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Look! Here Comes the Clown!

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Warning: I’m mean.. Oh Yessss… I am! Lately I’m in the mood of picking just about anything… So, you can skip this post if you want to.

Imagine this:

The hair: Yellow coloured rhinestones hair accessories.
The face: Blue eyeshadow(monotone) with icy pink lipstick.
The body: Tube A-line layered bridal gown in white with small green & pink lace flowers scattered all over the dress.
The feet: White pump with pale yellowish socks.
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The face: Green eyeshadow(monotone) with pink lipstick.
The body: Asymmetrical A-line gold coloured with greenish tinge when light reflected evening gown
The hand: Black net gloves.
The ear & neck: Gold earrings, silver/white gold necklace.

What do you think? Everything clashed from head to toe (-_-“) I’m not an image consultant, makeup artist or whatever but it’s just common sense OK?!?! GIRLS! This is a disaster! Especially if you are the bride! OMG! Everything was even captured in the video and camera and definitely looked like a CLOWN! Goodness gracious! Super *JIAT LAT*

Who to blame? Both to blame. Many brides have this wrong perception that they must look over the top or trying desperately to show off on their special day. Next, the makeup artist doesn’t know what he/she is doing because they are not professional. However, the huge responsibility still falls to the shoulder of the makeup artist. It’s your job to make them look pretty even with their unreasonable request. Your skills come in here. A lousy one will make you ended up like a clown just like the above mentioned.

Ended up like this for your wedding day is damn pathetic. I want to puke when I saw the photos. Even my brother who is 10 years younger than me asked me, “EH! Why like that?”(o_0”)

Actually the above can be easily corrected by anyone. I mean… It’s quite basic, unless you have black and white vision. Here’s my idea:

The hair: Green coloured rhinestones/white crystals hair accessories.
The face: Earth tones and with tinge of green eyeshadows with not too pink or too red lipstick(stick to more natural tone).
The body: Tube A-line layered bridal gown in white with small green & pink lace flowers scattered all over the dress.
The feet: White pump with NO SOCKS!! Or wear panty hose that is of your skintone.
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The face: Gold and greenish eyeshadows with not too pink or too red lipstick(stick to more natural tone) topped with gloss.
The body: Asymmetrical A-line gold coloured with greenish tinge when light reflected evening gown
The hand: No gloves or wear gloves that match the gown’s colour.
The ear & neck: Gold earrings, skip the necklace. Else go for the same gold.

So bride-to-be, don’t try too hard. Go for style that can last at least a decade. Go for natural makeup and emphasize one area of your face such as the eyes would be great. Go for style that is not easily drown by time. You’ll never go wrong this way.

Hmmm… I wonder is the bride going to read this or not? I don’t think she will *LOL* Even if she does, I think she won’t know that I’m talking about her as I don’t think she’s even aware of how awful she looked like that day. I don’t care whether she reads it or not anyway as I’m not related in anyway to her. Hahaha…

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Best Berry

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Haven’t dine out for quite sometimes already. So, decided to dine out for lunch today at Best Berry. They have new menu available now. The have wide selections of toasts, some of them are so cute that I don’t think you have the heart to take a bite at all.

I like their drinks. They come in drinking jars. The drink on the left is Lemon & Tea HK Style(RM3) and the one on the right is Pudding & Tea(RM3.50).

Here comes the food, very big portion.
Left: Udon Asam Laksa(RM4.90), I thought they have at least put in a bit of seafood such as prawns in there but they didn’t. Only some pineapple chuncks, lots of red onions, shreaded cucumbers and some spices unknown to me. It’s not very spicy but for those that can’t eat spicy food, I won’t recommend it. Else, you can order it 🙂
Right: Here’s something from the new menu. It’s called Fried Fotlao Rice(RM5.90). In Chinese it’s “fo tiao yi chao”, direct translation to English is “Buddha Jump One Fried” *LOL* The taste was pretty bland with lots of veggies and some seafood. The name really suits the taste 😛 If you get me. If you don’t, nevermind about it.

Best Berry is located at the same row as Kaya & Toast, Madam Tang’s, E-West, and Chicking at Petanak. Quite a nice place to hang out with friends. It’s not air-conditioned so it’s a smoker paradise.

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Streamyx Petition In Press

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Warning: Long winding post.

Remember a post that I posted about having problem with Streamxy not long ago? The petition was brought to light by Sin Chiew Daily News on the 14th of January. There was a sudden surge of traffic that day and the signatures kept coming in non-stop. SEE!!! Obviously there are so many unsatisfied customers. Poor Streamyx users :(. There are 2399 signatures as in today, 11.37pm. Thanks to the reporter that had helped in reporting it and I hope more newspapers or mass media can also report about this petition. I hope you can post about it in your blog too. If you want to sign, then click here.

When the report was out that day, someone claimed to be representative of Streamyx called the site owner up and asked him why he started the petition and what happened to his line, then asked him to visit TM Net User Group website to learn more about the speed provided. Before putting down the phone, he added that Malaysia laws do not allow petition. WHAT THE ***!?!?!? So the site owner called up a lawyer to asked about it and the lawyer said that there is no such thing! SEE! Someone is trying to scare him to stop the petition! That’s the job of a coward!

OH! You think we are stupid?

I have subscribed to 512Kbps package. Why am I not getting the whole 512Kbps even when I connect to TM Net’s server?

………how to calculate the ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Modulation) speed for your connection. TM Net provide a connection service speed on DSL level at say 512 kbps. ATM has a block capacity of 35 where there is no wait before the second sequence starts. Therefore the packet is in a block of 35 of service packet speed. For every packet sent there is a 16 bytes header and ATM index of 140 (35 X 4 bytes) for a total header of 700 bytes per block….(click for more details)

HELLO?!?!? We know that! DUH! We know that we can’t get 512Kbps when we subscribe to 512Kbps package! How to explain when we subscribe to 512Kbps when we only get the speed of like 56Kbps only? Or 1Mbps and we only get below 512Kbps? Cannot be?!?!? That’s not right! Primary school students also know the logic. If I get something like 600+, 700+, 800+ or 900+Kbps when I subscribed to 1Mbps, it’s still acceptable. There is no way I pay for 1Mbps package and getting the speed for 512Kbps package or below! What?!!??! You think we are stupid? We are much more IT literate than those operators that answered our phone calls when we called cusotmer support!

Guess what??!?!? These few days, I have to restart my modem at least twice! This is because out of sudden I couldn’t connect to the Internet. Therefore I have to restart my modem to get my line back! GRRRRR… So angry you know! Really suckssssssss!!!

AND! AND! WHAT THE HECK WITH THE USER GROUP!?!?!? What is the use of it? This is what you get from the site:

TM Net User Group is the contatenation of a group of hardcore TM Net users elected to represent the multitute of users of TM Net services.

The Sarawak TM Net user group was formed on the 21 March 2006 and bearing the office by a group of users from various industries. The user group’s aims is to channel the various types of services rendered by TM Net to the users and to collect feedbacks to TM Net on level of services, quality of services and incidental references. Part of which would also contribute to the bridging of digital divide and make to bring common sense of the services offerred by TM Net to educate the users of TM Net various services and to bring the services of TM Net to the vast population of Sarawak.

Guess again! Kenny Sia is the Chairman! Ok… I’m not saying that he’s bad or what, the one providing bad service to us is not him, it’s TM Net. They are just representing us and they are the minority that are lucky enough. However, I don’t think this user group is any helpful or representing us at all. I don’t think TM is even listening to them. The real users are the one that have to put up with all sort of craps and lousy services! The real users are those that signed the petition! If really TM is listening to them, we won’t be getting such crappy services for years! YEA YEA YEA… I know… It’s only started last year but it seems that the problems are increasing instead of decreasing. YEA YEA YEA… I know… Because of increasing subscribers indirectly the there are more complaints.

Pardon me?
Bring common sense? Someone from that group had just called up and didn’t make any sense about the law! Don’t talk about common sense when common sense tells us that this is not the service we should be getting with the money we had spent. Since you are supposed to be representing us, you should escalate and bring our plights to TM management instead of calling us up and blame us for not understanding even tried to hint us to stop the petition by talking about the law!??!?
To educate user? *LOL* You call that educate? Educate us that Streamyx is such a lousy service provider? Educate us not to complain about the bandwidth we are getting that does not tally with our subscribed package because this is the limitation that we have to put up with? Educate us that this is M’sia, that’s why you are getting such crappy services?
Hardcore?*AHEM* There are so many more that are much more hardcore than them! Fine… I don’t want to argue about this. I’m just in the mood of picking.

Bad news for those using BT or EMule. According to them:

Why my download speed is so slow when I use Bit-Torrent and EMule?

That is because both BT and Emule are dealing with 99.9% contents that violates the Terms and Conditions of Streamyx account. Please refers to Section 13.iv and 13.viii. of the Terms and Condition.

YEAH RIGHT! You thought why people subscribe to Streamyx? Of course for downloading! DUH! Else what is the use of Streamyx? And OH! These are the “hardcore” users! Summore, it’s such a shame that our max speed for home user is only 1Mbps or 1.5Mbps depending on the location. I have many overseas readers reading this and I’m sure they are laughing or even surprised that our broadband is such a “narrow”band eh… Agree? What a shame…

Long.. Long.. Long post. How long will this lousy service last? I don’t know… Many said that the petition is just “gay liau”(“no use” in Hokkien), I do aware of that but at least we can know that we are not the only one suffering. This platform is for other unfortunate users to voice out their dissatisfactions and PLEASE! TM USER GROUP! Make yourself useful! You are representing us! GRRRRRRRR!!!

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SEO & SEM

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Any company with website will want to make sure their sites are high ranking enough in the search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Would you go to page 2, page 3 and so on when you did a search? You might but I’m sure your first few clicks will be those in the first page. Once you got what you want in those first few clicks, would you go to second or third page? Obviously you won’t.

SEO and SEM come in here. By the way, SEO is search engine optimisation and SEM is search engine marketing. There are ethical and unethical ways of implementing them. The one that yields effective result is of course using the ethical ways. Unethical ways will give you the result but it’s not going to be long term. Then you’ll be wasting all your money.

Therefore, you have to find company that provide Ethical SEO and Avoid Search Engine Marketing Malpractice to make sure your money is well invest. It’s not cheap to hire SEO and SEM specialists but once it’s properly implemented, the return is huge and you can easily cover the money you had spent on these experts.

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Fruity-Tutty Talk – Malaysian Fruits

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In conjunction with VMY 2007 (Visit Malaysia Year 2007), let me introduce some local fruits today. Currently we can get a lot of these in the market.

First of all, DURIAN! King of the fruits. If you want to know more about it, click here to learn more about durian.

We have king, we should have a queen. Here’s the queen of the fruits, MANGOSTEEN. Click here to learn more about mangosteen.

When it’s the season of durians and mangosteen, you will also see RAMBUTAN around. Click here to learn more about rambutan.

Now… Let’s welcome “BUAH TERAP”. I’m not sure what it’s called in English. It belongs to the Moraceae family. I couldn’t seem to find much details about it in English. WAIT!! Finally found it!!It’s also known as “marang”, click here to learn more about “buah terap” or “marang”.

Lastly, there’s another fruit called LANGSAT but I have no photo with me. Forgotten to take them. However, you can see a portion of them in the picture above, see those small round fruits under the “buah terap”? So if you would like to know more about it, click here to learn more about langsat.

Hehehe… See how lazy I am? 😛

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