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Useless flight discount (to me)

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I rarely fly. Once a year, for sure I'll make a trip to Australia to spend time with my sister and her family, something that I enjoyed tremendously and of course subjected to their agreement on timing etc. I typically will fly Malaysia Airlines (MAS) to Australia and fly Singapore Airlines (SIA) back home. Other than that, I might at most fly to Singapore once a year via Firefly. In recent years, right after I purchased MAS ticket, I received an email from them within the same day or the next day, offering discount on the next flight. This seems to be a useless promotion to me: how likely that I would want to purchase another flight ticket right after having purchased one already? I would think that even for the those who fly often, they wouldn't have planned that much ahead, right?  Imagine for a typical working person: "I just purchased flight ticket to Australia for my planned vacation in 6 months time and ooooh, they just offered me discount on the next flight. Fantas...
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Decathlon price difference

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Recently, we went to the Decathlon outlet at Starling Mall to get a pair of swimming trunk for Ban. At first, the cheapest we saw was RM 59 but then I spotted RM 39, further down. He chose a few pairs to try.  While waiting for him, I saw and overheard a dispute over price: a customer was using the self-check-out kiosk when he mentioned that price that he saw to the staff. Staff was surprised ("It's never that price", something like that) and went with him to presumably to check the price tag on the shelf, where I couldn't see. What I saw next was the staff emerging and threw away a small thing, which I surmised to be the incorrect price tag. Once Ban chose a pair, we also used the kiosk to pair. FYI I'm a member of Decathlon i.e. I used their app. To our surprise, the scanned price was RM 59. Ban declined to sort it out with the staff and just paid for it. Back home, I received an email from them, requesting feedback from me, in the style of a short survey. Where...
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Kena Corn

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Waze home

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After a particular long-ish day at Bagan Specialist Centre (mum had appointment there): Ban: We go home? Me: Yes (few minutes later) Me: Hmmm why didn't Waze take this left turn? I would have done that. (more minutes later) Me: Wait! Your Waze is showing our destination is more than 3 hours away! Ban: Alamak! I chose "Home" (instead of my sister's place in Butterworth) on my Waze. Fortunately, I spotted this just before a suitable exit. Phew! 
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Tradition

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  “Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people.” - Eliot Schrefer, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
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Eat -> prison

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  Me: You'll be imprisoned for eating this. Sister: You pay RM3.90 for free accommodation of not more than 2 years. Ok right? 🤣 Me: Everyday get served nutritious wholemeal buns.     Hubby and I guessed that the poster of the food was pasted on an existing poster, likely the one that said smoking is forbidden.
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ZUS 30% enticement

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I have ZUS app. I got it because sometime ago I discovered that I could redeem voucher to top up the app's wallet, using Air Asia points. I gained those points every quarter via CIMB Air Asia Saver account. If there's money in that wallet, I'll purchase ZUS drinks as long as it's sufficient and then I'll stop. Although I loved their ZUS Gula Melaka drink, I refused to top up the wallet. If they had allowed me to pay using card, bank transfer or Grab, I would probably have purchased every now and then. Back in July, I received email from ZUS, saying something like they hadn't seen me (read: I hadn't purchased anything via the app :D) for quite a while and so they gave me 30% discount voucher in the app. Coincidentally, it was the month that I received more Air Asia points. There was still the 10% discount in redeeming RM 30 ZUS top up voucher i.e. used 10% fewer points. Nice! At the same time, I noticed that ZUS gave 10% discount voucher quite regularly and s...
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