IDD Talk Card and How To Use

Recently I needed to make a call to overseas from my handphone but unfortunately my handphone number didn't have the overseas calling service activated. To activate the service on my handphone line would be very expensive. So I looked for alternative which was to get a prepaid IDD (International Direct Dialing) card as a more cost effective way. As the first time wanted to use prepaid IDD card, not quite sure where to get it and unsure how to use it even after got it. So I did my own research and finally successfully got it and use it. Now in my blog, I am going to write about how to get the a prepaid IDD card and how to use it as a reference guide for those who want to use IDD card but don't have any knowledge about it.

ITalk is the most famous and can get easily prepaid IDD card in Malaysia to make overseas call. It it produced by TM. The most easy way to buy ITalk is from online portal such as through Maybank2u banking website. The minimum amount ITalk that can buy is RM10. When buy from Maybank2u website, there is no physical card given but will be given information such as "Serial Number" "Reload Number" instead.

After having the "Reload Number", it is ready to activate the ITalk service. Activation is needed for one time only and below are the steps to activate:

Activation Steps:
1) Dial "1 800 87 3636" from the phone.
2) Follow the instructions given by the system and when requested for card number, enter the 12-digit "Reload Number".
3) ITalk prepaid service would be activated and it is now linked to the phone number that the call was made just now.
4) Call to overseas can be made now by referring the below: Steps To Make Overseas Call.

Steps To Make Overseas Call:
1) Dial "1 800 87 3636" from the phone that has activated ITalk prepaid service.
2) Enter overseas phone number followed by #. For most smartphone, after dialing the phone number and the line is still engaged, the keypad only allows to enter numbers only and the "+" sign is not allowed. So to enter overseas number such +6512345678, enter 006512345678 instead. Putting 00 is equivalent to "+" sign.
3) To make future overseas call, just repeat steps 1-2.

Call to overseas will have the charges automatically deducted from the ITalk prepaid value that purchased.

New Year New Tyre

My car front 2 tyres already used until not much tread left anymore. Can feel the tyres gripping power has been reduced significantly when driving through rough surface. A worn out tyre's thread can be quite dangerous especially if driving during raining days as wet road condition requires much more gripping power.

Old Front Tyre (Worn Out Threads)

So while I was at hometown for celebrating Chinese New Year, I went the tyre shop that I used to change my car tyres last time to check out different brands of tyre and the pricing. The shop is selling the brands like Yokohama, Falken, Goodyear and Michelin.

I have used before Goodyear Eagle NCT5 and Silverstone NS-223 tyres and I will never use them anymore because they were easily skid when driving through wet road condition and they were very noisy. I have used before Yokohama tyre also. Yokohama tyre is the best tyre that I have used so far because it did not skid even when driving through a very wet road and it was very quiet. The price for a Yokohama tyre is RM175 for 14 inch size and for a Michelin tyre is costing RM200++ for the same size.

New Front Tyre (Full of Threads)

New Falken ZE-322 Tyre

Because of tight budget this time round, Yokohama and Michelin tyres were out of consideration. Since the price for a Falken tyre of 14 inch is RM125 only and I have never used it before, so I decided to give a try to use Falken tyre at both front side of my car. The Falken tyre model I am using is ZE-322.

Total price I spent was RM290 whereby RM250 for 2 front tyres, RM30 for balancing & alignment and RM10 for the small rubber valve.

The shop address:
Wan Hua Tyres Service Centre Sdn. Bhd.
G17, Block Bunga Raya 2,
Jalan Abadi 1,
Taman Malim Jaya,
75250 Melaka.

Ikut Kiri Apps

There is one automotive apps for smartphone called "Ikut Kiri" which is a very useful apps for both car parts sellers and car owners.

This apps provides the functionality for car parts sellers to list their items and sale.

For car owners, they can use this apps to buy automotive parts listed inside. Not only that, car owners  also can use this apps to check roughly the price of the items as a benchmark for price comparison against the price quoted by the workshop when there is a part change required. This will give car owners the ability to identify if the car workshop is overcharging the price of a particular item.

This apps provides the car parts price list for all kinds of automotive brands ranging from normal Proton car up to luxury Porche car. It is a very informative apps indeed.