Last Week of July Flips

by Maureen on July 30, 2010

Time for Friday Flip Offs. Want to know more about it? Head over to Kludgy Mom and link up because she’s awesome like that!

  • Our beloved internet provider. OMG you has been driving me crazy with your crappy connections. Again, you said you’re cable? Then why on earth would we lose connections every time it rains? And I’m so tired of your same old same old lame way of handling our complaints. Either you dodge my complaints by telling me to do the same thing restart-restart-restart or you simply said “I will forward this to our technical department‘ who by the way, never ever call us back with answer. When I call back I would simply be put through the same loop holes – rinse and repeat!  Here’s an idea…how but owning you do are having problems instead of acting stupid once in awhile and stop ping-pong-ing me around? So stupid! I’m on the edge of seriously finding another provider! – Huge mega triple flip offs for you!
  • To one cell phone provider here. Good Lord! I’m drafting out a complaint letter that will definitely make its way to a national newspaper and a news website here. I’m not their customer, my brother is but it really is misleading your customers the way you handle you international roaming service. Here’s the story, in June when my family and I went to Singapore, my brother had his international roaming opened through the customer service phone line. All went well, we were in Singapore for a mere 3 days. The bill came out to be over $1,000 for 3 friggin days because apparently they did not tell him they would charge a GPRS service per seconds for a stupid Blackberry Messenger Groups while the cell is out of the country? Really?! WTH was that? The fact that they does not disclose this to the customer is what ticked me off…that is misleading and they should have inform everyone before they activate the international roaming services. When I went to their customer service along with my mother they could not answer me when I asked how come that ‘rules’ were not disclose to their customer. So yeah, mega Flip offs to you!

Phew…that feels so much better. Now head off to Kludy Mom and A Beautiful Mess to link up.

PS: With how bad my internet is I do apologize if I haven’t reply to your comments or do much blog walkin’ in the past few days and with the weekend coming I would be running around town doing things before DH leave for another business trip on Wednesday.

Hope you’ll have a great weekend, friends!

Hey, welcome back. Good to have you here again.

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Indonesian Jamu Lady

by Maureen on July 28, 2010

Jamu is one of Indonesian traditional herbal drinks made from natural materials, such as parts of plants such as roots, leaves and bark, and fruit. They are usually bitter but a few drops of honey will helps. They also comes in many types of purposes from feminine hygiene to male’s ‘performance enhancements’ to the usual physical soreness, gas to headaches.

Jamu Seller

Jamu street seller are typically women and they dressed in kebaya – an Indonesian traditional blouse-dress combination. They will carry the wooden basket on their backs with small plastic bucket to wash the cups. Here’s what the basket typically looks like

jamu gendong

These ladies will usually walk and sell their jamu from house to house, something I haven’t seen around where we live for awhile.

This has been my Wordless Wednesday take (although not so wordless) and pictures were taken on my Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk last weekend.

Join the fun over at A Beautiful Mess.

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