Arghh... i think i'm in for a real long year of bad luck. Just this morning, i met my friend to pass him some magic cards so that he could help me pass to another friend so that friend could play in today's magic tourney. After that, i headed over to Toa Payoh Central to buy some chwee kueh home.

There were two customers in front of me, but throughout the whole agonizing process, no one queued behind me. I told the lady, "8 pieces of chwee kueh, packed into 4s.". The lady thought i ordered 4 packets of 8 chwee kueh each, and started packing 8 chwee kueh onto the doggy bag paper. Seeing 8 chwee keuh being packed into one packet, i reiterated my order.

It was an honest mis-communication, the lady was steadfast and refused to pack the chwee kueh into two packs of four for me, but that was still alright. One pack of eight or two packs of four only had aesthetic differences.

As the lady began scooping the cai po onto my chwee kueh, she kept chanting, "It's your fault, it's your fault." There i was trying to buy some chwee kueh home for my family to make a merry morning, this screw up* of customer service had to step all over me.

To top it all, as i was paying up, she said, "Some people at fault also dun want to admit." Considering i've been say "orh. ok." the whole time, it really pisses me. What the hell! I was trying to get some breakfast, not pick an argument or stir up trouble. Mis-communication happens all the time, but did she have to mess up my morning. Fortunate for her, i wasn't feeling nasty, i should have walked off and let them eat their own chwee kueh!

* by screw up, i'm refering to the person being a screw up, not the service being screw up.

Then there was the Phantom of the Opera. Recall that a couple posts back i mentioned that i bought the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack, which was incomplete. Yesterday, at the CD shop, i saw this new Phantom of the Opera soundtrack. The packaging box had gold coloured border. Everything else was the same except for the price tag and that the new product was complete, with the soundtrack spreading over 2 CDs.

Doh... just two weeks after i bought the CD, they come out with a better and more complete product.... Instant devaluation of my CD... I think i told my lil cousin i wanted to vomit blood. And in her words, under a different context, "it boils the blood".