My Unifi Experience
"Dude, it only takes me less than an hour and a half to download a movie" my colleague proudly beemed to me over lunch one fine day. We were discussing about TM's unifi broadband service and my colleague was one of the 1st people I knew to have it installed at his place.
I couldn't believe it when he told me that. 1.5 GB in under 2 hours? My current streamyx could only deliver a 1.5 GB download over a night, but nothing more.
Ever since then I was on a mission to determine when on earth unifi would appear at my neighbourhood. Eventually over time I had gotten news about people saying that TM was laying some cables beneath the manholes in my neighbourhood, and 3 months ago, I saw the first "promotion counter" at my local shopping mall.
I signed up for it pretty fast and fastforward two months later, I already have unifi in my house. I won't go through the details set up however I must say that Jason has done a fantastic job in detailing out his unifi installation and review.
The speed so far has been amazing. I decided to put my colleague's statement to the test by downloading a movie with relatively high seeds and to my shocking amazement, it really was first! I managed to download the movie (1.5 GB in size) under an hour!!
I am still testing out the speed to see how long it will take to download movies/series with lesser seeds and peers. But so far it's been quite amazing.
But I guess the best thing about this whole unifi service (to me) would have to be the iptv. I was playing around with the system earlier today evening and I really loved the whole idea (though not novel at all) of VOD (video on demand). I love the idea of paying to watch for something and the subscription is really really easy. Just select the movie you want to watch and just put the purchase PIN and viola, you'll have a movie available for your viewing pleasure over the next 48 hours! Quite nifty and I am eager to try it out one of these days (over a long weekend or something).
Anyway my own speed tests will be ariving shortly. I did conduct my own speed test just a couple of minutes ago before writing this post down and the results were not as impressive. Well this is simply because I am halfway downloading some stuff anyway. Will conduct another test sometime tomorrow or so.
The Joy of writing
I have to admit that the last couple of days have been rather edifying for me. What started as a desire to return to my writing last week turned out to be more complicated as I found out that my username and password for my blog had somewhat "changed". To be honest, I was quite surprised. I mean who the heck would want to even "hack" my account??
Anyhow, I managed to solve the problem sometime mid-last week but I gotta say that the "additional delay" in my writing splurge got me even more hungry to pen my thoughts down. I guess that's what happens when you have to wait for something you really want a little longer isn't it? In anycase it's great to be writing again.
And this time, I have begun to just develop a more-free flow writing style. In the past I was quite adamant that my writing style be of the highest quality as my goal was to use my blog to improve on my writing eloquence. Well, when you have that sorta pressure breathing down your neck, it's quite obvious the mood to just generally write also diminishes with it, as you start thinking that "nothing I ever write will be of worthy publishing and for people to read".
But the truth of the matter is, when you write from the heart, as the heart is not bounded by rules, so it will also reflect in the craft that is being produced, in this case your writing. And when you write with such joy and passion, those feelings are echoed and shared in the words. And that's what I call "the joy of writing".
The ability to just freely express yourself through words and later share those stories with those around you is something I have found to be quite valuable and its something that I do treasure deeply. It also helps clear the mind as once the thoughts are hard-coded into something tangible, the mind is able to freely "let it go" without much difficulty and begin to process newer thoughts and ideas.
Ahh, to have finally rekindled that joy of writing once again...
Weddings and other things
...and they lived happily ever after
I just returned from yet another wedding last night. This will already be my second wedding in the year, the first being my brother's wedding which happened in April and this time around it was my sister-in-law's sister wedding. And in two weeks time my dad will be having his wedding, so 2 weddings in 1 month, 3 weddings in total for this year! And looking down the road for this year, I will have to attend some of my friends' weddings as well. I think all in all, this year alone I will be attending around 5 weddings!
Looking at my own sibling preparing himself for marriage made me realize that it's more than just the wedding day itself, it's more than just that fancy gown, or the attention being focus all on you. As they say, a wedding is just one day, but a marriage is a lifetime, I find that to be very true. I have encountered some people who have just looked at wedding purely from a socialistic point of view (i.e. - making a guest list of who to invite, where to have their photo shoot, what dress to buy, what should the groom wear, what the theme of the wedding should be.) and while I do try to ask them whether they have thought about the whole idea of marriage (i.e. - living with the same person for the rest of their lives and being with them through thick and thin), most just shrug and don't really give a straight answer.
Oh well, we'll see how that one works out!
For me personally, I am not ready for marriage. I thought I was, but I am definitely not ready at all. And partly maybe could be because of the obvious fact that I have not found my significant other yet, but also another part of me is still afraid of making that commitment at this point in time. I personally feel I have some more things to accomplish in my young adult life before I look into marriage. Perhaps this is why I am also shying away from relationships...
Other things
- On to other matters. I have actually made a list of stuff I would like to blog about, just random casual observations which have been stuck in my head for some time now. Lets hope I get sometime this week to materialize them!
- Speaking of this week, I will be off for my FIRST official company training for 2 weeks! The good news is I have heard this training is not that hard and it's pretty relaxing actually, as the objective is more to get the participants to network with one another, however the crap part is this training is in KL itself, so boohoo, no travelling plans for me!
- Hopefully I will be able to spend more time on my blog during the next couple of weeks. I have plans to change the theme of my blog and give it a more sassy feel and look. It's been a while since I tweaked anything on UncannyPhilosophy!
- My brother, who I hardly get to see will be staying with us for the next 6 months! (July - Dec 2010) as he will be posted for his practical neurosurgery training at a local hospital here. This is awesome news for us all! I am definitely looking forward to having him with us!
- I have been hooked on this new podcast called In Between Sundays. I really love the show and I guess the main reason behind my devotion to it is because I really love seeing young adults developing an interest for their faith and actually sharing their faith experiences with others. Check them out here . The Padley brothers are really awesome! In fact I am so into this show I even ordered a t-shirt so that I can help get the word out over here at Lifeline Ministry. And yes, I have their app on my iPhone
That's all for now. More stuff coming up soon so stay tune
