AGAIN

Today got back home, paid a visit to Hobby Search, saw Nendoroid Tainaka Ritsu on restock! I immediately put it on my cart and attempted to checkout, but I have no credit card. I phoned my dad for that, he said he will check on the legitimacy of the site, and then Ritsu got sold out at the very moment I hang up the phone. MISSED THE CHANCE TO GET HER AGAIN! ARGH!! EMO!

Update: Yet another restock at Amiami some hours after HS, but I still missed it. I suddenly found myself fallen asleep just well before the order was opened for about half hour before it ran out of stock again.

These 2 close calls killed my week. It's always like this, camping at these sites hoping for a restock, and when they do I just couldn't make it for whatever stupid reasons, be it I'm having class, pending permission from my dad, or the stupidest of all: fell asleep. Maybe I should just stop collecting these things and use the money saved for proper meals everyday.

*bangs my head on the wall repeatedly*

Beggar?

Back from a deep "evening nap", I was greeted by this fellow in Garena, asking me to create a clan for him.

Below is the full chat log between us. Hwey being me and that 6th-|rDota being the beggar, from my point of view.

[21:42:31]6th-|rDota Say:
hye
[21:42:34]6th-|rDota Say:
Hwey
[21:42:41]6th-|rDota Say:
u there?
[21:42:44]6th-|rDota Say:
pls answer me
[21:42:47]Hwey Say:
?
[21:42:51]6th-|rDota Say:
can u cr8 clan?
[21:42:56]Hwey Say:
nop
[21:42:58]6th-|rDota Say:
y?
[21:43:3]Hwey Say:
i tot nid money?
[21:43:7]6th-|rDota Say:
no la
[21:43:10]6th-|rDota Say:
no nid money
[21:43:13]6th-|rDota Say:
u lvl 25
[21:43:14]6th-|rDota Say:
can
[21:43:17]Hwey Say:
n i don bother bout clans anyway
[21:43:21]6th-|rDota Say:
z
[21:43:23]6th-|rDota Say:
giv me can?
[21:43:36]6th-|rDota Say:
hwey
[21:43:37]Hwey Say:
giv wat
[21:43:37]6th-|rDota Say:
can?
[21:43:39]6th-|rDota Say:
clan
[21:43:40]6th-|rDota Say:
u cr8
[21:43:42]6th-|rDota Say:
n giv me
[21:43:45]Hwey Say:
no
[21:43:48]6th-|rDota Say:
y?
[21:43:59]6th-|rDota Say:
y cant?
[21:44:0]Hwey Say:
since u say lv25 only can cre8
[21:44:5]6th-|rDota Say:
yup
[21:44:8]6th-|rDota Say:
25 n up
[21:44:9]Hwey Say:
i so hard only up until lv25
[21:44:10]6th-|rDota Say:
can cr8
[21:44:13]6th-|rDota Say:
z
[21:44:18]6th-|rDota Say:
u say bored
[21:44:20]6th-|rDota Say:
clan
[21:44:23]6th-|rDota Say:
so giv me
[21:44:26]6th-|rDota Say:
or u cr8
[21:44:28]Hwey Say:
minds can always change
[21:44:32]6th-|rDota Say:
?
[21:44:37]6th-|rDota Say:
can pls
[21:44:48]6th-|rDota Say:
u cr8 or giv me..?
[21:44:52]Hwey Say:
i can say don care now but future i might say i wanna use it for myself
[21:44:59]6th-|rDota Say:
y?
[21:45:4]6th-|rDota Say:
pls la
[21:45:11]6th-|rDota Say:
u be clan lord
[21:45:14]6th-|rDota Say:
n i be captain
[21:45:16]6th-|rDota Say:
can?
[21:45:23]Hwey Say:
sry no
[21:45:26]6th-|rDota Say:
z
[21:45:30]6th-|rDota Say:
zzzzzz
[21:45:33]6th-|rDota Say:
y cannot
[21:45:45]6th-|rDota Say:
u selfish........
*left room*

Ok, what's the meaning of all these? This fellow forced me to give him a clan, which I don't want to, and said me selfish for that? First, who on earth are you to force me to give you my clan-creating power? I don't wanna create a clan for myself then I should give it to you?

Second, I appreciate your persistence in wanting to be in a clan so badly. Perhaps you can be a successful salesman in the future for your "thick skin-ness", but not for your "u selfish........" when I go against your will. Remember, you're the beggar to me now. If you're the so-called kind one, can you get yourself to lv25 and then create a clan and offer me into it? I highly doubt that.

It took so much effort to get to lv25, and you expect me to just give my ability to you just like that? Talk before thinking. Did you know that sentence can offend me so much and made me felt so guilty? Fcuken low-life, go get a life dude. This world is neither revolving around you nor me. Don't go around criticizing others when they don't follow your will.

I'm back!

Didn't realise that one month has passed. Sorry for not updating.

Nothing to post actually as this semester was pretty hectic (and I'm still busy playing games), it has finally ended anyway. Just finished my finals today, I think I did pretty bad overall because of that stupid sudden sore throat and fever before finals started. Although my fever subsided in just one day, I think it's always enough to kill my brain cells.

Besides, after every sore throat it will be converted to itchy throat (coughing) and this time, it was associated with flu for no reason. For the whole finals I have been sniffing a lot which distracted me a lot as well because there's just so much nasal mucus, the glands just won't stop producing it. It's still the same now, so annoying, but luckily it's not A(H1N1), I suppose?

Anyway, I should enjoy this stupid one week holiday for now, stupid INTI's going to make us go back for the useless crap Moral Studies class next week (Assignments, presentations, MY NIGHTMARE). What's the fucking point of calling this semester the "short semester" huh? Tell me, seriously, I really don't get the fucking rational behind!

GG?

Currently in the third week of second semester, 33.3% of the semester has passed. It was really a freaking tedious and total-non-stop-study semester, which highly surpassed the physical and mental preparations I've been making.

The first thing is of course the timetable arrangement that I've complained before. That kind of stupid arrangement actually decreased our free time to study by a large fraction, ESPECIALLY IF THE STUDENT IS TAKING 4 SUBJECTS. If I live at the hostel then it wouldn't be a problem, but everyday I have to waste at least one and a half hour travelling to and forth ICSJ everyday, still not including time wasted in traffic jams yet. Although the early traffic jams will end after Hari Raya, it doesn't change the fact that I have to waste the time on transportation.

The second and the most important thing is the course structure. Combined together with the first problem, I really have a hard time coping with my studies. I have less time to digest so many things in such a short period of time, moreover those topics are really hard, which was also my worst topics since SPM! In maths, there are AP, GP, vectors, and soon differentiation. In chemistry, there are electrochemistry and equilibrium, both in A2 syllabus, which is freaking tough. Without understanding anything, the first test for both subjects will be on Hari Raya week. How am I going to fail, eh?

Talking about Hari Raya week, every students should be enjoying a one week holiday for that occasion, but not for us A-Level students. We will only have 2 days of holiday. I have to suffer in the tests while everyone else are enjoying their break. Bloody hell, that's just damn unfair. I know we're in a rush, but that just won't do us any good.

Oh by the way, where's the time to be allocated to co-curriculum activities?

Man, I'm just too pissed with everything. Say me don't appreciate what I have now, I will let you know why it's hard for me to appreciate it given the situations. Humans are like this anyway, they will only appreciate a thing when they don't own it anymore. If I'm studying in Form 6 now, I will say colleges rock, and vice versa.

So why am I still posting something here anyway? Am I not contradicting myself for having insufficient time to study? Well, it depends on the attitude of a person to study anyway. I suck big in this.

On an unrelated matter,

Baby born in Australia at 9.09am on 09/09/09

SYDNEY: Dhara and Sudish Patel would have no difficulty in remembering the date and time of birth of their daughter who was born in the

Australian city of Canberra at 9.09am.on the ninth day of the ninth month of 2009.

The new parents said the delivery time of their baby girl was a surprise.

"Her due date was Sep 12," the baby's mother was quoted as saying by ABC News.

She said the number nine would become part of her baby's life.

"We think it will be her lucky number," she said.

Source: http://www.hotklix.com/link/sports/cricket/Baby-born-in-Australia-at-909am-on-090909-Rest-of-Wor

It was 09/09/09 2 days ago. Why is the number 9 so special? It's because 9(九) has the same pronunciation as 久 in Chinese and Cantonese, which resembles long-lasting. That explains why so many Chinese couples decided to register or get married at that date, in the hope that their marriage will last forever, apparently.

Now this news was interesting. The baby was not only born on this date, but also at 9.09am. Five 9s. By assuming healthcare levels are increasing with time, perhaps the baby are able to live up to 99 yrs 9 months 9 hrs 9 mins lol.

New semester, new challenge

Just another day spent at the college, the first week of second semester is over already. Too fast, too furious. It was a pleasant week at college, as we, the A-Level students, are the only ones that has begun classes 1 week earlier than those of other courses. It feels like the whole college were only occupied by us.

“ That made me enjoyed the serenity in ICSJ -- less noise, less people, more books to borrow, more computers to use. ”

I used this opportunity to borrow 2 bloody thick and heavy books about programming (C++ and Java) from the library. I don't know why I did so as the second semester is going to be a hectic semester for us, a total of 9 weeks before finals, now 8 more to go. Where do I get the time to learn programming now? Oh well, as long as I'm interested..

“ Anyway, if I were to comment about our timetable for this semester, I would only give one word: SUCKS! ”

Not because of the freaking long classes, I've gotten used to it, but then again, it's the classes for Friday. I'd always hoped that classes can end before 1pm on Friday, but instead our class ends at 5pm now. Bloody hell, freaking class ends at 5pm because there's a 3 hour gap from 12pm-3pm for the Malay prayers time. Oh good lord, is there not any day that I can return home earlier? I hate to deal with traffic jams, like today, it was so terribly jammed from LDP Sunway toll plaza until Bukit Jalil Highway. Abnormal enough as I never had such a nightmare during first semester where there were 2 days when class ends at 5pm. Wasted my valuable 1 hour staring at the car in front while crawling.

Back to the point, we were told by our Economics lecturer that our first test will be 2 weeks from now. That's just 'awesome'! I can expect that more and more tests will fall around that time period. Let's see how well I can cope in my studies in such a short period of time. Speaking of this, the results of my first semester finals is phail, with Economics and Malaysian Studies getting B. I won't bother about M'sian Studies results because our coursework marks sucks big time. Anyway I pass it as long as I didn't fail. It's over. But Economics, I've freaking studied it for 1 week before the finals, sacrificing and risking other subjects, yet not so desirable results. It's really THAT hard to score in Economics eh?

Well, it's my path, my challenge to overcome, since the day I've taken A-Level. 4 subjects are really a pain in the back if one doesn't use time wisely.

“ Thinking back of SPM days when we used to take 11 subjects, that's nothing compared to these 4 subjects eh? I suppose. ”

But I'm still myself, one who lacks motivation and self-discipline to study progressively, instead of doing unnecessary things at the wrongest time, e.g. trying to pack programming knowledge into my already-full-memory mind. That's just digging my own grave.

Using this chance, I would like to wish Malaysia happy 52th anniversary of independence. May our country continue advancing and development in the correct direction (although I remain skeptical about this). For those who want to attend the celebration, remember to wear high-quality masks and be hygienic to reduce the chance of infecting swine flu. For me, I'll just sleep until someone or something blows me to kingdom come. Heck, I'm LAZY.

In an unrelated matter, I'm going to the Premiere Screening of Final Destination: Rest in Pieces in 1 Utama next Tuesday night! My sacrifice wasn't in vain after all ^^. Wish me that I'm not going to rest in either peace or pieces during the journey.

NUFFNANG ROCKS!

Lost

Why? Why am I viewed as a 'special' one when I'm an introvert? Is being special a sin? Do I like being 'special' at the first place?

I always thought that I can focus on revising for my semester finals after my Malaysian Studies' presentation, and I can relieve my mental burden since asking me to go out presenting in front of the class is a nightmare to me. I gave my best, but the harder I try the worse off I am. Anyway, the presentation is now history and our "group" got 8/10. I don't know if I caused the deduction of 2 marks or not, but that's not my main concern and also not what I am going to talk about in this post.

So reflecting back to the questions at the opening, obviously I'm troubled by my introversion again. It will be a long post, not interested then leave ba.

Today, I felt uneasy since the moment I wake up, predicting something bad would happen to me. And yeah, on my journey to ICSJ, I made a lot of mistakes which could be fatal, but I still reached there safe and sound, but there was no parking near college premise. Eventually, I found one 'nice' spot just around the corner of Starbucks Coffee, so I parked there without hesitation due to my perfunctory observations of other cars parking there without any aftermaths. Paid the parking fees, and off to class.

Right, there were actually no classes and attendance was bad as people tend to stay at house to study for their finals or do what ever they want. Cut the crap short, I spent nearly half day at the library alone until breaks' over and I have to go M'sian Studies class. The same situation: <25% attendance, no class. I still went in anyway because I just know I won't study if I went back home earlier. It was a big mistake.
Some classmates from another section came in after me, they chatted with the lecturer. All of a sudden, they started finding profiles of other students in eCAMPUS and criticizing or talking whatever shit. Not everyone was 'chosen', but to my surprise, I was in the list. Of course, they turned down their voice when they were discussing about me, but no one knows that I'm good in eavesdropping (now I've compromised my specialty).

I think they were actually thinking that I'm deaf because I'm an idiot in communicative skills. But they were trying to discuss me when I was in less than 3 metres away from them, besides I'm sensitive to my name. I heard them mention me, so I continue looking my book lo, but paying attention to them. They lmao-ed when they saw my profile (I know, I wasn't prepared when the picture was taken). Then talks started, 'lan si', 'ji bai'(自闭 in Cantonese, a.k.a. autism. And yeah, I'm sensitive) was among the descriptions I can hear.

Most interestingly, they actually discussed which group of person do I talk to. Hell, is it that fucking important? I will only initiate a talk with people who have common interest(s) between us. I was labelled autistic for this. I will clarify this once and for all (who am I clarifying to? None of them has my contact!), introversion is not autism goddamnit. If I were to be an autistic person, none of you will actually know my presence because I will just sit at the most corner of the class instead of at the middle rows(although lonely). You can talk to me and I will reply you if I know how to, but of course not talking to me just to ask things from me every time.

Anyone knows how long was the time for me to have my closest friends currently? It took at least a year for EACH of them, yet still the bond was eroding.

5pm, class ended, went back to my car, and found out that I was summoned by PDRM for improper parking. So many cars around and only me hit the jackpot. So these were the bad things that was going to happen to me eh? Ok, I've hit my toll. I'm physically exhausted from sleep deprivation from the pressure of presentation and these mental blow. I drove very carefully back home to post this meaningless rant.

Why did all these events crush me at the same time? Now, I'm so heavily suppressed in the valley of darkness. Now, I have no more intention to study. Now, I've not only lost my aim to live, but could also lose my will to live anytime.
And don't worry, I strongly disagree with the captions.

Is it globally? Or just Malaysians?

Half a semester has gone, I have started to enjoy college life. But for the time period, I have been suffering more from travelling back home with KTM. The magnitude of suffering is greater than that of enjoying. In a nutshell, I'm pissed.

I wonder how do they operate this company? In Economics, the goal of firms are assumed to be maximizing their profit. Well in this case, yeah I agree with it 100%. They are trying to maximize their profit without taking the consumers' feelings into consideration. Taking the Pelabuhan Klang-Sentul route as example, there isn't any close substitutes like LRT to KTM. There are buses, but that would be a little bit troublesome. Anyway, that is not my main concern as this posts wasn't meant to criticize much about KTM, but the passengers.

I always observe 3 kinds of phenomenon while I was waiting for and riding the train, especially Tuesdays and Thursdays, due to classes of these 2 days end relatively late @ 5pm. By the time I reached there it will always be so damn crowded. And of course, with the so-called "Q-System" implemented by KTMB, passengers will have to listen to broadcasts and then line up on one of the coloured(red, blue, green) lines according to the broadcast. It failed. Why? Well, do you ever think that typical Malaysians will give a damn about this? From my observations this far, a portion of the passengers has colour-blindness(no offence). For example, when we are asked to queue up on the green line, I can always see that there are surely some people that queue up on different coloured lines(excluding late-comers, since the frequency of useful broadcasts is only as high as the frequency of the train). Well, I wouldn't be mad at them, because they have health problem what..I never knew that there are so many people in Malaysia have colour-blindness, I felt sorry for them.

And then there are the "smart" ones, in even larger quantities or just the same as colour-blinded people. Ever heard of the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes" or something similar? These "smart" people are able to see "lines" invisible to the "stupid" ones, e.g. me. So in other words, they just line up where ever they see fit a.k.a. cut queue. I'm sure that annoyed the "stupid" ones that lined up properly on the respective lines.

And when the train finally arrives, some bastards behind will just keep on pushing and pushing...well I shouldn't call them bastards, because I would've become an "induced bastard" in this situation and pushing others in order to prevent me from being completely sandwiched. Even if the train is really full, they will still try to squeeze in no matter what. "Who cares? I pushing ma, you pain not me" might be one of their mentalities, or, they are perverted. A tip for all of you, try to get as inside as possible(nowhere near the doors), the doors are the worst ever place to be near with following the above situation given.

There are those so-called polices and a few KTMB personnels supervising the passengers' movement, i.e. call boarding passenger to let disembarking passengers out first. But most of the time they just call passengers to pack up the train until the maximum point. What's the point man? I was expecting that their presence was to prevent queue-cutters.

Little do I know that if the company set up those stacking steel queue bars(I don't know how to describe it lol, imagine those bars that you line up with when you're in a theme park) instead of employing this "Q-System", everything would have been more organized. Anyone seconded on this?

Anyway, I'm most probably going to drive to ICSJ as soon as I got familiar on the way back. So, I can most probably kiss(my @$$, it should be kick) KTM goodbye. But by then, you might see me complaining about traffic jams. Looks like studying there wasn't a nice choice at the first place after all.

Zzz

As expected this Shitmyx connection was screwed up again since Saturday evening. Iam really speechless for their incompetence. Ranting further is futile. Just hope games in Facebooks won't fail me at the meantime.

Finally I applied to study A-Level at INTI Subang, took 4 subjects: Physics, Maths, Chemistry & Economics. This coming Thursday will be the orientation day, don't know what to do by then. But whatever, hope to meet someone there ;p

The course will commence at 4th May, I'll have to do lots of catch-ups as my brain has rusted for idling 4~5 months at home without thinking anything..or prepare to be smoked by my future classmates for forgetting even the basics of Maths.

That's it. I just make the most out of my time to enjoy before getting serious again.

TMNUT did it again!

The deadline of 17th April had passed, and TMNUT once again prove that they are a company of liars. I managed to run a few speedtests, even it's really making me suffer hard. Let's start with our beloved neighbouring country:
Decent speed, which I should have it anyway.

The so-called affected areas:
i) Hong Kong
Just above par with a 56K. o0o

ii) USA
The speed for both of these locations are just around the same with that of Hong Kong, which is typical.
This is an exception, tests done at LA are the fastest among all other USA locations I've tested. But still it didn't help me in any way.

To show that Screamyx is actually fcuked up in everywhere instead of just HK and USA, I've done a test to one of the European countries. My pick was Frankfurt, Germany.That's the coolest figure I got to see! Sub-56K speed and latency exceeding 1k. And the download test actually started 5 minutes after the completion of latency test. WTF? One can only find this kind of shit-like speeds in Malaysia. Again, MALAYSIA BOLEH(LEBIH LAMBAT DARIPADA KURA-KURA)!

Based on the figures, I've formed a conclusion. Screamyx may be the best ISP* in Malaysia ONLY, but the WORST ISP in the entire world! THE BIGGEST JOKE IN THE WORLD EVER. Even their Screamyx website cannot be accessed now. WTF, too scared to face us so you decided to bring down the server together? This one's a big PHAIL. GAGAL.

There's a Chinese speaking "打是疼, 骂是爱", which literally means "hitting and scolding you means loving you". I couldn't agree with it for this situation, as TMNUT Screamyx is just not worthy enough for me (and anyone else) to love it. Why spoil my health on this failed worthless company providing failed services? They are not going to improve anyway. So instead of scolding TMNUT, now I'm going to CURSE and SWEAR upon them, at least this shows my hatred against them. 屌你! o0o

Oh btw, alphabets is a good form to swear. It was an old song, but still nice to listen in this situation:

每天吃饱都要上来这里駡两句. LOL. Oh fcuk, TM..(buffering)..D..(buffering)..yo C..(buffering)..CB..(buffering) *yawns*.

What more can we do instead of swearing? Again, nothing. As I said before, monopolisation = disaster. Let me remind you on this:

WHERE MONOPOLISATION IS THE WAY TO GO!

*ISP = Intranet Service Provider**
**only applicable to Malaysian ISP, Screamyx precisely.

Screamyx kanasai la!

A good picture says a thousand words. In this case, thousands of foul words from me to Tmnut Screamyx.

I could normally finish the downloads of this size within 1 hour, but now, more than 7 hours and still not finished. Look at the speed, it's actually slower than 56K (56K max speed @ 56/8 = 7KB/s). To rub salt on the wound, a 5-minute Youtube clip and cost me 15 minutes before completely buffered, speedtest.net won't bother to load, and most importantly, RS & MU d/l speed are now 0KB/s! WTF eh Mr.Nut, my dad pays you RM88 to give us speed crappier than 56K? You better not even cap my direct download speed after you "fixed" that stupid problem.

Look, they first promised us to fix the problem by 5th of April, before delaying to 9th of April. Now, it's 17th of April according to some forummers in Lowyat.net. WTF. KNNB eh Tmnut Screamyx, don't make false promises la. If you promised straight to fix it by 30th of April I also won't feel so mad, at least I wasn't cheated, as I hate being cheated A LOT. Also, if I'm going to get stuck with this crappy speed for half a month, or even longer (you know la, what if This Monkey NETwork company lies again?), will you give me a fcuking rebate to compensate the inconvenience caused due to your own incompetence? YOU WON'T! You money sucking company.

But what can we do to improve it? Nothing literally. This is what happens when a company monopolizes a certain sector and is backed by the gov'ment. There aren't any worthy competition for them to improve their service. Maxis BB? Celcom BB? iZZi? Or even the newcomer P1 Wimax? Nah. I've heard enough the negative sides of them, none of them can be better than this Shitmyx at the moment. Even P1 with their so-called Wiggy that can reach speed of 10mbps is not that good, click here to learn more.

This Screamyx finally made me look like an uneducated fag that goes over the place ranting here and there. I think this is what This Monkey NUT company wanted after all, they wanted us to look like monkeys when they themselves are a bunch of lazy monkeys. Well, yuck fou, if that's what you want!

I had enough. I'm not going to look like a kid due to this issue again, it's so tiring, and retarded, and who knows if they decide to sue me for ranting more here? I think I'll just bombard their unhelpful call centre when my limit's hit.

MALAYSIA BOLEH! I hope Malaysia can achieve Wawasan 2020 Wawasan 20202.

One side note, PC Fair is getting worse by time, especially with the presence of Screamyx with huge booths. Not 1, but 2! The first one was located at the first hall we got to enter. I even hear the promoters shouting "STREAMYX, COMBO.. ... ..". WTH, spoil my mood to stay longer la. The second one was located at the exit, as always. Now this time they're tricky. It looks like they've played TD games and have mastered the basic of mazing. This time, we can't get to exit the hall straightaway. Instead, we have to pass through the whole row of ISP companies, with Screamyx being one of them. Yeah well..the hell with it. I'm out.

TMNUT Screamyx?

I'm sure that a lot of you Tmnet Streamyx (I call it Tmnut Screamyx from now on) users have noticed that our internet speed deteriorated enormously for the past week. In fact this situation is normal since problems like this arises every month, or perhaps every week?

What makes me to blog about this problem anyway? It's so normal in this country that we Screamyx subscribers should have gotten used to it by now. But this thing matters me now because recently, I think I just earned myself the "heavy downloader" status, and this problem had just got me pissed off.

While torrents are as slow as always since they were throttled by Tmnut to "optimize bandwidth", direct downloads shouldn't be affected by it. I was able to download files from Rapidshare @ Teleglobe and Megaupload with at least 100kB/s, if not at full speed @ 180kB/s. That was before last week. Now, neither of them can barely even reach 10kB/s. WTF. I don't think there's anyone that won't get pissed to see this.

And I went to their website to look for their announcements.

31/03/2009
SERVICE INTERRUPTION

Dear Valued Customers,

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to announce that there is a disruption of its Internet services due to circuit faults on the SMW3 between Tuas, Singapore and Penang linking Malaysia to Hong Kong and APCN2 near Chongming, China connecting Malaysia to the United States. As a result, customers using the Internet services may experience slow browsing while accessing websites hosted in the U.S. and Hong Kong.

In addition, customers using other IP services such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other critical business applications linked to the U.S. and Hong Kong may also experience some service degradation.

To alleviate the problem, some of the links have been rerouted to alternate routes to ease the congestion.

Restoration works on the affected cables are already in progress. However, during the restoration process, traffic to Northern America and Hong Kong may experience degradation. However, traffic to other countries will not be affected. TM expects complete recovery of its services by 5 April 2009 and will make further announcements on the progress of the restoration works.

TM wishes to assure its customers that it is undertaking all necessary measures to restore communications services for its customers as soon as possible.

Customers can call TM at 100 and select “Internet Services” or e-mail us at help@tm.com.my for any Internet related problems.


Thank You.

Source: http://www.streamyx.com.my/whats_new/whats_new.php?id=article_20090331

Ok now, what does "As a result, customers using the Internet services may experience slow browsing while accessing websites hosted in the U.S. and Hong Kong" and "However, traffic to other countries will not be affected" means? I can't recall browsing websites hosted in other countries especially European countries were fast. By the way, surfing websites hosted in U.S., H.K. and China were never fast prior to this incident as well!

And, they stated that the problem will be fixed by 5th of April which was 2 days ago, but they have yet to fix it by today. Anyway, I just found out from Lowyat.Net forums that it has been delayed until 8th of April, which is tomorrow. I don't know how real will it be, it's just like dealing with a conman, where the conman always make sweet promises to pay back the money to the victim but always gives some lame reasons to buy some time for him to 走佬 (run away). I hate these kind of empty promises, this is just cheating customers! I wonder how companies like this can exist in this world! Well, only Malaysia has it. MALAYSIA BOLEH!

Update: Just found out again from a fellow forummer that the link to H.K. has been fixed as indicated by speedtest, although the speed is still not that good. Now, let's hope that the link to U.S. can be fixed ASAP, to keep our mouths shut, for now.

It's so hard to find a job, eh?

Well, it's approaching 2 months since SPM ended. I had been planning to work while waiting for my SPM result to come out. It didn't turn out well as expected, a lazy bum like me couldn't forgive myself for not enjoying the long-waited holiday. Plus, my classmates had a trip to Genting Highlands on late December. So, I can't help myself to postpone my so-called plan.

The day after Christmas, I actually went to apply for a job position as a waiter at GreenBox Jusco. And of course, I wouldn't be here blogging if I have succeeded. My equation only for myself, in a nutshell:
Not prepared for an interview + God d@mn cold interview room + My inability to talk = FAIL.

Early of January, I went to Jusco again with my friends, trying my luck again. The result was still the same. Those shops with vacancy require us to be working at the 3rd Lunar Day. I wouldn't be a problem for me if my hometown is in KL, but no, it's in Johor! How am I supposed to come back at the 2nd day of CNY when I havn't finish collecting my angpau??

Yesterday, I tried my luck at The Mines/Capitaland or whatever you call it. There sure are a lot of vacancies, BUT, most of them are either only for females or full (full then why stick so many vacancy notice at your shop entrance??). WTF, did my face just pissed you off by giving me these reasons? Fine, I still managed to apply for a job in one of the computer shops there.

Today, I went to that shop again to attend an interview by the supervisor as he was on leave yesterday. I did better in this interview if compared to last time at GreenBox, BUT, I have shown my honesty (1st stupidity) by saying:"I'm not really good with computers, but you can't say that I'm not good with it either." Know my meaning of "inability to talk" now?

Anyway, he said he will give me an answer tomorrow as he will discuss with the higher-levels. Judging by my past experience, that means, I have 99% chance of failing to get the job for (1)my inability to talk just now, (2)my high expected salary (RM1000 nia, 2nd stupidity). The hell with it, at least I've tried to be myself. Using the equation earlier:
Not prepared for an interview + God d@mn cold interview room + My inability to talk = 1/3 FAIL.

If I failed to get the job, which I most probably will, fine, I got myself the easiest job in the world: Full-time Mapler! By then I can earn at least 100K Mesos per day with my LV27 Mage, gaining experience at the mean time!

Vincent out.