Mobile number portability is here NOW!!!

After years of waiting, Mobile Number Portability will finally be implemented tomorrow (Friday). The initial service will be offered to Prepaid subscribers, while those on Postpaid lines will be able to join in the fun in a couple of weeks.

To those not so in tune with the technical jargon, Mobile Number Portability or MNP in short is a service that will allow you to switch telco providers without having to go through the hassle of changing your service number. After tomorrow, no longer will the prefixes of 016 solely be that of a DiGi subscriber, or 012 be an exclusive Maxis number.

With MNP finally in place, subscribers will have the convenient freedom of switching to competing telco providers while retaining their respective phone numbers. There will be a RM25 charge everytime the MNP is used to switch to a new telco.

The nationwide launch for the MNP service is in October, but prepaid users may start switching from tomorrow onwards. We have been informed prior to the nationwide launch, each telco is only allowed to process 100 MNP applications a day. Prepaid credit will not be transferred over to your new service provider, so finish up before you jump ship.

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Found this news moments ago and decided to post it up.

It’s like ages for the network companies to dominate each other line and continue to stiff up competitions while keeping their old customers alighted. Whenever you see any mobile company roll out something, in a day or two, the other will do the same. Well, competition is good and at the end we are the one who benefits from them! Lower call rates, lower sms fees and monthly fees, and along with so many services offered by the companies, how could we not benefiting from them.

I remember that I begged so hard for my dad to buy a prepaid for me when I’m about 12 years old? And it cost a bomb! Nowadays prepaid cards are easily available and sadly to say quite many misused it too!

And so the competition goes on, as long as three of the main network companies didn’t go bust in short-term, we may see them rewarding you with money in the near future! Who knows!

PS: They remind me of the war between Air-Asia and MAS.

Been busy lately. SPM is near the corner and obviously I’m quite behind my pre-planned schedule! 76 days left and expect me to revise all 11 subjects? Gotta work hard then!

While I was pre-occupied with revision a few days before this, teachers are actually giving us more and more and more homework, further piled up our misery! Argh~Imagine writing 7 essays in a week and with tons of Add-Math papers on my table, it’s hard for me to keep my blog updated. The days are closing down on me and I can’t relax anymore! I’m sorry if I can’t update my blog often and reply you messages. Most probably I’m sinking my head into the pile of mountainous books.

Till then, see ya!

Somehow, during Beijing Olympic Closing ceremony it was not showcasing the world its BEST.

Somehow, they splashed out 42 Billion USD on a sports event but were too stingy in getting a plane for the athletes to board.

And they are fake athletes!

Now I supposed the Chinese government will do anything just to make everything perfect.

A great ending for the most successful Olympic event ever staged.

Thanks to Matt Sebek at JoeSportsFan.com for the screengrabs.

After two weeks of intense rivalry and competition, at last, the road is heading to its end.

080808, the day where the Olympic flame gloriously brighten in front of close to 10 Billions viewers, the world has stunned, the day where we all have been waiting impatiently has came, the Olympic stage by an emerging economic powerhouse, set to take over American status as the world No.1. This is the aim and objective of the Communists authorities, looking to expand the long surviving Chinese culture that set to emblazed the world with its rich history. Doubted as one of the most expensive and successful Olympic ever hosted by any other country, China has sent a strong message, ‘We are going to aim for the No.1′

Indeed, they had proven their determination in the sports, sending close to 700 of athletes to the Olympic games and planned to overhaul American as the sports powerhouse. Two weeks gone and they won the game, they won the glory and honour, but still it came at a price, scarification.

But this is what the Chinese has been wanting for so long, to prove the world its capability and ability to dominate every single in the world. The hunger to succeed is there, and they are even hungry now. They have prepared all these for so many years, spending so many public funds in the process to show the world and they can, that they could, that they believe in IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING. Grass root talents were being picked up since young, and the gold medalists now there standing proudly are the product of their own efforts and hard work. Training hard close to 8 hours per day just to ensure perfection, and they have bear their own fruits. The nation are proud of them, and so do the world too.

Today, it all comes to a close, where the flame will be brought to another economic powerhouse, London 2012. The Chinese has proven to the world in all aspects, and hope the Brits will do well too!

The Chinese believe in their own dream, and we can dream too.

Together we dream, One World One Dream.

Looking back through the Olympic to where it all started, the Bird’s Nest stadium, I felt a sudden rush of glory. Being a Chinese, though I have no relationship with China, the sense of proudness towards my grass root country being able to stage one of the biggest event in the world, is, err, indescribable.

Same goes to the athletes who competed and still competing in Olympic, to win a gold and being an Olympic champion is no easy task. It takes determination, effort, sacrificial, and much much more to be able to stay on the podium and have the national anthem being played out. I tried to imagine, while I was standing on the podium, winning the badminton against Lin Dan, trying to portray myself as Chong Wei. I would not smile, but tears will flow down uncontrollably, as all these sheer determination had paid off. *Back to here now*

While I was watching the highlights of the games, the athletes were being presented their medals and flowers. not many smiled, instead they cried. As I said earlier, to be able to stand on the podium is no easy task. How many people who actually know what they did behind the scene? They trained 7 hours per day, scarifying the time with family just to brush up their skill, had to put aside their friends as to concentrate on the task, getting countless injury. How many people ever realise that?

We want to be Lin Dan, we want to be Usain Bolt, we want to be Messi, we want to be everyone! But then what differs us from them is their mentality. To be able to fall and stand tall after the fall. To not disappoint the nation by delivering the best. After so many years of hard work, they, able to stand tall glorifying among us. Able to boast about the glory of having the chance to compete in Olympic.

They cried when they win. They cried when they lose.

We can learn something from them. The self-confidence they have, the self-belief that they have nothing to lose. They did more than everyone will do. They sacrificed more than everyone will do. They believed themselves more than everyone will do and in the end, they prevails!

Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. To win is one thing, to believe in yourself, is what matters most.

One World One Dream.