Ick! Light color stuff, not for me! :D

NOoOooOOooo..... :D

I swear I should not buy light color stuff anymore! :D How come it's so easily dirtied?! :D

I only bought this for my new laptop for a couple of weeks and today I found it's blackened without me noticing where from!! It's annoying.

Hope it washes off.

正三八!!!!

哈! 哈!! It's my birthday today! :D I am officially turning "38".  :D In Chinese, calling a woman "3 8" could mean telling her she's a bitch! :D

Yes I am and I am proud of it! :D

I am still in lazy vacation mode, so I will take my time to update you my week long birthday celebration detail later. :D

黑色星期一事件溥

First off, my vacation was shortened 2 days!  then on Monday, below happened.

00:00. Discovered 2 complicated tasks at work which was initiated by another on 02/02 but just handed down to me which is due on 20/02. I have annual leave from 15/02 to 20/2. Which means I have to work at home with only 2 days to complete because of mini get away trip from 16-18/02!!!

18:00. Went to work, found out that my original iPhone electric outlet adapter was stolen from my desk at work! Fucking thief!!!!!

03:30. (this is actually tuesday)Arrived home after work. Visited bathroom, night light was not working. So, I tried to turn on the ceiling light. It suddenly made a "bob" sound and the bathroom went back into darkness.

03:40. Showered in darkness. Eerie.

Just felt awful last night. :(

But, bad lucky comes to an end on Tuesday because I've got a pay raise and bonus! :D I won't disclose the amount there! :D

Black Monday Yesterday...

My stuff got stolen! Black 13th!

No mood to talk about it now! :(

A license to pick nose

Lately I have been suffering from frequent unprovoked nose bleeds like I have some kind of terminal illness.

Just 2 days ago, on a day off, I was bedridden with an exploding headache around the nostril area, so I decided to visit the Dr. to check it out.

Turns out, my nostrils' inner membranes are very thin and I am having a minor case of Sinusitis (鼻竇炎)!

The Dr. prescribed me with this cream, I think they smell like Vaseline and he told me to stick my finger up my nose to apply it just like picking my nose! :D

Yay, now I've got a license to pick my nose and best of all, not terminally ill yet. :D

Doom's Day - Peace Treaty Agreed Day

Today, as agreed, the iCable manager called me back for a settlement.

He originally offered me refund for the whole 24 days that I was not able to use the internet which = HK$129 and 2 weeks of free usage period.

I told him, "2 weeks? You think I am a begger on the street?! I will not accept it as you have wasted me more than 2 weeks calling you everyday, and wasting all my days offs waiting for your technicians to come up to check my cable without any result!" 

They also charged me $200 to rewire the cable which I have nothing to do to break! So I tell them I will not pay for that $200 either!

Finally today, this manager called me back and said the best they can do is refund $129 + 3 weeks of free service + waive the $200 + reply in writing.

I am just glad that this whole thing is behind me. I will make sure I cancel their service when the contract ends! :D Geez.

D Day! Liberation! Rejoice!

Finally!!!!

My Internet is fixed! My days of mumbling to myself is over. Well, I'll still mumble to myself like usual, just not as much. :D

The technician has come this morning, as predicted, they had to do some re-wiring to make it work again. Now instead of hidden wire in the wall, it has a cable crawling on the wall pass the hallway to reach the modem.

After 3 weeks suffering 10kbs Internet at home, suddenly, everything is so smooth with the 10mbs cable.

From now on, I will count the days the contract with this shitty company is over, then I will shit to another maybe shittier company. 

The manager at i-cable called me back and ask how I am doing. I said I am doing fine now, but they are not forgiven.

The rewiring procedure had cost me $200 which I am asking them to compensate me. The manager will call me back this Thursday to confirm whether they can waive that charge for me.

I am not done pissing off with them yet. I am armed with the knowledge I learned from my complaining customers and I am using those skills to get my way. Hopefully, I can annoy this manager enough that they either want to terminate my contract early or pay me the $200 back. :)

My mom wants the icable to compensate her for the trauma she had gone through this morning when we had to disturb the ancestral shrine too! :D 

We had to vacate the Buddha and goddess and grandpa and grandma and the deity of earth so to give access to the cable people to fix the cable connection.

We will see.

Doom's Day - Day N+2

Yes, I wrote that I won't be update the blog until I get my normal home Internet back.

No, my home Internet has not been back.

But yesterday, a senior technician visited my house and after some more thorough investigation, he determined that the building's Internet is finally back to normal, but my home Internet still is not. This could only mean something wrong is inside my cave.

He will send someone up again on the 9Th of May to try flush out the mole which has broken my Internet.

I might write this calmly and my mood seem smooth. I must say that knowing the building's Internet is finally okay made me feel better. At least this time I have some kind of answer given to me and another solid deadline to look forward to. The whole process between someone coming up again and the night before was not entirely smooth!!!

The i-cable hot line people are shitty customer service people. As a HKCCA gold award winner, I have the rights to say that they are dirt cheap in terms of their service skills!

When I called them up again on Saturday, they told me they have been checking my cable TV all along since the 25th of April.

All I can say is WTF!

I sure hope they cannot fix my Internet on the 9th, coz then I will have a solid case to terminate the contract earlier than agreed! Justice for me!

Doom's Day - Day N

Sadly, with repeatedly broken promises, my i-cable Internet is still not working!!

Today, I called them again, turns out they were fixing my cable TV which was never broken to begin with.

I will not be updating this blog anymore until my complaint with this i-cable company is resoloved. My next course of action is to terminate the contract with them.

They will be sending someone to my home again to check one last time tomorrow, I predict the outcome will not be satisfactory to me.

I will fight on! May the best cave-woman win!

Doom's Day - Day 8

I am being lied to!!

Still no internet today!!!!

I am escalating my complaint and I will not agree to the terms I agreed to yesterday anymore! 1 extra week free is not good enough!!!

I need written reply this time!!!!!

ARRRRGHHHGHHHHHH!!!!!

Doom's Day - Day 7

I am really like a zombie here!

It's been 7 days since... the Oracle promised the world will begin again today. Unfortunately it is still not the case.

Yesterday, some tribesmen gathered outside my cave digging and probing. Maybe they were doing some ritual to speed up the end of doom but they weren't very sucessful.

I have just summoned the Oracle again, this time an elder Oracle, much more powerful than the normal Oracle...

He told me to wait 1 more day.. just one more day....

Finally, my emotional dam broke! I screamed and yelled at him for lying to me! Putting false hope in my mind and I demand to be compensated!

Originally, they just keep telling me that they would only extend my life for the missing 2 weeks! That is not acceptable.

Using the skills I have learned from my enemies, I escalated the complaint! I threaten to write to the media, write to the HK telecommunication regulatory dept etc.....

Finally, the Elder Oracle agreed to refund me the whole time I loss the internet + 1 week free!  it's been down since the 15/04. It's been 2 weeks + 2 days!

I think that extra 1 week free is nothing! But it's better than none.  I have no energy to fight this battle anymore.

I promised when the world finally become normal, I will never abandon this blog again... :D

Doom's Day - Day 2

To whoever find this note.

It's day 2 (counting from the date the i-cable people told me the world has ended, but this day 2 has happened long after the first day i lose the internet...:D) without normal internet. My world is still dark and eerily quiet. Without any survival skills, I am like a zombie.

This has made me rather go to work early in hope for some civilization than to stay home and do stuff online.....

Maybe it's a good thing. :D But I am extremely impatient and grumpy at work. People has learned to stay away....

It's truly horrible.

I hope the beginning of a new world will come soon....

Doom's Day - Day 1

Doom's day era has begun.

The world ended about a week ago. I am now hiding in my desolate pro-apocalypse cave, documenting the tragic event after my internet world crash down on me.

It's so quiet and dark out there.

Yesterday, I was visited by the i-cable tribesman who assured me the beginning of a new happy era is in sight. He assured me that today, my world would become normal again.

But when I opened my eyes this morning, the darkness which domed my internet has not subsided. The i-cable oracle predicts the apocalypse age will last for another 4-7 days.

What am I to do!!! Am I to invade a neghboring cave and rob them of their life and internet so I myself can survive?! Should I choose this corrupted raging path or should I just sit this fiasco out and hope for the best?

Tickle's log ends. Let's hope there is still tomorrow to come.....

Dawn is nowhere in sight......

The cable techie has come today at 5pm. He dinked around my modem and the switch board outside my flat for like almost an hour and finally declared I was not insane all along. This means my internet is really broken, and I am not delusional!

It's the end of the world! :D

Well.. the switch board has problem! For a week! Now he has called someone else in the mainframe and seems they have to reboot it and then send someone to my flat again later tonight to mess with the switch board.

Sigh..

You would probably ask, if I couldn't connect to the internet as we speak, how am I writing this post!?

Well I have my mobile flash drive which usually reserved for my netbook outside the comfort of my home.

So, if I have access to a backup internet, why am I going crazy about losing the home connection?

Well!!! Somehow, the mobile internet goes with the mobile phone company, which goes through a 3G network. My home's 3G seems unstable! So the connection is freaking slow and choppy....

I can't bear it!! :D It drives me nuts!!

If by tomorrow I still don't get a normal fast connection, i-cable's hotline should expect me to raise havoc! (一埸腥風血雨將會發生!!!!) Good lucky to them! :D

ARRRGGHHHHHGHHHHHGHHH....


Here's the techie. :D He is contemplating whether to send Neo in to save my internet! :D

You can see a little red x on the corner of my monitor.. that is the proof that my internet isn't working.

Internet Apocalypse!!!

It is truly the end of the world!!!!!  2012 has come early!!!!

I have been without normal fast home Internet for > 1 week!!!! I had to call that stupid i-cable hotline like 5 or 6 times the last week to finally get someone to come over to my home to look at my Internet connection!!!!!!

I had scheduled the techie to come up to my home tomorrow (Friday 2-6pm)!!!!!! The schedule was offered by the hotline staff!!  But guess what!!! Just like that freaking Peking duck dinner mishap, I've got a call this evening at 5pm and the guy at the other end of the phone told me he's coming up to my home at that moment!!!

WTF!!! I couldn't help but yelled at him in my cell phone at work, in front of all my colleagues which undoubtedly showed my peers how crazy I can be when it comes to losing my Internet connection!! :D

Well not like they didn't know how crazy I can be anyways.  I guess I just yelled more fiercely at the cable guy compare to my usual yelling at my subordinates (Which could be quite harsh also).

Geez!! I am such a byetch!!! :D

Anyways, I hope tomorrow will start the dawn of new age after this devastating apocalyptic catastrophe.