Feeling cheated

Today was like another usual day for me (at the beginning) when I went to the spring shopping mall. After walking around, I decided to go over the “blue cube” to pay my Celcom’s bill.

I was so shocked by the amount! RM160! I had never spent that much on my hand phone for just a month. Then I questioned the “blue cube” people and I realized that they (Celcom) had limited the calls and sms for the 1+3 plan.

There are only 20 hours calls and 1500 sms available for the main line to the sub line (per month). During the time when 1+3 plan was implemented, all calls and sms to sub line was absolutely free and unlimited!

I had no choice but to pay that amount and leave (feeling cheated).

I then went straight to the 1st floor of the spring and switch my number to DIGI! Guys!, I remained my number so don’t worry!

I switched!

If you're still using celcom postpaid with 1+3 or 1+5 plans, don't over spend or you'll end up like me -_-"

By: Yolk

We are the 1st Runner Up!

*The following is an Advertorial from nuffnang:

Our winning entry! (click here to view)

We were so surprised when we received an email from nuffnang that we are the 1st runner up for Olay Natural White blogging contest! It’s like a dream come true for both of us (all the Olay products will be given to egg! I’ll (yolk) take the cash! haha!)

We did put a lot of effort in this contest especially the writing part. As usual, egg did all the writings and I did most of the drawings and some of the picture editing was done by egg. After we submit our entry, we did go around innit looking for nuffnangers who joined the contest. Just to see other’s entry, as written in a Chinese proverb which literally translated as “knowing oneself and knowing competitors, 100 competitions and 100 wins”.

We only got 4 nangs!

In fact, a lot of them did so well and we got so worried that our entry won’t even get a consolation prize. Since we have submitted our entry, there was nothing much we can do but to wait for the results. We promised ourselves that we were going to improve our writings and also our drawing skills so that we can compete with all those outstanding bloggers out there!

Anyway, we are so grateful to both Nuffnang and Olay for giving us the prizes and recognize our effort in this contest. Egg is very happy now and she can’t wait to collect the half year supply of Olay products (it saved me a lot of money. LOL! )

Once again! Nuffnang! Olay! We LOVE You! Thank You!

By: Egg & Yolk

Milklovesyou's Event @ Waterfront Desa Parkcity

Milklovesyou event (18th October 2009)

Finally, I have been attending the milk loves you event at waterfront Desa Parkity. I have been wondering how to go there as I’m from Kuching. By chance I’m in KL for training so I’m able to join the event.

Actually I have been asking around, seeking help from my KL friends but they are not sure about the place and some of them are not free to bring me there. So my kind colleagues who come from Kuching as well said if worst come to worst, they will accompany me there by taxi.
On Saturday, yolk who is in Kuching helped me to find out that the 2nd prize blog winner “lizzie” was willing to fetch me. I had sms her and she is indeed a helpful lady. Yesterday morning I went to One Utama with my 2 colleagues from Kuching and Lizzie decided to fetch me at One Utama. But unfortunately she was involved in a car accident and had to rush to police station. So she couldn’t fetch me over there. I felt really sorry for her. Hope that she is fine.

My colleagues and I rushed to Desa Parkcity with a taxi. We had a great tie there meeting Tetrapak staff and contest winner, drinking special flavour milk, joining peek in the holes contest to count the boxes of milk, watching aerobic dance and finally it ended with prize giving ceremony.

Aerobics dance

Counting milk boxes (peeping? LOL)

Exhibits

Sean performing

Actually I had planned to help lizzie to claim her prize. One of my colleague, Nicholas even helped her to get the prize on stage. But her mini hi-fi is too big for us to carry around. (sorry Lizzie). After that, we travel back to our istara condominium by the help of tetrapak people fetching us over to the nearest rapid KL station.

My long waited prize~

I felt happy not because i get the 1st prize (Asus eeepc netbook) but I found out that people around me are just too kind and helpful, they are Raymond and Nicholas (my colleagues whom I knew them for only 6 days!) and last but not least, Lizzie.


Thank you guys :)


Story Boarding : Egg
Comic artist: Yolk

Guess who's that!

Egg has been asking me to draw ah beng for quite some time already but i kept delayed her request due to all the contests. Finally, most of the contest that we took part have ended so I have spare time to do some drawings :)

I've been drawing this caricature for the whole morning! Guess who are they??

That ah beng looks similar to the real person but ah lian is a bit different.
(Got to do more caricature to improve my skill :P)

Guys! come make a wild guess! Haha!

by: Yolk

Recent Kuching Events

Just a little update on the recent events in Kuching that we had attended.


Mid-autumn festival celebration in The Spring Shopping mall, Kuching organized by Astro on 26th Sept. Few well known celebrities were invited for this event including Jessica Liu & Michelle Chia(MediaCorp artistes), Professor Wynn HT Pan, Danny Koo (Motorbike ah Boy), Hong Geok Jin & Ivan (winners of Classic Golden Melody Singing Competition)

The event started off with a street magic performance by a magician from "age of elves". Even though the tricks were the simple but everyone was still amazed :)

He's doing some card magic

The event was followed by Danny Koo (a.k.a Ah Boy). He got famous recently because of his hosted tv show "Motosikal Balik Kampung". Both of us (egg & yolk) were ah boy's fans because of his cute personality! It was fun to see him travels around Malaysia with his motorbike. So we did a special caricature for him.

Danny in action

After that, the two winners of Astro's Classic Golden Melody Singing Competition (Ivan & Hong Geok Jin) performed few classic songs. They looked so young as if they were in their 30's.

Ivan with the two hosts

Hong Geok Jin sings while captured by a strange short man -_-"

"It's him again!" exclaimed yolk when he saw that Little Man (LM). We saw him in almost every event in Kuching, especially those events where free gift were given. You can find him in our previous post here.

The LM getting himself seated in the middle of the crowds

The peak of the event started when the 2 well-known MediaCorp artistes came to the stage.
Both Jessica Liu & Michelle Chia were so pretty in real person. They played some games with the audience and free mooncakes were given out.

Chinese idioms scrabble

The host showing the male audience how to

act like a fat pregnant lady in one of the acting game

At the end of the event, those audience who queued to get the artists' photos were given a chance to have their favourite artistes' signature. We left at that moment because we don't have the photos..wu~~wu~~

Anyway, there was another event in Boulevard Shopping Mall on the 3rd October. It was the 欢喜来卡拉 (hokkien karaoke competition) organised by Astro and hosted by Phoebe and Jentzen. Actually , we are watching the shows on ch333 every sunday.
It was the final for the Sarawak region. 3 of the best singer will represent Sarawak to compete in Klang with the other competitors through out Malaysia. Before the top 3 were announced, both Phoebe and Jentzen had some "ice breaking" activites with the audience (you know lar..Sarawak people all shy shy one).

To cut the story short, here's the top 3 in the sarawak region. We forgot their names :P

And the winner goes to Mina! Congrats!

Nothing much happens in Kuching recently other than heavy rains and strong winds -_-". We'll update if there's more interesting events in Kuching! So stay tuned :)

P/S: actually Yolk wanted to draw caricatures for Phoebe and Jentzen but because of limited time, he only managed to draw ah boy! Unless it was a personal request from both Phoebe and Jentzen then he'll surely draw for them :P
By: Egg & Yolk

DIGI! Pimp My Broadband (animated)

DIGIMAN, The Born of A New Age Hero

I’ve been using this “stimics” broadband since it was the only available broadband few years back. It was fine then because there’s no one with better speed (it was slow though) Then problems starts coming in, frequent disconnections, lagging, hanged, extreme slowness, etc.

I’m still facing all these troubles even when I’m doing this animation! I need a lot of sound effects to do animation, so I’ve been surfing around to find free sound effects. The problem is, even if I manage to find the web page, I can’t really download them because of slow downloading speed! In fact, I’ve finished the drawing and animations few days ago, but because of the SLOW broadband, I can’t finish the sound effects until today. I have no choice but to do my own version of sound effect! Serious! I made most of those sounds! (except the 2 songs by AKFG and YUI)

The sound effect I made:
1. Grrrrr….. - roaring of hippo (I slowed my voice using Sony Soundforge 8)
2. it’s a bird, it’s a plane
3. Digiman vs hippo stimics
4. Round one, fight!
5. Ding Ding Ding (knocking a bowl using spoon -_-“)
6. DIGI HIGH SPEED BROADBAND PUNCH!
7. Kwak! Kwak! Kwak! – crow’s voice
8. NOOO~~~~~~~ (ending part for hippo)
9. Digi, always the smarter choice
10. Tung~ Tung~ Tung~ Tung~ Tung~ - Digi’s tune (I played using my piano)

Imitating a crow -_-"

Playing Piano

Even after I FINALLY finished the animation, it took me almost 2 hours to upload it to youtube! OMG! It’s already 3am in the morning!!!

Can you imagine how much trouble I’ve gone through to make this simple flash animation because of the “slowness” of my current broadband. Come on Digi, pimp my broadband! Defeat the slowmonster - Hippo Stimics and let us regain our speed!


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p/s: there's a few buzz noises in the clip and i can't seems to remove them :(

By: Egg & yolk

Pimp My Broadband

Pimp our Broadband (click to enlarge)

The brand of my current broadband is “snail”. The brand tells you all on its specifications and features. I have been using broadband for quite some times. Actually the package that I subscribe should be having the speed like f1 but unfortunately the performance is not what I expected. My f1 speed broadband resembles a snail’s pace speed. I have been experiencing the slow connection since I started using it until now. But I have no choice as my habitat only can support the snail connection. My broadband always having hiccup and disconnect every now and then.


My broadband is very fragile. It won’t let us use water heater to bath as well. If we switch on the water heater, it will automatically disconnect. We will end up bath in cold to avoid the disconnection. This kind of disconnection can be avoided but what I hate most is the snail’s pace connection. A simple web page takes me a long time to view and sometimes I can’t browse at all.



Even I want to test the speed of my broadband, it takes me donkey’s years to complete it and sometimes I rather switch off everything to save electricity.

How I wish there is a saviour. I would name it “hero”.



I really give up in my broadband. I have been lazy talking to CSR (customer service representative) as their scripts are the same.


I can’t blame them because they are not the technician. They are only entertaining our call by making sure they follow what their QA’s (quality assurance) rules. Oh dear analyzer, please don’t call us during working hour and ask whether are we in front of our PC. I would definitely say no and they will definitely say when you back, please check again. If the problem still persists, please call us again. Sigh.

Contact centre is working 24 hours. They (analyzer or team leader) should be calling people after working hours. Last year I had been lodging a problem regarding broadband unable to login. I can’t surf for half a month and face the disconnection problem after that. The service provider even promise to give me rebate after my problem had rectified. However, I don’t even get any rebate from them and yet my problem is visiting me very often. I already give up calling them and now I change to email them my problems. I attached the print screen my speed test in the email and asked them to email me rather than calling me. What I get is that, no matter what my complaints are, I will get the same format of email and same troubleshooting tips.

“Dear my broadband service provider. You are great. You have been passing your quality assurance and get your full PFP (pay for performance) allowance. Congrats to you. But you fail to provide the best service to your customer.”

How I wish I can get a better broadband. I am not greedy. I don’t need a F1 speed. I only hope to get a better speed like 1300cc car. I will be satisfied.


We are writing this post for the purpose of winning a Macbook air 13” or a HP Mini 1100 + DiGi Broadband Modem + 3 months’ DiGi Broadband Explore subscription. For further information, please visit http://www.pimpmybroadband.com.my/

Unfortunately our area (Kuching) still don't have coverage yet. Hopefully we can have coverage very soon.



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Story boarding: Egg
Comic artist: Yolk

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri

After a full month of fasting, this is the day that all Muslim is waiting for :)

The egg yolks wish all Muslim in Malaysia and those overseas, SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI! Maaf zahir dan batin.

Let's forgive one another for all the misunderstandings in the past and renew the relatioship with each other.

from: Egg & yolk