Recently I noticed my phone balance reduces very quickly. I suspect something amiss. I went into Celcom online to check my phone usage. All you have to do is to sign up to their website to have that feature.

I saw a lot of 050|10005 type charges. I called up Celcom careline. The agent told me it is internet charges. Believed me I have my Edge turn off and I went to my iPhone browser, I cannot load anything. Now I am not sure how my iPhone can surf the net. The agent asked me to go to a handphone shop to format my phone. That does it! What kind of answer is that? It is just like telling me to have my PC formatted if my browser doesn’t work. Apalah! Celcom please trained your agent not to give silly solution to your customer. *FRUS*

You know why Celcom do not want to put any APN setting? Digi actually put an APN setting, it ensure those who wants to use Edge will need to key in the login and password. It prevents user from accidentally turn on Edge. But Celcom wants to suck all our $$$.

Now if you are a Celcom user and you don’t want them to suck your $$$. You better go to APN setting and put “SILLYCELCOM”. That does the trick. It will stop Celcom sucking your $$$ from your phone. Actually it prevents you from using Edge/GPRS. If you want to use it, just remove the APN setting.

One more thing, you also need to turn off auto PUSH from the email setting.

Goto Settings -> General -> Network -> Cellular Data Network

APN sillycelcom

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Here is the award letter against Celcom….

Many asked me where are the good food in Penang. Well, good food is everywhere. I believed everywhere you go, there are hawker stalls. Most hawker stalls have asam laksa, chow kuew tiew, Penang G cheong fun with dark prawn paste and others.

I always passed by the Sg Pinang Food Court when I am on the Jelutong Highway and I decided to drop by for some good food. I must say that there are a lot of varieties of food there. If you are here, you should go. It is not hard to find if you go on the Jelutong Highway heading to town. You have to go early to get a place to sit, it is always filled with people.

One special store is the BBQ seafood stall. Many varieties of seafood that you can bbq to eat. I ordered the special bbq brinjal. It is the most expensive brinjal I ever eaten. It cost me RM8. From a local point of view, it is costly.

You must try this place if you are visiting Penang. It is not very hard to find.

Love it! Love it! Absolutely love it. First of all, after many years of points collecting, I get some complimentary stay in Hyatt for my family. I would pick this hotel every time I go to Singapore for business. Sad to say that because of cost cutting, they remove this hotel from the preferred list. I hope they add it back on.

Why do I like it so much? First the staffs are super friendly. They treat me the same even though the stay was complimentary. Next, the room is spacious, especially like the bathroom. The TV is a huge flat screen.

I am glad they renovated the swimming pool and provide a children pool. My children absolutely love it. While my children were enjoying the pool, I ordered breakfast by the pool. It has my son’s favorite garlic bread and chicken drumlets. They love it. They asked me whether they can stay another night there.

Lastly as I was checking out, the staffs casually ask my feedback on the stay. I wasn’t complaining but told them the air condition in the room was not working well. It switched off by itself and I had to turn it back on. For that, they waived my bill for my stay. Isn’t that great, hardly get this type of service in Asia.

I will sure return to stay with them again! Absolutely.

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I got a call from UOB Credit Card center, they are willing to waive the RM50 service tax off my cards. Condition is I have to pay my telekom (phone) & tenaga (electricity) with it. Or choose 2 of the listed merchants. They need me to fill up the form to do that.

I was about to cancel my cards with them but with this offer, I thought I wait. If I knew earlier, I would not have pull out my insurance payment. By the way, the insurance payment is more than my phone & electricity bill put together. Who cares? As long as I don’t have to pay anything with it.

I have been loyal with UOB for more than 10 years and it is so hard for me to leave home without it. Kudos to them. Now I am waiting for CIMB to make me an offer. If not, it will be goodbye for them.

Let me know if you know of any credit card that provides a service tax waiver.

I am making progress on my new treadmill. I exercise to stay healthy, not so much of losing weight. Although slimming down my thighs would be a good thing.

What my progress? Hrmm…very slow. The first time on the treadmill, I managed to burn 50 calories on a 30 min walk and run. Yesteday, I burned 70 calories on a 25 min run. I ran out of time because I had to go out.

Today, I burned 0 because I was too sleepy after work. However after my nap, I took 370 calories of delicious World Class Baskin Robins ice-cream. There goes all the hard work. As I said, I exercise not to lose weight but to give my heart a healthy exercise and sweat out all the body toxins.

Next week, I will hope to burn 100 calories per day.

I walked and ran 1.6km on my treadmill. I only burned 50 calories. That is not even 1 roti canai or 1 egg. I need to work harder.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not trying to lose weight. Just stay healthy.

I always wanted to exercise but no time to do it. By the time I reach home and wait for my son to finish dinner, it is late. The other day while my family was shopping, we went into a fitness shop and started asking about treadmills. I tried some of them. The sales man cum instructor gave us a lot of info on treadmills. He told me that among the brand, made in US is more durable. I tried on some of them but the price was beyond my budget.

We went to another shop called Takasima, the sales man is really good in his tactics of marketing. He didn’t know I can see through it. First he said that there is a promo, if we get the treadmills, we will get a free exercise bicycle and he threw in a massage thingy. The price is still beyond my budget. Next he came up with a coupon with 35% discount. He kept telling me that the coupon is the last one and if I don’t make up my mind, it could be taken by someone else. Yeah Yeah Yeah…all sales people do that.

Anyway the price is within my budget and I wanted to own it. It has all the features I need with programs, incline, speed, pulse rate checks, safety feature and fold-able. It comes with life time warranty service. I didn’t even know treadmills need service. It is definitely a good deal for the price I am getting. Gift from my hubby.

Now I can exercise at home and stay healthy. It is long overdue. I just had 30 minutes of great workout. I feel superb!!

Today where can you find a bowl of Asam Laksa for RM1 about US 30 cents? Seriously, there is and the place is in Kuala Jalan Baru, Balik Pulau, Penang. The stall is set up very long ago, asam laksa used to be only 30 sens.

It is also a DIY asam laksa stall, meaning you scoop your own noodle, cut your own cucumber, onions, kunyit, chili and scoop your own hot soup. You can put as much as you one in the bowl with no extra cost. Of cause the bowl is small.

The stall is managed by a malay family. I loved the Asam Laksa here. I can have at least 2 bowls of it on any day. If you go to Balik Pulau, you must go taste the special DIY laksa.

Once in a while I have the same weird dreams. I am not sure you have it too. I am always getting a full bladder and tried to locate a toilet. When I found one, it is usually dirty or it has no door. Worst is one time, I could not find any and I had to do it at some weird places. Do you have this kind of dream?

Yes, when I wake up, 99% my bladder is full and I need the toilet. Once I even dream I did go to the toilet and urinated but my bladder was still full. Nope I didn’t urinate on my bed. It is really strange. Anyway, I will tried not to drink too much water before sleep to avoid these weird dreams.

Finally, we Malaysian are able to withdraw money from PayPal. I have been waiting so long to do this. Previously I ask my dear friend in US to help me do that. Now I can do it on my own. Hoorayyy!!!

Instructions here:
1. Login to Paypal
2. Click Withdraw
3. Click Withdraw to your bank account
4. Fill up the Bank details and remember to ask your bank for MEPS bank routing quote.
5. Hit Continue…Follow the instructions..

Sorry, I didn’t go as far as #5 yet.

No fees if you transfer more than RM400.00 and anything below, charge of RM3. Happy Withdrawing!!!