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One string (no it wasn’t a metal wire)!

MSN Account Invation Had Been Attempted

Just got an MSN message from a MSN contact regarding some new photos being published which needed my MSN login to access those photos. As soon as I inadvertently signed in, I realized it was a hoax! So I quickly tried to change my password for MSN Live Messenger only to find out there is no such function within the official client software application! A quick search found a site provided with a link for just that purpose which sent me to some “support.microsoft” site as it asked me to sign-in to my account. I thought that was kinda strange, so I went to www.msn.com instead which I know it is a legit site and signed on there.

The “change password” function was still nowhere to be found but I finally got it done on one of the sign-in pages in Microsoft. More searches revealed the account.live.com site that gives me the function. I had signed in through www.msn.com and got there with the function ready for me without asking me
to sign-in again, so I think it is legit. Do so at your own risks only.

PITA in this electronic age!

iPhone 3G is in

and the 2G is officially RIP.

At USD$199, I ‘envy’ those who had paid could afford over HKD$4K for the cracked 2G model against my advise, and couldn’t help but laughing wondering WTF that newly announced dealership of the 2G model by 3 for the HK and Macau market was all about.

Although Apple has switched the 3G model back to their usual selling outlets as with all other Apple products, ie screwing all the local gray marketeers, the 3G model is on the HK Apple online shop without a price and looks like they are not taking orders at this moment. That means one can still get the closed to HKD$5K 2G model from HKSincere and pretend to be the coolest dude for awhile still.

Unlike the 2G model, I am able to find one or two great features on the iPhone 3G though; talk time in 3G mode (only manual switching, no auto hanging switching between 2G/3G for this phone) is a whopping 5hrs at a great USD listed price!

Which reminds me, perhaps a Whopper for lunch today or very soon. Yum. :-P

Oh!  Ah…. one more thing…

This iPhone 3G is like an iPod Touch at about HKD$800 less with a free 3G phone attached albeit without a video call camera … Sounds GREAT to me!

Just a minute! English…

Boss =/= Balls

eg. “He is my boss.” NOT “He is my balls.”

真成痙爆盼掌禮

唉~

What is she doing wrong?…

Why can’t this “articulate”, “classy”, and “spectacularly beautiful 25 year old girl” find a guy… that is….?

Get this in your thick head heads!

The Olympic Games is a SPORTS EVENT not a political tool !!!

Jackass Jackasses!

Hey TV commercial…

“Have to learn English la…”

It’s astronaut, not “estranod”, alright?!

Self-destructive Telemarketing

I don’t know why company keep using telemarketing and why would any consumer give out vital personal information over the phone to a complete stranger with or without listing their Caller IDs.

I have made myself very clear to most telemarketers that I do not accept any promos, any new services, or phone sex over the phone. (If you must, show up in person and I’ll stick your phone into your…)!

HGC has been calling my cellphone as well as my company phone, for the longest time I can’t remember when they’ve started, to asked me to switch my landline service provider over to their company . I have tried telling to them nicely not to call again and take me off their contact list, just hangup…. but to no avail. I am not blaming the telemarketers for it is their job but it is the company’s responsibility to comply to the basic Telecommunication Ordinance and to fulfill (potential) customer’s requests.

Last week, when HGC called again. While I tried to tell I do not want them calling me ever again, the nice lady said that I would need to call their hotline to request a form and file the form with HGC. When I told them it is not my responsibility to go through their procedures when it is clearly their violation of my privacy as well as the Telecommunication Ordinance, and that if I need to file anything I’d file a complaint to the OFTA instead, she said nicely that there is, unfortunately, nothing else she could do that would remedy the situation.

I can understand that since most of these telemarketers are not with the said companies. They are with telemarketing companies hired by the said companies to do their own dirty work.

So I filed a formal complaint to the OFTA last week stating that my intention (being a part of the standard online form that I have to fill out) is to have HGC comply with the basic Telecommunication Ordinance and to allow and accept customer requests through their telemarketing should anyone asks to have their contact info removed from their list and to never contact them again. Another part of the standard form was to ask if I want to disclosed my personal info to the said company, to which I denied, since I am not requesting anything special, just for the said company to comply with their ordinance.

Today, I received an email from the OFTA. A standard email, I believe. Saying they have accepted my case and would like permission to disclosed my personal info for the “go ahead”. I denied.

No wonder the telemarketing lady said there is nothing she could do and that many had made such complaint but also to no avail. Nobody cares they have violated the basic Telecommunication Ordinance and privacy of those they are calling!

While I have not gone as far as a friend has to never deal with any of the companies related to the Li’s family, this has reconfirmed my decade long decision to never use HGC or their affiliated companies’ services ever again.

Yes, that includes “3“.

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