Category: Bulletin Board

Updates and announcements.

About Sweet Surrender v8.0

Posted on By sweet surrender 5 Comments on About Sweet Surrender v8.0

This new blog using WP is up for 2 weeks already and I had not said anything much about it except complaining about how hard it was to upload and also the lack of idea on the design. Till now, I still don’t have any idea yet for the design yet -_-“

If you had noticed that I have quite a number of Commercial Breaks in between posts. I know some of you might not like it but I have my reason. However, if you still can’t accept it, well… I guess you can leave. No one forces you to stay anyway.

I had signed up with PPP because I would love to blog for money as I don’t get fixed income with the job I’m doing currently. I’m self employed and as most of you know that I work as a web designer/developer or whatever you called it, basically I’m providing web developing related services such as selling domain names, hosting, develop websites etc. to companies/individuals. Sometimes, I don’t have any income at all in a month. Therefore, I have to find a way to make extra money. Even though I had sign up for PPP and I can take up any opportunity offered in there, I still make sure that I don’t take it just for the sake of making money from it. I still filter them and only take up those that are of my interest; that I understand and related to me. If you would like to be part of PPP, you can sign up here

As for Adsense, it’s been there ever since last year. Just that this year I have more. Again… I’m attempting to make extra income. If you want Adsense too, then sign up for Adsense here.

Also, see the PixelAd on the right? I’m sharing this PixelAd with Jimmy. So, if you do buy it, you will have your ad display in not only my site but also Jimmy’s. His traffic is way much higher than mine. You can advertise in 2 sites with only one payment and we have different type of audiences too so your ad will be exposed to wider group of people. Kill two birds with one stone, why not?

I’m thinking of putting the Paypal Donate button too but I don’t think I will do that as it’s just not me. I don’t feel good by accepting people’s donation for not offering anything back. Hence with all the ads and PPP in my blog that at least I’m offering something back rather than getting money without doing anything. *LOL*I don’t think anyone will donate anyway 😛

I will get my Cafepress online shop back up when I have the time to do so though I only manage to sell two things only with the profit of USD4 for so many years. My USD4 is still stuck in there until now as the minimum withdrawal is USD20. If you are interested to be one of the member too, feel free to sign up and sell your artwork there! 🙂

Enough about making money. Actually I still have a lot to blog but I don’t have the time yet. If you noticed all my posts are kinda short with mostly photos that do the talking. There are too may things to settle.

Long winding post huh? Hate me if you want to. I’ll stop here.*BLEK*

Bulletin Board

Having Problems with Streamyx?

Posted on By sweet surrender 1 Comment on Having Problems with Streamyx?

Ok people! I know many of us is having problem with Streamyx. Everyone, I’m sure everyone had at least one or many times of bad experiences with Streamyx. They are the one and only service provider for our broadband nationwide. If there are other companies coming in then I’m sure all the customers will switch service provider IMMEDIATELY!

The problems that we always have with them are:
1. Frequent disconnections.
2. You don’t get the speed you pay for.
3. Long downtime.
4. Lousy customer care service.
etc. (I’m sure you have more to share)

Due to this, we are starting a campaign/petition to make sure that we get what we pay for. Click here to sign the petition. We would like to get as much signatures as possible and hopefully we can achieve something for a better “world”. Help me spread the words please and thanks 🙂

The petition page is in Chinese, don’t worry, I will translate it so that you can join in too. After I translated it, there will be English version as the person in charge will copy my text over. Actually I’m in charge of the translation part 😛

Here’s the translation:

10K signatures required :-
– Provide better customer services
– Improve speed and performance
– Less disruptions
– Get what we are paying for etc.
p/s: your e-mail and IC no. will not be displayed.

Let me share my experience with you:
I couldn’t connect to the net using Streamyx on 19th Dec 2006. Then I called Streamyx Customer Care on 20th to ask them about it. Everytime I called them, they will always give the same answers such as “the problem is at my side”, “computer settings problems”, “modem problems”, “splitter problems” etc. After that, I checked everything and even replaced all the related devices to new ones to test but still couldn’t connect to the net.

I called them again to ask them to send someone over to check but they insisted that they won’t be sending any and suggested that the problem was with my phone line. Therefore I called TM to send someone over to check my phone line and it turned out that there’s no problem at all. So the TM people called Streamyx on my behalf to ask them to send someone over to check for me. I waited and waited for few days but no one came. Due to that, I called them everyday to pressure them to send someone over, the funny thing was that everytime I called, I was given different answer. One moment, they said that the problem is at my side, the other moment, they said that their cabel was having problem. I waited and waited and finally the line is back on 4th January 2007 but there is still one problem, the line is crawling slow!

I’m sure you ever encounter this kind of problem and always have no one to turn to. Let’s support this petition!

If you have any inquiry, do e-mail me at webmaster@cosworld.net

Click here to sign the petition.

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Welcome to Sweet Surrender v8.0

Posted on By sweet surrender 7 Comments on Welcome to Sweet Surrender v8.0

It took me freaking 12 hours to upload everything up with Streamyx yesterday! *Cuss* Should have use dial-up earlier. Only 2 hours for dial up! Stupid broadband, kept disconnecting me from my US based server and my server kept experiencing time-out which caused my first upload to corrupt *ANGRY* I had to reupload and reinstall everything again with dial up.

If you see this post, that means I’ve successfully installed WordPress and now busy working with the content. I’m not satisfied with the layout sigh… No idea at all… 🙁 For the time being, I’ll concentrate on the contents. Will do improvements on the layout when I have the idea.

I need more time to get it done as there are too many disruptions these days. The earthquake, then out of sudden my bandwidth burst, now that it’s back, Streamyx isn’t helpful enough. While I’m still working on it, I would like to thank all of you for the continuous support and Happy 2007 to all of you!

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sarawakian.net

Posted on By sweet surrender No Comments on sarawakian.net

sarawakian.net was in the International Times, our local Chinese daily on the 7th November 2006.

The site is not fully completed yet. There are still lots of things to add. It started less than a month ago. This is another project I’m working on. Do give us your support to make it big. We need more contents. If you can contribute, do let me know.

Currently it’s in English. Soon we’ll have it in English and Chinese.
Click to read…

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