U Mobile is facing major failure(now recovering…)

As U Mobile customer,I felt quite happy with it.It deployed 42Mbps HSPA+ network base stations in major cities in Malaysia and keep expanding its coverage,also providing competitive prepaid and postpaid plans.However,the major outage happened today is a sort of disaster.

Since this morning,some U Mobile users started to complain that they can’t make or receive any calls or sms and several hours later,more users complained on the same issue.Finally U Mobile made a publish announcement through all channels:Facebook,twitter and its official website.

It’s not good enough.U Mobile didn’t give out any updates on how the progress is and when the service could be resumed.As mobile communication has been a very important communication method and when it disrupts,it could lead some great losses to the users.U Mobile should have a backup plan to minimize the effects,but sadly they don’t have.

Well,now I just hope my mobile phone can get into the service as soon as possible.

[Update] About 10 mins ago,some users reported that they can finally make/receive calls and sms,but somebody still has problems on roaming on Celcom 2G.I think the recovery is working in progress.Yet,no detailed explanation was given by U Mobile.

Steve Jobs-the biography

It has to be one of the most successful biography in the world.The author Walter Isaacson took many times of interviews with Steve Jobs,his friends,family and competitors and recorded thoroughly in this book.

The stories written in the book clearly show the character of Steve Jobs,his thoughts and smart movements,and of course,including his love,as a human being.

I got the book once it globally published and read for some days.It’s really inspiring me. :)

Gastritis

It will never be good experience,but I have to face it.

Spent weeks to treat my chronic active gastritis,however,the progress is quite slow.I checked a lot of different sources and found that there’s no short-cut to cure this illness.It will take time and it will be months at best and for year maybe.

Currently I still have nausea and abdominal pain in half of a week.I now get traditional Chinese medication to treat it-herbal medicine and acupuncture.

I also intake Vitamin B Complex with Zinc to help to heal my stomach mucosa as well as flax seed oil.

Since my stomach damage was caused by H. Pylori which has been applied with some antibiotics,I keep to have UMF10+ Manuka honey and yoghurt daily to eliminate the bad bacteria in the stomach by the natural way.

Now I do wish my stomach could be healthy asap.Guys,if you have any experience on this,please share your story here.Thanks.

Get free gift from U Mobile

As I posted before,U Mobile held a top-up and win contest with Maybank last month.The gifts include Samsung Galaxy Tab,ZTE HSDPA modem and free sms credits.I’m so lucky to get a free modem as the gift and collected it yesterday at U Mobile service center,Berjaya Times square.

U Mobile also gave us some surprise-free one month mobile broadband(MB40 plan) for the coming August with a new SIM which was registered on site.

The free modem is ZTE MF190 which supports HSDPA 7.2Mbps/USUPA 5.76Mbps.I think it’s good enough for most mobile broadband users.But if you’re living at U Mobile’s upgraded HSPA+ coverage area and want to fully utilize it,you may go to buy a HSPA+ modem instead,hopefully it won’t be too costly.

The design is very simple.It has a SIM slot and a microSD slot,both are hidden under the cover that you’re not going to find it easily.The size is moderate as well as its weight.I will test the performance when the free period starts.Stay tuned if you’re interested!

I like U Mobile more now because they always throw out all kinds of goodies for the customers.I just hope U Mobile could keep improving the quality of network.The worst thing I met when using U Mobile is sometimes I can’t get data connections while roaming at Celcom 2G network.And I know I’m not alone.

U Mobile,could you solve this problem?I’m waiting.

WordPress 3.2 is here

After months of testing and fixing,WordPress 3.2 comes officially.It’s said to make it faster and lighter.

Inside the new version,a refreshed dashboard design is created.I feel it is much clearer than the old one and loads faster as they declared.They also create a new official theme-new Twenty Eleven theme which is fully coded by HTML5 as they promised before that they would design a new theme every year.

The best part in this latest WordPress is the freshest full screen editor.

It’s left nothing but my editing windows,they call it as distraction-free writing or zen mode.

More improvements and bug fixes in this build give users better experience.WordPress takes a 3-minutes video clip to show us how it could work fantastically.

After watching this,I bet you wanna upgrade your blog platform to this awesome one. :)

Oh,they also said that more good stuff will be available in next batch,WordPress 3.3.You’ll stay tuned,won’t you?