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Before those crazy dramatic price change happened, my friends and I were having some problem

Three of us are suppose to fly to Langkawi this coming Labour Day so I told one of my friend, S to book for all of us. It’s easier and I told her to do it fast because the price is RM20 flying to Langkawi.

The next day she called me and told me that the price has gone up and it became rm69.90 already.

So I did some confirmation and I found out that it was true, the price has gone up to rm69.90 already

But I found out something interesting and today I went to office and took some screen shots.

It showed that flying to Langkawi is rm69.95 and flying back from Langkawi is rm49.95. And I searched stating 3 guests

But when I search stating 1 guest, something different appear out

It’s freaking rm49.95 flying to Langkawi and rm29.95 flying back from Langkawi

Eh…hello Firefly, luckily I went and double confirm by using 1 guest to search, if not I’ll have to pay extra rm40

The final price per person for 1 guest is

rm149.95

And the final price per person for 3 guests is

rm569.7

rm569.7 divide by 3 is equal to rm189.9

See??Now you know what I’m trying to say right?

I thought the more you buy together, you should be getting CHEAPER right??

How come FireFlyz terbalik one???

That was why 3 of us decided to book the ticket ourselves and that bloody price change drama occurred.

This is going to be my first time flying for Fireflyz but they don’t really give me a good impression.

If you’re interested, try searching using 9 guests. It becomes more expensive.

My only advice for my readers

“When you want to book Fireflyz flight ticket as a group,please make sure you double confirm the individual price 1st before proceed. You might be able to avoid pay extra”

By the way, it is suppose to be like this? Because when I search another local airline, they don’t have such problem. Be it 1 guest or 2 guests or 3 guests, the price per person stays.

It’s fucking stupid, seriously

p/s: The rm49.95 price is today and yesterday’s rm20 already finished. I believed I was the last one who booked it.
p/s/s: My picture damn blur.

J

When I was trying to book a flight to somewhere, Fireflyz tried to play game with me.

Why I say so?

Let me tell you.

When I check the flight ticket

It was RM20

Then when I keyed in all the contact detail and credit card details, the website told me that the seat that I tried to book is not available and said that even though it stated that the ticket is available earlier, it can still be unavailable.

Then I check again,

It was RM49.95

Then I called my friend and told her about this.

After 5 minutes,

I re-checked again

It became RM20 again

And I was able to book the flight, this time.

All in 5 minutes. Fantastic

And one of my friend booked the rm49.95.

That was for flying to that some place

And for flying back

It changed from RM39.95 to RM20 to RM49.95 in the span of half an hour.

so 3 of us, flying back at 3 different price each.

Fireflyz,

Please tell me how am I going to book a ticket like this if you can’t even decide your pricing??

It was like in the stock market seeing the stock price go up and down.

Now I’m somehow fear that the flight might postpone to other day.

Kanineh

Any experience out there or not?

Personally I accept that the price will change accordingly but not that dramatic right??

It’s the system or the person in Fireflyz that set the price?

Either one, it’s fucking stupid.

J

Have you ever feel that you’re feeling-less. I mean not a thing that able to make your mood up??

I’m having this right now.

And I don’t know what to blog about today. My day is so normal until..

ah fuck it. Don’t have any proper post today.

having a lil sore throat.

Will go to bed early and read this novel.

It’s a very nice book but you were to read this book please do so only after you finish Princess and Daughter of Arabia, the 1st and 2nd book of the series

In the meantime, I’m watching this MTV over and over again. The guitar solo by Slash is superb. This is one guitar solo that able to touch my heart.

By the way, have you been random sometime?

I mean something like last week when I was surfing the net in my cubicle, suddenly I turn to my colleague and told him

“Damn, the nasi I had just now was alot”

Shake my head awhile and turned back continue surfing the net

I didn’t hear any reply from him though but I was expecting some reaction from him.

It was so random that he didn’t even know how to reply me

Ah….fucking Monday blues. It’s already night time but how come I still feel the effect of it??

off to bed now.

Have a good fucking night rest my friends.

J

p/s:I miss doing something, really. Damn

Last February, I went to Hard Rock Cafe Penang to listen to this band, Hydra and I was instantly fell in love with them. So last week, my brother told me that they will be performing in Hard Rock Cafe again this weekend (26-27/03/2010) and we decided to go there again. My brother and his wife went on Friday and yesterday they went again with me tagging along.

Traffic jam as usual in Penang Island during weekends. It was around 6pm. We kinda left the house earlier because I had to drop by in Farlim to pick up something and then only headed to Hard Rock Cafe.

And of course before heading to Hard Rock Cafe, we dropped by at Mount Eskine to have the western food. I had chicken chop. It was nice but if you are there next time, please don’t order their mushroom soup. It was …eerr…not so tasty. I didn’t even able to finish the mushroom soup

So after dinner at around 745pm, we headed to Hard Rock and we reached there at around 815pm. Initially we planned to reach there earlier so that we were able to park in their car park but unfortunately, we couldn’t and had been directed to park at their secondary car park opposite. And to our horror, the secondary car park was full as well. Why on earth the car park was full so early??
But luck was on our side, there was a car coming out so we were able to park without much hassle.

Hard Rock Cafe!!!wooot…the band was performing at the lobby lounge so I just took a few quick snaps and headed to lobby. To find a good seat but bloooooooooooooooody hell, those comfortable couch had been reserved and we had choose the normal chair and table.

Hard Rock Hotel!

Right before you step into the lobby, you’ll be seeing this beautiful decoration on the ceiling. Many people take picture using that as background though. One word for the decoration, NICE!!!

When we reached at the lobby, the band was already preparing.

When the band was busy preparing, I took a short walk at the pool and this was one of my random shots of the hotel.

at around 845pm, the band started to perform and it lasted until almost 12am, surprisingly. It is because their schedule was from 830pm to 11pm. But it was a good show anyway, I believe everyone of us there enjoyed their performance.

I had 2 glass of draught Carlsberg which cost me rm38 while my brother and his wife had fruit punch which cause around rm28.

Well, it was a well spent Saturday night. Enjoying things that I like. My brother told me, it is important that one needs to know how to earn and also how to enjoy. It’s useless to earn and keeps all the money and at the end of the day, when one has passed away,what also don’t have.

It’s true though. Anyway, the DJ told us that they will be coming back to Hard Rock Penang next month and I’ll be there again.

Another random shot. One of the decoration in the lobby lounge.

I didn’t record any of their performance but I’ve found video of them performing in Hard Rock Penang. Somebody else recorded it.

Below was one of their performance but not in Hard Rock Penang

p/s: Sorry for the bad picture quality, still newbie in photography. All those photos are original, no editing at all
p/s/s: I saw a cute girl sitting at the couch drinking something looks like chocolate. I just turned and looked at her few times. I think she noticed me too. Lol…..

J

I had a  short conversation with my QA manager and the topic was about having sex with your partner. Then we came to the topic of hiring a prositute to fullfill our sexual desire and I told him

me:”I don’t want to fuck. I want to make love. That’s two different things”

him:”Bullshit. It’s impossible”

me:”Why?”

him:”For a guy, it is hard for him to differentiate lust and love”

And he went on and said that guys will always mix love and lust up. When he sees a girl, he likes that girl or even loves her but deep inside, he doesn’t know whether he is just want to have sex with her or he actually loves her. He said guys are very easily get attract by physical attraction.

I nodded in agreement.Even I alot of time got attracted by physical attraction. Maybe it’s already inside men’s blood that we’re always covered by lust. It’s the matter of are you brave or not. I’m for sure at the chicken side, I’m not brave, if you know what I mean.

Finally, he ended the topic by saying that I’ll know one day whether it is love or lust and when I have commitment for it, that is love.

That is why we have Tiger Woods, John Terry and Jack Neo. They are doing it with lust but girls tend to mix those thing with their emotion. So at the end of the day, she will get emotionally attach with the guy.

Ah…complicated human being, aren’t we.:)

What will you do when your parents is having disagreement with each other?

Mom was trying to reasoning with dad but dad was still stick with his ever conversative thinking. Mom started to sound sad knowing she will never ever win over the husband of hers but she was not giving up.She continued trying to make my dad to accept her reasoning but dad was still as stubburn as a rock. And I was playing PSP between them.

Guess what I did?

I woke up from the sofa and just walked back to my room.

I was trying very hard to think what should I do that time.

In the room, trying hard to think what should I do as a son. I knew that mom purposely brought up the topic to dad with my presence so that I able to back her up. I didn’t do that. I felt it was not the right time for me to do so.

Dad has his reason of being stubburn

Mom has her own reason as well

Finally I did this. I waited for my mom to go shower, I walked out from the room and talk to dad. He gave in and agree with mom. But I felt I made the right choice.

Mom got what she wanted

Dad didn’t need to “lose face” in front of mom for giving in.

Please, tell me what should I do if that happen again. I mean they have their disagreement all the time. Biasa lah kan, old couple d, all those loving loving mushi mushi time had passed, so all they have now is disagreement. But most of the time I’ll just let them be. Brother once asked me to help out when one of the disagreement had gone quite bad. I told my brother to sit back, afterall they survive every disagree for almost 40 years already, they will survive that too.

Sigh, sometime I just don’t understand

What should I do and What will you do?

Yesterday I watched this movie which took everyone by surprise by winning the Acedemy Awards for The Best Film, winning over the 500million budget’s Avatar. Yea, you are right, it’s The Hurt Locker

Seriously, I was as surprise as most of you when I read the newpaper. I went like “WHAT????What the fuck is The Hurt Locker??”
So yesterday I watched it and I should say it’s a very good movie. Totally different from Avatar I should say. It really very gan cheong unlike Avatar where the you actually know the story like the good guy tries to beat the bad guy but initially loose but then eventually come back from behind and win. This movie seriously made my heart pouncing every minute when they trying to defuse the bomb. It was hard to me to predict when the bomb will explode. I can actually feel the feeling of being in the war zone where my life is in danger most of the time.

I’m not going to do any review for the movie because you can find it easily in the net.

For me the feeling of watching The Hurt Locker is much better than Avatar. The movie is more real compare to Avatar where only the graphic is worth all the praise. For me, I’d choose this type of movie over the movie which is like Avatar. For me, I like to watch movies that are able to reach deep inside me.

Oh…By the way, from wikipedia, it says that The Hurt Locker’s film producer emailed a group Acedemy Award voters in attempt to pursue them to vote for The Hurt Locker instead Avatar. He managed to and thanks to him, I got to know this movie.

You should give it a try and let me know what you think…

Maybe it’s a personal preference, I prefer true story inspired movie.

Invictus will be the next I shall watch.

J

I reply KC that I’ll reply his reply on the previous post in this post and I’m going to reply it now

So in case some of you don’t want to go to previous post and view the comment, I’ll paste here to let you all see

His comment was

“I’ve only completed my SPM & enrolled into the School of Hardknocks. Now I’ve engineers working for me.

Eat your heart out!

Cheers.”

Maybe some of you might think that I’m hostile towards his comment. Nope, I don’t feel it that way, in fact I’m totally agree with his comment.

You know, one thing that I noticed so far when I’m in engineering industry, the higher that education qualification one has, the higher ego one has. And I realized that one can be more kiasu if one has higher education qualification. They have to protect their pride.

They will have this mentality that “I’m a university graduate and a degree holder, hell no I’m not going to work for such low pay.”

Give you an example

When a job offer where the salary is only rm2k for fresh grads is given to 2 different people, a 1st class honor grad and a 2nd class lower grad, you’ll have 2 different reply

For 1st class honor grad, he/she will go..”nah..I’m 1st class honor student, rm2k is too little for me, I’m a 1st class honor student worrrrrrrrrr….rm2k is not acceptable for me”

and

For 2nd class lower grad, he/she will go..” ahh…a job..luckily I still able to get a job.”

If they fail to do something, people will go “How can!!you’re Ph.D holder or Master you know…how can you don’t know????”

You see, from there, the 1st class honor grad’s pride is at stake. So they will work harder to prove themselves.

I mean, it’s good to work hard to prove yourself but work hard won’t get you to anywhere.

Work hard but the boss doesn’t like you, you won’t go anywhere far from where you are now
Work hard but the boss doesn’t know, you too won’t go anywhere far from where you are now.

YES, my point is to work smart and attitude. I mean it is pointless if you have all the dean list during your university years, the only benefit you have over those who have lower grades than you is higher STARTING pay and the speed of getting a job.

It might take you 1 month or even before you graduate to have a job offer while 3 months for the 2nd class lower grad to have a job offer.

When you have the job offer and are into the industry, you’re on your own and you have to be smart to survive out there.Especially engineers is getting more and more on the street these days, competition is high in engineering industry.

So about KC’s comment, he is one of the good example that lesser education qualification has lesser pride to protect and has nothing to lose. So he will go all out and try, even though he failed, he is able to climb back up again fast because his pride is not hurt that much. The education qualification pride I mean.

So my advice to those who are going to grad this year or going to grad or still have few years more in university, please lower down your expectation and please don’t be too proud of your education qualification as the world outside, don’t even give a damn to your qualification if you don’t play your cards right

As one of my manager told me, “it doesn’t matter how you start your career because what does really matters at the end of the day is where are you when you retire”

Hope this statement able to make some of you pondering tonight

Have a good night sleep my readers Have a nice weekend too

I gotta go to harvest my fruit in Farmville now

J

p/s: I’m not generalizing the whole situation, it’s just my point of view. I know out there, there are a lot of true engineers. Kudos to them

People once asked me, “Why you choose to study engineering and become an engineer?”

It took me a while to think and I finally got the answer

I studied engineering is because of society’s perception. Engineers earn a lot.

I realized that they don’t really. down

I’ll take the story back to the year when I got my SPM result. I scored quite good for SPM (7A1s 1A2  1B3), bangga siot….and that time I was lost of which course should I take. My parents told me that engineering is good. So I blindly took up engineering course and voila! after 5 years, I graduated with an honour degree in engineering and I worked as engineer till now.

But come to think about it, after getting much exposure while I was still in the middle of the course, I realised that I don’t like engineering AT ALL and I finished the course for the sake of finishing with a degree.

I remember I told my dad once that it was a mistake for me to take engineering and I should have go for business or management course. He kept quiet and my mum secretly told me to drop the topic because I’ll hurt my dad’s feeling because he worked hard to support my course. I felt ashamed so I never touch the topic ever since.

I feel a lot of you out there are doing things that you all don’t like or don’t even know why you ended up with this job. We are in the same boat.

Anyway, for those who just take their SPM result and thinking what course to take, don’t choose engineering because of the glamour title. It no longer glamour anymore. If you’re in 1970s or 1980s then it’s super glamour. Now there are too many engineers out there already. Make sure you take the course that you like and you interested in.

Ahh…..very bad writing actually, I was dead tired today after work but I have the urge to write about this. I meant to write a better one but..forget it la…you know what I’m trying to say here right?

Anyway, are you one of me?

p/s: Thanks mum and dad for working hard to support me throughout this course. I know when I hurt your heart by saying that I was not suppose to study engineering and it was a mistake for me but in my heart I’m thankful to both of you. I’ll always remember your sacrifice to me. I’ll make good use of your sacrifice.

J

After so long hearing about FarmVille from my friends and colleagues, finally I start playing FarmVille today.

All the while people been saying bout facebook games and how nice playing it, I didn’t quite believe it. You know I have a phobia of getting addicted to game because I’ve been too deep into gaming until I nearly screwed up my first year in uni.

I remember when I was in my first year, I stayed in my uni hostel and man, when you got to know that the hostel network is linked between 4 building, the excitement was so high as we were able to play network game within ourself.

So the 1st game that I touched was Ragnarok Online. I didn’t play the Malaysia Server but I played the uni’s private server where there were like 40 – 60 active player in there.

I was so addicted to it, I practically spent my life that time for it. I still remember clearly how I spent my life for this game.

Schedule:

Monday : after class until Tuesday morning 3 – 4am

Tuesday : after class until Wednesday morning 3 – 4am

Wednesday : after class until Thursday morning 3-4am

Thursday : after class until Friday morning 3-4am

And when Friday came, I was happy because I could fully utilized my weekend.

So,

Friday : after class until Saturday 7am

Saturday : around 12pm until Sunday 7am

Sunday : around 12pm until Monday 3-4am

7am..imagine that. I remember I played from my roomate went to sleep and woke up and I was still awake playing…

Beside Ragnarok, I have alot of part times too. But mainly were Counterstrike 1.5, Diablo 2 and Starcraft. But I did play Maple, Run Online and some other games which I already forgot their names.

But of course I was not alone, I have another 2 friends of mine who had the same gaming schedule like me and boy, before we were able to realise it, we found out that our friends were slowly moving away from us. It was because we were so into games, we tend to be anti-social. We read every pc gamer magazine to keep track of the new games coming out that time and try practically every games that time.

So yea, after we nearly screwed up our exams, we sort of like made a pact, a pact to stop playing games and stop encouraging each other to try out new game.

So we moved out from hostel and stay outside. And we did actually quitted our gaming habit and started to adjust our schedule back to normal. I still remember that time DOTA was only just introduced but I never bother to play it.But we did continue playing Football Manager against each other. What to do, we love football and this is the nearest for us to manage a professional football club. But no more crazy gaming days for us anymore. So that 1st year in uni of my 2 friends and mine is consider our darkest days of our life so far.

So today, I started FarmVille. And I hope it will not expand to FishVille, or WorldCafe or Mafia War or some other facebook application

J

p/s: During my darkest days of my life, I remember I told my brother that I wanted to be a professional gamer. Ah…….a dream…..