TMNut: Back to the stone age!

For goodness sake. Streamyx has gone down the shithole for the past week. Our house connection just couldn't access any international sites without having to wait ages for the sites to load up. Or they just won't load at all. How convenient that this happened just before Raya holidays. I'm pretty sure things won't get any better until their technicians decide to come back to work say a week after Raya. Compared to other countries, Malaysia's broadband has been real sub-par for the past 12 months, which is unacceptable considering that we're the 2nd most highly developed country in the Asean region. Intermittent service, unconvincing tech support and many other complaints just gets more and more internet hungry netizens to cry for another ISP to come by and give them what they want: reliable, fast, low latency internet. But then again it's not like we're spoiled for choices. Jaring Broadband is wireless only, and their high latency just doesn't appeal to local gamers. There's Time Broadband, but they only cover areas such as Bangsar where normal joes like you and me don't live in. So we're stuck with Telekong who owns most of the telephone infrastructure of the country. I'd like to think that Telekong's monopoly over the Malaysian broadband market has made them complacent. It's a matter of 'take it or leave it' for the customers, as we are left with next to no option but to give them our hard-earned cash for our internet fix. And what's worse, they're still getting customers by the truckloads every month through their marketing and advertising strategies. 'Come on, this is some nice big pasta for you dig into. But you can only eat it with a toothpick because you're sharing it with 49876907526309256 other hungry people. No more pasta? Well, our stove broke. How about you people wait while we get someone to fix the stove. Next month.' I really wished that some other big corporations could see this as a huge opportunity to jump into the broadband market soon to stir up some competition(Maxis/Celcom, i'm looking straight and hard towards your direction), but as i see it, it won't happen overnight. Some people in high places just wouldn't let their ricepot get smaller, but imagine this: with smaller pots, less rice gets burnt. And you know what, i wouldn't mind paying twice as much as i'm paying for Streamyx now, as long as i could get a -little- bit more in terms of reliability. TM, buck up. We're patient people, but hungry, angry, sick, and tired of your nonsense. With all that new subscribers coming in and the amount of money we gave you, i'm sure that you could maintain a reasonably reliable service for us. This ends the rant of an internet addict.

Good to be back on blogspot!

Yup. Moved back from Friendster's blog. Realized that they don't really give much freedom in terms of html editing. Like i know much of html but yea, since it's alot more customizable here, so i'm back, moved most of my worthwile posts from there to here, and it's good to be home! Um.. so where have i been since my last post? Nowhere but home and work. Apart from being sick for a week (in the middle of the puasa month too. i looked like a dickhead chugging in liquid during the day. Sorry Fariz, not that i could help it!) there's nothing much to talk about. Work-wise, i don't recall making anymore stupid mistakes, but then again that's probably from the lack of work that was available for me to do. Yeah a few touch-ups here and there, but that's about it. Er.. i really wished that they'd give me something concrete and worthwile to do. And voila. My wish was granted, i had a task of creating a concept for a pharmaceutical corporation's annual report. It was great fun doing that, and it kept me busy throughout last week. I'd like to post them up here but they're still pretty conceptual and i don't think my employer would like that. Heheh. Have i mentioned that we're thick in the Ramadhan month? Uh yeah i did. Well, to be honest, i don't really like the fasting month. Sure, it's all about training yourself to be strong in terms of will-power and rah rah rah, but it's not me that i'm worried about (not that i've been real strong but that's for another day). Everytime Ramadhan looms, i shuddered at the thought. Once it arrives, citizens of KL just went nuts. I was driving through Cheras and had to pass by a Ramadhan bazaar, and the amount of whacked out hungry and tired people crossing the road without a care in the world just scared the living doodie out of me. To make matters worse, these monkeys would just double and triple park their vehicles on the roadside turning a 3 lane road into a 1/2 lane. WTF dudes! For crying out loud, have the decency to mind the rest of the population! Puasa is NO EXCUSE for being assholes. Cranky from being deprived of nicotine? Well, that's what puasa is all about, no? To be patient, to be strong. That's what was asked of you and it ain't just starving, bro. Oops, 5.30am. better get some shut-eye so i could just make my 4 hour sleep.