Archive for July, 2003

messy union


2003
07.20

wow…. i didnt realise that it has been quite a while since i last updated my blog. yea.. i have been extremely busy.. just a recap of what has happened:
-i was in adelaide early in the month for a conference
-student union was and is still in a messy shape
-student union election is coming, and thus my time is mostly dedicated for internal restructuring as well as external liaison for the group we represent
-my sis just came over (and thus my conference was cut short apart from some political drama in union). she started school.
-i am also working casually as a mentor for new international students.. the pay is good, 18 an hour, so cant complain
-timetable for next semester is out next tuesday and school starts next week
-meeting, meeting and meeting everywhere, i barely have times for myself now.
- i bought new furnitures and other household appliances as my housemate moved out last month and thus 1/2 of my apartment’s contents.

what else??
for the next one week, i will be busy with my work, uni stuff and most importantly, my union involvement. this is the week where every political parties (ours is an apolitical organisation) in the union will consolidate themselves while trying to do some preliminary negotiations with others, gearing up for the election happening mid-september.

truth and lies


2003
07.03

the truth is what you believe. but make no mistake, truth has life in itself. no matter how you tried to cover it up, it will eventually emerge itself to be seen by the unsuspecting eyes. many truth are covered with lots of lies. lies that made u confuse whether the truth is the lies, or the truth itself. walking along this thin line is extremely dangerous. it acts like a boomerang. if u play with it and distort it, it will eventually come back to u. the harder u throw, the harder and faster it will hit u back. in the pursuit of truth, the true defenders often more than not, get sacrificed. but this is the price of truth. and i am willling to take it as far as it can go. coz i believe that the truth has life in itself.

never fly with Qantas anymore


2003
07.02

i hate this arrogant monopoly behavior that Qantas have. I booked an online ticket for my flight to Adelaide this coming saturday. and i made the change on my return date at an additional cost. this is after two conversations i had with the operator. i didnt bother to check the confirmation email acting of course on the good faith that the confirmation would be okay. apparently, these inexperienced qantas operators have hearing disability and got the details wrong.. they changed my flight to the same date but earlier by few hours, instead of changing it to a later date.

i called them today and enquiried about this and it would cost me another additional cost for the mistake that they made. and they tried to shift the blame on me for not contacting them early enought for the mistake that i did not commit. Jesus…. this is ridiculous. i even compromised on my part to ask them waiving the additional cost and put it in my file as a credit towards my next flight. they refused. i had no choice but to pay that additional cost.

so i made my firm commitment, never to fly qantas again, unless i really really have no choice. stupid arrogant monopolist.