perhaps you called MPC and pressed "English" and you are lowly green/silver thus they routed your call to the incompetent Phillipine center. (They were clueless in my request mind as well speak to a fortune teller for my questions)
try call HK, press "2 for Cantonese" to get HK based staff (or china for that matter). Then ask in English. Hopefully you get a better trained agent.