Swordie Bloggie

Yesterday, I went to collect our office new double cabin truck. It is Nissan Frontier 2.5D. It has manual transmission… meaning I have to re-call on how to drive with it since I’ve left manual tranmission for almost 7 years…

It will be shared among us in the office when we have to do our jobs outside the office… like visiting clients office or project sites. From now on, I should be able to save on petrol money since I always use my own car when doing jobs outside.

Every time I’m going outstation for official duties or for holidays, three questions will play in my mind… First, what should I bring? Second, how do I get there? And third, where should I stay.

For the first question, it will roughly depend on the travel purpose and the length of the stay. If it is for official travels, then I have to bring more cloths for official functions else I will bring more loose cloths like t-shirts and shorts.

For the second question, it will depend on the destination whether the destination is reachable by land or by air. If I were to travel for official duties, the cost of transportation might not that important since the office will pay for my travel. But normally the account section will still insist on the cheapest mode of transport. When the travel expenses are paid by me, then the cost of transportation will really matters. I will definitely look for the best bargain! For the third question, the answer will roughly be the same as the second question.

Previously, when we are searching for the cheapest reservation for hotels, flights or cars, we have to make multiple phone calls just to get the best deal. Sometimes the efforts, time and cost to do all the calls and queries are not worthy at all.

But nowadays, with eCommerce, we can compare and find the best bargain from the internet easier and friendlier… in fact you can find almost anything from the internet. For instant by using Hotel Reservations service, it will definitely helps because it has the most options for planning travels around the world.

At Hotel Reservations you can get all kinds of discounted offerings including special group rates. With their express search engine, you will be able to search for your dream destination. The results presented to you are with the best offerings… cheap and enjoyable. Imagine, by just using Hotel Reservations for your next travel, it will saves you up to 70%… you must check it out.

wow… my streamyx has not disconnected since I surf for the past 2 hours.

This afternoon, Telekom (sabah) called me… it was a missed called, coz I did not hear my phone rang. When I saw the missed call, I was not sure whose number was it, so I return the call. The lady ask me to call their on site technician. So, I called the technician… he said he will come over to the house later… after I explained the whole problem againnnn…

Then around 4.30pm, they came but I’m still at the office… I ask him to check my connection. After about half an hour, I called him again… he said my line is OK, VERY GOOD… but he said my wiring quite old… and giving all kind or excuses why I got DCed… my connector was not spared, he said my connector is not suitable coz I used electrical connector… ooo crapss… as if I donno about electrical.

Then I said I’ve been using the same thing for over a year… then just to make him happy and getting ready for my trick… OK I will find a contractor to re-wire the whole line… then I gave him my “super trick”… “or maybe you know a good contractor”… instantly he said, YES!… 8)

He suggested to me to re-wire from the DB… craps!.. I asked, who going to pay for the wire… he said YOU LAH!!! I said, that’s not fair, Telekom should wire up to my house, I only wire inside… he said, if I wants good signal, that’s the best, they will pull the wire from the DB all the way to my router… without cutting the wire… I said see lah first…

Then I asked again… how is the line quality now?… he said VERY GOOD… 8) oooo OK… what happen if I still get DCed tonight… he repeat his excuse about my old wiring… then I fire my GOLDEN BULLET… “but u said the line is VERY GOOD… how can that be”… his answer start tumbling… pitty on him… and I know I won already… I just said… OK lah I see how izzit tonight first… 8)

You ever seen garage so shiny that your eyes can’t stand it? And the cabinets inside the garage are so neat and clean. That is because the garage is using the diamond plate cabinets from Car Guy Garage.

The diamond plate cabinets have worktop, pegboard, upper cabinets, and lights pre-installed… so you don’t have to add anything, they are all fitted perfectly together. These cabinets are made from aluminum so it will never rust or corrode. And the best part is you can order these cabinets online.

As of now, streamyx is still in ku ku mode. Some sites are reachable and some are not.

Telekom only announcement is “We wish to inform our customers that Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) will be performing a service upgrading exercise on its system at Maluri, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 2 October 2007 from 10.30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 10 October 2007…”

I’m not sure if my eyes is still asleep… but 2 October 2007 to 10 October 2007 is 8 DAYs… OMG!!!

Guys, you must have a look at these garage storage cabinets! If you don’t like what you see here, then you are not a guy!

Car Guy Storage has over thousands of products which will make your garage not the ordinary messy and dirty garage like what your friends or neighbors has. I think you can actually turn your garage into your bedroom once you put the stuff from Car Guy Storage into your garage.

I posted my previous post about 1 hour ago… but see the timing… same with the 2nd last posting… I hope I’ve fixed it with this post…

My streamyx went complete dead yesterday!!! It has been making nuisance for couple of weeks… it will get disconnected from time to time. It happened before somewhere in July-August but it went OK after sometimes. But the past 2 weeks was horrible… then on Sunday it gets horrible… it like disconnecting every 1 or 2 minutes… the ultimate was yesterday when it completely gone.

I called streamyx at 1300889515 and explained my streamyx problem… but the weirdo on the other side insist that I must use modem to get the ‘error code’, else the weirdo can’t do anything!!! I ask him to reset my port… but he insist on the bloody ‘error code’. So I hang up and turn my router into bridge… I have to call a friend since I never set my router to bridge… after getting the bloody ‘error code’, I called them again… then another ‘monkey’ answered… I repeat what I’ve said and done, again… and I insist he go and reset my port… he said wait, he will do something on the server… then put me on ‘music’… it took him so long that the music repeat 3 or more times I think before it went dead… damm monkeys…

Then I called again… another ‘monkey’ answered… then I told everything again, that his ‘monkey’ partner is doing something on the server before I got disconnected… this time he insist I use direct, don’t use splitter… dammit… I said OK, will do it… then ask, what happen if it still don’t solve my problem… he said, he will pass the problem to their ‘monkey technician’… so I hang-up… remove the splitter and tried on my first router… then my second router… still the same… I should have just lied to those monkeys from the beginning…

So, I called again… this time a female monkey answered… I said this is my ID and I’ve done everything they ask me to do, and this is the “fourth time” I called… I repeated that 3 times… then said it again in BM… “ini kali ke-empat” two times… told her that the third monkey ask me to call back to inform her that they need to pass the case to their monkey technician… then she said, ok, I need a minute to write my report and put me on music… again… waited… waited… the music repeated 2 or 3 times I guess… before she came back and gave me the report number… I asked how long will it take them to rectify the problem… she said “normally 2 days”… 2 days!!! Are they are nuts or bananas… damm… bloody monkeys… then she said, you can call back tomorrow afternoon… so I’m going to call them later….

It took me almost 3 hours to do all the craps… so next time, I will just lie to them about the error code… that I’ve removed the splitter… will just say “done” to all whatever test they want… just to please them… don’t ever waste your time with monkeys…

Now, I have to see how long it will take for their monkey technician to rectify the problem…

Attended seminar about something to do with the culture in email usage last Wednesday (September 26) at the Pan Pacific Sutera, Kota Kinabalu.

There are 5 papers presented… when it reaches to paper number 3, everyone lost energy I guess… including me of course but I’m strong… 8)

  
The handouts… agenda, evaluation…

  
Camera men during the opening… then come paper 3, everyone in front of my table are falling down…

 
I wasn’t spared… but I’m OK, manage to stay until it finished at 3.30pm

 
I guess everyone are so bored that they imagining the chandelier is UFO… and look at how I evaluate, paper 3 is the worst, I wanted to put 1, but I’m not that mean… lucky 4th paper is from Microsoft 8) then lunch.

The 70-296 exams include planning and implementing the Microsoft Windows Server 2003. And 70-551 is an upgrade from MCAD skills to MCPD. Both of these as well as the 70-443 can be prepared online. For the preparation of 70-620 that is an exam for the new MCTS: Windows Vista Client certification, the official website of Microsoft offers several guidelines for the beginners.

Have you all heard about I Rate My Day? You should give it a try… it is a micro-blogging site where you can express yourself on your blog… in picture. All you have to do is rate how you feel for the day and it will shows your feeling of the day on your blog… just the same as what I have here… and I’m not alone with them… they already have more than 50,000 ratings and they are still growing…