OK now, how many of you actually remember that I went to KL last week?
Anyway, the main agenda was to visit the Matta Fair — which I should say was quite an eye opener because I’ve never been to a Matta Fair before. I’ve been to the Star Education Fair eons many years ago but they’re, well, different. For one, there weren’t as MANY institutions promoting their education programs but that was back in 1998. I’m sure things have changed (a lot) since then. But then again, I’m quite sure there weren’t as many “halls” at the Education Fair compared to the Matta Fair 
I’m not sure about you, but I have a feeling that the travel packages offered by the multitude of travel agencies were actually very similar. They may use an entirely different approach — such as promoting their VERY LOW fares but did not make it obvious that the low fares are (actually) exclusive of air tickets, GOTCHA! — to attract visitors to their booths.
And I’m also sure that there weren’t as many people stuffing multi-coloured brochures into your hands when you were trying to figure out where you wanted to go in the first place. These travel companies printed so MANY brochures I think they destroyed a very HUGE portion of our tropical rainforests!!
Plus, you don’t get to see cute-and-double mascots promoting their reward points and what-nots during education fairs, do you? I bet all that you see is finance companies dying to lend you some money to “help you achieve your dreams” with sky-high interest rates that will send your retired parents back into the rat race..
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Welcome back, Pelf!!
pelf: Aww.. Somebody knows I was away, hahaha
Thanks, but where are the pom-poms?? 
Aiyerr… at this current situation on our country, how to go vacation??? Everything also so expensive. *bleh* I went to eat chap fan yesterday also, kena charge RM5 when all I had was red bean, veggie and a small piece of fried fish.
I remember back those days in 1998, I can have a whole load of chap wan - complete with 4 or 5 types of dish on top of my rice and still got charge with RM3.80 only!
Go vacation sumore? Bankrupt ohhhhh
pelf: Yea, and the packages aren’t cheap. I thought I’d be able to go to Angkor Wat at a somewhat lower price (it’s NOT called a “fair” for nothing, right?) but no, a 5D4N package to Siem Reap costs about RM 1,500+ per person, and guess what we’re flying? Air Asia! *rolls eyes*
This one’s really interesting, price reasonable and affordable