Category: General

Celcom WHO WILL WIN Challenge

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Bersih aside, it’s time to talk about football. As some of you may know, Malaysia got belasah by Arsenal 4 – 0 a week ago. 3 goals came about due to high balls. You can watch some of the highlighted below.

Then few days later, Malaysia XI was beaten by Liverpool 3 – 6. Although we lost, it was certainly worth watching as Malaysia did came behind from 4 – 1 to 4 – 3. Unfortunately, Malaysia lost due to too much nasi lemak.

The last English club that will be playing with Malaysia XI is Chelsea and that will be on 21 July 2011 at Bukit Jalil National Stadium at 8:45pm. It will be interesting to see how Malaysia fair.

I wonder if the guy who wore the Manchester United jersey to the Liverpool training session will attend the Chelsea game. He was forced to take off his jersey by the Liverpool fans 😀

Celcom is now holding the “Celcom WHO WILL WIN challenge“. You can get autographed jerseys and FREE tickets to the Chelsea game by participating in one of the following challenges.

Who Will Win Challenge
i. Send ON WIN to 23696
ii. Receive 3 Questions per day (voting based) and SMS news alert.
iii. Receive news alerts after you finish the questions.

Who Will Win Longest “Gooaalll” Cheer
i. Dial *2299009 and answer 10 questions correctly.
ii. After answering the last question, record your longest “goooooaaaaaaalllllll” cheer.
iii. You will also receive a FREE Call-Me-Tones!

Who Will Win – Match Alerts & Live Updates
Register for the Football Goal package OR Mirror Football package by performing the following steps:
a) Football Goal Package (Receive news, team line-up, goal alerts and more of your favorite team)
i. Subscribe to Chelsea package by typing ON CHE and send to 26060
ii. Subscribe to Arsenal package by typing ON ARS and send to 26060

b) Mirror Football (Receive football news, instant updates and more from Monday to Friday)
i. Subscribe to Mirror Football SMS Alerts package by sending ON MFS and send to 23776
ii. Subscribe to Mirror Football WAP Alerts package by sending ON MFW and send to 23776

Who Will Win Trivia
1. Download Who Will Win MMS Greeting Card by sending ON BOLA to 22229
2. After successfully downloading, answer a set of questions. Each set has five (5) SMS questions. You can answer a maximum of ten (10) sets of questions daily.
3. If you answer one (1) or more sets of question correctly, you will automatically be eligible for the prize selection.

Who Will Win Fan Club
1. Subscribe to the Football fan page by sending MENU to 27722
2. Receive your football club fan status as well as club activities and enjoy free chat together with premium downloads of your favorite football club.

Who Will Win Music Downloads
Download Who Will Win music by dialing *118#, choose Call Me Tones and select the Anuar Zain VS Maher Zain and download the music you like to be eligible to win the FREE tickets to the matches.

Who Will Win Personality Quiz
i. Join the personality quiz by dialing *118#, select Who Will Win and choose Quiz.
ii. Answer all the questions given and you’ll receive your own personality result after answering all the questions.

Contest will end on 17 July 2011. For more information visit www.channelx.com.my.

Celcom – Roaming SSR

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Celcom recently launched a roaming package for its users who are travelling overseas. It’s a great package for me especially when I travel quite a bit and have internet withdrawal symptoms when I travel.

I ranked a RM1,000++ bill when I was in Koh Samui and Singapore. The worst was when I ranked RM4,000 when I was in the US last year. Fortunately, I overcome my internet addiction when I was in San Francisco. My Blackberry laid in the safe deposit box untouched for 10 days!

So anyway, the new package allows you to roam in the following countries and telco in a single roaming rate of 98sen/min:-

  • Singapore (M1)
  • Bangladesh (Robi)
  • Cambodia (Hello)
  • Indonesia (PT XL)
  • Sri Lanka (Dialog Telekom PLC)

    • The rate of 98 cents will in the above countries if you call home, call local numbers, receive incoming calls, call BACK to Malaysia (via Roam Saver *120*) or send SMS (with the exception of Singapore where the charges will be 0.65cents per SMS.

    There is also a Daily Unlimited Data Roaming Plan – to access the internet on your mobile all you want when travelling in the above countries – at RM38/day!

    That’s not all, when you roam with Celcom to any other part of the world, you’ll still enjoy a single flat roaming rate based on the zone you are in.


    *Zone 1 (Singapore) – rates apply when you roam with any other Singapore operator other than M1.

    Visit the website for more information.
    Celcom Exec
    Celcom Biz

    Greetings from San Francisco!

    Well, not yet. I’m still in the airport waiting for my flight. It’s going to be a gruelling 20 hours flight. First to HK and then straight to SF.

    I’ll be attending the annual International Trade Mark Association (INTA) conference in SF. Last year, it was at Boston. It’s been a year! Time flies!

    I will be turning off my Blackberry throughout the trip. Last year, I raked up a RM4000 bill for Blackberry charges. If anyone wishes to contact me, just email me or DM me at Twitter.

    Will try to blog when I’m in SF!

    Astro B.yond IPTV

    Remember my Astro B.yond TVC Commercial shot last year?

    After the launch of Astro B.yond and the launch of B.yond PVR (Personal Recording), Astro has launched the new Astro B.yond IPTV. Astro B.yond IPTV is a service that integrates regular/linear Astro channels with HD (High Definition), PVR (Personal Voice Recording) and Video On Demand, which also includes high-speed broadband and voice capabilities delivered via a fibre line powered by TIME. It comes with a top box with 500gigabytes capacity to store TV programmes.


    Astro B.yond IPTV is brought by the partnership of Astro and TIME. Astro B.yond IPTV bring you the one and only line you’ll ever need with the best of 3 worlds in 1 service; Astro TV (HD, PVR, VOD), High Speed Fibre Broadband and Voice.

    I was invited to their sneak preview at the newly opened Doubletree Hotel by Hilton.

    In the sneak preview, we were shown features of the Astro B.yond IPTV. The PVR is one interesting feature. It allows you to record, pause live TV, rewind and forward a recorded programme. Series link is part of the PVR feature. It allows one to automatically record all episodes of a TV programme. Imagine being able to record all of Simpsons and Family Guy!


    PVR menu

    Unlike the IPTV of another telco, the PVR menu doesn’t lag. Surfing channel to channel is a breeze unlike the other IPTV. The other IPTV strangely takes some time to change channels.

    The main highlight for me is their flexible broadband package. Lowest rate is RM128 for 3Mbps per month. Astro B.yond IPTV customers will be able to enjoy free high speed fibre broadband and VOD services until 30th June 2011. During the sneak preview, all pages were loaded at lightning speed!

    Each Astro B.yond IPTV home will have a dedicated bandwidth of 100 Mbps, which is large enough to support 2 concurrent Astro B.yond boxes, each of them simultaneously recording up to 2 HD channels while watching either one of the HD channel or the recorded HD content and downloading the third VOD programme in HD, while leaving 30 Mbps, which is 30 times faster than the standard 1 Mbps, to support all connected devices such as laptops, tablet devices, mobile phones and games consoles on Wi-Fi within a single household.
    Video on Demand (VOD) content is available on this IPTV platform. There will be a VOD library containing dramas, wellness and children series. The library will be expanded over time. It is now provided on complimentary basis until the second quarter of 2011. With VOD content, you may play any VOD content at any time and manage the playback of the show by pausing, forwarding and rewinding it at your convenience.

    In view that the IPTV is provided by fibre, Astro service will not be affected by the rain. If you’re wondering why the old Astro services are affected by rain, this is because the transmission of content is by way of satellite. Once it starts raining, the signal between the satellite and your Astro dish will be affected by the rain.

    VOD will also not affect your broadband speed as these services are provided via dedicated bandwidths for VOD.


    Broadband packages

    I was given an opportunity to try one of the test units of Astro B.yond IPTV at the venue. It is just like our normal Astro but with additional features. It now has more HD channels.

    While playing with the test unit, I found this function.


    Wow, you can logon to Twitter using Astro B.yond IPTV? This is interesting! TV and Twitter into one screen! However, this feature is still under testing and is not available yet. 🙁

    Astro B.yond IPTV is now being rolled out in various parts of Malaysia. It is now in certain parts KL Golden Triangle, Bangsar and Sri Hartamas. You can check out Astro’s availability page.

    For more information visit:

    Website: http://www.astro.com.my/iptv/
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/Astro
    Twitter: www.twitter.com/astroonline

    Twitter Pics – KL Traffic

    If you haven’t been following my tweets, you missed out various pictures relating to KL traffic that I posted on my twitter. Since the inception of my twitter picture page in 2009, I gathered some interesting pictures while on the go/contributed by some people. Check it out.


    3 cars parked in 2 parking bays for the disabled. Fail!


    Saw an accident in front of Batu Caves heading to Ampang. 2 cars pile up.


    Car turned turtle at LDP from Kepong to 1 Utama


    Taxi squashed like pancake under the bridge next to Bank Negara. Taxi driver survived by the way. Story here


    A car named Peggy!


    Friend’s tires got stolen broad daylight @ Sunway Mas near Old Town. Beware!


    World most expensive TAX1!

    If you’re wondering how my Twitter pictures page work, read “How to create your own Twitpic-like website“

    Thailand’s Got Talent

    If you have not seen this, please do. It’s awesomee!

    According to the comments posted, the singer’s name is Bell Nuntita, aka Nuntrita “Bell” Khampriranon (เบลล์ นันทิตา), 27 years old. Here’s a translation of what was said in the video – which I obtained from one of the commentors:

    After finishing her song..

    1st judge – You fool me right from the moment we met…How is it possible??

    2nd Judge – She is pretty right??

    Crowd – Yes very pretty…

    2nd Judge – I have to say that she had talent too… I had a shock on the 2nd part of the song…Everyone were like Hey !!! What do you think ??

    3rd Judge – I still believe in my instinct…My sensor saidďťż that she isn’t like what i saw…

    3rd Judge- When she started singing (female voice) i thought i was wrong but on theďťż 2nd part of the song i know that my instinct was right from the start.

    When the 2 MCs hugged Bow.

    2nd Judge – I am so jealous, the two male host knew me for 10 years and never hug me before..

    During Bow’s interview-

    I was teased a lot…several nicknames

    But we also had to bear with it all along.

    My fatherďťż can’t accept who i am…

    The bad part is my father even beat me in hoping that I will change back to normal….

    I wanted to tell Dad, that I love you very much and i finally did it !

    Coincidentally, I have a few blog posts on transgenders. One of my highest read entries is the There’s something about Miriam entry.


    Here’s Miriam!

    Then followed by Hari-su and Nong Poy


    Harisu


    Nong Poy

    And our very own Malaysian Jessie Chung..

    On a serious note, BFM radio interviewed Nisha, the coordinator at the PT Foundation’s transgender programme, about her experiences of living as a transgender individual in Malaysia. Listen to her experience being imprisoned for wearing ladies’ clothes.

    Pecha Kucha Kuala Lumpur – Vol. 11 – Getting Social

    I will be speaking at this event on 18.1.2011 with a bunch of other fehmes people. But this talk is no easy talk. Usually in my talks, my presentation slides follow my lead. However, in this Pecha Kucha presentation, I need to follow the slides! There are a total of 20 slides in this presentation. I am allocated a fixed 20 seconds for each slide. You can check out the video below for a good introduction on Pecha Kucha.

    The stakes are now higher. Instead of delivering good content, I have to deliver it in style! NIAMALOH!! Already got problem with the first part!!!

    Anyway, here’s the information about the event. Check out the Facebook page for more information.

    Back by popular demand, Pecha Kucha Night (PKN), the global design networking/social event that draws creative talents together is back for its eleventh instalment!

    In the first Pecha Kucha of 2011, join host Niki Cheong and the British Council who will present a line up of big names, with even bigger personalities to match as they share their stories and journeys about social media and the way it has revolutionalised the way we… communicate!

    Featuring,
    • Niki Cheong – Journalist and social media advocate
    Website | http://www.nikicheong.com/
    Twitter | @nikicheong

    • Daphne Iking –TV host and actress
    Website | http://daphneiking.blogspot.com/
    Twitter | @daphCLPT

    • Tengku Zatashah Idris – Online entrepreneur of exclusive gift collection company Originalo
    Website | http://originalo.com.my/
    Twitter | @zatashah

    • Low Ngai Yuen – Director, producer and head of the newly revived Kakiseni.com team
    Website | http://www.kakiseni.com/
    Twitter | @ngaiyuen

    • Julian Hopkins – PhD candidate at Monash University, Sunway Campus researching the commercialisation of Malaysian blogs
    Website | http://julianhopkins.net/
    Twitter | @julianhopkins

    • James Chong – Independent Internet Strategist Heading Online & Social Media for P1
    Website | http://aidsaware.ruumzcauses.com/
    Twitter | @warbaby

    • Zain HD – Project Manager for RandomAlphabets (the collective behind Glee Flashmob Dance KL, Tali Tenang and Freeze for Unison) and Wago, which does social media PR and alternative events
    Website | www.randomalphabets.com
    Twitter | @zainhd

    • Foong Cheng Leong – Senior Associate at Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill focusing on Intellectual Property and Information Technology and cyberlaws
    Website | www.xes.cx
    Twitter | @xescx

    • Sivin Kit – Pastor at Bangsar Lutheran Church and social activist
    Website | http://sivinkit.net/
    Twitter | @sivinkit

    • Jonson Chong – Human rights lawyer and former KEADILAN communications director
    Website | http://jonsonchong.com/
    Twitter | @jonsonchong

    The event is on 18.1.2011, 8pm. There is no entry fee but it’s on a first-come-first-served basis. The event will be held at Delucca, The Italian Restaurant on Jalan Mesui in Kuala Lumpur (opposite No Black Tie/Palate Palette).