MASux®

Our national flag carrier, Malaysia Airlines was formed in 1947 as Malayan Airways.
62 years on, its services are still…let's call it mediocre to be kind-er.

MASkargo, MAS' cargo division.

What should be MAS' new logo.

We, my family and yours truly had an 11.55am flight out from Sibu to KLIA this morning. What I'd hoped would be a routine Baggage scan-Check
in-Board-Fly-Land without crashing flight turned out to be otherwise.

A normal check in would take at most 10 minutes, 20 with the queue. Now let's have some illustrations.

This was our position in the queue initially, marked with the green arrows.

And this was where we were a good 30 minutes later.

Oh now did I just post the same picture twice?
That's because we didn't move at ALL. That INEPT officer(Teh red arrow) got held up with some ticketing problem with a fellow passenger. See how I didn't blame the passenger? That's because that dumb officer should have known how to deal with the problem. In the end we re-queued at another counter, which was light speed compared to the Mr. Inept's counter.

I know I shouldn't blame MAS for that Mr. Inept's fault, but it could mean that MAS has lousy staff training =D That was problem number 1.

Problem number 2

They broke the strap of my fcuking bag. And although they promised to call me when I went to complain, fat chance they actually will.

Problem number 3
Ok, this isn't really a problem.

MAS is getting too caught up with the cost-cutting measures. The quality and presentation of their food has deteriorated into hell in recent years.

They used to serve food on plastic platters, and I think that made the food look nicer. Now that they've switched to paper boxes, I seem to notice every single fault.
Portions used to be larger.

I bet prison food looks better than this. And that looked like a piece of lizard shit sitting right on top of my rice which overwhelmed my not-so-spicy chicken into a corner.

We used to be civilized, eating with metal forks and spoons. Back then sitting in MAS used to mean that you were a notch above them "AirAsiaPeople".

Now, with hospital-ish cups like that, sitting in MAS would mean that you're one of the slow ones that couldn't be bothered to book your Air Asia tickets earlier and had to settle for what was available at the last minute.


A nice view, the only thing good about the flight, no thanks to MAS.

They even tried to ruin it with dirty windows =(

Problem number 4
Okaaaaaaayyyy…I know this isn't really a problem, rather more of a personal preference =D but I'll say it anyways.
MAS changed the colours of their seats not too long ago to promote a not-so-dull image.

Now you must be wondering, just where in the world you've seen something similar before..
Here maybe I can help.

Finally...

After eons of dreaming and considering, I finally got my hands on the newest member of my growing toy collection.

Front

Back

Box

It supports sync-flash too(using my built-in flash to trigger the flash)

I admit, I love doing things at the last minute. This morning was the very last day for me to actually go out and look for it. I couldn't do it after work as I had a company dinner to attend, nor could I do it tomorrow as I'll be flying back tomorrow.


Also, I couldn't go out and buy it without any batteries, so I had to separately order a set of NiMH AA batteries,

Sanyo Eneloop, the best there is

and wait until it arrived before I could go out and search for my flash.




But all in all everything went well. I got my paws on my toy, got back in time to work for a few hours and attend my company's dinner

The highlight of the night, Kickass Crab

Yeah, which was fun, I meant delicious. =D

Well I'm off for the Chinese New Year and won't be back so soon. So enjoy~

Behind The Scenes

Star held a huge-assed mega Education fair last weekend. For those of you who actually give a shit about your education; that, or if you're like me, who am working for one of the exhibitors, you would've probably heard and knew about it.

Yep, I'm working for one of the exhibitors. Else how would've gotten hold of one of these.

Don't even begin with the How-did-it-go-was-it-fun-did-you-see-anything-interesting shit.
If I were to use one and only a single word to describe it


Reader #1: WHATZ WIF TEH HEARTS???!!!!11oneone1eleven

I thought it would be fun to keep people guessing =D

During the fair, I was, together with a fellow colleague supposed to be the company's mascot and parade our furry asses around the hall.
I ended up being a *takes a deep breath* counsellor cum flyer distributor cum personal assistant cum receptionist cum spy.
Yesh, a spy.
In technical terms, My controller gave me a Reconnaissance mission to gather intelligence about the target.
In layman terms, My boss actually asked me to "take a walk" pass our competitor's booth to "survey the situation". And I strolled pass our enemy's booth wearing a big-assed company logo right on my chest like nothing ever happened.
The mascot job was undoubtedly fun. When, besides fuckin' Halloween do you get to dress up like a pansy British Guard, or a thin furry Koala(pic) without getting beaten up?

As it was organized by Star, it would only make sense if the free newspapers distributed were copies of The Star. 3 institutions sponsored a total of 80,000 copies a day. That makes it 160,000 copies for the 2 days the fair was running. Now imagine only a couple thousand more of these stacks.
I am now going to do some free publicity for my company. How often do normal people like you get to see behind the scenes pictures, yep, not often.

This belonged to a group of Hong Kong institutions. Seriously, I don't know why they even bothered to make an appearance. I wouldn't want to go there. =D

It was a pity I didn't bring my camera with me. Not that I would've had the time to take any pictures, but I missed a great shot of the Twin Towers at night. DammitSh********

Of Nerds and Yours Truly

*Warning*This is going to be a BP (Bitch Post), meaning lots of pictures with little or no content*Warning*

For those of you who were there at Sunway Lagoon when my fucking specs decided to take a crash course in base jumping, you would've knew that it phailed. Terribly too. And I've been wearing that broken pair of specs since then.

Not anymore =D

And some of those who know me probably know that I love Khalil(Fong). Fine, not love, but drool over him prefer him over the other faggots. And out of those who know that I like Khalil, some probably know what he looks like.

Yep.

Nerdy. Just the way I like it =)

And for those who know me even more, they probably already knew the kind of specs I was getting when I told them I was getting a new pair of spectacles.


Yep.

Nerdy. Just the way I like it =) Now did I just repeat that?

My affiliation with nerdiness dates back more than 13.7billion years a long time. Waay back.

Back when I was chubby-er.

Back when the trend was large framed glasses..

Back then, it was usual for me to wear like this to tuition classes.

And yes. That's me on the left.

They say habits are undying. You know, they're not wrong at all. Even as I leveled up (zomg G-E-E-K) into College, the nerd FIRE was still burning within.

(Note the socks =D)

During lunch, we nerds take out our umbrella to protect our fragile outer-bioexoskeleton from the Sun's deadly cosmic radiation.

Even having a shirt that has a picture of the final and last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now beat that.


And, as I finally leveled up into the revered University level, I move one step closer to achieving Nerdish Nirvana by owning a pair of Nerdish X-Ray VisionMaster 4000.


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