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Submitted upgrade at TMpoint early this week. I hope the test will go fine tomorrow. My modem stats showing 7Meg attainable speed. I need more speed!!

Feel calm. I have been procrastinating a lot these days. Time to shut my mouth and do more work.
I am able to procrastinate because I am the manager and nobody is supervising me. Well, I still have conscience and now I have to stop lazing around.

I will be moving to a new place. This new building is not under Time but Telekom Malaysia. I have to say goodbye to my Netlynx 4Mbps. I will try to apply for Streamyx 4Mbps or Unifi (I could see the cabling done around Taman Desa – Yes I move to a different building in Taman Desa! – I love this area).

Hope I will be getting 4Mbps soon. 1 Mbps is not sufficient for me.

I called FedEx today I and  they informed me that my items will be taxed.   I dealt with Royal Malaysian Customs and I  do not want to beg them like I did with my network switch.  Actually  my items are all computer parts and non-dutiable.  I have checked  tariffs and RMC’s web site – yes non dutiable.  The items are RAID cards

Well 1 out of 15 shipments – one box got taxed RM 386.86( WTF) the item is  priced RM 700 per unit!

To avoid tax next time,

1. Order 1 Unit only

2. Make sure the item marked computer parts (easy to declare)

3. Apply MSC status company (tax free!)

This is a pain in the butt!.  Fedex clearance delay. Somebody in KLIA – customs officer probably sitting on my package.  I need the server parts quick. I have been getting the same parts for ages and they would not take this long. For god sake, the item is not drug, food, soil etc – computer parts! Maybe they are all on leave at the same time.

Oh Amax Wimax, please  don’t do this to us,  I know that you are going through growing pains. You must know downtime during 9-5 is a big no no. Your engineers should have stayed back yesterday to fix the problem.

Best Regards,

Your Loyal Customer.

I always wanted to participate in Forex trading. With 3.6 trillion transaction daily, I also want a piece of the action. Here comes el toro hehe nope Etoro. It allows you to invest with only USD 40. This is what we call  mini forex account.   The software can be downloaded from their web site. It has demo and real time mode. I made a fool of myself.  Invested in real trading account and lost USD 50  LOL.   I am losing again as I am writing this. I also made profit earlier today. Well in forex trading you need to control your emotions.   I am very emotional person and hate losing LOL. I just deposited 200 USD just to compensate my loss – yet I am losing LOL .  I would never imagine this day would come. You can participate in forex by sitting in front of your computer.

If you want to store your favourite music clips or full length movie  to your Iphone you need to convert the format to mp4. Yes Iphone stores video in .mp4 format. There are many converters around.  like .flv -> mp4 (flash movie)  or avi ->mp4.   The simple and free way is to use  this software

Ringgit Malaysia is now going strong  with rate 1 USD  = RM 3.180  This is great.  8 year high! All I can say is Whoooo hooo. Shop and swipe our credit cards from USA based retailers. love online shopping.  Exporters may worry if the trend is going stronger next week. We will see whether Ringgit can reach 2.999 this week

I am such a fan of Nokia’s backpacker ring tone. I managed to convert the ring to to Iphone’s format. My friends laugh at me because the tone a bit ‘kiddy’ but who cares. Here is the Iphone format ( download )

Yes, the ginger pills work for me.  I can control the bloat

Seems like Amax  Wimax is now congested. Maybe they have more subscribers. I could only surf at night.  When I turn it on during the day, page is slow loading – not like when I first subscribed.  Hmmm should i go back to Celcom3g?   Maybe Taman Desa towers is already at peak capacity during the day I am not too sure. I hope they fix it fast. More bandwidth needed?

I have been having upset stomach regularly for years. I must say that I have very bad habit of not chewing my food. I swallow them!  I know that is very bad. Now over 30 I tend to get bloated stomach. It is pretty upsetting because my ‘tummy’ tends to make me look fat. I took one ginger pills today and farted and burped but I also get side effect like dizziness.  I am not sure whether this is related  to my diet (low carb) or the pill is acting on me?

I like this one from Glee Remind me good ol’ days when I was a teenager.  I used to blast music (i.e  Alone by Heart)  before I went to school and mom got pretty upset with that. Sorry I was in secondary 1 ( 12 y/o).

I know some of you probably think, wait a minute, that song is from the 80′s and you are not that ancient-  Thank you for that. Heart was still popular  in 1990′s with their hit single All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You” (#2 U.S.)  I bought or taped their  old hit singles like Alone because I thought they were amazing.  The lead vocals  -  Ann Wilson still give me chills until this day.

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Well.. I am a bit pissed off with Apple  because I could not purchase tracks from Itune. I am puzzled why? Why not? Our credit card is valid and secure. You allow us to purchase Apps but not music?  Sucks.   I hope Apple can iron this problem and offer Itunes to Malaysians asap!

I went to the dentist today. I had my teeth cleaned.  Excessive smoking and coffee made me flunk oral hygiene test. The advancement in dental technology really made my trip a breeze. No more long and  painful trip to the dentist.

The other day at gym, I bumped into my ex roommate. He was a dentistry student back in University. My dear ex roomie is now owning 2 dental clinics in Sri Petaling and Bangsar. He offered to replace my dental filling at his clinic. I was pretty embarrassed when we were talking he kept focusing on my teeth LOL. We have not met for more ten years. The funny thing was that we stay in  the same neighborhood and never noticed or bumped into each other.

Went to movie last night. Watched “how to train your dragon 3d” . It was fun!Online booking is amazing. Love the seats booking and online ticketing. I will surely do this again next time.

Gosh finally after two sleepless nights I managed to make it work. PlaySMS is an open source SMS gateway that you can set up yourself. Inexpensive and good interface. I will write the tutorials and share with the world

High-Speed Broadband In Klang Valley Beginning This Month

KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 (Bernama) — Malaysians, currently among the biggest users of Yahoo!, Friendster, Facebook and blogs in Asia, can look forward to more high definition applications with the roll-out of high-speed broadband (HSBB) in the Klang Valley beginning this month.

Twenty-seven areas in the Klang Valley will be equipped with the HSBB within two years, with initial roll-out in Bangsar, Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Shah Alam and Subang Jaya which are considered as the areas with highest Internet usage in the country.

Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) chairman Tan Sri Khalid Ramli said the HSBB, to be rolled out by Telekom Malaysia, is expected to have a speed more than 10 megabits per second (Mbps).

While the existing 2Mbps allowed users to surf the Internet and use facilities like e-mail and YouTube, the bigger bandwidth would enable them to watch IPTV and HDTV, and gain access to advanced education online, multimedia post production and e-health, Khalid said.

By 2011, the whole Klang Valley would be covered by HSBB, including Bandar Tun Razak, Sungai Besi, Gombak and Kajang, he said at a media briefing on the National Broadband Implementation (NBI) policy.

Khalid said that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was scheduled to launch the NBI on March 24.

He said the HSBB would be expanded to Kepong, Batu, Wangsa Maju, Segambut, Damansara, Titiwangsa, Cheras and Seputih in Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Serdang, Puchong, Putrajaya, Cyberjaya, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Klang, Selayang and Ampang by end of 2010.

Khalid said under the NBI, the government hoped to have a 50 per cent household broadband penetration by end of 2010 which could result in tangible contribution of one per cent to the country’s GDP and 135,000 new jobs this year.

As of March this year, household broadband subscriptions are at 33.2 per cent.

Khalid said there was big potential for broadband penetration in Malaysia, citing the 7.4 million 3G cellular subscriptions in the country while total broadband subscriptions stood at 2.78 million.

According to various surveys, Malaysians are the number one user of Yahoo! in Asia, number three in social network Friendster, fourth largest in terms of bloggers and 19th in Facebook, another social network.

– BERNAMA

I need sleep aid!

I am addicted to Iphone’s app for worpress. Hope you guys do not mind the huge picture captured using my camera phone.

Hey i saw this banner the other day placed at my condo’s management office. The price is really premium. The speed is awesome, but would you mind paying rm 500++ for 5Mbps?

Our modem went kaput – maybe due to under utilized? My friend went to Amax office in Taman Tun and requested for a replacement. I strongly suggest that you run some burn in test for your modem to prevent gone kaput early like ours. Just leave it on for a day or two