Questa è Enida

I don’t know whether I should get upset or not. Well, I know I shouldn’t stress myself out. But hey, don’t you love banking? Especially with banks yang offer you macam-macam cik main canggih lagi. Interbank funds transfer within 24 hours lah, bill payment tu needless to mention lah kan. If they don’t offer you that, they might as well bukak business kopitiam, lagi manyak ong meh.

Jarang sangat I am happy doing banking here. Tak macam when I was in Perth dulu. Yes they charged me through the nose, but they delivered. Tak pernah…I tell you straight from the heart, TAK PERNAH ada masalah. Baik with the phone-banking maupun (ehcheh! Maupun, okay!) net-banking. Never once. And they don’t pass your mobile phone number to other banks for tele-marketing either!

So what’s upsetting me so much ni?
Arrrgghhhhhh. I made an interbanking fund transfer on Wednesday last week. Out the Mai Bank and in to Boom-Me Bank. Since it was after 12 noon, the fund wasn’t going to be credited until the next day. Thursday night, tak de lagi. Friday morning, tak bertambah lagi my Boom-Me amount. So I called Mai Bank. “Eh, daaahhh. Dah debit dah. Boom-Me Bank yang belum update cik puan punyer akaun.” Oh, okay.

Lima hari kemudian…which is today, STILL tak ada lagi! Check punya check, my Mai Bank account had been credited the amount I transfered to Boom-Me minus RM2 as the interbank transfer fee. Aiii, they charged me for an unsuccessful transaction? How was I to know if they transacted the money and it was Boom-Me who couldn’t ‘reconcile’ and receive the fund and put it into my account? Because when I called Boom-Me, they said they never received the said transaction.

No, I am not upset. I just learned a lesson. Banks here don’t like each other. They don’t want to do business with one another if they don’t have to. I should have known better. Bukan banks je yang macam tu, kedai kasut ke, kedai barang letrik ke…sama je. If Bata doesn’t have the sandals you’re looking for…they would never in a million years suggest that Kickers or Scholl kat Parkson might have them. Vice versa. If Courts Mammoth doesn’t have water dispensers, God forbids if they ever let out that HSL mungkin ada.