Plain Crap:A YES,a language & some $ talk

Apology to Earthlings who were waiting for me to post up something last week but Im terribly busy last week so cant post a thing or rather cant find time. Last week I was bugged by a tutor who literally left almost 20 of us who was in his tutorial group on a 'cliffhanger'! In addition, I was busy with group discussions for assignments that is going to be due soon or in other words this week! Anyways, I managed to find some time today to post up something, enjoy people and I see you probably next week or so?

Amazing YES or plain trick?

Malaysians have been amazed by YES since its launch in November 2010. This include me (Yours Truly), who have done so much promotion for YES that I managed to get 2 new customers for YES (banggalah, LOL!). In addition, my Bruneian fellow friends were also very much interested in YES service, and was amazed by its low ping(latency) & also blazing speed of download. There is a saying that says 'Good things should be shared with others, so if you get fast internet why not share which ISP you are using so that your fellow friends can also enjoy the same' Sharing is Caring! Last week, Star published an interview with Tan Sri Francis Yeoh, the man behind YES4G (or better known as the people network). He states that YES4G network is able to support 15 million/15 JUTA users before it gets congested and require upgrade! I beg to differ Tan Sri, but Im more pessimistic I say 1.5 million users and Yes will be congested! 15 million is like half of Malaysia population! Is YES really prepared for that much of users without upgrade? Lets wait and see! In another update, Tan Sri Francis also said if there is 20 million/20 JUTA users on board YES4G network, they will do a Groupon and give more discounts to users (other words lower rates). It is also mentioned that they are targeting 400,000 students nationwide next! Ok, but your student plan (Campuspack) is more costly than normal Valuepack.Apa macam ini?

Language Language

Last week, it was reported that the Vice Chancellor of Universiti Malaya came under fire for asking undergrads to improve their English! Im not here to comment about that, but Im here to present my observation of which I always runs into trouble with! Generally, (not all) city folks/KLians are more inclined to speak English, even when you speak to them in Chinese/Malay. Not talking about Bahasa Rojak here. While non-KLians are more adaptive, you speak English with them they reply in English and so on so forth. This is just a general observation, please dont find me and give me a piece of you (Disclaimer haha, Biz Law class teach me to use disclaimer)! KL is an international metropolis so apa nak dihairankan!

Money Not Enough Meh!

Im not here to create a script for Jack Neo famous Money Not Enough continuation but rather to blog about what was talked about this morning, which I think was rather a heavy topics for us students now. Previously I had blogged that scholarship students from certain countries can get up to RM$3500/month as allowances! That is like the salary of an account officer I guess! Students have been grapling with increasing cost no thanks to 'people 1st' government policy of reducing subsidies, for the betterment of our future generation! 1 full tank of petrol requires Rm$50 for a small car, and imagine 4 days of class commuting to and for your house to uni, how long can it last? Not to mention if you have to go dating with your girlfriends if any, hangout with friends at mamak stalls. Imagine how much the petrol and toll costs a month? This is only 1st part of the story! Havent even talked about food,etc,etc! Talking about food, dont you find it rather irony that uni food are supposed to be at par or cheaper than outside? However for my case and perhaps a few others, this is the case! There had been already talks of further reduction of subsidies for flour n sugar, but the govt quashed it as baseless but often gave warnings 'WE CANT TAHAN ANYMORE'! Bracing a 10-20sen increase in drink price/50sen increase in food price once in a blue moon is acceptable but once every 3 months is a big NO NO! Not to mention gym,phone,internet,Astro,shopping n more, allowance of RM700-1000 a month might not be enough if you are not smart enough and you spend money like running tap! What if (touchwood) you get samans, how to pay? Then, the emergency savings come into play! But if you dont have how? Sie liao loh! (die already) or you are in a big trouble! Even if you have quite a sizeable savings like me, with the paltry interest banks give (0.1-2% at most) and luckily I found the one the give 1.5%! Inflation is going to eat up your savings, and here comes investment into the game! Investment is not a zero risk game but there are some low risk investment such as REITs which so far so good!

Well there you have it 3 feature stories for this week. hope you enjoy it.before I end condolences to Japan tsunami n earthquake victims, stay strong and rebuild Japan as Asia powerhouse! And today, some video had been exposing some opposition figure that the govt didnt like! Mind you we had a Johor video last time, then a superimposed picture of somebody, some nude pictures of some politicians, and a whole lot more in the past.Now, some alleged video of this person with a prostitute? Have their thinking drop so low til the Gutter Level?

 

Enough, of me talking crap! I gotta go lots of things to do! Bye, have a great week ahead

Chillax Days

Well hello there its Sunday again! Entering 3rd week of Sem2, and the bad news are slowly creeping in! Assignment due dates are in 12 days (the earliest), in between tons of notes, tutorials, online quizzes to be answered! And mind you, 1st 2wk lessons seems ok but starting wk 3 Im starting to see 'stars' aka blur, especially Money n Cap & Biz Law (2 of the most difficult units). Ok, I wont bore you dear readers of this 'boring wordy' blog with details of how difficult it is. Instead I will blog about MATTA, Shogun Nite Out & Saturday! Enjoy

Shogun Nite Out



On Thursday went to eat at Shogun with 9 other people (JX and his girlfriend, Wen Li, Yun Soon and his girlfriend, 'birthday girl' Shu Wern, Elaine, Shu, Andrea & Tommy (thanks for driving me to and from Pyramid). Paid $52 for the buffet which I think is quite reasonable for the range of food. This dinner is to celebrate the completation of Management & Microecon units, and also to mark the start of Assignment Time sem 2! Lots of things were talked about (off the record not posted in this blog or anywhere else but in our brains, haha LOL!) I had quite a lot of food:tempura, dimsum, fish, 2 soup, lots of drinks, fruits, ABC, teppenayaki, sushi (forget already). Not quite tasty as people say in blog! But its enjoyable as Im eating with a bunch of people that is not considered 'boring'!

MATTA

This crazy fellow (Yours Truly) travelled all the way to PWTC for no apparent reason just to see MATTA Fair when he is supposed to do uni related things! Ok the truth is I am 'researching' for destinations to go during my holiday in Jun or in Dec! Choices are HK/Shenzhen/Macau, South Korea! And in the fair, I found something quite unusual travel to North Korea? I remembered I watched a video on STOMP, that in neighbouring Singapore NATAS Fair which was held a little earlier than MATTA, there was also tour offering to North Korea! Its a country that people wont normally travel to but it seems there are more and more tours to North Korea even from Brunei!

visit korea sparkling and get free teddy?nope try again!



Cant go to Korea? No worries take a pict on this Hallyu Wave board



Saturday Day Out

Saturday I met up with my cousin at 1U and also to go for the CDRAMA Music Carnival to get some CDs autographs. 1st we went for lunch at Fish n Co. Pretty reasonable price I must say for such a large portion of food in a pan! And dont forget to try Cola/Kola Tonic their signature drink!

Then after that almost 2pm so I go to CDRAMA Carnival to buy CDs and also to catch a glimpse of artist (details later part of this blog)

Sorry That I bought your CD haha LOL!

Sorry That I Love you! Know this song people? I suppose you do if you listen to Chinese radio stations! Its one of the hits song currently on the charts! And possible one of the most liked love songs for now! I think on Friday there was someone I know RT a tweet that says 'buka Channel V ada orang putih nyanyi pikir nyanyi lagu English tapi actually lagu Cina'! And who is this 'orang putih nyanyi lagu Cina' that Im talking about? He is Anthony Neely or Chinese name Nee An Tong!

What can I say about him, his dad is from US and his mum is from Taiwan. He is not an ABC I think (because ABC is both American Chinese parents)! He had just recently released his album Lesson One! Enough history, lets get back to the meet the fans session

At the carnival, he sang 'live' Sorry That I Love You and autographed the lyrics book! In addtion he also shook hands with the buyers after autographing them! CDRAMA had a 20% disc of the CD price so I also didnt miss the opportunity to get autograph and shook hands with him. The only bad thing was too many rules were imposed due to lack of time (eg no photograph on the stage)! Enough said, I will let the pictures to speak for itself and also a video of sorry that i love you (if you are interested)!

Bye see ya soon with more interesting content

snap people snap as many picts as possible

singing sorry that i love you live

posing with fans background n cd

apa khabar malaysia!

People queing up for autographs

He is also 988 15th anniversary Ambassador.Earlier on Friday he went on air live on 988 for hours as guest DJ

Anthony Neely signing autograph

My own copy of Lesson 1 and autograph!

Anthony Neely 'Sorry That I Love You' Youtube vid

The Week That Twas!

So, I had been almost a week Im back to KL for 2nd sem 1st yr of my degree! Lets break the stories up into a few small parts. Enjoy and have a great weekend!

Air Asia Flight

The flight well nothing to shout about since its AirAsia, an LCC. Well there was some delay I supposed is caused by the pretty uncomfortable air condition.I think the worst turbulence that I had experienced!

In Brunei Airport, when the loaders were unloading cargos/bags/etc from the aircraft, suddenly a few kotak of Dell products fell off as the hatch was opened! Wonder if the computer was damaged. And apparently, there were a lorry + of Dell products, and some of the people who were waiting said 'They just umban aja'!

Since its an afternoon flight I decided to order nasi lemak for my 'early dinner'. I came with a small tiny cup of tea/coffee. Costs RM$12 but its really filling, the rice was fragrant, half an egg, some ikan bilis,few pieces of chicken rendang and a whole lot of sambal.I must say the rendang was a tad too spicy for me compared to what I had in my previous flight with RBA!

New Sem,New Vision

New sem, new target to be achieved! For the start, let me talk a bit about my Summer results, not great but I passed with credit, ok finish! The biggest shock of this sem is the amount of work that have to be put, as well as a Law book that costs $399 despite of floods,drought,etc in Australia (man Australia is very costly). So far so good for the lectures and tutorials! But its only 1st week and still 11 weeks to go! Haih! And I guess I knew nobody in the tutorials since I choose the 'less laku' ones haha

Movie Nite

Of late I had been playing an online treasure hunt on Fb organised by Maybank FUN! The organisers decided to book a cinema for movie nite on Thursday. So, I registered for it and it was held at GSC Tropicana City Mall. After my dinner at Room18, went for registration & got goodie bag! Event started at 8pm, and movie 127 Hours started at around 9pm. Before movie there was a speech on NEXT programme (if you want to learn how to be rich and have a chance to meet the top bosses in Malaysia like the man behind YES4G, Tan Sri Francis Yeoh of YTL, the man behind Now Everyone can fly, Dato Seri Tony Fernandes, and more!) as well a beach ball game (not kidding a beach ball game in a cinema). In the game there were cash prizes, food, Starbuck vouchers! Although I was entitled for the Starbucks voucher but apparently the official didnt see me hence forget about me, and I have no luck in winning the RM180/100 cash prizes! But had a great nite though!

Zoom to Robinsons

Yesterday, I went to Robinsons (again!) to go for the GP sale preview for Robinsons cardmembers! Only bought a T-shirt UP RM69 but I only paid RM$47.10 (less RM$15 voucher that I earned + 10% disc). And they were serving good coffee, mind you not Nescafe or Super or Power Root but Italiano coffee thats made one by one! You can have latte, capucino or espresso! All for the customers

Say YES again?

News reports state that YTLComm aka YES4G is exploring to apply for license to offer its service in Sabah & Sarawak, which is a good news to me. For the record, Sabah & Sarawak dont have Unifi like Semenanjung do hence the main ISP is Streamyx.Hence if YES is coming to 'other side', Sabah & Sarawak will be enjoying full blown 4g speed with voice n SMS in a package. In addition, after 105 days of service, of which the 1st few days was a disaster but YES managed to make it up with a 'sorry gift' of 10GB for early adopters, it had carried over 1 million min of calls, almost 700k of SMSes & a whooping 105TB of data! It is also revealed that more than 100k of people had 'said YES' aka used YES service (proud to say include me). Finally, 80% of customers (including me but not lately) are satisfied with YES!

Yesterday, YES added more value n device into its offering. There is now a V68 (valuepack68) with 3.5GB,150 min of calls + SMS & V150 with 10GB,250 mins & SMS. For EPP, campuspack28 with 1Gb,100min,400SMS.

For device the much awaited Zoom is launched at RRP of $399, while the not so nice 4g phone Buzz is launched at $499 (which is lower than previously stated $599)

For the record, I have purchased a valuepack and still cant used it yet, perhaps its my fault or YES system need sync training!

Thats about it folks, i catch you up soon! too much to do. Before I go, just got a new roomate from Penang, a Med & Bioscience student. Gotta gotta go bye

Special:27 Things About Brunei

23 Februari tarikh keramat bagi Brunei. Hari bersejarah lagi bermakna. Hari Kebangsaan dinanti-nati setiap tahun. Semua lapisan masyarakat meraikan dengan semangat patriotik. Selamat Hari Kebangsaan ke 27 Brunei 'Negaraku Brunei Darussalam'
Sembah ucapan ikhlas dari salah seorang dari lebih 50,000 orang pendatang asing dengan izin (PADI) yang telah menetap di Brunei sejak tahun 1996.
Brunei had played an important part in shaping who I am today. Thus, in the special occasion of Brunei's 27th National Day, yours Truly had composed a special blogpost titled 27 Things About Brunei!
1. I would say MAJORITY of the people in this world do not know where Brunei is or a place named Brunei even existed in the world map. This is no suprise as Brunei is only a tiny small 'dot' in the world map
2. Brunei car ownership rate is one of the HIGHEST in the world, as quoted from today's issue of Brunei Times 27th National Day supplement
3. Brunei had very special relationship with Singapore. It is quite rare in this world to see 2 countries pegging their currency 1:1
4. Besides 'black gold' that gives Brunei a high standard of living, keropok udang/prawn crackers is a famous product of Brunei
5. In addition to those stated in 4, Brunei best export next to oil & gas is a people. Wu Chun, who is a part of the famous Taiwan group, Fahrenheit is a Bruneian
6. The Sultan of Brunei at one point of time was the richest man in the world. i.e. richer than Bill Gates!
7. Its interesting to see that a market of 400,000 population can support 2 English publications: Borneo Bulletin & Brunei Times
8. Brunei regularly becomes a part of Cambridge Hall of Fame as its students managed to achieved Top in the World/Top 10 in the world in O Level and A Level
9.For as little as B$1, you get can food that could satisfy your hunger fully
10. Should the 1997/98 economic crisis didnt occur, Brunei will be a much happening place
11. Brunei version of Malay is Bahasa Melayu Brunei which is a bit different from standard Malay.
12. His Majesty the Sultan annual Hari Raya open house is the closest that you can get to a ruler of a country (perhaps in the world too)
13. Brunei youths have jokes that people who have been living in Brunei understand them
14. Brunei is one of the oldest monarchy system in the world aged 600+ years old
15. Brunei is also home to one of the few 6-star hotels in the world, The Empire Hotel & Country Club
16. Bunga simpur is Brunei national flower
17. Brunei unofficial national dish is nasi katok, rice with a big piece of chicken which will force you to have 45min basketball session in Menglait just to burn all the calories earned from eating nasi katok
18. Brunei have 4 districts (Belait, Brunei Muara, Tutong, Temburong)
19. Brunei is also home to world largest residential complex, Istana Nurul Iman with 1788 rooms
20. I dont know whether its the real person but some Brunei VVIP have Facebook, which is quite a surprise for me
21. Brunei is only 5765 sq km
22. Brunei owns a cattle station in Australia which interestingly is larger than Brunei
23. Brunei philosophy of life is Melayu Islam Beraja/Malay Islam Monarchy
24. Brunei made in into world headlines in 2010 more than other years as I see it
25. Brunei has one of the lowest fuel price in the world which is rather good but ironic in the age of high oil price
26. The current Sultan of Brunei is the 29th Sultan of Brunei
27. 23th February of every year is the day Brunei celebrates its Independence

There you have it a mixture of serious facts and fun facts on Brunei.
Selamat Malam, Salam Kemerdekaan

Companion or Friend? Or Lover?

In 2008, when I went to Taiwan for a holiday, came across a feng shui shop. The sifu 'tilik my nasib', and apparently what he said was quite true. He said that in the future if I were to suceed, I would need to depend on people around me especially friends. The problem is my relationship with people is kinda 'cool' like. The sifu also knew I had this problem, but he say there is no feng shui remedy to this but instead you have to work it out on your own.
What do I mean by 'cool'? Definitely not cool fashion style! For example, when talking to people, I have problem starting up a meaningful conversation. I need someone to start the ball rolling! Perhaps I should join the Speakers Club to improve this? Another is when chatting, yes I do fare better in chatting with people online but sometimes I do run out of things on what to chat. I cant be chatting about the weather every time right? I cant understand why I cant communicate well in real life but can communicate in cyberspace. Am I living in my own dimension?
Since everything is a result of chain of reaction, if you dont have a good relationship with people/act cool to them, then if they have outing they wont ajak you. However, if you have quite a good relationship with people you will get invites to join them for movie, steamboat, clubbing, partying, dinner, etc. I must say some of these invites comes 'unexpectedly' i.e. Im on my way to somewhere but on the way met my friends and they ajak me to join them. However, I must say I am not invited to all of these outings! Excuse me, this is not a 'talian minta simpati'!
As I said in my previous posting, I may not have a lot of friends but I do have a lot of companion. From companion, if you have a good relationship with them, they could turn to be your friend. Some people categorize them into 2:'minum friend' and 'true friend'.
Minum friend is the friend that you ajak out for drinks and you talk to them about your problems (I dont think I have any since I havent went for round of drinks or clubbing yet)
True friend is self-explanatory. These are friends that stay with you when you are in need, dont take advantage of you, are difficult to come by and should be treasured. (I think I have a few of these).
From friendship it may develop into love. Am I looking for love? The answer is YES! And I have been getting a lot of signals already!

More open about myself

For the past year or so, I have been blog-hopping around a few blogs of people that I know or  maybe dont know. 1 of the blog that captures my interest is lonelyreload.blogspot.com by Mr Lonely or a 20 something Mr Lim. His blogposts as he describe it himself are emo in nature. Its very much focused on money and love. He also posts up some interesting stuffs that he got from Apple Daily as well as CARI mandarin forum (too bad I read no Chinese so too bad I cant understand). What do I know about this guy? Very little, his uncle, Captain Lim is a pilot with Air Asia (or retired already), he lives in Klang and studies in TAR College, Gombak. Thats it I guess! Interestingly, there are not a single photo of him in the blog. He is afraid of people knows who is him really, due to the nature of his blog I guess? However, if you people want insights to live his blog is worth visiting.
P.S. Im not being paid for advertising his blog!
This blog (Yours Truly 245isme.blogspot.com) have been around as long as your Go! Broadband is around. This blog is turning 3 come May. I also have been quite 'secretive' about my life, but not as secretive as the blogger, Mr Lonely stated above. This is because I have occasionally posted my photos up, but not always since I look bad in photos (I wonder why?). What do you know about me? My birthday is 24 May, an international Malaysian currently undertaking my degree in Monash Malaysia, dont have a lot of friends, loves to save paper (LOL!), very poor (haha), not smart (literally). Not a lot right? Well today, I shall be more open about myself. Studied in a chinese kindergarten, Tadika Chee Hwa in Labuan before. Moved to Brunei in 1996/97, and studied in St. Michael's, Seria til Form 4, Form 5 in St. Angela's & last but not least Pre-U in Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Ali. What can I say about myself last time? Hmm a 'pai kia' (bad boy) maybe? You have no idea how many damages have I done as a kid haha!
Wokay, I guess that's enough for this posting. I shall post up more about myself as I continues to open up more about my life. However, in a article that I have read recently it advises people who blogs not to be extremely private in disclosing your lifes!

Feature:Love is in the air for some and shattered hearts in the air also

99,999 or 9999 roses in a bouquet, a self-cooked candlelight dinner with a glass of wine perfect (if you are not underaged/your religion allows it),a romantic day in planning. Imagine how happy your girlfriend will be? However boyfriends will have sakit kepala counting the sens and dollars of the cost. I think its a small price to pay compared to what you get! LOVE is Priceless, for dates and flowers there is M*****card, LOL! If you get the 'correct formula', you might get what you want perhaps a kiss if you have never kissed before or 'that thing'. Dont need to be so specific this is not a 18SX blog. However, those thinking of 'that thing' better think careful its not 'Do and Go', its 'Do and Sign'. A very heavy price to pay for few hours of 'high'!
For those who are celebrating as a couple for the 1st time, it must be a great experience but however those who have been coupling for quite sometime and celebrated Valentine for a few times already, if each year the planning like 'plain air kosong' aka same every year, I think your partner will be sienz! The male need to think creatively to think something sweet and special for every year Valentine day, to surprise your partner. However in some other countries like Japan and Korea, I think on Valentine's day the ladies/female will be giving chocolates to the male, and the males will  'balas balik' one month later. This is 360 degree round from what is practiced here.
Righty let me talk about something I had read on the newspapers. The weekendT columnist(guy) didn't know what to give to the girl that he wanted to date on Valentine day and so ask his mum! What! Some people say mum knows best, right maybe in some cases but not this time! The mum said give a pandan chiffon cake (yes no typo)! So, this guy give to the girl the 'gift', and yes you guess it right She walked away and dated the guy who smiled at her! 'Durian runtuh' for that guy, and poor columnist he have to have his own cake and eat it too.
According to a magazine article, it says 'the Romeo' in the guys soul is slowly waning, some of the examples are instead of writing love letters, now you confess your love in Facebook (I wonder can you check in love in foursquare?), another is no more go all out to chase a girl, now its 'come we pak tor want or not?' Straight and simple or in Management terms efficient or is it effectiveness haha. No doubt, there are still people who go all out to chase a girl instead of terus popping that sentence out the moment you see 'the one'!
For singles out there (including yours truly and god knows how many more people out there), dont be despair if you dont have a girlfriend to celebrate Valentine with you this year. We all hope that this is the last year we will be celebrating solo Valentine. Valentine is a day of love not only for lovers, but also family and friends. No rule book say that Valentine day cant be celebrated with family & friends. Valentine is a day of love all day round!
For those who have already broke up (worst case is broke-up the day before Valentine), dont be despair. Your destiny have already been written that this is not 'the one'. As an old Chinese proverb say 'The old one dont go, the new ones wont came'. Who knows you will get a better partner in the future. For those who are still using 'GPS' to search the right one (like yours truly & others), when it is time then you will find your other half! Sometimes you dont realise when the 'right one' is just around the corner! Even if you are thousands of km away fate will bring 2 souls together if you are fated to be with the person. For those, who have someone in mind already but cant get it. Dont worrry, if its yours it will be yours!
Time to close this full of love posting, to lovers out there especially people I know my coursemates and friends, Happy Valentine Day and may you have a sweet & memorable time with your partners. To those celebrating solo Valentine, have a great one too and its not too bad either!
P.S. Dont jump jump jump if not ready (If you know what I mean)