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[WTS] Eve Suite, 1br, 680sqft, freehold

my44 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 15:12:07 +0800

Hi.

I'm looking to sell my apartment. Can arrange for viewing.

For: Sale (not for rent)
Name: Eve Suite, Ara Damansara
LRT station: Lembah Subang
Floor : 13A
Build up : 680sqft
Room : 1
Bathroom : 1
Status: Freehold
Renovation : Original from developer
Furnitures : Fully furnished
Car park : 1
Facing: East
Asking price : 435k (nego)
Photos : As attached
Vacant date: Unoccupied (occasional family weekend use) but need advance notice to arrange for viewing

Appliances included:
32” TV, fridge, microwave, washing machine, air conditioning (2 units), induction cooker

Common facilities:
Swimming pool, gym, electronic card entry,

Time-broadband ready

WhatsApp: ‪016 615 3294‬
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My pokok Italian basil

my44 — Sat, 15 May 2021 16:23:09 +0800

Surprisingly agak senang to grow in our climate.

Already petik a few times to make pizza and sometimes sprinkle on pasta.

They grow very fast after kena petik.

Replace and install new hood

my44 — Fri, 07 May 2021 14:00:42 +0800

I have a new Faberjet hood and want to replace this broken Elba. From reading threads here, some ppl rekemen Ah Seng so I contacted him. But the price he quoted?? Normal??

Validity 365 and share-a-topup

my44 — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:45:52 +0800

Dear all

I have Bagus WM that is eligible for Validity 90 and Validity 365. I can see this option from *100#.

If I take Validity 365, for example from today, my account validity will be changed to 13/07/2021. Correct?

What if I have purchase Hotlink share-a-topup that only has 5-day validity? Will its validity remain at 5-day or it will follow my main account's validity until 13/07/2021?

I actually tried to ask @HotlinkListens on twitter. Initial response: cannot understand my question. Not sure how to put this whole query is a more plain English haha.

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my44 — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:04:27 +0800

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Claiming warranty repair from Foto Shangri-la

my44 — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:22:45 +0800

I have a shocking experience when trying to claim warranty repair from Foto Shangri-la (Sony Center) at Low Yat. To mods, if this is not the right place to post this, please move this thread to the appropriate one.

I sent my Sony camera on 16/12 to their Plaza Lowyat location. The camera has an additional 2-year warranty from e-Guard when I bought it.

Today, 30/12, when I called Foto Shangri-la for update on the repair job (I was thinking along the line of "e-Guard has found the problem and now sourcing for repair parts"). How wrong I was. My camera is still at Plaza Low Yat!

I questioned her why this was happening. She said they can only call e-Guard dispatch and wait for it. I was just not expecting that was all Foto Shangri-la did instead of pushing e-Guard to pick up sooner. I said when they were trying to sell me the camera, all the sweet promises about additional warranty were given (in exchange of extra money, of course) but when the time comes for actual warranty repair, this was what a customer would experience.

Although it did seem like this "e-Guard warranty" company is a lousy company, I was expecting a bit more from Foto Shangri-la since I am their customer and they, IMHO, should do something to give a good after-sales experience and induce returning customer to repeat buying from them.

sigh

PS: If anyone can recommend a better after-sales experience especially related to warranty repair, I'm seriously thinking about buying RX100 M3 at that shop, so feel free to chip in. Thanks!

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House moving from Titiwangsa to Cheras

my44 — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:43:42 +0800

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[WTB] Used Sony DSC-RX1

my44 — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:49:24 +0800

Hi all. I'm looking if anyone selling Sony RX1 used set. PM me for further discussion. Appreciate if you have some photos of the camera condition. Thanks!

[WTB] Canon S90

my44 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:18:20 +0800

Looking for S90. My location is KL. Can plan to meet, test the camera & COD payment if everything is OK. PM me if you are selling.

Villa at "West KL"

my44 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:39:01 +0800

Presenting new villas at "West KL" http://villa-westkl.com/

Pricing from 1.6m to 2.2m. Location? You better find out

iPhone 4S price dropped to 1,799

my44 — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:48:06 +0800

Background:
Apple online store (store.apple.com/my) has reduced iPhone 4S price from 2,199 to 1,799 a few days ago. I tried to purchase online but apparently my AMEX credit card was not accepted. I do not have Visa or MC cards - my debt card does have a Visa logo on it but debt card cannot be used for Apple online. Hence I tried to find any units from physical store around KL.

Maxis, Alamanda Putrajaya:
They straight up say no outright purchase available. No surprise there.

Maxis, KLCC:
I've bought off-contract iPhone here before, so I know they do offer outright purchase. Unfortunately, as of 16/9, they are still selling at 2,190 old price and was unable to tell when they will reduce it.

Mobile floor, Lowyat Plaza:
The best price was 1,999 but I think these guys aren't too concerned about the price drop due to available stock issue.

MacStudio, Lowyat Plaza:
No stock and price remains at 2,199

Machines KLCC:
No stock. They said still waiting new stocks from Maxis. Machines are selling at 1,799 though.

Machines Lot 10:
No stock. But they asked me to call Machines Midvalley.

Machines Midvalley:
Only 32GB version available but no reduced price. Only 16GB has the new price as advertised by Apple online store. Also they admitted still waiting for stocks from Maxis.

Epicentre, Pavilion:
16GB stock available but remain at old price. They are aware of new price drop of 4S but can't tell when they can honour it.

Unsuccessful attempt to claim iPhone 4S warranty

my44 — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:35:53 +0800

As of today, I've visited Maxis KLCC twice to replace my iPhone 4S 16GB white. The sleep/wake button has become stuck.

On Friday, 01/06/12, I arrived at Maxis KLCC around noon. After made to wait for 30 mins, it was my turn to show the faulty button to a CS rep there. She acknowledged the sleep/wake button issue but unfortunately Maxis KLCC has "no stock" for immediate one-to-one replacement. She asked me [i] to call 123 to enquire about stock availability at other branches [ii] to come back on next Monday

[i] I called 123 helpline and the CS on-duty said that they cannot check any online availability for that day. Why is that one rep says can check through 123 helpline but the 123 helpline say they can't check? Seemed like I was stuck in the middle, just like the sleep/wake button, ironically.

[ii] On Monday, 04/06/12 at 11:00am, I made my way to Maxis KLCC again. Fortunately, I was assigned to the same lady at the warranty counter. Although she said she didn't remember me. A quick check on my iPhone details, keyed in a few things in the system and she made a query to her colleague across the counter and the short answer was "iPhone 4S 16GB white no stock". Still deadlock. Once again, she asked me to [iii] call 123 helpline. By this time, I was already quite agitated. Obviously calling 123 helpline was no help, pardon the pun. We resolved that she "will call" when they have stock although my sneaky feeling is that she won't honour her end of the bargain.

[iii] Feeling decidedly frustrated, I called 123 helpline again. Basically I received the same answer that they are unable to trace any stock report for the day. Apparently it depends how quickly the Maxis centre gives update to them. But from their system, they could see that there were some replacement stocks were sent to Maxis KLCC on Sunday, 03/06/12 but as from [ii] on 04/06/12, Maxis KLCC said there was no stock.

I feel that Maxis is dragging their feet about honouring the promised one-to-one replacement. I'm currently finding a way to lodge an official complaint to Apple regarding this. It goes without saying that a complaint to SKMM shall be lodged as well. It is frustrating when a huge conglomerate that was given almost the exclusive right to iPhone sales & services in Malaysia is acting like nobody will dare to touch them.

Choosing home loan with different LTV & tenure

my44 — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:55:39 +0800

Dear sifus,

In my previous home loan arrangements, my decision was usually straightforward (all banks offered 90% margin and I only compared the rates). But with new BNM ruling in effect and different interpretation by the banks, I received the following offers of varying extremes.

Anyone can help me choose?

Bank: X
Margin of financing: 68%
Cash down payment from own savings: 100k
Interest rate: 4.3%
Tenure: 37 years
Total interest to be paid: 251k
Monthly instalment: RM1,131/mo

Bank: Y
Margin of financing: 70%
Cash down payment from own savings: 92k
Interest rate: 4.4%
Tenure: 27 years
Total interest to be paid: 184k
Monthly instalment: RM1,365/mo

Bank: Z
Margin of financing: 80%
Cash down payment from own savings: 55k
Interest rate: 4.5%
Tenure: 25 years
Total interest to be paid: 197k
Monthly instalment: RM1,643/mo

Issues with CYNET web hosting

my44 — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:01:10 +0800

I'm not usually in the market to badmouth a fellow Malaysian web hosting company. In fact, both of my major web hosting services are Malaysian-based ie: Cynet & Serverfreak. That being said, I find little avenue to vent my frustration with Cynet web hosting except by sharing in this forum.

Issue #1: Downtime from 23/3@14:56 to 25/3@23:00 (more than 2 days)

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To summarize, the downtime was caused by corrupt HDD. While I totally understand HDD can fail, why didn't the hosting company employ a redundant server system? If you read the lengthy issue log, they had to procure a new server and a new HDD. No wonder it took 2+ days for my website to be back up and running *shake my head* :-(

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Issue #2: Incorrectly suspended my website

This issue is even hard to belief. For so many years I'm with Cynet, I've never seen this before. Basically I've paid my due, received a confirmation of payment from Cynet and a few days later they suspended my website due to non-payment. Added to that, I was out of the country for 1 week and had very limited internet access to act on things.

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Another reason why I raised this issue in this forum is because I lost quite a significant amount of visitors (and of course, advertising income). As of the case of downtime from 23/3 to 25/3, it was during F1 weekend which is usually a "bumper period" for me. Instead, I received almost $0 income from the websites affected.

I really hope Cynet can buckle up or lose one long time customer.

Problem accessing to one particular website

my44 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:18:50 +0800

Dear sifoos,

I've been trying to connect to http://realsimplehost.com/ since 11 hours ago, to no success whatsoever. I suspected it was because of the connection from Malaysia to this hosting (IP address: 38.102.33.24, Washington DC)

When I use Alertra from different monitoring locations, the URL seems accessible:

QUOTE

SpotCheck
URL: realsimplehost.com
Time (US/Eastern) Checked From Result KBytes Secs Kbps
02/20/2007 13:14:25 Atlanta USA OK 1.1 0.30 31.27
02/20/2007 13:14:26 Oklahoma City USA OK 1.1 1.19 7.81
02/20/2007 13:14:25 Las Vegas USA OK 1.1 0.11 87.96
02/20/2007 13:14:26 Shanghai CHINA OK 1.1 0.87 10.73
02/20/2007 13:14:25 London UK OK 1.1 0.44 21.33
02/20/2007 13:14:26 Hong Kong CHINA OK 1.1 0.53 17.64
02/20/2007 13:14:25 Orlando USA OK 1.1 0.24 38.67
02/20/2007 13:14:26 Frankfurt GERMANY OK 1.1 0.50 18.46
02/20/2007 13:14:25 Chicago USA OK 1.1 0.16 56.68

What do you guys think? Anyone can verify?

Malaysia Hotels and Resorts

my44 — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:01:34 +0800

Hello all. I decided to start a thread on my photo collections of great hotels and resorts in Malaysia. I realised I have too many of these photos, some of these are worth to be shared. Enjoy!

My domain blacklisted on SORBS

my44 — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:32:39 +0800

Dear all web gurus here,

I have a problem with one of my domain (69.93.171.171), which until recently, I found out was blacklisted on SORBS for "spamming". Honestly I do not know what it means. Was it because of the hosting provider that I choose?

I've written to SORBS, waiting for their response. Also wrote to hosting provider 9esolution.com but they never answer (perhaps they are too aware of this "spamming" problem?)

I seek anyone's help here who has had experience in dealing with the blacklist and how to get delisted.

The spam record: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=69.93.171.171
Also a good FAQ by SORBS about spamming: http://www.us.sorbs.net/faq/spamdb.shtml