Astro is currently in the process of upgrading their customers’ smart-card. And in this process, they will send you a new ‘gold colour’ smart-card to replace the old one. I don’t know why the fuck they call it ‘gold colour’ because from every possible angle, I only see ‘cheap dirty yellow’.

You will have to insert the new card into the decoder, press ‘OK’ and the decoder will download a new firmware to replace the old version in it. The process will take less than a minute although it is stated that it may take up to 15 minutes.

Now please beware! Once the decoder upgraded its firmware, it will no longer accept any old smart-card. You can probably still use the old smart-card in decoders that have not been upgraded, though. But for how long, I don’t know.

And now the problem…

Emperor has His own smart-card, which is the main account. And Empress has a supplementary smart-card, which costs only half the subscription price. There are two decoders in the Palace. Both subscribes to different channels. Emperor’s mainly news and sports while Empress’ mainly mandarin movies and series.

So They received ONE SINGLE new smart-card by mail yesterday. The Emperor slotted it into His own decoder and upgraded the firmware. But He soon realised that His news and sports channels disappeared! Instead, He got the mandarin channels…

Realising that the new smart-card must have belonged to The Empress, He went and upgraded The Empress’ decoder. Thus The Empress is now happily watching Her favourite mandarin movies and series.

Then The Emperor slotted in his old smart-card into his own decoder…

And yes, you’ve guessed it right. The decoder rejected the old smart-card. In fact, both decoders rejected both old smart-cards. And now The Emperor is without access to any news nor sports channels.

A call to Astro customer service was then made. The technical support confirmed the problem - both the decoders have been upgraded to reject the old smart-cards. They have sent out the new smart-card for the supplementary account while the main account is still in process and will probably take a week or two before its new card is sent out by mail.

They also offered to amend the subscription for the supplementary account to include news and sports which I promptly rejected. For that, there maybe bloodshed fighting for the channels within ONE SINGLE card.

And they offered again another solution that when the new smart-card to the main account is received, I can then call up for billing adjustment - which is to deduct the amount based on the number of days the main account is unaccessible.

Actually, this problem can be easily solved if those idiots at Astro care to use their brain instead of knees when planning - fucking send both smart-cards, the main and the supplementary, together in one single mail!!! For that, they can also save a certain amount on postage towards customers with supplementary account!

Fucking idiots!

- just another idiot-bashing post from drliew.net.

For the record, I start to read newspaper again. It’s so good to see all the heroes that we have voted for starting to appear on the front pages across the nation.

The parasites that have been flushed out of assholes want to go back in. Pathetic and very the mempersiasueykan, lah!

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I reviewed another solar charger a few years ago - PowerPlanet - that converts solar energy to store in its NiCd battery and in turn, charges or power any USB devices. It can also be charged with the included adapter. 

This is the new SolarKing DG Power S2, featuring larger solar panels and capable of being charged via solar energy or the included adapter. It is capable of supplying at two different voltage - 5V via USB and 9V via an adapter (included). Also comes with various USB to accessories adapter plugs.

Sliding open the spring-loaded adapter reveals two contact electrodes capable of charging most dSLR batteries, including the one from my Olympus E1.

It keeps its electrical energy in its 1800mAh Lithium-ion battery.

Full charging takes 10-12 hours under direct sunlight and 5 hours using AC adapter.

Size : 166.5mm x 89mm x 17mm

Weight : 190g

It also comes with a built-in white LED, can be used as a small torchlight. You can even check its battery reserve graded over four levels via three green mini-LEDs.

I DON’T FUCKING CARE WHO THE FUCK YOU FUCKING VOTE FOR AS LONG AS IT IS NOT THE BLOODY RAKYAT-FUCKING BN!

I FUCKING SWEAR I WILL FUCKING STOP BLOGGING FOR 1 WHOLE FUCKING WEEK IF FUCKING BN GETS FUCKING 2/3 MAJORITY, AGAIN, THIS FUCKING TIME.

AND I WILL FUCKING COME BACK AND CURSE ALL OF YOU FUCKERS WHO VOTED FOR FUCKING BN UNTIL YOUR FUCKING 18 GENERATIONS AGO.

RESTORE TRUE DEMOCRACY! DENY 2/3 MAJORITY! FUCK BN ALREADY!!!

KKDN’s concern on Uncyclopedia.

侮辱大马网站 内安部冀关注
二零零八年一月十五日 凌晨十二时二十一分

（槟城14日讯）国内安全部证实http://www.uncycloedia.org/wiki网站提供不属实的讯息，并刊载含有侮辱、轻蔑大马的内容和意识，该部于今日发出文告促请民众关注。

文告中指出，有关网站于2005年1月5日推介，为WIKIA公司所经营，国际著名的维基百科全书网站（Wikipedia）也是属于这个公司，但是，上述网站却散播不正确的讯息，而这些错误的消息却广为被采纳，尤其来自美国的平面媒体。

文告中透露，有关网站刊载的内容涵盖了我国的历史、文化、政治、大马领袖、内阁阵容、国歌甚至是国旗的名称、特征，然而有关资讯均实际上有违其正确性。

当局在文告上表示，此举已经严重侵犯大马的尊严，该网更散播不负责任的新闻，有意扭曲我国目前享有和平的事实，并企图制造国家分裂的政治局势，让大马形成一个负面的形象。

当局冀望透过文告，促请公众人士不要随意下载、散播网站内相关的内容，以避免落入有心人的圈套中。

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