Streamyx is bull$hit!!

One day, a boy pay a visit to www.tvtorrents.com hoping that there are new episodes of his favourite TV shows updated on their website, to his delight, the newest episode of Pimp My Ride is ready for download, so he clicks on the "Download" button and a few seconds later, Bitcomet started up and the download begin. Then, he left his computer and went out for dinner, thinking by the time he comes back, he can watch all the cool pimped out car and inspire him with new ideas on how to modify his Satria GTi, since it would normally take only half an hour to download the 178mb file with his 1Mbps broadband connection by Malaysia's NUMBER 1 BROADBAND PROVIDER.

After about an hour later when he returned home, he rushed to his computer, settle down to his arm chair and clicked open his "TV Shows" folder on his desktop. Something is weird, the file isn't complete, the file icon still shows "Bitcomet Incomplete Download File", so he open up his Bitcomet and to his horror, only 14.6% of the file is downloaded, and to make things worst, the file is only downloading at a pathetic 6kb/s!!

In the end it took 2 whole days to download that half and hour episode of Pimp My Ride. At first he think maybe is just Tvtorrents that is causing the problem, or maybe because his Bitcomet is outdated, but when he tried downloading the newest Bitcomet setup file which is only 3.0mb, it shows that time remaining for download is 54 MINUTES!!! 54 minutes to download a 3.0mb file on a 1Mbps broadband connection?? WTH??

Then this boy went into www.streamyx.com.my and run the bandwidth test...and this is the result he gets...





Now with this sort of results, you say he should be the happiest Streamyx user in Malaysia to get almost 86% of the advertised bandwidth.. but not feeling contended with the results, he now run a test on a overseas server...

So if he can get up to 107kb/s of download speed, then why can't he get it on his Bitcomet, or any other file downloads?? Still not satisfied, he now pays a visit to another well known bandwidth testing website which is located overseas (http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/), and start a "ADSL connection test in Asia"...

AND this is the results..





So he retry the test again, and again, and again, but without fail, this error page will appear again and again...

At this point, the boy gets overly extremely irritated and started cursing Streamyx in his mind and at the same time start having all kind of wild plans to bring Streamyx down...

But still wanting to know what on earth is his real connection speed is, he went back to the main page and select "DIAL-UP connection test in Asia"......

And this time, the proper result page actually loaded...

AND this is the SHIT he is getting from M'sia's "NUMBER 1 BROADBAND PROVIDER"!!!





This also prove HOW BULLSHIT is their stupid local bandwidth test provided by them. They should advertised:

"Fast 1Mbps broadband connection only for RM88 per month unlimited usage!!**"
**Only to our local servers which is in Malaysia and our bandwidth test website. Overseas connection are GUARANTEED less then 56Kbps**


COME ON MAN!! 24.1 PATHETIC KILO-BIT-PER-SECOND??? IT IS ALMOST 3 TIMES SLOWER THEN THE TRADITIONAL 56K DIAL UP MODEM!! #@$%#@$#%#@%*%&#%(*@$&%#^%#^$#@%$%$#

P.S.: I took almost 2 hour posting this because I tried to run the test several times in "ADSL Connection in Asia" before I give up and tried the "Dial-Up connection in Asia" and each test takes almost 10 minutes even if it didn't complete!!

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Click HERE to perform a PROPER bandwidth test and let me know your results!!

Mooncake Festival @ SSGC

Here is some pictures from the Mooncake Festival dinner held in SSGC. This is one of the first time where food is actually allowed in the sanctuary...weird. The church was packed with guest, I think easily more then 200 people. Overall I think the whole dinner went well although you can see people running around at the last minute trying to finalize some stuff. I do hope that the message got through to the newcomers, and hopefully they open up their heart to the good news that God has send His only Son, Jesus Christ to die for us all...

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Baby Zac..








Cannot make it as a waiter..






I'm no paedophile, I don't know who is she..


Unc. Paul creation??


Look at the amount of people infront SSGC!








Experienced waiter from Italianis..

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond in critical condition

Richard Hammond a.k.a. Hamster

For those who don't already know, Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond got into a serious 300mph (480km/h) car accident/crash when he was trying to break the British land record on a jet powered drag car at Elvington airfield near York.

Here is the full report by BBC..

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Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond remains seriously ill in hospital after a crash in a jet-powered car while filming for the BBC programme.

The 36-year-old was taken by air ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary's neurological unit on Wednesday.

A hospital spokesman said: "He has seen some improvement overnight, but remains in a serious but stable condition."

Mr Hammond had been in a dragster-style car capable of reaching speeds of about 300mph at Elvington airfield near York.

The hospital said his wife was at his bedside and, at the request of his family, no more information would be released.

The crash will be investigated by the Health and Safety Executive and the BBC.

The BBC said in a statement: "We are looking into all the factors of this accident and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage until we know the full situation."

The dragster car he was driving was believed to have been travelling at about 300mph when it crashed.

Motoring expert Adam Rayner, of Fast Car magazine, said that at those speeds the driver would experience forces similar to those endured by fighter pilots.

"These cars accelerate at 6G - the force is breathtaking and stopping is a real difficulty," he said.

Former firefighter Dave Ogden, who runs private firm Event Fire Services, was one of the first people at the scene of the crash.

He said: "We were down there with Top Gear who were filming him trying to break the British land speed record.

"On the previous run, the car had just gone over 300mph but I am not sure if it had broken the record.

"They had just done one more run and were planning to finish when it veered off to the right.

"One of the parachutes had deployed but it went on to the grass and spun over and over before coming to a rest about 100 yards from us."

He said his crew and an ambulance that was already on the airfield rushed over and found the car upside down and "dug in" to the grass.

Mr Ogden said he felt for a pulse and heard Mr Hammond breathing before the emergency crews worked together to turn the car the right way up and then cut him free.

He added: "He was regaining consciousness at that point and said he had some lower back pain. But he was drifting in and out of consciousness a little bit."

Former Top Gear presenter Quentin Willson said the presenter was "irreplaceable".

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Hope he gets well soon, it will be a shame if he is unable to make it, to lose another great TV presenter after Steve Irwin.

Happy 18th Birthday..

to..


Benjamin Tay and Bryan Tan..

AND..

This is Benjamin back in 2004 with his center putting hair style...

God's beautiful creation..

Currently listening to..

Continuum, John Mayer's new album. Launched on 12th of September, has some really nice new songs in it like "The Heart Of Life" (track 5), I'll rate it 4.5 out of 5, only because I find the recording rather disappointing, there are certain tracks his voice become too muddy and wet.

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New Zealand

Been pretty stress out with loads of assessment this whole week. Infact I've Physics assessment tomorrow too, but I tend to enjoy blogging more when there are test, trying to find excuse not to study. Just want to give myself a break, since I've already finished today's very stressful English theme study assessment.

Earlier tonight, after I came back from SS2 mamak and study half of the chapter that I would be tested tomorrow, I suddenly have the urge to just look through all the photos I took of the place where I've been too for holiday. And I came across photos from my New Zealand holiday, been thinking alot of that place lately thanks to a friend who have migrated there and never heard off for 3 years until recently. Anyway, went there when I was in form 4, and is the only place I remember most off, and actually really miss going back there again. You see, I'm not a person who love to go travel overseas, especially just to go on a 1 or 2 weeks holiday, I see it as almost a waste of money. Another reason is I've alergy to certain type of perfume smell, and unfortunately, I'm alergy to the aeroplane's perfume smell. Means the minute I step into the plane, I'll start having really bad migrane through out the flight, and will get very sick when I land, therefore the flight to London last time was one of the most torturous, threw up many times in the plane cause of the pain, and was feeling terrible for the first 2 days in London, and plus the jet lag to make things worst.

Anyway, the only country I miss most is New Zealand, it was the most unforgettable holiday. Why? Simply because this country is simply amazingly beautiful. I couldn't help but to fall in love with it, the scenery is as best as it can get on earth. The beautiful, never ending snow cap mountain, the beautiful valleys with rivers flowing in between, the beautiful weather, the whole island is just beautiful. The houses, building and the way they are built is unforgettable, not forgetting the huge parks you see as you go around, filled with bright, beautiful lush green grass, with equally beautiful trees and flowers around it, something we would never ever get to see and experience in Malaysia. Honestly, no words could describe how beautiful that country is, London and Australia are also beautiful places to go too, but New Zealand has something more and something different that can't be describe, maybe that's why people I know who go over to New Zealand to study choose to stay there forever, and if I have the chance, I would also definately migrate there....one day...

Truth be told, no amount of words could describe the place, only if you go there youself would you be able to understand what I mean, and even more. A picture paints a thousand words...I will have more then 35 thousand words below, but even that is still no where near enough to tell or describe New Zealand. If you haven't been to New Zealand before, then is one place on earth you should go to before you depart this earth, to see how great God is in creating beautiful things..

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In Singapore Changi airport, came across this block of chocolate, I wonder who in the right mind would try to eat this anyway?? Maybe the sign there is for flies and bugs..




Officially the world's steepest street!


This picture was taken at 8.30a.m., at the heart of Christ Church, notice there is NO car on the road!










One of the few castle's left in New Zealand, there is a very sad story behind this building, about how the whole family died, very sad and tragic












Me back in form 4.
















That's what I call a stuck up animal..


Cutest pig ever!








Sea lions! Cute and lazy..








Auckland.


See that little hill in the middle? That place is call "One Tree Hill", it is a actual place and is even on the map. Used to have a single old tree on that hill, but was chopped down 1 year before I went and replaced with this war memorial monument.