Just came back from watching the premier screening of Iron Man at GSC One Utama.

As always, the free tickets are courtesy of Mr. Farihad. Thanks man.

I like the story very much. Clinking machine and man doing super things has never stopped to amaze me.

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I’m in dilemma, so as the title of this entry. Just a while ago the CLID display of my office phone showing a random number. I picked up the phone, and the person greet me so friendly like she’s been knowing me for so long. After she introduced herself, oh yes. I remember. She used to be HR Manager in my office long time ago – 5 years back when I’m still in my old department.

I’m not quite certain of why she’s calling me after so long. It turned out that the company that she’s at now is looking for some expert in technical field, dealing with SQL servers, dealing with web application programming etc, and asking whether I have any friend to recommend.

The part when she said “I know how you work, and I really want to find someone like you, passionate with technical stuffs” make me think she’s got a hidden agenda. And finally, the truth revealed where asked whether I’m interested or not.

In this era, it’s all about money, and that’s basically what I said – if the pay is good, then I might consider. It turned out that the offer is quite good. It the matter still lingering in my head at the moment – should I make that leap, moving away from this company. Frankly speaking, things are a bit messy here at my current workplace at the moment, which I never good at writing about unpleasant things that happened in my life. I’m glad to have this perfect oppurtunity of venturing into a new world, but at the same time, I’m so afraid of leaving the comfort that I have built here for almost 7 years. But which excite you more? I’m just not sure.

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It’s time of that year again for the submission of the income tax return. And it is the time where you will have funny feelings about seeing your hard earned money has to be given back to the government.

This year, I’m using the e-Filing system. I was using e-Filing also last year, but it was done at the LHDN Kg Attap branch that time since I didn’t receive the pin number for the e-Filing.

I have to say that this is how income tax form should be returned. The process is really very simple compared to the frustration that I had last time in the year 2006 when e-Filing was firstly introduced.

I was doing all the calculation on the paper version of BE form first, and after I have satified with everything, I proceed with the e-Filing.

Ladies and gentlement. I have ‘Cukai Terlebih Bayar’ again this year. Yippi! Not much compared to year 2006 one where it was around RM400 something. Even so it’s not much this time, I don’t have to worry about making payment for ‘Cukai Kena Bayar’.

Have you submitted your income tax form? 13 more days to go before the deadline.

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh…. It feels like I have been given back my life. Came back home from work earlier, first thing that I did is to check the status of my router. Feels like jumping in tears. The status shows Connected, meaning my Streamyx problem has been fixed.

Been 2 days without internet, and been 2 days with Maxis Broadband internet. I have to say that I went mental with the speed that I get from Maxis Broadband internet. If you have one, and try look at the Mobile Connect download speed status. The speed is intermittent. It is so unacceptable to get the speed of 10kbps on the line that is claimed as broadband.

Anyway, I don’t blame Maxis that much though. I guess the technology is still in infant stage. I’ve been hearing the same crappy speed from Digi and Celcom wireless broadband users as well.

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Late Thursday night, while I was browsing the internet, suddenly I’m getting page not found error. It happened to all website. Quick ping to www.yahoo.com gives timeout, which reveals that I no longer have internet connection. Restarting my router after that, but still no luck, until I look at the WAN Status in my router showing that the ASDL modem couldn’t make the PPPoE connection.

This happened in the past, which I think maybe Streamyx is doing maintenance, and the connection is usually restored after a while. So decided to go to bed for the day.

Friday, went to work as usual, but after I came back from work, my modem still can’t make the connection to the internet. I wonder why. I quickly called my friend who lived at the same block as me, different floor, and he said that his Streamyx is fine. The conclusion is, this problem is just happened to me then. I actually noticed that water are coming out from the phone riser room on my floor. I guess the leak in the room may have caused my Streamyx not working. To my suprise, my phone service is working fine.

It’s too late to call 100 to report this, so I guess, I will just settled down with my Maxis Broadband Internet for the night. And again, something weird happened I couldn’t connect to internet either on Maxis Broadband.

I desperately need to use internet tonight for work and gave Maxis Customer Service a call, where the agent asked my to call 1-800-82-2000 number. After dialing in, I’ve been put on queue, and waited for almost 15 minutes, and my call still not answered. Fed up with it, I hang up the call, and dial using my speaker phone. Easier that way that I don’t have to hold the phone next to my ear.

Waited for another 20 mins, and finally my call is answered. Gosh. Maxis really have to look at Maxis Broadband support. Over the phone, I just told the agent what’s my problem. After checking, the agent told my that my account has been blocked due to unsettled bill. Darn. They really when disconnecting service, but if there is problem with the service, it takes ages for them to fix it.

Another bad news the payment by credit card over the phone can be made during office hour already. So the agent suggested me to pay using online. How the heck I can make online payment since I don’t have internet connection? So the agent told me that he will activate the internet for the night, and I have to make payment tomorrow. Yeap. I’m fine with that.

At last, I’m back online with this sluggish internet service. I might as well make the payment of my bill online. But I have no luck. Everytime I submit the payment details, an error (which I don’t quite remember the exact wordings) is shown – telling me that the bank cannot be contacted for the payment. Please try again (something like that). As what stated there, so I tried making the payment again. I’m getting the same error.

So I guess maybe there’s a problem with the credit card, so I tried with another credit card. I’m getting the same error, and tried for the second time. Still the same error. Well, I guess I’ll pay over the counter tomorrow then at Mid Valley’s MASA Centre.

First thing first for today. Dial 100 and make a complaint about my Streamyx. I bet everybody that call TMNet about the internet connection problem has to go through the troubleshooting process, where we have to check the lamp on the modem, delete the current connection, recreate it, put DNS manually, restart the PC, connect phone line directly to the modem (not through splitter) and try to reconnect to the internet. All of that failed to restore the connection, and finally, a complaint file is opened, and I have to wait at least 2 days for someone to look at it. Nice.. waiting… this is something that I really hate to do.

Went to Mid Valley after that, and stop by at office for a while, and then off to MASA Centre to make the payment. But after the agent there retrieve my account information, she said that I don’t have to pay anything. How come? Then she said that I still have RM791 credit in my account. I’m still confused. How come? She then retrieve more of my account information, and told me that I’ve made 4 times the payment of RM263.91 yesterday. So i have overpaid RM791 into the account.

Yeah. It seems that even though it seems that my credit card payment last night didn’t succeed, but actually the transaction has been queue, waiting to be submitted to Maxis. Usually, once the payment is successful. I’m asking for a refund of the overpaid amount that I made, but I can’t do it at MASA, and have to go to Maxis Centre at KLCC.

Went there by car at first, but looking at the long queue of cars to KLCC, due to PC Fair perhaps, make a turn back and stop by at Jelatek LRT station. Luckily that LRT station is just under KLCC, and I found out this is very convinience. Here I am at Maxis Centre at last.

The service that I get from the staffs here is something to be commended. Maxis seems to be doing really fine in this area where the person that handles your query is very friendly. After I explained what happened, the person says they it can be refunded, but may take 3 working days or so as Maxis has to deal with the bank about the transaction. Sigh. Just another waiting that I have to do.

It’s been a long day today outside, so after reaching home, decided to watch movies that I downloaded using my Xbox Media Centre. But couldn’t find the xbox controller. After searching for a while, found it under the table. How on earth the controller ended up there?

After plugging in the controller, it seems that I can’t make any selection on the screen after the Xbox is turned on. Then I realize, why the controller ended up under the dining table is due to my cats running around in the house, knocked the controller that lying on the floor, and the cable just snapped from the Xbox, leaving a bended pin inside. Oh no. This is the only controller for Xbob that I have.

God. All of these things really messing my head – things got spoilt, things got unworked, thing got uncontrolled. Arggghhhh…..

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