The 'B' Credit Card (Part 2)

Remember about the the 'B' credit card that Mommy applied from Alliance Bank - the You:nique credit card? Remember how Mommy found that the card looked nice on the preview, but when the real card came, it didn't look as nice anymore?

Well, Mommy wants to commend Alliance Bank's Card Marketing Dept. for taking the initiative to make ammendments. Mr. Edmund Yong, the Head of Card Marketing contacted Mommy via email to apologize about the distorted picture of Juan Or and offered to replace the credit card picture free-of-charge. So Mommy accepted the apology and took the offer. The good thing also is that Mommy didn't have to re-upload the picture again. However, Mommy was told to temporarily refrain from using the card until the new card comes. And as a token of the inconvenience caused, Mommy was given a small gift - an RS Nano Bear! The product description on the box says that this bear is meant to be hung in the car because of its anti-bacterial and air-purifying characteristics (the manfacturer claims that the bear is impregnanted with Nano Silver and Nano Titanium Dioxide). Anyway, Mommy didn't want to hang the bear in the car because Mommy's car is often exposed to intense sunlight, so is afraid that the bear's and the bear's clothes' colour will fade. So Mommy put the Nano Bear together with Mommy's other soft toys in the display cabinet.

(Bear in the box.)

(Bear out of the box.)

Anyway, back to the credit card - Juan Or's picture looks better now, lips are not too red already.

(The replaced You:nique credit card.)

And here is the original picture of Juan Or the 'B' uploaded into the card's website.

(Juan Or the 'B'.)

In case you are wondering why Juan Or is called the 'B', here's the list.

'B' for:

• boy,
• baby,
• buffalo (for Juan Or's relatively big size),
• bite (for his itchy mouth),
• bising (for being a noisy and demanding baby)
• bulldog (for liking to pull his lips end to end downwards to look like a bulldog), and
• busybody (likes to turn his head to see what others are doing even when breastfeeding).

The 'B' Credit Card

Last week, Mommy received the new You:nique credit card by Alliance Bank. Actually, Mommy already has an existing Alliance credit card which Mommy applied when Mommy first started working. But now, applying for this You:nique credit card is just an extra thing for Mommy not for the extra credit facility, but rather for its personalizing feature. So what's in Mommy's mind is nothing more than to be able to add Juan Or's photo into Mommy's credit card! The only comment Mommy has about this personalizing thing is that when you insert the photo (through the website) and do whatever necessary alterations, it looks nice on the preview, but when the real photo credit card appears, it doesn't look as nice anymore. In this case, Juan Or's photo appears to be stretched too much to the sideways such that his head looks rather like alien baby!

And the colour of his lips is too red like having the lipstick on!

So for those who are interested to add their favourite picture onto the credit card, here's your chance to do it for free until 31st March 2009 only. After this deadline, you'll be charged RM38 for personalizing your credit card. Also, in this card, you can choose to either have rebates option (rebates in tiers: 0.50% for monthly spending of RM0-500, 0.70% for RM501-1350, 0.90% for RM1351-2550, and 2.00% for RM2551-5000, and anything more than RM5000 will have no rebates at all) or flat finance charge rate (9% p.a.) or 2X rewards points. Of course, Mommy goes for the rebates option (Mommy likes things to be discounted!) and you still get to earn reward points (1 point for every RM1 spent) unlike the Petronas-CIMB credit card where you no longer earn reward points for getting 2% rebate when pumping petrol.

Anyway, Mommy has plans to cancel the previous Alliance credit card because the only feature it has is earning 1 point for every RM1 spent (all other credit cards from other banks also have this feature, right?). No point carrying so many credit cards in the purse!