Today I brought my 12 year old daughter to make her new IC. Many many years ago when I was small my dad brought me to make IC in the small town I grew up in. I remember we just went to the NRD. There was no queue, no number machine, no online application coz there as no Internet. All we did was walk up to the counter. Remember those old blue ICs with the strange fish-like embossed pattern? Anyway things are much more straightforward to apply now.vthe problem is that there are too many people applying now making the queues very long. i went to the NRD near my…

My mum gave Alyssa a large angpow for her birthday. When we asked her what she wanted to buy with it, she didn’t hesistate to say “a bike”. She never had an adult bike, now’s probably still not too late for her to start learning. So WY did some googling about where to buy bikes around our area with a budget of RM300+. This was one of the places we visited in Tasik Prima. This place seemed to be embracing the whole online store plus physical store concept. Nice shop but not in our price range. This is another shop in Bandar Puteri we visited. It’s quite famous as a…

A few months ago i applied for the High Speed Broadband (HSBB) connection package introduced by Maxis. The promotion had just been launched, called ‘Maxis Home Fibre Internet’. Basically, it is using TMNET Unifi backbone, but with different pricing from TMNET’s own offering. At that time, the offer was for RM118 per month for 10Mbps. This offer is no longer available, the normal pricing for 10Mbps is RM138 per month. Comparatively, TMNET Unifi is currently running a VIP promo of 10Mbps for RM199 per month but with extra offers. How to apply: First you need to check if your area has Unifi yet. If you see the banners advertising it…

The news just came in a few days ago, Digg Was sold to Betaworks for just USD$500,000. This for a website that turned down an offer $200million from Google last year. The fall from grace is spectacular, even by dot-com standards. Most laypeople haven’t heard of Digg, but 4 to 5 years years ago, for me it was the greatest website on the face of the Internet. It’s basically a news aggregator, where people submit in interesting stories, and other people up vote them if they like it. The popular stories stay longer on the front page, the unpopular ones get voted down. It’s a simple premise, and due to…

I used to stay in University Gardens SS3 for a short while many many years ago. I had first come to the city fresh from school and put up with a family friend for a few months. This part of SS3 was and still is pretty quiet, I’m not so sure if people still call it ‘University Gardens’ anymore. Hidden between the LDP and SS2, its a nice neighbourhood with a few row of shops, a Shell station, a community hall (or as I like to call it, the Indian wedding hall), a covered basketball court (it wasn’t covered back then) and a few tennis courts. There’s a pasar malam…