Usually it takes me more than months to use up RM100 reload card for my mobile phone. Celcom suck it all up in 1 day. I called Celcom support to find out but the support staff said Celcom network is not meant for iPhone. What a statement to get rid of customer??!!

The staff told me that my iPhone is accessing internet. I asked them to tell me what server my iPhone is accessing. They cannot tell me. Believed me I know how to switch off APN/Edge and even turn off push feature on all my email accounts. I have SBsettings & BossPrefs to disable Edge, 3G or any Internet access through telco.

Surprisingly, it starts sucking my money after I return from travel. I suspect that Celcom must have reset my configuration on my account. Previous 2 months, it was good as I have no charges on Internet.

Anyway, I hop back to my good old Digi. Service was superb, activated my phone in less than 24 hours. Digi, please improve your signal at my home and my office. If you do that, I will stay on forever with you!

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Here is the award letter against Celcom….

I was in US at the right time again. Coach was on sale. Yeap, it was pretty good sale because some bags were 50% off and others were given additional 30% off. It was a good bargain. I got my poppy design coach, one for my mom and wristlets for my cousins. I tried to snap some pictures but the staff stopped me. 🙁

I went to 3 coach stores, one in Gilroy, one in Petulama and one in Great Mall. Gilroy gave the best discounts. However there were not many choices there. Great Mall has more selections.

If anyone of you wants the Purple Coach Poppy 13843, I am selling this for RM850.00. Shipping & Insurance not included.

I am in US and it is freezing here, for me, that is. It is 9°C and every eating place I go, they served me ice water. Like I need to warm myself up with ice water. Ice water is not really good for health. I mean why do you want to freeze your digestive system? It probably will disturb it and it will not function as it is suppose to.

Don’t drink ice water, drink warm tea. I had developed some sneezing and nose congestion when I was here, it may be due to allergy. After I drank some warm tea, my nose cleared. Feeling so much better. Please do not serve me anymore ice water.
Anyway, what is happening in the States here? Lots!

Coach outlets on Sale! Some bags were a good buy like tote bags, swingpack bags and wristlets. And I got my poppy!

Apple is making an announcement today with a new launch of a new gadget. I wonder what it is. Some say it is a tablet PC.

Toyota Big US Recall and halting sales until the root cause is found and solved. Looks like the car suddenly accelerate and accelerator jams. Only new models manufactured in North America. I am feeling a little nervous because I am driving a rented Toyota Corolla.

Ok I am practically broke from shopping. I will be doing some window shopping only, that is very sad.

Should have collected the car tomorrow! But I didn’t, so ended up a tour around the airport. How did it happen?

You see I depend on the GPS when driving in US. I am not sure what happen, the GPS wasn’t cooperating. I just touched down after more than 15 hours flight. Fortunately I could sleep after asking for 2 blankets and a pillow, stacking it up and put my head on it. It was a full flight and not a pleasant one.

Anyway, I decided to go collect the car after I land. The GPS given to me is a new unit or model and I thought I was not familiar with the new software. The GPS kept going off. Usually if I go the wrong way, it will say recalculating. It didn’t but kept going. It kept saying I was near the destination. The destination is 10 minutes drive away.

Then I figured it out. I relocated the GPS from the left side to right site. It work perfectly and thank God I am safe in my hotel now.

I was invited to a trainer team building for 2 days at my workplace. The fun thing is I get paid to join this team building. Paid for fun and I am serious! Today was the first day and I had great fun. It is all physical challenge with management lessons behind it. At the end of the day, muscles were aching.

The challenges I like was this, 3 members in a team, 2 members were blind folded and the other to guide using verbal communication. The objective is for the members to finish a series of obstacles.

From the trainer observations, the funny ones that make me laugh.
1. The guide started pointing the blind members to go to this and that direction. Hello… blind members cannot see.
2. One obstacle where one of the blind members has to pick up 4 different colored chips. The guide kept telling the blind member that it is the wrong color and asked him to pick the correct color. Hello…blind member cannot see colors too.

Last challenge was to keep a ball up in the air as long as possible. I like this because we came up with a near to the best strategy. We hit around 48 times before the ball fall to the ground. Good eh.

Looking forward to the second day.

I got my hands on the Mini 110 HP Netbook. It is small and very light. I am glad it came with XP rather than Vista/Windows 7. It is installed with HP Games too. It does everything I need in there. It is very good for those who just want to access Internet, FB and blog. It is definitely suitable for traveler.

On the technical specs:
Intel Atom N280 Processor 1.66GHz
160 GB (5400 RPM) Hard Drive
1024MB RAM
Webcam
10.1” diagonal WSVGA Anti-glare Widescreen Display
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with shared graphics memory
802.11b/g WLAN & Bluetooth
6 in 1 Digital Media Reader
6 Cell Lithium-Ion batteries
3 USB port

On the not so good side, the screen is too small. I have to do a lot of scrolling too read a page of articles. The 6 cell Lithium batteries spoiled the design because it is bulging out, looking like a docking station. I also find it difficult to do pictures or photo editing with such a small screen.

Well this unit got a 3 years warranty and I hope it lasts as longer than that. I heard that many notebooks bum out after 1 year.

This cost RM1399.00

Besides good food, Penang is going green. I like it. Now if you are coming to Penang and shop here, remember to bring your own recycle bags. If you haven’t heard, no plastic bags will not be provided from Mon-Wed in most supermarket and shopping malls. If you need one, you have to pay for it.

I always keep a few bags in my car. Being a big prawn, I always forgot to take it out. Anyhow, I still can get it from the car if I need to.

Now for garbage, I get the biodegradable plastic bags. It is slightly more expensive but it helps reduce garbage. I found it in GIANT and green in color.

I know some supermarket use those plastic bags too. Once I store my stuff into those bags and it degraded into pieces. I had to clean up the mess.

I like the Green Penang, let’s keep the garbage out for the next generation.

No pun intended. I have been deceived by Lipton and next time I will stick to Boh. I bought a packet of Black Kiss Milk Tea. It is something new in the market, I thought I give it a try.

After I made my first cup, it smell and taste like coffee instead of milk tea! I looked at the ingredient, it has coffee powder….YEAKKKKKKKKKK!! I get sick when I drink coffee and they should put added coffee in the front of the label. If I have bad allergy towards coffee, I will sure sue them!

I never wanted to try this because I am a very ticklish person. However my gal wanted it, so we went as a family. We went to the one in Queensbay mall where children dip for free. Adult is RM28 per 30 min.

It was very ticklish at first especially when the fish bit the palm of the feet. I kept both the palm together to avoid being bitten. Later, it wasn’t ticklish anymore. It is fun. Funny, only a few fish swam to my gal. Maybe she had one round in KL last week. No more dead skin to feed the fish.

I felt my feet a lot smoother. It is good for dry skin. I will certainly go back again.

I must say that the highway in Klang Valley is really messy. It has a very poor roads planning. They build and collect toll but never take into consideration of driver friendliness. Imagine one road can be split into 4 different directions. If you miss, you land up in la la land. Sign boards are never clear.

I always got lost coming back from TheCurve. I got on the highway and never know which road to take because there are plenty of options. One of it go through 2 toll booths, one of it goes through 1 toll booth but drive a very long distance and the option I need is to avoid all tolls. All options go to KL, so never follow sign board that says KL.

Let me show you what I mean:

Finally some kind soul pointed out to me, when I got out from TheCurve to the highway, I go pass the first right exit, take the second exit and take the right most lane to make a U turn. Who would have known?

I think I will need a GPS next time I drive in KL. It has been too long staying away from KL.