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It is going to be an unusual read. What happened tonight earlier, which actually was yesterday beginning at about 7:30pm. Neither of us can get to sleep but at least he is back home safely.
He wasn't even meant to be here. He left here yesterday to go fishing at Kin Kin despite Roger not being there and despite not being able to take Connor. He still stayed overnight there at Roger's and went fishing with some mate of his Dad's but he was out of mobile range as usual for that area. I was glad when I found out that he had seen my Facebook message informing him that he had left his bathroom bag here with pretty important stuff in it like his tablets. He got here after lunch. Next thing, one of his cancelled appointments came good so he was going to head out in the name of Salesmanship, all dressed up nicely which always impresses Flora next door. He left for that when I went to have a sleep. I was wrecked because I had put the sofa bed back into a sofa an hour or so before. It was a terrible reaction to effort I might add. Anyway, the plan was that he would come back here to get changed and have a coffee before he left for home and I would have a sleep before I puked.
I've been having these terrible sleeps lately and it was hard to wake up. I knew my son was back in the house and it took 10 minutes to get up maybe. He had made coffee, had the TV going very softly like a considerate person would then headed out to his car to get his clothes bag so that he could get changed. That's when the drama started. He came in announcing that he would now have to drive back to Kin Kin to get it because it was the only place it could be since the bag was NOT in the car. What a pain we thought but it is not an unusual occurrence for him to leave things behind. I was a bit more awake by the time he left. I was sitting at the computer and saw what I assumed was a police van shining torches into yards. I have seen it before around here but it hit me intuitively that my boy was going to end up involved and no sooner had I dismissed that thought, Scoot came in through the front door saying his wallet was gone with the police in hot pursuit. Yes, they were heading to the door while he was madly looking for his wallet everywhere. The peculiar thing was that when Scoot realised his wallet was not in its usual place he pulled over on the side of the road and was rumaging when the police van went past shining their torch and instead of driving back here, he got out of the car and started to run back here in a panic over his wallet. He became suspect number one for a short time but they went back out on their patrol shortly after they were satisfied that he wasn't. I went out there at one stage and walked down to his car armed with another thing he had forgotten but I did not know the police had already had words with him about contaminating a crime scene for their dogs and now I was there with my dog although they were a house down further from his car. Scoot told me to get back home as I handed him the stuff I had in my hand, so I did. He brought the car back into our driveway and continued to search for his wallet while asking me for money to drive to Kin Kin. It still had not twigged that his stuff had been stolen by the very man (I sexistly assume) the police were chasing. But when it did, and their van was going past our house once again, he went out and told them that he thought his wallet may have been stolen and I heard one of them yelling out to "fuck off". So he came back inside not hearing a word I said the whole time (for eg, shouldn't you phone and check before driving all the way to Kin Kin and other dumb things like getting someone else to check his bag to see if his wallet was in there).
But Scoot was piecing things together remembering the scattered receipts on the car seat and the fact that he left the car unlocked parked on the nature strip while he was inside making coffee. We heard a lot of dogs barking down the road at one point and not long after that a police woman came back to the door and sort of apologised and told him they found his stuff in a back yard thanks to the dogs. The person jumped over the fence leaving it behind. Next thing Scott comes in with his clothes bag saying that they will bring the wallet back when they had finished with it in an hour or so. We just waited and drank more coffee. When he got his wallet back it was minus the cash but he did not have to cancel all his cards etc. Leaving the door unlocked cost him $90 but it could have been worse.


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Li'l Trickster: six-window adventure bus for six people
Hi everyone -- starting the long-overdue thread for a bus I posted about awhile back. Here's the thread where I first introduced myself and the bus: http://www.skoolie.net/forums/f6/six...ily-22841.html
If you don't feel like reading the stuff back there, here's the basic info: It's a six-window 1990 Wayne Lifeguard/International 3700. It has lived all its life in upstate NY, first as a school bus, then as the dive rescue bus for a volunteer fire department, and now as an adventure rig for me, my wife, and our four kids. I offered the fire department half of what they were asking, and had the thing bought and titled as a home-on-wheels (basically an RV in NY) for under $2000.
I've done a fair amount with it since I first posted. I don't know if this can be called a "build thread," since a fair amount of it is review. But we can start here, how the bus first looked when I got it last spring:
This all started in March 2018. When I first test-drove the bus, it had six seats up front, and cabinets in the back for dive gear. There was a lot I didn't know about buying buses, and I'd only just started reading things here. Bringing the kids along for the test drive was probably a mistake, because they fell in love with it immediately, and made it pretty much impossible for me to walk away.
The fire department guys were really cool and agreed to take out the scuba gear cabinets, and to remove the big emergency lights up top. That was all taken care of when I went back to pick it up, and I had no problems on the hour-long drive home.
After getting it home, I didn't waste time. The seat bolts were too rusty to spin with wrenches, so I just used a reciprocating saw to cut the legs off the seats so I could clear out the interior.
Then I used a grinder to cut the heads off the bolts, but it took forever -- it was more like cutting the top 3/4 of each bolt head off, because the metal plates on the bottom of each seat leg had sort of a rim around them, and I couldn't get the grinder to cut the heads off flush. So I had to remove as much bolt metal as possible, and then pry up the plates with a crowbar and pop the remaining pieces of the bolt heads off. It worked, though. You can see some of the plates still attached in this photo:
You know what I wish? I wish I'd found a way to get some of the seats out intact, because I think I could have used them. Or at the very least, I could have used some of the raw materials, like the high-density foam inside, for upholstery on furniture I'd build later. And since this is NY, all the seats had lap belts attached, and I totally could have taken those off for later use. But as it was, I made a big pile of seats at the end of my driveway, threw them on the Craigslist free page, and they were gone within a couple of hours.
Oh well. But for people who aren't building a bus to live in, and want to do a camping/adventure rig on a budget, my advice would be not to throw anything away. OK, you might not want to just use a bus seat, because maybe you don't like the look of bus seats. But you might want to keep the old frames of the seats, in case you want to modify them later and bolt them back down to the floor as dinette seats, side-facing benches, whatever. I'm thinking now that there were all kinds of things I could have done with them.
Meanwhile, I kept soldiering on. I tore out the rubber floor, pried up all the aluminum trim, and got down to the wood underneath. Before making the decision about whether to tear out the floor or not and get it all down to bare metal, I went ahead and got a can of oil-based paint and made the interior white.
Part of the reason I started painting the interior was because, first, it was too cold in April in upstate NY to start painting the exterior. But I needed to make some visible headway. My wife was being super-cool about the whole thing, but the bus was taking up valuable driveway space, and the neighbors were wondering what was going on, and people in the community were driving by our house and asking questions. Even my parents were like, I don't know, man, who buys a bus? I was dealing with some hardcore skepticism. I felt like Noah, with the ark. So I painted the inside and made it look like maybe it could eventually become something, and texted people the photos to try to get them to catch the vision.
I don't know if it worked, but it boosted my morale to see the interior looking cleaner and brighter. It gave my wife and kids the energy, too, to imagine this thing as something more than just a metal box.
Then I had this whole series of unfortunate events. Amazingly, I had no trouble at all with insurance; I called my State Farm agent on the day I picked up the bus, and by the time I was driving it home, they'd emailed me the documents I needed in case I got stopped by cops. But where I ran into trouble was title and inspection.
I went to get the bus registered at the DMV, and didn't even think about the details of the title. I described it in the other thread, I think, but in a nutshell, the fire department that sold me the bus had gotten it from a school district. When they got it from the school district, they never changed the title over. So I ended up with the title looking like it went from the school district to me, and I had a bill of sale showing it going from the fire department to me. In other words, the bill of sale didn't match the title.
The FD had given me a bunch of documents with the bus, including the minutes of the school district meeting in which the bus had been donated to the fire department. If anyone at the DMV had cared about that, they could have seen how the whole thing worked, but the clerks just need everything to match, you know? So I went home with no title, and had to let the FD know about the problem so they could start clearing up the issue.
Meanwhile, I went to get the bus inspected, because I thought I might as well knock that out. I took it to an International dealership because I figured they'd have whatever parts I needed. The bus had passed inspection in 2016, but hadn't been on the road much since then, so I didn't know what to expect, even though the FD guys said everything was in working order.
Long story short, the International dealership guys totally tried to hose me. Technically, the only things that didn't pass inspection were the brake rotors, which were corroded. But the estimate they gave me for the work necessary to pass inspection included replacement of the entire brake system. All in all, it added up to nearly $7000, mostly in expensive labor and brand-new International parts shipped from the factory.
At that point, I was thinking, OK, this thing isn't even titled in my name, and maybe I need to just go back to the FD and ask for my money back. But while the title issue was still being resolved, I asked around locally where I could get a second opinion, and my buddy recommended a guy who fixed landscaping trucks.
It took awhile, but he took a look at it and said, yeah, the rotors had some light corrosion on them, but he didn't think they even needed to be resurfaced. He did recommend replacing the calipers, doing general PM stuff, changing the oil, etc., to the tune of a few hundred bucks, inspection included.
When the clean title finally came back from the FD, I just had to get a weight slip so the DMV could title it as a house-on-wheels or whatever, which is what they call RVs in NY. I just described it from the get-go as a school bus that had been converted into an RV, even though at that point it was still basically an empty box with a driver's seat.
So at this point in the story, it's June, and I've done very little on the bus. I have a clean title, and it's registered with plates, and it has passed inspection. And I have two days to get it ready for a campout that I signed up for forever ago.
that bus...
I like your bus. I might have an idea for seats, go to a ford dealer, look at the big "transit " vans. not the transit connect. find one with seats in the back. That is what I am using in my bus for the kids, three point belts, cloth, they recline a little, and are removable.
Like I said, I felt like I was kind of doing this under a microscope. All my friends had heard about this bus, and were asking me all the time about how it was working out. Meanwhile, all these people from my church had planned this big campout months earlier, and I'd signed me and my family up for a spot in the RV section of the park, thinking we'd take our skoolie. Surely, I'd thought, after having the bus for several months, it would at least be campground-worthy, right?
So yeah, it's two days till campout time, and I'm pretty much committed to that, and all I have is this empty box with the original plywood on the floor. The first thing I have to figure out is what I'm going to do with the floor. Am I going to tear it all out and "do it right," and kill any rust, insulate it, and put down new flooring?
Maybe this is a good time to explain my thought process with this bus. In the beginning, I thought a bus would be a great alternative to tent camping, or pulling a trailer, for long road trips. My wife and I both have family in the Midwest and Central Plains. But as we got to know the bus better, we realized this isn't going to be a long-haul road warrior, probably. It's bumpy. It's loud. The engine and transmission seem to be reliable (the bus only has 144,000 miles on it), but it's not geared for high speeds. If you want to go 60 mph, you have to do it at 3000 rpm. I'm no diesel mechanic, but I'm thinking trying to do that for a long time is...bad.
Plus, it's small. I've got about 14 feet of space from the back of the driver's seat to the back wall. So the interior clocks in at, what, about 100 square feet, so it's not like we'll ever live in this thing, either. This is not a tiny house we'll try to live in someday, and it's not something we'll drive to Yellowstone. It's an adventure bus, a camping rig that we'll use as much as possible for drives down into the Endless Mountains in Pennsylvania, up to Ithaca and the waterfalls, the Catskills, maybe the Adirondacks. Within a few-hour radius of our home, we have all kinds of cool places we can see.
With that decided, the overall aesthetic of the bus took shape in my mind. I mean, I'd had months to stare at the inside while all the title and inspection issues were happening, so I'd kind of figured it out. I didn't want it to look like an RV or a living room. I wanted it to be spare and clean and bright and utilitarian, with wood floors, wooden bunks, decent shelves and storage space, and lots of attachment points where you could hang things from rings or carabiners. I wanted it to be a mobile basecamp that would still be warm and cozy when we wanted it to, and open enough that it would feel spacious even when we were all inside.
So I made the fateful decision -- and y'all can hate on me for it if you want -- to not tear everything out, and not treat it like a showroom piece or a bus that needs to last us for the next thirty years. The wheel wells were immaculate under the rubber, but I have no clue how things look under the wood. I'm pretty sure there's surface rust. I'm reasonably sure, though, that the bottom isn't about to fall out of the thing, and like I said earlier, the supports underneath are solid.
Anyway, I cast the dice, crossed the Rubicon, etc., with less than 24 hours to go before the campout I'd set as a deadline for having a usable interior. I cut up a bunch of pallets I had gotten for free, and nailed the boards down onto the existing plywood, so the space would at least look semi-respectable. It looked...semi-respectable.
The interior ended up being all free-floating stuff the first time we used it, and everyone followed me in the minivan when we drove out to the campground, for obvious safety reasons. I brought along a mini-fridge and a window-unit A/C that we could plug into 110v once we got there, set up a small table I'd pulled out of a pop-up camper, and had everything else in duffel bags. The floor was the sleeping area. The whole rig looked pretty shady once we showed up at the campground and took our reserved spot between the more normal trailers and RVs.
So sketchy. In the photo above, you can see the bus, the MSR shade awning I strung up over the back of it, and the slackline I attached from the tow hooks under the bus to the trailer ball on my minivan. The kids totally dug it -- it ended up raining like crazy one night, and a lot of our friends were soaked in their tents and suffering in the humidity, while we were dry in our bus, and comfortable with our redneck A/C and mini-fridge.
In all seriousness, we tried to be cool with the campground owners and with our neighbors, and explained that our bus was very much a work in progress. And people were actually really nice! They were really interested in the bus, if a bit disappointed that there still wasn't much going on inside.
My little guy had the right attitude:
All right, more on the unfolding saga tonight or tomorrow. Spoiler alert, though: so far, I've managed to paint the outside of the bus and build a decent interior. Looking forward to showing the rest of the progress, getting up to the present, and getting thoughts on where to go from here!
Or for the inevitable second bus. :)
We had a good time on our campout, but we definitely weren't happy with the sleeping situation without any furniture in the bus (surprise). We used what we had: two cots for the grownups, and a futon pad and miscellaneous foam pads for the kids. Our two small dogs came with us, too, so they were in a crate underneath the fold-up table in the front. All the real estate in the bus was taken up by sleeping people at night, and everything had to be picked up, stacked up, etc., in the daytime. Seating was a bunch of camp chairs. It worked, but it wasn't much fun.
So I spent most of the month of July making sketches of the interior and planning things out. I played with a lot of ideas, looked at floor plans here on this website, and read about how people had built their interiors. Eventually I landed on a setup I liked. This is how I sketched it out:
I sort of measured it out according to windows, in the interior space of the six-window bus. The entry way and steps inside the front door would be the mud room. The front 2.5 windows behind the driver's seat area would be the "living room" area, with a loveseat-sized couch that could flip out to extend into the aisle, and a table across the way that could drop down to make one big bed platform at night for the grownups. The next 2.5 windows (and then some) would be the kids' bedroom area, with double bunks on each side, and that would be where all their stuff would be contained. Behind the bunks, the back window area would be floor-to-ceiling shelving, with space underneath one of the shelves for a port-a-potty if necessary.
You can see most of it in the drawing, I guess. It's worth pointing out here that the interior design was basically defined by how I expected to use the bus: mostly in campgrounds, or maybe in friends' back acreages, and maybe the occasional boondocking setup. The goal for me and my family wouldn't be to just be in the bus all the time; it's supposed to be a basecamp for hiking trips, climbing trips, fishing trips, and stuff like that. Ideally, we would do most of our cooking and eating outside, but there would be enough space inside the bus for that, in case of bad weather.
In order to maximize the space, I also planned an awning on one side of the bus, and a roof deck up top. That would give us a lot of ways to use the bus, and space outside to spread out and still feel like we were connected to what was going on inside.
So then I started building stuff.
I started building bunks first.
Maybe it goes without saying, but I realized that to make bunkbeds that make sense in a skoolie, you have to build them low. I actually made mine so that the frame that would support the bottom bunk would be *under* the chair rail. That would make the beds really low, to the point that there wouldn't be much storage space underneath, but in my case, most of the space would be taken up by the wheel wells (and on one side, the rear heater, which I left in place) anyway.
I went with a simple build, using 2x4s. Doing this wasn't too complicated, but since I wanted the actual platform of the bed (made from plywood/OSB) to lie right on the chair rail, I had to notch the end boards with a jigsaw so they'd fit nicely under the rail. You can sort of see it in the picture above. So the bottom bunks actually don't have a wood piece running along the wall; the platform of the bed just rests on the chair rail. End rails have holes drilled through them so they can be bolted into the chair rail.
The top bunks are exactly halfway up the windows, which I find gives just enough room for the people on top and bottom to be able to move around with some degree of comfort. The top bunks *do* have a wooden rail running along the windows, and that rail is screwed into the ribs between the windows.
For the outer long wooden rails of the bunks, I had this nicer wood that I'd gotten for free awhile back on Craigslist, so I used that stuff. Along the inner edge of those, and along the window-side top bunk rails, I screwed in 2x2s that would support the actual plywood platforms that the mattresses would rest on.
I used OSB for the actual platforms of the beds, since I'm on a budget and am doing as much as possible using free/secondhand stuff. Some good, thick plywood would have been nicer, but the bunks turned out well and I just left the windows open for a few sunny days to let any fumes out from the OSB. I attached the high posts to the ceiling using right-angle brackets that I slightly bent to fit. I just ran sheet metal screws through the posts closest to the windows, since they were cut at a sharp angle anyway and I could go right through them into the ceiling. Anyway, in the end, it all turned out pretty well:
Oh, I should mention the dimensions, because they relate to the mattresses I want to use. I built the bunks so that the platform space is 26.5 x 75 inches. Combined with the outer bunk rails, the beds end up coming about 28 inches out from the wall of the bus. Why these numbers? Well, a full-size mattress measures 53 x 75 inches, so I figured I'd make the bunks the right size so that I could cut a full-size foam pad in half, and have two bunk mattresses.
Those are narrow bunks -- considerably narrower than twin-size mattresses. But they're wider than the Coleman cots we've used for a long time (those are probably 23 inches wide or so), and we're not big people. I'm the biggest in our family, and I'm 5'11" and 155 pounds, and I can sleep on the bunks totally comfortably. At any rate, these are mainly for the kids, and our oldest is 11, so even if they grew up to need bigger beds, it would be awhile.
So the plan was to get hold of two thick full-size foam/memory foam pads, and cut 'em lengthwise to have four bunk mattresses. Those are pretty expensive, though. So the temporary solution is what you see in the picture above: top bunks just use the old Coleman cot pads; one bottom bunk has the old futon pad, folded so part of it goes up the wall, and the other bottom bunk has a twin-size foam pad I found, currently wrapped in a big old IKEA rug I had lying around, which makes it a little more kid-proof. I also found a bunch of throw pillows in the basement that we weren't using anymore, and voila, the result is couch-like seating/bedding on both sides.
Honestly, now I'm considering just getting one foam mattress to use for the top bunks, and keeping an eye on Craigslist for the free futon mattresses that pop up from time to time, and use them on the bottom bunks. They're good and thick, and it's nice to be able to sit down there and lean comfortably against the wall.
Doing it "your way" and designed to fit your needs is what building a Skoolie is all about. Great start and please do keep the pix coming.
Excellent art on the sketch BTW.
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Canadian-owned Internet advertising network Virtual Billboard Network (VBN) said it has added several female-oriented Web sites to its portfolio.
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If you've ever been depressed, even just a little bit, you know that wanting to dress up and look good is pretty much the furthest thing from your mind. Even on a good day, nothing sounds better than sweatpants, so I know that when I'm depressed, the idea of wearing clothes that are even slightly uncomfortable seems like a terrible idea.
BUT, I think that getting dressed up, doing your makeup, just taking a little time to make yourself feel better on the outside can help you feel a bit better on the inside, and when you're depressed, every little bit helps.
I think that the transformative power of makeup, if you choose to wear it, is powerful, so for me it's the first step in my transformation from potato to functioning adult. Never underestimate the power of a lipstick that makes you feel great. Bust out the one that makes you feel like a million bucks, and give yourself a couple of swipes. I personally have really oily skin, and I'm pretty self-conscious about it, so I find that putting on a bit of powder makes me feel a whole lot better, too! You may not have the energy or the concentration to put on a full face, but figuring out the bare minimum that makes you feel good is still effort well spent.
Now, onto your clothes. You need a balance of something that is still comfy, but is also flattering and a bit more dressed up than you currently are. This is not the time for your jeans that almost fit; no one likes that feeling of your pants cutting off your circulation, and that's just going to make you feel more uncomfortable and self-conscious. A good, well cut pair of jeans, some comfy black pants (maybe with a bit of stretch!), even some cute joggers that are clean and fit well can help you feel more pulled together. On top, same deal. Rock your favorite top, maybe an awesome graphic tee that makes you smile, and that you can layer with another (clean!) top to give you a comfy and stylish look. The T-shirt above isn't dressy, but it's my favorite and brings back great memories of going to Harry Potter world, so it's a secret weapon for me to add a little something to my day.
The piece de resistance is your accessories. Even a graphic tee can look like a fashion choice if you accessorize the right way. This is where I think fun costume jewelry is the perfect choice. Pick out something fabulous that makes you feel fancy, and wear it with your chin up! Amazon is a great place to pick up some fun, bold choices that won't break the bank.
Finally, give yourself a spritz of a scent that makes you feel great. I always put on my perfume after getting ready for the day, so for me it is the finishing flourish and signifies the beginning of my day.
There you are! An easy and fun way to feel just a bit better. Of course, if depression could be completely solved with a great outfit, that would be amazing, but I think it's a first step on the path to getting yourself feeling better. If your depression lingers, or creates problems in your daily life, please seek the advice and care of a medical professional or mental health counselor. These tips are not meant to treat nor are a substitute for professional help, but I do think that being able to do something for yourself, that having control of some portion of your life, like the way you look, is still a helpful tool in your mental wellness toolbox.


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Painting: a long-running project (WIP): update:
"Untitled" (wip).
Top: state 1, state 2, state 3
Bottom: state 4, state 5, state 6
Acrylics on board. 2016- (WIP). 40x60cm.
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This started in 2016 (well, actually 2015). The idea was to create a painted version of The Swing but as I've already made a mixed-media version of that motif I decided to use the board for experiments in stead. Which I did, these are states 1-5.
There was a state 0, from 2015. This state was a smooth gradient in blue tones, similar to the sky background from "The Swing" but without clouds, and worked thoroughly into a very smooth gradient: dark in the upper right corner and light in the lower left corner. This gradient still lies beneath these layers, it is not visible.
As per state 6 I am gradually getting back to the swing theme.
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Long time Apple watchdog, living in Malaysia, land of corruption. This blog discussed technology, gadgets and life in Malaysia.
Friday, March 13, 2009
no iPhone for me!
This morning, ZipD told me that he received sms and email confirmation for the iPhone. I wondered about mine. We submitted at about the same time.. ok maybe 20 minutes later for me.. but I didn't hear anything.
I called 123 to find out why and was told that I am currently on a corporate plan. I remember this plan. I signed up because it gives a free phone (for my mother).. and the best thing about this plan is that I can call all my coworkers for free! And what's more, Anne could call her sister (who works in the same company as I do) for free. She used my phone a lot for that.
So I am already on this plan for 20 months. It expires in June. According to the iPhone FAQ, when you are signed up to a plan and you have met min 20 months criteria, you can change to the iPhone plan. I reminded the Customer Care lady about this clause and she said "ya hor.. you are right". She put me on hold to consult someone and then told me that I could go to a maxis Center to change my plan to individual plan and then call 123 and sign up for iPhone.
So after work, I braved the after-office traffic and drove round the block for a parking to finally reach the nearest maxis Center. I consulted the guy at the front door on my issues and he gave me a number. I waited for my turn and the Customer Care consultant checked my info and said "sorry Sir.. you need to go upstairs since you are a corporate customer" - I wonder if the guy at the front door knew about this!
Nvm, get another number, went upstairs and waited for my turn. Talked to this Customer Care (do they really care for us, I wonder) consultant who then told me that I cannot change to individual plan unless I pay a rm120 penalty! What the ****?
I drove all the way here in order for you to tell me the same thing that your 123 guy said? So what was the reason that 123 guy asked me to come to maxis Center?
Why can't you waive this bloody rm120? After all, I am signing up for another 2 year contract for the iPhone .. and it's a more expensive contract and I lose the benefit of calling my co-workers for free, therefore, translating into more $ to maxis! In fact, with the iPhone's iValue plan, I can't call my supplementary line for free too! So, are you saying I have to pay rm120 penalty in order to give you more business? She can't answer .. or she couldn't be bothered - not her business.
So I called 123 and lodge a formal complaint - the consultant said she has to refer to her supervisor and will call me back. It's an hour already. No return calls. Like I said, do they even care?
So, I'll wait.
I have waited 2 years for the iphone.. what more another 4 months. In fact, maybe I should wait till they do promotion to corporate customers.. and I get to call coworkers for free and get an iPhone. In fact, today I read that there could be a launch of new iPhones by Apple in June.
Yeah.. but I can't help feeling disappointed!
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Indeed - good question that u posted to the customer support folk, by allowing you to sign up for the iphone deal, your are giving more money to Maxis.... see la, if every employer hire this kind of 'tidak apa' attitude employees, business rugi a lot... having said this, I myself is tempted to switch to Digi liow, bcoz Maxis is not taking good care of me liow, I started with I-kei under Celcom, then switched to Maxis ( u remembered I bought an exp phone RM2500 back in 1997 or 1998 after I was so geram at work in LHDN...since then I'm Maxis customer until now....when I switched from corporate line to personal line last year, I had similar issues, they made me went to their braches 'unnecessarily', then they forgot to activate my roaming. When I was in HK last October, I realized my phone not roaming in HK, and I was suppose to support my customer 24x7 leh. That was a big mess up for me, I SHOUTED and WAS extremely RUDE at them from my HK hotel. (sinful but I can't tahan liow).... then last year Aug - I tried their broadband, tested 4 days, super slow , thus returned. Maxis said within 3 mths , I'll get back my $100 deposit. So far, I've called them 3 times, guess what, now is 2009 March , I still haven't receive my deposit..Maxis, Maxis, Maxis , even though we are faithfully being a loyal customer, what do we get at the end ????ReplyDelete
Agree with you, wait bit longer, entah Digi or other telco can provide better deal for u :) , meanwhile u play with your 'human toy' first - baby girl. haaaa
- Anti-Ringgit3/17/2009 05:34:00 PM
cheap things always come with a price dear! If everything also sit dai pei lei, no need to run any shop loh!ReplyDelete
- Ringgit3/17/2009 06:28:00 PM
Ya Bahija.. I also don't know why maxis customer support has deteriorated. It used to be a good company. I guess when you grow too big... sigh................ But I want iPhone!!!ReplyDelete
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Have you heard of "Sh*t My Dad Says" by Justin Halpern? Its really funny. This guy, Halpern, had to move home with his parents when he was like 30 and started tweeting about the nutty stuff his dad says. He ended up with a zillion followers and then wrote the Sh*t My Dad Says book, which includes a bunch of sh*t his dad says from his childhood. I picked up one of the books yesterday and have been totally cracking up reading it. A few excerpts:
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The majority of its content looks like ordinary cable news; it strives to depict itself only as an alternative point of view on Western affairs, not unlike many European news outlets. Drawing hard lines between RT's critiques of US affairs and, say, The Guardian's, could tie Twitter into knots.Still, the walls are closing in on RT in the United States. Last month, YouTube dropped the outlet from its "preferred" lineup of international news broadcasters, which earn higher advertising rates. And the Justice Department might force RT to register as a foreign agent, which would create ominous new disclosure requirements.Against that backdrop, Twitter's move is a small thing. But when it comes to platform defense, "too little, too late" isn't much of a strategy. Revealed: How Twitter pushed RT to spend big on 2016 US election www.rt.com – Share Oh look at me, Mr. Democracy, putting Russian propaganda in this newsletter. Well look, sometimes it is helpful to know what the other side is saying. And what RT is saying is, if Twitter didn't want our ad money, then why did they …… beg us for our ad money? (The simplest answer seems to be, 'we did not realize RT was part of a coordinated effort to undermine Western values in general and the United States system of government in particular.')The main idea pitched by Twitter to RT was "to take a stand." The more money RT spent, the bigger the reach to American voters that Twitter would provide. At the meeting, the RT team was shown an in-depth presentation giving background into Twitter's advantages as a platform of choice for the election.The custom presentation provided an insight into just how big a conversation Twitter was expecting on its platform around the much-anticipated US vote. 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Twitter, meanwhile, would help candidates analyze the performances of their tweet-based fundraising pushes to recommend what moves the campaigns should make next. Google kept tabs on candidates' travels to recommend geographically targeted advertisements. Facebook Steps Up Efforts to Sway Lawmakers www.wsj.com – Share As it prepares to face Congress next week, Facebook executives are asking themselves a question familiar to any Bay Area resident who has ever gone home for Thanksgiving: how do you talk to Republicans?The Menlo Park, Calif., company has invested more than $8.4 million this year on its 36-member federal lobbying team—putting it on track to spend more on federal lobbying than in any previous year. The company recently added Republican-led Hamilton Place Strategies and other communications strategists to its team and posted an ad seeking a crisis communications specialist.The tech giant also held several focus-group sessions last week hosted by Quadrant Strategies, a Democratic-led research firm. People familiar with the sessions said public relations professionals and other Washington insiders were among the attendees. Facebook was soliciting advice as to how best to respond to the Russia ad controversy—and how to communicate with Republicans in particular, the people said. This Russian Campaign Turned Against Trump In The Days After The Election www.buzzfeed.com – Share One day Russia is trying to get you elected, the next day they are using Facebook pages to organize rallies against you in Charlotte. A useful reminder from BuzzFeed that Russia's primary foreign policy is to sow chaos. How Snapchat Has Kept Itself Free of Fake News www.bloomberg.com – Share One of the few bright spots for Snap Inc. lately has been that, as far as anyone can tell, Russia did not use it to influence the 2016 self-election. To promote this fact, Snap made available to Bloomberg its vice president for content, Nick Bell. Bell notes that unlike certain other social networks, Snap has managed to defeat the scourge of fake news.The secret? "Humans," says Nick Bell, Snap's vice president for content. "We only work with authoritative and credible media companies, and we unashamedly have a significant team of producers, creators, and journalists."If you're a journalist, or a fan of journalism, this is exactly what you want to hear: the solution to hoaxes and misinformation is to hire a bunch of professionals and hold them to strict editorial standards. And yet I can't help but feel that Snap is congratulating itself too hard here. Yes, Snap has structural advantages that would make it difficult for, say, RT to gain a significant foothold there. Snap is unlikely ever to invite it into the Discover feed. And yet nothing is to stop RT from posting organically to a Snapchat account, accumulate a large following, and post the same sorts of videos there that it already posts to YouTube.That it does not says less about Snap's virtues than it does about Snap's relevance. Elsewhere Snapchat cracks down on sexual content in Discover again www.businessinsider.com – Share Snap's vaunted defenses against fake news have done little to keep sexually explicit content off the network. Facebook's plan to crush Slack is starting to work. www.slate.com – Share Facebook announced that more than 30,000 organizations are using its enterprise product, Facebook at Work. Facebook's AI chief says the public doesn't know how dumb AI really is www.theverge.com – Share My colleague James Vincent talks to Facebook's Yann LeCun about super-intelligent artificial intelligence and the future of virtual assistants. This bit is interesting in light of Facebook's apparently stalled progress on M, its human-assisted virtual assistant, which appears not to be rolling out widely:I think virtual assistants really are going to be the big thing. Current assistants are entirely scripted, with a tree of possible things they can tell you. So that makes the creation of bots really tedious, expensive, and brittle, though they work in certain situations like customer care. The next step will be systems that have a little more learning in them, and that's one of the things we're working on at Facebook. Where you have a machine that reads a long text and then answers any questions related to it — that'd be useful as a function. Twitter Shows Signs of Life With Renewed User Growth www.bloomberg.com – Share The number of monthly users ticked up by 2 million, and Twitter says it might turn a profit next quarter. I'll believe it when I see it. Also: Twitter Says It Overstated Monthly-User Figures for 3 Years www.nytimes.com – Share One of my favorite recurring jokes to make is that Twitter is run by the Bluth Company. Reading this story, it was impossible not to hear Gob in my ears: Come on! Takes Twitter Is Shut Out of the Advertising Big Leagues www.bloomberg.com – Share Shira Ovide has it right:So more people seem to be warming to Twitter. That's good. But it's irrelevant if advertisers don't show up, and they are not. Twitter's revenue from advertising declined 4 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, excluding sales of a business the company is winding down. It's true the revenue declines are improving, but it's hard to congratulate technology companies for shrinking a little less. Launches Instagram's new Superzoom is the best creative tool since the Boomerang www.theverge.com – Share I wrote about the Superzoom, a fun new feature that Instagram notably did not copy from Snapchat. New Features for Groups to Build Communities newsroom.fb.com – Share Lots of goodies for all you Group-heads out there, including weird pseudo-profiles that are separate from your main Facebook profile:Now, when group members click on another person's name they will be directed to a group-specific profile, based on publicly-available information like things they may share in common and a feed of that person's activity in the group. Facebook to show cars for sale from auto dealers in Marketplace tab www.businessinsider.com – Share Facebook wants people to buy things on Facebook. One thing people buy is cars. You can now buy cars on Facebook. 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I'll be honest… this post was born out of my own personal need. I do my best to send a variety of things with my son to daycare for his lunch, but like all moms, I can easily find myself stuck in a rut and sending the same things over and over. So I wanted to compile a list of a lunchbox ideas for toddlers, so that I could always have something to refer to when I'm feeling like our variety is lacking. I hope it's helpful for you too!
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Food and eating doesn't have to stress us out. We don't need to worry about following a bunch of rules just because some guru or diet told us to. Yes, we want to do our best to cover our nutritional bases, but we don't have to go crazy making everything from scratch or being afraid of packaged foods (because yes, good packaged food options exist).
So my laid back approach is this: provide things I know he likes, while being sure to include some type of protein source, some carbs, some fat, and some fruits and/or veggies. That's pretty much the extent of it. No rules or guidelines about how much of the plate to dedicate to each, just try to cover your food group bases by including some of each.
And before you ask, no, he doesn't always eat what I send. Sometimes he picks out and eats only one thing (usually the bread/carb) and just plays with the rest. I don't stress about it (or at least, I try very hard not to, lol). As the lovely and super smart ladies over at Feeding Bytes say: I did my part (they even made it a hashtag in their Facebook group). I provided an array of options across various food groups, including things I know he usually likes. That's my job, and the only part I can control. What he eats out of what's sent, and how much, is up to him.
This "my job" and "his job" approach is known as the Division of Responsibility outlined by Ellyn Satter (and discussed in both of the great books I've reviewed here on the blog: Fearless Feeding and How to Raise A Mindful Eater). I try my best to put that into practice in our house and when sending food to daycare for my son. Do I do it "perfectly"? Nope. But I'm human, and humans are imperfect. I'm constantly learning and growing and doing my best, and that's really all that matters!
So back to the lunches. Fruit is my son's favorite thing ever, so I always include some type of fruit as a side. Then I try to check the boxes for protein, carb, and fat. Check out the lists below for details!
Our daycare is nut-free, so that's why all of these options have no nuts. I've actually never tried sunbutter, since we are a house full of peanut butter lovers, and we don't have allergies to it (thankfully!). But I plan to get some soon specifically for daycare meals. Pretty much all of the ideas below can be eaten cold. Most daycares don't have a way to reheat things, so my typical go-to of leftovers from the previous night's dinner doesn't work when packing a lunch.
Some kids don't care if certain things are hot or not (like quesadillas, pancakes, or previously cooked veggies). Other kids will only eat them hot. You have to use your own knowledge of what your particular kid will and won't eat. I tried to keep these as simple as possible.
I use these lunchbox containers (affiliate link) because they're cheap and they don't have a bazillion compartments. My only qualm about them is that they don't seal super securely, so things could easily spill or leak depending on what you put in them. But for most of the stuff in this list they work very nicely for a very small investment.
Ground beef
Greek yogurt (full fat)
Cottage cheese
Low sodium sausage or hot dogs
Bread/wrap/pita/english muffin
Mini bagel
Muffin or baked good
Rice cake
Granola/granola bar
Grains - rice, bulgar, couscous, barley
Graham crackers
Potatoes/sweet potatoes
Apple slices
Bell peppers
Green beans
Cherry tomatoes
(Sneaky ones inside morning glory muffins or zucchini bread)
Full fat yogurt or cottage cheese
Sun butter
Cream cheese
Hummus (that has oil in it)
Ok, so that was the mix-n-match version. In practice, our lunches usually look like one "main" thing and one or two "side" things. I try to get the protein into the main food, and the sides are usually fruit and something to round out the main offering. Here are some examples:
Sandwiches (Including wraps, pinwheels, pitas, and english muffins). These usually have a protein and fat inside the carb sandwich exterior:
chicken salad,
sun butter+jelly/fruit,
cream cheese+jelly/fruit,
egg salad
Salmon cakes
Crab cakes
Pasta salad with veggies
Meat+cheese or spinach+cheese tortellini
Whole grain waffle or pancake with fruit and/or sun butter
Chicken nuggets/fingers, or low-sodium hot dogs with ketchup
Quesadilla: fill with cheese and any of the following: beans, chicken, ground beef, cooked veggies, corn.
Rotisserie chicken pieces w/ bbq or ketchup to dip
Grains (couscous, barley, rice, etc) with veggies or beans mixed in
Morning glory muffins
Rice cake/crackers/cookie/pretzels/cereal
Veggies (plain or with hummus or ranch for dipping)
Beans+corn+avocado "salad"
Cheese sticks, babybels, or cheese cubes
Mini muffins or other baked good, like banana bread or zucchini bread
Graham crackers
Granola bar
Hard boiled eggs
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I've found that the biggest hurdle most clients have is the Diet Mindset that's taken hold of them. They've been stuck hating their bodies and fearing "bad foods" for so long that they don't know any other way!
So I took all of the important mindset work I do with clients and compiled it into an epic resource of a book for you. It is a complete guide to repairing your relationship with food, so you can finally get rid of those diet-mindset shackles and find peace with food for good!


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