Friday, June 17, 2011

Sorry it has to (re)start with a grouse

I've missed this..being able to express my thoughts in more than 140 characters. Please know that I don't like it as much as you do when I have to spam everyone's timeline because I had 382,379 characters to type in order to form a coherent storyline to let everyone know MAS delayed my luggage for 3 days on my 5 day business trip to Singers last week.

As you can probably tell, I'm still not over it. Because they haven't had the decency to send me a proper apology (for inconveniencing me) in a form of Ringgits. Am I just another unlucky passenger that got screwed, experienced some tough love, oh well, life goes on, babe?

You don't mess with me like that and get to skip, skip, skip to my Lou, my darlin'.

I had to scramble after work on the 1st day, all knackered and oily (forgot blotter), to the nearest shopping mall to purchase my bare essentials - toiletries, work clothes AND undergarments. I wasn't sure if I needed 1, 3 or 5 days of clothes because MAS couldn't tell me when they would be able to locate my luggage. Super!

To cut the story short, after much shouting (in total: 2 days) to the Lost and Found personnel in Changi Airport, they finally located my luggage (it went to Surabaya!) and sent it to my hotel on the 3rd day. They told me I will be compensated RM75. *DISBELIEF*. Another round of shouting, I recall I told him my toiletries alone cost more than that but he couldn't wait to end the conversation and told me I will need to write to MAS if I had spent more than that, have a nice day, *click*.

Never got the RM75.

So I'm still enraged. It's not much about the money that I'm hitting the roof for but more of whatever the hell happened to the simple bleeding courtesy to acknowledge my 3 days of being out of sorts trying to get my life sorted. Is this what they call Malaysian Hospitality? Fuckers.

Tomorrow I will draft my complaint letter. Suddenly I feel beat. I think it's cos it's been a while since I wrote longer than 140 characters.