I woke up late on a Tuesday, and as my mom was sending me to the LRT station, she asked what present I wanted for my birthday.<\/p>\n
“A haircut?”<\/p>\n
She was heading to Midvalley anyway, and I got my haircut. It wasn’t worth it – for every Ringgit spent all he did was rewind it a day. The colleagues couldn’t tell the difference! (It was, of course, much lighter… so maybe he did some hairstyling magic to cut off loads but keep the volume?)<\/p>\n
The Streamyx (ADSL broadband) installer called me when I was in Tower Records listening to CDs. I told him we’d be home at 8pm. Of course, I later realized that my lovably-bullyable colleague Kay-Li was in a play (Me, Myself and Pulau Belakang Buaya) that night, and it was the only screening, at 8:30pm!<\/p>\n
My parents could handle the installer, I thought. Or not. My mom assumed that the Alcatel Speed Touch 510 ADSL broadband modem\/router<\/a> box in the plastic bag near the computer was for my friend. The phone line was dead anyway, so the installer couldn’t do anything.<\/p>\n My delightful enjoyment of the play poking fun of Malaysia was marred by a stern mother saying the installer needed to speak on the phone. I reached home for some parental frying pan.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, an appointment was set at 3pm, but he came at 2pm. Santa he was indeed.<\/p>\n As he checked the cables, Santa asked for the filter thingy, and I took it out of the box, revealing the old Lantech 5-port 10\/100 Fast Ethernet switch<\/a>. He asked how much it was, and I said it was RM105 when I bought it, but PC Fair was selling such at RM75, so I’d sell it at RM50. He bought it.<\/p>\n The night before, I set the ADSL modem’s mode to PPPoA (which could give me 2Mbps if they forget to uncap my bandwidth) instead of PPPoE. However, it refused to connect until I switched it back to PPPoE, at a stable 384kbps.<\/p>\n The best part was, the router passed every test in Gibson Research Corporation<\/a>‘s ShieldsUP! tool.<\/p>\n I just hope I can maintain such enthusiasm (jakun!<\/i>) It’s not like I haven’t tasted broadband at the office before…<\/p>\n