Customer Service Review: Flickr

Business: Photo website

Location: n/a

Website: http://www.flickr.com

The Situation:

I signed up with Flickr forever ago, back when I had 6 email addresses and was still in a different country. And then it lay dormant for a couple of years while I whittled my email addresses down to just 3 or so.

Come 2009, and for some inexplicable reason, I find the need to reclaim my Flickr account, but *gasp* it's linked to one of my dormant email addresses that no longer exists! Shock! Horror! You'd think that, that's it, my Flickr account is gone and unreclaimable, but you'd be wrong.

I emailed Flickr's Helpdesk, and in less than 2 days, someone had emailed me with a solution. It didn't work, but they tried. When it didn't work, it was escalated to someone with more power, and BAM! in less than 5 days, I have my Flickr account up and running again. How awesome is that?

The Verdict:

If only Malaysians were this efficient. You'd never think that a website with so many users could be so efficient, but they are. The CFA people could learn a thing or two from them.

5 Stars, Flickr! Also, tried to reply to the email to say muchos gracias, but it was a donotreply, so THANKS FLICKR. Hearts.

Calorie Demons: Chilli's Grill & Bar

Depressing, isn't it?

Source: Chilli's

http://icanhascheezburger.com/

May Day

Tomorrow's Labour Day. Awesome. I really need the break. I bet most Malaysian workers are thinking the exact same thing, "Another meaningless public holiday. Life is good."

So what are we actually celebrating/observing on Labour Day, a.k.a. May Day? According to Wikipedia, there's all kinds of reasons, ranging from what I suspect Malaysia thinks it is, i.e. a day of celebration for the achievements of its labourers, to pagan celebrations of fertility (which, as we all know, is always the underlying reason for holidays), to an olden-times version of St Patrick's Day involving a lot of dancing around poles and stealing them from other villages. It's even been attributed to the Virgin Mary.

And yet, Malaysians make a big fuss over cultural holidays. I think it's a whole issue of what the media decides to make a big fuss of. Power to the people, not the media. Take the initiative and read. Find things out for yourself. Don't be sheep.

I think I've lost the point of this blog entry.

Echo Park fashion show @ Megamall

Props to KL Drumline Corp, ECX and the other b-boy group whose name I forgot (sorry). It was a pretty entertaining show. My Poh-Poh was rockin out to the music and the beat.