Celcom = Sialcom = Totally Sucks!!!!

Good Day,

Before i begin, let me tell you why I'm a Celcom customer... I work in a rural area ... far far away from the big city. I live near a state border. Although the cellphone coverage is okay, the broadband coverage however is limited to only Celcom ... so I have no choice but to be a Celcom customer if i were to go online which I think I can't live without...

Anyway, I'm subscribing to two Celcom services ... one is a Celcom Broadband Postpaid, and the other is Celcom Blue Prepaid.... now the postpaid one is strictly for Internet, you can't make a phone call and the prepaid one is the normal SIM which you can make calls just like your normal prepaid SIM  ... however both of them i used as my means to connect to the Internet.

As you all know and for those who don't know, Celcom has a RM98 C-Broadband Advance which boast of speed up to 3.6Mbps. However it has a bandwidth limit up to 5GB of data transfer. Now whenever you exceed the limit of 5GB, they will un-throttle your speed from up to 3.6Mbps to just a mere not more than 128Kbps which is very very slow and you can't even watch your favorite YouTube clip on it.

They used to have no solution for this hence why I bought a Celcom Blue Prepaid as my substitute to the Celcom Postpaid Package. You can always use the prepaid to subscribe a RM20/Week Unlimited Broadband with a speed of up to 512Kbps.

Later on they have this service where you can buy additional bandwidth of 5GB for RM20. So i figured, why not just purchase an additional 5GB with the speed of up to 3.6Mbps instead of subscribing a RM20/Week unlimited with a speed of up to 512Kbps ...

So it became my norm coz I'm a heavy internet user so i always exceed the bandwidth limit. Overtime, I rarely use my Celcom Prepaid coz of the "purchase additional bandwidth" service. 

Up until today, I've exceeded my bandwidth once again and called the Celcom customer service for purchasing additional 5GB bandwidth ... to my surprise, the Celcom staff told me that they changed the cost of a 5GB to RM50. Its not RM20 anymore its RM50!!!! Taken aback, i canceled my purchase because i think its outrageous!!!!

So I'm back to my old norm which is, buying RM20 reload to my Prepaid and subscribe to the RM20/Week. Then while i was happily surfing the net, Celcom sent me an SMS which sounds like this ...

RM0> Langganan lagu anda tlh berjaya diperbaharui, RM1 telah dicaj ke akaun anda. Langganan lagu ini akan diperbaharui stp minggu. Tertakluk terma & syarat

Celcom call it "Call Me Ring Tone" .... The thing is I NEVER SUBSCRIBED TO ANY "CALL ME FUCKING RING TONE"!!!!!! ... So i called Celcom services AGAIN and inquired about this. It turned out that the subscription started on June and now its end of September. Imagine the horrror!!!! I've been ripped off buy Celcom within that time period RM1 a week without me even knowing it. I know if you calculate it, its not that much perhaps thats what most of you people think. Yeah it probably not that much but remember ... i wasn't the only one who was being ripped off. I bet all Celcom subscriber has been ripped off too ... they just don't know it yet or haven't realized it yet. 

The Celcom personnel explains that it was a promo. Initially it was free then they sent SMS saying that the promo period is finished and they will start charging RM1/Week ... since I didn't replied a "NO" to the SMS, they started suka suka, freely deduct RM1 from my credit. What a FUCKING LOAD OF BULLSHIT!!!!!

Firstly, you should never impose extra ordinary charges anyone without one's knowledge and consent!!!! The SMS suppose to be an "if you don't reply YES then the subscription will be stopped". I don't use my prepaid SIM card on the phone ... how was i suppose to know and receive your fucking SMS?!!!  Have you ever think of that??!!!

But alas!!! ..... The are no wireless Internet Service Provider In my place except for this thief ... like it or not i have to subscribe to their services .... but if i ever have any other option such as DiGi or Maxis, I'd pick one of them before I ever think about using Celcom. Sial punya Celcom.... they should change their logo into this!

Sempurna

I made this clip a while ago. Thought i would share it with you guys cause a friend of mine had already blogged about it, so i think its only obvious that i too should blog about my own work .... am i right?

I sort of miss my loved ones and i have nothing to do. Missing them made me realized that as imperfect as they are, they are perfect in my eyes ... and that's what really count. Hence the title of this clip "Sempurna" and i used the song from Andra & The Backbone - Sempurna for this clip. Credits goes to the owner of the song and this clip is not used to gain any profits at all. If there's anything, this clip only promotes the song without gaining any profits.

But what ever it is ... here is the song....

Playing Old arcade Games on your PC

I remember when i was little ... i'm one of those kids who are fascinated with any electronic games. I also recall telling my teacher when ask what my hobby was and my answer was playing electronic games. In those days we call it "Permainan Elektronic" hahaha sounds kinda lame today hehehe...

Anyway ....in those days when computers are scarce, between 1980s till early 1990s, my period of childhood, kids in those days frequently visits the "Amusement Center" or "Arcade Games Center". In fact it was very popular that kids sometimes skip from school just to be able to hang out in those places. I remember at one time Police  were ordered to raid these kinda places and detain kids who skipped from schools. Whenever there are policemen, kids will storm out the door of the arcade center. In those days, that kind of place is like an illegal gambling house ... hahaha.

Games like Galaga, Contra, 1940s Series, Double Dragons, Street Fighter (used to be my favorite) are very popular. In the early 90s, games like Raiden, Tekken, The King of Fighters Series (my favorite to this day) are very popular.

With the advance of computer technology, those kinda games has become obsolete in a way. Newer high end game consoles dominates the market. 3D games are the "in thing". But guys like me who gets dizzy when playing 3D games ... especially 1st person shooter 3D games, cannot keep abreast with the games the market has to offer.

Have you ever wonder what happened to all those old arcade games? Have you ever thought that would it be nice if you can play that game again .. for old time sake? Sadly they don't have those kinda games in the arcade center nowadays. But thanks to hardcore old arcade games fans, they came up with a new approach to let us ... the old school arcade gamers to reminisce the good 'ol day.

Enter MAME which stand for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Basically this software is an emulator which emulates a real arcade machine like the above picture. And to top that, it also plays multiple arcade games!!! There are two versions of MAME. There is the command line version and the user interface version. For beginners, it is advisable to download the Graphic User Interface version which you can get it from here. 

Now once we downloaded the emulator, we can now download the games that we want. It comes in a ROM format. There are numerous websites that offer free ROM downloads. You can always google the key word "mame rom". My personal favorite site is Rom Hustler. 

In order to play a game, you need to extract the emulator into your harddisk. Then put the Rom file (in zip format) at the Rom directory inside your MAME directory. That how easy it is. Of course for Neo Geo Games, you need to download a NeoGeo Bios Rom which you can get in any rom sites out there.

Bare in mind though, that the games are copyrighted and it is not advisable to play the games without the owner's consent ... what i'm trying to say is ... play at your own risk ... i won't be held responsible for any copyright infringement ... capisce? 

First time post

Well this is the first post i suppose ...

Most of my post would probably revolves around things that will interest me the most. Be sure to stay tune for software updates, probably a little about food, movies, songs and things that may catch my interest.

Looks like we're gonna have to see what comes next ..

Yours truly

DKDO