P1 has top up feature!

Posted: 25th February 2011 by Jacky Yong in Computers, Current Affairs
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This is something interesting ….. something popped out onto my browser this morning without me realizing. I thought it was a damn spam, but it turns out it was P1! It says that my limit has been breached and I should consider paying a small amount to increase the limit!

P! Thanks you

P1 Thanks you for your over-usage

I’d say that this is certainly a welcomed strategy. Instead of throttling us like mad, they should give us the option to give a bit more to have my limit extended. And the package looks interesting enough, 2 GB for only RM10 during this promotional period!

Purchase more gigabytes!

Purchase more gigabytes here!

This works out to be the exactly the same price that I am paying now per gigabyte, but it won’t be such a good deal when the promotion is over. It’s valid for 30 days, more than enough for me though.

Edit one day later : I burnt through all the extra 2 Gigabytes that I purchased in less than 24 hours! That’s how “efficient” I am …. ahem ….

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Broadband your life!

Posted: 21st February 2011 by Jacky Yong in Computers, Current Affairs, Silly me
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Unifi has come to my area! YES! Despite calls to boycott its service, I have made my own research and have decided that Unifi is the right broadband service for me.

My journey in getting myself wired to the internet harks back to the days of Jaring and TM dialup. For those of you old enough to remember, you would definitely be familiar with the whirring dialing tone of the damn phone trying to make a connection with the server. Frustrating it may be, we endured it because it was the only way to get ourselves online back then.

I used Streamyx when I moved to my home in Seri Kembangan. I still remembered that the account actually belonged to my ex-colleague Jayce who wanted to move to a new place and couldn’t terminate the account because it was still quite new. So I took over her Streamyx account, which was what I wanted anyway. It was the 512 kbps package with unlimited download. Sure, it kept disconnecting, and the speed leaves a lot to desire. But I tried Maxis broadband before and it was much worse! Believe me, at that time, Streamyx still rules!

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Not-so-Great Day

Posted: 21st January 2011 by Jacky Yong in Movies and TV Shows
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Went to watch the much hyped Great Day, 天天好天, a movie directed by the same person who gave you Tiger WooHoo last year. This 天天好天 movie has a lot to live up to, since it features so many of the previous actors and actresses from Tiger WooHoo. There was also a lot of so-called “good reviews” in My FM (very biased, don’t you think so?).

I went to watch it in Alamanda Putrajaya with my wife and two monkees. I went through all the trouble of making sure the kids are properly fed, rested and clothed so that they are comfy inside the cinema. The cinema hall itself is small, but it was surprisingly well kept. It was clean and does not smell like most other cinemas I have been to.

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Genuine vs Fake Toyota Long Life Coolant

Posted: 9th January 2011 by Jacky Yong in Cars
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Malaysia memang boleh! Anything and everything that can be faked, has been faked! DVD’s, Croc shoes, LV bags, Nokia batteries, Ringgit notes, including the topic of my blog entry, engine coolant!

There are probably counterfeit Honda and Proton coolants as well in the market, probably from the same factory too! Just the label and packaging change only mah, and probably the colouring agent too! The profit is just too high; RM21.90 for a bottle of original Toyota coolant!

Enough talk, have a look at these pictures:

See the difference?

See the difference? Top is genuine

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iGot an iPad

Posted: 18th December 2010 by Jacky Yong in Computers
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WHOOWEEE!!!! I can now claim to be ahead of most of my friends here when it comes to technology! I just got myself an Apple iPad 2 weeks ago!

It was really an easy decision, Apple came out with Malaysia’s own iPad range that surprised everyone by being a lot cheaper than iPads brought in from overseas! That really hurt a lot of early adopters who paid more than RM3000 for their machines!

I got the iPad 32 GB wifi version, without the 3G. The reason why I got the wifi version was because I do not foresee myself surfing the internet wherever I go. I already have a wifi at home, so I’ll just surf at home, or when there is wifi available. If ever in the future I have a need to access to the internet wherever I may be, I’ll just subscribe to one of those packages with mifi modems. And why 32 GB? Because it’s more than16 GB, and it’s affordable at less than RM2000. (RM1849 to be exact, not including the screen protector and the cover)

mePad

mePad, it's relative size compared to my Microsoft PC. You can see the camera connection kit at the background

So how does it feel like in operation? Those who are already familiar with the iPhones will find themselves perfectly at ease using this machine. The touch screen is sensitive to the slightest swipe and touch. I would have been afraid to dent it by pressing it too hard at the screen (like the LG K900 phone I used to review), but the iPad felt secure and tough. The screen feels solid and looks like it can take a beating before falling apart. In fact, my colleague dropped it on a rock once, facing down! It survived the fall without a scratch on its screen. But then again it was protected with a screen protector. It really shows how wonderfully solid this piece of tablet is.

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I drove a BMW 320d

Posted: 22nd November 2010 by Jacky Yong in Cars
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Few dreams can become reality, at least for me. But today, it happened! It has always be my dream to drive a BMW. Today I did not just drive it. I trashed it “kau-kau”. It was the BMW demonstration on Dynamic Stability Control (DSC for short) for a lucky few members of the public. I saw it on Paul Tan’s blog earlier and I tried my luck calling in. Unfortunately the slots that I am free were already taken and I had to be put on their waiting list. But as luck has it, 2 hours before the session they called to inform me that I can come to my preferred time slot!

I had to bring Kit Yan there, else she will scream at the sight of me leaving. So I went there with Kit Yan in the Altis. Damn I wish I could go there in the Wira, wonder what their reaction is upon seeing me driving such a fucked up car! =P

Auto Bavaria Sg Besi

Auto Bavaria Sg Besi

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Migrate from OpenX to DoubleClick

Posted: 18th November 2010 by Jacky Yong in Computers
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Both OpenX and DoubleClick are advertisement serving engines that you can plugin to your site for managing and serving ads. They are both very popular ad-serving solutions, but recently my company decided to migrate all their ad management from OpenX to DoubleClick. What triggered the decision?
Actually the management has been meaning to migrate to DoubleClick for a long time, but the last straw was when there was a huge security issue of someone trying to compromise our website. A quick patch was all that was needed to fix the issue, but it sure scared the hell out of us all!

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Narrowest broadband ever

Posted: 11th October 2010 by Jacky Yong in Current Affairs, Silly me
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It happens right here in our very own Bolehland. Believe it or not, Malaysia has the WORSE broadband infrastructure in the world. 5 years ago, 1 Mbit worth of promised speed cost RM88 per month, now it’s still RM88 per month, with only a free modem! WTF?? And don’t get me started about the term “best effort” speed! Fucking lame!

You’d be forgiven to think that our neighbours earn much more than we do, and thus has more purchasing powers. Singapore has already been riding on 100 MBit/s for years. But wait a minute, how much do our friends in Bangkok pays to surf?

What's this? 4Mbps at 599 baht? Are you sure?

I don’t read Thai, but I the offer got my attention. 4 Mbps? 599 baht, which is about RM60 per month? OMG!! Where can I sign up?

Consider this, Malaysia’s earning per capita is USD14,700, while our Thai friends earns slightly over half of ours at USD 8100. So can we still say that a country’s richness influence technology? Oh wait you say, there is UNIFI, that’s fast too. Right, if you are willing to fork out more than twice the price. The cheapest UNIFI package is RM149 per month, for the slowest 5 MBps!! * sigh * :(

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Happy Anniversary to me!

Posted: 10th October 2010 by Jacky Yong in Silly me
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10-10-10 is a significant date to me, it’s our 6th anniversary of our ROM (registration of marriage). Gosh! 6 years is a long time, our eldest daughter is already 4 years old!

Mei Fen said she MUST have a celebration. Well, if you consider popping a can of Calsberg as celebration, I’ll be most glad. Unfortunately she does not think the same way, so I had to go out for a dinner. Being women, she asked for my decision on where and what to eat. And being women, in the end she gets to decide everything in the end! She gives me this criteria: must be in Pavilion, she has never eaten there. No heavy carbo diet (so Chinese, Italy are out of the question). And no buffet style. That kinda narrows it down to Kampachi in Pavilion. BTW, we went there alone, no kids. They stayed at home with my parents.

The cup of japanese tea

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Isn’t it ironic?

Posted: 5th October 2010 by Jacky Yong in Current Affairs, Silly me
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When the days are younger, we were much more innocent. Both Erynn and I both uses dumb phones, i.e. monochrome screens, mono channel audio ring tone (you can actually compose songs on them, remember?). No MMS, no fancy mancy touch screens.

Then we bought colour phones, the legendary Sony Ericsson K700i for her and a Sumsung flip phone for myself. It was big deal at that time, having used the old Motorola brick for some time. It was also the first phone that I bought all by myself. It has 18 months of warranty, and it died 18 months later. Kudos to the Samsung engineers, they really studied their product life cycle very well indeed. It was lucky I was picked up to test the Maybank Visa Wave phone, they gave a free Nokia 3220. It was a  very basic phone, but it turned out to be the best phone I have ever used.

Then the buzz was video calling. Neither of our phones got video calls, but in 2008 she bought me a Sony Ericsson W910i. That phone has video calls, but her K700i does not. I would like to buy her the Tube, the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, but she said that it is not necessary. As it turned out, the K700i died too, and she used her mum’s old Nokia phone as a backup.

Last weekend I saw this good Nokia phone that is the successor to the 5800, the Nokia C6. It was on offer at that time for CIMB customers, so I bought it for her. FINALLY we can video call each other! But as fate has it, the day I bought the C6 was also the day my own W910i died on me! So now I am using back the old trusty Nokia 3220.

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