Sep
20
2010
The Star, Thursday September 16, 2010.
MALAYSIAN bloggers can soon rub shoulders with their Asian counterparts at an international blogger festival to be held for the first time in Malaysia next month.
More than 200 local bloggers and over 100 from Asia are expected to attend Blogfest.Asia at Wawasan Open University in Penang from Oct 1 to 3.
Blogfest.Asia committee chairman Khor Khan Khai said Penang was chosen for its unique culture, heritage and friendly people. It was held in Hong Kong last year.
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Aug
13
2010
A couple of my friends asked me this question about the KTM ETS train ride. So is it really worth it, or not? I find it very subjective because the sense of “worth” is a very personal thing.
Aug
13
2010
August 12 2010 was the first day when the KTM ETS from Ipoh to KL Sentral (even though we have Time Square that spells exactly like the one in New York but we don’t want to copy the name of the Grand Central Terminal) went into business. I felt so lucky to have the opportunity to get myself a ticket to have a joyride to KL.
Aug
3
2010
Dear Customer Support,
I was touring Japan during Chinese New Year holidays this year and happy that I bought the GH1 there to record my memories. The camera performs well till now, but both of the strap lugs had detached from the body by themselves within 3 months after the purchase. This is clearly a manufacturer defect.
I was away from Malaysia after that incident and was using the camera without the strap (very inconvenient) till I came back a few days ago. I took it to the Shah Alam service center today only to find out that I need to pay more than RM300 to fix something which is not caused by my own neglect. Even checking it will cost me RM50.
I am extremely disappointed with this outcome. It just shows that customers are not the core of the after sales service of Panasonic because the customer care representative just brushed me off saying that she can’t do anything to help me because I bought the camera in Japan. I was told that the warranty is not valid in Malaysia. I just have to pay.
I need to fix the camera anyway because I just can’t walking around with camera with an obvious defect (which does not serve well for Panasonic branding too) in my trips. The RM300++ charges for fixing two camera strap lugs just made a dent into my confidence in Panasonic. I am pretty sure that my next camera purchase will highly probably not be a Panasonic camera.
For your information I am also posting this email to the Internet as well just in case it is being brushed off.
Thank you very much for your attention.
Jul
24
2010
The 15th Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards (ifva) is over but do not despair fellow filmmakers. The 16th is going to be opened for nomination soon, starting September 2010. No official info on the nomination has been released yet but you can check ifva’s site in August. It has a “Asian New Force” category, so friends in Asia are encouraged to participate too. 