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.. ^_^