Gggrrrrr!!!! Why my Internet connection is so stupidly slow these days? I've been noticing this for 2 weeks already. A quick bandwidth test reveals something intimidating.

This is the test speed from iZZinet Bandwidth Speed Test.



The test using Jaring Bandwidth Test also shows result in similar range.



Come on! This is unacceptable. '150kbps'ish download rate from 1Mbps line is just so ridiculous. Even the upload speed is faster. I used to get something in the range of 800ish all the time before.

Is it just me, or is there is something really going on at Streamyx. I'm afraid it's the phone riser room leaking problem again. It's been raining a lot lately, and that room is still leaking.

Will definately give TM a call.

Been receiving this email from my sister a while ago, which I only happened to reply her email a few days ago. Gosh. I cannot be that busy.



I just wondering, what she ordered actually. After clicking the email, this is the thing that she ordered.


Baju raya? What first came to my mind - Wow! So early. But at the same tome, it made me to have something in mind as well. My "Baju Melayu" is 2 years old already, which mean that I will be wearing it for third time this coming Hari Raya. It's a good idea also for a new one this year.

So I went to Jakel, Jalan Masjid India yesterday. I thought that I amongst the earliest to ever think of buying a cloth for new "Baju Melayu (baru raya)" but oh boy. I'm wrong big time. This place is so damn packed with people, and the department that sells cloths for Baju Melayu is as packed.



I fancy green this year, and bought this 3D colour green one. 3D colour? Hard for me to explain what it is. LOL.



So, went to a tailor today - Gates at Pasar Datuk Keramat. Well, as you can see, there are lots of Baju Melayu hanging around here already. And again, I'm not really the earliest.



Well. All the measurements are taken. I do really feel some sort of satisfaction as I accomplish something. So, one thing off my todo list.

It's official now that I will be owning my own house. I have paid the remaining of the 10% down payment, and have signed the Sales & Purchase Agreement (SPA). Will be receiving the signed copy of the agreement in 2 weeks time according to the lawyer.



I guess just to attract people to look for a loan and pay the 10% down payment quickly, the developer is setting up this lucky draw for those who signed the SPA and pay the 10% down payment already. Well, I was there today. The price started with table fan, standing fan, and gets bigger to vacuum cleaner, fridge and air conditioner. And the grand prize is 32-inch LCD TV.



But I always not that lucky to win any of the lucky draw. And it's so lucky for that "kakak" to walk home with a brand new LCD TV. Gosh. I want that badly. Well, during the lucky draw, the host say something like "does anyone of you having itchy hand today?". Well, I told my friend I had an itchy feet. There's a little skin infection (ulat air) between one of my toe, and it's been like that for 2 weeks already. My friend suggested that I should immerse my feet in hot water.

You guess what? We went to Kolam Air Panas Hulu Tamu at Batang Kali straight after that. This is naturally peoduced hot water anyway, and people said that it has healing capability.


This is where it begins, the water that is heated by geothermal heat in non-volcanic areas. I'm on 50mm lens, and couldn't get better view of this pool.



Anyway, it really hot. But I don't know how hot it is. Wish I have the thermometer with me. But it does give a soothing feeling having my toes in the water. But I can only have my toes inside the water for 5 seconds only. And I kinda wondering there's one uncle there who immerse his whole body in the pool for 5 minutes. I guess I will be cooked if I do that.

Latest addition to my toys. This is really unplanned. I passed by one of the shop selling PSP, and kinda wondering how much new PSP costs now. I'm suprised that it is quite cheap now, and quite excited as well. After I left the shop, I feel a really big urge inside me telling me to get one.

Well, finally I got one. And this is the package that I get. I'm just getting the 2GB memory stick option. I have to pay an extra more if I want to get the 4GB one. I guess I'll buy that myself in the future.



Sorry. No unboxing process this time. This is the PSP out of the box.



Sweet. The PSP boots fine.



As always, for a every new gaming console/device that I get, there is a whole new world of itself - things like custom firmware, homebrew applications and game ISOs. Just for record, below are ISOs that I owned so far. Muahahaha (Evil grin)

No	Title
1	Activision Hits: Remixed
2	Aedis Eclipse: Generation of Chaos
3	Astonishia Story
4	Atari Classics Evolved
5	Ben 10: Protector of Earth
6	Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light
7	Bleach: Heat the Soul 4
8	Bomberman
9	Brave Story: New Traveler
10	Breath of Fire III
11	Bubble Bobble Evolution
12	Burnout Dominator
13	Call of Duty: Roads to Victory
14	Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness
15	Dragoneer's Aria
16	Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony
17	Dungeons & Dragons Tactics
18	Echochrome
19	FIFA 08
20	Final Fantasy
21	Final Fantasy II
22	Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
23	Final Fantasy VII: Core Crisis
24	Frogger: Helmet Chaos
25	Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
26	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
27	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
28	Harvest Moon: Boy & Girl
29	Hellboy: Science of Evil
30	Jeanne d'Arc
31	Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
32	Key of Heaven
33	Kingdom of Paradise
34	Legend of Heroes I: A Tear of Vermillion
35	Legend of Heroes II: Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch
36	Legend of Heroes III: Song of the Ocean
37	Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
38	Lost Regnum
39	Lumines II
40	Manhunt 2
41	Metal Slug Anthology
42	Monster Hunter Freedom
43	Monster Hunter Freedom 2
44	Monster Kingdom: Jewel Summoner
45	Namco Museum Battle Collection
46	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2: The Phantom Fortress
47	Need for Speed Carbon: Own the City
48	Need for Speed: ProStreet
49	Need for Speed: Underground Rivals
50	Patapon
51	Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection
52	PoPoLoCrois
53	Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
54	Riviera: The Promised Land
55	R-Type Command
56	Samurai Warriors: State of War
57	Space Invaders Extreme
58	Spectral Souls - Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires
59	SpongeBob SquarePants: The Yellow Avenger
60	Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max
61	Sudoku Coach
62	Tales of Eternia
63	Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology
64	Tekken: Dark Resurrection
65	The Fast and the Furious
66	The Sims 2: Pets
67	Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix
68	UEFA EURO 2008
69	Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
70	Untold Legends: The Warrior's Code
71	Valhalla Knights
72	Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
73	Winning Eleven 9
74	Worms: Open Warfare
75	Ys: The Ark of Napishtim
76	Warriors Orochi
77	Pro Cycling 2008 Tour De France

Labels: Toys

A friend of mine greet me today on YM, and he suddenly ask why I haven't been updating my blog for so long. Well, this looks like a well known problem of me then - just don't really know what to blog, and been really busy as always (or lazy as always to update blog)

Looking back at this entry, I did promise to write about my new fridge, since that incident really a historic one that brought me to buy my own house. So I though, this is something to blog for today then.

This is my spoilt 2-year-old fridge. Sigh. Still too new for this to be broken. I've spent RM550 already to fix this, and still it's not functioning well. RM550 - half the price of a new fridge already.


What's really wrong with this fridge anyway? The sensor & timer that control the compressor is spoilt. Under normal condition, the compressor will stop working automatically when there is frost of the cooling unit, to allow it to melt. And after that, the compressor will work again to cool down the fridge. What happened to my fridge, the compressor is in function all the time, and eventually, so many frost build on the cooling unit making no cool air being channel into the freezer. When it's not cool enough, all the things in the freezer compartment is melting.

To fix this, I have to switch off the fridge for 1/2 a day to let all the ice melt, and switch the fridge back on, and it will operates normally for 3 days or so until the ice start to build again around the fan area of the cooling unit. Then the process of switching off the fridge has to repeat again. And this is going on for almost a year already, and that is the period of time that I haven't been cooking at home at all, since I can't buy any raw meat as there's no place to store the leftover.

I have enought of that, and I guess it's time to buy a new fridge. Well, since I want to make a new purchase, let's get something that give your more satisfaction, even you have to pay a bit more than the normal price. So I'm getting this 640L LG fridge.


The unboxing process. As always, my cats are more excited than me. But it's rather a pity that I have to tear the box like that. Actually, the box can be lifted up, but since the ceiling of my house is rather low, I can't do that. And the fridge is just to heavy for me to tilt it forward, and pull the box out. If the box is still in one piece, I guess that will be a good toy for my cat.


Finally, here is my new fridge, next to the old one. Just don't know what to do to the old one. I guess I will sell it as scrap to any recycle centre.


I just hope that I have the courage to write a few more back dated entries in this blog prior to this entry. So, stay tuned!

Next episode of this previous entry. My leave application has been rejected, and the application form has been returned back to me.



This is the same application form a few minutes later.



And that is just exactly how I feel now. My heart has been crumpled so tiny. Want to see that leave application form on fire? Nope I won't do that as it will trigger the fire alarm and water sprinkler in this building. But that is just what I feel inside as well, burning!!! Sigh. I don't know. I'm so emotional lately. Just got out from a meeting with my boss, my "ex-boss" and HR manager. Nothing serious, but....... I will write more if I feel like it.......

I don't know, this email from my boss really gets to my nerves.

Hi Imran,
As you know so many project need you personal support at the moment, can you not take last week of June instead take in couple month later when most of the programmer on track?

If you worry about losing your 2007 leave which I will talk to H.R to sort it out.

I told her a while ago about me going to finish up my 4 days annual leave from last year during the last week of June, and I have plans laid down already for this precious 1 week leave, and now she's asking me to cancel it.

I'm a step closer in owning my own house. Late yesterday, I got a from the banker that's handling my housing loan that my loan is already approved. Was suppose to meet her last night, but due to the massive traffic jam caused by the 40% increase in the fuel price (thanks Pak Lah!), I don't think it's a good idea to go out that time, so we plan to meet up at Mid Valley today because she needs to explain about the offer letter.

It turned out that I'm not feeling well today, and call office for sick leave. SMS the banker that I can't meet today. But she told me maybe we can meet at my house. Well why not. So here is it, the offer letter that I got for the housing loan from OCBC bank.



I have a few other loan application that I made at other banks, but looking at what OCBC has to offer, I think this should be a good choice. Been reading from forum as well about OCBC Housing Loan, and didn't find any bad stories about it. Furthermore agent that handle my loan is very nice and very responsive. So I put my signature on the offer letter.

So next, I just need to wait for the lawyer to call for appoitment to sign the agreement.

I still feel like dreaming. Many say that buying a house might be the most expensive buy that you'll do in your life, and I basically done that at last. I was walking around one of the shopping mall to survey about buying a new fridge (there will be a seperate blog about this), where suddenly I saw a booth selling new house. Casa Idaman Condominium - the name kinda sounds really fancy to me.




As always, one thing that people consider about buying a new house is location. This is where this project will be,



and this is the artist impression on how it will look like upon completion.


But don't take map, photo and agent's words for granted. It's better to visit the site myself so that I will have a better sight on things that I will buy. So went to the showroom after that.



And here I am, in the show unit of type B. I kinda like the layout.



There has already been a ground breaking ceremony yesterday,



and work will be under progress too. So this is the area.



The offer that they made is also quite interesting to me.

• 5% discount for bumiputera
• Early bird discount of RM12,892
• Special rebate of RM8,000
• Free 2 car parks

Finally, it's the historical moment of my life where I book one unit for myself with the booking payment of RM1000.



I book the type A one, facing KLCC with the price of RM271,400. It is indeed the most expensive purchase that I ever attempted.


So I guess what I have to do now is just to wait for the loan to be approved, and after that will arrange the EPF withdrawal for down payment.

Like always, I like to research of things that I would like to buy. Visiting property forum seems to be a good option, since I can always reject this and get 70% refund of my booking fee.

I'm glad to see that most views are the positive one, to the fact that a new KTM komuter station is under construction very near to this condo, as well as YTL has bought vacant land around this condo to be developed as well. Sounds like this place a good investment.

7 years being at my current workplace, for the very first time, I'm feeling so suffocated on how messy things have become now. Seriously, I used to love and enjoy doing my job before, but now it's a rather spaghetti of mess that I've drowned into. How things have turned to be so politic, and everybody just trying to save their own ass. Day after day, I really feel that all of us getting farther from each other. I'm now part of this ugly beast, that really making me just to run away. Someone told me that this is the time that I have to play a little game, but playing game is never being one of thing that I'm good at. Not clear of what I'm trying to say? Well, that's the purpose. This is RANDOM thoughts anyway, where it suppose not to make any sense.