31 July FRIDAY = SIB camp at El Sanctuary in Melaka.

Promises to be a great time there.

Michael Schumacher is back in F1, probably for 3-4 races while Massa recovers. F1 seems to be in turmoil after BMW pulls out and Toyota will make an announcement within the next 3 weeks.

Lukas will have his Honda Civic 2.0 by 5pm, if all goes well.

My streamyx is fast again. Just for kicks, I put a stopwatch to see how much I can suck over 3 hours and what the average is, well, here it is!

171 kilobytes/sec average combined (1368 kbit/sec). This is not a “peak”, but rather a “sustained average”!

1450 Megabytes = 290 MP3 songs! = 2 movies at decent quality (think axxo) = 2 episodes of Top Gear.

What that means, is that if a phone call is encoded at 28kbit/sec (4KB/s), I have tied up Telekoms “capacity” for 48 simultaneous calls for the past 3 hours!

Same story with SMS. If each SMS is 200 bytes, then I have transferred 7.25 million SMS. I have been downloading stuff from BitTorrent, so if it were to happen on Maxis or Digi’s SMS network, it would have costed me RM 700,000 just for that 3 hour session.

REMEMBER, data is all digital, so its the same whether its SMS or Bit Torrenting.

Now, are you angry as to why your telco overcharges you for SMS when so little data is transmitted?

Congratulations to Cain for successfully passing the final paper. Guess I don’t need to chop off my balls now!

Working on 2 projects: khalij-petroleum.com and cherrygoround.com (online shopping sites selling women’s clothing).

GO KART – hmm.. week of 10 August, ok? Save up your cash, cuz we’re going 2 stints (thats RM 70, ok)?

Badminton Tue – Thursday 4-6pm, Subang Jaya. Going right now

August is here, new experiences. New friends in college. It can only get better!