Entries Categorized as 'Money matters'

£2 a minute call using 3 network

Date August 13, 2009

How 3, a UK mobile operator, can justify charging its customers £2 a minute when they are overseas is beyond me. Even many years ago, it used to only cost us the price of a local call when we make a call using our mobile phones while in Malaysia. After many years of lobbying and [...]

Home broadband with O2

Date May 3, 2009

Connecting our home to the O2 ADSL broadband service seems unbelievably easy! After we had a fresh BT line installed to our premise, we placed an order with O2 to become their home broadband customer, as it is much cheaper to use their service when we are already their existing customer through their mobile phone [...]

Investors’ behaviours

Date April 4, 2009

An excellent analysis into investors’ behaviours. I’m certainly one who is always filled with regrets when I have “missed” opportunities, to buy or sell stocks when the prices are good, quite often with hindsight And I’m not willing to cut my losses, even though it makes sense to cut them and then buy [...]

Bloody Virgin Media

Date March 30, 2009

They think the services they are offering are the best, and that their existing customers can never live without them. I have just placed my order with Sky *two fingers up their arse*.
I called them to complain about the latest increase in my current price plan, which includes Telephone size M, Braodband size M and [...]

Feeding the tame Robin, on video!

Date February 7, 2009

Finally recorded down the tame Robin on video. Quality is a bit poor, I know, as I only have a mobile phone that can record video Initially the Robin didn’t want to feed from my hand, which you’ll probably notice, my chasing hand It was too busy looking at the tub [...]