Winter solstice...冬至....

Winter solstice....

冬至....

Lengthen night, shorten day....

And Chinese celebrate this as a day of reunion, a family day, a day to get together, a day of getting a year old.....

And...

not to forget to have your bowl of tong yuen (glutinous rice ball)

Small colourful tong yuen....

Tong yuen...yum...yum...
I boiled the tong yuen (purchased with black sesame fillings)
Going back hometown... and going to boil again...just for the sake to have the tong yuen... lolz... XD

Sayonara Digi 3G...

Forget about Digi, and all the complain regarding to it. I had called Digi centre to resolve the Digi 3G broadband instability and dis-connectivity for N-times and I still not receiving any news yet from Digi.

I had decided to put an end for this. I am paying for nothing. I do have WCDMA signal strength after I plug in the USB modem. However, when I had clicked to connect, the connection show 1 bar of HSDPA and gradually the 1 bar is no where to be seen. All I can recall was the connection had failed and I need to reconnect again. I did from time to time, manage to connect and when I clicked to browse or to surf website which has heavy traffic such as facebook, the connection statistic bars were not moving indicating that the connection has failed to establish any data packet exchange, means NO CONNECTION!

I found out that Celcom did has their coverage over here at Kota Kemuning. Nonetheless, the coverage is not as ideal as Digi all because Berjaya Park is a Digi Territory area. I tried to register with Celcom and tested the modem and the connection yesterday. The signal strength from celcom is 3G signal. However, during peak hour, the connection dropped to EDGE. There's one thing favour celcom is that even the connection dropped to EDGE, the webpages were still loading in a slower pace. I guess it's better than I have a sudden dis-connectivity getting frustrated for this matter.

I am bring the Celcom 3G back to Kampar for a trial as well. Lets hope that the 3G works, even without WCDMA.

All I can say is that from the day I had Digi 3G data sim, I had been cheated even I had been given a 4GB quota as compare to the current user- 3GB. The data statistic of surfing a webpage at its peak, can never surpassed 120kbps, even with a package that read 7.2mbps. At least, I can see Celcom surpassed 300kbps when I am in a Celcom territory.

So, sayonara Digi 3G...

and Digi, you better buckle-up your 3G service, or you had all your customer running away.

delay from purchasing department

I am so damn screwed by this uni purchasing process.

I had submitted a requisition at the 1st week of December, and they has messed up my requisition with the account to spend charges to WC's. I called and send in emails to fixed the matter, and now, another matter arose.

The purchasing department still let the requisition pending and d@mn it, S***thi told me in a @mn slumber tone that, "i had submitted the requisition! what you wan me to do?" WTF!!!!!!

Call that d@mn Mr Goh from purchasing and kick his @ss-lah. What else? I am too fed-up with the school purchasing system to be so independent and always needed to go through the other finance department for approval. and h3ll ya, they told me it's in pending status at their side and they're still holding it. I would like to know, why on earth that this uni needed such a system as it's not appropriate and it's too red tape.

Oh my gosh....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Father God,

Please bless the requisition and the purchasing of the kits and reagents to be smooth. Be it no obstacles and the approval of the requisition to be fasten by Your blessing.

All this I ask and pray in the Lord most precious name Jesus Christ, Amen.

***If the kits and reagent did not came in on time, I will be a dead meat, soon, real soon.... =="

gel doc down...

Okay, I tell myself to be calm.... calm down... calm down...

BUT I CAN'T!!!!

The Gel doc image system at level 4 aren't functioning. The slide door of the gel doc imager couldn't be closed and due to this, the imager couldn't function properly.

It's been some time the gel doc at level 4 spoil, it's just because I have not been running any gel electrophoresis; that's why I did not notice.

With 1 more equipment down, what else better that the uni can offer?

=="

Digi Turbo 3G no connectivity at Berjaya Park!!!

I had called Digi Helpline to inquire regarding to the unstable connectivity by Digi 3g broadband at Kota Kemuning.

I had tested the modem by using the Digi 3G broadband at other areas and one of them is Bandar Sunway. After lodging complain to Digi regarding to the disconnectivity at Bandar Sunway, the signal strength and stability of the connection getting better, with at least 3 bar of the HSDPA signal. However, the connectivity at Kota Kemuning is getting worst day by day.

Initial subscription of Digi 3g broadband served almost 100% signal strength every day. The downloading and uploading rate a bit disappointing even from day 1 of the subscription because it did not gave 7.2 mbps speed, only with less than 100 kbps and when connection was good, it will raise up to 120kbps. That's the fastest from the subscription. Well, I know that I am paying 3G for a non-3g speed, but it wasn't my will to subscribe. Berjaya Park Kota Kemuning is claimed to be a digi territory. How do I get to know this? Referring to all my previous post regarding to the internet connection, my brother in law had asked TMnet to install streamyx in the house. However, TMnet staff could not do anything because they do not have the connection at Berjaya Park, and that is a Digi territory. The only way to get a fixed line is through Digi and the only way to get internet connectivity is through Digi as well. Apperantly that time, other telcos signalling at Berjaya Park are quite weak as compare to Digi.

Well, since Berjaya Park is a Digi territory, I did not see any excuse of Digi failing to boost their signal here for 3g broadband. Again, the most ridiculous answer and feedback from DigiHelpline was that Digi is having upgrading. What? Upgrading? With upgrading every now and then, how on earth that the services of bandwith provided is still low with less than 100kbps and Digi is upgrading their service? Liar! When they are doubting whether is my computer is at fault, I told them I had tried using the card in other brand of lappy, in different places and as well as using the same data sim in 3G phone as modem to try the connection. To my disappointment, the disconnectivity still happened. I can be at MSN one moment, and out of a sudden being disconnected and the worst thing is, it won't redial automatically! =="

The signal strength shown when you connect the USB modem is 4 bars WCDMA, and when clicked to connect....the signals shwon 2 bars HSDPA, and when you're waiting patiently for the authenticating.... it suddenly shown FAILED to CONNECT to the REMOTE COMPUTER!

Well, this is Digi 3G service. I could not believe, after so a lot of testimonial of good news regarding Digi broadband being wide spread, and now, they're pulling their leg, showing incapability to handle 3G services, as well as fail to even gave me EDGE signal where 3G coverage is down!

So, Digi, please do not simply gave me reasons like, we're having upgrading services, not downgrading... and we'll look into it and lodge an official networking problem on behalf of you in our network department! I am so sick of it and I want to know, when will you finish investigating of the downgrading service, and when will you buckle up your service back to the 3G that I had subscribed!

I had taken this photo while I am waiting for the connection test. This is a PING test performed while I had the connection instability and did you notice the F*?! It's a total fail for the internet service provider.

I needed the internet connection to surf journals, to send in important email as well as to inquire certain important details from conferences organiser. I had to be at the uni for such facility now and then, even I am paying for Digi 3g broadband!

PTPTN-example offer letter

The PTPTN new offer letter will be as such:

The new offer letter will have details of:-

1. the reason of generating a new offer letter

2. the institution you had studied in when you had applied for the PTPTN loan.

3. your programme in the institution.

4. the level of your study.

5. the sum of the loan by PTPTN.

6. fixed duration for repayment/ your payback time frame.

7. administration fees- fixed at 1% per year X duration of repayment

8. monthly repayment- the amount per month for ??? months starting from the date (1 year later of your graduation)

9. methods of payment:- through LHDN, the treasury of malaysia. (PTPTN reserved the rights to change the methods with a written notice.)

**There is a written clause :

Walau apa pun peruntukan di dalam surat ini, PTPTN berhak meminda syarat-syarat dan terma-terma yang ditetapkan pada bila-bila masa berdasarkan keperluan tertentu dan tuan/puan adalah tertakluk kepada pindaan-pindaan tersebut. PTPTN juga berhak menarik balik tawaran ini tanpa perlu memberi sebarang sebab.

Please bear in mind there are 3 more written letters for giving authority access to your banking infos, kwsp, socso, immigration and etc.

Letter 1: KEBENARAN/KEIZINAN MENGHUBUNGI LEMBAGA HASIL DALAM NEGERI/KUMPULAN WANG SIMPANAN PEKERJA/PERTUBUHAN KESELAMATAN SOSIAL/BANK/MANA-MANA AGENSI LAIN UNTUK MENDAPATKAN MAKLUMAT

BERKAITAN PENERIMA BIAYA

(Authorisation to access LHDN, KWSP, SOCSO, Banks, Other agency regarding to the applicants)

Letter 2: KEBENARAN/KEIZINAN PEMOTONGAN GAJI KEPADA MAJIKAN BERKENAAN UNTUK BAYARAN BALIK PEMBIAYAAN SEMULA PINJAMAN PENDIDIKAN PERBADANAN TABUNG PENDIDIKAN TINGGI NASIONAL (PTPTN)

(Authorisation to access wages reduction through the employer of the applicant)

Letter 3: An official form to fill in for letting PTPTN the access for wages reduction.

These will enable the PTPTN to have non-stop access to check your account balance, your working status, your current financial status, your loans and etc.

### If you are having doubts to share these information with the Government and PTPTN, you might need to reconsider the application of 3% to 1%.

PTPTN 可能是个骗局。

Recently saw a note posted at facebook, showing the real maths behind the theory of 3% to 1% reduction of PTPTN loan.

After such reading, I am having doubt. I had received the soft copy of the documents and I had not fully understood the term and condition. A lot of phrases that needed to have authorization from the applicant to the PTPTN to access.

As a result of this, I am having doubt on how this reduction of 3% to 1% really worked out to ease the burden of borrower.

The new agreement had a clause that forced the applicant to make payment every month and the PTPTN has the authority to access our bank and KSWP for repayment purpose.

The fact that when they (PTPTN) has the authority to access our banking infos and our other details regarding to the income, they can make charges and legal enforcement to make us pay.

The other unfairness to the applicant is the clause that the PTPTN has the rights to increase the percentage of cost from time to time. This will definitely become a big lost to the applicant if the government suddenly announce something like we're having bankruptcy by the year 2019; and the interest rate of PTPTN shoot up to 3% or more.

The other uncertainties are the PTPTN reserved the rights to block the applicants from leaving the country and they has the authority to force the full payment to be done within some certain period if they found out that the applicants has more than enough money to be spend for travelling oversea but resist to repay PTPTN.

Some details of calculation of the interest before and after reduction were shown by some good Samaritan. Credits to the author.

You can find the link here.