the birthday

Thanks for all of the wishes for all of you; the first of all lovely Hui, Hendy, lovely brother Ric, dad, mom, aq Awi, Rosa, me2 Lie Tjing, Susi, cousin Sien, San "sking", Yulina "kwek", Vinda, little cousin Mei, aq Joni & family, JHH, aq Ata & family (including the little ones ^_^), Erwin, Muen, Eric2, Melina, and many more...

They all do make my day much better.. ^_^

Going for a small dinner celebration with mom, dad, and aq Awi tonite.. Scheduling for a date tomorrow.. ^_^ Weekend is coming... :-D

The Manager is here

The hero is here.. (and lets hope it goes that way)
It is time to do something in this IT department; and the perfect guy for the job is here.. IT Manager. I've been expecting a lot from him; in which I think I can still count on it.

Nice person, low profile, but yet has the extensive knowledge and experience in his field.
And as of this month, the entire team of IT people is bonded for 2 years without being able to quit this company. Lets hope that it goes quick.. ^_^

Me?? I've got 2 sessions of PP Training (one of the SAP module) and less of my IT job. It continues for the next 2 days I think.. Busy days.. ^_^

Rainbow..

A rainbow view in the morning does transform my nightmare sleep into a much better feeling to begin my day. I've been thinking maybe it was God's way to enlighten me for the day. And it works.. I'm looking forward for a beautiful day..

Good morning everyone.. ^_^



Yeah.. not much compared to the grand pictures that got the awards, but this is what I have for today. ^_^

The man is back with MY job..

The artist has returned to office with sime adjustment.. One of them is basically my job of system administration and SAP Basis being reassigned to him, and I'm back to SAP functional with some ABAP programming. In which I don't mind of it since I haven't been too concentrated.. Plus.. I've got more things to learn.

Now I'm back to the programming line of my IT career.. I thought it was gonna be administration since I've got the training, etc. It turned out to be quite fun but somehow exhausting (you know.. keep the system up and running all the time thingy.. ^_^)

Anyway.. I'm in one of the funtionals now of Production Planning, not a big one, but good enough to start. ^_^

Hasan's leaving...

I don't know how to say this, but it seems apparent that I'm going to miss another friend who's leaving the office after 2 weeks of work, Hasan. It is indeed a short time, but I still feel bad of this.

A great person he is, that you can see the good personality at the first glance; professional in his field of networking, and the mind to share knowledge to others.

Today is his last day of work.. :-( but we'll keep in touch.. ^_^
Goodluck dude..

Dysentry and Basis

I've got a dysentry.. and it has been going on for the past 3 weeks. Sure hell of 3 weeks of life eh? So I ended up being so exhausted and weak because of this..

Another dillema is with work; with my current condition (where I'm adviced to have lots of rest) the SAP Basis is coming and going back tomorrow morning. So I don't know if I should stay back for tonight or not (I haven't been doing so for the past 3 days and missed quite a lot of things).

I'll think of that later.. I'll see how long I can stay..

Installing...

Busy and hectic days are coming.. the ISS guy from KL is here installing SAP on our machine. I think I need to read more of the manuals. Everything is literally there, but too detail (which is good I suppose) and time consuming to read all of them. But eventually, having someone to know detail is better.

Installing SAP is not so easy as it looks.. Problems with this and that comes from the operating system side (in this case, AIX) that we have to configure this and that..

We have no expertise in AIX for sure.. (those 5 days training were obviously nothing compared to a real time issues we're dealing with, but it helps for sure)

I don't think I can make it to stay back at office tonight.. Got an appointment with doctor at 6; don't know what's happening to my stomach.. I had blood in my feces this morning and it shocked the hell out of me.. Time to NOT playing with this anymore.

Monday...

Bloody OT for yesterday really knocked me down for the day. I was terribly exhausted. Had some discussion yesterday morning regarding some church programme we're trying to do.. and head to office at noon.

Did the cabling when I reached office and straight for some testing. It turned out to be pretty nice though. But some messy problems occurred, some cables are misplaced, etc.

I could see some inconsistencies about the work management during this time. We've managed to get some work done worth half to an hour and those guys decided to move the partition 30 centimeters towards the wall. And that means redoing everything.

Finally I managed to get off the office before 8 pm and had dinner outside; reached home at 10 and get some rest.

Monday morning.. a hectic day.. woke up hesitately but I really had to coz I've got to drive to work today and surely caught up with traffic jam (mondays.. :-|).

SAP Basis is coming today from KL and I'm supposed to assist him during installation and learn as much as I can. Welcome to another week.. ^_^

Wasted Time

Here I am.. doing nothing in the office. I can't seem to agree that the IT management is good enough. Well I've seen and worked with professionals who actually plan their actions carefully and execute them in the way they planned. But this one is no near that.

The planning itself is not optimised to the needs. Here is the situation.. There are 14 partitions (cubicals) that are moving from level 2 to level 4. We (the IT guys) are supposed to setup the computers and network environment only; and I agree to that.

But can't somebody simply thinks that we can't do anything without the partitions being dissambled from level 2 and reassambled on level 4? We're just wasting time here.. waiting for the partitions to be set. I was told (informally) that we're setting up the network for one partition as time goes while we wait for the other partitions are being reassembled.

And here is what I think: why not let the partitions be assembled first (that means we, IT guys don't get the overtime for Saturday) and then the cabling for network? Isn't that more optimised? But shit hell.. I'm not in charge.. And I can't actually blame anyone.. We don't have IT manager here; only coordinator.

However, the IT coordinator is quite cool I can say; good person with the smile all over his face even though (I think) he's got problem.

But I'm still shit out of luck today for this inevitable useless overtime... :-| *sigh...

a lil' accident

And.. shit just happened again this morning.. I drove my gf to work and missed the turn, so I reversed the car and not noticing a bloody electricity pillar.. So that's the shit.. I think I need to to fix the light and a small part of the bumper is broken.. :-(

And here I am.. at work.. with less mood for what has just happened. I'm shit out of luck in this..

I'm having an overtime some more *sigh.. The entire department is shifting to another floor, so we've got to setup the cablings and the hard part (as they said) is to make sure they all work.

Anyway.. hope everyone else is having a much better day.. ^_^

OverTime plan

Okay.. bad news for me.. We're gonna have overtime on Saturday and Sunday. One of the department is moving to another floor; so we've got to setup the network again, the computers, all the cablings, and finally, get it working again so that those guys can get to work on Monday.

IT life sucks eh? Sometimes I've been wondering if I've got the right job or not. I simply don't like the overtime here coz I'm not paid for it. And they expect us to get to log in at work before 8. So literally speaking if I've got an overtime until 4 am, I still have to come to office before 8.

And the worst of this case is that I was supposed to handle computer and slide operation on an Easter service this Saturday. I've seen the rehearsal and that was cool.. in which makes me more wanting to be there in the service. Instead, this bloody (so called) IT-related-job makes me miss this event.

Frankly speaking, I've been wanting this special Easter service since a couple of months ago. I thought that I should do something in a larget scope. The chance comes when (GAMKI - Gerakan Angkatan Muda Kristen Indonesia / Indonesian Youth Christian Movement) was trying to set up an Easter event in public scope. Well.. I guess I'll just pass the slides I've prepared to someone else then..

Btw, Happy Easter still.. ^_^

Happy EASTER

Happy Easter everyone..
Another Easter has passed away.. and this time, still not much of things happening in church. I've been wondering why people celebrate Christmas in a much luxurious way than Easter, where Easter is the whole point of the entire plan. Christmas is just the beginning and the most glorious part is Easter, where victory acquired.

I've been thingking of some grand event of Easter next year. The one that should surpass Christmas.. ^_^

Anyway.. Happy Easter everyone.. May the victory be with all of you. ^_^

Documentation and getting ill

After the training, I'm supposed to do a documentation of what we have learned there. This is for knowledge transportability to new people (we're recruiting more IT people for the company). So here I am.. doing a documentation. I think it's good for me that I can express (at the same time excercise) of what I have got during the 5-days training. ^_^

But again.. I'm ill. Itchy all over my body.. Perhaps it's something I ate. Went to doctor this noon with half an hour permission from the office.. And I feel terribly weak for the past 2 days. I'd better get some rest. Happy weekend guys.. ^_^

Youth Meeting 3

Youth Meeting 3 GMI Binjai... A whole day event where the youth fellowship officially invites the youths of other churches.. It's gonna be a busy day.. Good for me is that I'm not one of the organiser; simply a participant ^_^


Vocal group contest...



The situation downstairs during lunch time...


Ping-pong.. Anyone?


U'll never thought of this.. They're actually playing soccer game on a basketball court... with a tennis ball.


even in the rain...




Hectic day.. yeah.. shits happen in there, but we manage to contain them. This event taught us of security is one of the priority in making an event successful. An unauthorized entry of outsider could have ruined the entire thing. Thank God it didn't. ^_^

AIX Training @ Jakarta

Finally the end of AIX training in Jakarta.. Lots of things to catch up. It was okay for the training; especially the short part of the UNIX shell programming since I've done some of that during college time.

Here is the picture of everyone who's involved with the training. 8 trainee, 1 instructor, and another 2 guys of those who arranged the training.


And the star of the "cute" ^_^ The yougest of all cousins...

Training @ Jakarta

Just 2 weeks after recruited, I'm sent to Jakarta to attend IBM AIX training for the SAP Project implementation in the company.

The training takes place at PT. Binareka Tatamandiri's office, partner of IBM of course, who's also involved in the SAP Project in the company I'm working in.

And frankly.. it's cool.. ^_^
The lessons are cool, the people are also cool; professionals who have been dealing with SAP and IBM AIX before have been really helpful in giving the ideas of SAP implementation and as well as the concepts of IBM AIX UNIX system.

And I can't wait for the next class tomorrow. ^_^

Beach Kongkow

Holiday!! We're goin to beach.. After so long, the event organised by the Methodist Youth Fellowship is finally taking place on the beach; sharing and playing.

This is what I need after a hectic life of work. ^_^

hectic life

I just can't seem to understand what's going on in my life.. Problems simply come as other has gone over. I'm so tired.. exhausted.. I don't know how to deal with them anymore. Things are just going out of control; that I can't see the positive things like I usually do.

I'm so stressed out with things around me. Work, family, lover, friends, church.. Too many parameters that I have to include (I start to sound like a programmer eh?).

But hell.. I can still choose to be okay or not.. and despite of the path I'm choosing (being okay or not), shit still happens.. Be happy everyone.. ^_^

Work & scolded out of nowhere... (;-|)

And here goes two weeks of working in this new place.. Not bad actually.. Get to know people, working with SAP.. And I kinda enjoy this place.

Everyone has a cubical with LCD screens for everyone; and that gives me the space I need.

And the story of the day.. A phone was ringing in my department that I was supposed to pick up when nobody is around (and I do that often since the team is quite mobile within the office for this SAP project) and I picked it up.
It happen to be a guy asking for everyone else but me and left a message telling me to get the IT coordinator to call him (in somehow rude way). So I gently asked him who he was.
Suddenly he just asked me who I was (in a rude tone, again).. I told him my name and still asked who he was again (since he wants me to tell my coordinator to call him.. how am I supposed to know who called?)..
Anyway.. He asked again if I were new. And I said yes.. And for the third time I asked who he was, I got his name rudely in which later I found out that he was one of the directors upstairs.

Okay.. that was shocking.. but what did I do wrong? Man how on earth am I supposed to know who that guys was? Additionally, he speaks as if he orders people around as he likes (well that's what he does basically.. ;-p).

Later my coordinator told me it was okay.. and it better be.. coz if it's not okay, I've got nothing to lose.. I know I can work here with God's blessings and with the quality He has given me. And I will work things out the best I can. The hell with those top people. (^_^' *swt)

But I try to think of things in positive way. From the way everyone speaks of the management, they have full respect of them. That means they are kind enough for everyone. Maybe he was in a bad mood.. or something else I can't even imagine. Besides, I've spoken to one of the director (who is the big boss' son, young, synergic) that I find to be the best superior I've ever talked to all of my life (in a professional way).

Happy working everyone.. ^_^

not JobLESS

And finally I've got myself a job right not too far from home.. A real office job with IT scope and a PC with LCD screen in front of me.. (today is my second day working here)

Where? Permata Hijau Sawit Group (or often Permata Hijau Group) and I'm based in the head office here in Medan. ^_^

What do I exactly do here?
I was hired for ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) if u have heard of SAP, but I also do the dirty works of IT (it's the situation where someone call the IT Dept and ask for someone to solve computer problem)

by the way.. the entire EDP consists of only 4 people including me.. -_^

Eventually I end up staying in office until 7-8 pm for ABAP lessons by an instructor who works for ISS Consulting Indonesia; and this will last for 3 weeks.. -_-

Anyway.. I'm still glad that I still have the chance to learn more new things.. ^_^

More charts in reports

Glad to have my app being fully deployed and functioning well. However, upgrades have been constant as new feature requests are being made. Now it gets prettier on the eyes with charting.. ^_^

I think I'm going into more scope with this application.. ^_^

Gathering

Another gathering with friends that I haven't met for months. Talking bout old times in college..

Deconstruction continues

Before and after...

Crystal Report deployed

This is one hell of a day just trying to get my application running on my dad'sPC.

I thought it was just install the .net framework 2.0, but it's more than that.

The crystal report didn't work out in it. Then I figured out to create installer file to install the program; hoping that the runtime components for crystal report is included. But again, I was wrong.

Lastly I found out how to include prerequisites into the installer. From the project properties (of the setup wizard project), click prerequisites, and then select the Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 2.0; build the project and Wallah.. The runtime installers that you require are there.


^_^

The deconstruction begins

And thus.. there goes my home sweet home. As planned, we're deconstructing the house and rebuilding it from zero.

Btw, my bro (who's in interior design and architecht) is designing the house with minimalist idea.. ^_^

My father bought the next house so that we can have more space.

We're renting a house for a year until the construction finishes..

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's day, everyone..
May your life be filled with love.. always..


God loves u all..
Have many lovely days.. ^_^

Valentine steamboat 2006

And again.. after another year.. this year's valentine hangout with friends came.. It has been such great times with everybody from the sunday church teachers and their fellow friends.. ^_^
We also exchanged presents to each other.. ^_^

Of course other than valentine's day. It's "cap go meh" (the last day of chinese new year)

Happy days everyone.. ^_^

Injured toe

Another incident happened to my toe.. The nail went off.. and gosh it hurts like hell..

Ended up having troubles putting on shoes and sandals.. ^_^

Hanamasa.. again...

And this is just another hangout with cousins..

We were just so eager to be together that we take any chance to celebrate anything..

This one for example, is basically coz of my brother and another cousin are going back to KL for study.

blackout @ airport

This is a somewhat regular incident in Polonia International Airport @ Medan, Indonesia.. Such embarrasing event does not happen only once, but quite often I can say. And when I came back from Penang, I just got the bad mood when I see the airport. U know.. when u just saw the great airport overseas and then suddenly seeing Polonia with the corrupt and unmanaged problems.. -_-..

We ended waiting for half an hour for the baggage belt to get online because of the power outage. However, my dad happened to had this incident once quite some time ago and waited two hours for the power to get online.

Family Trip

And here is the long awaited trip.. Honestly, I haven't been going out with a full family member (of my dad, mom, and bro) for quite some time; that I have been missing of it so much.

The trip started on Jan 27 until Feb 3 (Friday until Friday):
Medan - Penang - Hat Yai - Bangkok - Pattaya - Bangkok - Hat Yai - Penang - Medan

And yes.. it was exhausting.. but at least I can get to be with my family once more.. ^_^

Here is the entire member of the tour in front of the Temple of Dawn (Wat Arun), Bangkok.


Dearest cousins...


And the Ohana... ^_^

GoldSys Project ongoing...

The new program I've been busy doing.. My dad wanted to use it for his work.. I just can't dissapoint him and at the same time.. proving myself worth all the money he invested me for my study.. ;-p

Computer cirisis!

And this time incidents come all at once for computers around me. I just don't get it. My laptop runs very.. very.. slow during startup and even after I've formatted it twice. I've been trying to recover it for days..

And now comes my desktop that simply can't play video files (as if the images are enverted) and figured out that it's the driver problem. Downloaded new driver from Nvidia and it works again.. ^_^

Old & New Youth Camp

Spending new year in church camp (29 Dec 2005 - 1 Jan 2006). Busy all the time, but at the same time enjoying the new year.. ^_^

Games time.. ^_^



Happy new year everyone..

Last day of work

Today is my last day working here.. And I feel bad of leaving everything this place.. ^_^
So some of us youngsters went out for lunch at the mall.

Merry Christmas..

And have a very merry and wonderful Christmas for everyone..

May the blessings of God be upon you and everyone around and even those not around you.

Happy Christmas.. and God bless you all..
Have a wonderful holiday.. ^_^

Resigned!

It's not the happiest moment of my life of course.. that I have just resigned my position as a programmer in Sigma. Well it all started when my dad called for a family trip that I have been dreaming of for years. More than that, four complete families are going to join us. This is something I would not lose; moreover, I'm afraid this will not happen again and I doubt of any other trip next tim, ever...

I've been enjoying my times working here; nice environment (except for the smoking-enabled mode), friends, seniors that have been such good co-workers and companions in Sigma. I'm so grateful for the opportunity of having worked here.

At the other hand.. this might be the solution to the problem itself; being so far from all that I hold dear. ^_^ I'll try to get a nearby-job after the family trip.

Wish me luck.. ^_^

Dizzy day with C#

I haven't been doing anything related to work today. I've finished my CR and the test script as well. Luckily I've got my laptop here at the office.

So I've been doing this MovieBuster project from start using the new Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and Micorosoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. I wanted to use VB, but I've got problem in installing the new VB.Net Express. Maybe I tried to install online and cancelled it once.

And it has been a wonderful day to code in C#. I've got no RPG for today.. Haha.. ^_^
But I've also just got a headache and dizzy head. Maybe it was becoz of the coding.. ;-p

I hope I can finish it soon enough for profile in a month. ^_^

Christmas Tag

Instructions:
State who tagged you;
List who you want your Santa Claus to be (the bearer of the gift);
State the gift you wish to get;
Then invite a few friends to join the tag, and inform them by dropping a comment in their blog.

I got tagged by Wimal.

My Santa Claus: God

The gift I wish to get: Good and happy life.. ever after... ^_^
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Tagging:
Mukmin
Ahmed

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Wireless world

And here I am again.. online on my laptop wirelessly via my office's WiFi hot spot that I just found out an hour ago, just half a minute before even I used it.. ^_^

A bit unsecured though.. that anyone could practically connect to the network and gain access. There was no passkey etc.. ^_^

However.. pretty impressing that I can actually get online wirelessly.. ^_^

the sound of Christmas

Christmas is coming soon.. and I'm still stucked here in the working world. So hopeless and missing all home, friends, families, and church activities especially Christmas prep.

I'm recalling the Christmas years that I have passed before with the ones I love, families, and friends; sharing Christmas... -_-
I miss decorating the chapel, choir exercises, arranging Christmas party and service.. chilling with friends.. holding candles with friends and families while singing Silent Night.

Now that I'm lonely.. Have I been making wrong decision of coming all the way to Jakarta and work? Abandoning everything I hold dear... To think about it, this is the first Christmas for the past decade that I am not at hometown.

May God fill this lonely heart with joy...
Cheer up.. Christmas is coming.. ^_^

Documentation "IS" important

I've got this idea since college times when doing projects, but it was just theorical and I didn't really grasped the idea of it coz I've never really got into trouble becoz of lack of documentation [well except for grades] [and I've always been a hardcore supporter of a robust and complete documentation during ever].

I've gone lots of troublesome tasks just because there were no documentation available. So the best learning experience while working I've got until now is "documentation". Someone will eventually read your code.. so do spend extra time for documentation [or if you are the boss, do get someone to do it]. System design is important for knowledge transportability.

You might think that you are doing small system, but eventually that small system grows big. And when it's big, you'll realize that the processes in it has gone too complex to be understood by just reading the code.

Surely I've learned lots of things here.. From the entire process of making systems, technical skill [of course.. ^_^] and I'm ready for others.. ^_^

btw.. it's a robust company with so well created designs and system development cycle with all the paperworks.. man I just like the ide of being so organised.. I'm so proud of this local company of mine that I can finally say: Made in Indonesia.. ^_^

Graduation and KL holiday

The day that I've been waiting for so long.. graduation day.. and at last, I could once more be together with the bretherlins.. ^_^


and some of the closest people that have the greatest influence in my study..


and some crazy times together..






beautiful flower on my way back from Genting..


and Wimal's funny face coz of the excitement of something... ;-p


and a last view of the KL landmark before I went back to hotel to grab my bags and go back to the-boring-working-and-i'll-miss-malaysia life in Jakarta..

missed stuff

At last.. my dear laptop is back in hand.. after 4 months of not being properly used.. I can once again feel the power of computation.. hahaha.. ^_^
But I can't really enjoy it for now.. I'm leaving to Medan tomorrow early morning and fly to KL on Saturday..

I'm looking forward to the trip to KL... ^_^ and btw, Ahmed just called me (I mean international call from Malaysia) just to tell me that they're gonna go out and hang around tonight.. :-(

I miss going out with them.. -_-

Sigma anniversary celebration party

What a night..
5 teams put up a show, including my team.. We were demonstrating the combination of some modules in banking (as in displayed on the umbrella.. ^_^)


Some of the mates from the same team.. ^_^


The party finished up quite late.. 23.30 while I had to take the company bus back to the office coz my bike was still there.. Reached home at 1.30.. Exhausting day it was, but not bad.. ^_^

New face of the blog...

I've changed the template.. for eye refreshments.. I'm sure everyone's sick of the template.. hahaha..

I've also added a bloglet.. it's a free system that notifies u (with subscription) that I have updated my blog.. Don't worry, u can still unsubcribe.. ^_^

Duty

I came across this flash video.. and thought of sharing it here.. nice song too (though I have no idea of it, good they have english translation)

Click here to play the animation (Flash player is required)

Other animations can be found here.