Racist Nandos made it onto my banned list

I had heard of the $2.50 for plain water incident in Singapore, but I had not visited it myself to find out how bad it really was. However, since I was in KL this weekend, I thought I should pop by Nandos and find out.

Anyway, here is the incident details about the $2.50 plain water incident.
http://caveat-emptor-singapore.blogspot.com/2011/06/poor-service-at-nando.html

So, I was at KLCC, and next in the line with J and had indicated to the waitress that I want a table for 2. I saw a table clearing up and I knew it would be my turn soon. And then another family of 3 arrived and they just walked in. Then they were told they need to wait in line first. Disappointed, they walked out, but before you know it, the waiter then came out and told then they have a table for them, totally walked passed me and tell them to come in.

I mean, WTF? Am I invisible or something. Or I get it. Most of the waitress actually have the same skin color and wear the same type of head dress with the family of 3. And I certainly did not see any triangle table which is designed for table of 3. If they can fit in a table for 3, why can't they fit in for a table of 2 first?

I told myself this is rubbish. I am a spending customer and I will not stand or this type of Bullshit. I can fucking spend my money elsewhere were I like it and I do not have to stand for your poor service and fucking racist attitude. This is clearly a case of discrimination against us and I swear that if this is somewhere else, I would meet them in court and make they pay dearly for this!

Anyway, FUCK IT. Nandos is on my banned list now.

Anyway, I was lucky though. Because I missed Nandos, I have a damn great dinner at Uncle Duck.

eNet problem with Chrome browser - Solved

Sometimes, we just do not have a choice. Some of the eGovernment services happens to use something known as eNets, which in my very humble opinion is still fucked up as ever. Out of the 2 times I have to use it in the pass 1 month, one of then returned a 404 page not found and the other one certain made me bang table.

Just put the 404 one aside since I do not care, as long as I attempted to pay, if the payment failed, I would point finger at Nets. The second case was actually much worse. But since I am here to bitch about it, I might as well start from the beginning.

It all started when I needed to renew some something which is not important in the story. And I ended up on the payment gateway. Its none other than eNets. I actually wonder why the Singapore government continue to use such a lousy payment system. Even some of the primitive China payment gateway works better than this. Anyway that aside it could be a left pocket right pocket things, it still doesn't solve my problem.

When I made the payment after filling up the big long form, a golden bar pops up on my Chrome browser. Well, it seems like it needs Java and Chrome had to be sure to ask me. +1 for Chrome. When I click run, it loads Java, but the form is still stuck, The fields are not enabled and I cannot type in anything at all. Now that sucks. I know I should go and complain, but I also know they will go tell me to use IE6. So just fuck it.

The most natural thing to do was to press F5 to refresh the page. And guess what, it failed once again and now I am unable to pay because there is an active sessions. Ok, thats a good precaution, but it suggest that I close the browser and try again. And so I did, losing all the entered data and I had to go through the forms once more. This time I tried to enable the Java run, but still it doesn't load. That's just fucked up.

Ok, if I am going to bitch about it, I might as well give everyone a solution here. On the payment form. there is actually a Cancel button. Go click that and you will be returned to the page which you came in from. You can submit the payment once more and since you already allowed the Java to run, it will load successfully this time, thus enabling you to complete you payment.

I know by the time you find this page, its probably already too late, but having a workaround sure beats having to go queue up and submit anything manually. I just hope that company like Nets wake up their idea and make their application compatible with other browsers! And IE6 is in no way the dominating browser anymore since a few years back!!!

Summary:
If Java does not load on eNets page, DO NOT REFRESH or PRESS F5!!! Instead, click cancel and you will be allowed to resubmit the payment request.