This guy was hilarious! He was so into the interview.... I guess you just had to be there.

We went to Kowloon today to do some shopping, we found some X-box games for "The Dude", and I bought a second battery for my camera. That was all we intended to buy today... but...

We did a bit of shopping today.. I always said I would never buy a pilot watch, but I couldn't resist. Kathy's bracelet is 14k gold with 14 diamonds and 7 garnets( Her birth stone. )

I guess it's been a couple of days since I let you know what was going on.. On Friday, we went to Schenzen, China. There is a huge theme park there called Windows on the World. It has mini replicas of different places from all over the world!

Here is us in Egypt?!

After windows on the world we went to wal*mart.. Go figure, I'm half way around the world and I end up at my least favorite place. It was just like any other wal*mart I've ever been to, except the Durian.

Ever seen the movie Tomb Raider, when they jump out of the building?? This is the one! It is the International Finance Centre, IFC building.

Yesterday, (Saturday) our first plan was to hike to Mui Wo. I wasn't feeling so well, (diarrhea, damn China) so we changed our plan to take a bus to Tai O. We started out taking the bus to Tung Chung. Once at Tung Chung, it was raining raining raining. So we went to a movie, The Bourne Supremacy. Good show! When we were leaving the mall, I spotted a sign for a lounge I found amusing.

Hello Anthony,
If you recall, you were to send the dish to my address via Purolater, and I was to contact an installer myself. ( I'm still not sure why this should be my responsibility, but to speed up the installation I found an installer. )

You told me the dish would be sent on Wed Aug 18th, and would arrive at my residence on Fri Aug 20th.

Fri Aug 27th has come and gone. Still no dish. That is a week past the date you promised it would arrive.

Please give me your supervisors email.

Two months of free service is a pathetic offering for the hassle this has caused me.


Brent Evjen

Quoting Anthony O'Connor <Anthony.Oconnor@bell.ca>:
> Hi Mr. Evjen:
>
> Once the request to send a dish is made, unfortunately out of my hands in
> terms of tracking it. As advised by my supervisor, the warehouse will make
> one further attempt to find an installer in your area whether or not that
> installer is on our assigned list or not. The objective is to have the
> dish sent as soon as possible. This process can take from 3 to 5 days, but
> may on occasion take longer.
>
> Once again I apologize for the delays, however I do assure you that the
> promise of free programming will be delivered.
>
> Regards,

Look at the size of this snail! Pretty quiet day today, lots of walking, and coffee. We spent the entire day in Discovery Bay, taking naps, and relaxing... and I'm still tired!

Yesterday, we went to Stanley. Just like the rest of Hong Kong it used to be a fishing village. Now the most remarkable thing about Stanley is the market. Kathy bought an awsome jacket, and we bought some Chinese scrolls to hang on the wall. Sorry Greg, I was looking for stuff with you in mind, but nothing jumped out at me. However, I did get the Old Man's email and he can make copies of things and send them to you...

Hello Anthony,

I spoke to you last week regarding my problems having the dish installed.

You agreed to send the dish via Purolator so that I could have it installed at
my cost and you would credit my account the cost of the dish installation.

You said the dish would arrive friday.

If you recall, I left town on thursday, but that my house guests (my parents)
would be available to recieve the dish.

It is now past tuesday, and they still have recieved no dish!

Here is a quote from an email I recieved from my mother regarding the dish...

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We had heard nothing by noon, so Dad decided to phone Bell and see what they
had to say. Well it seems that they have done nothing. He got someone after
waiting for a little more than an hour. Then he got a person to talk to and
they wanted him to hang up and they would call back. He said he had been
waiting so long that the phone was now attached to his ear. To make a long
story short, your dish had been cancelled at 2:20 yesterday - Mon. We can
only assume that it was the installer that cancelled it. To say nothing about
the fact that it should have been here Friday. Well, he is going to sort it
all out and will phone us back tomorrow. Dad did hold his temper, and also
asked who had cancelled the order, but he said he did not have this info. He
also asked who was going to deliver this dish. He will try again to find that
out tomorrow.

We haven't done much yet as we have been waiting for the dish to come. If we
can get some kind of answer then we will know when we can be away.

If we hear from him tomorrow, I will email you as soon as he phones. You can
keep an eye on your mail tomorrow and hopefully something will have happened.
Just a thought, but why do they even have to send in a dish. Can they not
have the fellow downtown take one out of his stock and install it and then
Bell pay him?

<>

From where I sit, Bell has let me down again.

As it stands, myself and my family have wasted a considerable ammount of time
waiting for Bell to do what they have promised.

I waited for the entire afternoon, the day of the initial appointment. Spent
over three hours on the phone waiting to talk to someone regarding my
installation. And was told "F*** YOU!" by YOUR INSTALLER. Then spent more
time on the phone talking to you.

NOW, my parents have been inconvencenced THREE DAYS waiting for you to deliver
a dish, as promised by yourself. So that I could pay for the installation out
of my own pocket because your installer was unable to meet the original
installation appointment.

Currently I am on holidays in Hong Kong and I am having to deal with problems
like this!!!

I have given you every opportunity to make good on your promises, and have
recived.... a promise of two months free subscription?? I won't believe
anything until I see it.




FIX THIS PROBLEM..




Brent Evjen
(250) 847-2619
Box 5129
Smithers BC

We went to a Thai restaraunt in Tung Chung (The town in the background of the airplane picture I have on pinned on the bulletin board near my desk at work.) Andrews parents, Andrew and Cara, and Kathy and I ate the dinner for six. It was just under $100 Canadian, and we all were stuffed to the gills. The best part was the pork neck, it is in the picture, on the very right hand side near the bottom, and is cut off. Brilliant!

The latest aviation weather report at the Hong Kong International Airport issued by the Hong Kong Observatory at 17:03 HKT on 24 Aug 04

METAR VHHH 0900 10005KT 4400 -SHRA FEW016 SCT030 31/26 Q1001 TEMPO 4000 SHRA=

If you need help decoding this go to http://www.hko.gov.hk/aviat/decode_metar_e.htm

4400 meters vis translates to 2.7SM...

You should see all the pollution in the air!

Andrew, Cara and Kathy enjoying the water. I'll bet this isn't what you expected to see in Hong Kong!