Everybody’s Fine

I came across the movie: Everybody’s Fine and found familiar names in it (Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell)

Left by a loving wife is definitely not easy, and that is what Frank Goode is going through. The movie starts with Frank preparing everything for a family reunion with a classic Catch a Falling Star background music. Having his children cancelling their attendance last minute made him travel across country to visit them; and this is the story of his road trip.

I was wrong thinking that it is a comedy and rather surprised by the pace of the movie. Despite of all ‘drama thingy’, it is not boring at all for me. De Niro really put his best again in this movie, expressing his calmness and yet we can see the depression in him. I can tell that he is perfect for the movie.

Of all the scenes, I love the music and how it fits the scenes in most part of the movies.

 

Karaoke

Karaoke, a word so familiar to myself but have not even had the thought to search what and where it came from. Wikipedia has an article about it and how it came from.

For me, I've known karaoke from my dad.. Yes it's one of his hobby. It came to me even more when He bought a (so called) computer that stores karaoke video files for him to call upon (using remote controlled numbering combined with a papered catalog to search songs from). It the stroke me to search more on how I can make such application.

It began more than 6 months ago that I saw the same program in Melody Family Karaoke in town and then shared the idea to my dad. He simply expressed: "Why don't you see what you can do, then come again and we'll talk seriously."

So.. since I've been in Visual Basic .NET for years I gave it a shot. Started looking for some video presentation technologies. Started with WMP but figured out that I couldn't switch the audio channel to mono left or right, I looked at VLC.

Using the SQLite database and .NET Connector for SQLite, it's almost done.

Finding your way with Google

A friend of mine asked me to pick him up to go home. At the other hand, I had no idea where his exact location were.
Then out of nowhere I decided to use Google Maps to find the way and trying to pinpoint his office. Turned out that it wasn't enough; I didn't know which turn to make (this one or the next U turn). So I thought of Google Wave and the Map gadget.
Invited him and it took 2 minutes for the invitation to get there and he's in the wave. Made a wave and put in the map gadget and... u guys figure it out in this video.

The ride came and I didn't have the time to collaborate on the location, so I was thinking of using Google Latitude to have his location. It all sounded perfectly until my friend's Blackberry couldn't connect to the Internet. -_- FML.

High level meeting

Sometimes.. it's rather embarrassing to see the so called best people of my country screwing around during plenary meeting.

I was somehow reminded of such uncivilized meetings in other countries (Taiwan if not mistaken) years ago.

Disagreements surely exist, but as representative of the people, they should at least be civilized. Welcome to Indonesia.

Australia

After a long 1 year break of not having any discussion of studying in Australia, I came across an education fair held by local school last Saturday; and somehow I found myself searching for some resources about Australia.

What a nice place to be.. Feeling like going there someday.. I wonder what had happened if I had gone there for college. ^_^

Well.. if you've got the chance, go there and taste the life and education there.