On Bigger Bandwidth ... UNIFI and more

Today, 03-OCT-2011 the Unifi installer came and complete the installation of the TM's HSBB product; Unifi.
They completed it within 1 hour time. Erected the single core fiber from existing Distribution Point (DP) at the back of my home going through the single bedroom to the living room.


I subscribed to 5MB/s and had ordered the existing 1Mb/s Streamyx to be shifted to my parent-in-law's home. I've done a speedometer comparison between Unifi & Streamyx just for fun.

on 01 OCT 2011, tested the 1MB/s Streamyx

on 03 OCT 2011, tested the 5MB/s Unifi (newly installed)

Today, officially I'm a Unifi subscriber. One of almost 160,000 subscribers in Malaysia. The surfing was 5 times faster than before. We're evaluating to reduce ASTRO's channel subscription to minimize cost since Unifi also came with IPTV & Video On Demand (VOD). You can view life streaming of YouTube without the streaming or lagging or buffering. And can also browse Facebook directly on the TV.


Alhamdulillah, back in the office, I've won a 'Name a Portal' contest. It's a knowledge & info sharing portal and I named it 'i-Share'. I didn't know what the prize is and did not expect anything expensive or fancy.


On sport, we've got RM250 allocation each to buy ourselves a new pair of Futsal shoes. I've targeted to buy two; one for court sole and another for turf sole but luckily I've found a ADIDAS Salacetto which has a hybrid sole (can use on court & turf) prized at RM250 for the Yellow colored and RM219 for the Red  colored one. But I need to survey at other outlets to get a better prize.

Team Building in Eagle Ranch Resort

Yesterday, just arrived from Port Dickson, N9 after a 3D2N Team Building in Eagle Ranch Resort.

First Day:
Travel from office towards Eagle Ranch Resort ( Lat: 2.42677N Long: 101.91401E ) http://www.eagleranch.com.my/. Checks in to Bandwagon 30.

After Lunch, first game starts at 15:00, a Management game named Crossing the River Kwai. We're divided into 3 groups throughout the event. Cowboy, Herbal-life & Rain (my team). All games carry points. We managed to get a tie with Herbal-life. Towards the end it started raining. We'd to rest a while waiting for the rain to stop. Then we proceeds with Futsal tournament.

After dinner, There's a product demo by the Vendor but prior to that I managed to conduct an ice-breaking session halfway to give way for the demo.

Day Two:
We had to re-aligned the program since a few team had to go back to KL for a Management meeting. After Breakfast, we went for Go-Kart. Each of us had to drive 5 rounds representing our teams. RM25 for 5 rounds per pax; quite expensive compared to the one in Ayer Keroh, Melaka. Anyway, My team finishes last due to technical difficulties.

Then we went for the obstacle game (5 games) and my team finishes last also.

After lunch, we gathered for Paintball. Round-robin, each team had to present 2 team. Halfway, each team had a team winner, my team; Rain had to fight Herbal-life in the Semi-final and we won. For final, we won against Cowboy. With the winning, Rain team won overall.

At 17:20 we continued with Futsal, some played volleyball and some went for swimming.
For dinner, we had BBQ. Sent out survey to choose either to play Paintball another round or Go-Kart.

Last Day:
We postponed our weekly meeting to next Tuesday and enjoyed another round of Go-Kart.

Before going home, we'd our group photo.

This 25-29 Apr 2011, we're going to Seri Malaysia Ayer Keroh, Melaka for User Requirement Workshop.