Streamyx Petition In Press

Posted on By sweet surrender 8 Comments on Streamyx Petition In Press

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!!!

From My Angle, Randomness, Tech Stuffs

SEO & SEM

Posted on By sweet surrender 4 Comments on SEO & SEM

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.

Tech Stuffs

Fruity-Tutty Talk – Malaysian Fruits

Posted on By sweet surrender 12 Comments on Fruity-Tutty Talk – Malaysian Fruits

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? πŸ˜›

Food Porn

All About Photography

Posted on By sweet surrender 9 Comments on All About Photography

Many bloggers are interested in photography. We bring our compact cameras everywhere and shoot almost anything with it. It’s worst when there’s a bloggers’ meet. Everyone can’t seem to stop snapping pictures. We are not pro, we are just bloggers and the most affordable camera to buy is of course a compact camera. We all know that there are many limitations in compact cameras. However, it’s not the end of the world yet. I found this article about taking Better pictures with a compact from a photography blog. Hopefully with the tips, we can maximize our compact cameras potential.

Here’s one more that is very interesting. Since CNY is coming soon… In about 1 month+ time, Oh gosh.. Haven’t do my shopping yet :P. Ok enough of that. Let’s go back to our topic. On CNY’s eve, I’m sure there will be people bombing their money into the sky. I tried desperately to take photos of fireworks last year and ended up with awful shoots. I’m sure I’m not the only one. Let’s learn from this article, How to photograph fireworks. Hopefully it’s helpful enough πŸ™‚

Happy shooting!

Interesting

Cut My Hair

Posted on By sweet surrender 20 Comments on Cut My Hair

Went to have my hair cut+wash just now. The last time I got my hair cut was June 2006. Before my hair cut just now, my hair length had reached my waist when it’s dry; when it’s wet, it’s much longer than that. Now it’s so much shorter with fringe. Haven’t had any hair wash session for more than a year (I think…) and decided to have it today. I was expecting that I’m going to pay RM35 or RM38 for cut+wash but to my surprised, only RM30! Got really nice upper body massage. Feel less “heavy” now.

I went to Rejuvenate @ Crown Square. This time, it’s not the boss that cut my hair, he has been cutting my hair for years. However, this time it’s a newly hired hair stylist (not that new actually, as the last time I was there was more than half year ago). -_-” I was worried that she might not used to my hair and I’ll ended up having a hard to manage hairstyle later. I thought… Well… Maybe… Let’s see what she can do, just take the risk.

I’m the type that usually let the hair stylist do whatever he/she thinks is necessary with my hair instead of me telling he/she how to do it. I told her that I wanted a layer cut and I want a fringe, the rest is up to her creativity. Then, I warned her that I have natural curls as she didn’t deal with my hair before the hair cut, when she came to me, I had just finished my hair wash session and the hair was still wet. Just to let her know, just in case.

Here’s the final result:

She asked me whether I want to straighten or curl, I said that I want it to be curled. This is my temporary curls πŸ˜› After my next hair wash, we’ll see how my newly cut hair looks like.

Girl Stuffs, Me, myself and I