TMNut’s Technicals Just Don’t Like To Listen..

Since the first day I had my Streamyx (a.k.a. Screamyx), I had made countless of complaint calls to their Technical. I’m paying RM 88 for a 300+ kilobits per second of download. We don’t need a calculator to realised that I’m overpaying for the service I’m getting. Just for your information to those who don’t know; RM 77/66/44 (USD 21/18/12) for 512 kbps, RM 20+ (USD 5.50+) for 384 kbps. RM 44 with first 60 hours of usage, additional usage at 1 cents per minute afterward and RM 20 for first 10 hours and 5 cents per minute. What the fxck@? I’m supposed to get 1024 kbps of download. I don’t mind if you give me less than that but 300 kbps?!?!?

Well, that was August last year. Recently, I noticed my downloads are crawling instead of usual “jogging” (our broadband’s not yet a “sprinting” or “running” yet, mind you!). Just an hour ago, I’ve made a call (again?) to them, reporting this. After those previous countless of calls, I’m smarter. Did every troubleshooting that they might ask me to do. After that, as usual, gave this girl my ID, name, phone number, etc. then tell her my problem. Just before she ask me about the troubleshooting, I quickly shoot, “I’ve done all the necessary troubleshooting” and she thought I was bluffing her! “What troubleshooting that you did?” Told her loh.. Off modem, unplug cable, power, plug it back, switch on then make a direct connection.

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I’m so, so, so pissed off but I felt like laughing.. XD

She directed to Start > Control Panel > bla, bla, bla to make a new manual dialer. I told her that I already had one and she just continued, “Choose the first one, click Next…”

Bleh~ I just followed lah. Malas..

30 minutes later, after all those ridiculous and she-thought-I-don’t-know troubleshooting, the most exciting part………………………… I’m still getting 340 kbps of download! I really wanna LOL~

See, told you.. They just don’t like to listen…

Haih~ God bless..

A Different Perspective

I used to dislike Lee Kuan Yew. Only him, nothing to do with Singapore. Why? Because he had used the independence of Malaysia to get his own (and left us behind. XD). Get what I mean? After these Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Tan Cheng Lock and Tun V. T. Sambathan (I had tried so hard to remember his name…) gained the independence from the British and two years later, Lee tried to get his own for Singapore.

Just finished watching the documentary on Discovery Channel titled “History of Singapore: An Accidental Nation” and realised stories told by the elders are not necessary true and that includes our Sejarah textbook as well…

Tunku Abdul Rahman mooted the idea of forming “Malaysia” with a merger of Singapore, Sarawak, North Borneo (Sabah) and Brunei. Somehow, I don’t understand why Indonesia and Philliphines were against the idea. None of their business. Anyway, Sultan of Brunei liked the idea but not his people who staged an armed revolt. On Singapore side, Lee Kuan Yew supported the merger too but his opponents (the Singaporean Socialist Front) strongly opposed it. Anyhow, Malaysia was formed on August 31, 1963 which consisted of Singapore, Sabah and SarawakNow, this is the interesting part. After the merger, Lee from being the first became second after Tunku (Prime Minister of Malaysia). Minor problem. Then one day, Tunku visited a tyre factory and saw how hardworking those Chinese workers were and started to worries about his people back in the Peninsular. Before Malaysia, 70% of the total Singapre’s population were Chinese. After the merger, Tunku started to worried that Malays will soon become a minority in the country. Then he proposed and drafted a constitution for Malaysia which included the privileges of the Malays or Bumiputras.

“At the time of independence in 1957, the Malays were 55% of the population, the Chinese 35% and the Indians 10%. This equation was upset by the inclusion of Singapore, which increased the Chinese proportion to close to 40%.“

After that, there was a race riot between the Chinese and the Malays which provoked Tunku to demand that Singapore to withdraw from Malaysia. Parties argued among parties, this party challenged that party and soon Tunku called for a vote to expel Singapore from Malaysia. Lee Kuan Yew tried many attempts to keep Singapore in the union but on August 9, 1965, the Parliament of Malaysia voted 126-0. On that day, a tearful Lee Kuan Yew, announced that Singapore was a sovereign, independent nation and assumed the role of prime minister of the new nation. In his speech, he also said:

“For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I have believed in merger and unity of the two territories.“

There was a few minutes of silence as he was trying to get hold of himself, wiping tears.

Anyway, Singaporeans are very fortunate that Lee Kuan Yew did not insist any more to stay in the union. Otherwise, Singapore will not be the Singapore as today.

*Notes*
Above entry does not carry any mean of racist elements or whatsoever. It’s a part of the history. XD

Hard Rock.. Rocks!

Came back home from dinner at Hard Rock Cafe next to Concorde Hotel, KL. It was on my boss' treat. There were a lot of ang mo's around actually. Nice view (duh~). I had a 'Hickory Barberque *something* Chicken. I was like.. bladdy full after eating the whole plate of chicken. It was almost like a HALF chick, ya know, with lotsa meat. Apart from a farewell party, we actually celebrated one of the colleague's belated birthday. She was made to stood up on the chair while our lawyer friend stood along next to her while holding her slice of cake and the whole Hard Rock was singing birthday song to her. So sweet.. well, embarrassing as well.

We waited so long for our foods to be served but well, it's forgivable because they actually served ALL of our foods at the same time except for Jax's. His was the last one to be served while we had already sticking our forks and knifes onto our chickens, beefs and whatever.

Overall, it's okay. It's kinda different from Hard Rock in Surfers Paradise, Australia anyway. xD

Resurrected..

It had been a long, long time since the last present in this space. As the matter of fact, initially, I have no intention of keeping this space anyway because I planned to get my own domain and maintain on my own. Let's wait until my boss give me a discount on hosting first, k? *LOL*

Just for a quick update.

Previously, I was doing a MCSE certification course under our "Boleh" government scheme and now, I am doing a 2-month practical training under this scheme with a local IT company (consider an IT company-lah). Its main activities are actually developing website for clients and also maintain those have hosting service by us. It is rather a small company with a boss, five employees and five trainees. The boss is friendly and has a great sense of humor, we'll never be bored (provided the clients are not giving him a head-spin on that particular day).

In short, it is a good place to work.. minimum level of stress - minus those deadline-meeting moments; got to know a new bunch of fellow 'slaves'!

Tonight, we'll be having the farewall dinner for two trainees who, one had already left and the other one due to leave end of this week; at Hard Rock Cafe (beside Concorde Hotel). *pst* I'm gonna start planning where do I want to get mine! *LOL*

Nitey nites!!

F*cked Up G.!! v2

Today, I had the most terrible experience with KTM! Normally, I had to just wait for the 3rd car to come. This time, the first 3 cars were all full, packed like a sardine. I reached the station at 7:45 a.m., train reaches shortly. Full. Turned back and wait for the next train. What the heck! 15 minutes later, the 2nd train reached. Full. Sardined. Wait for next. Fuck! Another 15 minutes, 3rd car. Packed, extremely sardined. Had to wait for the next. Damn, by the time I reach my destination, I’m gonna be late! 8:45 a.m., the station was so quiet and peaceful, next train came. So roomy. Doors were kept opened for 2-3 minutes. What the hell? You had made the commuters late and you still don’t want to shut the doors and move?!? That is a very, very small station and all the people had already boarded the train. What were they waiting for? Ghosts?!!?

My 2 cents worthed.. before you ask your people to use public transport, you should first improve the public transports especially the blue and yellow one. So far, I have no problem with Putra or Star at all (touch wood, hopefully). This blue-yellow gave me a feeling like they don’t care about its customers/commuters/users. “You late, none of my business. Want to take KTM? Don’t want? Then suit yourself”. About raising the fuel price, some selfish part of me totally disagree with it but we can’t run away from the fact. As the matter of fact, the subsidies saved up might be used to improve the public transport. So, I think we just have to wait and sabar. This reminds me about a quote by one of my previous trainer, “Sabar. Sabar tak cukup, Sarawak” But I had ENOUGH!

A lot of people agrees that the G. should cut down the support (the so-called tongkat), gradually. I agree but I have a suggestion, why not cut down the other tongkat?? Know what I mean? This other tongkat has been around for soooooo many years since when? Independence? Isn’t it time to remove it and let them walk by themselves instead of guiding them till they die? No idea what I’m talking about? Send me your e-mail and I’ll explain it to you.. XD

Unconciousness

Suddenly, I'm recalculating the number of times I had fainted.. Quite a lot of times but can't remember all. There was once in Form 3, Monday morning, during assembly. Stupid headmistress was giving her speech and then suddenly everything blur and *thump* WHen I regained my conciousness, realised one or two of my classmates and a prefect were helping me up then the prefect led me to the nearby canteen. The stupid headmistress still didn't realised what had happened and continue the stupid, long-winded speech.

The second one that I remembered happened at home, Sunday afternoon. Brother was having his "breakfast-cum-lunch" in the kitchen while I was laying down on the sofa watching MTV. Got up to the kitchen to get something to eat. As I opened the fridge's door.. *thump* When I got my consciousness, I saw Brother stood up, staring at the already laying-on-the-floor me, a few seconds later, he helped me up.

The last one that I remembered.. hmm.. let me see.. at my grandparent's house at Jinjang. Was watching TV at the back living room. Parents called to go back home. Get up and while walking along the corridor, felt the things that I sees swirling around and then *thump* Dad was already in the car, Mom, Grandpa and Grandma was in front of me. They looked puzzled. Regained my consciousness, stood on my feet and walked toward the car.

To this day, I'm quite puzzled with the fact that none of my family members that saw me fainted helped me as soon as they see me fainted.. Haha XD

Then the rest I can't really remembered well..

F*cked Up G.!!

My fuel gauge's hit the bottom and I had to drive extremely slow just to get myself safely to the not-so-near Shell petrol station as I always believed this equation; "drive slow = save petrol". Not sure if this is the correct one. Anyone care to prove me wrong? Back to the topic, I actually made it to the Shell station at Seri Petaling, safely. Flashed my cards to that attendant. He forgotten to swipe my Bonuslink card and I had lifted the nozzle. Only then he told me he haven't swipe and I put back the nozzle back into place. That attendant started mumbling and keep telling me once the nozzle was lifted, must fill and cannot put it back before you 'squeeze' the petrol! What the ...?!??! My fault??? I gave you the cards but you didn't inform me while I thought you had done everything before going to the other drivers!

Well, the main point is.. I took full tank. Previously it costed me around RM75 or 80 for a full tank. Now?!?! I had to pay RM97 for a full tank and thanks to the petrol price increase! I understand the reason behind the raise. Money saved up and dumped it into improvement of public transport. So far, so many increases but I don't see any improvement on any of the public transports, facilities or amenities! That stupid KTM still always not on schedule, stations are still being built or located at those kampung place with less population instead of busy towns, buses are craps like a 1000th hand car, potholes of any size are every where, Screamyx is suck like hell, 5-days work is bullshit especially with those government sectors. I thought the working hours until 5 p.m. but these people are seen taking buses, train, driving home before the clock strike 4:30! Everything raised, water, electricity and what's next?

Today's The Star: "XXX:Adapt to higher fuel prices". Bullshit. As if we have other choices. Do we have other alternatives other that unwillingly adapt??? There was a guy called to the radio station spoke about the issue. He is definitely right about one thing and I totally agree to it. G demands from its people, we the people must also know how to demand from them. Complaint, complaint and complaint!! Make sure they improves!

Something extra. That day I accompanied my friend to B*N bank to close her bank account. This officer and the teller, I really want to go in and give both of them 2 slaps each. What the hell? Do they realise we are the customers?? Below was the conversation (as far as I remembered):

Friend: Saya nak tutup account ini *passed the bank book to that stucked up teller*

Clerk 1: Apa pasal nak tutup?

Friend: Tak guna lagi so nak tutup.

Clerk 1: Apasal tak guna lagi?

Friend: Pindah rumah, takde branch dekat rumah.

Clerk 2: Boleh guna lagi punya, tak payah tutup.

(kaypoh clerk)

Friend: Saya nak tutup account.

Clerk 1: Tutup account nak charge 5 ringgit.

Friend: Mengapa?

Clerk 1: *answer unwillingly* Procedure lahh~

Friend: *Make face*

What a stupid conversation. If it were me, the conversation would be:

Me: Tutup account.

Clerk: Apa pasal nak tutup?

Me: Nak tutup, tutup lah.

*Change to English*

Why? Cannot close account??

Because your bank is lousy lah that's why I want to close? Cannot?

Must ask for permission from you is it?

So, you wanna close for me or not? Or I need to close it myself?!
~!@#$%^&*

What the heck? We are the customers or they are?!!? What a "servant"...