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Malaysia Airlines Sucks

Nothing more refreshing than reach home early! Have a nice long shower and be with your family.

Instead, I was informed that the flight is delay and cancelled due to technical problem this is unbelievable!

STAY away from Malaysia Airlines flight 7.45pm, Kota Kinabalu – Kuching route on Friday or on weekdays! Use AIR ASIA if you want to fly home without delay. Forget about MAS service, forget about MH – Malaysia Hospitality!

Why pay for extra when you are actually pay for frustration?

I was offered a piece of KFC meal voucher for dinner. Why they replace my frustration and time with a voucher? quick fix to my mental patience? I tell you, it maybe work because I am hungry! But I am STILL ANGRY! I want to go home!!!

I wasted my 4 hours today and the same 4 hours last 2 week the same day, same time and same flight! All these flight are cancelled!

If MAS having problem with less customer to fly in the evening, why still doing it?

I did a comparison on both airlines service, like it or not… nothing perfect!

Services	Malaysia Airlines (MAS)	Air Asia
Online Ticketing – Seating, seating system** Please choose after 6 rows seating or near exit doors, in case your flight going down you will have higher survivor rate.	Choose your own seating for all the flight! Very flexible! Air Asia customer would normally be slam “you ingat ini Air Asia ka? Duduk ikut nombor laa!” by the steward or stewardess. They threw a very sinister look.	Only vailable for flight to Australia and Hangzhou (Shanghai). Premium “XL” Seats can charge up to 1K. Free seating for all the flight except long haul flight you get to select your seat from the website. Express boarding – Only RM10 you can walk like a king, choose your sit and most important, save your time Q up for boarding. Sometime the Air Asia crews is too “pai seh” for the old people so they ask the older folks to board the plane the same time as the express boarding paying customer. I guess their promises made to their 360 mag reader are just a lie! No more mistake?
Online Ticketing, when to purchase?	2 days in advance. This is totally not flexible.	4 hours in advance. This is very convenience for last minutes booking. This is especially handy for bad time management consumers.
Online Ticketing, changes.	You may change flight time and day. Very handy if you are late or something at least you won’t waste your money away so much. Not available for Super Saver ticket. I guess not much different than low cost carrier?	If you are late for your flight for whatever reason, you can’t change flight time/ day even if you have money to pay for it. Ticket not use considers burn! Air Asia says, “Now any one can fly but let’s charge them if they don’t fly! For some reason MAS thinks it’s right! MAS announce the “trick” through TV, radio and Goggles ads in Q2 2008 to boost their flight. Hit hard by Air Asia?
Check in counter	30 minutes before departure. Except super saver, your ticket can be rescheduling with penalty. Still better than whole ticket burn off. You can check in 24 hours before flight time. Travel agent may even check in for you 2 days in advance.	45 minutes before departure. This is where the shit hit you if you are late, your ticket consider burn! Web check-in and Kiosk check-in is available! Express boarding
In flight meal	Degrading and moving toward “light” meal and soon Kuching – KL won’t have any meal. MAS mean 15g peanuts is light meal but I think it’s more like a junk food. Maybe it’s just me? However the coffee, tea, small bun and orange juice onboard are still very acceptable. Normally they will try to serve you as simple as possible, if you are not asking for it you won’t get it. Get it? You get to choose your meal for long haul flight. Meal on MAS is boring – MAS has been very, very lazy to make their meals exciting and creative. Wake up pal!	Order your meal when you purchase your ticket. From RM4 – RM7 for all flight and RM20 meal for long haul flight. Personally I would prefer local coffee not the 3 in 1 coffee. I like their Sandwich, for RM5 these sandwiches are incredibly delicious! Nothing is free on Air Asia but I have to say they are creative and they mean business! The flight attendants sometime get quite lazy to sales the in-flight meals knowing the pattern on certain passenger couldn’t careless of them. How pathetic! Meal maybe as fresh as it can be, depending on how lazy their people keep up to their standard. No offense, even top franchise restaurant having difficulty to control quality what more to say about Air Asia or MAS? Proof it to me if you disagree. One very irrational rules of the pre booked meal online is – book 2 days in advance! What kind of rules is that? Not like you are not selling meal on a daily basis!
The use of aero bridge	All the flight excepts MAS Wings	If you are lucky! Or else you would need to walk the miles. Up and down the stair case (dangerous for elderly people) rain or shine, walk at your own risk. When the plane gets wet, the floor is totally soaked! You kept thinking where the water goes? It may drip on the electrical and risk of malfunction. Plane diving anyone? You jump I jump? Ever since KK – Kuching route on Airbus, kind of lucky to be able to relax your foot with aero bridge. Low cost airlines will try to cut cost, RM85 per hour on rental from Malaysian Airport Berhad (MAB) is not what Air Asia keen on because indirectly it’s add on to passenger’s ticket price.
Long haul flight service	In comparison to Singapore Airlines (SIA), MAS suck! MAS use tissues as hot towel. Are we talking about saving the trees here? And also No tooth paste/brush (even Japan Ramen store use proper hot towel) SIA menu is first class! Like I said, MAS LAZY with their menu and it’s not creative! This is what I ate on board MAS KL – Tokyo… This is the menu on board Singapore Airlines…	No Idea
Website User Interface	Fair	Confusing. E.g. GoInsure Travel Protection. Flight time and date sometime seem to be confusing. Personally I have made wrong booking few times. I am sure you too?
Branding	Other than National carrier, NOTHING except MH. MAS claim it’s Malaysia Hospitality	Manchester United, Williams F1 Team, Air Asia X

Thanks MAS, I finally reached home! LATE!!!!!!

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Cold Storage Kuching

The fresh food people

Nowadays Kuching people really got lot of new toilet to test drive. First you got Boulevard Kuching than The Spring, now you have Cold Storage. There’s few more building coming up soon this year or next. I don’t think the people here are that ready to spend their money.

The Fresh Food People

Not bad la this place got lot of Ah pek Ah mah, after it’s all about foods, drinks, vegetables, imported cans products and all other junk la. My internet friends and my staff sometime call me Ah Pek too for your info.

The Fresh Food People

When I was in Tokyo with my colleague they bring sillier coke cans back to Malaysia for collection! If you don’t mind to collect pop soda bottles from Kuching, Cold Storage has plenty of it! Small and cute the way you like it.

I like peanut butter more, I don’t like jam but this one is special! Diabetic Apple Jam?

The fresh food people

Kopi O any one? I remember my grandmother use to ask me for my help and I would barefoot walk to the nearby hawker store which 5 min away for the coffee powder. It use to be only 1 ringgit, the cheapest drink to live by but we feel it very expensive back then. I miss my dad, grandpas and grandmother! I love you guys and this coffees powder is the up and down, our good time and bad time together. *cry* I wish they were alive I would be very happy

The fresh food people

For your doggy foods, I don’t like doggy

I must say that it’s creative fresh foods outlets but boring. Limited parking space and they charge freaking RM2 per entry! The management should go screw themselves for this retarded car park charges. One thing they did right is recycling bins! Good job well done!