• Confusing TMNet Billing

    I received my TMNet bill 2 days ago. I was confused how come it charged me RM122.71 when I subscribed for the RM88 package. Then I suspected it might be from my TMNet Hotspot?

    So I logged on to TMNet customer billing site, using firefox. I tried to retrieve my March bill, but it seemed like nothing happened when I clicked ‘to retrieve’. Then I suspected that the billing site doesn’t support Firefox, so I had to switch to Internet Explorer!

    Ahhhaaa… Now it showed the online bill. It was 2 pages. But the bill sent to my house was only 1 page.


    This is the bill delivered to my home.


    This is the online bill.

    Usually I don’t use Hotspot but because I worked in a freaking place last month with bad internet connectivity, I had no choice. Does anybody know how to deactivate TMNet Hotspot? Because it charged me RM18/month!

    TMNet Support Centre

    I know you will ask me to call that freaking 1-300-88-1500, but I have a fear calling that freaking number cos’ after calling them so many times last month they still could not solve my problems.


    See my phone bill? Called them twice last month, on average spent 12 minutes talking to them explain my difficulties. But they ended up not giving me any good solutions. Which I mentioned here before. Mind you, the calls were about 12 minutes, but the conversation was less than 5 minutes. If you have called TMNet support centre before, you should be familiar with this;

    “Our customer xxx is busy, please wait and we will xxx you shortly ##stupid music/misleading advertising playing## Our customer xxx is busy, please wait and we will xxx you shortly ##stupid music/misleading advertising playing## Our customer xxx is busy, please wait and we will xxx you shortly ##stupid music/misleading advertising playing##Our customer xxx is busy, please wait and we will xxx you shortly ##stupid music/misleading advertising playing## Our customer xxx is busy, please wait and we will xxx you shortly ##stupid music/misleading advertising playing## Our customer xxx is busy, please wait and we will xxx you shortly ##stupid music/misleading advertising playing## Our customer xxx is busy, please wait and we will xxx you shortly ##stupid music/misleading advertising playing## Our customer xxx is busy, please wait and we will xxx you shortly ##stupid music/misleading advertising playing##”.

    Yes, exactly. I spent so much time waiting them to serve me and they didn’t solve my problem. Don’t you have a fear for calling them too? Jerry recorded the conversation once.

    Another thing, if they tell you that they will solve your problem in 5 days, it’s actually 5 “working” days. So if your problem falls during a weeked, sorry to hear that 😉

    Last Edited(12th April 2006): If they promised to solve your problem in 48 hours, actually it’s 48 working hours. 48hours / 8hours mean they solve your problem in 6 days! We have the conversation recorded. Download it here.

  • Apa Khabar TMNet Streamyx User?

    I received an email from TMNet for a Dialogue Session with Michael Lai in August last year. I didn’t turn up for the dialogue session last year because it was held on 30th August, which fell on Merdeka Eve day. Who’s gonna drive in a jam to Subang Chaters Cafe just to have a chat?

    Last week, I received an email from TMNet again. It was from the Public Relations Manager. TMNet’s Public Relations Manager would like to help TMNet’s user who have problems and to try to solve their problems. She requested contact details for users who were having TMNet Streamyx problems. If you think she can help, or you hope she can help you, email her!

    I have already made a complain to her relating to TMNet’s Netmyne data centre in Brickfields which does not have a 24/7 support. And the cooling system is bad, creating over-heating to my server and it sometimes hang and does not work, causing downtime too.

    I wonder will this help? As I always say, it’s the attitude problem with some TMNet staff. I have complained about the cooling system in TMNet Netmyne Data Centre in Brickfields since July 2005 but they always say ‘next month will install more airconds’. But until today, which is April 2006, they still haven’t added any new airconds yet.

    Countless phone complaints and email complaints have been given to them. They still treat me like an idiot, which is by not responding to the issue and not getting a reply from them. This is very disappointing. So, don’t you think it’s their attitude problem? TMNet belongs to Telekom Malaysia, few biji (units) aircond also can’t afford? But can afford to expand business in overseas? What a joke!

    Countless TMNet complaints here and Google even ranks my blog on top when you search TMNet Netmyne.

    So, got complaint? Email to asmaziz##tmnet.com.my, she will try her best to assist you.

    p.s: replace “##” to “@”,

  • Blogging With An Apple

    I have been very busy recently, busy with work and projects that have tight datelines to meet. I’m glad to hear spoonfork has finished one of his projects :). Wish me luck, I hope I can finish mine as soon as possible so I can have a good night’s sleep.

    Oh yea, my houstemate has just bought a new Apple iBook and yes, I am so proud to be blogging using his new toy now. I had hoped to get an Apple a long long time ago, since last year July or August, can’t remember but can find my apple testing articles in my archive.

    Apple MacBook Pro is too expensive for me, can’t afford it, RM7k and above. I need an Apple machine mainly for programming work; PHP, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Perl, Python. For sure it will be a good opportunity for me to expose Xcode2.0. I just hope Apple will release Intel “iBook” sometime this year. Programming work, an Intel “iBook” is good enough for me I think.

    When I bought an IBM X40 early last year, I already promised myself not to buy any expensive laptop in 3 years time. Does anybody know when the Intel “iBook” will be released? Anytime soon? Because I am addicted to Mac machine now! 🙂

    Ok, that’s it, back to work. I have a dream Chelsea will lose and Man Utd will win tomorrow 😛

  • 你怎麼不拍拖?

    我需要愛情嗎 ? 超過2年多沒有拍拖了 . 我覺得只要生活過的充實 , 事實上是不一定需要愛情的 . 矮子現在一個星期工作7天 , 雖然每天都是半天 , 但是也蠻吃時間的 , 然後每個星期晚上還工作3天的part time . 基本上一個星期只有3天晚上的時間的空而已 .

    朋友問到 , 難道你不需要性生活嗎?
    不是為了要生孩子所以才結婚 , 拍拖不一定是為了滿足性生活 !

    我承認某某時候還會幻象下有女朋友的幸福 , 但是想到泡女容易 , 拋女難 矮子就止步了 !

  • 明年的今天是我們的約會

    一個沒有作工的晚上……
    3年了…經過了3年的日夜顛倒的工作 , 現在的我在晚上終於比較空閒了 .

    老實說 , 不知道是不是我升等了 , 還是真的自大了 , 重覺得身邊的朋友都不是很講的來了 . 我目前的朋友都以中學(30%)和比我大8-15年的朋友為多(70%) . 大多數都認識了很多年了 ; 是我在這機年跑得太快嗎 ? 還是他們根本跟不上這個社會 ?

    剛剛又從我接近每天都去的酒吧回來 , 10來個接近每天都報到的朋友在那裡”流浪” ing……發現原來他們每一個人在這幾年都完全沒有進步到…. 其中有3個結束了上一代留下給他們的生意……理由是行情不好拉 , 欠拖的78人很多拉 , 沒有人幫手拉 , 缺乏時間loh , 沒有興趣了等等等等……打工的繼續打工….失業的繼續失業………只有大車換小車的 , 沒有小車換大車的…….

    中學朋友又年級還小 , 大多數都剛剛接觸這個社會的 , 自己都搞不定 , 不要說甚麼人際關係了

    是我跑太快了嗎 ? 下午打了一個電話給你 , 知道你想在年尾的時候去外國的進修 . 我聽了很是開心 , 也想明年的今天去外國探望你…你們國家的人真的不是蓋的 , 這個年級了還有勇氣自我加值….而且還是靠自己這幾年的工作自己存錢的…..和你一起白頭到老已經是我人生中最大的目標和挑戰了…我會繼續的奔跑來實現我的目標夢……