Posted by vampire at 06:57 PM on November 11, 2008.
Hey, you people must be pretty excited that from today onwards, AirAsia does not charge for fuel surcharge! That's right, NO FUEL SURCHARGE. I was waiting for this to happen after the sharp drop in oil price (From $150 to $60+, which is a drop of more than half).
But... knowing AirAsia, there must be something behind their strategy. Let's take one example route. Since I have been monitoring PG-KCH-PG route for my CNY balik kampung trip, let's use this.
Before (With Fuel Surcharge):
PG-KCH: (Friday afternoon flight)
Air Ticket: Steady at RM360
Fuel Surcharge: RM50
Admin Fee, etc: RM31.50
KCH-PG: (Monday nite flight)
Air Ticket: Around RM250
Fuel Surcharge: RM50
Admin Fee, etc: RM31.50
Total: RM773
After (Without Fuel Surcharge):
PG-KCH: (Friday afternoon flight)
Air Ticket: Steady at RM430
Fuel Surcharge: RM0
Admin Fee, etc: RM31.50
KCH-PG: (Monday nite flight)
Air Ticket: Around RM308
Fuel Surcharge: RM0
Admin Fee, etc: RM31.50
Total: RM801
So, you remove the fuel surcharge of RM50, but add RM60 to the air ticket! Yeah, very clever of you to deceive the unknowing people to pay more instead!
Posted by vampire at 07:00 AM on November 5, 2008.
Benitez's tactics are too passive.
Liverpool play for Champions' League. They'd rest players during
the EPL weekend so that those star can play midweek for CL.
Liverpool would play their A-game when they are trailing their opponents. Case in point:
Against AC Milan for Champions' League Final 3 years ago: From 3-0 to 3-3.
Against MU this season: from 1-0 down to 2-1 up.
Today against Atletico Madrid: from 1-0 down to snatch a last minute penalty to draw 1-1.
There are many others this season.
When Liverpool are a goal up, they'd lay back. This made Liverpool lose against Tottenham last weekend, and drew against Atletico Madrid 2 weeks back. They could've gone for more, but Nooo... they decide 1-0 is enough, let's defend. They take out the lone striker, and put a winger in his place. Then take out an attacking midfielder and put a defensive midfielder.
Keane can't play as a lone striker. He can't handle the pressuring role. Torres fits best here. I think Keane's best role is a supporting striker or a playmaker, which is Gerrard's role.
Kuyt is not a natural winger. He's not good as a winger! Why can't Benitez put Pennant there!
Lucas loses the ball way too much. Why still play him?!
Posted by vampire at 06:45 AM on November 5, 2008.
If you have a Hong Leong Bank credit card like me, you'd be notified of the "Swipe for Cash" promotion.
These are the wordings for the promo you see everywhere, and on their website:
RM1 Cash Back with every RM50 swipe
Swipe anywhere, anytime on any purchase
Plus extra cash back: 5% at Tesco, 1% at Parkson
RM1 million cash back to be given away
Their hidden terms and conditions (small print) are not mailed to you. You'd have to search for it online on their website, and quite hidden too. Here is the link after much clicking and searching.
Below are the T&C number and my comments in the bullet point.
Qualifying swipe is defined as a minimum retail spend of RM50 in a single receipt.
You have to swipe a minimum of RM50. If you swipe RM1000, you still get only RM1 cash back.
Cash back is awarded for each block of 5x qualifying swipes,
capped at a maximum of 20x qualifying swipes per month.
This means you only get RM5 when you swiped for 5-9 times, RM10 for 10-14 swipes, and so on. You do not get any cash back if you swiped only 4 times.
You swipe more than 20 times (>RM1000) but you only get max of RM20 cash back.
Split transactions shall be strictly disqualified. Cardmembers with multiple transactions of more than one (1) time on the
same day, at the same card acceptance channel/ terminal/ merchant shall
be disqualified.
So you thought "hmm... today i am buying a total of RM160 from Giant, so I should split the goods to blocks of RM50 and perform three transactions". You're wrong. They will disqualify your swipe for the cash back reward.
To participate, Cardmembers are required to
register with HLB via SMS once within
the Campaign Period to 36600 and type HLE<space>16-digit Credit Card No.
Each SMS you sent is charged normal SMS rates, but each SMS confirmation you receive is charged RM0.30! Even if you SMS-ed the wrong code or cc number, you are still charged RM0.30!! Happened to me when I sent HLB instead of HLE!! Why the heck do they choose HLE as the code when their bank is called HLB!!
Both Principal and Supplementary Cardmembers are entitled to participate on an independent basis and any attempt to combine or merge their transactions will be disqualified.
You have to SMS, and your supp card holder also has to SMS! What
cheats! For HSBC Padini promo, we only need to send one SMS for both
cardmembers.
The cash back shall be credited into the
Participant’s credit card account for which the credit card account
shall be the card used by the Participant for SMS registration within ten (10) weeksafter the end of each calendar month and shall be reflected in the Participant’s credit card statement, itemized under "Swipe For Cash (Oct08)".
Wow, they pay us back only 2-3 months after we swiped! What kiam siap ppl. HSBC gives us the Padini vouchers so quickly.
It is Cardmembers’ responsibility to notify HLB Card Centre in writing no later than 31 March 2009 for non-receipt of cash back. Failing which, the Cardmembers are deemed
to have had received and accepted the cash back from HLB and all
unclaimed cash back after 31 March 2009 will be forfeited.
wah... if we forget after 3 months (so long) and didn't inform you, u mar quiet quiet keep our money?
The Participant shall personally bear and be
responsible for ALL incidental costs relating to accepting the cash
back including but not limited to any applicable taxes, insurance
payments, registration fees, processing fees, handling fees and all
other personal expenses whenever applicable.
I donno wat these incidental costs mean, but I don't like it when they say I have to personally bear it.
This one is the shocker:
No Reward Points will be issued for ALL retail spend from the month of successful SMS registration by the Participants until Campaign Period ends.
WTH! If you wanna reward ppl for cash back, and take away the reward points, you're like telling us "you work for us, and we will treat you to makan KFC/McD everyday, but we won't pay your gaji instead".
no wonder they can run this promotion for 4 months! -_-
I only see this useful when you purchase RM50 per swipe and not more. Or you use for petrol only (cos no reward points are given anyway).
Posted by vampire at 04:21 AM on October 21, 2008.
This one si beh hard to google arr... limpeh take few hours to find ar...
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Posted by vampire at 04:26 AM on September 30, 2008.
For all of you Macross SDF / Robotech fans out there, you might already know that Macross Frontier has been out for some time already. It runs for 25 episodes, and the last episode was aired in Japan a few days ago. So, after two-three days of fansubbing, it should be released in the internet soon.
It's a good anime, and is almost on par with the Macross SDF series. In fact, it's quite similar. The main character starts off as a rookie pilot like Rick Hunter. There's an ace pilot as his good friend who wears glasses and also mans the blue valkryie like Max Mirnya. The main character's supervisor also flies a Skull Fighter.
The difference here is in the main enemy (Vajra), the setting (the fleet now explores the galaxy to settle on habitible planets, and the love triangle (main character and two singers).
Good stuff:
There are quite a number of good listenable songs in the series (unlike Robotech Part 1).
The color of Sheryl Nome's hair is unique.
A spoof of a very well-known Macross SDF scene.
Cool and powerful enemy
Cute Stuff:
Klan Klan (a zentradi) who changes appearance when micronized to human size.
Ranka's handphone
Bad stuff:
Students as valkryie pilots and part-time stage performers at concerts?
A short guy (think Mahou Sensei Negima) as a fighter pilot?!
What is deculture?!!! As confusing as protoculture!
Here come's the second part of the blog. If you hadn't seen South Park's parody of anime songs, tune to the YouTube clip here. Hilariously funny.
English translation of the lyrics taken from here:
I have a wonderful penis
And golden Testicle hair
Is that the sound of a monkey named bobo?
No! It's the ninjas!
Hey hey let's go fight!
The important thing is to protect my balls!
I am bad, so let's fighting...
Let's fighting love!
Let's fighting love!
This song is a little stupid
It doesn't make sense
Its English is fucked up
Is that OK? We do it all the time!
Hey hey let's go fight...
So, Macross Frontier's tracks reminded me of the anime parody, esp the 2nd Opening Theme.
The title is "Lion" by May'n & Megumi Nakajima. I like this song. The clip below isn't high res enough, maybe you could download a fansub version for it.
Posted by vampire at 02:05 PM on September 11, 2008.
This is the first time I am trying out Google Docs. Heard it's a useful tool for document (word, spreadsheet, presentation) collaboration with others, and for sharing online.
Here's what I'd like to share. I've just reached the final place for Elven Blood, a Facebook RPG game. My character is Level 61. I don't plan to level it up anymore, since it's the end of the road.
