Are you Malaysian 3.0?
How do you know if you are Malaysian 3.0? If your grandparents migrated to Malaysia or if they are your first generation in Malaysia then they are Malaysian 1.0 which makes your parents Malaysian 2.0 and therefore it makes you the Malaysian 3.0. So are you Malaysian 3.0.

So what is great about Malaysian 3.0?
Malaysian 3.0 are dynamic, we want everything fast and we can accept changes if we think it is something that we need. Malaysian 3.0 are not scared of anyone as we will do what we want and do what we think is right, and not like Malaysian 1.0 or Malaysian 2.0 who prefer to just keep their opinion to them self. I have to also give credit to some Malaysian 2.0 who also think like Malaysian 3.0 and always wanted changes. Actually Malaysian 2.0 are they who give the motivation and the courage to Malaysian 3.0 to be who they are today.

Why Malaysian 3.0 is different?
We are different because we are exposed to what is happening all around the world, where else only a hand full of Malaysian 1.0 and Malaysian 2.0 are exposed in this way due to their up bringing and lack of technology knowledge.

So, I am deciding to create a Facebook Page for Malaysian 3.0, and i hope all Malaysian 3.0 will be a fan of this page and support it.

So, Are you a Malaysian 3.0!

Mon.

So I listed down few thing as answers to him.
- First was because we want change, I want to see someone new taking over the government and running it. If they are not good, next election give it back to BN.

- it’s actually nothing to with Anwar at all. So you can say anything you want about Anwar, he is gay, sex video, spy for US or anything at all. I don’t care I will still vote for him and make him the PM. Are you telling me that Najib is all clean? If the current government is so confident that they are good, then fight fairly and have election rather then coming out with all this bull shit about Anwar or anyone else.

- You say they are not good, what about you? What have you done in the last 50 years? All you friends and family members have became millionaires? You waste public money? And you are so brave in doing this because you have been there for 50 years and feel that no one will question you. Look at Penang and selangor, they have been digging out so many stuff that the opposition have done. So I don’t care anyone both are corrupted so I want the new government to make some money and that is why I want to vote for opposition.

- lastly, the plus point is Anwar is smarter then anyone else in the current government.

Thats what I feel.

Mon

Registering was fast and painless, called a Unifi agent he came to the office collected all the document and filled in all the forms and all I needed to so was to sign the form. I pushed him and told him I want the service installed with in a week. At first he said he can’t promise but I told him I don’t mind opening the office on Sunday if need too. The next day he called me and told me the installation will be done on that Saturday at 230 PM, which I agreed. Came Saturday I was excited that I am going to get a 20MB speed internet connection. The installer arrived at 245 and ask me when do I want him to install the service, I pointed him to where my current SDSL is installed which is sharing my fax as well. After about 10 minutes he said he need to go do something in the MDF room on the ground floor and he came back up after 30 minutes and told me that there is no more port for him to install the Unifi for me. So I asked him what I need to do, he gave me 2 option. First option is for me to disconnect my current internet and fax service so he can use the same port to install the Unifi but I did not agree to this as I still want my fax number and my SDSL. Option 2 was for me to pull my own cable from the MDF room to my floor as he blame the building management for not providing the cable. I was so angry by then as all this is their work.

I waiting till Monday and went to the building management to tell them about it, and their respond was simple.. we have done our job and we have 15 ports per floor so there will not be any shortage as there are only 2 company on my floor. Again I called Unifi call center and waited in the Q for 25 minutes before an agent answered my call and I ask them to sort the issue out as the building has enough port. Finally after 2 weeks they called again and set an appointment for installation.

Installer arrived on time and in 30 minutes he was done and told me everything was ok, so before I sign I wanted to test and I was not able to see the wireless network on my laptop, so he tries to fix it, but my question is when there is something wrong why can you test it and fix before asking the customer to sign. I mean if I was rushing I would have just sign the document and realise that its not working after he has gone but for him the moment I sign it means all ok and he will get paid from TM. Anyway after another 20 minutes he manage to get the wireless working and i was getting late for a meeting so I signed as I could detect the wireless and connect to it.

The next day, when I took my iPad to the office I connected to the Unifi and wanted to download the big star online paper, usually it takes a good 20 minutes for me to download it at home with my 512 streamyx and when I did it with my 20MB Unifi it took the same 20 minutes. I tried running a speed test and the result was bad I got about 1MB and less. So again I call the Unifi call center and this time waited for 25 minutes before someone answered the call. Once I finish explaining the problem he ask me to ping TM DNS and the result was really bad, out of 20 reply 15 was timeout. As the solution the agent told me to get into the router settings and click save again then go to the router, pull out all the network cable and power cable then wait for 5 minutes then connect them back. I asked him back, do I sound like an idiot? I am a VP of Technology and I know that is not a solution for this problem, all the agent wanted me was to hang up so he is off the hook with me. I demand for and answer and he ask me to get to the router, so I did and he asked me to use a cable and connect my laptop to the router. He guide me to the unifi website and told me to run the speed test and it show I am getting 26MB of speed, so I told him that when I run from any other speed test all is showing only 1 MBPS, only the Unifi speed test is showing 20+ MB. He could not answer me and I also asked why my ping result is so bad, and all he did was ” Hello…Hello….Sir..” and the line went dead! I was so angry and I did not want to call the call center and wait for another 30 minutes before someone answer me. I just left it and went back home..I hope on Tuesday I will be on a better mood to call them again.

By the way on another note, I think TM collects our name and mobile number for some reason, because the call center agent can’t call you back as their system does not support it but they insist on you giving your mobile number and name.

So for now, I am not happy at all with Unifi!

Mon

I am not sure how many of you have been a victim of this, but personally I had few friends I know who was in the situation in the last 12 month, and I think I know why and how the police is bringing down the statistics. I mean this is what I think.

All the 5 friend I know had the same issue, they were the victim of snatch thief and all was within Kuala Lumpur. Of course once they became the victim the next place you want to go is to make a report in the nearest police station on the snatch thief so the police can book a file and investigate. Now this is where the trick happens. All the 5 friends had the same thing told to them. You know what Miss XXX, I advice you that you make the report saying that you have miss place your wallet or hand bag so you can just give a report and go get a new ic,credit card,bank card and all the other card that went missing. So when they ask why, the answer was you see Miss XXX if you are going to say you were a snatch thief victim first of all I need you to give me a report here and once you are done with the report you will have to take the report and go to the KL HQ and meet the investigation officer there and he will interview you for another 1 or 2 hours before you can go back. Also as and when they have suspects you will be called to the police station to come view their faces and confirm if it was them. So why do you want to go through all this? Just say you miss place it and the case is solve you go make new cards.

You see from what I understand if you file a case as snatch thief, the police MUST open a case and investigate the case but if you file a case as you miss place your wallet or bag then it was your own careless mistake and they don’t have to investigate. By doing this the amount of case they book for snatch thief will automatically drop in their statistic but in actual fact it is miss leading as the case is booked under different category.

I am not sure how many other people had this same experience so I am not saying this happens to all but I feel this is one way the statistic is being lowered.

I hope now Malaysians understand why our PM is so proud to announce that the crime rate in the country has drop and the police are doing a great job, but you can’t stop noticing that the crime is still happening everyday around us.

What do you think?

Mon.

Do we really need Talent Corporation Malaysia?
If you ask me, my answer will be No!. They fail to understand that this people who are in oversea working is not there for only money. They need the overall lifestyle which you will not get here. Imagine if you are an engineer in a oil & gas company working in US. Does this Talent Corporation Malaysia think by just paying them the same salary they are getting now they will come back? Do you think they will want to move away from US and move to Terengganu or Kelantan so they can work at a oil & gas company? What about the lifestyle? What can you get there? Don’t talk about entertainment but even basic needs are not there. The government is just wasting money doing this and so far I think about 40 million has been spent on Talent Corporation Malaysia which has not produce any result. They should have outsource this to a recruitment company who knows what to do, rather then setting it up by themselves and waste public fund!

The other thing they should have done is try to fix the problem of brain drain. Look at the root cause why people are leaving the country and fix it once and for all. Once that is fixed the future generation will not be leaving the country.

Few reasons why talent is leaving the country.

Corrupted Government.
I just spoke up this in my last posting and again I am talking about it, why? Because it is really a serious problem which the government is just ignoring. People are just tired of this. Taib from Sarawak has been blamed for corruption and so many reports has been made against him and till today MACC has nit moved a finger to investigate him. Try giving a report to MACC on anyone from the opposition, even if it only a 2000 ringgit case they will act on it in lighting speed. People have seen this too many times that’s everyone know MACC is not an independent body. People are tired of this too!!

Education System
Our education system is getting bad to worse. Right from the primary school to local university. The system need to be changed. I don’t want my kids to learn from local school here. This is one of main reason why people leave the country.

Actually they are more reasons but this 2 main reasons are on the top of the list and I think by fixing this at least 30% or more brain drain can be stopped.

I hope someone from Talent Corporation Malaysia will read this.

Mon

Here is my 5 reasons.

1. Malaysians are not discipline.

I have been to many countries in Asia, not just to travel but stayed and worked there. People there are so discipline. Take Singapore for an example, people don’t throw rubbish all over the place. If there is a jam on the highway they don’t use the emergency lane as the 4th lane to travel, they wait in line till it’s their turn but here in our country? The 4th lane is like any other lane for them to drive every single morning just because the road is jammed? What does this show? One is our people are lack of discipline and second lack of planning. If you know that you need to be somewhere at a given time then plan your trip and make sure you have enough time to travel. Lack of discipline will lead you to this.

2. Take advantage

As Malaysian we love taking advantage on anything, if you can walk past a cinema without being caught we will and go for the movie without a ticket. Do you think this will work in Malaysia, if all LRT station are to remove their access gate at all the station so people can walk in and out, but they let you tap your touchngo at a corner of the station. Do you think Malaysians will actually go tap on it and get in the train or they will just go for a free ride? I think Malaysian will go for a free ride. I saw this in Hong Kong and I notice every single person tapping their card and no body cheated the system. I was amazed!

3. Earning capacity

I am not sure how many of you who are reading this earn a monthly salary of RM 10,000 and above. A year ago I had the opportunity to view a report from EPU on this for Malaysia. Do you know that only 10% of our working population earn more then RM10,000 a month as a household income. This group is called as high earners. Then another 60% are called the middle income group this group of people fall under the skilled workers and the final 30% fall under unskilled workers. With this kind of earning we can’t be a developed nation. Our PM wants to change this in few years and make this country a developed nation? A fresh graduate who started work in the 80′s starts with a salary of RM1500 to RM1800 and today in 2011 our fresh graduate earn the same amount of salary as their starting pay, this shows that our country has not moved much. Comparing this to Singapore their high earners group is 25%, middle income is 65% and unskilled workers are only 10% and they are moving very fast to move the last 10% into the middle income group and all their unskilled workers will be filled by Malaysians who will travel from JB to Singapore daily.

4. Corruption

Do I have to explain this? If you have notice few weeks back there was a raid by MACC at the Klang Port and many custom people were charged on corruption. I was really surprised to read that new, not because they were charged because all of them who were charged for corruption were below the age of 30! And the youngest was a girl by the age of 25. This people are so young and they are already being charged for corruption and this are the people who are going to be sitting at the top government post in the next 15 to 20 year. How corrupt will they be at that time if at this young age they have been charged for corruption.

5. Animal rights

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “You can judge a nation’s moral progress by how it treats its animals.”. From all the news you read on the papers on how many Malaysian treat the animal, we are not anywhere near to be a developed nation. Our law need to be looked into. Why is that if you murder a human you are jail for your whole life and if you kill a cat or a dog you are just ignored or fined 200 or 500 and you are free to walkout. Why can’t we take all life as the same as human life? God created us and the same god created animals so we should love all gods creation.

Well, that is my 5 reasons. Let me know if you have more reasons.

Mon

Creating is only one of the issue? Who is going to monitor and maintain the systems? Is the government going to be billed for this? The infrastructure need to be ready for at least 17 million people as that is the number given by google for number of web users in Malaysia. I don’t see where this is heading too, another failed project by Najib?

I am really surprised, as I know of a company who wanted to work with the government to help them work more efficiently by looking at their processess. If I am not mistaken it was something to do with placing people on job sort of work but a similar public private funding model and their idea was rejected. Their idea was good and it shows how the plan will help people get a job so they can have a better life in this country. I also know that this company was not willing to pay anyone or ‘take care’ of anyone inside so their idea was just rejected. I think you can figure out by yourself why the 1 Malaysia Email project is approved.

I do not see any return to the rakyat in this project, and I really hope Najib knows what he is doing rather then just letting some IT geek company telling him some story for him to have approve this.

God Bless You, Najib.

Mon

Hi,

I am having issue with my Internet Explorer, my internet connection is working, i can send and receive my emails on my Outlook but every time i load my Internet Explorer to surf the internet it says “Page Not Found” no matter what page i try to go i get the same error and this only started happening since 1 week ago.

You think you can help?

Thanks

Solution

This is one of the issue you can have with Internet Explorer if you are unable to surf the internet even when you are well connected to the internet. This users problem was related to the proxy setting on Internet Explorer. To solve this follow the steps below to see if you have the same issue.

1. Open your Internet Explorer, click on “Tools” Menu and click on “Internet Options” at the bottom of the list.

2. This will open the “Internet Options” window as shown below, on this window click on “Connections”.

3. On the “Connections” Tab look for “LAN Settings” button on the bottom of the window and it will open another with which looks like below. On this screen you need to make sure that “Automatically detect settings” is ticked and make sure the “Proxy server” is not ticked. Similar to the window below.

4. Once the above setting have been changed, click “OK” twice and you should be able to surf the internet again. If this steps did not help you with solving the issue do write to me and i shall advice you again.

regards
mon

This is the first question i receive:-

“i want to design a simple website for myself but i no not want to pay a web designer to design one for me as my budget is really low.”

This is purely my recommendation and i am not against anyone using a web developer to design their website if they have the means to do it.  The application that i am recommending  is call “Web Page Maker”. You do not need to be a programmer or know how to write codes to use this application. You can download this application from this link http://www.webpage-maker.com/download.html.

You can either purchase the application which will cost you about RM 160.00 (USD 49.00) or you can choose to use the free version but the catch is all the pages you design will have a banner at the bottom which says that the page was designed using Web Page Maker. Below is the example of the banner.

So, if you are OK with the above banner to be displayed on your website, then just use the free version. My advice is for you to use the free version first and once you become an expert in the application and you think its a good application to have then buy it. It is a powerful application once you have learn to use it.

How does it work? Do you know how to use Microsoft Word? If the answer is Yes then you will not have any issue using this application as the look and feel of the application resembles Microsoft Word. It comes with few templates which is categories into Business and Personal and each category comes with 4 design which you can use. I personally use the application to design websites for my clients and trust me if you can master this application you can built great expert looking websites with just this application.

Try using this application and if you have any questions leave your comment on the bottom if this page or drop me a line at defining.mons@gmail.com.

regards
mon

And i have told myself that i will update my blog at least once a week or every time someone ask me a question related to IT. It has been 11 years now that i have been in the IT industry and been receiving held desk calls and some question are repeat question so i decided that from now on every time someone ask me a question i will write on my blog on how to solve their issue where others can benefit from it as well .

If you have any IT related question on your home or office PC, drop me a line and i will try to help you solve and yes this service is FREE.

Regards
mon