I still here...
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http://www.amazon.com/Beat-Konducta-Vol-3-4-India/dp/B000RZOQXK
I finally got my plane ticket...It was rough a total of 34 international phone calls resulted in me canceling my Expedia paper ticket and getting a ticket with Cathay. For the first time ever Kayak let me down. It showed the Cathay tickets at 1200$ Us but when i finally got desperate I and checked their website I was able to find a ticket for around 300$. (Plane ticket prices are straight mean...I have paid 25% of the person sitting next to me serveral times) I guess Kayak might have sold out like priceline and the other sights to show only certain low price fares.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Flying the friendly paper ticket skies
Here is here for now:
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My music is:
As usual i'm listening to the Cerritos Allstars and some "on hold" music
Today some of my time and most of my mental energy has been spent trying to buy a plane ticket. Having purchased mostly domestic tickets and having a travel agent for work I did not realize how easy i had it. This morning I attempted to buy a ticket for a Malaysia Air flight. I was alittle supprised to see that they did not issue E-tickets.
Remember those "real" plane tickets. The ones with blue and red carbon paper. They must have had 10 sheets of carbon paper, ink all over your hands and your sport coat or purse. Hmmm I wanted to post a pic of a old school plane ticket but can't find one...Google lets me down. I remember flying to the D with my mother and sometimes she would let me hold my ticket for a few minutes at a time. I had to be about 10 last time I saw one of those. What happens is you lost it? Were you jsut outta luck? Someone older and/or wiser let me know whats up.
After buying the ticket online I head to the Malaysia Airline ticket counter here in Taipei. Of course I walk out without a ticket becasue its being mailed to my house in Cali. I knew it was being mailed to my house in Cali; Expedia was the only way to get the ticket for less than 600 bux. But i figured with a little smilling the nice ladies would print up a new ticket due to my "misuderstanding" The problem is that Expedia will only mail the ticket to an address in the US. I knew this and bought the ticket and figured I'll just have them print a ticket here in Taiepei, well after an hour on the phone tonight I'm getting a little nervous.
Back on the phone with Expedia customer service....good thing I have skype...I've had a few customer service call to the US, I'm not sure how you could afford it in the past when travleing internationally.
Good thing the F1 race does not come on TV untill midnight...i have 4 hours to work this out.
So the plan is to call Expedia, they will then call Malaysia Airlines' imaginary ticket center in Las Vegas (its imaginary cause it does not have a phone number, must be the mob connection), Vegas will then "release" the ticket to the Malaysia Air ticket counter in Taipei, then Tuesday morning then will print up a ticket for me before I head to work. Sound easy right? Ohh and I'm using a bad Skype connection to make the call to Expedia in the US so it hangs up about every 15 minutes.
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My music is:
As usual i'm listening to the Cerritos Allstars and some "on hold" music
Today some of my time and most of my mental energy has been spent trying to buy a plane ticket. Having purchased mostly domestic tickets and having a travel agent for work I did not realize how easy i had it. This morning I attempted to buy a ticket for a Malaysia Air flight. I was alittle supprised to see that they did not issue E-tickets.
Remember those "real" plane tickets. The ones with blue and red carbon paper. They must have had 10 sheets of carbon paper, ink all over your hands and your sport coat or purse. Hmmm I wanted to post a pic of a old school plane ticket but can't find one...Google lets me down. I remember flying to the D with my mother and sometimes she would let me hold my ticket for a few minutes at a time. I had to be about 10 last time I saw one of those. What happens is you lost it? Were you jsut outta luck? Someone older and/or wiser let me know whats up.
After buying the ticket online I head to the Malaysia Airline ticket counter here in Taipei. Of course I walk out without a ticket becasue its being mailed to my house in Cali. I knew it was being mailed to my house in Cali; Expedia was the only way to get the ticket for less than 600 bux. But i figured with a little smilling the nice ladies would print up a new ticket due to my "misuderstanding" The problem is that Expedia will only mail the ticket to an address in the US. I knew this and bought the ticket and figured I'll just have them print a ticket here in Taiepei, well after an hour on the phone tonight I'm getting a little nervous.
Back on the phone with Expedia customer service....good thing I have skype...I've had a few customer service call to the US, I'm not sure how you could afford it in the past when travleing internationally.
Good thing the F1 race does not come on TV untill midnight...i have 4 hours to work this out.
So the plan is to call Expedia, they will then call Malaysia Airlines' imaginary ticket center in Las Vegas (its imaginary cause it does not have a phone number, must be the mob connection), Vegas will then "release" the ticket to the Malaysia Air ticket counter in Taipei, then Tuesday morning then will print up a ticket for me before I head to work. Sound easy right? Ohh and I'm using a bad Skype connection to make the call to Expedia in the US so it hangs up about every 15 minutes.
Hello for today....
This blog has been long in the making. I'll start off with today and slowly take you back so you can see how I ended up here.
Here is Taipei, Taiwan for today at least. Taipei, Taiwan....
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I have been meaning to start a blog for a while, but once i started traveling for work in Jan of 2007 I realized I really need to share some of my life with others. I also want to keep the memories as I have been meeting some amazing and very interesting people.
Here is Taipei, Taiwan for today at least. Taipei, Taiwan....
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I have been meaning to start a blog for a while, but once i started traveling for work in Jan of 2007 I realized I really need to share some of my life with others. I also want to keep the memories as I have been meeting some amazing and very interesting people.
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