Travel Insurance....

I just got a mail from the company which i bought travel insurance from last December... They were requesting fora response to a mail they sent me on medical claim which i did not claim for... but then their triggered me of something else which happened which I was not too happy about....
I went on a holiday last christmas and I bought a travellers insurance just for in case purposes since it covers lost baggage, damage baggage, lost money, flight delay etc... since these items are not part of your standard medical insurance policy so i decided to be a bit more secure...
With that said, unluckily I did have reason to claim. My luggage was damaged through the multiple transits... so the zipper was broken (someone must have tried to steal something)... one of the legs was gone (must have been from the throwing here and there!!) and basically the luggage was just worned in all places...
So at the arrival hall when I found all this, I immediately called the insurance company to check on how do I go about claiming... since they always have so many procedures so better be safe than sorry...then they said i need a report from the airport personnel to verify that my luggage was indeed damaged.. So I went to look for the guy... friendly fella.. said that since I was taking SIA ( good airlines), they themselves have such a service whereby if luggage is damaged, they will repair for me.. I just needed to call them but anyhow he made the report for me.
So I called the insurance the next day to start my processing..aparently claimed should be done within a week of your return... SO I called... told them my luggage got damaged and i wanna claim, got all the docs they wanted... then they ask "what airline were you on miss?" I said SIA and immediately they said, " Oh! SIA has a luggage repair service. Why don't you call them instead. They will repair it for you for free. We only allow claims for airlines that do not take such responsibility." I was like, WHAT?? why not... "Sorry miss, it is our policy". Rubbish... they are just talking cock la... what a stupid policy....
Imagine this, I get myself involved in an accident and is severely injured during my travel.. I want to claim my travel insurance and they ask "Miss, do you have your own medical insurance? Yes ar? Like that you cant claim us miss... you need to claim from your own medical insurance... We only approve claims if party is not covered by their own insurance. It is our policy!" Then why the heck do ppl buy travel insurance for? For fun? Too much money dun know where to spend it? Ridiculous!!!
So it means, only if you are not medically covered personally, and you only fly budget airlines do you need to buy travel insurance.. or else.. dont bother.. You cant claim them anyway... policy wor... stupid..!!! chances are high a person who is not medically covered and only fly budget airlines will also not have the money or is not willing to spend the money on travel insurance.. So Agencies which offer travel insurance is an ALL PROFIT business la.. can never loose wan... Like that everyone should start such a business.... How can the clauses be so ridiculous.??!! I understand the general policy that does not allow you to claim two insurances simultaneously for one incident.. that is only fair.. but at least we should be able to choose which party we want to claim right?
After all said...I will definitely think twice before i buy travel insurance again.. no point whatsoever....!!! you should consider this too!!
So at the end, I claimed SIA which were so nice and prompt with their service. They even come to the house to pick up my bag and took it for repair and send it back to my home... So nice right? So Whenever possible, you should fly SIA. I think there are many airlines which has such a service as well but i dont know them so can't really list them.... If you know of them, let me know!!

Why am I so forgetful?

I got super lousy memory.. don't know where I inherited it from... either that or I didnt manage to inherit any memory at all!!


Yesterday went to audit ppl, today forgot some part of the audit... Need to call back the vendor and ask what he answered me... aiyo...shy only la!! Sometimes I really wonder why I am like that.... maybe it has become a habit...


Sometimes, even can walk towards somewhere with a purpose (like the admin office) then when reach I forgot why I went there is the first place... then stupidly walk back to think again.. haha!! then walk half way, remember again then walk back...waste of energy and time la....


Worst still when I want to find something which I have kept previously.. I can search the whole wide world and still not find it... Mummy says that it is because i am not a careful looker.. aiyo... really cannot find la... but then miraculously when she looks for it she will find it... then she say "See! See!!" haha!! aiyo... malu again... but then sometimes it is because she likes to hide it away.. not hide la but my mum is a neat freak so she doesn't like things lying around so she will keep..then when she keeps it, I kenot find.... search high and low also kenot find... she will tuck it in some nook and cranny.... but of course she denies... It is like her sweeping the floor.. when i sweep, not much dust wan.. but when she sweep, wah!! mountain full.... dunno where she find all that dirt... me and my sister always say she has a stash of dirt under the carpet that she takes out everytime she sweep just to intimidate us... hahah!!! my mum will just roll her eyes and say "U think I will do such thing?".... oops... side track a bit...hahah!!

This is my mummy... we were in bangkok Chak Tu Chak market having lunch..dunno whch camera she looking at.. we only got 1.. must be the neighbouring table wan... haha!!

So back to what I was saying... what was I saying?? haha!! nolar..my memory not that bad... at least not when there is a title block there.... anyway... I really wonder why my memory fails me at such a young age... and I can only shudder to think how it would be 30 years from now.... Then it will be just ????????????? everything don't remember... haha!!

I am really jealous of those ppl with super memory... remember during SPM, we had to take morale.. and we actually needed to memorize 81 'nilai-nilai'.... wah.. it was hell for me.. then when ppl in class just started spouting effortlessly exactly as per the text book... I was so tempted to throw the text book at them and shout "Shut Up!!" but me not so mean la... Anyway... that was history.. got a C4 for morale... But I am not lacking in morale okay... just lacking in memory of it... haha!!

well just have to live with it.. so if I ever forget your birthday it is not my fault!!!

What a Relief....

Phew!!!....



I nearly thought I screwed up my blog when I was exploring here and there... changing this and that.... and suddenly when I wanted to post something I couldnt... only the title came out... I was thinking what the hell happened.... Shit! must has pushed some not supposed to be pushed buttons...All the toolbars when you create a post like the fonts and stuff were all not there.... I must have did something really really wrong...


So came to work today...tried and taa daa!! it works!!! hehe!! me heppi back again... :-)

So I decide to post another more recent photo of me and Amy... hmm... looks quite a bit older than the other photo huh? Well that is what working in our company does to us... haha!!! ages us at a much faster rate...

This was taken at Sanctuary.... the crowd was seriously packed... after midnight we didnt even have place to move much less dance... we were squished to one another...ewwwss....all the sticky sweaty bodies.... but it was a fun place... great song choices... not too expensive booze.... cool ambiance...

Crap... I think i know why I couldn't make a posting from my home computer... I think I accidently downloaded some spyware or something... not on purpose..was downloading something and it can along I presume... Now it is making my comp a bit nutty.... and slow... :(

Need some antispyware thingy.... Haai.... shall go get it soon i suppose.....

Amazing Race Asia

Guess what??!!!

I decided to send in my application for the Amazing Race Asia 2... my teammate? Amy!!! she has been my colleague for about a year and a half in Isuzu... our cubicles are next to each other... we always talk across the divider... share food across the divider.. pass things over across the divider... hhaha!! everything is across the divider.. and if we wanna gossip, we will msn each other across the divider... haha!! shhh... no one is suppose to know.. we are working you know... !!

Now which is amy? Well first, do you recognize me? might look a bit different from the funky haired girl huh? I am the one on the left and amy is third from the left... this is not a recent photo... almost a year ago... so we look a bit different now.. the hair is all short now.. but couldnt find another picture of us in my home pc..everything is in the office pc... hmmm....come to think of it, it is time i transfered them home...

Now for the famously asked question.. WHY?!! this come after the first reaction of cool!! haha!! I dun know.. when i first found out there would be an asia version I was so excited... wanted to participate then actually but I found out too late so this is my second chance...

Anyway... the teammate I had in mind was actually not Amy.. it was Ching Yee, one of my best friends for way way back then... I have known her for 12 years now... we are both TKD exponents... Unfortunately she is one up from me now since she got her 4th Dan while I am still on my 3rd.. so unfair.. :( So anyway..... this second season either came to late or too early depending on how you look at it... She left for the States a week ago for a 13 months stint as an au pair.... so unlucky me.. lost a good partner... we would have been a strong team..literally.... but then strength is not everything so that is where Amy comes in... (dun la think that she is just a stand in...she isn't!! I swear!! she knows about Ching Yee anyway...)

So how do you think me and Amy will fare? haha!! we are quite opposites... She is the girly girl while I am (though still girlish) the rough tomboy one.... the one who is more adventurous and love outdoor activities.... but Amy is up to try anything at least once... managed to persuade her to go caving with me once... haha!! (she said it was her first and last attempt but she went anyway...) but we work well together and we enjoy each other's company... at least I do... So our strategy is i will do all the jumping stunts and she will do the eating stunt... that is one thing I just dun think I can handle... i dun even eat internal organs for God's sake.. much less anything weird... haha!! but then again she also gets quesy... we shall see how... so many hurdles to go over before we actually do it if we get selection....

First hurdle: Filling up the form and making the video... the form requires answers for things which i have never really considered... have to ponder more on that... and the video.. with the deadline approaching we still dont know what kind of video we will make...

Second hurdle: Taking a 30-40 day hiatus from work... now this is the biggest problems.. we both are so loaded with work that it seems impossible for us to take leave for such a long period of time.. and there is the matter whether the company will allow such a thing... but then again we only need to think about this if we get short listed first...

Third hurdle : Packing light!! Never possible for me.. I am like the 'just in case' girl... always need extras of everything just in case.. but I can't be trotting around asia with a truck load of things right? but 30-40 days... that is such a long time to pack for...

Oh well... wish me luck!!!

Terrible mother!!!!

You wouldn't believe what I encountered yesterday. It got me so pissing mad.... I was out at a mamak having dinner and this couple with 2 sons (one 7 and the other 10 - I am guessing) shares our table... upon seating the father instructs the sons.. "Take out your books.. what are you waiting for.?" I was shocked!! at a mamak? Is it really necessary... cant they do their homework at home?

Then what is worse is that the parents goes to get the food and brings it to the table.. they start to eating and when the elder son wanted to eat as well, guess what happened.... " No!! You finish your work first then only can eat" ... I was even more shocked(eyeballs popping at this point) and I just could not believe what i heard.. How can such parents exist.. even if they wanted him to finish his homework first they could have waited for him to eat together but no.... they were happily tucking in their food while the son could only stare at his food and not eat it.. how cruel...

Finally the boy finishes his work and was allowed to eat.... but the story doesn't end there... there is still the younger son... which for God knows what reason was not even given any food.. (okay, maybe he had already eaten or something.. give the mother a benefit of a doubt - * truly doubt that, that is the case but anyway...*) His homework was to construct a sentence when given the beginning and end of the sentence. Example : I will .................... to earn money. (this is my example ya... )

Forgot to mention, all the homework was actually for Chinese Language and judging from the way the mum speaks and the way she is not even bothered to read the book... I think they are one of those parents who are bananas themselves but want their kids to learn the language... anyway... back to the story...

So mother is scolding the younger son for not being able to create the sentence ( at that point I wanted to smack her!!). I would understand why he cant do it well; imagine if your whole surrounding is english and you just attend Chinese lessons on the side.. how possible is it for you to master it so easily... What is there to scold if he cant do it? Then she asked the elder son to check.. elder sons says all the sentences made were all wrong.. mother was obviously even more angry... more scolding took out the eraser and erase everything and told him to start over... next thing she said was the good one " Hurry up la... I want to go home already. You must finish before we go home" Once again...WHY????? Is there no table and no lights at home? How ridiculous is that.. it was already 9 something at night so it cant be that he had to go for classes and the homework was not done... Jeezzzz......!!!

So the younger one still cant come up with a sentence and the mother tells the elder one to do it for him... (what kind of example is the mother showing? If you cant do it, get someone else to do it for you??!!) but anyway.. the elder one considers... then the mother thought of something and ask the younger son to write it down... passes the pencil to him (and lets go immediately..) the pencil falls to the ground... " You ar...always like that... cannot hold things properly..see now wet already..*pushing finger to the boy's head*..... Aiyo!!! what kind of mother is this????
"Okay now write light bulb..." boy says he doesnt know how to... mother asks the elder son "What is light bulb in chinese?" boy answers " ten" (mind my han yu pin yin - I am a banana myself) and little boys says he cant write 'ten' so then brother says write 'huo' la... I was laughing..since when were this 2 the same thing? ..........

At that point i paid my bill and left.. could not take the humiliation anymore... eventhough it was not me who was being humiliated but I just couldnt stay any longer.. if I did I would probably have done something really irrational like slap the women right accross her face..... call herself a mother.... uuurggghhh!!

I believe:

1) Children should be disciplinedBUT not in public. That will only ruin their self esteem and in turn they will have emotional stress and yadaa yadaa yadaa...
2) You should never deprive you children off food when you have it...
3) Children should be allowed to do their homework at home.
4) You should have more patience with your kids if not dont have them in the first place... "what did you think you were getting yourself into?"
5) However you treat your children it will effect them is some way or another. So the way they are no matter how bad or intolerable was in fact created by you yourself. So you have only yourself to blame for bad upbringing.....
6) etc... (plenty more but too lazy to list them)

All of this actually made me wonder..... how many couples out there who has children, have them just for the sake of having someone to take care of them in their old age, or because it is expected of them, or either only one of the spouse is really keen on having.... and then how many of them turn out to be good parents and have the patience to be a good parent... At this point in my life.. I openly admit i don't have such patience... maybe it will come to me with age.. haha!! who knows....

My first blog

This is a clear attempt to either ruin my reputation as such an interesting person or bring me to greater heights of pretence that I truly am interesting.

A friend asked me today whether I had a blog or not... First thing that cross my mind.. who the heck would bother to read it even if I had one?? beats me.... I could name a bunch of others whom I know that would have more to tell than me....

But then again I thought to myself... why not? Give it a go.. if it ain't good just don't tell anyone I have one...
Note to self: if nobody reads it how then would they judge whether it's good or not? Duh!!

God...I am making a fool of myself by even trying to doing this.
*eyes rolling all the way up back*

Here we go!!! wooohoooo!! weeeee!!!!