Shittyx.

Streamyx - for me, anyway - is stupidly, hopelessly tepid.

You know, there was a time in the not-too-distant past when Streamyx was a moderately adequate broadband service.

Now, it's so slow that the bandwidth can only be described as one-way-street narrow.

What an utter waste of precious, hard-earned money.

Every month my family pays RM66 to the overlords of telecom service that is TM and what do I get?

Frequent disconnections.

Painfully slow loads.

And - this is what really irritates me - MSN constantly bouncing back messages that I've sent.

Every time I use MSN there's bound to be a slew of "The message cannot be sent because a timeout/connection error has occured". Which is deeply annoying when you're engaged in a conversation.

Seriously, the only reason I'm not rushing to plug that phone line straight to the Mac mini is that it doesn't support dial-up.

I really do hope that in this economic recession TM will be hit by such a shitstorm of debts, corruption, mismanagement, complaints and loss of customers that even government bailouts can't save it from being steamrolled into the depths of bankruptcy.

And that, while trying to bailout all the struggling companies, the government itself will go under.

And that, without the money that they can sneak so easily from under the table, the corrupt politicians and businessmen in the country will all go wither and die a painfully poor death.

Which would give me a really good reason to switch to some other broadband service.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm on a phone call to TM. Because I know that ain't happening.