A below par broadband quality in Malaysia
“Malaysia Boleh!!” ….you did it again to be one of the below par broadband quality study done by Oxford University. Congratulation….Thanks to TM-Streamyx as the long existence monopoly of the country. Why is the broadband speed so slow?
Malaysia is listed in the same category deemed as BELOW TODAY’S APPLICATION THRESHOLD…what a shame. It is the same category with United Arab Emirates, Philippines, Pakistan, Morocco, Vietnam and Indonesia. Even countries as large as China, Malta, Brazil and Thailand beat us! Slow internet speed means slow productivity and it will hinder foreign investment into the country. Source malaysiainsider.
We observe our friendly neighbour Singapore which is listed as having Internet speeds of meeting today’s technology. It seem that we are too egoistic to learn from our neighbours in every aspect. We can see that Malaysia Boleh is just an empty vessel anyway?
Another issue is the increasing crime rate in Malaysia~! I wonder what are our police doing? I think they are more interested in seeking for “nice spot” to trap people from speeding, catching people doing illegal U-turn, drinking tea, finding fault of opposition reps, but not catching thieves…
Malaysia Boleh again…
I think when you ask 10 Malaysian, 8 of them will reply they encounter or nearly encounter a snatch thief incident. Just recently, even in a Mamak Stall (So called Indian Muslim owned Night Cafe stall), robbers are so brave that they come in four of two motorcycles and robbed the owner in front of all of us. They even beat and threaten the owner with knife in from of so many people. Again, why are they so brave? Is this Malaysia or another underdeveloping country? I wonder….
I think it is time for us to put down our ego and improve……stop the attitude of pursuing worthless NO.1 award whereby it always end up short term!
Chocolate is sweet and bitter
The second movie ‘Chocolate by Yasmin Ahmad’ released by 15Malaysia.com is a short and meaningful film. There are hidden meaning and interpretation one can extract after viewing it. Malaysian as a whole deals with it in their daily life. Our life here in Malaysia is just like a piece of chocolate where it is hard when chilled and soft when it is placed in hot place. It is sweet and bitter to many of us as chocalate does not always taste sweet as we imagined.
Despite of the multifarious contradiction in Malaysia, life still goes on. No matter how much we brag and dislike, we still belongs to this land because we are borned here. Even if we run and migrate to another foreign land, the same situation will repeat itself. Chocolate is sweet and bitter around the world, it only matters when you open and eat it.
The end of my Free 10 months Airtime
January 2009 will be the end of my free monthly RM50 airtime from Digi that i won around 10 months ago. How i managed to win this Friends and family contest prize? I remembered it happened when i was working somewhere secluded in Malaysia. I was doing some Network testing in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Never mind if you guys don’t know where is it. It was just a quiet place that need some wireless telephony services. The celullar network there has a pretty bad coverage. However, I managed to received an unknown phone number while performing my work there. I received the call from a sweet and friendly lady on the other line addressing my name. She wanted to make sure i am the owner of the phone number and congratulated me for being selected to participate in this contest. But, first i have to answer a simple question to win the prize.Actually at that moment, i just feel like this phone call is a scam or whatever…. The number they used to call me was a fixed line number and it just did not strike me that i will be that lucky to win any contest. At first, i just seem skeptical on this and kept probing on the caller on their main purpose. After few attempt of questioning, i finally gave up and trusted it was quite a credible source.
The simple question to win the RM 1000 prize is just about ” What is the sms rate of Digi Friends and family ?” For users of the plan, this will be an easy answer because we will just know the rate for our phone bill spending. The answer then was 1cent per sms. I got cash of RM 500 and RM500 free air time for 10 months ( RM 50 for each month). Not bad right?? Haha….never though of being so lucky in my life.
But the surprising part is that, the prize i won is only the daily winner. If I manage to be the lucky winner for the weekly prize it will be @RM3000 then if i was not mistaken. The winner of daily prize may be able to win again for the weekly prize that’s what DIGI claimed. I manage to receive the same phone number again after few minutes but this time i was way out of DIGI coverage…..too bad….too deep in the secluded place. (The number recorded missed call in my cellphone). Anyway, it was lucky already..to win once haha…..not to be greedy though…..but how i wish….:p
Talking about the end of the free airtime.. Maybe i should consider changing operators or plans. With MNP -Mobile Number Portability, i still can retain my number and enjoy other operators with 3G? But, i don’t think it should be done in a rush as i know digi is on the way in implementing their 3G services after much “unfairness problem” in Malaysia of obtaining the 3G license. THe technical team maybe starting their 3G network testing soon on december. Let’s hope it will be cheap then with another 3G player in the market.
