JuJu Japanese Tavern - Not Coming Back -_-"

Had dinner at JuJu @kings cross last Friday night with my uni friends. I actually was worried since the day before. I had made a reservation for 8 people, however another friend joined in, so i wanted to add 1 more. When i was trying to find the phone number on eatability, i stumbled upon people's reviews on JuJu. They all said the same thing "this restaurant used to be very good few years back but now they're going downhill. Food is bad and the service is bad." What worried me was those reviews were written just in June or May this year. So they were recent reviews!

We arrived at 8 and asked for bills around 11. The food was great, just like how it used to be. All of us agreed their yukke is the best so far. Ox tongue and tuna salad were good too. Sukiyaki was a bit too sweet but still okay. HOWEVER, the food took SO LONG to come. We got water after the 2nd entree was served (after asking for it many many times!! I thought water should be the first thing seved, even BEFORE the menu -_-).

Sukiyaki arrived at our table after 9.30 and they gave excuses that bcoz the sukiyaki stove takes a lot of place on the table, they wanted to wait till we finish other dishes. Well, hellooooo how can we finish our meals if the rice haven't arrived yet?? My table was fine coz we got our rice, but my friends table didn't get any. They had to ask 3 times!! The rice finally came after more than 30 min after they enquired about it the first time -_- " if it was my table, i might have already complained about it 10 min after i asked the first time . Also, if they were waiting for us, cant they ask?? The dish served before sukiyaki WASN'T EVEN an entree!!!!! It was main meal!! We would still accept it if it was entree, but it was main meal! and they expected us to finish it first? What if that one is just for 1 of us, and they rest wanted sukiyaki? DO WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR OUR FRIEND TO FINISH DINNER THEN WE CAN EAT????? Goodness!! We didn't know they were waiting for us, none of the staff told us anything! It was more than half an hour after that last dish came, surely it was WAY too long and they should have told us or ASK when we ordered? Other restaurants ask how we want our meals to come -_-" We just ate slowly since we thought we were waiting for it! Also, u know sukiyaki has soup. They didn't give us ANY spoons. We had to ASK for them. My table got stainless stell spoons. The other table got chinese soup spoons. See how inconsistent they are?

Guess what was the only thing they gave us in reasonable time? The bill.

They weren't even that busy -_-" We looked around and we noticed that all tables only had 1 group of customers that night. The turnover wasn't there. And they could ran out of rice? *laughing* How embarassing if it was MY restaurant. Also, shouldn't they calculate?? When it's almost running out, COOK AGAIN for god's sake! MY rice cooker takes 30 min the most to cook rice, how come theirs took more than that???? Did they have to pick the rice, take the skin off, and finally cooked it? Geess!

I'm not planning to come back there unless i had to. And when I checked with my friends, they agreed. NOT coming back on our freewill. We'll only go if it isn't us who pick the place. As for me, only if it's not me who picks the place, and if I fail on CONVINCING my friends on what a horrible experience I had there.

Good night all!

PS: No photos, WAY too hungry -_-"

HSBC Credit Card Cash Back

Just want to share with you guys about my experience with HSBC and how nice they are :)

Last year, I applied for HSBC credit card when they had the $50 cash back. Basically I had to spend $500 on my credit card for the first 3 months and I'll get $50 cash back. Around Feb this year, I realised that I haven't got the $50. So I called. They said it might take up to 6 months for the cash back, so please wait and call them again if I haven't got it 6 months after I joined.

Being a lazy girl, I just remembered about it around 1-2 months ago :P Soooo I called again, asking for it. The girl on the phone said she'll look into it and get back to me soon. And it was soon. Few hours after, she rang me back saying unfortunately that offer finished on 30 Sep 2010 while I applied on 1 Oct 2010. I was in the office and it would take time for me to find any evidence so I said okay, I don't have my letters with me here anyway. So pretty much whatever.

However, around last week, I remembered about it again and dug my mailbox and voila! I found the email I got when I applied for it, dated 27 Sep 2010 ^^ Yayyy this is the good thing of NEVER deleting my emails unless it's junk :p Sooooooo, since i'm tired of calling and explaining (I'm much better in writing), I wrote a message explaining everything including the call I did 1-2 months ago saying I applied on 1 Oct. And said I have the email with me and would like to send it to them, so please respond to the message. 1 day after I got a phone call acknowledging my request and the girl said she thinks I was right. If my credit card was approved on 1 Oct, meaning I applied BEFORE 1 Oct. So she wanted to submit this issue to Investigation Department. Guess what :) The day after she called again and said she just credited $50 into my card. Hoorayyyyyy ^^

I'm very happy with their call centre. The girls who dealt with me were very nice, including the one who was actually wrong. She was still nice and sounded genuinely very helpful. And they responded to me within 1 day of request. Very happy :)

The Wettest Day in July in 2 Decades Random Blabbering

Hello...

I thought I should write a bit just to keep my self not so lazy to write due to winter cold. I've been turning into a bear this winter. I don't eat as much as I usually eat in winter, BUT, I sleep A LOT more than I usually do in winter. My eyes are struggling to stay open eventhough now is 10:14 PM and I had some days when I fall asleep in my bed at 9.30 @_@ I'm seriously a bear now. And when I go home from work, I stuck in couch not willing to move until it's time to go to bed @_@ This winter is so cold!! And from today until next Monday or Tue, we'll have rainy days everyday T_T Don't get me wrong, I love rain. But I can't work without sun, I'd be sleepy all day and can't work. I love rain when I'm at home :D snuggling in bed :P

Anyway, it wasn't the main content of this post. Around 2 weeks ago, I just remembered that Friendster has completed their upgrades and I should export my profiles, photos, comments etc before they wipe all data. However, I was a week late T_T I lost all my testimonials >>>___<<< all those nice things my friends say about me... hix... don't say I'm narcistic, BUT, I will never get them write all those nice things they think I have in me anymore :( They all have grown up and won't do that anymore. 1. They see more flaws in me over the years. Well face it, the more you know someone, more flaws you'll see. 2. Even if they think you have all these nice characteristics, they won't say it to you anymore (in the way of "yeah keep dreaming of me saying you're good bla bla bla"). So.. all gone hix... T_T I did email friendster and asked, and this what they said -_-

"Hello!

As you can see, Friendster is sporting a brand new look.

As part of the reformat of the site, we had to remove some of the content of your old profile including the photo albums, blogs and most parts of the profile like the "more about " info, messages, comments and the testimonials.

We announced this change months ago and even made an exporter app available for users to save their information. The deadline for saving profiles and exporting photos and blog was June 27.

If you want to to go back to your old format profile and retrieve its data, (photos, messages, blogs, comments, etc.) we're sorry but it is no longer possible.

For information on how to use the new site, please visit our FAQ page at http://goo.gl/sBzyj or check out this Youtube video http://goo.gl/3Z2Tj.

We're still in the early stages of the new site so there will be some early bumps along the way. We'd appreciate your patience and understanding. We hope you stick around to see our new and exciting features!

Thanks,

Friendster Team"

I could see the page was still there and everything was still there. They just make the page redirects to the new page. But that's what they say. Well if you think about it, true, I can't really complain. But it was all still there!! what's the difficulty of opening that exporter page again -_- I wonder -_-" Also, that email, this part kinda irritated me "We announced this change months ago and even made an exporter app available for users to save their information" That "even" sounds to me that they took it personally :/ I mean they're a business. They shouldn't take things personally. That "even" made it sound so unprofessional. Also, this line "If you want to to go back to your old format profile and retrieve its data, (photos, messages, blogs, comments, etc.) we're sorry but it is no longer possible.". Why do they have to say if you want to go back to your old bla bal bla first and then say it's no longer possible??? They actually had my hopes up thinking that oh, there's a way to get it, before being crushed again to the ground -_- I'm still not happy -_-

Hm talking about this makes me annoyed, so I better go to bed.

Good night!!

Spreets - IMAX Tickets

Time flies! Suddenly it's been 2 months since I blogged last time :/ As I said, this blog was intended for praises and complaints and a bit of show offs :p (and of course some random blabbering I usually do XD). Now, it's time for complaint!

My sisters and I bought Australian Movie Tickets back in June. See this link for complete deal. Basically, I could buy Australian Movie Tickets which are valid in Dandy Cinema, IMAX and some other cinemas for $8. I personally bought them for watching movies in IMAX. It was a good deal considering I can watch 3D in IMAX for 8 bucks. It would cost me at least $11 to watch it in Events Cinema (And that's already a discounted ticket price).

However.... *sigh... it took SO LONG just to arrive in my mailbox!! It took at least 2 weeks to arrive. Australian Post does good jobs in delivering mails, local mails are usually received within 2 working days. And then while waiting for those tickets to arrive, somewhere at the back of my mind, I remember my colleague mentioned that Australian Movie Tickets always had some issues, that's why we stopped purchasing from them anymore. -_-" why didn't I remember that 2 weeks ago -_-"

Anyway, I have no problem with Spreets. I can't remember if I ever bought something of them, but even after this deal, I still don't label Spreets bad. Afterall, the despatch of those tickets were done by Australian Movie Tickets themselves, not Spreets. Spreets doesn't show my comments anymore, but I wrote that if I were them, I would think twice to do business with Australian Movie Tickets. Or at least maybe extend the validity of the vouchers. Those vouchers were valid for 3 months only. After the delay, they were only valid around 2 and half month or less...

Anyway, we used some of our vouchers last Sunday for Cars 2 :) The movie was great! :))