It's 6:15pm, the office is empty except for me. In normal circumstances, I would have zoom home as well, rejoicing that I can leave early and yet outlasted the Bosses. But as it's a Friday, I'm stuck in here waiting for Workaholic to finish her work so that we can go shopping for her bikini.

I don't want to go shopping earlier as I might end up being seduced by new clothes or accessories which I totally cannot afford. So, blogging seems like a better alternative. Anyway, I haven't had the energy or mood to blog much this past month.

Yesterday, in my hurry to join the supposedly long queue at Zouk, I forgot to display a parking coupon and received a whopping fine of $30! Arrgh, it is this kind of useless waste of money that depletes my bank account. In the end, we didn't stay that long at Zouk either because we couldn't get a good place to see the stage and had to rely on the TV screens.

This morning, I received an email from Zuji informing me that the flight back from Phuket has been changed earlier, AGAIN! This time, it's shifted from 2:35pm to 1:10pm. Bloody hell (pardon the swearing, I'm really pissed off), this is going to make us really tight for time on the last day taking the ferry back to Phuket from Phi Phi and then transferring to the airport. If any of these parts of the journey is delayed, we might end up missing our flight and having to stay another 2 days (no flight on the next day somemore!).

I called Zuji. They said there's nothing they can do about it except cancel our flight reservations and make new reservations on other airlines which could cost between $60-$150 more. In which case, we might as well use the money to stay 2 more days in Phuket.

I called Thai Airways and basically said that the way they keep changing flight time sucks and is really unfair on their customers who purchased tickets and made plans based on the original time given. Plus, this time they gave only a week's notice of the change?! Their answer? Operational decision, we can't help it. Bleah! Like that's a good excuse for bad customer service. I ended off saying that we are now informing them that we might be late in checking-in for the return flight, that there's no way we can make it to the airport 2 hours before departure due to their late notice of flight change and to make sure that we won't be penalised (by having no seats for us or not letting us check in late).

# posted by Shopaholic : 6:37 PM