Posts Tagged ‘woes’

The massive crawl to work

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Sigh. I just spent close to 1 1/2 hours on the road trying to get to work. The traffic was horrendous! At one particular toll both, my car stood stationary for almost 20 minutes and I was at the SmartTag lane, which was suppose to be the “Fast Lane”. What caused all the jams? Well, a few reasons. One would be the number of cars on the road at rush hour. With public transport being the horror it is, and not enough alternative ways to get out of main suburbs such as Cheras, people are left with no alternatives but to drive. If only our government had the foresight to build better subways instead of spending money on stupid mega projects and white elephants like sending tourist to space.

Other issues like the way our highways are built are another source of problem. 10 lanes merge into 2 lanes, all sorts of funny exists and entrances from major highways and all highways going back into the Federal highway. All these things caused massive jams. With no foresight given to those who planned the city, it seems like KLites are doomed to suffer traffic jams.

Do you forsee a day where KL would be an Olympic City? I doubt we would ever have that honour as we cant even handle day to day traffic much less the influx of tourist. Why can’t there be more traffic police making sure cars stay to the correct lanes and not cheat and jump queues on the road? Why can’t we demolish older buildings and widen all major roads. Why can’t the Putra line go into more suburbs?

Sigh. KL seems doomed. Don’t even get me started on the traffic when it rains.

My TM Net and Streamxy Woes

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Sigh, Will Malaysian companies ever have good customer service? I applied for my Telephone fixed line and streamxy 2 weeks ago, and only on Monday did I find out the phone is functioning. What about streamxy? Well, the people there insisted that I pay for rental of thier modem, even though I told them I already have my own modem, so why would I pay them for something I don’t need? Then they said they don’t have my IC details, though I signed up at a TM Point together with my phone line, and then finally when I managed to call them again today, they told me its not ready and to call back 7 working days from now to see if its working. If its still not working 7 working days from now, call them back. I asked them if they could call me when its ready, they said ,”No.” You must call us. We don’t call you. Sigh. This is Malaysia at its best?

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