The need for speed

Saw a colleague friend posted on Facebook the abysmal internet connection he is having these few days. He posted a speed test that is in the sub 1 Mbps region both upload and download.

Well, he is with that craptastic service provider that would probably be out of business if everything was fair and square.

But things are not fair and square in this country, so many have to endure the craptastic service provider for the lack of alternative.

I am lucky that I got out of that crap when another service provider with better option decided to install their fibre optic line in my apartment. I switched without second thought.

Sometime last year, my service provider upgraded my 8 Mbps line to a 100 Mbps line at no additional cost. Yup, you read that right.

I had no complaint with a 8 Mbps line, so a 100 Mbps line is just icing on the cake.

Anyway, out of curiosity I did a speed test to check out my internet connection just now, using speedtest.net.

all is well and good

I can only say that I have never looked back since I switched service provider. It's a no brainer.

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自己讲自己爽

一转眼，这部落格已经十年了哦。

我这样自己讲自己爽也能写了十年，不是开玩笑的咯。

可能因为我根本就不在乎观看率的关系吧？

纯粹写日记心态，记下生活里的点点滴滴，以后可以回顾。

没有特地写给什么人看，但也不在乎和别人分享，愿者上钩，呵呵！ =P

或许可以让看的人笑笑娱乐一下，能让别人欢乐是好事来的。 =)

也或许有些人可以学到什么，有点领悟、启发什么的。

那就更好，更有意义的贡献。 =D

不用客气哦！

讲到好像真的会启发别人那样，真的是自己讲自己爽，哈哈！ =P

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Don't feed the trolls

My first encounter of internet troll was around twenty years ago, when I started frequenting gaming fora. It's also from these fora that I learned how to handle these trolls: don't feed them.

There will always be weird people who derives pleasure from causing discomfort or negative emotional response from others. Damn sadist.

Trolls are attention seekers, craving responses, any reply to them is like fuel that keeps them going.

The best way to handle these trolls is to ignore them. Don't reply, just disregard anything they said or posted. Hence the phrase: "don't feed the trolls", i.e. responding to them is feeding them more fuel, so don't.

Initially I thought that the spammer in my instant messaging group is just that, a spammer who doesn't care whether others are interested or not, whether the subject is appropriate or not, and force whatever he fancies down the others' throat in the false pretense that it's "sharing".

Oh, and that he cannot handle paragraph, so he can only post in short, fragmented sentences. Several messages that could be done in one.

It's only when another friend suggested that he should create another group with the number two spammer (he actually posted a spammer championship with all the data of how much he spammed...) so they can spam all they like without affecting the rest of us, where he responded that it's not fun if his spam doesn't make others angry that I realised he is actually a troll.

Wow, I actually know someone in person who's an internet/chat group troll. Achievement unlocked! =P

I have pretty much just directly deleted all the spam they generated anyway, now I have to remind myself not to give any response, and hopefully the others will do the same.

But there always seems to be someone who will feed the trolls though, bollocks.

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失声快乐

昨天是和常常一起唱歌的那班朋友每三个月一次的飙歌日。

是个难得的好日子，因为大多数的我们还是在同样一间公司工作，而我们的公司昨天是假期。

只有我们的公司是假期其它公司是工作日是去唱歌的最佳时机：不用拿假、不用塞车、和可以去最便宜的午餐时段。

午餐时段的价钱是晚上时段的一半到稍微多过三分之一，看是星期几。

不是开玩笑的，去一次晚上时段要花两次到三次午餐时段的钱啊！

总之，这样的日子不常有就是了啦。

但是齁，昨天出席的原班人马只有六位而已，其它四位是第一次和我们唱歌。

我竟然在几乎一半是陌生人的情况下还能唱哦！

看来我的脸皮厚度和无耻功力又增加了，嘿嘿。

也不能说是陌生人啦，完全没见过的只是一位，其它三位算认识的，只是从来没有一起唱过歌。

我知道有那么多第一次一起唱歌的人后是有点小紧张的。

我只是在认识久了的朋友面前才会疯疯癫癫的嘛…

所以昨天我唱得蛮谨慎的，应该没有走音或破音。

值得记下来的是，那讲了好几年，真的是几年，说要一起唱歌的那位同事终于都实现承诺啦！

她邀了另一位同事，她们两个自己没有唱歌的时候就讲个不停。

我不知道别人是怎么想的啦，但是我觉得齁，K 房不是一个适合谈天的场所咯，那么吵。

还有就是，别人在唱歌嘞，你们自顾自的高声谈天是不是不太尊重在唱歌的人啊？

怎么都好，像我讲过的，我脸皮够厚，所以我唱了蛮多首歌。

遗憾的是一直想唱〈遗憾〉却又没有唱到，换房后忘了再重点，唉…

还有就是我真的是不能合唱的咯！

昨天又再次破坏了很好听的合唱歌，真是的。

我唱到最后已经没有声音了，很满足。

失声得很开心。

随兴随想 |系列|

“剉塞”

在光良〈第一次〉 MTV 里，女主角说了几次 “剉塞”，好奇宝宝不懂，所以在网上找了找…

百度知道里是这样解释： 

“锉塞” （实际是：锉屎），念 chua shai，第四声，拉肚子、拉稀屎的意思，还有表达极度惊吓或者被很严重吓倒。

还有：

挫塞(实际上应该是挫屎，屎台语发音是塞)就是倒霉，完蛋意思。

Yahoo 奇摩知识里找到的解释是：

台语“挫赛”的用法有很多。挫赛的说法：拉屎。完蛋啦。死定啦。惨啦等意思。

哦，现在我知道了，嘿嘿！

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随想

即时通讯群里总会有一两位特别活跃什么都分享的人。

只是两个人就可以把群聊爆满那种。

可是齁，为什么你们不就单独去聊哦？做什么要群聊哦？

更厉害的是自己一个人都可以将群聊爆满那种，真的是…

通常我要这样自己讲自己爽的话齁，我就写在部落格啦，或放在面子书上啦。

这样做那些有兴趣的可以点击去看，没兴趣的可以不被干扰的略过。

不是放在面子书里的群聊哦！

随兴随想 |系列|

感伤

看到白发苍苍，状况愈差的妈咪… 很心酸。

很无奈、很失落、很无助。

有那想哭又哭不出来的感觉。

整个人都不好了，超烂的心境。

很感激我的情人老婆仔，那么的照顾妈咪。

谢谢你老婆仔，我很幸运。

真的，谢谢你。

感恩。

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