Maybank used to provide their E-Banking service (Maybank2u) for free to individuals and companies. From my experience, the website becomes very slow or almost inaccessible in the daytime. I have always thought that they should upgrade their servers to accommodate the increasing number of users.
Unfortunately, Maybank has chosen a different approach to “solving” this problem. Only a few weeks ago, Maybank started charging small businesses — partnerships and professionals — a monthly fee of RM10 to use their E-Banking service. This fee will be automatically deducted from the customer’s account monthly until they wish to cancel the service.
As an alternative, those who do not want to be charged an extra RM10 monthly can use their phone banking service instead. They will need to apply for this service at their local branch. The number to call is 1300-88-6688. Unfortunately, I have been trying to call that number for the past hour but it is still engaged.
I am starting to feel very negative about Maybank now. They better improve their services. Maybe they should start at improving their staff’s morale. The protests by Maybank’s staffs in a few states just over a month ago aren’t doing any good to their image either. You can view some of the photos of the protest too.
The mass rally organized by BERSIH on the 10th of November was aimed for an electoral reform towards fairer and “cleaner” election. Our Prime Minister, Pak Lah disapproves of such mass gatherings claiming that “there’s never been peaceful gatherings”.
From the articles I read and YouTube videos I saw, the only non-peaceful events that happened were started by “the other side of the fence”. The people and even journalists covering the event were “shot at” using water canon and a hawker who wasn’t even participating in the mass rally was reported having his left knee broken and crushed “by police officers” as reported by Malaysiakini.
“I also never imagined I would end up with a knee smashed by those who are supposed to be protecting the people against violence.”
There is a call for the rakyat to wear yellow on every Saturday as a call to protest against the government for their “street dance” last weekend.
“It can be a yellow cap, a yellow shirt, a yellow ribbon … just anything yellow,” said Syed Azman Syed Nawawi from the opposition Islamic party PAS.
Will I be wearing yellow proudly and walk in the streets together with the others? You bet! Since anything yellow will do, I am thinking of something unique. A shirt, pants or cap is so common. I want to be different. How about wearing yellow underwear?
Speaking of yellow underwear reminds me of someone. Do you know who this someone is? Below are some clues:
Male
Blogger
“Entertainer”
Handsome (self-proclaimed)
Singaporean
XiaXue’s “best friend”
You should be able to guess it by now. Enjoy the YouTube video below.
Now, what I need to do is to go buy some Yellow underwear now.
This year’s Deepavali celebration was a little quiet for me. I called up a few friends to gather at a friend’s open house but most of them were out of town. In the end, there were only two of us visiting. Less people means more food to eat
We spent over two hours there — eating and talking. My friend bought a dog for his parents to look after the house. I think it is only four months old. So, the parents are probably doing the looking after, for now.
Anyway, we chatted for a bit and the million dollar question popped up out of the blue — “Have you registered?”
The two of them were like, “Hell ya… You bet! I am not going to allow… I will make sure…”. They went on and on but I was like, “Errr…not yet”. Let’s not talk about me and concentrate on what they have to say, shall we?
I was actually quite surprised that they had the same views on most of the things that I have been reading on “alternative news” sites like Malaysiakini. They talked about who they would vote for in the coming election. I can’t help but to wonder, does it even matter? I just read the article on “Mystery voters” and remembered some “ghost voters” reported some time ago.
To me, politics (no matter who are the ones on top) is a “dirty game”. It is all about power, money and corruption. The question isn’t whether they are corrupt but how corrupt they are.
I don’t follow much on political blogs. I do get my daily fix from Malaysiakini and Jeff Ooi though but that’s about it.
I received a link in my email yesterday. That is when I found what must be the hottest ringtone in town. You can download the ringtone which is in mp3 format from the original source at polytikus. It is hilarious.
“Correct! Correct! Right! Correct!”
I wonder if those ringtone websites will commercialize this. Maybe they can bundle it as a free download or something. Right? Correct?
If the perception I have on the police force isn’t bad enough, the latest report on Malaysiakini successfully pushed it over the edge for me. The Malaysian Bar Council greeted three (unprepared) police officers today. They were supposedly there to question council president Ambiga Sreenevasan, vice-president Ragunath Kesavan and secretary Lim Chee Wee regarding the “Walk for Justice” held a few weeks ago.
Instead of getting a statement from the trio, the police officers returned empty handed but not before being smacked in the face for not having enough information in their hands. They are up against Bar members for goodness sakes, not some teenage blogger or something. Shouldn’t they be more prepared? Maybe they are on their first day of duty?
One thing that I do not understand is why are the police investigating and interviewing the wrong people? All this mess is due to the Lingam tape that was widely spread and talked about not too long ago. I am still completely clueless as to what the 3 members “independent” panel’s actual duty is. How long does it take to verify the authentication of a video clip? In fact, I wonder if they have even started analyzing the video clip.
If anything, I have (almost) completely lost confidence in some things in the country. For one, I better not get myself in trouble with the wrong group of people. Or else, I might as well just “sit back and enjoy the ride”.
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