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Friday, May 18, 2012

Best laid plans of mice & men

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So um yea... I got tickets to San Diego Comic Con.

Coz bro will be in San Francisco for his summer exchange and I asked if he wanna stay on for comic con coz that's like Mecca to us. So we registered, we queued & I got it! HOLY--!!!

Unreal!

Anyway, since we need to spend $2k+ on plane tickets, my Redfoo!aunt's brilliant idea was to book for a tour instead. Only need to add another couple of hundred more.

Good idea! So we did.

Plan:
Bro in NY before San Fran til July. Travel down to LA & Anaheim to meet his friend & then onwards to San Diego & joined by me for SDCC. The Mother & Redfoo!aunt will be touring the west coast on their own while we are at the con and we'll all meet up at NY after that for the east coast tour up to Canada & back. We'll all return on the same day (diff timing coz diff airline and shit)

Totals up to about 3 weeks in total. Not too bad.

Wrong.

I just received the shittiest timetable of my entire 4 years as a part time BSc student. The 3 weeks I'll be away is the 3 weeks full of labs that can't be missed. If I go, I'll miss 5 lab sessions. On top of that, there are lab notebooks and reports and results and stuff that need to be handed up for grading. D:

Y U DO THIS TO ME, GODS?!

So I had to cancel the 3-week plan and settle for just the con. Because who knows when I'll get another chance and luck to get tickets again yeah?

My London stopover is gone! Had to ask for refund. That was settled quite quickly but they sent over an email without any breakdown. It was all told to me verbally only. Who knows how much they'll charge and it'll be my word against theirs if they play punk. So I emailed and called and emailed and called and tweeted and emailed and called most of yesterday to get them to send over an email with the breakdown.

First time I called, they told me to call back in 1h coz their system is down and they cannot send me that email. I asked why they can't just send me the email when their system is up. They told me they'll make a note and to call back if I don't get the email in 1.5h. So totally dismissed so easily. Grr... but I'm so used to such wonderful service I gave up and slept instead.

Next morning, I called and was put on hold for 1h. Got through and the girl at the other end told me they can't send me the email. Then she said they'll send me the email with the breakdown but not the amount refunded. I asked why not? They know how much I paid and they know how much was the penalty. She said it might not be the exact amount so they can't put it down. I said they could put it as an estimate, subjected to changes at airline's discretion. That's better than not putting it at all yea? Then I got cut off. The line went dead.

So I called again and was put on hold for another hour. Enter lift to go for lunch. Call dropped. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU...

Called again. Ate chicken chop penne spaghetti for lunch with just one hand (other hand holding the phone). So proud of myself. XD

Finally got through after another hour of holding. My left arm is developing some serious fire power. Woman on the other line sent over the email within minutes. Lucky I was at my desk and could see the email immediately because the amount they stated in the email is not the amount they told me over the phone.

WTF is this fuckery? So I told her what was quoted and she told me the amount in the email is converted from the amount quoted to me through the phone from USD to SGD. WtF is this f-ing fuckery?! I paid in SGD, I wasn't told the amount quoted was in USD & not SGD and I cancelled because I thought the amount was in SGD. She said they always quote in USD. I'm like, this is my first time buying from you so how would I know what is your always. I wouldn't be so mad if they had told me upfront. I ain't gonna pay for no exchange rate! So I told her I'm not gonna pay the extra $65 because they did not tell me it was in USD.

After some more holding, she agreed to waive $55. Wut. Maths fail? I already counted and told them the extra was $65. Trying to cheat me out of $10?! I said nonono, I ain't gonna pay for $65 and they better find a way to waive it.

So they did and they promise to send me an email once it is done.

Which they finally did almost half a day later.

(I would like to add that I had been spamming twitter with their handler and all the negative comments such as #scam & #cheated & stuff. Obviously it worked because the first thing you see when you search their twitter handler in twitter are my negative tweets. Some real fast responses were had. This is the first time I felt that social networking is useful!)

So now I'm the proud owner of a mostly refunded British Airway ticket from SIN-JFK via Heathrow (there goes my A380 flight & London stopover! Boohoo...) and a newly bought Cathay Pacific ticket from SIN-LAX via Hong Kong. Had to top up $600 for the change. :S

So instead of 3 weeks, I'm down to slightly over a week. Gonna miss 2 lessons instead of 5. It's easier for my friends to cover for me too...

No west coast tour, no east coast & Canada tour. Just San Diego Comic Con.

I thought I was fine with it but after looking at the bunch of lousy photos bro took in NYC & uploaded to Dropbox, I'm feeling me some envy.

I am truly a green-eyed monster.

So much so that no matter what colour contact lens I wear, it'll take on a tinge of green. XD True story! Green looks green (duh), hazel looks green (okay), grey looks green (wut), blue looks blue-green (!).

So um yea...


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