Filed Under Big Boys Toys, Holler
I read this article in the Star with interest about users now being able to transfer their mobile numbers to other telco. (click here to read the whole article)
An except of the news:
Mobile phone users can now enjoy the freedom of switching network service providers without having to forego their original phone number (including the prefix).
Effective Friday, the service will be extended to users with prepaid mobile phone numbers in the Klang Valley. Postpaid users can start enjoying the facility in two weeks.
Now, why am I excited? Quite simply becaue over the past couple of months, I’ve been getting terrible and I really mean TERRIBLE reception from Maxis around my housing area. And I’ve been thinking about switching over to other Telcos. Even though I had a very nice number to use from Maxis, the negative about not able to receive and making calls through your only mean of communication to your clients are just throwing me off.
So with this good news coming up, I believe I could safely keep this number which most of my clients would already know by heart and yet get a better reception that is provided by another Telco, in my current state of choice, DiGi. I will still maintain a Maxis number but that’ll only be used for among personal contacts and is never revealed to my clients. At least that way, if I don’t want to be disturbed by irrating calls from certain quarters (namely spammers using unidentified numbers). I could just safely switch off my 017 and leave the other line open as the one that should need to contact me be able to reach me.
Anyway, we’ll see how this goes especially with some of the Telcos guaranteed to lose their market shares to the better players, will they buck up their services or will they just sit there and enjoy their current success only to see it plummet at a later stage when their competitors climb above them?
Any Maxis officers reading this? I know there’s one or two of you cause you actually contacted me the first time I posted up a complain about your bad reception in my housing area. Anyway, if you’re reading this. It’s time you look at strengthening up the service in Kota Damansara (among a few other areas where I have identified) as well as look at the possibility of even providing HSDPA connection speed in some parts of the place for your Maxis 3G or you’d be seeing alot of people dropping you off and hoping over to your competitors that is providing better services and coverage area.
Filed Under Salsa
Wednesday was quite memorable as we’ve a huge group of Salsa dancers from all over the Klang Valley coming together at Hush Bangsar to dance as well as donate to a good cause. Ticket sales, cupcakes as well as food from Hush went on sale to the patrons of the place as well as to the dancers in the hope of raising some money to help Amy Lazim who is fighting ovarian cancer (stage 4).
We even have kind souls coming out with their own precious posession to auction off to the dancers there in trying to encourage everyone to do a good deed. Among the things put up for auction is a semi accoustic guitar which was emaculately kept but was auctioned off to raise money for Amy. Further separate donations are encouraged and can be conveyed to Amy via Lin at +zero one two 318 1202. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed Under Big Boys Toys
That’s the interesting headline that appeared in The Star recently.
I read with interest with what Microsoft Malaysia have to say, if you missed the article, here’s what it’s all about.
PETALING JAYA: From today, those with pirated copies of the Windows XP Professional operating system in their computers that are Internet-capable could find their screens going black and the icons vanishing as Microsoft Corp gets tough.
There are 8.6 million users of Windows XP Pro in Malaysia and about three million are expected to suffer the “blackouts”, according to Microsoft Malaysia.
To continue working, users will need to reset the machine’s desktop background. All will return to normal, but only for 60 minutes before another blackout occurs.
The only “cure” is to get a licensed copy of the operating system from a Microsoft reseller or going online at www.microsoft. com/malaysia/genuine. Each licence costs RM580.
The initiative is part of Microsoft’s anti-piracy campaign, dubbed Windows Genuine Advantage, aimed at educating users on the benefits of using genuine software, Microsoft Malaysia client business group director K.T. Ng told The Star yesterday.
Now, how many will be effected by this new development? I mean, how many pirated windows users are there in Malaysia? I would say about 80% of all home users right? One thing I wondered is this, how would they send the necessary updates into the pirated Windows XP to enable that effect to happen? I’m sure the smart ones and even those that isn’t that smart would have been adviced by the pirates to DON’T TURN ON THE UPDATE FUNCTION. By not updating, they wouldn’t be facing this problem right? Read the rest of this entry »
Filed Under Food
Friday morning, received a message from Yat inviting me to join him and his gang for lunch at Super Kitchen, and as I’ve not been there before (I always go to Kin Kin across the road), I decide to go ahead and head down there.
After a couple of ding dong messages over Innit’s Chat Box and found out that KY had to travel back to his home in PJ, I decide to meet up with him to travel down to Chow Kit to meet up with Yat and his gang (start to sound like a big time Gangster eh?).
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Filed Under Holler
It’s quite an old news when it comes to the digital age but heck, no one really cares right as long as there’s some nice photos to see (like a reader told me).
“Being a hooker is summing I love” - Sufiah Yusof
MATHS genius turned hooker Sufiah Yusof reveals how she drives men wild… by reciting EQUATIONS to her clients as they have sex.
And the Asian beauty defiantly claims that selling her body for up to £1,000 a time provides her with a far more glamorous life than she ever dreamt of when she went to Oxford University aged just 13.
‘My clients love the fact that I can stimulate their minds AND their bodies,’ she boasts in a shockingly frank interview with the News of the World.
‘And I don’t believe my education has been wasted—in fact I usually take problem sheets with me to solve before appointments.’
Sufiah decided to CONFESS ALL after we revealed how the former child prodigy was working as a £130-an-hour prostitute while studying for a masters in economics.
It is the latest heartbreaking twist to a life that seemed so full of promise—but went tragically wrong when she cracked under the pressure of her bullying father’s cruel academic regime and fled university at 15.
Eight years on, he is now in jail for sexually assaulting two girl pupils and Sufiah has somehow convinced herself that her seedy new career is the answer to all her problems.
‘People think escorting is sleazy and terrible but I don’t see it like that,’ she says. ‘I’ve always had a high sex drive—and now I’m getting all the sex I want—and guys are much better in bed with an escort than a girlfriend. Read the rest of this entry »
