Monopoly is just a Game, like fishing...right...

Here i sit in Island Plaza, desperately trying to get mails downloaded for the past 3 hours and why? our god-awful monopolized broadband service is in a shitty state.

God bless our ISP, one of the few who seem to be able to flick off something as big as a dropped international link as easy as i can shoo a fly away from the canteen food on my plate.

I use my canteen food in reference because plainly, they share something in common, monopoly. Try stepping into my canteen and immediately, the apetite, together with the tought of something yummy going down to your begging stomach gets flushed down the crapper.

Why? Simple...monopoly.

Canteen operation was tendered to the highest bid and since then, there has been no one to provide any competition to the bloody losers. Canteen food quality was better then their predecessors for about a week, and then it rock bottomed. You'd have to twirl, prod and poke a piece of meat to figure what it was. There was no balance of meat/fish/veg on some days and you just had to make do on those days you get stuck in the office...and i could swear that sotong just winked at me.

Why not just boycott the damn food? well, they also provide eats for the production folks in our building...and for some reason, these folks dont bother with the food quality, and rush in like a herd of cows to a pasture that is not of their choosing. This lots grazing is more than sufficient for the canteen folks to push their products off and keep them alive.

Why close down or improve your service when there are suckers takin in the crap you shovel out right?

Enter Streamyx

When they first started out, i didnt complain as much. Their tek hotline was helpful enough(with the right escalation methods) but after about a few months, ppl left n right began complaining about it. Soon i found myself amongst those complaining. Downloads were down to about 10/20% throughput, and whats the nice hotline tekkie say? oh, its prolly your copperwire layout problem. But my buddy half way across town saw the same shite on his line...what? copperwire eating termites started running wild around penang? i mean, hey, if theres a problem, just gimme a better answer than that closed ended sentence please.

This is usually when they throw out their trump card. The ace of arseholes:

"Oh sir, but ADSL is a BEST EFFORT connection, meaning the line does not always generate your full download capacity"

I flinch from the blow, thank her for her time, left eye tweaks a bit, then i calmly hang up the phone...realizing no amount of reasoning is going to get me anywhere...shit, im not asking for a 100% download at this point...a good proper reason would suffice...but did she understand that?...*sigh*

Why isnt enough focused on the improvement of the broadband service? refer to canteen food bit above.

I usually then proceed to get a mouse, name it Telekoms, and watch Jay squeeze the living hell outta it before swallowing it whole. Jay should run our government.

How could i have the time to write such a long and boring bit today? Picture this:
Highlight todays mail> Drag to offline folders> wait...>wait...>wait...
<42>
TRANSFERRING!!!Woot!!
~5 minutes later~
<41>
Still transferring!!ok...some progress
~10 minutes pass~
<55>
Still transfering...but look!...ive discovered that the secrets of time travel lie in the download of emails!!...

I then proceed to kill the innocent ant strolling on the table and release a maniacal lough~
Starbucks folks stare...a lot...back to blogging...