Wednesday, July 05, 2006
The Vietnamese Way of Life

The lease for the house we are staying in is going to expire soon, hence Piggy's company asked us (the tenants) for feedback before they renew their contract. We were free to raise any complaints or improvements that could be made. So Piggy & I listed down the following:

1) The water from the water heater was not hot enough. This is so even when you turn it left to the maximum level of hotness. The water is only slightly hot and feels kinda cold when you bathe late at night.

2) The lock in the cupboards were spoilt. The keys were there, stuck in the key hole, but the cupboards could not be locked no matter how we turned it.

3) Requested for an extra chair in the room.

That's about it. And out of the 3, they only fulfilled the last one, which was by far the easiest. So they didn't do anything about the other 2? Well, sort of..let me explain...

Last week, a vietnamese guy (supposedly the one to fix all the complaints we have about the house) came down together with the tenant to address our complaints and concerns. The maid brought him up to our room to see what problems we had. As the guy spoke only Vietnamese, I had to get the maid to translate for us. So I told the maid to tell him that the locks in a particular cupboard were spoilt. So he started to use his screw driver (yes!! a screwdriver, I really wondered what that screw driver could do to a lock that was spoilt!) to unscrew the screw on the side of the cupboard door to which the lock was NOT connected to. I thought it was ridiculous and indeed, after a while, he stopped cuz it didn't seem to fix the problem. Well, actually, he didn't look like he was solving the problem. The screwdriver was probably his way of making himself look more credible because at the end of the day, you know what he told me?!!!

He said that the last time, there was another key and this key, which was inserted into the lock was not the correct one! However, he did not know where the original key was!! What a bastard!! If he knew that, he could have mentioned from the start right? And anyway, I dun think that was the problem. I think he basically couldn't fix the problem and was just trying to find some stupid excuse for it! So anyway, the lock remains spoilt, as before...

Then on to the water heater. I told the maid to tell him that the heater was not hot enough. And guess what he told me?? He told me turn to the left is hot water, turn to the right is cold water!! Bastard!! As if I didn't know that!!! I did not tell him that I didn't know how to work that damn thing. But I told him the water was not hot enough, even when it was turned to the maximum. Then he told me that it was like that. So I told him that the other rooms were okay, cuz the HR director told me that the water in her room was piping hot, even when it was not turned to the maximum, which really should be the way a water heater works. So he went to the other rooms to check and guess what he told me this time round?!! He said that the water heaters in the other 2 rooms were of inferior quality as it worked by means of a tub of water contained in a huge plastic container whereas the one in our toilet worked by electricity, hence it was more expensive and better!! What the heck, I dun care whether it's of superior quality. So what if it was more expensive when it doesn't serve its purpose? The fact is that the water is not hot enough and it was easy to catch a cold especially when we bathe late at night! When I told him that, he just reiterated the fact that the water heater was an expensive and good one. He is clearly stupid or something! At the end of the day, after fidgeting around for so long, he could not solve the problem nor provide any alternatives to the problem. Never mind if the problem is unsolvable, but for goodness sake, just admit that you can't solve it and stop giving crappy and stupid answers. I wonder if he actually used his brain to think!!

And the only thing they could solve was provide an extra chair. Stupid!! We also can go to the shop and buy a new chair. It's a brainless thing which anyone can do.

Kimmie scribbles
2:07 pm |

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