Waking up this morning, it is rather unusual that I didn’t see Oyen in front of my bedroom’s door, meowing loudly waiting for the food for breakfast. I tried to shout his name several times, which usually he will come running to me at the time like this (for food).

I found him still sleeping, and when I got near him, he woke up, and started to rub his eyes with his paws. Then when I have even a closer look, I saw this.

On no! What’s happenening to my Oyen? Decided to take 1/2 day leave today to bring him to vet. Sigh! I hate going through the HR department explaining why I need to take 1/2 day of emergency leave. In the past, it’s quite simple. I just need to phone my boss, and she will update that in the system. But now, they want every single leave taken has to go through HR department.

Allrite. Just called HR, and just called my boss. I’m off to vet clinic now. Oyen seems not so very comfortable.

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Having 4 cats, it is something that I expected that food will run out quite fast. Managed to go to Pet Safari yesterday (while visiting Ikea as well) to buy food for my cats. It seems more economical to buy in bulk size, rather than doing several the shopping of several smaller packets. So, I end up buying this 7.5kg sack on IAMS.

It breakfast time for my cat today, and they all seems so hungry with the long meow. Bought this big air tight container yesterday too at Jusco. As you can see, Oyen can’t really wait for me to finish storing the food in the container,

and while I go to get the food bowl, I saw Oyen is already eating from the container. Ebot also starts sniffing the food in the container as well.

Anyway, how to make sure that you don’t overfeed the cat, where there won’t eat until it finish (waste), or to underfeed the cat? The lady at Pet Safari is kindly enough to give me this measuring cup (which only given for those who buy Science Plan cat food). There’s a marking there on how much you should feed adult cat and kitten. I use that marking as a guide on how much to give.

Aaaww. Look at them, having breakfast together. They all look so sweet.

I’m getting hungry myself.

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In the past, I have blog about Oyen eating grass, something that is believed to have therapeutic effect to cats.

Or maybe eating grass is just Oyen thing. Let put this to a test, since as always, I full of curiosity myself. So the subject of experiment is the 2 feral kittens.

I have been planting the grass on larger scale. So my first subject, I put the white kitten next to the grass. Well, it seems that he starts to nibble on the grass blade, and ate a few. But I cannot jump to conclusion yet.

So here comes the second subject, the orange kitten. To my suprise, this kitten starts to munch those grass as well.

So this grass thing became more mystery. What cat really see the purpose of eating grass is for, except for the therapeutic mentioned ealier.

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Taming feral kittens has come to 26th day now. I have already set the kittens loose in my house, to accustom them to the house surrounding. At the moment, the kittens are fine with me handling them in the room where I lock them, but when they are outside, they keep running away from. I think they don’t feel safe when outside yet.

Oyen and Ebot are getting along really well with them. So I have no fear that both will try to hurt the kitten. Oyen is giving the orange kitten a bath, while Ebot sit not very far.

And the white kitten look at them from the top.

And here are some footages that I manage to record a while ago, and over the past weekend.

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As promised, the entry this time is about the forth cat that was depicted in the previous post. As a matter of facts, this is a really past tense entry.

On 11th February, me, my housemate and 2 of my friends from Penang decided to go to SPCA. We have nothing to do for the day, and it will be a great thing to visit animal foster house like this, watching cats that they have. I heard of PAWS (Paws Animal Welface Socienty) from a website that I stumble upon on seach engine a while ago, and suggested to go the first.

So here we are, and the enterance of PAWS Malaysia, Subang. Not too hard to find with the map given on PAWS Malaysia website.

Basically, the place is divided into 2 sections – 1 section for dogs, and another one for cats. Well, it’s the cat section that I have interest in. There are quite a number of kittens/cats here, in a well organized and maintained place.

If you are looking for domestic short hairbreed cat, then this is the place to come, as I believe most of the cats are brought here from astray cats that people found. They sometimes have other breeds too, but that depends on luck on whether they have one that’s not adopted yet.

Anyway, it’s rather sad to see how all those cats end up being here. I feel like bringing all of them back to my home, but it is just I cant. But out of all cats, this one really catch my attention. And he is very friendly too.

So I decided to adopt him. So the caretaker there told me that it will be RM30. I didn’t plan to adopt any, and didn’t bring my pet carrier with me. But they have this paper pet carrier sold at RM10. Well, for the sake of charity, I don’t mind paying that price.

So, the next step is to go into the office, and fill in the necessary form. Sorry, I don’t have photo to show, as the person inside is so paranoid with me taking photos inside. Well, I should respect that, and refrain myself from taking any photo inside. Anyway, that fella did ask me why I want to take photo. I just said that I only use it for blogging purposes. Then he ask, what is blog? Err.. What is blog arr? I just told him that it is just my online diary.

Anyway, RM30, it’s really good price. The cat has been neutered, and all 3 vacinnes have been given, and the cat has also dewormed. So, this is the story on how I get Ebot – my forth cat (and this will be the final cat that I will get).

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It has become a normal thing for me to hear cat meowing in front of my bedroom’s door everytime I wake up in the morning to work. It has also become a normal thing to hear cat meowing at my front door everytime I came back from work. And again, it also a normal thing to hear cats meowing from the store room that I have converted to kitten’s room. All those meowing are for the same reason – they are asking for food.

Just got back today, and the same as any other days, it has become a routine for me to give all of my cats food – everytime before I went to office, and everytime I got home. And these are what I give them.

Feel like photographing my cats having meal today. So, here are the adult cats having dinner,

… and these are kittens having dinner.

But wait. In the past, I blog about Oyen and 2 feral kittens. Oyen + 2 feral kitten = 3 cats. And who’s the forth cat in the photos above? Stay tuned to know about that cat.

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To view the video for this, select Kiroro – Best Friend from the dropdown list of this page.

Artist  :  Kiroro Song  :  Best Friend Album  :  Kiroroのうた1

Mou daijoubu shinpai nai to nakisou na watashi no soba de
I don’t have to worry anymore, cause you will be by my side when I cry
itsumo kawaranai egao de sasayaite kureta
You always smile at me
mada mada mada yareru yo datte itsu demo kagayaiteru
I am blessed because you always shine before me
toki ni wa isogisugite miushinau koto mo aru yo shikatanai
Things that we have missed hastily at time, that’s the way it is
zutto mimamotte iru karatte egao de
Faces that always being looked at
itsumo no you ni dakishimeta
Forever hugging each other
anata no egao ni nando tasukerareta darou
Your smile has helped me endless time, you know
arigatou arigatou Best Friend
Thank you thank you Best Friend

Konna ni takusan no shiawase kanjiru toki wa shunkan de
These plenty happiness that I felt at this moment
koko ni iru subete no nakama kara saikou no purezento
All the friends that I have here, you the best present
mada mada mada yareru yo datte itsu demo minna soba ni iru
I am blessed because you always be by our side
kitto ima koko de yari togerareru koto sonna koto mo chikara ni kawaru
Surely things that I have accomplished here, those things too give me strength (change to strength)
zutto mimamotte iru karatte egao de
Faces that always being looked at
itsumo no you ni dakishimeta
Forever hugging each other
minna no egao ni nando tasukerareta darou
All of your smile has helped me endless time, you know
arigatou arigatou Best Friend
Thank you thank you Best Friend

Toki ni wa isogisugite miushinau koto mo aru yo shikatanai
Things that we have missed hastily at time, that’s the way it is
zutto mimamotte iru karatte egao de
Faces that always being looked at
itsumo no you ni dakishimeta
Forever hugging each other
anata no egao ni nando tasukerareta darou
Your smile has helped me endless time, you know
arigatou arigatou Best Friend
Thank you thank you Best Friend

Zutto zutto zutto Best Friend
Always always always my Best Friend

Meta Tag: kiroro, best, friend, lirik, lyric, lyrics

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To view the video for this, select Elyana – Pakai Kanta Cinta from the dropdown list of this page.

Artist  :  Elyana Song  :  Pakai Kanta Cinta Album  :  Bicara Mata Ini

Cuba pakai kanta cinta
Dunia kan nampak indah
Warna suram macam muram
Bagai ditirai pelangi

Orang yang tak kau kenal
Melemparkan senyuman lambaikan tangan

Cuba pakai kanta cinta
Harimu kan nampak tenang
Jalan hidup depan redup
Jelas tersusun terarah

(Bridge)
Orang kecil dan besar
Menghulurkan bantuan menyulam ihsan

(Korus)
Cuba pakai kanta cinta
Hatimu kan rasa senang
Cuba pakai kanta cintamu
Pasti kau kan puas hati

Cuba pakai kanta cinta
Dunia kan nampak indah
Warna suram wajah muram
Bagai ditirai pelangi

Meta Tag: elyana, pakai, kanta, cinta, lirik, lyric, lyrics

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Looking back at 1 and 1/2 years back, I feel really stupid on why I have my own domain managed by someone else. I don’t have the ownership at all to something that I call my own domain.

I remember clearly, when I first set up my website at mohdimran.com (which hosted at mesrahosting.net at that time), I did ask them what’s the login for my domain on onlinenic.com if I want to manage my own domain? But I didn’t get a reply from them (as expected).

I get to know Google Apps for Your Domain product from Google for so long already. More about this product is here. But I didn’t have change to use it since I don’t have complete control of my domain.

Now with my domain moved to godaddy.com, and I have nearly complete control over it (except deleting domain), I can change DNS, add CNAME aliases and change MX Records, things that Google Apps for Your Domain ask you to do.

My current hosting doesn’t come with email solution, and it is sold as seperate package. But fear not, Google Apps for Your Domain is there, where I can have 2GB of free email space, accessible online and with Gmail like interface (which I like very much). So here it is, my own email service at
http://mail.mohdimran.com/.

At the moment, I’m using TagMe! logo until I can find a better logo for mohdimran.com. Not just that, I also have http://calendar.mohdimran.com/, which both mail and calendar are accessible from http://start.mohdimran.com/.

What about blog? I remember someone asking me – I have my own domain name, I have hosting, why not run wordpress and I can have my blog at my own domain. But I kinda fallen in love with blogger already. It’s free, it fast and full featured (with the new version of blogger now), and uptime is much guaranteed. But the drawback is, I need to stick with using http://blog.mohdimran.com/ for the address.

But wait there. That’s no longer a case. Upon visiting my blogger dashboard today, I found the following text about Blogger Custom Domains.

The new version of Blogger now supports using a custom domain for serving your blog. If you already own a domain named, say, mysite.com and want your blog to be served at that address instead of at a blogspot.com address, we can host your blog on that domain for you — for free. Your old Blog*Spot address will forward to your new custom domain, so the switch will be seamless for your readers.

This is so exiting, and I just configure my blogger right away – create a CNAME at my domain, then edit some settings in blogger (just refer to the link above to know more about this). As a result, my new blog address is

Update your bookmark folks! But http://blog.mohdimran.com/ will still be accessible. I’m so happy. I can use my own domain in the address, but everything stays on blogger server as it is. I’m very happy!

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The past 2 days have been one of the happiest time of my life, and particularly today, I feel like I’m flying high. Sorry, I’ve been quite for a while, and it’s for a reason. I’ve been struggling (take not that the word struggling is bold) to get mohdimran.com up and running again, and being in fiery situation that I don’t have mood to blog.

To those who is wondering what really happened to mohdimran.com, or to TagMe!, here are the events in the chronological order that really put me in a very mess, wearing and fiery situations.

November 23, 2006
Received a call from mesrahosting.net, telling me that my hosting is using too much resources. And they said it comes from tagboard. They ask me to do something about it. I have a bad feeling already, so my immediate remedy is to close the new registration to TagMe!. Blog about this is here.

January 15, 2007
My hosting has been suspended, with this message shown “Suspended Due Overload Resources, Please Check Your Email For Latest Update”. Called mesrahosting.net, and they said they have sent me email about the matter. I said I didn’t receive any. Then he ask me to speak to Mr Zainul, and gave me his phone number. Give the fella a call several times, but not picked up. Called mesrahosting.net again, and ask them to leave a message to Mr Zainul to call me back about my hosting.

January 16, 2007
I think I had enough with mesrahosting.net. It’s better for me to terminate my account here, and find hosting somewhere else. I don’t really care that I still got 8 more months before my hosting is expired. The most important thing now is for me to able to transfer mohdimran.com domain somewhere else.

Gone through their Terms and Conditions on how to terminate account, and below is the screen capture of the exact texts that I found.

And that is what I did, sending account termination request to cancel@mesrahosting.net. And haven’t heard anything yet from Mr Zainul, so gave mesrahosting.net a call again today. My call couldn’t get through, but instead being picked up by answering machine. I wonder what time their office closed (I gave them a call around 3pm something). I tried the online support on their website, but no one pick up the session too.

I’ve also initiating a domain transfer request from current onlinenic.com, current registrar, to godaddy.com, new registrar. Since the domain is registered under their name, the email of the next steps for the domain transfer is sent to domreg@mesrahosting.net.

January 17, 2007
Didn’t receive any news yet from mesrahosting. I’m getting really tired about this. I tried the online support again, and manage to talk to them. Below is my chat transcript with the fella

Company: MesraHosting.net
Department: MesraHosting.net Support
Name: Administrator
Email: admin@mesrahosting.net
Day: Wed 01/17/07 03:38 pm
** You are now speaking with Administrator, MesraHosting.net Support.
**
Administrator : Selamat datang ke Pusat Bantuan Pelanggan Mesra,
Boleh saya bantu anda?
Administrator : nama domain anda ?
Imran : mohdimran.com
Administrator : ok . .apa yang boleh saya bantu ?
Imran : semlm, saya ada hantar email pasal nak terminate saya punya
akaun. nak checklah pihak tuan/puan ada dpt ke tak
Administrator : saya tak dapat lah .. u hantar ke email mana ye ?
Imran : saya hantar dekat cancel@mesrahosting.net
Administrator : ok .. boleh tolong hantar ke support@mesrahosting.net
Imran : okie. saya akan forward email tu balik
Imran : dan satu lagi. saya ada request domain transfer
Imran : dia ada hantar email dekat domreg@mesrahosting.net utk
authorization
Imran : so harap2 boleh authorizekan…

Sigh! Now they ask me to send the account termination request to support@mesrahosting.net.

January 18, 2007
Still no call from Mr Zainul, and I still don’t know what is the status with my mohdimran.com domain transfer request. They should forward the email that godaddy.com sent to domreg@mesrahosting.net. I called Zainul, couldn’t get through. Then called mesrahosting.net. The receptionist said that I should speak to Nurul, but she’s out for lunch already. Call her again after lunch, and only manages to get her at 2:40pm, where she told me to call back in 15 minutes time, where I have meeting at 3.00pm. Another day wasted.

January 24, 2007
Oh dear. I’m exhausted already with all the phone calls. Called mesrahosting again, and I get Nurul again. She’s making mundane voice, which implicitly said “sigh… this guy again….”. And same answer that I get – I need to talk to Mr Zainul. Arrgghhhhh. Why it always has to end up me to call Mr Zainul. Ok. This time, I tried to called him 5 times, but same as last time, my phone is not even picked up. Actually, on the mesrahosting.net website, there are 4 phone numbers of which they claim – Live Technical Support. One of the number is Zainul’s number, so I gave a call to other 3 numbers. The outcome – 2 numbers cannot be reached, and 1 number didn’t picked up. Ok. My last resort. I sent email to support@mesrahosting.net, using a bit of harshed words. And below is what I sent to them.

from: Imran Ismail
to: support@mesrahosting.net
date: Jan 24, 2007 4:16 PM
subject: Status mohdimran.com
mailed-by: gmail.com

Kepada sesiapa yang berkenaan.

So macamana nih. Dah byk phone calls saya dah buat kat mesrahosting.net. Dan dah banyak kali saya try call En Zainul, tapi tiada jawapan. Dah hampir 2 minggu akaun saya kena suspend, dan request saya untuk pembatalan akaun dan “domain transfer” masih belum terjawab.

Regards,
Imran

I’m a very peaceful person, and I don’t really like fiery situation when dealing with things. I don’t really dare to use any harsher words in my email, so the above is how harsh that I can get in my email.

Aaahh. Finally, I received a reply from them.

from: “MesraHosting.net – Technical Support Department”
to: Imran Ismail
date: Jan 24, 2007 9:06 PM
subject: Re: Status mohdimran.com

Assalamualaikum,

Saya memohon maaf kerana tidak dapat reply sms dan juga email ini dengan segera kerana saya MC sejak beberapa hari lepas yang mana kerja kerja domain adalah di bawah tanggung jawab saya, walau bagaimana pun sila hantar sekali lagi request anda untuk transfer dan ianya akan di hantar ke email anda di alamat mohdimran.ismail@gmail.com

Terima kasih

Finally, the registrant name and email of mohdimran.com domain has been changed to my name. And this is basically what I’ve been waiting for the past 8 days.

January 25, 2007
I couldn’t proceed with the domain transfer, since I required auth code from my current registrar. Managed to talk to onlinenic.com technical support, and they said I should get the auth code from mesrahosting.net. Oh no. I thought my business with mesrahosting.net has finished. Send email to them again asking for that.

January 26, 2007
Still no reply from mesrahosting.net about my auth code. Resend them second email asking for it. I won’t bother to call, as what they will say – please contact Mr Zainul.

January 29, 2007
Finally, got my auth code from mesrahosting.net. So I proceed with domain transfer process at godaddy.com. Then, received an email from onlinenic.com. For security reason, transfer-out notice is sent to current registrant fearing that the domain transfer request is initiated by unauthorized person. Basically, in that notice, it stated a way on how to cancel the transfer process, in the event that the transfer is initiated by unauthorized party. If I wish to proceed with the transfer, I have to do nothing. If they not hear anything from me by 1st February, the transfer will proceed. Feb 1st. Ooohh.. That still long to go.

February 1, 2007
Nothing still happened, and my domain transfer status remains as “waiting for current registrar approval”. Penantian satu penyiksaan.

February 4, 2007
Hooray! I’m so happy today. At about 1:30 pm, I received email from godaddy.com that my domain transfer request is completed. That means, mohdimran.com is mine again! Anyway, I only happened to read the email around 10pm. So without further ado, I buy a web hosting as godaddy.com as well. The process is really smooth. The hosting is ready to be used as soon as my credit card payment is authorized. Changing DNS of my domain got updated pretty quick too, so I manage to use www.mohdimran.com only after several minutes I’ve updated my domain DNS.

February 5, 2007
Been really busy setting up my new hosting again. Been working on some changes to TagMe! as well, to make it work on this new server (with new environment)

February 6, 2006
TagMe! is ready, with a new feature added in – Control Panel. I can’t wait to let all TagMe! users know about this. Will do shortly.

There you go, my sickening 22 days of waiting before mohdimran.com & TagMe! is up again. And most of the time got wasted dealing with mesrahosting.net

Let us now look at the meaning of the word “mesra” as it is in mesrahosting.

mesra
–adjective amicable; friendly; hospitable; giving hospitality; warm and friendly; benign; kindly; mild and gentle; not malignant.

Well, I don’t feel any when I deal with them. If they want money from you, there will be super nice, sending reminder email that the hosting period is almost expired and needed renewal. But when it come to support, it hopeless.

What that Zainul guy claim that he’s been busy with so many hosting under him might be true, but does that show that it’s a one man show here? It’s the weakness of mesrahosting.net of not developing a good technical support, of which, why the customer like myself should be bothered about this? Or they are busy serving bigger customers, and since I’m just an individual customer, give less priority. But hey. You just loose one of your customer.

It’s no doubt that mesrahosting.net really offers a very cheap hosting service compared to any other web hosting company in Malaysia. RM100 for 2GB web space, 50GB monthly bandwidth, unlimited mySQL database (to name a few). But come to think of it again, they can offer cheaper price due to they are hosting lots of website on a single server, jeopardize the resources that one website can use. As a result, something that is not that heavy as my TagMe! already bottle-neck their server resources.

Talking about customer support, this really gave me heart attack. Don’t be fooled by the friendliness of the lady handling the sales department, as that’s what sales department is all about. And you won’t be handling with those from sales department all the time, since there will come a time that you need to deal with the technical department.

Talking about technical support, don’t be fooled again by what is stated on the website.

My first impression, wow! There are so many people available to assist you with any technical request. Until the time I need them, calling all the number won’t get any answer. You can try to call those numbers yourself if you won’t believe me. And if they answer you, I guess, I’m not as lucky as you.

It’s not really my intention to condemn mesrahosting.net in any way, but I just want to express my frustration with the bad support that I get from them.

My two cents, if you need to get any hosting, make sure that you register the domain yourself and have ownership to it. It is a lot easier if you need to switch hosting, or transfer the domain to other registrar, without having to waste unnecessary number of days just to resolve the ownership of that domain again (like what happened to me).

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