Broadband and bubbles

When my family moved home, they didn't setup any fixed internet at the new place(!) so last month when I asked my mom about it, she said that she'll sort it out for me.

When I got home, there was still no fixed internet :P

So the very next day we went to the mall to get my mobile broadband and Malaysian phone working.

I went for Celcom's Postpaid Lite mobile broadband, costing RM48 (£9.50) per month, giving me 1.5Mbps speeds for up to 1.5GB of data.

Celcom's postpaid's data plans, taken from this page.

 In comparison, when I was back in the UK, I was using pay-as-you-go mobile broadband from T-Mobile and then giffgaff.

Comparison between Celcom (Malaysia), T-Mobile (UK) and giffgaff (UK) mobile broadband packages.

So in general, I'm getting roughly 60% slower speeds compared to the UK, but the £/GB is alright - only £2 more than the cheapest giffgaff, so I suppose it's not bad. I've already prepped myself for slower speeds here, so I'll cope.

For now. Until I restart my supervision meetings - over Skype calls(!)

There was talk that I could possibly opt for a viva over Skype, meaning I won't need to fly back to the UK for it. I was wondering if it would be acceptable to kill my viva Skype call during the difficult bits and then blame it on the choppy Internet..

Ooh, on my quest to get wirelessly wired (see what I did there? *ba-dam-dush*) I saw my favourite bubble/pearl milk tea!

Mmm bubbles. Pic (c) Gong Cha.

This little beauty only set me back RM5.90 (£1.20)! I could buy almost three pearl teas here for the price of one back at Soton uni!!

So yeah, nice things - like KFC and bubble tea - are cheap here in Malaysia :P

Update 8 Nov: I seemed to have used up my 1.5GB quota already - over just 4 days! So I bought a 5GB data booster for RM50 (£10). So my total expenditure has now crept up to RM98 (£19.50), but that has dropped the £/GB to just £3! Go figure!