Here's My Story

Saw these at Bagan Ajam Kopitiam:  

Tea Garden: nasi lemak with chicken rendang. They acceded to my request of replacing the acar (pickle) with more cucumber. Good plating, components complemented each other. The rice has the coconut lemak fragrant, something that is shockingly rare nowadays.   Tea Garden: Hainanese chicken rice. First time encountered such dish. Ban said it was good. Another tick for that restaurant.     Kwong Wah: tumeric chicken. This was from last year. I decided to try after my mum and sister told me it was good. Unfortunately, it was quite plain to me :( Cost the same as the chendol i.e. RM 7.   HWC: hazelnut coffee. One of the better ones.     De Sundays Cafe: chicken katsu. This was pretty good. As with many of their dishes, this is a fusion dish.

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...

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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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!