Multimedia Super Corridor MY ASS!!!

I'm ashamed, really.. billions if not trillions of dollars put into this national IT initiative and guess what happened? The whole of cyberjaya got disconnected from the rest of the internet yesterday from noon to about 10pm. Estimated 10 hours of downtime.

How do we know about this although none of the news agencies is carrying this story? Because me and my friends has hosting accounts on a few hosting companies in cyberjaya and all of us went offline at the same time noon yesterday. A friend had to calm a lot of her customers when they start calling why their hosted website/ email systems are down.

Stupid MSC! I mean you spent all that money and you don't think about backup system? Stupid ISP. (update : a source close to myloca told me that they never tried the backup system in-place actually)

Oh wait, stupidity only restricted to MSC in cyberjaya. Even Universiti Putra Malaysia attempt to be in the forefront of MSC also got infected by such stupidity. Imagine this. They are so promoting online registration. Online fee payment via BCB channel-e, wow sexy sounding.. except that it's crap!

I paid munchkins fees via the much promoted (in UPM anyway, I remembered being told in few semesters they will not accept cash-over-counter for fee payment) channel-e on Dec 12th. We checked everyday since on the Graduate School portal and always been greeted by a warning screen that we still owe the university. So being concerned that the money never made it to UPM, I gave the graduate school office a call this morning to enquire. That's where my surprise started.

The clerk that picked up the call was polite (good points for gso office there!) and explained to me that the website is probably not updated, so he asked for a student id so that he could check in the system. I gave him munchkins student id and further check found no record of any fees paid by us for this coming semester. But he told me nto to worried because probably IT HAS NOT BEEN KEYED IN YET!

HOLY FUCK! you mean there's a person sitting somewhere in upm who will receive a list of student ids and their payment detail from BCB every week or so and manualy keying in each and every line of data into their system?

Crap! I would expect more from a super modern university, a billion dollar banking corporation and a trillion dollar national initiative. But the best that they can do is hire somebody to key in data from a piece of paper into the system? Shit we're better off queueing up and paying at the counter. Sell back Cyberjaya for plantation land and let's all start queueing up at counter. We'll save more money and heartache that way!