Two wrongs don't make a right!

4 days ago I signed up for a promotion for 1GB free broadband plus homeline with ihug vodafone. It costs 60 dolar per month and it seems the best deal I heard so far. I was so happy that supposed I could get the line immediately once everything settled. But I was so surprised when the person in charge told me that it will take maximum 10 days to get the connection. What???!!! 10 days??? I just couldn't believe it. Why it takes so long to get a simple home line and Internet connection during these millenium. owh that was sooooo funny! Having everything agreed earlier so I have no choice but to wait till they contact me. Fine. I went back home with grrrr...gerammmyerrr..
Yesterday, I saw a letter in my pigeon hole. I recognized its a letter from the vodafone looking from the envelope. I was anxious to see the what is it about. Oh gosh! What a shock to me when I was reading these lines: "Dear NSH, Thanks for signing up to Vodafone's ihug. Unfortunately there was a problem with your driver's licence details so we can't sign you up to any of our services at the moment. To kick-start your application again, you just need to call us to verify your driver's licence details and we'll take care of the rest. You'll be ready to go with Vodafone's ihug calling in no time!" Huh crazy....crazy tahap gaban punye servis. Firstly, it takes 3 days for them to inform me about it. Secondly, I never gave my driver's licence details, they photocopied my passport instead. Thirdly, they can be more efficient if they can call up their prospect customer just to seek for clarification.
Geram punyer pasal, today early in the morning I registered for a new landline of other company of course. At first, I felt like calling that V** company to seek for clarification and with the intention to tell them that their way of conducting business is actually making them loosing customers! Haha but I guess no need lah.. after all, two wrongs never make a right! ay?

A blessing in disguise

Alhamdulillah.. it has been two weeks at the new place. New people. New environment. More light. More air. MasyaAllaah & SubhanAllaah the view is really amazing, during the dawn, the sun rise, the day and night. Many thanks to Wawa, Norly, Fadhi, Syita, Ijah, makcik & Fariza for all the help :-) Jazakumullah.

Update on Systematic Review (SR)

Alhamdulillah another good thing, I have completed the six months of work on SR of empirical studies of pair programming. As the time flies, I just couldn't believe that I have been here for half a year. Time passes very quickly, I can't wait for the provisional period to end so that I can peacefully going back to Msia for a short holidays. Alhamdulillah my supervisor had given me the greenlight to go home (yieehaaa!!!) after submitting the work to ESEM by March 2008. InsyaAllah..May Allah make this journey easy for me and for my friends who are also doing their PhD. ameen..
Ok, back to the SR. Out of 320 studies, we found only 140 are relevant for the review. After getting thru the i/e criteria, only 66 were included in the finalized list. Well, it's a long stories but the protocol has been updated for more than 5 times throughout the actual review process. The hardest part is to design the quality checklist as instrument to assess the quality of those studies. There is no standard guidelines in measuring quality studies related to CS/SE research. Hence, the validity and reliability of the assessment is a very difficult aspect to be resolved. I will have another meeting with my supervisor next week, where we both will discover the patterns and identify the gaps found in PP studies. Accordingly (hopefully!) that will be a definite area of my contribution as well as to fit in the current body of knowledge of PP research. They are lots more to do...to read...to think..to understand..to write..about knowledge. Good luck everyone!

The end of hunting.. hopefully!

Alhamdulillah finally I manage to find an apartment before the vacate date of the current apt. InsyaAllah if everything goes fine I'll be staying at Eden Crescent, an area which is also very near to my current place, near to the Uni, to Foodtown (hehe :-), and Britomart as well!
Alhamdulillah..!
So I'm moving out this Friday, 11th January, insyaAllah.