Rehearsal, Keyboard, and Printer

There's gonna be a celebration party tonite for my company's 18th anniversary.. and every team is goin to put up a show..

this is the rehearsal.. ;-p


and while the rehearsal was goin.. I came across the AS/400 terminal with the keyboard.. it has 24 F keys (F1 to F24) instead of the normal 12 F keys we commonly see.. and u can hear the click when u press the button.. ^_^


this is one of the printer attached to the midrange.. (i think.. ^_^)

instant blackout

and this is one heck of experience having a blackouts in office building (considering it is a huge building.. rented for not-just-companies, but big companies). And incidents that I haven't experienced for a long time had just happened again; I didn't save my work. Arrgghh.. @_@
My will to work just simply degraded to the minimum value.. It was a spreadsheet documents that I'm working to compare the files in one library to another (with my so called "program sama tak sama" to compare it)

Well it didn't just happen once, but guess what.. twice.. Fortunately I've finished my work before the second power-cut and saved it already..

What a day...

Photo sessions @ office

At last.. some crazy photo session during work. It just started when one guy in my team started to snap everyone.. So I just took out my cam and join the party.. ^_^

Here is two of craziest-and-loudest-joke-popper in my team..


The 'Joker' teasing the new girl in the Core-Banking-Team-2


And here's the workspace for my team (Core-Banking-Team-3)


Btw.. Happy 18th Aniversary for Sigma.. ^_^ I'm looking forward for the party on the 25th.

It is done..

It just feel better knowing things are done..
My work here is done (yesterday I was waiting for the command to proceed the test script) and now it's done.
The trip for my graduation in KL has been booked two ways so that I won't miss work the on the 9th.

And lastly but not least, I've got a call yesterday for another job interview on J2ME programmer on this coming Saturday; and this one is located in the center of the city (downtown). Well I've got nothing to loose. Let's see if this one is better.. ^_^ wish me luck guys..

long awaits

Today is not one of the best days of course.. For some reason I've been forced to wait in many occasions. Maybe I can say that I'm beginning to get tired of waiting.

It's not entirely not my fault though, but the situation seems to put me on the corner of the no-way-out.

On the other hand, live seems to get better for the past week. Besides I've got very much enough sleep for days.. There just doesn't seem to have any problem lately.. (and I'm really thankful and enjoying it very much)

I've been looking forward to seeing my classmates in KL on my graduation in December. So.. make sure u guys all r there eh? ^_^

Paint.NET

I just found out this apps called to modify image files. It may potentially grow to such capacity like Photoshop or other image manipulation program.

And more.. it's FREE!!!.. Yeah.. It started as student project and then grew (and still is growing) to be a mature application. You will require Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 to install and run.

Download here.

Grandma's Birthday

Happy birthday for my dearest grandma.. ^_^

Almost all were there.. and such happy time seeing cute cousins were there playing around ^_^

and the star of the day... kawaii nee chan.. ^_^

Working days [again -_-]

Holiday has once again gone.. and I'm here back to office. The same feeling of leaving home and dearest friends and families were coming around messing with my mind causing such bad mood for the day; especially when I took off the plane. I've got this crazy mind of mine shouting and demanding that I quit my job and go back to where I feel I belong..

Saying about the job, I still have my time here until 16th December to make up my mind if I still want to work here or not. Coz this probation period is soon to be over and if I sign another contract, I could be stuck here for another 9 months until 19th September 2006; and that's long way to go..

In contradictions... I've got too many parameters to argue about. The job here, the learning I want to do, the friends I've just got (the new guys from the training came today and we went for lunch ^_^) after almost 2 months almost alone.

Well.. it seems that I'll get stuck here if I don't get another job.. I'm dying for a higher salary here.. ;-p

Welcome back to work for everyone.. and enjoy your days. ^_^

Night shift.. -_-

Well.. I haven't blogged quite lately, have I?
I guess lot's of u have visited the site and grumbling "what the hell has this person been doin that he hasn't updated his blog. It's simply that I feel too lazy to blog lately in addition I've got nothing much to say. ;-p

Anyway.. today is the first night shift here and I've been in the office for 22 hours straight. Well I kindda liked it.. except that it was hell boring. I didn't even know if I should expect a catastrophe from the client so that we can get to work, or just sit here and surf the net and sleep (that's what I did.. haha.. ^_^)

I'm goin back hometown for a week tomorrow.. ^_^ and have been looking forward to that.
And have a nice days for all of u, especially those who celebrate Ramadan. ^_^

officially a month

And there goes a month.. I've been working for a month today.. ^_^
But I feel things have gone wrong in my work for today. Too many mistakes for a day.. (well not that many, but enough to make me feel uncomfortable for the day)

Just booked myself for my trip back hometown during Ramadhan.. ^_^ Hope that I can enjoy and refresh myself.. ^_^

My first CR

Wow.. after 3 weeks working, I've got my first CR (Customer Request) to do actual work where I have to modify the current core system related to the customer (which is one of the bank) and adjust it to the needs (request). The due date was supposed to be on the 13th, but I finished it in less than half an hour (well it's just simple one.. I'm still new here..)

Still.. I feel good for that. ^_^

The day begins with Mr. Bean

Monday again.. what a life in here.. Weekend goes fast enough to wake me up to real life.. working..

And a must activity just before I depart for work is a 12 minutes of Mr. Bean the Animated Series on Disney Chanell Asia.

And the life goes on...

FF7: Advent Children

Now this is surely a great animation after FF: The Spirit Within; and I can tell it's much better. Too bad I've not been playing the game.. so I had no idea what the hell was going on in the movie. However, great animation effects though.. ^_^

I got the movie file from a friend in office who happened to have it. So since I've watched the trailer (which is quite tempting) ^_^, I thought it would be nice to see it.



So at least I've got some entertainment.. ^_^
Torrent link here.

Boring...

And here I am.. Again.. blogging for nothing..
Have been reading too much for the past 2 and a half weeks with not an actual workload has been given to me.

I've been helping a senior in standardization project for the system; just simple things like copying selected files from one library to another, just that it's not so easy like in Windows.. ^_^

Can't wait to get back home.. 40 minutes left.. ^_^

Greetings for Ramadan

For all of my Muslim friends: Ahmed, Mukmin, Asrul, Shaheen, and everyone in Malaysia, and also to the team I'm working in Sigma (Core Banking Team 3)... Have a fulfilling Ramadan and may all the blessings upon you all. ^_^

Bali Bombing 2

Yesterday, 11 days before the island was due to commemorate the third anniversary of the first attack of Bali Bombing on 12 October 2002, another incident has happened. Three separate organised bombing of different locations in Bali occurred. And this time they've got an amateur video of the seconds of the bombing.

I do respect for ideologies, but still I do not understand this action of terrorism. Suicide bombing? Killing yourself is a sin and now other people's life is also in the risk. This action has not only hurt the physical body of human, but also the country (Indonesia); for less tourist would visit the island, it is obviously not a good thing for the country.

Just for additional note, Bali police squad is claimed to be the best police squad of the nation; and still this incident occurs. :-(

Still in the ideology, why can't some people just accept the difference between all of us? I've played around with many different people from different nationality, religion, and even custom and tradition and as long as the 'respect' is still there, it won't go so bad. And if people respect others, less conflict would occur. I still think of some parameters like those who suffers in the pressure of economy and other life matter, but still many survive the pressure and able to respect others.

^_^ Cheers..

G 30 S PKI

Gerakan 30 September PKI (Indonesian Communist Party Movement on 30th September 1965) has been quite of a history and had been on the textbooks in school until 1998. This incident describes six Indonesian high military officers (senior generals) and others were assassinated by the Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Komunis Indonesia).

The Strategic Commander of the Army, Major General Soeharto at that time was said to be the hero that wiped out the Communist party and used the situation to assume power. Tens of thousands of people suspected as Communist were killed.

Despite of the research and investigation of many parties internally or externally of Indonesia and after almost 40 years, this case is still a mystery.

More articles:

• Indonesian Army
• Mystery of CIA in this case
• The CIA in Indonesia
  

Office Building

This would be the German Centre building I'm working in. The entire 5th floor would be Sigma's.

Pretty hi-tech eh with all of the antennas and dishes up there? ^_^

AS/400 and RPG

I just met this machine virtually practically on19th Sept 2005 (my first day of work) and to tell you the truth, it was't fun.

This machine is basically a 'pain in the ass' for GUI users like Windows or Linux. The concepts of the operating system itself is different than the filesystem concepts in Windows or Linux.
You'll get yourself asking when u hear the terms library, file, object, member; which is just not the thing I've had in mind before.

Luckily, I don't have to access the AS/400 machine directly; instead, we can use some client access emulator like TN5250j for Linux (I'm using IBM eNetwork personal Communications AS/400 Client Access Express for Windows that comes from IBM itself)

The system display is just not graphical with so little colours (black for the background, green for the foreground, but some are blue or white ^_^)



But the worst part for me is basically the programming in AS/400, which is RPG (Report Program Generator). I know when some of you will think of the Role Player Game thingy, it is nothing like that. ^_^

It is by far the hardest one to do since assembly language in college. It even restrict you into column level of the programming.

Anyway.. I just started to enjoy it since yesterday, when I just got into it and suddenly, time to go home.. ^_^

Alrite then.. lunch time's over.. I'd better get back to work.

work and learn

Today is my fifth day i'm working here and it has been quite a fun place with such 'pain in the ass' Report Program Generator running on IBM AS/400 machine that I didn't know of in the first place.

Such a structured programming compared to other modern programming language like C, Java, especially VB.NET ^_^ that they even restrict the usage of the columns in a line (this was quite confusing for the first time), but things are getting better now. As of now, I am still officially learning the RPG, AS/400, and the CL (Control Language) Programming (like batch in Win32 and Shell programming in Linux).

OK then.. I'd better get back to work. Break time is over.. ^_^