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MAS e-ticketing problem

November 14th, 2007
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Received this from a friend about two weeks back, but was shelved due to the temple issues (here,here and here).

I trawled through MAS website and managed to find their Communications Division email and forwarded this to them as well.

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From: “Medusa”
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:03:58 -0000
Subject: [www.umic.org.my] Mana Ada System!

I logged into a few airline’s websites today looking for the price of air tickets to Europe. To name a few, Qantas, BA, Emirates SIA and of coz MAS to make fare comparisons.

Before I go on, I would like to tell you checking flight rates and availability on all the other websites has been a breeze except for MAS.

Let me share with you what I have experienced:

If the date is unavailable for the destination you choose, it immediately gives you a default message mentioning the obvious: “sorry the flight on the date either unavailable”. Mind you this is not always the case. There are times you don’t get any message. You are re-routed to the same selection page.

This resets the Date column back to present date. I believe this is a glitch in the website. This forces you to re-select the “To/from” cities and “Dep/arr” dates all over again (I think you can picture how troublesome this is). So once you re-select your choices, try to find the next available date by trial and error hoping you will strike. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack! Imagine doing this on the year end period – chances of finding an available ticket is soooo low.

In other airlines, for eg Qantas, they would give you option of the nearest available date so you could consider other option.

After trying for about 15 times, I am told my session time is out that I have to “re-login”. Lol! After this no matter how many times you login you still keep getting
kicked to Session time out page.

Looks like MAS doesn’t want you to consider other options, and if you want they expect you to re-do and keep trying till you strike a date that is available.

Btw, just for your info, MAS apparently doesn’t deal with travel agents. A few agents I have approached told me that MAS only allows direct booking as they have not been licensed to sell the tickets! I’m not sure if this is for all agents however.

Now can someone explain to me why a company who is doing so badly would make it as difficult as possible for customers to buy their tickets!

Never mind, I still wanted to give it a try thru phone booking. But alas! I was kept on hold till I gave up!

No wonder MAS is in deep ****. Perhaps someone working for MAS can forward my feedback to Mr Idris Jala. It’s about time he stops looking at his pretty paintings in his office and start concentrating on e-ticketing business!

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eye witness comment on Padang Jawa temple demolition

November 14th, 2007
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Another email regarding the Padang Jawa temple demolition by MBSA by a reader sent to a forum. I’m unable to contact the author again, so if he/she is able to read this, do get back to me.

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From: arthi arthi
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:18:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: shah alam temple demolished and media blackout

Dear Sirs,

MIC people did came but it was too late, we have waited for them since morning. We are tired of calling politician to help us since morning. Why when election time they are punctual in visiting us to have our votes.

Can you imagine our children studying in the kindergarten and MBSA started to bring in machines to demolish the kindergarten which is apart of the temple. Can you feel our pain when you see our children and women praying in the temple, chanting and singing theyvaram from morning till evening, so that someone helps us to rescue our temple from being demolish.

The temple is apart of Padang Jawa peoples life. The temple has helped us; provides shelter, food, education guidance, career guidance, motivation for us to improve ourselves, even sponsoring youngster’s motivation club, teaching us theyvaram, Indian cultural, and so many activities that has benefited us. In return we are helpless to save our temple. Can you feel how disappointed we are?

The temple was not given any notice to vacant, only the surrounding areas were given notice to move out. In fact we were told that politician is in the negotiating to avoid the temple from being demolished until the temple is given another place. That’s the reason we were against MBSA.

We are grateful to people that came over from Klang, Kg Jawa, Sri Muda and Shah Alam that had helped and protected us from MBSA and police.

As for uncle Sam and other politicians this is a good lesson for them. Please do something to improve the situation the soonest.

Our worries are on those who have been arrested, including the lawyers. Please help us to rescue them, some of them are innocent that tried to helped to transfer the temples belongings and had helped rescuing women and children.

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Happy Deepavali!

November 13th, 2007
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I know its kind of late, anyway, to all Hindus readers, belated Deepavali naalvalthukal (Happy Deepavali)! May the spark of godliness in us remove veils of ignorance and ego in us. Let us strive to illuminate our lives and also of those around us.

As with most Hindu families, the eve was spent having prayers for the demised.

On Deepavali day, we were at my parents house for prayer, followed by visit to Then’s hometown. The next few days were spent visiting relatives around Klang Valley.

One of the conversation topic wherever we went was the temple demolition at Padang Jawa which was not highlighted in media, except in tamil papers for the first few days. Most of the people I met were extremely unhappy about the issue, and condemned Selangor government and MIC for this. I think BN have lot of salvage work to do in the coming elections.

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Perak never rejected application for temple land titles

November 13th, 2007
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Apply for land titles, temples told MIC: State has never rejected applications

By CLARA CHOOI

Perak MIC chairman Datuk G. Rajoo said he was confident the state government would not reject their applications, as it had not done so before. 

“Since 2000, the state has issued land titles to 38 temples,” he told reporters at his Deepavali open house in Ipoh recently. 

His comments came following the demolition of a temple in Shah Alam by the Selangor Government on Oct 30 that sparked off a controversy. 

On the 38 temples issued land titles, Rajoo said, some had been allowed to remain in their current location while others were given alternative plots of between 0.404ha and 0.808ha. 

“The state government also gives an RM300,000 annual allocation for the maintenance of the legalised temples,” he said. 

Despite this, he said, there were still so many illegal Hindu temples in Perak. 

“This is because the temple committees are not willing to move from their current locations. They do not apply for land titles as they may be asked to relocate to a new spot,” he said. 

He added that in Ipoh alone, at least 400 Hindu temples were squatting illegally on government land. 

“Still, Perak has never demolished temples to make way for development,” he said, adding that with negotiations, such problems could be resolved amicably. 

“However, we would like to urge all temple committees to legalise their temples and apply for the grants. 

“They must register their details with the Malaysia Hindu Sangam and their applications can be sent to the state government through the Perak MIC,” he said. 

Earlier at the open house, Rajoo donated RM5,000 each to six orphanages in Ipoh.

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Perak MIC chief urges temples to apply for land

November 11th, 2007
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IPOH: Do not wait until the last minute to legalise Hindu temples sitting on private or government-owned land, Perak MIC chief Datuk G. Rajoo said yesterday. 
 

"Some of them don't care, and some don't have a committee to deal with the matter. As long as no one is disturbing them, they are happy to keep quiet. "But I'm saying that it's better to start applying now," he said in response to the demolition of a 100-year-old Hindu temple in Kampung Rimba Jaya by the Shah Alam Municipal Council on Oct 30. Rajoo said there had been no demolition of Hindu temples built illegally in Perak and the state government had not turned down any land applications made by temples. Since 2000, 38 temples succeeded in their application for land in Perak, either to remain at their present site or to relocate elsewhere, he said at his Deepavali open house. Rajoo estimated that there were 1,500 illegal temples in Perak, of which about 400 were in Ipoh.

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