I Demand To Get What I Pay For!

Imagine this scenario:

You bought a condo with promises of tons of facilities from swimming pools to saunas to gyms and tennis courts... etc.. etc.. and after you moved in you wanted to use these facilities to make full use of what you pay. You found out that everywhere you go are crowded, the condo management did not provide enough space to accommodate these much people. After a month you saw a notice in the notice board stating:

"Due to the overcrowding of facilities, the management decided to limit the usage of the facilities per unit. Each unit can only use the facilities 2 times a month. To use it more than 2 times, you will have to pay an additional fee depending on how many times you use per month."

So how would you feel? Cheated? Who's fault is it? Is it the management because they did not provide the proper amount of space needed to accommodate their customers? Or is it the customers' fault for "overusing" their facilities? As a customer, isn't it logical that we get what we pay for or else what is the use of paying right?

Same goes to us broadband users. We pay a monthly fee hoping to get what we pay for, fast connection speed so that we can stream videos, play MMORPGs, blog and download shows off the net. Instead we are told that we cannot use this much bandwidth so that it is "fair" to other users when the real issue here is that they are oversubscribed. They had too many users and so little bandwidth. So whose fault is it?

The truth is, our ISPs are all greedy bastards who want to get more customers but refuses to upgrade their bandwidth. Instead of admitting that they suck, they just have to take the easy way out by pushing the blame to us heavy users.

To Parents

Well according to The Star, more girls are running away from home. Here's one tip for parents whose children had runaway from them. You suck. Seriously. Don't go blaming on cybercafes like our CID Director does and don't go "Oh s/he wasn't like that last time. s/he's a good girl/boy and very obedient too. It MUST be her/his friends. I told her/him not to go out with them be she wouldn't listen. Oh... I had tried my best". Right... you had tried your best nagging at them and scolding them like you did ten years ago or raise them up like how your parents raise you... Congratulations! You had given them the right to runaway from you.

For those dinosaurs who still don't get it. It's simple. Teenagers are a very fragile lot. They are like walking on a tightrope. One wrong move and "WHAM!" down they go. Every single thing that happens around them during these period is very crucial. Therefore, parents must be supportive of what they want to do and encourage them and advice them. And for the love of God... NAGGING AIN'T ADVISING AND SARCASM AIN'T ENCOURAGING! I am really happy to grow up in a great family. Both my mum and dad are really open to what I want to do. They let me do the things I want to do which won't harm myself. They let me play sports... go to cybercafes for my weekly Counterstrike fix and even don't restrict my internet time during weekends. When I join co-curriculum activities, they won't object to it. All they did was remind me of not forgetting my studies.

I know there are lots of parents who don't give their children any freedom at all. All they expect is that as long as they put food on the table and give them food to eat, their teenage children will listen to them. If that's what you want, you are better off with a dog. Heck, even dogs need to go for walks sometimes. Teenagers need freedom. They need a little privacy in things they do too. Try to give them a little freedom and in the meantime be open to them so that they will be open to you. Always give them the "I am always here if you need me" feeling instead of the "WHAT EVER I SAY YOU MUST OBEY BECAUSE I AM THE AUTHORI-TAY~" feeling.

Here, I had had my say. If you still think the "YOU MUST OBEY" approach is the best way to go... go ahead and try it. Just don't go bitching around when shit happens. Just remember at the end of the day its YOUR CHILDREN... and don't go blaming the whole world because its YOUR responsibility in the first place.

P.S: This post is only about teenagers running way from home and bad parenting. I do sympathise on cases of missing people.

Streamyx Blues

Like most, if not, EVERY broadband user I had my fair share of issues with my ISP, the infamous and fucked up, TMnet. For the past 5 days I had been experiencing horrible connection speed. How horrible you say? Here's a little screenie to tell you how fucked up my line is these past 5 days:


Yeah, I had been receiving a freakin' double digit KBPS BANDWITH! Tried calling those assholes and waited 5 days because I called on a Friday and they asked me to wait for 2 working days (don't an ISP suppose to have technicians on standby on a 24 hour shift?) and yet they still tell me that they will be getting to my problem ASAP when I called today.

Go broadband my ass you fucktards. First you can't provide sufficient bandwidth to your customers and you start blaming BT users. We pay for our bandwidth mind you and we demand to get what we subscribe. You can't even provide decent fucking stable connection and there you are always asking more people to sign up to you. You are just fucking lucky to be the only ISP monopolising the broadband provider market or you would had soon gone the way of the dodo. Vision 2020 my ass.....

Idiots...

Alright, before I start ranting let me fill you in about the company I am currently attached to for my Industrial Training. My company is Chinese owned electronics factory and they are very very stingy. They also want to squeeze every single worker dry. Heck, they even go as far as rationing A4 papers for office usage. Let's not even go as far as the boss rejecting to buy AutoCAD for his engineers because it costs RM8000+. He even suggested to go buy the RM5 version from our "friendly local software retailers" instead of buying the original ones. I hope some law enforcers better read this because this will be a real "money making oppoturnity" here. If you guys want to make that quick buck, you can always send me a message and I am glad to be the whistleblower ^_^. I can go on and on about how fucked up my company is but I think you get my point so I will just stop here.

So today there's this hungry ghost worship thingy going on in my company to pray for the spirits that are vacationing here in this realm during their one month long public holiday. For the past few days the boss had all the Chinese who celebrate the 7th month to do his dirty work for him. By buying those "hell" money, paper clothings, incense and candles. He even spent a few thousand bucks on food for the spirits. He even import in 2 goats which cost RM2000 each just for this occasion. In my 2 months in the company, I had never ever seen my bosses (its a partnership) being so fucking generous before. Which made me to think..

It is so fucked up that my bosses prefer to spent such a huge amount of money on spirits than using it on his employees. As much as I respect the dead, but honestly, will those spirit make him money? No! EMPLOYEES make him money. EMPLOYEES work for him. You can worship the dead all you want but at the same time you must show the same respect to the dead as much as to living people. They are the people who work their asses off for the company so they should deserve some amount of respect. If burning paper money can make you rich, then why people like Bill Gates that do not follow this tradition are way richer than my jackass bosses?

No point "belanja" the dead "makan" a huge feast when you can't even treat your workers like humans instead of machines.

The Snake and the Throne

This story is based on a true story written by yours truly. ^_^

Once a upon a time, there lived a snake with a big ambition. This snake here wants to rule the Celestial Empire. Unfortunately for him, the Empire can only be ruled by a Dragon (the chinese snake-like dragon not the Western Dinosaur-like Dragon). Before we go any further let's have a look at how the Celestial Empire works.

Year after year a new dragon will be selected by the Wisemen Council. Once selected, the dragon will have the power to rule the Celestial Empire along with a few other selected few to help him. As you can see, being a dragon ruling the Celestial Empire is no easy task, since the Celestial Empire is very vast in terms of land and wealth. A mismanagement will costs the Empire greatly so there is a need of selecting a capable dragon each year. A dragon can stay in power more than one year if its people and the wisemen thinks he is capable enough. Unfortunately leading such a huge empire usually will exhaust the dragon greatly and the chances of the dragon to retire after it finish its term is very high.

Ok, enough about the Empire. Now let's get back to the snake. As I had mentioned earlier, the ambitious snake wanted to rule the Empire. Unfortunately for him, he do not know that he isn't good enough for the job. So day after day he will proclaim loudly to the people that he will be the ruler of the land one day. Instead of improving his leadership, he dresses like a dragon, act like a dragon and talk like a dragon so that one day the people and the wisemen will be gullible enough to believe he is the next dragon they are looking for. To those who had never met the snake before will be tricked by his "dragonly" like appearance and might think he will make a good ruler but unfortunately for him, those who knew him will know he is only a dragon-wannabe.

So year after year he will try to convince people that he is a dragon, but year after year he failed greatly because he could not fool the people once they know the real him. Can the snake ever become a dragon one day and rule the Celestial Empire? Unless he can see his own weakness or else a snake can NEVER EVER be a dragon even if he acted like one.

Things I don't understand

I just don't understand when people say:

A : I am a big fan of **insert singer name**.
Me: You mean you own all of his/her albums?
B : Nolah, I am not that richlah. I had all her mp3s in my computer.
Me: =.="

I just don't understand how people have the face of proclaiming to be a fan of a singer when they don't even buy a single original album to support their favourite singers.

Respect your elders they say >_<

Some of the elderly population should not be respected at all! Don't you hate those uncles and aunties that you didn't even know that act so high and mighty when they see young people? I had my share of encounters of some rude uncles and aunties that are very inconsiderate and act very disrespectful to young people.

I was on the bus to Genting and there was this uncle sitting in front of my girlfriend. The sun was shining towards our direction and when she tried to pull half the curtain to cover her beautiful face from being burn by the sun, the uncle in front of her pull it away and hogged the whole curtain to himself. When we tried to pull a little back (the curtain is very big actually) he just pulled it away. Not just that, just when I thought that was it some aunty comes along and shake my chair violently. She wants me to give way for her to take her seat and my chair is blocking her route. Instead of saying a polite "excuse me" she shook my chair violently and didn't speak a single word. Then I said out loudly to my girlfriend (on purpose) "What is wrong with people today? Can't they even say excuse me?". Fuck, don't they even know the saying "if you want people to respect you, you must respect others as well"? Maybe they think that they are immune to this saying as there is another saying that goes "Respect your elders" so that they can demand respect from anyone younger then them.

Well I can go on and on about my few more encounters in the LRT or Train Station or Bus Terminals but I think I stop here before this entry becomes a novel.

Why can't local grads can't get hired (The Bear Cave Edition)

Woke up this afternoon and the first thing I do was read the newspapers (The Star). A glance at the headlines I am pissed. As usual they are blaming parents and grads on the local grads unemployment rate. Look, as much as the parents and the grads are to blame, the government should also share the blame.

Why can't grads get a job? Why can't higher education ensure grads a job? At the rate our government are giving University status to colleges, I can see why most of the companies out there do not trust the quality of education here. Not just that, you can see private colleges those with a size of a shophouse or smaller that is tied to some foreign university that is unheard of are beginning to sprout out like mushrooms after the rain. There is no control over the amount of private colleges in this country. At this rate, sooner or later we are going to become another India. Everyone you see on the streets are degree holders.

Another reason why companies refuses to employ local grads is simple, the quality of our Univeristies (especially public ones) are declining. Just look at UM. They drop 80 places in just one year and still they are celebrating as if they got number 1 and they seem that everything is ok. When you drop so many places in just one year the first thing you do is ADMIT your mistakes and learn from it. If I am the boss of some company (be it a small one) do you think I will employ grads from UM?

The last reason I am going to stress about is ENGLISH. Unless we have a market as big as China or have kickass technologies that can rival the Japanese, English is very important. Whether our UMNO politicians like it or not, when we get into the job market (private sector) the only chance we can use BM is when ordering food from mamak stalls or dealing with incompetent government workers. The government especially the stubborn Pemuda UMNO politians should wake up from their "blind nationalism" and start encouraging Malaysians to start learning English. They should as well stress the importance of English instead of avoiding it like the plague.

So there you have it, my second rant on this whole local grads unemployment thingy. Here's the link to my first one.

Vanilla Coke to be canceled? NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Was browsing Yahoo! news (as usual) and saw this. Good news is, it is only canceled in the US. Vanilla Coke had been my favourite soft drink ever since I first tasted it. The nice creamy taste of vanilla mixed with Coke, it's like drinking an ice cream float but only tastier. Its a surprise that it is not doing well in the US.

Hope they won't cancel it in Malaysia.... **prays**

Things I can't stand in Friendster....

I just don't understand how some Friendster users abuse the messanging system in Friendster. Just when you thought chain mails and those touchy spam mails are only limited to the bulletin board, now people are doing that on your inbox. Sheesh... that's annoying, just annoying. Why can't they just spam the bulletin board instead like what I use to do all the time when I am bored with those useless quizes?

Killer Public Transports!!!

Is it just me or KL public transports are dangerous? I don't know if this happens on a regular basis (since I am not from KL) but I was nearly squashed by the sliding doors in a LRT station and was force to do a Jackie Chan stunt on a Mini Bus and these 2 things happened all in one day!

I was entering the LRT and halfway inside the door (the station's door, not the LRT's) began to close and hit my elbow hard and for a second there I was stunned and luckily my girlfriend pulled me out. Don't the LRTs have this censor thing to sense there are still pessengers going in? My friend got his clothes stuck in between the LRT doors and was force to wait by the doors until the next station.

A few hours later as I was about to go back (this happened in Kajang), I took a mini bus. The mini bus was packed (I think it carried passengers twice its capacity) and I stood near the door. When the bus stopped at a station someone from behind wants to get off the bus so the bus driver told me to go down the bus first so that the person can get off the bus. So I got down the bus and once the guy got off the bus driver started moving. Panicked, I ran after the bus while grabbing the pole near the bus' door. And ran for a while before getting on. What's worse the driver did not stop, he didn't even notice me. Luckily the bus is going very slow and I was able to get on the bus.

Is this normal in KL? Had any case about LRT doors closing when you are getting on the LRT happened to you? Please feel free to leave a comment.

Phew...Finally...

Finally my home is free from the demon called the 56k connection. The demon is finally exorcised after my father agree to have streamyx, all thanks to my two little devils brothers for giving my dad such a huge internet bill. Now I can blog all I want whenever I return back home to my hometown. Thank God!

Smoke in Crowded Areas

I guess every non-smoker had their experience of having to inhale cigeratte smoke each time they go to a crowded area. Most smokers in Malaysia don't seem to be aware that each time they smoke a cigeratte in crowded areas, a non-smoker suffer. Each time I get on a non-air conditioned public bus in Melaka, I will get smoke hitting my face either from the driver or some pre-pubescent kid. Is there too much smoke in their brains that they can't think properly? Smoking in public is very irresponsible as you are forcing non-smokers (who chose to be lung cancer free) to die slowly with you!

Is there any rules in Malaysia banning smoking in public areas? If there aren't why isn't it implemented? True, smokers had the right to smoke but so does non-smokers. We had the right of also not to smoke, so don't force use to inhale the smoke you had exhaled. If you want to smoke, do it privately at a corner where there is no one around (or alternatively you can go to a corner where all the smokers are at).

Bear Season?

Is it just me or is Bear hunting season on? It seems that I nearly got killed twice yesterday. I nearly got run down twice when I was walking at the side of the road. Its not like I walk in the middle of the road or trying to cross a busy highway with one leg or something, I walk at the very side of the road and anymore I will have to walk the drain and yet a motorcycle without his headlights on (guess he must be emulating Takumi) and a speeding 4 Wheeler. What is it with driver's and motorcyclists these days? Is driving at the side of the road where there are pedestrians a trend now? Or they just want my handsome face as their hunt trophy to be displayed on top of their fireplace?

Spam!!!

Dammit, I just can't believe it. My comments area for my blog entries is spammed! DIE SPAMMERS DIE!!!! I just can't believe that spam had made its way to blogs. ARGH... I am so disgusted.

Poor kitty >_<

I was having dinner with my dear when I noticed a group of kids are bullying a crippled kitten. The poor kitty had one rear leg broken and is sitting helplessly when a group of kids are bullying it. They are slapping the poor kitty with leaves and poking it's eyes. To my surprise, the parents of these bunch of rascals is just sitting at another corner witnessing their children bullying the cat. My heart immediately broke. I have this sudden urge of standing up and scold the children them not to treat a helpless animal like that but unfortunately, their parents are there.

After witnessing this incident I thought to myself, what are parents teaching their children nowadays? Is it ok for their children to bully a crippled animal just like that? Did they pamper their kids so much that they can turn a blind eye on their children bullying a helpless animal? Or parents are more worried of their children's academic performance that they simply do not care about their children's morality? Things like that really distrubed me greatly.

It's a good day to die....

3 more hours to my last paper and I don't have any mood to study. Kinda sucky really its as if I had given up all hope of passing. Looking at the bright side, I can study for the next 2 months to prepare for my supplementary test since I am so sure I am going to screw this test up.

If only learning about machines is as easy as using it.

Religious Spam PART 2

Damn nowadays religious spam is so hi-tech that it had made its way to my HANDPHONE. Argh~ I just recieve an anonymous SMS about a Good Friday celebration tonight. Just when I thought it was from someone I know, my housemate also recieved the same message >_<

Anyone know who's handphone number is 012-3635141 please reply ok?

Chain Mails >_<

Ok people let's be honest here, how many of you believe in Chain Mails. You know those annoying mails, messages that ask you to pass to many people as possible so that you will get good luck and if you didn't pass around you might get bad luck, haunted by a ghost or **insert family members here** will die in an hour. Come on people, don't tell me you guys actually believe in such childish thing? I mean getting those mail/messages is freakin' annoying enough but getting the same annoying messages/mail over and over again just piss me off.Do you actually think that you will get good luck if you pass it around? How many of you actually experienced it? How many of you had seen your friends drop dead just because you did not pass a digital message?

Its just plain childish for University students to believe that a simple digital message/mail can boost your luck. Maybe they had watch too much Japanese and Korean horror flicks to believe that digital messages can actually cause death and bad luck >_<. Do you think that it is real? Some chain mails are even stupider, it will tell you to pass this on to as many people as possible to avoid deletion of you e-mail account or the most recent your Friendster account. This had also for time and time again been reported as FALSE by those companies in their OFFICIAL STATEMENTS and NEWSPAPER REPORTS. For those ignorant people, each e-mail service provider or any service provider have their own terms and condition and they will not simply delete people's account for such stupid reasons. So please go read the TOS each time you register an account for any website. So people, I urge you not to be so ignorant and please use your common sense each time you have the urge to send a chain mail!

Here are a few popular chain messages which had been circulating furiously in my Yahoo! Messenger and Friendster Bulletin Board.

MUST READ!!! LIFE AND DEATH ON THE LINE!!!
Message: hahahaha You've opened it! Good Luck,
You have
just been DEATHWISHED. Tonight at midnight
your true love will realize they love you.
Something good will happen to you at 1:00-4:00 pm
tomorrow, it could be anywere. Get ready for the
biggest shock in your life. if you break this chain u
will be cursed with relationship problems for the
next 10yrs. post this within 15 min

My love life had been bad enough and seeing these type of messages just piss me off badly >_<

A simple forward this mail to other will be a meritorious deed, and it doesn't waste much of your time. Thank you for doing that in advance. **insert a random name** : Tel : **insert random number here**, Fax : **insert random fax number here**. Please forward to the person who has AB blood type of bone marrow and hope everybody will forward the mail to your friends so that they can have the opportunity to find the "right person" to help. We anxiously need a AB blood type of person to donate his/her bone marrow,and although it only have very little chance to match, but we still have hope for it. Because of your loving kindness to pass the mail along, she may stand a chance to recover. So, please put a little effort, the little girl may have chance to live because of you.

Don't you think it is kinda suspicious that nearly ALL of the victim's bloodtype is AB and nearly all of them are either in need of a bone marrow or they have blood cancer? Go figure!

send tHis on to at least 10 contacts in 10 Mins as a sign of respect for the tSUnaMi in asia if you break tHis cHain a Boy that died in the accident will stand in your room tonight at Midnight. No send backs. sorry

I did not send the message when I got this message 1 month ago and I am still pretty much alive and kicking.

Unemployment... Who's to blame?

Recently there had been a series of articles regarding how graduates are getting unemployed. Here's one of the example here. It says that our PM is worried about the unemployment rate in our beloved nation. The article also mentioned about a total of 80,000 graduates are unemployed just last year. So I am asking this question: Who's to blame?

Maybe some ministers will point the finger at us saying we are too choosy when it comes to choosing work or they will blame us for irrelevant skills (in this case here our Human Resource Minister is blaming the female graduates). Then there will always be the uncles and aunties who condemn local graduates of being no-class. Trust me, I had faced tons of "compliments" from the chinese uncle and aunty population about how local universities suck and studying in it means "no future".

True, we (graduates and undergraduates) might be partly to blame here, but why are the whole society, led by our low-ranking Ministers (trust me, in Malaysia it is usually the low-ranking Ministers especially those you had never heard of make the loudest noise from religious issues to education to anything under the sun!) are pointing the finger at us for being the sole reason of this national problem? Why can't the government see they are partly to be blame as well?

They are the ones that approve so many colleges and private Universities in the first place. They are the one that refuses to venture into more job oppoturnities. Just look at our IT industry, the biggest player in Malaysia IT industry is sadly the PIRATES. Look at our art industry, it is still in its infancy which seems to me there is no hope of growing unless the government start to pay attention to it. The R&D in our country? What? There's R&D in our country? Heck, I am sure most of the people in Malaysia (aunty and uncles and ministers included) don't even know what R&D is! To those who are still ignorant of what R&D is, it is the acronym of Research and Development. Or look at the entertainment industry, the music industry is stale there is only the Malay music scene, the Chinese, unless they go overseas, they are doomed to singing Chinese New Year songs for the rest of their careers. How about the English music scene? Most of them are surprisingly good but unfortunately fails to break into the international circuit due to lack of funds to promote them overseas.

The movie industry is plagued by the censorship, lousy directors and horrible scripts and most of the movies produced are aim at the Malay audience. Only once in a while you see a "Sepet" that is loved by all the races in Malaysia. The video gaming career despite being given much exposure these few years don't seem to have any success. Reason? Low-ranking Ministers and the aunty/uncle population threatening to close all cyber cafes because playing video games will "destroy your future". Little do they know that some individuals earn more than them just by playing video games >_<.

There are so many job opportunities that the government can explore but yet they are sitting there pointing the fingers at us telling us that we are to blame. True like I said just now, we are partly to be blame but we are not the sole reason. Since the government can pour in tons of money just to build World class buildings and some useless expedition to satisfy their ego, why not pour in those money to help their people getting employed and make Malaysia a world class society instead?