Update - The Flakiness of Streamyx

The past two early mornings seem to be okay as far as Streamyx's connection is concerned. Hope the flakiness has gone for good.

Meetings

I hate meetings. I try to avoid having to attend one as best as I can. But I didn't even try to get out of today's 3 p.m meeting with a bunch of dudes as they are from a company who is my client.

Who's the client? Well, its an advertising/media/events company; and the meeting is about sorting out some stuff for them.

The Flakiness of Streamyx

Streamyx's connection has been flaky from just after 1 a.m to around 3 a.m, every morning, for the past week.

Pinging the WAN gateway, as reported by my ADSL router, showed that it is experiencing around 30% packet loss . This, I think, is why my web and ftp access is experiencing time-outs even when I'm accessing servers located locally in Malaysia.

What is going on, TMnet?

School books and related items

RM160.20 was what I paid yesterday for my eldest child's Standard 6 text and exercise books. And this was inclusive of 4 iron-on school badges, art block and a couple of other small items which I can't remember.

Last year, I think, I paid more than RM200 for the Standard 5 stuff. Has the price of school books gone down?