Well, for mine, definitely yes. youtube loaded in seconds, international website surfing is smooth and fast – the only bad thing is the BT speed still gets throttled. but that’s okay for me since i dont do BT DL that much, hahaha, pity those who buy up streamyx service for free Hong Kong drama.

As a quick update, i would like to highlight to you that there’s quite a debate going on here between me and another commentor named ‘it’s me’ on streamyx issue. for those who kept following streamyx complaints, perhaps you can participate on the discussion at here: Streamyx complaints. the page is bit of too long as the comments grow up to 70+, you might just scroll down and start reading from comment (67).

Have fun!

I was reading a recent interview of our foreign minister on BBC:

Sarah Montague:
Is it time to change Malaysia’s laws and treat everyone the same?

Dato Seri Syed Hamid Albar:
When you talking about, looking at everyone, we’re looking at nation building. The most important thing is Malaysians feel they are Malaysians. To recognise our diversity as a source of our strength, there is no need for us to change the laws so long as we’re able to exercise the unity, we’re able to act as Malaysians. And I think this is happening, the process of nation building is not a short process. We came from a very divided society that was recognised by economic functions, living at a very poor living standard. So I think we have tackled the issues in a way that will bring peace and stability, at the same time people are able to share prosperity of the country. And this is happening..

…read more from
- official source: BBC UK
- blogsphere: The Cicak

Basically, i think Dato are talking crap thru out the whole Q&A session. however, i was surprise that there’re someone (which are not minority, obviously) that thinks totelly the opposite and believe that the racial imbalance in Malaysia is okay. read this, quoted from another blog that responded to the news:

Sementara anonymous blogger sentiasa memprotes apa yang mereka rasakan tidak berpuas hati dengan hak istimewa bangsa lain, manakala blogger yang mempunyai identiti di dalam blog pula membicarakan betapa mereka bangga lahir di bumi Malaysia. All that I can say is don’t fake it. Selagi Malaysia tidak menjadi seperti Singapore selagi itu perkauman akan ada.. Itu yang mereka mahukan. Di sana, orang tua terkutuk ketawa terbahak-bahak melihat Malaysia yang mana negaranya sendiri telah dijual kepada antarabangsa, National day pada mereka hanyalah satu hiburan, itu juga antara impian sesetengah bangsa di negara ini.

Mereka kata kerajaan bertindak pilih kasih kepada sesetengah bangsa dan mereka merasakan negara jiran lebih baik. Tapi mereka tidak sedar malah kerajaan sana juga bertindak pilih kasih cuma yang membezakannya rakyat di negara ini berhak bersuara tidak seperti di sana, mereka bersuara mereka akan ditangkap. Mahu jadi macam tu?

From http://imherenow.fwenz.info/2007/09/20/lol-2/

Feeling threaten?

“Mahu jadi macam tu?” i’ve been hearing so much of these – remember the infamous “Jangan cabar kesabaran kami?” Suddenly, i feel so threaten… i have so much dissatisfaction of current situation in Malaysia, i feel like a second grade in the country, and i have so much to say – as a chinese brought up in malay community (living in a housing area where half of the population are bumiputera soldier families). the situation wasn’t like this in the past!

But then, i recalled Yap’s blogpost about perfect… i recalled yap’s yelling that there is no such thing as a perfect world! i recalled that ore than 6 billion people live on this earth and every one of them have a different definition of perfect; all of them significantly contradict with each other! your definition of perfect is different than my definition of perfect.

And since the world can’t be perfect, of course, we can’t expect the world to be fair. We tend to overlook or even dismiss the imbalance when it’s in our favor; vise versa, we’ll magnify every unfair details and complain around… isn’t true?

Will you say it’s unfair?

Imagine this: If gov policy says that you can purchase my house with 5% – 15% discount regardless while the rest have to buy in normal price, will you say the situation is unfair? when most well known companies are forced to offer 30% of their ownership to you and your family, will you say the situation is unfair? your son get special pre-uni education and avoid direct competition with others so that they get a place in local university easily, will you say that it is unfair? there are dozen of entrepreneurship foundations to help you to start your own business while others have nil, will you say that it is unfair? your village has less than 500 students but gov built a new school with 100 classrooms and a big ball field, while others have to stucked in a 2500 students – 50 classrooms school with no field at all (and further more, others have to apply for it 5 years earlier!), will you say that the situation is being unfair?

OF COURSE NOT!

I would say i am getting what am i suppose to get; worse still, i would tell you to put your hands off the benefits i am getting right now or i’ll kick your arse! that’s what i’m seeing in newspaper, hearing from the radio news, watching on the TV news – everyday.

So hey, i had give up hoping for perfect, nor being fair – after all, the world is not fairly rounded in shape, how can you expect ‘fairness’ in boleh-land?

The first book i read about affiliate marketing was Rosalinda’s Super Affiliate Handbook; my first multimedia reading was a low grade chinese Photoshop dummy guides; the first money book i bumped into was Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad.

The similarity in this? crappy, if not, much of the content are useless info.

In the same time, these ‘crappy-stuffs’ are life changing. Rosalinda’s book was so simple and it makes internet marketing looks so easy to me; the photoshop dummy guides lifted my interest in multimedia which then lead me to flash animation and website production later; and of course, the well known Robert’s Rich Dad Poor Dad series impact millions to re-learn about money and achieve better financially.

Sometime it’s just too hard to seperate between good and bad – you’re amazed how stupid you were spending hundreds or even thousands on those useless dummy guides; but then again it’s those dummy books that got you started learning.

You might complain dummy guides are overpriced all the time when compare to those useful books that provide advance skills/knowledge – but hey, the main reason dummy guides are selling expensive are, well, being dumb! the value of dummy guides lay on how they make things look simple, which in turn get you started on whatever that you wish to learn. right?

So next time when you found a *useless* book in your book rack – don’t curse and think the book publishers are money-sucker; congrat yourself instead coz you’re at least better than dummy in that field! you dont need the dummy guide anymore, but many others might still need it. so why not just share out the book with other dummies?