Don't Sweat The Small Stuff

[vsat]

The recent 2 hour blackout in Peninsula Malaysia irritated a lot of people and most of them made a big hoo haas abt it.
I've got 5 words for these pampered bunch "Don't Sweat The Small Stuff"
For crying out loud, it's only 2-3 hours. Have a bit of adventure and excitement!!!...what r u guys gonna do? Play with your nuts the entire life?
Seriously, my job takes me to places where there's only electricity for
6 hours of the day and everybody's fine.
They also get up, go to work, have their 3 square meals a day and go to bed...
Remember, don't sweat the small stuff.

[trifecta]

You are right VSAT, sometimes we lose sight of how lucky we are. I remember while I was away for close to 6 months in Sarawak and happened on some remote villages near the Bakun dam. Those guys only have electricity for 4 hours aday, fuel permitting from 6-10 then it's lights out. Thinking about how those guys tough it out and how relatively comfortable I am really stops me from bit***** about the electricity going down.

[Joe Gomez]

People tend to mould their way of life around ( apart from many, a great many, other things ) available amenities. Electricity being one and avery important one.
It would be unfair to imply or label complaints about the disruption of electricity as being cries from spoilt people or from people making much ado about nothing.
Imagine all those very critical activities that have come to be dependent on the availability ( and on the assurances given about the continued availability ) of electricity.

[JackRyan1975]

I don't think consumers should be penalised for complaining about about an electricity outage. We are talking about monetary losses for many businesses/industries among other inconveniences.

We should also be comparing our utility services to first world nations, not kampung places with little or no electricity. TNB shd be setting its bars higher, not lower.

To trivialise such matter is to take lightly issues of national security, investor confidence, and the economy as a whole.

[lord]

Totally agree with bro joe. Bruder vsat, 15mins of power failure to an incubator can cause a lillte neonate to die! In an era when most of our appliances run on electricity, you are bound to be a slave to it, like it or not. Too bad for the guys in remote areas, i've been to Bakun and lived in the jungle, you just got to bite bullet whether you like it or not.

On the other hand, there are some of us, unlike yourself, bitch about the extra dollars and cents TNB wishes to increase to its customers. We take things like what happened yesterday as a reference as to why TNB has to increase its tariff when we still get blackouts which affects a few states!! Probably unlike yourself, we are all wage earners at the mercy of 'suckers' like TNB, who monopolise the power industry, feel the pinch.

[trifecta]

lord, you've got a point, but I think there are ppl out there who go on complaining of the millions of dollars that are lost, lives that are lost, businesses that go under etc when the real issues are they feel uncomfortable because their airconditioning or streamxy just went out, they dont really care about the bigger picture just looking for reasons to justify their venting. There are quite a number of ppls like these around, they vent at coffeeshops and at forums (not here anyway ) and I think vsat was addressing these sort of ppl. Like i said, i used to be like that, but after i saw how ppl coped without electricity at all i just knuckled up and puffed away.

[pcyeoh]

"A man without shoes will stop complaining when he sees another man without feet." So be gentle about all your complaints. I always pay more attention to complaints with suggestion/solutions that those empty vessels with microphones placed inside them.

[vsat]

That's what I'm talking about. A lot of you guys like to complain about everything, the police here, our rescue team in Aceh, the traffic, Jaring not good, Telekom not good, our politicians suck, this system not good , that system not good.......excethra, excethra, excethra.

Just deal with it...Traffic bad at Summit in the morning- leave the house at
6:30am.... No Streamyx at home-don't buy home without Streamyx exchange nearby or utilise Wifi..... whatever it is....don't sweat the small stufff, man.

A blade of grass can never repay the warmth of the spring sun...

[trifecta]

That's what I'm talking about. A lot of you guys like to complain about everything, the police here, our rescue team in Aceh, the traffic, Jaring not good, Telekom not good, our politicians suck, this system not good , that system not good.......excethra, excethra, excethra.

Just deal with it...Traffic bad at Summit in the morning- leave the house at
6:30am.... No Streamyx at home-don't buy home without Streamyx exchange nearby or utilise Wifi..... whatever it is....don't sweat the small stufff, man.

..... and leave the millions lost to the big business to seek compensation from TNB themselves, for the ppl who nearly lost their lives to file lawsuits against TNB. The amount of ppl I saw yesterday swearing and condemming everything Malaysian just becos they were soaked in their shirts becos of the loss of airconditioning or because they have to cancel their dinner dates was unbelivable.

[Joe Gomez]

Conclusions drawn on the whole, from a narrow sampling, is not fair, is illogical and does not get anyone anywhere.
To that extent I agree with you vsat & trifecta.
Hence, belly aching when unfounded should be viewed with a healthy measure of distrust.

At the core is " whether or not the complaint is well founded ". It is my opinion that for the complaint to be well founded, the complainant need not have personally experienced the loss.
If the media says that millions have been lost by manufacturers and a forumer says " S*** THATS BAD ", the complainant should not be castigated for opinions expressed purely because the complainant did not personally loose the millions. Further I dont think it should matter whether the complainant is driven solely by petty fact that his/her hairdryer/PC/electric oven went on the blink during the power outage and it did not cost millions.

Having said that, back to the topic ..............
Tenaga is not an arm of the government. Tenaga is a (near)monopoly. Tenaga has had similar experiences in the past. The Minister had assured at that time that it wont happen again.
If someone does not stop and say " WAIT A DARN MINUTE TENAGA. WHO ARE U TRYING TO FIB, BRO ? " ............ how else can the public hold these corporations to account ?
btw, my hairdryer, PC, electric oven survived the power outage. Absolutely no loss suffered in my household ............ I dont think that should make me the least qualified to comment and it would be unfair to view me therefore as a belly-aching, "hidden-agenda" having, "nothing-else-better-to-do-but-complain " type of individual.

[orchipalar]

"A man without shoes will stop complaining when he sees another man without feet." So be gentle about all your complaints. I always pay more attention to complaints with suggestion/solutions that those empty vessels with microphones placed inside them.

Err...PCYeoh ...your comments n its comparison to this case is irrelevant...are you suggesting that everyone affected by the massive 3 hours power supply shutdown during peak hours of the day that almost cripple the central n southern peninsular malaysia...to shut up n go back to stone age?

[Joe Gomez]

I dont know if pc was commenting about the vehemence of some comments/complaints rather than the contents of the complaints per se.

In any case, lets all allow the topic to flow without too much censure being heaped on the forumers for heaping deserved scorn/contempt/spite et cetera on monopolistic giants who have not met their commitments.

We should continue to call for account despite knowing that in the middle of the African Sahara in a village called Ungamunga, they have no electicity, and we are told, therefore to be thankful for what we have and the native Ungamungan does not.

[orchipalar]

Ahem...don't sweat the small stuff?...tell that to the 3 millions of affected consumers in 5 major states for 5 hours.

[gotterdammerung]

Ehem...and er gotter's with Orchi and gotter says small stuffs to some are big things to others...poison to gotter is medicine to others....good to you is bad for gotter...It's not about taste but it's about how we have to take it when we use to blink our eyes in a place where electricity is everything, including blinking.

[JackRyan1975]

To try and sound cool on a matter of great importance like electricity...is not cool to me.

Sounds more like apathy. Sounds like kids during my schooling time: "riiiiilek la....... aaalaaaamak ............ponteng je....bukannye apee........alaamaakk"