take your money elsewhere!

that's what banks are telling people. Atleast for consumer banking. It seems that what I thought from my last bad experiences was true.. The banking industry has no interest with consumer market.. they don't care about what chicken feed money you and me put away each months.. you and I are mere inconviniences to them.. if it's up to the banking industry, nobody would be abel to open any saving/ current accoutns, just companies and corporations, please..

Yes they don't care about you.. not only that they have made it very very inconvinient for you and me to open a new accout and put least number of people possible at theur counters, they also going to make it hard for you to come and do your puny banking with them..

They have decided to open only durign the times that you and me could not make it to their offices.. at times when you are busiest, workign days only from 9:15am to 4:30pm.. heck.. why bother to be open at all.. they opens way after my office hours starts and closes your door way before my office hours stops.. and during lunch time they will put 1 staff for each 5 counters that they have. We got it, we're just not important enough for the banking industry.

So take your money elsewhere.. simpan dalam bantal lagi bagus.... pplus with the current interest rate, you actually loses money when in your saving accounts, with annual service charges and everything...

Five-day banking week inconvenient for those working

PETALING JAYA: It's a terrible inconvenience – that's what the majority of those who were approached in a street poll here said about the new five-day workweek for banks.

Secretary Yani Hamdan, 31, said: “For those of us who are working, the only time we can go to the bank is on Saturdays, but soon we won't be able to do even that.

“It's so inconvenient as we'll have to find our own way to do our banking. They really shouldn't close on Saturdays.”

She added that although many banks provided online services “not everyone has the Internet at home.”

Engineer Karen Kua, 28, said there was no necessity to close banks on Saturdays, noting that Malaysia “already has so many public holidays.”

“Even if the Government wants to promote local tourism, people wouldn’t be travelling every single weekend now, would they? I think having the banks open two Saturdays a month is not too much to ask,” she said.

However, some said they would not mind having the banks closed on Saturdays, provided that they had longer hours during weekdays.

Jason Shiraj, 27, said that if banks opened till 6pm, for example, the people could still carry out banking activities after work.

“It'd be good also if banks have more ATMs around which open till late at night,” he said.

The Association of Banks in Malaysia had on Wednesday announced the move to have a five-day workweek. Several banks have announced they were adopting a five-day week from Feb 1.

Bumiputra Commerce Bank said it would be open from 9.15am to 4.45pm from Mondays to Thursdays (Sundays to Wednesdays for Kelantan and Terengganu), and from 9.15am to 4.15pm on Fridays (Thursdays for Kelantan and Terengganu).

The bank's branches at KLCC and Komtar in Penang are currently open seven days a week, from 10am to 6pm, while their 25 service kiosks operate every day from 11am to 7pm.

Maybank said in a press statement that banking hours would be revised to 9.15am to 4.30pm on Mondays to Thursday, and from 9.15am to 4pm on Fridays.

For Kelantan and Terengganu, it will be 9.15am to 4.30pm from Sundays to Wednesdays, and from 9.15am to 4pm on Thursdays.

The bank will also open on Saturdays from 11am to 2pm at 26 branches nationwide. These branches are primarily located at major shopping complexes and high customer-traffic areas.

Citibank said their new hours would be from 9.30am to 4pm on weekdays, and from 9.30am to noon on Saturdays except for the first and third Saturdays of the month.

not bad eyy?

I've been having a good week so far..
thank you for your continued patronage to my humble blogsite..
you people are the very best!

video apek hisap ganja!

*** this post is in malay (mostly) due to the malay entertainment centric issue being discussed.

I don't usually buy harian metro.. who am I kidding, aku jarang ada urge nak beli paper.. most of the news I get is from the net... butt... hari nie aku jumpa harian metro kat post box rumah aku... must be some stalker dumped the paper bila dah nampak prey dia..

Anyway the front page tunjuk gambar apek senario besar sebagak bangaknya tgh isap paipon! peh serious.. batang betik lagi tuh... gamabr blow up pixel besar macam capture dari handphone.. tajuk dia... "saya hidap sisha, bukan ganja"....

yeah rite... rupa benda tu all too familiar.. all throughout college aku dok tgk benda tu.. aku tak penah sentuh benda tuh tapi benda tu so much around that I know how to cook it.. come on... sisha my ass.... looks like big phat BONGGGGGG to me...

masa aku kerja kat melawati lepas SPM dulu, opismate aku budak sessionist.. selalu dulu dia ikut ekamatra... buat concert, selalu masuk studio main untuk recording... nama dia zul.. serious pot head.. cerita aku kalau masuk studio tuh geng geng studio selalu dah siap satu bata mampat ganja... 1 fucking full kilo bata... jenis yg korang tgk pak polisi dok perade depan wartawan bila ada major ganja bust.. satu bata tuh studio sponsor... it's a norm.. the entertainment industry is like that.. craetivity is almost always fueled by altered state of mind... dadah is the nasik of entertainment industry..

Come on.. takkan korang buat buta macam pak polisi gaks.. si yassin tuh kena tangkap dadah, drag case setahun dua lepas tu case throw out of court. Si Salem Iklim tuh berapa kali dah keluar masuk pusat serenti... nkorang gi jalan kat chow kit.. boleh nampak macam macam.. bukan sorang dua orang nampak kat lorong chowkit.. penuh..

aku bosan dengan masalah nie.. aku bosan dadah di kaitkan dengan industri muzik.. puak puak artis nie dah ler dok sibuk tangkap gambar derang dok mengongkek.. pastu dok isap dadah... derang bukan tak tau derang tu role model pada budak budak muda...

pak polisi dengan pak gomen tak reti ker nak handle this problem.. the more korang berlembut dengan artis dadah, artis video kongkek, makin tu la bebudak melayu kita dok terikut ikut.. macam pak turut... come on! do something... bodoh!

Download Spiderman 2 Movie here!

Ok I was kidding.. BUt here is a review of Online Movie Download Service that I prepared.

Online Movie Download Service Reviewed!
When I was little, I remember cycling to my small town's video store and renting 2 -3 VHS tapes. VHS rental was huge in the 80's because a lot of people own VCR but VHS tapes are still expensive. For an annual fee and about 3 bucks you could rent latest movies on VHS tapes.. I remembered that original movies on VHS tapes costs about 20 bucks 15 years ago... That's expensive no matter in what currency.

Now comes DVD rentals.. But sadly due to licensing problem we do not see much DVD rental stores around, atleast for my region anyway. I know most would blame on pirated DVD discs being rampant in Asia but if video stores are allowed to legally rent out "paperback version" of the DVDs I don't think we would have much piracy problem.

OK I will not dwell too deep into this whole piracy/ legal battle issue.. So let's get to reviewing shall we?. I found a few online movie downloads sites that offers thousands of titles that can be downloaded for your viewing pleasure. Some are legal, most are somewhat in the grey/ noir side. I'll try to be fair and review them the same.

1. Cinemanow (url)
Definately the crown jewel of online movie download service! They have huge listing of movies from more than 19 categories. They require that you use Internet Explorer and Microsoft Media Player 10 to make sure that their DRM (Digital Rights Management) software works correctly. There's no membership free and movies range from USD1.99 to USD3.99 per rental. Rental period is however for 24 hours.

You have to have a broadband connection to download these titles but their fast servers and superior streaming makes sure that you could be watching the stream in a matter of minutes. I speak of this from personal experience renting quite a few titles from CinemaNow.

I should warn you however that CinemaNow has a mature content section. However you re warned before entering such section.

2. Movielink (url)
Unfortunately for this reviewer, movielink has chosen not to serve their content to my region. I have heard and many good reviews of them but I cannot comment any further on their service. I do hope that they would open up to other regions fast.

3. Movie in Demand (url)
Ok here is one movie download service that boasts of having thousands of titles and allows members unlimited downloads for an annual free. Free is at USD 39.45 annual and USD 49.95 for lifetime membership. This is for an unlimited downloads of the latest movies. I did a quick browse and found that they have a huge collection. King Kong size collection of the latest and greatest. Some of the titles are still playing in cinemas in my region. Here comes my concerns..

I have concern that this is an illegitimate download site. I just can't see how they could offer unlimited downloads of their titles at such low low fee. I worry that in the end of the day members end up downloading from a p2p network of some variant and I cannot stress enough how this is illegal. You are responsible for your own action on the net.

Conclusion
In conclusion, I would recommend CinemaNow movie download service on top of many other sites on the net. I know that they are legal, they have a good range of titles. The titles are fairly new and pretty much in demand. They have fast streaming servers and most of the titles are about USD 1.99 per rental.

The cons of CinemaNow is that you have just 24 hours to watch the movies downloaded. You cannot (in my knowledge) copy them into DVD+R to view at your sweet DVD player setup box.

I would say stay away from shadowy movie download sites such as MovieInDemand. While you may get away with downloading from them, you are still committing an offence. So best to stay away.

There we go, I hope that the short review shine some light on the subject. I wish you best of luck and happy downloading..

And here's Spiderman 2 movie trailer, one of my favourite scene too... especially with the car flying by.

Molesting grandmothers!

that's right.... That's what they did... I guess our grannies better start packing to their false teeth when they go out. This could start a whole new range of personal protection items such as

1. Mace / pepper Bombs
- coz grannies has arthritis and cannot aim their mace / pepper spray properly to the assailant's face.

2. Boomerang Dentures
- fashioned after the famous bat-arang but packs nasty odor in addition to the skin tearing biting action.

3. Grannies battle-ready armor
- with side pockets to provide for severe sagging :P

This message was brought to you by the good people of G.A.M
(Grannies Against Molesters)

Grandma robbed and molested by duo

TAMPIN: A grandmother was not only robbed but had her modesty outraged by two men who claimed to be her son's friends near her home in Kampung Air Rawa, Gemencheh, near here.

The 67-year-old woman was walking home after attending a wedding reception at 3.30pm on Sunday when two men approached and spoke to her.

She entertained them as they claimed to be her son's friends but suddenly one of them attacked her.

When she tried to fend him off, she was kicked three times, causing her to fall.

The men took her belongings including a gold bracelet worth about RM1,500 and fondled her breasts before fleeing on a motorcycle.

Her screams attracted other villagers who came to her aid and alerted the police.