Tuesday, August 15, 2006

How to fleece money when travelling

Yup , when we travel , we loose money , we had to pay the higher taxi fare those jerks asks , we have to pay Tourist only high prices , but I got them good , in my recent travels with the family i went through all the tourist traps paid through my nose but at last i got them , first the Coffee Bean Company , the cofee shop like star bucks had a program to buy their membership at RM 25 and get RM 30 value , guess what i bought it at every coffee bean ( my usual order used to be two ice lattee with chocolate muffin totoal 29 RM ) and the mother of all the my last night in KL , i high on coffee found a roach in my 15th floor room which i quietly handed over to the receptionist and the next day left the hotel citing that i don;t wanna any other bug roaming on me , little they know i was leaving the country hahaha and when i reached home i had an email from Shangrila KL stating that due their negligence they will give me one free night at Executive Floor , now my uncle is going this week and he will utlize the night hahahaha i got them good sara kharcha nikal gaya
now i gotta run for Namaz take care

Marriott Sucks

Yup Marriott Karachi sucks , i had a meeting on behalf of my organization there on Saturday night at Senator Hall and guess what those jerk heads made me sit on a wet drenched chair and spoiled my NEXT trouser , when i called their manager , even he was rude to me , finally i had to resort to call my account manager who had to run to the hotel in his t-shirt along with the GM of this flithy hotel where the AC ducts were leaking water , flies were flying around with their banquet manager running after them with a fly swatter what a sight a five star hotel ( they call it that ) looked like that of a 1 star at train station . The GM asked me to give him my pants so he can get them dry cleaned , like i am going to take my pants off , what i will wear for 20 min a stiking towel wow a towel on a dress shirt and tie interesting Bengali look . The next day the firm i work for organzed a big gala dinner and we found a fly in the rice yup a fly dead and cooked in the rice , i am never eating at Marriott again don;t wanna get gastro , last time i had that lost 10 pounds in 2 days and looked like a stick instead of the healthy hippo i was before had to change the ward robe for my pants to fit . The gala dinner went well we celebrated with 5 am one of our directors organized the musical it was cool , i had to leave early causse my kids fell asleep , will post some photos later

Monday, August 07, 2006

The Travelogue

Finally i'm back sitting in my office , sipping my flavored tea taking a 15 min break from work like the past 2 weeks i was not on official break .
The story is to be told after i left Bangkok airport for penang , i left when my daughter Z started messing with the keyboard and my son started nagging to see the airplanes so we left for the boarding area and guess what the flight was late by an hour which we spent watching airplanes come and go , Z learned to imitate airplane flying in that hour with ZZZZZ sound while T was busy watching his cartoons on the PMP i got from Pakistan . My original plan was to reach KL at 12 pm and catch 1:45 shuttle to Penang plenty of time at KL airport but due to an hour delay i reached at 1 pm , rushed to the transfers counter , they even arranged for my kid's stroller to be sent directly to Penang , ok breaktime over will write later