of tyres & pc fair

i finally changed my tyres yesterday, with the help from Ozy - he helped to show me the way to the so-called famous 'Kedai Papan' somewhere in Klang (i looked around the building, but could not see any signs of 'papan' anywhere, hahahaha). i decided to change all four of Neo's tyres, they've been in service ever since i first received my car in 2006, a shocking duration of 2 years and 8 months. haha.

i find this place considerably cheaper if you compare to the other places near my home, where they're asking for rm250 for each continental tyre. and that price hasn't yet included alignment i suppose. here they charged me about rm190 per tyre, so along with balancing, alignment and re-ketuking one of my rims which Significant Other happily managed to kemek so long ago but never fixed it, the total bill amounted to rm830. i save roughly about rm250~ which i could use to service my car later on =D. not bad, don't you think? thanks to Ozy for taking the time to bring us to this place =).

btw, here's a photo of my daughter that day, taken by Ozy. i stole it from his blog, hope he doesn't mind =P (considering the object in the photo is my very own daughter, lol). cute!


yesterday Significant Other subscribed for Maxis broadband at the PC fair. i think the telco operators in Malaysia have gone overboard during their broadband promotions at the PC fair. to be fair, i guess they're trying to reel in more customers from their competitors, but the number of promoters seem to outnumber the customers passing through. and they seem to take up most of the space of the hallway. grrrr. especially at the end of the exhibition hall, they somehow managed to occupy 3/4 of the hall area leading towards the exits.

anyway, after a minute's thought, Significant Other decided to go for Maxis broadband only because he's a Maxis subscriber. they had these really cool modem skins to chose from, but the one i had my eye on was already out of stock =( so i had to settle for the R&B design. back home when we opened the box and took out the modem i was a bit disappointed with the finishing of the modem skin, it looked like it was pasted on in a hurry, and the cutting was abit jagged and senget2. haiz.

i wanted to get this design but they were out of stock...

so we decided to get this design instead

p/s. guess what, Oz? yesterday my dad bought the very same phone model as yours, priced at rm475. not bad don't you think? been tinkering around with it and i find it not bad a phone myself =P.