I don’t know about other places but a few of my friends in Ipoh have told me that their Steamyx connection is totally dead too. I know mine is since just before noon. And for those who still have Streamyx, some of them tell me that their line is crawling. Didn’t I say that I may show that I am connected on the activity log on their side but I totally am not able to get any thing connected at all. Not messengers, not browser.

The guy kept telling me to connect to the website of TM Net. Aiyo… still cannot la. This is not as if I cannot connect to international sites, OK? Whether it is Yahoo! Or TM, I can’t even f@rking get any connection at all.

I was already very frustrated because I could not work, I could not sleep and to have to answer their questions on what I did not do that caused my line to be unable to log in totally adds fuel to the fire.

I seriously do not know what is happening! Is TM playing with me or what? Within the past few days, it has been On and Off for a few times already. I called up TM Support Centre this afternoon telling them that I could not connect to the internet since morning but they said that their log shows that I have an active connection. Who in their right mind would call up complaining if they do have a connection, right?

I don’t know why but they said that they will cancel my active connection, asked me to restart my modem, helped to troubleshoot my computer, asked me to swap my cables and make a direct connection but nothing worked.

My iPhone wasn’t picking up my wi-fi signal either.

Anyway, after three calls to them only did they helped me to put in a report for their technical department to check my line. Even though I have a back up internet line, I was still pissed to have to spend half my life trying to get the connection to connect and so I was not able to get my work done. Besides, I missed my afternoon nap!

Now I gotta wait for two days and see what happens. F@rk TM should give me a rebate, man!!!

Last night, I was having an issue of being locked out of Hotmail when I tried to access my account via my iPhone. I did a search on the internet to see it there were other users who were similarly affected but apparently, there wasn’t.

This morning, after a good night’s sleep and a clearer mind, I did a search again, this time to see if it was a browser issue [Safari] and not iPhone issue. True enough, I found pages of articles mentioning this problem.

The weird thing is that it looks as if the problem started in early January, 2008, some even experienced this problem on their MAC back in 2006 and 2007 (!) but it only struck me yesterday. Ah…. maybe it’s like a virus and it takes time to travel to me in Malaysia.

Anyway, I have a new iPhone blog and I think I will be discussing future iPhone issues in that blog.

It’s kind of funny that when I thought that Streamyx was all fine after twenty hours of down time at the exchange in my area, I experienced a further three hours without internet connection last night. The second time was due to the port not connecting to my house. They made a report for me and told me that it will take one to two days for the technician to look into it and they will give me a call. If I do not hear from them after two days, I should call them up and provide them with my report number.

So I was like mentally prepared to wait out the down time but I was not desperate because I have a back up line. I could remember how I panicked each time my internet connection goes down, but no longer. Even though I do not like to use my 3G connection to connect to the internet via my mobile device, at least it does the job.

But wah… after about three hours, my connection was restored. I was so happy to be able to work normally but then I was sleepy already! hahaha!

Did you know, my Streamyx was down from slightly after 2pm yesterday till 11am this morning? Apparently, there was a problem with the exchange in my area and it affected Streamyx subscribers in my area. I called up TM’s customer care centre and the guy who fielded my call told me that I was not the only customer from Ipoh lodging a complaint.

Luckily, I have my Celcom 3G line to fall back on. This was the second time that I used my back up line for such long hours. The first time was a couple of months ago when there was an issue with my telephone line. I still don’t know what happened with that even though my bills are all up-to-date.

This time, once again, my Nokia E61i had to work full time. I connected it via Bluetooth and I think that the line is more stable using Bluetooth that using USB cable. At least it does not disconnect that often.

Unfortunately, getting online for such long hours (I was working on my website), was really battery draining. I had to keep it charging the whole time. Phew… luckily all is well again now.

This morning, I was chatting online with my sister via MSN and she tranfered some new photos that she took of her home. She also turned on the webcam so that I can have a look. You know, it has been more than a year since she had her house built but this was the first time she sent those photos. At least we now have an idea of her living environment.

My sister told me that when she built her house, she was slightly out of budget and had to share a house plan with a neighbor. So right now, in her street, there are two houses that are alike. My sister says that if she had enough money back then, she would have her own plans drawn up so that her house is unique.

I told her that there is a website where she can download such plan. No matter what kind of house she fancies, there are just the right kind of house plans from European to bungalow house plans at a fraction of the cost that is required to draw up a plan from scratch by an architect.

I tried searching the website for log home plans, currently my favorite kind of home, and navigation was a breeze.

If you do not like log homes, perhaps you would want to check out the selection of ranch house plans that are available for download. The search engine on the site is very good and you can make use of it to narrow down your choices based on specific size range or number of bedrooms, for example.

Phew… after one whole year of getting the domain name of my personal website, I finally got a proper website and I am glad that I did it by myself with the help of my host. All along, I only had it redirected to my GooglePages, which is like a website for Dummies. And yes, even though I know nothing about building sites, I managed to make one on GooglePages. Haha!

It was not that I do not want to read up how to do things like this but I was so bloody busy for the whole year. Not that I am complaining but all the work left me no time to do stuff like making sites.

Now that I have got one domain almost settled, since it is just a personal website and does not require constant updates, I will be able to concentrate on building my new blogs and another website later on, if things remain quiet.

P/S: I really like my site. Everyone says it’s cute LOL