Syed Abu in Sunway Mas - never going back there again!!

I went for supper with a couple of my friends just now at Syed Abu in Sunway Mas, and we're never going back there again. The service is terrible, the food isn't good, and they tried to con us with the prices. Things listed in the menu were apparently not available; my friend wanted to try something unusual listed in their menu - roti canai nanas - and was told that they only have roti canai pisang and roti canai jagung; they didn't have the other unusual stuff like roti canai durian although it was listed.

 

Never mind. She changed to jagung (which was very bland). Then I ordered nasi goreng ikan masin. Not unusual, right? Surprise, surprise, out of the many types of fried rice there (more than 10 in their menu), they only had 3-4 varieties available. He tried to suggest nasi goreng USA but when I asked what it contained, he mumbled a whole lot of gibberish. He didn't know either, did he.

 

So I ordered nasi goreng ayam which turned out very dry. After eating, when we wanted to pay, we found a lot of prices inconsistent in his written bill. For example, in the menu, the listed price for fried rice with chicken is RM4.50 but he charged me RM5.30; the roti canai jagung came out to RM1.50 instead of RM1.40; and the roti telur bawang as RM1.60 instead of RM1.50. He made the change in the bill for roti canai jagung but for the fried rice, he argued that the chicken given was bigger so it was more expensive; they had no small chicken pieces he said. Then you should have told us, we shot back. You can't just give it to us without telling us. He finally agreed to reduce the price to RM5.00. Then for the the roti telur bawang, he said the menu price is wrong, it should be RM1.60. My friend was quite mad; she said that they had to follow the menu price, and that if they insisted on changing the prices on their whim, she can actually make a police report. It was only with reluctance that he followed the price in the menu.

 

I swear, we're never going back there again.

Bad week...

Haven't been having a good week. It started with my videocamera; last
week I found a consistent error message on my CCD E:61:00, although I
didn't know it was an error message until I called up the tech support.
Had to send it in to the Sony Service Centre (fortunately it's not that
far from my house) and when I dug out the warranty, I found that the
warranty only covers labour charges up to 90 days, although parts, if
need to be replaced, are covered for a year.

Then my car overheated twice in three days which kept me topping its
water up. Remembering my father's reaction to the last time the car was
not working, I took it to the car service centre myself where they found
the water pump leaking (funny, my dad just repaired it a few months
back), so I had to get it changed.

And yesterday, when I wore my contact lenses, I found the left lens
irritating my eye and I had to take it out a few times to give it a good
rinse. And... it tore in my hands. It must have been already starting to
tear which was why it irritated my eye. It's only a disposable (phew!)
but it wasn't reaching the end of the month yet. Anyway, I was in school
when this happened and as I stared at the lens, all I could think of
was, "OK, I have class in half an hour, after which I have another
class... WHEN CAN I GO HOME TO GET MY GLASSES?!?!?!?!" To walk around
half-blind for a few hours is not a very comfortable idea, and it's very
disconcerting to have unfocused vision, with one eye seeing clearly and
the other not. I did manage to get a half-hour break after my first
one-hour class, during which I rushed home. I was already beginning to
get a headache from the odd vision.

I hope nothing else happens...

I end this entry with an excerpt from a song that fits my mood at the moment:

BAD DAY
Daniel Powter

Well you need a blue sky holiday
The point is they laugh at what you say
And I don't need no carryin' on

You had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day

Sometimes the system goes on the blink
And the whole thing turns out wrong
You might not make it back and you know
That you could be well oh that strong
And I'm not wrong

Where's their integrity?

I'm quite disgusted. I was at a competition a few weeks back (I won't
mention names here) organized by quite a big company, and while we were
waiting for results, the organizers showed the audience clips of videos
taken from the competition the year before. In that year, my team were
the champions of our category. I watched the entire sequence, which
showed all the different individuals competing in the individual events
(nudged my friend, "Hey, that's you!" and a short while later, it
became, "Hey, that's me!), and then the champion teams in their own
categories. Surprise, surprise... my team was completely neglected. It
was as if my team had never been there in the first place, dancing our
butts out to vie for first place.

I suppose it had been silly of me to expect it, given some political
clash which I'm not even involved in. But I'd have expected more from
such a big company.