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♥ Part & Parcel of my Life ♥
Monday, February 23, 2009

Ever since my maid's return from home leave on 14 Feb (Sat), the princess me have been a super busy woman!The topic's not on the weekdays... thus, let's dive straight to the weekends - a tiring yet fruitful one!

Slept late (about 2+am) on Friday night, thus, woke up late on Saturday morning (about 11+). Hurriedly washed up and get ready to meet Adam! We're going JB together. Hubby wanted to make a new pair of specs. I am just tagging along cos' I got nothing better to do. Went to City Square first. Had lunch (about 3+pm), walked around. I bought a few Skin Food items back, cos' according to my bro's gf, they are sold much cheaper in JB. Afterwhich, cabbed to Jusco.

Walked around Jusco, checked out the specs' price and it costs more than SG. Yep, did not deal and off we went to window shop again. Passed by a salon, so tempted to have my hair cut. The salons in City Square were packed. I think it's because they were cheap! Went to Jantzen to have my hair cut after much hesistation. Overall, I am satisfied with it. Cheap and good haircut!

Had dinner at this StoneGrill place and cabbed to Larkin bus terminal to board the bus back to SG. Reached home at almost 11pm le. Tired! As I am only back at mum's place once/twice a week and knowing my itinerary for Sunday, I had to run through all the letters before I sleep. Ended up sleeping at 2+ again! Goodness!

Woke up at 730am on Sunday morning, in preparation to go for SA Tours Pre-Natas Preview Sale. Wanted to reach at 9am although they are starting at 10am. Reached there close to 10am. They were located in the exhibition hall. Our only drive of going there was the 1st 5 couple - getting a huge discount. And the second drive was 2nd pax enjoy 30% off. We wanted to book our honeymoon there. Well, not surprising, the place was packed. The bad point: itinerary was not given out as per customer's request. You have to take a queue no. and when you meet up with the sales agent, they will pass u the copy of itinerary you want! WTF! Then, how to ask questions? Com' on SA, NOT 10 out of 10 people who go will book the tour you know! Waited for almost an hour before it's our turn.

The sales agent's attitude was like F***! We asked about the 1st 5 couple thing although we knew we were definitely not already, judging from the crowd. Then, we asked about the 2nd pax enjoying 30% off. The sales agent said 'this one you must very early come and queue for coupon de. Now so late liao, no more liao.' Fine! Cos' it wasn't written in all their ads that you have to come and queue early. We asked about the package tour price, and to our surprise, increased quite a bit! Next, we pointed to the flyer and asked about another package tour price. To our horror, the sales agent said 'I tell u the 30% one no more, you cannot understand?' My hubby immediately said 'we're just asking for the price, we never ask about the 30%.' We were both fed up and after asking the price, we stood up and left. Agent's service reflects company's service. Or should I put agent's attitude reflects company's attitude? Probably tour guide's attitude is like this too. You can't ask questions, you'll be F***ed.

There was not even a bit of service. And the sales agent kept huh-ing. Damn tulanz! Plus, you don't get to ask questions like, what sort of optional tour you provide during the free day etc. Cos' there wasn't a single hint that he was there to help. He was there NOT to help, but to close deal. Getting pissed off, we left. Headed downstairs.

Anyway, before we went to SA Tours preview sale, there was CTC downstairs. We took a look at the itinerary, checked out the prices. Not very much to our liking. Lastly, we headed to Dynasty Travel who was also there, downstairs I mean.

Did not even queue cos' we did not realise there was a queue. We took their flyer, check it out a bit and sat down with one of the agents and started with getting the itinerary and reading through it. Subsequently, asked a lot of questions, price was the last one. This agent is indeed friendly! Very great service provided. He told us more than what we wanna know, and even showed us lots of pictures. Answered a lot of our questions, one of which included whether we could extend our stay at Tokyo before coming back.

Got all our questions answered and started asking for freebies and discount. Got a $100 off per couple. Got a free 26 inch luggage. Hehe... And some other small bags that will be given to us during briefing. Overall, very very happy with what we have got!

Now, it's time to plan our extension trip. Oh before that, to check with my boss if I can go on marriage leave. Hee... Hope my boss says yes! :) Till the next...