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Today, the 51st Independence day marks the 51 years of Independence for Malaysia or better known as the Merdeka Day!
51 years ago, on 31st August 1957. Malaya declared her independence from the British and today the whole nation is celebrating it again. Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!
What is the meaning of independence to you?
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I have posted about my huge frustration with Tune Money here and that problem was not resolved shortly after that. May be it’s fated on just a mere coincidence, that post got the attention of Lankapo, who is a strong advocate of Tune Money and things started to get better from that point on.
He suggested me to post a complaint on Tune Money’s CEO personal blog and he also gave me the email address of the CEO in case things still does not move. Talk about a good connection that I can benefit from and not wasting anytime, I posted a complaint at that blog under a topic that is not at all relevant to the Tune debit card. I thought it would just be deleted and never be published but I was proven wrong. It was posted there!
So, I decided to wait for awhile and see how things would go from there. Nothing really happen but knowing that I have another bullet in my arsenal (the email address), I made another call to the Customer Service yesterday.
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Good news for Malaysian mobile phone users. With the introduction of Mobile Number Portability (MNP), users can now change the their network service providers without having to forgo their original phone number including the prefix.
For example, if you are currently subscribed to Celcom with the number 0191234567, you do not have to change it to 0127654321 if you decide to move to Maxis. Previously, it was a hassle to change the service provider as that would mean having to inform all your contacts about the new number from your new service providers. Now those days are gone.
In fact, that was my major consideration when thinking about changing my network service provider especially when they are not keeping up with the changes in the industry and not providing offers that are given by others.
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Recently I wrote an entry about how firemen helped me to change my tyre and yesterday, my online buddy lankapo pointed me to another news about firemen in action. However, this time it is a somewhat bizarre news. It is about helping a man who got a metal ring stuck on his p-e-n-i-s (would be referred to as Mr. P from now on). The news is in Bahasa Malaysia and can be read here.
So, for the benefit of those who can’t read Bahasa Malaysia, here is my translated version of the news for all of you to read. Enjoy!
Yesterday, firemen who are normally called for putting off a fire or rescuing people who got stuck in their vehicles due to accidents are called to perform the weirdest rescue operation ever.
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The squabble over a folk song called Rasa Sayang (Feeling of Love) between Malaysia and Indonesia seems to get out of hand to the point that talks need to be held to resolve the issues. This is what has been reported in Yahoo News, Malaysia and Indonesia start talks after squabble over song, last Friday.
I have not heard about this matter in the local news lately but in this news, it is said that there have been calls to boycott Malaysian products in Indonesia. I guess this is not the first time that I heard about boycotting Malaysian products there…
In my opinion, to bicker about a song is really something unproductive for both Malaysia and Indonesia. There are many other more important issues that needs to be resolved and why do people have to pick a fight over a song. It is not even the national anthem or song for any of the two countries.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008. I was driving home from attending a technical presentation in town. It was a late evening presentation and therefore, once done, all I wanted to do was to get home as fast as possible so that I can have dinner with my family.
As I was driving along a stretch near the Shah Alam stadium, which was about 10 minutes away from home, I heard a popping sound. A sound that a balloon would normally make when it exploded. I thought that I must have hit an empty drink box or something similar to that.
As I drove on, I started to hear some hissing sound coming from the rear left of the car. I didn’t like the sound as I knew exactly what that was. There was no balloon in my car and there was no other thing that could be leaking air inside the car. I knew that it must have been one of the tyres.
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