The Story Continues

I was touched by this one picture to write this posting. This is a picture of two helpless-looking people, who had one of their family member sent away for indefinite period.

Can you imagine, if one day, someone just knocked on your door, and take one of your family members away for indefinite period, how would you feel? Helpless is definitely one word most appropriate to describe, as you don't even have the chance to defend yourself/your family member. Is there anything you can do? Maybe you can pray, but nothing concrete that you can do.

This "maybe you can pray, but nothing concrete that you can do" really strikes me. It sounds to me that it is a chronic disease in the final stages, where you can pray for a miracle to happened, but there is nothing that can be done to save yourself/your family member.

But the difference between it and the chronic disease is that, we do have a choice to permanently curing it once and for all, while chronic disease, no matter how advanced is the medicine field, will continue to strikes you. So why not get united and cure it now? For those who still prefer to keep it, how sure are you safe from being strike by it?

Never Ending Story

Just when I thought the racist remark issue had ended, here comes another twist of event..the reporter of the remark was caught under ISA! And also 3 newspapers were given show-cause letter: Sin Chew Daily, The Sun and Suara Keadilan.

I was like..speechless.. Can't they just leave this fella alone?..She is just doing her job, reporting what she heard and thought is the truth. Even if that is not the truth, some explanation will solve everything. Why make it all such a fuss? Is it necessary to use ISA? The most she deserve is to be sacked from his position at Sin Chew Daily and suspended for 3 years from journalism for "misquoted" someone, but now he lost his freedom indefinitely.

Is this story going to end now? Definitely no! And I suspect it's a story that will has a indefinite time period. Let us hope she will be released soon! And for those in power to do something, for god sake please do something!! Now even the DAP MP Teresa Kok is arrested, wonder what she did to merit the lost of freedom indefinitely?!

Mobile Number Portability

Mobile Number Portability (MNP) was finally implemented last Friday (29 August 2008) after being taunted about for quite some time. And actually most people aren't convinced about its implementation after some delaying to it. Now, mobile phone users have the freedom to switch network service providers, while retaining their existing phone number. Therefore, from now on, no longer will the prefixes of 016 solely be that of a DiGi subscriber, or 019 be that of a Celcom number.

The initial service will be offered to Prepaid subscribers from 29 August onwards, while those on Postpaid lines will be able to join in the fun from 15 September onwards. As this limited service is launched in the Klang Valley, only selected branches or service centres your requests. The details of the branches can be referred at http://www.skmm.gov.my/

The nationwide launch for the MNP service will be in early October. Prior to the nationwide launch, each telco is only allowed to process 100 MNP applications a day. There will be a RM25 charge everytime the MNP is used to switch to a new telco. Prepaid credit will not be transferred over to your new service provider, so if you are planning to switch, finish up your credit balance 1st!

While MNP will certainly intensify competition and increase the value of the consumer's money, one problem remain is the inability of the consumers to plan their spending.

For example, as the rate for calling different network is higher than to same network, so when a person, with credit balance of 15 sen, decided to call to someone on the same network (that is according to prefix), but only found out that he/she had change network when he is being cutted off, therefore is unable to get his message across. This uncertainty is surely not good for consumers, unless the rate be made standardized, irrespective of network provider.