Hu? Hu? Hu? Hu?

You think i'm gonna blog about huhuhu arh? whahaha. no lor. he is how insignificant can? don't wanna waste my time blogging about him. coz i dun gegao him. he thinks everyone is plotting against him budden he dun understand that nobody is doing anything becoz WE CAN'T BE BOTHERED WITH HIM. so cock rite. nobody wants anything to do with him and yet he thinks otherwise. anything he gets in the future he rightly deserves sia. i think i heard some girls sent emails to MOE with links to his blog and details of his terrorizing acts in bid to save their children from suffering the same fate. PS: he wants to teach JC girls. not pri or sec sch but JC girls. Save your children! but that's hearsay la, and for all you know may just be contemplation by the girls or totally made up (READ: other girls, not xy, she or me don't have so much time to write letter to MOE, simply because u haven't pissed us off enough yet to do so - unlike the GeGao situation below). but seriously, i find it laughable that he is attempting to extract an apology from xy. it's like your reputation damaged? since when u got reputation? anything u damage is yourself your own actions damage one lor. don't blame other people coz u're screwed up right? oh well. i say not blogging about him yet i write so much. muahahhaha. Okay, start clean slate:

GeGao situation #2.0.1 Communicable Disease Centre Holy Days

timeline: book tour - went down to change tour details/option to extend/change to land tour - first call received regarding confirmation change of date - call by me regarding costs - call to xy saying no extra costs - received inflated invoice - new call by me ge gaoing increase in price.

This is bigger than huhuhu. and involves approximately the same amount of money as the previous one. me and xy despite my hectic research paper schedule went down to NATAS fair recently and even though i was researching a paper and wanted to go back early to skool on sunday, i went down to book our trip from CDC tours on sunday evening. damn alot of ppl. but we got our package at $823. the tour package wasn't THAT attractive if you consider the fact that first day is wasted as we reach late and last day is wasted as we leave at 7 in the morning. so we told the person, we want to extend. just dunno the number of days yet. she say no prob, within 3 days go to any branch can extend. so we went to a branch to extend and was told by viktor at the branch that can extend, but they will only contact us 14 days before departure and not guaranteed. so we're like wtf. no guarantee how we book hotel and make arrangements and what not. coz we CONFIRM want to extend, so if in the end CANNOT extend then no point rite? so we opted to downgrade our tour package to land tour only $578 departs on 15th May. they say due to our special circumstances (we came within 3 days, and our tour not filled yet) they should be able to waiver the changing fee of $75 per pax. so we asked if there were earlier departure dates. they say got 14th. i specifically asked the person (viktoR!) to double check the price for me and it was $578 as well. so i say okay. we change to that date. 14th. somewhat the next day or so, the actual person in charge of our tour, Dick, called and confirmed my change of date. i said yeah, 14th, land tour only. i specifically asked if there was a change in price, he said no. so i took it no change. xy also picked up his call and specifically asked if the price was different from the one quoted at natas fairand he also said no, land tour where got change in price one. imagine my surprise when i got the bill from CDC and it was $100 more. immediately i flipped la. my first impression was, KNN. tell me no change in price, no fee for changing dates and downgrade, then u sneaky sneaky try to be funny? i got pissed la, and so i called him up today and asked wtf was going on. imagine my surprise when he said 'i told you got difference in price before i confirm with you, my computer say so' i was like cock la. computer u type one, im implying u screw up u tell me u didn't coz ur computer say so. that's how dumb a reason can? furthermore, if i agreed on ur price, i won't be calling u now to kaopek rite? nabei. as thick as huhuhu sia. it's just so simple that he can't see it. he insisted that he was right. (whatever happened to customer was always right?) i told him to consider this:

1) my point again, if he told me the price, i won't be contesting it now

2) when i called him and b4 he tell me the price increase was due to hotel * difference, i was under the assumption that it was the same * hotel. so my intention was never to skive on the price but rather to find out why there was a price increase and tell him that i didn't agree to it.

3) i had confirmed with viktor that is was $578

what he told me which infuriated me was:

1) customer within 3 days make 1 change foc. after that $75 fee applies.

2) he cannot be wrong. must be i wrong. coz he cannot have typed in he told me the price when he didn't. computer system never wrong.

3) basically it was my word against his, and he repeated that he MUST have told me the price change

so i said:

1) well, there was prob a miscom in that i asked him land tour the same price? he say no change. xy asked him land tour the same price? he say land tour same price, standard, no change, only air ticket change. to him, it was the more ex price all along coz of the hotel, but still no change. but to me, i didn't know that. i asked if there was a change with my 578 price in mind so logically the miscom could have arisen there. note that HE didn't suggest this but rather ME that did.

2) i don't buy the $75 fee because the fact is he screwed up, or i wouldn't have called in the first place. so don't come telling me fee applies for changes because i wouldn't make that change if not for YOUR mistake dick.

3) he could have honestly made the mistake in updating into the com based on the miscom scenario above, and i forgive him. so pls help me out.

of course he went on the defensive:

1) he defended that he would never update or change the package without the client consent and after telling client terms and all.

2) he stupidly repeated then that any changes i wanna make are subjected to $75 fee per pax, and told me to just keep my current package because i would pay $150 to make changes when my total is just a $100 difference.

Of course i also not happy la. not because he stubborn. i mean DUH. wtf i call u to kaopek for if i agreed to ur terms rite? now i got impression CDC like to anyhow cut ppl thanks to idiots like him.

1) i said take into consideration my circumstances, there is no point in me contesting this if he had done his job.

2) hence i will not want to pay the change in fee if any and i requested that he do something about it.

He obviously found no point in talking to me because i am not an auntie or uncle that he can just dismiss. so he put me off the phone with:

1) he will ask management to waiver the $75 change

2) he can TRY to change to 15 or 17 which are the 578 price

3) failing which i HAVE to take the more expensive price

Damn CB rite? want to take my money still give me attitude. I say

1) try to waiver the $75 fee per person (total 150)

2) or simplier, waiver the $100 fee coz its your fault in the first place

3) change the tour date

I seriously don't want to tour with them anymore because of this cock up. i mean think about it la. to ur company $100 u also ge gao. ur fault already just bloody well suck it up and be professional. $100 to me = 3 days of budget hotel stay. so obviously i ge gao rite. i hope he changes the tour date to 17th and failing to get a full tour, cancel it. i'd rather get all my money back please. dont want to let them earn a single cent.

He just doesn't understand the idea that if i agreed to his terms and conditions, i wouldn't have called to ge gao. just like huhuhu. if there's nothing wrong, people won't say. there's simply no incentive to make things up. think we very free is it? got exams coming ley. cock. mostly likely he'll go bluff his management that

He hasn't called back yet. he scoffed even when i said ask management to waiver the $100 difference. but it's practical mah. waiver $150 or $100. from my perspective that's how we solve problems. like if my buyer buys a toy w/o a gun, i'd have to open a new one just to send him the gun. i'm supposed to solve the problem. if i buy ur tour package and there's a problem, u jolly well try to solve my problem instead of telling me "it's your problem".

my impression from viktor was that CDC was an efficient company that valued their customers and were willing to help them solve their problems. my impression from dick is that CDC is a company that shortchanges their customers and hides costs from unsuspecting customers. i am not an auntie. i check my bills thankyewverymuch. summore i recall specifically when i asked him to return my call about costs of the package, he didn't actually say the amount... very dubious.

I'll wait a day or two for his reply. if no reply, it'll start with a letter to CDC. then a latter to straits times.

The Ge Gao Master has Spoken!

Pam and her photo album

Omg, Pam tried to send me her nude pictures!

8:16:47 AM princess_pam23@yahoo.com: dHey i been doing photo album! Should see em loL! accept please mate :)
8:20:44 AM princess_pam23@yahoo.com: ear?Hey wanna see my new photo album?
8:24:44 AM princess_pam23@yahoo.com: Hey just finished new photo album! :) might be a few nudes ;) lol...
8:28:48 AM princess_pam23@yahoo.com: hey man accept my new photo album.. :( made it for yah, been doing picture story of my life lol..
8:32:43 AM princess_pam23@yahoo.com: Hey wanna see my new photo album?

So scary.

On a lighter note, Mr Bean's Holiday is also scary. Don't waste money to see it. I can do all the facial jokes for you. For $5. Cheaper than if you go cinema. Because 99% of the show is basically him doing funny faces.

Cheapo nana they all.

Guys guys guys

It's always the same with some guys. They like to message girls with 'over-friendly' stuff like: miss you, hugz, hey babe, baby, dear etc. To any idiot layman, this signals a clear intention of 'bu huai hao yi' no matter how much he protests and denys it. True, he might say, well... that's my character to say such stuff. But think about it, is it really necessary? Would not a simple how'ja doing or hello do? If you're saying no, it doesn't transacend the emotion or feeling you wish to impart onto the girl, then volia, you're probably thinking further than just a simple hi.

With the proliferation of sms, such people get away with these and build up a reputation for being 'like that'. Firstly, is there such a reputation such as being 'like that'? If that's so, then please be 'like that' to me too when you message me to ask my gf out. Try something along the lines of 'hi handsome, oh you gorgeous thing, please be a dear and let me call your gf out for tea ok? No strings attached, don't worry' Yah right. I'm not blind, I'm not stupid. If I believe a word they say I don't need to study already, can go sell toys for a living.

Mr Koh once said on his blog that he hates bfs whom are too possessive over their gfs and don't allow them to go out with other guys (or him in general). It's not so much of letting one's gf going out with other guys. But rather going out with that guy that's smothering your gf with words behind your back obviously nobody will let her go right? And the worst thing is if the girl thinks he's just 'like that', it's harmless and it's also sweet. HA. You've fallen into his trap. Next the girl will be fighting for her rights to see her 'friend' that's been nice to her (out of the blue I might add) and then there'll be the whole debate of Mr Koh's most hated people.

I say these randoms should be shot. Twice. Hanged and flogged. I don't mind past friends saying hi and wanting to catch up. But you start giving crap messages like those illustrated above, sorry, ESAD please.

I. Don't. Like.

Looking into the future...

Hurhurhur

I'm dining at the gates of hell for my birthday!

Wheeee.. this should be fun. Hope the food is good tmr night. If not, I can throw the chef into hell! wahahha.. which is just around the corner...

Restaurant: Made in China



THERE aren't many places in the world where you can walk past the Ten Courts of Hell en route to a fine Chinese restaurant, so if you can do so at one of Singapore's more under-rated attractions, the wondrous (and some say wacky) Haw Par Villa, it's quite appetite-inducing.

I'm talking about walking up the gentle slope of course, and not through the actual Ten Courts with its depictions of gruesome punishments - remember the pool of filthy blood in the second court of hell; or the chopping board where you see heads and arms hacked off in the ninth court?

Those with delicate uh, stomachs, need not worry since you don't pass through the actual mouth of the dragon to get to Hua Song - a new $7.8 million museum dedicated to the Chinese diaspora. Made in China is the restaurant inside the first hall of the museum, which is part of the theme park.

Helmed by master chef Anthony Khuah, formerly of Tung Lok Restaurant and Summer Pavilion of Ritz Carlton Hotel, the cuisine is contemporary Chinese that's Cantonese-based, while also incorporating traditional dishes from the other dialect groups - Hakka, Teochew, Hokkien, and Sichuan. There's Chicken in Millet Wine under the Hakka category, then Teochew cold crab and stewed goose, along with braised Hokkien Fo Tiao Xiang and Sichuan mapo doufu.

The dining hall is actually located at the main hall when you enter Hua Song, but Singapore Explorer, the company which manages the museum, will also allow corporate functions to be held at eight of the exhibition halls. If you drop by for lunch or dinner, however, you don't need to pay the entry fee to the museum, which is $8 per adult and $5 per child.

The menu includes the ubiquitous dim sum of course, while a sampling revealed dishes done with finesse. The Tan Jia style braised shark's fin with fish maw was rich, and further sweetened by pumpkin which also gave the soup a frothier texture. Chef Khuah also gives the wasabi prawn creation a twist by using lobster instead - a good substitute although his wasabi-mayo mixture could be just a little sharper and sweeter for more oomph.

The Hakka yam abacus dish was an interesting one, with yam shaped into abacus 'beads' and mixed with a stir-fry of minced meat and diced green beans for flavouring and crunch. Dessert was a delicate double-boiled hashima served in a young coconut shell, so that it carried the aroma of coconut. Prices for the dishes are in the $10 to $20 range.

Dining in Made in China - especially if you're in the Chinese Clan Hall or the Grand Food Hall - provides a talking point, as much research and effort has gone into collecting information and reproducing artefacts. The food repros in the Grand Food Hall, I've to say, are very delectably done.

Even as you check out the food, don't give the museum a miss either - it's worth at least one walk around to see interpretations about how the Chinese survived as gold miners in Africa, laundrymen in Australia and railway workers in Canada, besides being traders and coolies in Singapore and Malaysia.

The museum is rather interactive, and children will like the Trailblazer room which is like a play area under the watchful eyes of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, peering fiercely from their posters.

You can now drive your car all the way up to park next to Hua Song, but frankly, taking a walk up the statue-lined path - if you haven't been back to Haw Par Villa since you were six - is a novel trip down memory lane.

MADE IN CHINA
Hua Song, Haw Par Villa
262 Pasir Panjang Road (S) 118628,
Tel: 6777 7819
Operating hours: 11.30 am - 3pm; 6pm - 11 pm daily.

Mar 18, 2006
The Business Times

Mushrooms in the Sky

I got cut off. I was supposed to answer a question and I got cut off. 25% of my CA marks gone like that because of some overzealous sista. I mean please la, we all take turns to speak you cutting me off was just plain rude. i'd have liked to throw my water bottle at you if not for the fact that I still had water inside and didn't want to waste it.

i suppose that's how it works. in court we have the adversarial system. in class we have the class participation system. each class is only 3hrs and within that time (if you're the presenting group), you have to get yourself heard. granted everyone wants to get ahead, but it's just a bad rep one'll be getting if this happens persistantly. what's sad is when we get to the big four firms, we'll be doing it all over again. but it'll be perfectly justifiable. in that scenario, there'll only be 1 SC or 2, and 40 pupils. everyone wants the attention of the SC, so you can bet the fur flying will start pretty soon. in a way i'm looking forward to 'working' as opposed to studying right now. i believe i can function better practically. i don't really like all the academic stuff. but when it comes to competing with fellow pupils, well.. we all will have to do a bit of back stabbing and such right?

although i'll sincerely avoid doing that because i believe in karma.

and also because i'm quite lazy to do that and if it backfires it'll be a career suicide.

i have a newfound respect for china because it's making me a bit of money somewhat. and i am pretty proficient in typing chinese nowadays. which is why i can spot a forged chinese letter a mile away. someone tried to pass himself off as a prc recently. my god it was hilarious. the terms used were a little off but the funniest part was it was all tied to the disgusting person xy was mentioning about in her blog. absolutely hilarious this guy's efforts to save his non-existant dignity. makes for great crapper read.

anyway, i have to get used to typing again. and i should start having more observations and long rambling posts soon because if not, this blog would be meaningless.

just spotted a blog 'reviewing' movies and i must say i slammed the author pretty hard because i could not get over the fact that she reviewed a movie badly due to her inability to understand and follow the movie which wasn't even hard to follow in the first place. there was simply no way to misunderstand things and yet... yet ... she did it. and she was one of the top finalists for a certain movie blog contest as well which begs the question: if this is our best of the best movie blogging critics, does this reflect the level our singapore movie-goers are?

i'm so tempted to go full mode into my anti-jack ramble ala 2 years ago but i shall refrain. other than my point that he's a money making scumbag that sacrifices quality for quantity, and he has no concept of art not that he ever had. he has not a shred of originality on him if you consider that liang po2 was copied from a taiwan variety show and his only decent hit was home run, which was copied from an independent film (children of heaven). [incidentally, his version was children of heaven meets i love coffeeshop politics, which i have a low tolerance for] other than making remakes, what did he really do right if he ever did right at all? look at his biggest hit, money no enough. if THAT is considered art, well, then i say singapore can esad. it doesn't help that mediawhore is doing anything BUT promoting art. sure, they throw money into raintree pictures and they sponsor movies. but think about it. what part of those 'international' raintree films are actually singaporean? or have anything even remotely connected to singapore? perhaps the film they shot it on was bought in singapore since they sponsored the film and just slap their logo at the opening credits rite?

think about this again. singaporeans may not deserve good writing and good films/tv shows. why do i say that? remember a long time back they had this pilot thingy going on. 6 finalists shot 1 pilot each and they allowed singaporeans to vote on which one should be made into a series/mini series. out of all 6, the best concept one imo was the one where a group of NSman were training in the jungle and were transported back in time to the japanese occupation. sounds interesting? i caught it and felt there was potential here. then guess which one won the chance to be made into a series? some reality tv fuck about city kids being forced to stay for 1 week in the kampung. WTF. singapore has chosen. and it's saying that WE WANT STUPID SHOWS BECAUSE WE ARE STUPID. and mediawhore (and jack) are listening and churning out CRAP to feed us becasue WE DEMAND CRAP.

therefore sgtv will FOREVER be stuck in the crap stage where you turn on ch8 and chU and all the soap dramas are alike with screaming females winning the best actresses awards. we will never progress and we will forever have the false impression that THIS IS ART.

why change something when it works and is making money? here's a tidbit to discourage people from watching the new jack flick. it was reported that the CGI artist said he didn't have time to finish the work. but it was demanded that it be handed up by the deadline. which is why the CGI looked half fuck. apparently some scenes were so bad that an actor's hand can disappear. so we can see he's not even making the effort to produce quality films for singaporeans, all jack cares about is churning out his crap to suck the cny ang pow money. and the throngs of singaporeans are blindly supporting him.

xy told me something interested regarding an indonesian god and politics. which lead to the question of: if jack runs to be an MP, will he win? she says yes. i say yes but i hope for singapore's sake no. not that arnold was such a bad governer though i don't know. not that ronald reagan was such a bad president. he's supposed to be good incidentally. but because this is jack. there has been nothing original about him and i fail to see how he can contribute to parliament. (and i don't like the way he's saying how he feels for singaporeans but he's actually screwing them in his own special way) he may get in because the majority of singaporeans are stupid and will jump to vote for a friendly face. this is especially so if his opponents are WP members.. hahaha.. i will vote against him, wayne will vote against him. azmin will vote for any melayu that's there... oopss...

why is this titled mushrooms in the sky?

that's because...