Category: General

… nearly killed my modem. Everybody should live by the adage that if it is not broken, do not fix it. I am curious by nature. Many times, I have dismantled stuff just to see how it looks inside. On my lucky days, those devices get reassembled back as they were before and continue working. On unlucky days, I have to run out and buy a replacement because it would not work again.

Last Sunday, I fiddled with my ADSL modem settings and it refused to connect after that. Desperate calls to Streamyx Customer Support did not help much. My friend Emil offered to bring his modem and Ethernet card to troubleshoot the problem later today.

Streamyx sent two technicians this morning to check the ADSL settings in my computer. They hooked up another modem and got connected. The diagnosis was that my modem died. The technician explained that the modem was provided free and there is no replacement for it. I thought I had to get another modem and burn a hole in my wallet.

As a final resort before going out to buy a modem, I checked the tmnet.streamyx newsgroup and found the configuration to reset the modem to its default settings. Viola! I am online again. This must be one of my luckier days. Bless you goolias_andreas@yahoo.com, whoever you are.

Mum was admitted to the hospital again about two hours ago. She was breathless, very weak and pallid. My good neighbours Mr. Tan, Soon Leong and his wife sent her to the General Hospital. The doctor decided to keep her for observation and hooked her up on a drip. She had not been eating well for days.

After one month of pumping various music genres through the Altec Lansing ATP3, the verdict is finally out. It rocks! This sleek pair of slim satellite speakers and a mean looking sub-woofer consistently throw out sounds with good fidelity to keep me endlessly entertained.

I am no audiophile but I believe I have an ear for that subtle timbre that sets good sound apart from the mediocre. I know this is one of the older models but the price was within my budget and the satellite speakers just looked so sexy. Plus, the ATP3 have Wuan’s stamp of approval after she had compared the sound from other models in the Altec Lansing range and also the Logitech Z-340, which was my other choice.

Wuan, your effort in trampling all over Low Yat Plaza testing the various speakers, looking for the best bargain and then lugging the box all the way to Penang has not gone unappreciated. It had been noted down in my Buku Nota 555.