Fong Fei Kei (Airplane Fly-By)

This WAS how the old entrance to the outlets look like. Down is Kampung Restaurant. Forward to Fun Pub Cocco Loco and Italian Bistro. It will never look the same again.

Came to work at 2.30pm yesterday (Sunday la !!!) hoping to setup POS machines for F&B outlets Fun Pub (renamed FLOW, how un-original!!) and Italian Bistro, after expected completion of renovation yesterday.

One look at Flow and anybody can see that it'll take at least another day to complete, including cleaning-up. The best thing are the fridges and post-mix machines are not installed yet. How's this for planning??

Looks like the big guys have not learnt from Kampung Restaurant renovation last year. That rush job to meet the deadline resulted in half-cold equipments, with malfunctions, disconnected power points and no gas supplies. I waited for the contractors to install the power points till midnite and when they were not done yet, I go sleep la. Early next morning, our mat salleh GM took a look and saw the POS machine is not on and I was laid on the chopping board. The thing is they FORGOT about the power point for the machine. Sheesh!

Yesterday, even network points are not terminated. The network cabling contractor only managed to terminate a few points, with only Bistro up and running, of course only one POS machine is needed there. So this is the only machine I setup yesterday. Even the holes on the table needed for the cables are not fully drilled through.

Today to setup POS machines for Flow.

Today expected the Front Desk counters to complete their renovation and to setup 3 PCs for Trial Run.

Fuyoh! Back-to-back setup. Looks like another long night!

It's Been Awhile

Watcha looking at??

He maybe scribbling down some 4D numbers, but it will take some deciphering.

Check out the belt, dude !!

Oi!! Where's my Ferrari??

Taken with new still digi cam Canon IXUS 85.

HSBC Credit Cards

I received my card statements few weeks back with annual renewal fees charged. Since I hardly use the HSBC cards, plus I have other cards in toll, I decided to cancel them.

I called the HSBC toll-free number 1-300-88-1388 and it answered with a fake human voice, requested me to enter my card number and my request option. I chose to speak to the officer. I hold and waited, and after numerous attempts, I was happy to finally speak to somebody of my own species.

I told the guy I would like to discountinue my service. Upon a short checking, I was told I am NOT ABLE to cancel the cards because I did not use it for at least 12 times a year!! Nor was he able to waive my annual fee. This is for my Mastercard. I'm like 'what the f...!!'

Now, my Visa has a two cents debit and he is unable to do anything to it either.

I am instructed to go to the nearest HSBC branch to complete my task. Alrighty, there I went to the branch. After rounding the damn busiest area in town for 45 minutes looking for a parking space, I decided to slot in a non-designated space.

Got my queue number and waited about 1 minute, I approached a Customer Service officer. Told her my predicaments of the call I made to their toll-free number, and her blank expression replied expecting me to blow my top. All I have to do was to sign twice on the forms and she cut the cards there. Voila! Done in 4 minutes.

Today received a call from HSBC KL, some Queenie lady apologising for the hassle I went through to cancel my cards. She hopes I continue using their cards with the annual fees waived for 5 years, since other banks mostly waived the fees altogether. It's free, what the hell!!

Now wait for the cards lah.

Windows XP 3-Day Activation Crack

I setup a LICENSED Windows XP Pro on a PC and swapped the HDD on home PC (how often do you find me doing this on own PC?). Of course, both the PCs are of the same MOBO specs, or so I thought.

The PC booted successfully, except it prompt to re-activate Windows in 3-days since it detected significant hardware changes on the PC.

After googling a bit, found tips in Youtube on how to get rid of the activation.

Just open registry> regedit

Go to;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ WPAEvents

Modify the binary data of OOBETimer to FF D5 71 D6 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD

Change the permission of folder WPAEvents of SYSTEM to DENY.

Restart PC and done !!