Merdeka!!!

MERDEKA!!! and here goes the 17th August celebration of Indonesian independence with friends with 'miso' [meatballs with noodles for those just in case dont know of it.. ^_^]



and of course, I was in too.. ^_^

wonderful moments when everyone's just bullying everyone.. hahaha.. ^_^

and some experience in taking 'Eugenia aquea' fresh from the tree..



and a game that we like to play called 'pecah piring'
[dont ask me.. they just taught me how to play not long ago.. and i dont even know how they came across this game]

smokeeeeyy...

Check out the haze dude.. this is just bad.. :-(

this picture was taken just in front of the door of my house..

xda and work ^_^

my new xda

and my work place.. which is temporary for now as they're gonna make us (the brand new IT department) a room just for us.. ^_^

the forgotten

Another depressing day has come again. Just when I think that life's gonna be smooth, I feel like shit again. Abandoned.. forgotten.. (-_-)

Is it me or the others? Doesn't anybody remember my existence?
I'll think of this matter more for me since I have felt this too often. Maybe I have too much thought in me; maybe I was the bad guy all this while.

I am looking forward for a better day tomorrow...
May your days r better.. ^_^ cheers..

Working life

Well.. I'm finally in the mood to work [and this is a volunteer work] to set up the infrastructure of the information system for school. I just want to help and at the same time, do something that is worth doing. And I just started to enjoy it.

So.. my life for the past 1 week:

• Woke up 7.15 after my dad have his shower, got ready and went out with my dad with his bike (he's goin for coffee every morning.. ^_^)
• Started working on the database connectivity.. (they're using MS SQL Server) and it just got more interesting since the conn worked and the success of the data retrieval were actually working
• Breakfast at 9-10 am, started working again.. lunch at 1-2.. and if I'm in the mood, get to work again.. ^_^

Degree result

Final result is out.. overall is not dissapointing, but I'm not happy with the bloody SIP.

Database Management Systems	10
Object Technology	15
Human Computer Interaction	11
Programming for the Internet	7
Professional Issues	9
Strategic Information Planning	5
Design of Corporate Computer Networks	9
Business Process Re-engineering and Information Systems	7
Honours Project: Project Management and Communication	14
Honours Project: Research and Investigation	13
Honours Project: Analysis and Design	13
Honours Project: Implementation and Testing	13

I got a 5 for SIP? That's 3rd class and almost fail..
I was quite confident with both the incourse and the exam..

Well I got a Second Class Honours First Division for the overall grade.. which is not bad at all.. ^_^

mobile phone?

Bloody hell, just 5 weeks after the repair from KL, my phone's dead again. And this time my dad said: "what have u been doin all this time? u shouldn't be too choosy on phones and get a new one quick!!"

Well.. I think I'll browse for some tomorrow.. ^_^
Any advice on new phones? I heard of Nokia N91 would be really cool.. but I have no idea when is it comin. Plus my phone is already dead and I'm 'not' connected to the world.. ^_^

Pls advice.. ^_^

Chronology of 4 years in Malaysia

Here it goes.. I'll do this in phases..
I'm putting it in another separated blog so it won't get to messy.. ^_^

I'm havin dial up conn.. So can't really get online too often.. ^_^

And I really, truly am missing those moments.. ^_^

Complexities of life

Sigh... What a day… Sometimes I wonder whether my presence at home triggers problems around me. I can’t really say much of these personal issues, but I do feel that way very much. When things are just going well, some other things ruin the good feeling.

The jobless state I am, the families, my love issues, and again related to families; such complexity of life suddenly appears before me. For months when I am not here studying in KL, these problems didn’t appear. As if I am a problem magnet or something. :-(

May God forgive me for everything that I have done wrong, and to everyone… [I just feel like saying that right now]

I hope and pray that everything goes smoothly from now; I’ll be more careful in my action and words for I don’t want to hurt others’ feeling. ^_^

Yahoo! Groups: indonesia_headhunter

For dear Indonesian folks who're still looking for jobs, please join the mailing list of indonesia_headhunter at Yahoo! Groups or click here. There are tons of job vacancies.. ^_^

Good luck... and all the best.

TagBoard Message Board

TagBoard is now available for messages.. enyoy, everyone.. ^_^

Brastagi Trip

Another trip to Brastagi with cousins and some friends.. but this time.. someone special joined us.. ^_^



All of the ladies in the trip..

And here is the special person.. ^_^
We've not gone for a trip for quite some time..

And the whole gang in the trip.. ^_^ [I like to do that.. Haha..]

Lake Toba

Holiday at Toba Lake 2 days 1 night..
What a view out here.. check this out..

Beautiful sunset..

And also a rainbow (even it wasn't in full colour)

And the whole gang on the holiday.. ^_^

Another home sweet home

What a nice time to come back home.. Family members from Jakarta r here.. ^_^

Check out this cute nephew sleepin..

And at last.. durians..
What a lucky time to get home when the seasons of durian and rambutan r comin.. ^_^
Here is my uncle and aunt opening the durian [she's better than me in opening the durians ^_^]

Happy Anniversary

Today is my parents' 23rd wedding anniversary.. ^_^
May both of you live happily ever after..

Thanks to the tripod of my camera, I could capture everyone (including myself) into the picture.. ^_^

Hanamasa @ Vera's B'day

Happy Birthday Vera Eden..
And thanks for the dinner at Hanamasa with all of the cousins.. ^_^









And a pool game after dinner.. ^_^

Cemara

Swimmin with cousins and my nephew at Cemara Asri Medan.. I haven't gone swimming for so long.. ^_^ but I enjoyed it.. of course also with the presence of the cute Gilbert around.

Home sweet home

At last.. my dear home sweet home..
Didn't even have time to blog.. Dial up dude.. -_- [sigh..]

And my Dad just went to Penang with my mom.. will be back on Sunday. I guess we're on our own.. ^_^ but I still have my uncle and my cousins to bug around.. ^_^

And I just realised that my dad didn't pay the phone bill for my mobile.. resulting my number's getting blocked. So I went to the cashless machine in the bank and pay the amount of +- RM12.00 [comverted] and still waiting for the number to get unbarred.

And it's good to be home.. ^_^

Dinner @ KL Tower

One expensive meal at KL Tower restaurant with the SISF members.. (I think I just dried up my wallet with this meal.. plus I paid for my bro too.. ^_^)


And a nice pose of pic with KL Tower as the background.. Cool eh? ^_^

The 'King' has left the country

And the last day of the 'King' in KL and we're sending him to the airport. A final pictures of us with Ahmed, his housemate, and Leela's family.


And this would be the last moments of departure.. as the 'King', Ahmed is leaving.. We're definitely going to miss you.. in fact I'm gonna miss all of ya.. ^_^


As he walked to his freedom.. Haha.. The funny part was that we were still looking for him after he went in; just like reporters, paparazzi trying to get his pictures [Mukmin, Wimal, and I]


This is the squad that escorted the 'King' to his freedom.. ^_^

SISF and Ahmed's farewell party

Last Sunday @ SISF and here we go..
Learned about the history of Christianity in the olden ages and finally to Indonesia.
That was such an interesting history. [and I can't even remember the names ^_^]


Wow.. dinner is served. This was one of my best meal [I didn't even familiar with the way of eating ^_^]. Thanks Leela.. ^_^


I almost 'kena' con by Ahmed when I was about to eat the dessert. Since I was not familiar with the way of eating [by hand], so I thought that I should eat this with hand too. Haha.. ^_^ Silly eh?

And Rafha was really cute too.. ^_^

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day.. ^_^
Love u dad..


Just thinking of the old times.. [yeah.. that was me.. cute eh? ^_^]

Degree Celebration

I am a degree holder now.. ^_^
Though without formal certificate, this letter conforms that I have finished my study.. ^_^


Batman Begins for celebration with the bretherin [do I spell that right this time, Ahmed?] ^_^
It was awesome.. One thing I like about new movies is that they put up jokes; and I like the jokes in Batman Begins very much. Seems like the best Batman movies I've ever seen. ^_^


And a chill at the evening with addition to serious meeting.. ^_^
The joints of both of my arms feel like going off.. This has been a good day.

Independence Day

Exam is over, and so does the four year road through APIIT ^_^
And here is the situation of the exam hall on the GF0461COM farewell party after the exam.


Posting with the Indonesians of GF0461COM and lots of pictures with others.


I am planning to post up the chronology of the four years in KL.. Do expect it. ^_^

1 day to independence

In exactly 24 hours of this post, it all gonna be over.. and I can't wait until that moment. [I've had this imagination in my mind of that situation]

And here I am.. still stuck in another day to prepare for exam. [sigh.. -_-]

I just recall that I subitted my game to Siemens JavaMasters competition and eventually I didn't make it. It seems that there has been lot's of much better applications than mine.. Haha.. Well I didn't prepare it enough anyway [the competition started at the beginning of the year and I was told of this five months after it]. Haha..

Here I go again for SIP.. All the best for the entire intake. ^_^

DivX movies and the resurection of my digital camera

Enjoying life despite of the exams around me.. ^_^ [what a life eh?]
Just watched The Pacifier and The Forgotten for the whole day; feeling really lazy to study [the tips were quite solid I believe].

Welcome to the club of blogging for Donnie. ^_^ Finally.. he's got into the world of blogging.

And last but not least, my digital camera is back with me.. Hahaha.. ^_^ Feeling so happy and have been taking anything I have been seeing since then.. [nice view eh? ^_^]

DCCN Aftermath

Ah.. man.. what a day.. It must have been the quickest 1 and half hour in my life; didn't have enough time for the entire exam paper. But the hell with it now.

Went to Sungei Wang after exam.. Ahmed's gonna get a brand new camera now.. ^_^
Olympus mju digital.. and I bet he's exploring the manual as I write this.

Music Baton

Total music size on my computer:
12,364,521,472 bytes [11.51 GB] which may not compare to some of you.. Haha.. ^_^

• 8,701,095,936 bytes [8.1 GB] for mp3 files
• 3,663,425,536 bytes [3.41 GB] for music videos.

Music currently playing:
Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day (Acapella)

Last CD I bought:
Joseph S. Djafar - My Worship [Instrumental]

Song that has the most meaning to me:

• As long as I have music by Don Besig: It keeps me calm all the time despite of problems and keeps the music flowing. [my brother and I put this song into digital midi format and you guys can get it here]

Wierd dream with snakes

What a bad beginning of day. Woke up for a few minutes at 7.38 and went back to sleep, but this time with a dream.

I went out with my family and some of my friends for dinner. The location seems like somewhere in Malaysia but feels like home [as in Indonesia].

So after dinner, all of the youngsters [there were 3-4 and Yohannes was one of them] went to the park to chill. So there was a river [and it was very steep and deep]; and we decided to sit there by the tree at the tip of the cliff where we can see the river.

As we were chilling, there was this one yellow snake near Yohannes; small head, but fat in the middle; as if it's pregnant. As I told him that there were snake, he just constantly catch the head of the snake [wow.. just like those in the animal planet] and threw it down to the river.

So not long after that, a cat came to me and bit my hand, and stick on it. And I threw it to the river as well.

So I put my head out to see what happened to the cat I threw, and I saw bats, snakes swimming towards the cat I threw, and many others.

As I was looking down, I slipped and almost fell and hold on to the tree [it's not hanging on the tree; I just slipped and my body was still on the ground] and there was a green snake came from the top of the tree [actually the tree was quite small] and just as I want to get the others to get rid of it [since I was hoding on the tree becoz I slipped and almost fell], it bit my hand. When Yohannes saw I was bitten [and the snake was sticking to my heand] and tried to get the head, another big yellow python snake that made Yohannes thought again.

But somewhere there is another person [which I don't know] appeared suddenly [eh.. this is just a dream, everything can happen. ^_^] and the snake that was sticking on my hand, jumped and bit him to death. So I catch the head and threw it to the river [just like in the animal planet again.. haha.. ^_^] and again, I slipped and hold on to the tree. With struggle I get myself back on the safe ground and thinking that I was gonna die like the other person got bit by the snake. So I started to suck the blook out of the wound and spitted it out.

And then I noticed that those two snakes' tail were tied on the tree and I just released them so that they can get to the river.

And the next thing I remembered is that when I looked back down to the river was lots of snakes with huuuuuugggeee sizes. And that was really scary and I just woke up...

Haha.. I blog this as soon as I woke up, that's why I can remember the details. And I felt really uncomfortable when I woke up..

Right.. the day begins now.. ^_^
Have a nice day.

C & G

Chillin again with the four bretheren at C & G [becoz Coffee Zone was not open]

Coffee Bean

Well.. Ahmed called quite late at 6 something and asked for dinner; so I went to Carrefour and we had Ayam Mas. However, Mukmin called and asked for another chill time at Coffee Zone nearby, but when we were there, it was closed and Mukmin just stepped on the gas and drove to Midvalley for Coffee Bean there.. [I think I was kidnapped.. Haha.. ^_^]


It has been a nice chill together, chatting, laughing.. I'm definitely gonna miss these times.

Free of Burden

Well.. what a day after the project submission. No other boundaries except for the exam.. 13, 15, and 17 of June. And right now, I feel really relieved. Hanging around doing nothing and just enjoying life.. Haha..

Home sick

Missing home so much.. :-( my ohana, my neighbourhood, my gf.. ^_^ Damn I really want to go back now.. [and this is one of the worst time to miss them all; 19 hours until BPR submission)

The left side of my house and beloved neighbourhood ^_^

and the right side [I can see Yohannes' house] p.s. that's not my car.

and my beloved girl.. ^_^

Chimps: the dark side

How many of you all have the perspective of chimpanzees are cute animal with intelligence and social element only? That they have been such a friendly creature, being full of love with their infants and not knowing that they have a dark side.

I've just watched a documentary in National Geographic about the dark side of the chimps and some of its videos are rather disturbing for me.

Chimps are very much like human; aside of its 99% DNA similarities between the two of us, they also have emotions, and some scientists believe that they have the sense of wonder.

But what I have just found out about chimpanzees for the last two days are that they are fierce; they organise wars towards other chimps from another teritory and have the ability to spy and assess the enemy capability and assemble their power in number.

I found the link of a video that I saw in the National Geographic, but the link seems to be dead when i was trying to access it; chimpanzee attack in Tanzania in 1998. The same incident happens in Uganda in 1998 filmed.

"In 1998, researchers in Uganda saw a group of male chimpanzees beating on and swaggering around another male chimp’s freshly killed body. Its windpipe, fingernails and testicles were torn out."
[World Science, 2005, Wired for war?, http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/050209_warfrm.htm]

They showed the corpse of the dead chimp after the killing [National Geographic] and believe me.. that was horrible; just like a pycho killing in movies.

But researchers say that this behaviour is basically same with humans.Imagine yourself going into another country without passport and see if they don't shoot you.. [umm.. maybe not that fierce] ^_^

A few links for further information and some of my references:

• Wired for war?: Killer chimps fuel debate on how war began
• Chimps: Man or Monkey?
• National Geographic: The Dark Side Of Chimps

Last day of class @ APIIT and a salesman

Wah.. today's classes were the last two classes in APIIT; DCCN and BPR. There won't be any classes except exams on 13, 15, 17 of July. Of course I'll be going to college again for some books may be.. or just chill out with the others.. Haha..

We (Mukmin, Ahmed, and I) went to the mamak again afterwards celebrating the last day of class. We were approach by one guy trying to promote some 'business' to us.

We concluded that he was pretending to know Ahmed in the first place to get into the conversation, and continues to express his idea of 'business'. The pattern he used was somehow same with the the pattern those sales of multi-level marketing business people use to approach others.

And the worst part, after saying all the benefits, we were very curious of what is the actual business process and eventually asked him, but he kept avoiding the questions with other things and told us to agree to be invited to see the actual company with him.

It wasn't just once that we tried; the three of us asked the same question and
"Come to the location of the company in PJ, and you'll know", he said
"Is there any website that we can refer to?", asked Mukmin
"Thet's why.. come to PJ and we will tell you", he replied
wtf???? [well we didn't say that literally ^_^]

After he left, "We're not buyin that!!!" Haha...