Courage of Conviction

I decided to visit this restaurant after reading a near perfect review from one of the popular Penang food blogger, CK Lam as the restaurant was doing a promotion in conjunction of their opening for buffet dinner at RM31++ till 20th. The price had been increased to RM45++ as of now. Since I had got her permission to use her photos here, I will show you guys some comparison and the experience I had at the restaurant. No, I am not blaming her for the bad service and dishes I had, but I would blame the owner. I believe some owners(NOT ALL) does create these kind of publicity and then invite bloggers to have a dinner there which in turn cheats the readers into going to their place. I know I am going to get some hate mails for this but I stand by my opinion. The dreaded stairs which helps you exercise before your meal. Handicapped and elderly unfriendly I would say as CK Lam had also noticed. The decorations was good and conducive as I would say. Anyone care for a stroll between their dishe...

Was at Queensbay today for a quick takeaway dinner before work. Yeah I work at odd hours when it comes to having meetings with my US counterparts. It was a normal takeaway till I saw the receipt... see below. 20 cents for plastic bag? To make it worse, I wasn't even told bout it. You know those shopping complex where a typical no plastic bag day comes with a notice at the cashier but there is no such thing in KFC. I could understand taking recycling bag to shopping but for KFC? Even McDonalds provide paper bags but KFC? Try holding the dinner plate box for half an hour. The box will turn soggy and the floor will end up eating your KFC. So if KFC is going to engage in such dishonest practice, I am just going to boycott it. Till they provide something like McD's paperbag and not charge customers silently that is. You know I had a few bad experience with KFC but I still didn't really bother much. But what happened lately really made me feel disappointed. The other incident was...

The string of events and happenings after the Nokia event and an incident in Saturday's Digi D'tour had me thinking about this for some time before i decide to blog it out here. If you don't know what happened at the Nokia X6 Launch go HERE . About the Digi event which was excellent, there is a session where the staff shared that there were blogger events where bloggers are invited to attend and one of the participants actually asked if the bloggers were somehow paid to write only good things about a particular company. At least the participant now knows that there are still bloggers who blogs with a clear conscience. At least this is what he said about me. Well I would say not all bloggers can be bought by money or items. At least I know I am not one of them. If an event/product is really good, I would write good reviews and also praise it even when I need to fork out money to get it. If an event/product is bad, don't expect me to write good stuff about it even if you...

I am sure many of you have read blogs, articles and maybe the newspapers on how successful the Nokia Comes With Music X6 launch event is. I know of a few who even blogged and showed videos of the event. No I am not here to give you the same type of posting like previously done. Like the old saying there's always 2 sides of a coin or there is always 2 sides with different view. So now you have heard about the other side, I am here to give you the different side. To me, the event was a failure. Want to know why? Read on. First there is the advertisement all over the place saying they will sell 66 units of X6 at RM66 on a ballot basis which will be given out at 7 on that day. Next we know it on that day itself around 2.30 we get news and tweets saying the ballot numbers are given out. Click on picture to enlarge. There are more when tweets gets forwarded. Look at how the peoples reacted. Some of us rushed there. Yes including me. Guess what happened next? Yes damage control mode. It s...