I'm tired...

For the past week, I've been very tired of life; as if I've got nothing to live for (in which I know I'm not supposed to be like that). I have no idea what happened or what have triggered this feeling; perhaps I've gone through lots of things lately. I don't feel like doing things, I started to talk in a rude way, being sensitive, and lazy. Haven't really got a good time since last week.

Work, SAP, nStation, church, friends... [Arggh...]
I feel like leaving all of this for a while and refresh myself. But I can't seem to find the time for it coz I've got too many scheduled time for the next 2 weeks; no public holidays some more.

It's definitely not easy being human, or for it matter "someone".

Happy Birthday Linux

Linux is now 15 years old since Linus Torvalds first announced it in August 15, 1991.

"Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since April, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Linus (torva...@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. "

I've not been forced to use linux yet, but I really look forward to the time that I can fully use linux. ^_^ I'm too busy with other things and it is very unlikely to explore on linux unless I'm told to.. ^_^

OpenOffice.org

I know OpenOffice has been around for long enough.. and I have actually resired to try it on (however it never really worked coz the environment I've been working in depends too much on Microsoft Office).

But now I've got a chance to use it in a more independently from Microsoft Office.

I'm so glad that my boss wanted me to try some alternatives for office applications beside Microsoft, I've finally had my eyes again towards OpenOffice.org.

Considering the complexity of the utilization of office application (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations) in my company, I do not see the compulsion of Microsoft Office. Instead, OpenOffice.org is good enough.

The main use of th office apps are:

• typing letters, simple WYSIWYG documents, and reports
• spreadsheet documents with simple calculations (SUM, AVG, etc)
• viewing presentation files

in which all of the functions can be found in both OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office.

Now the difficult part is the users.. it has always been the users.. that they're used to Microsoft Office and (at some point) not willing to update their knowledge to other options. So... for now, I and some of the IT guys i've managed to persuade are trying it out; making it default office apps; get the hang of it; and eventually write a report (conclusion) of the research (comparison between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office).

As of now, I can only point out that there are two products from Microsoft that are not available in OpenOffice.org:

• Microsoft Visio
• Microsoft Project

especially considering the compatibilities of both OOo and Microsoft Office products.

I'm still looking for other alternatives for it.

Firefox & Thunderbird

My direct supervisor had me researched for alternatives in using free office software for corporate use.

In this case, we're trying to minimize (and if possible to zero) the use of Microsoft Office products. Thus, I've got into Thunderbird, a powerful email client that is most importantly free and robust.

Installed it, and took me bout less than an hour to get a hang of it and finally decided to make it my default email client against Microsoft Outlook 2003.

After a day using it, I found some fresh the look (themes), and fast loading speed (despite of the huge size of the mails after I imported from Outlook).

I feel like checking emails every half a minute with Thunderbird.

After seeing the fresh skins of Thunderbird, I just remember how not-so-fresh my Firefox's theme.. So I decided to have another browsing session for some Firefox themes.. and it turned out to be fun.

I've been using Firefox since college though.. So not much of excitement anymore..

Suicide updated

I've got 3 new scary pictures of the suicide incident that would blow some of ur mind uploaded (coz I know some of u r used to it, especially those in medical studies. ;-p).

the D-day

The big day is coming..
Time for a big prep.. ^_^




And the D-Day...


Final rehearsal...


The ushers were getting ready for the mass...


It's me shaking hand with one of the council who supports us the most in this event.


Backstage...


Even those from the elder people were coming to give a hand...


The songleaders...


The duet out of these 2 young girls are so excellent; what a talent... few of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard.


And the main time-frame... Ps Jose Carol... It has been a great evening; many were touched. We all can make a difference!!!


The celebration... We've done it.. and it was a success...

Cousins again @ Hanamasa

Took another chance to hang around with the cousins again since Chin is here.. Had a great dinner here added with some funny jokes from Anton & In.

Excellent time back there.. ^_^


Reached home at 10, straight to bed..

Rehearsal & Briefing

There were basically 2 teams: Team 1 for the show (songleaders, music, dance, schedule, etc), and Team 2 for ushers & security.

Having the Team 1 had their early rehearsal and the ushers briefng running concurrently was not a bad idea.





I can see the coordination is working quite well in here.. Looking forward for the d-day in 4 days. ^_^

is ur life alive already?

[--- Sorry guys.. this post is in Indonesian only. ^_^ ---]

Apakah hidup Anda sudah hidup? would u like to have some answers to life?

Persekutuan Pemuda Gereja Methodist Indonesia Getsemani Binjai mengundang siapa saya yang ingin menghadiri acara KKR pada:

• hari Senin, 21 Agustus 2006 pukul 18:30 WIB
• di Lapangan PKMI Binjai (Jalan Jend. Sudirman 136, Binjai, Sumatera Utara)

Kami mengundang Pdt. Jose Carol sebagai pembicara; and just to let u all know.. waktu di ONYC, banyak yang nyesel ngak ikutan dan banyak yang ngak menyesal ikutan (justru dapet banyak sekali). ^_^

W sendiri pertama kali denger dia khotbah waktu ama w meninggal; just a 10 minutes sermon but it made a great impact to almost everyone there. Sejak itu kami para aktifis gereja pada muter otak gimana tarik dia untuk jadi berkat di kota kita.

Kami berharap bisa jadi berkat bagi semua orang di sekitar kita semua.
Untuk itu, w juga mau mengundang siapa saja yang bisa datang; u won't regret it.

Kami uda atur semuanya.. semuanya free of charge, ada AC biar ngak panas juga.

Spread the words of God... ^_^

Durians..

Had a meeting at 2 pm for the 21st and had many ideas coming in, put things straight and chill out for a real weekend.

To think about it, I usually have my real weekend for only a few hours instead of two days. sigh. -_-

Had a good time chatting with friends, having durians (sorry I didn't bring my camera ^_^) and of course, great laugh. ^__________^

Reached home at 9 and an old friend called and we talked for almost an hour. Good to hear from him; brings back good old days.

P3MI's Anniversary

After a 2 weeks of planning, the fellowship is deploying its celebration party. It's the first special occasion since the new comitee went up.

Exhausting evening for sure, but we seemed to have full support from the board council (they came too).. ^_^ There were about 125 attended, where the max hit we've had for the past 6 weeks was only 90 people. Good start. ^_^

Soft Go-Live SAP

A beautiful sunset scene taken on the oil tank at the remote site. I went up alone on Tuesday, 8 Aug 2006 and had a good time up there.


Made the others went up on the same spot two days later and had some pictures. The sunset wasn't as good as it had been on Tuesday. We've got enough laugh up there though.. ^_^

Rather professionally disappointed regarding the soft go-live schedule; everything was screwed up due to lack of preparation from one of the functionals: the material. The PP and CO module had to wait and sitting around becoz no data in the system yet. So we ended up training the users again (which is good coz I there were two PP guys that didn't know anything about SAP so I had to explain from the beginning).

Personally, I've got good times there; got to know some of the friends from the other department, chill around. ^_^

Took off from the remote site at 05:15 and heading to Medan; had breakfast at Status Quo (it's the name of the restaurant; excellent seafood though).


Reached Medan at noon, got home at 15:00, and straight to the church for the Youth Fellowship's anniversary celebration preparation.

Dinner with Elly's family and Indonesian APIITians

Met Elly after months of her study in Jakarta and ended up having dinner with the entire family of hers. Hui's been really close with her though since I first introduced both of them; they've been sharing almost anything.


And to the reunion of the old friends of Indonesian APIITians together with Jai's belated birthday. ^_^

Linux and learning

Had a chat with Alex today which reminded me of my desire of learning Linux years ago. First met him in a forum which eventually got us friends.

A great youth with sharing personality he is, that he shares his knowledge in one of the best online learning site in Indonesia, IlmuKomputer.com.

Read some of his article; brief, easily understandable, and of course making me more of wanting to learn more. To think about it, I've not been learning new technical things lately. I've been confronted with lots of SAP stuffs and more of managerial analysis (that's because I've been listening to my IT Manager quite ofter in his discussion with others and even often, both of us).

Don't know when can I actually catch a class in MCSE or CCNA since the SAP Project in my company is going live. Eh.. btw, we're not going live yet since lots of data has not been transported to the new system. My module is ready, just waiting for the others. We're going to remote site (again) next week, which they scheduled on Sunday.

Man.. I don't like the way they plan it; they're stealing my weekend so that we can start working on Monday morning in the remote site (it's 8 hours trip); and the worst is that they OT is not worth the money. :-|

Suicide updated

Updated 3 more pictures from the suicide incident.