tmd COMFORTable!

For the second day in a row
COMFORT has proven to be unbeatable

I tried to advance call for a cab at midnight
was put on hold for a good 20 minutes with no operator

nevermind

I know it's quite impossible to advance call for 8am cab at 12am

so this morning
I called for cab and managed to get one which would arrive in 7-9 minutes

Learnt my lesson and went down early

hm. 9th minute and no cab in sight.

blood boiling

called comfort again

"Sorry mam, I can't locate your taxi."

WHAT? it vanished into thin air, did it?

"I'll get you another cab right away - there's a cab just along blah blah blah blah and would arrive in 5 min."

A merz cab then pulled up
driver unwound his window
"Ey, you got call for taxi? Your driver went off with my passenger la!"

WIN LIAO LOR.

7973

Comfort Taxi Plate No. 7973

YOU WATCH OUT!!!!!

I made an advance taxi booking last night

for pick this morning 8am at my void deck

so that I can get to Hotel Intercontinental in time

for the Conference and Workshop by 830am.

Promptly at 8am

I got this automatic phone call from Comfort

informing me that the taxi has arrived

I was still putting on the last touches of make up

a minute later

the driver (belonging to a certain m-yoyo club) called me

"Yes, I'm going down in a couple of minutes' time."

He said ok and hung up.

NB!!!!!

when I went down

he was no where to be seen!!!

so I called him

"I went off already. You call another cab."

WHAT?!?!?!

Hello??? Did I not say i'm on my way???

Yes, I admit that it's MY FAULT for not being on time

but he was not even waiting for more than 10 minutes

and he RAN OFF just like that??

FYI

Advance booking fee is $5.20

+ Peak Hour surchage $2.00

+ ERP $2.00

He is getting a good $9.20 in his pockets

without burning his petrol

Can he do the math or not?

It is NOT like I told him I don't need a cab any more

I said I am coming down.

Can he understand English or not?

It is SO DAMN BLOODY IRRESPONSIBLE la!

There is a reason why I make ADVANCE BOOKING leh.

It is just WRONG of him to

1) run off without informing me

2) run off without indicating to call centre to get another cab for me

If there is an EMERGENCY

and he needs to run off

at least inform the call centre to get another cab here right???

I am SO disappointed with the service of COMFORT

1) bad experience with the drivers

2) bad experience with the hot lines/operators

I really hate the automatic assumption of where the pickup location is

and the annoying computer voice that goes

"For pick up at (pause) Cairhill Road (pause) Cairnhill Place (pause)

Please press (pause) ONE (pause)... yada yada..."

complete waste of my time.

and to think they boast of the largest fleet of taxis on the island

and they are going to raise taxi fare this coming Monday.

What the HELL is going on???

Foodie weekend

Mr Goh had been rambling about this famous Bak Kut Teh (BKT) place at rangoon road ever since his colleagues brought him there. It's only open from 6am to 2pm (closed on Mondays), so we thought we'd better go there early in order not to disappoint ourselves.



What turned out to be a good intentioned, good-for-tummy trip, wasn't so fantastic after all. Don't get me wrong... the food was yummy and I'd love to go back there again...

See, we arranged for Mr Goh to come pick me up at 11am, so we could get there and have an early lunch. But I woke up late, so Goh had to come by around 12.

AND we took ONE hour to find the place, cos Mr Goh, with a street directory in the car, did not know how to get there. Throughout the journey, he was asking me for directions.

FIRST of all, I DON'T DRIVE, I can't tell the difference between the PIE and the CTE and the AYE.
SECOND of all, I HAVE NEVER been to that BKT place.
THIRD of all, I'm a history student; so I suck at reading maps.

So, for every wrong turn, he would huff and puff; for every driver who did not give way to him, he would scold them and honk at them. I know it probably isn't fun to be driving for ONE hour, so I just kept my mouth shut.

Finally, we found the place and had to wait for a table. Wait wait wait...

I was really quite hungry already since I didn't have anything that morning. Good that we managed to get a table after 10-15 min. Sat down, and Mr Goh asked me what I wanted to eat...I said i want ZHU JIAO. pig's legs. BUT he ordered BKT and ZHU GAN (pig's liver). Not that i mind zhu gan, cos i love to eat zhu gan too... but it's just one of the small things that irks me.

what followed was just a series of worse things which really ANNOYED me. We were seated for 5 min already... and nobody came to ask us for our orders, nor clear the table for us. So I suggested to Mr Goh that he asked the uncle to come over BUT he refused to budge! He said we've just gotta wait for our turn.

A HUNGRY WOMAN IS AN ANGRY AND MAD AND IMPATIENT WOMAN.

So obviously I wasn't very happy liao. Then after ordering, he realised he's got no cash, (I told him I've got about 20 bucks), and he just left in a hurry to find an ATM, in freaking ulu rangoon road!!! I was so MAD! Immediately after he left, the food came and I asked for the bill (which turned out to be 18 only and I've got 25). It's annoying and silly because we could have asked for the bill first, and if we don't have enough cash, THEN GO FIND AN ATM. Simple logic right or not.... all you do is open your mouth and ask, if you're not sure.

Anyway, one bad thing leads to another, I didn't have my hp with me to call him back. So I waited, and waited, and waited...

the smell of the BKT. the temptation just right there. ARGH.

the boss of the shop came by to ask me why I'm not eating yet. Another uncle came by and asked me why the person still haven't come. The table in front of me came at same time, but already finished their meal.

All in all, I waited for 20 min, until I buay tahan, took out a ten cent coin, left my seat and the food, and used those old-fashioned put-ten-cent-coin-in-dial-phone (thankfully) to call that Mr Goh (see right corner of pic, yellow phone). The phone is like DAMN dusty lor.


The BKT soup and teh had already stopped boiling, but my blood was BOILING TO THE MAX, which explains for the super unhappy I-want-to-kill-you-with-my-stares kinda photos.






I must commend the store's service though... cos the boss changed the BKT and pig's liver for ME, since they've already turned cold. (I later found out that this is the (in)famous BKT shop which refused to open beyond their usual operating hours to serve HK's CEO Donald Tsang and the local media created a big hoo ha over it...)

So all in all, it was just a very annoying lunch. Even give me eat birds nest, abalone, sharks fin, they also won't taste good.

But I want to go back there again.... I love making tea like that. ;D


So after the lunch hoo-ha, we went to One George as planned (stopover at HANS to have a drink and dessert first).


Then to FF. View from the pool...


can see the Singapore Flyer wor! 75% completed!

It would be the largest ferris wheel in the world! 165m in diameter! but hor... singapore flyer... can have nicer name or not?

Anyways, I freaking rode on the cyling machine for ONE HOUR! 20 km! 400 calories! I was pretty impressed with myself, cos originally I only wanted to do 30 min... then thought of going for 45, and then thought, what's another 15 more?

I'm glad I pushed myself....

cos that night we went and fed ourselves like PIGS at Chomp Chomp.

Mr Goh was in such a hurry to leave because we ordered chicken wings too, but the lady hasn't come... and we really can't eat any more!

Plus, it's so stressful to eat at Chomp Chomp's. There's perpetually the seats-problem. And when you finally get one, there are 'vultures' looking over you as you eat, standing as close to your shoulders as possible, it's annoying. I mean, I will also stand next to the table to 'pressure' people to leave their seats... BUT that is only when I see that they're finishing their drinks or sth...

This mother, along with her daughter, stood really close to me. Apparently, we looked like we were finising our dinner... but that's cos the rest of the orders hadn't come yet!! The daughter was kicking my bench lor! I wanted to scream at her already lor! but I wasn't so mean to spit the food onto her face.... :P Bleh.

and to end the night, Mr Goh's mother brought back Black Glutinuous rice soup, with gingko nuts. I SUPER LIKE. =D

I want another foodie weekend!

MADNESS

I broke down at work today, nope, not in the office but outside, in front of everybody, beside my colleague at CommunicAsia. Thinking back, I shouldn't have cried, since it is really not my fault and there are all kinds of weird and rude people in the world. and like mae said, i really shouldn't take it personally.

But i was really hurt by this guy's words.

It made me felt I didn't do a good job, made me felt like a failure and just made me feel so BAD. I tried to explain the situation politely, my boss had spoken to him before, our client has spoken to him before and I thought we reached an agreement (which obviously was not mutual). I didn't want to cry, I thought i could handle the situation, I thought I could be professional about it. But obviously, i;m not made of that stuff yet.

And i'm angry too. This guy stabbed me really hard and then turned around and said he understands I'm also just following instructions. WTH. I don't even know you, so don't try to show you care.

I just knew today was going to be a bad day. you should always trust a woman's instincts.

tmr won't be any better, but I can only hope for the best.

Fun-Filled Fridayyyyy....

a lot of stuff happened during work today...

had to get to office early cos boss will be having a conference call in the morning and i'm not sure if he knows how to operate the 3-way phone conferencing function on the phone... but turned out that the other associate is dialling from home, so that's not a problem...

and I really wanted to do work today. 100% concentration, so i can finish up the report asap. which is a good thing, cos halfway while I was working, boss came round and asked to use my comp to skype, cos he's lost his skype sign in and password, will have to use my account to dial in to other shareholders. phew, heng don't have any non-work related windows opened on my comp. HeeeH.

have got a 2pm meeting in the afternoon with boss and client at harbour front centre. so i head out for lunch with mae first while boss was still having conference call. and he mentioned he'll be going home after the call... and i was hoping he wouldn't want me to tag along for the interview later....but..... he called and asked me to cab there myself. So.... quick lunch, back to office, brushed my teeth, grabbed the laptop and hopped on a cab.

that's when the day starts to get more exciting....
i asked the driver to take me to harbourfront centre, and i'm running late. then i ran for the lift before the door closed. there were a few people in the lift, and when i looked, it doesn't go to the level the office is!! so, i just pressed the lowest level it goes to (level 10) and was frantically pressing BUT the freaking level button didn't light up!! so i keep pressing and presing and pressing... still never light up... okay never mind.. i go back down to the 1st level.... then i looked for the lift lobby which goes to level 9...and started pressing 9 9 9 9 9...then this guy came into the lift, swiped a card near a sensor thing and pressed a level number... i almost fainted. cos the other people in the first lift must be laughing at me like siao!! but none of them offered to tell me what i should do!! ARGH. but this guy is also only half-kind. he told me i have to get a card from the security before i can access the levels, while i was hoping he would help me get to my level. BAH.

so i went down to the security. and... TADAH! i found that i was at the wrong building. the cab driver brought me to harbourfront TOWER, when i asked for harbourfront CENTRE. great, time check, 15 min late. boss called to ask where i am. : l heng the tower is just next to the centre. and heng, when i got there, the interviewee was out of the conference room to get some materials. BUT then, my laptop didn't start properly and i was fiddling with it when my boss and client were conversing. i would have dug a hole in the ground and sticked my head inside.

so great, interview went off pretty well, boss had to head off to another meeting, so i cab back to office on my own. and surprise surprise! mae told me allen thought she didn't understand chinese and was making personal phone calls in the office and speaking quite loudly... but he suddenly hush hushed when i returned. sigh. i'm not sure if u're tired of hearing stuff about dear mr AT, but i'm quite tired of his antics. and since he knew boss was not going to come back for the rest of the day, we were secretly hoping he would fall asleep, cos we've got our cameras ready. ha ha.

then time went by and i can still hear dear mr AT clicking his mouse away, oh well, better to concentrate on my work....until i wanted to pee... and i saw him sleeping!! hand was on the mouse no doubt...but only for show!! so, we decided to be more daring and took closer up pics of AT. hurhur... my heart was beating so fast it almost leaped out of my mouth!!

hurhurhurhurhur... it takes forever to upload the video on youtube.... but if u've seen the clip, my hand was trembling. i was so scared he would wake up! haha, but mae said he should be more worried if he wakes up. ha ha

then to the dior addict party with mae. the new fragrance is really quite nice! one of those scent which doesn't leave me sneezing and sneezing. and the model for the make up tips session was very tall la!!


then there was the midnight shopping at wisma.. and i decided to be 'auntie' and shop til a min of 150 so i can get lucky draw chances and maybe win a subaru! also get a 20 wisma voucher for spending min. 120. heeh heeh. but i am so stupid. i paid 12 bucks in cash, so i couldn't qualify for the min. 150 lucky dip!! oh well... too tired le.. but i must say...good service will always guarantee good shopping experience!!

Oops, he did it again! & later, at coffee club...

Fwah. Rememeber when i told you guys that my china colleague sleeps at work, whenever my boss is not around? Oops, he did it again....and I caught it all on tape. It so happens that I'm meeting the sweeties for dinner later, so i brought my cam to work. And at about 5.15pm, my female colleague (mae) msn me and told me that dear mr AT is sleeping. fwah! I couldn't hide my excitement and withdrew the cam from my bag. The sweeties later commented that I am very free at work to do all these...but hey, i don't doze off BLATANTLY in an office where there are still other colleagues around! we're not invisible okay. and when i did the telephone trick again, he went back to sleep after picking up the call!! I should have called and said, hey, STOP SLEEPING AT WORK!!

ASIDE: think i need to explain a little about the nature of my job. Basically, everyone is managing his/her own project, and we've got our own deadline to meet. So, how we allocate our time to complete the project is entirely left in our hands.

considering that I've got two projects running concurrently, I'm quite busy at the moment. Okay, so i msn and surf the net at work, but I also know that by doing that, I'll have less time for my work. So i only do these things when deadline is not so tight or I've got a mental block. our Dear mr AT, on the other hand, has recently came back from china and should, by right, be busy working on the final report now. But no... he has time to doze off at work.

If my taking video of him dozing off at work is considered unprofessional, can someone explain his behaviour? and I think it makes me more mad that he's drawing more salary than me (just cos he's a phd?) when I've got more responsiblities at work.

makes me wonder if a higher degree really matters?

Anyways, dinner at coffee club was fun! it's a farewell-bon-voyage dinner for GGgoh, who will be going to kazakhstan for a mission trip. she says it'll take two days to reach the place (somewhere in russia) from singapore, cos there's no direct flight available. hope she stays safe. it sounds like a dangerous place.

towards the end of the dinner, it was q hilarious when everyone started asking dr. poon about all the health matters. one feels nauseous when she brushes her teeth in the morning, another has a mole which sometimes will disappear or change colour, and dr poon taught us how to 'faint' another person. heh heh. I laughed until my stomach ached.


GGgoh & Dr. Poon


GGgoh & Dr. Poon...in action!


me & yun

& dinner.

Even THUNDER cannot wake him up!

The window panes in my office shook... making clanging sounds as the strong winds brushed past....

Lightning flashed. A few times.

I was anticipating the thunder.

Flash, flash, flash. Still no thunder.. back to work...

then... HONG LONG LONG LONG!! *very loud thunder la!!*

my colleague next to me jumped out of her seat. I quickly glanced round the office to see if the others had the same shock.... but... I got a bigger shock.

Dear mr. AT was SLEEPING!! dozing off, head propped by his left arm. monitor had screensaver turned on.

WAH LAO EH. what kind of person can sleep through thunderous thunder!?!
as if hearing my thoughts, the thunder god decided to prove his point and fired many many shots, a few seconds after one another. still, dear mr. AT did not budge.

me and mae couldn't stop giggling. AT must be sleeping for damn long la! He sleeps every afternoon lor! and it's even more frustrating cos he usually sleeps when my boss is not around... then 'pretends' to be so hard at work and laments to us that he is overloaded with work and can't seem to get used to the idea of managing a few projects concurrently. BUT he has time to doze off at work.

The other time I caught him dozing off (there were only two of us in the office then), I used my mobile to call his direct line. hurhur. very evil i know, but i really enjoyed the moment when he jerked awake....but guess what! he went back to sleep after that!! so i buay tahan, went over to his desk (by this time his eyes were open) and asked him if he's busy. and he GAN GAN say he is!! so i don't care, i delegated some data entry stuff for him to do, so what if he is a phd. simple data entry also cannot do correctly lor.. heng i got check his work.

I also feel tired at work sometimes la! but i just do some eye massaging and look far, look near and shut my eyes for a few minutes. when really buay tahan, eyelids damn heavy, I go to the toilet to steal some forty winks. at least i have the decency to go to the toilet and the max time i spent there is 10 min. wash my face and back to work.

I'm itching to ask dear mr AT what he does at night that makes him so tired in the day. And I'm hoping one day, my boss will call and look for dear mr AT and I can proudly say... oh, AT is busy sleeping at the moment, would you like to call back at a later time?

I like being mean. *GRIN*