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.

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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.. ^_^

first day @ work

Wow.. finally working days..
I have no idea of what am I supposed to do here.. It's totally new to me; the AS/400 machine from IBM, and a programming language called RPG (report program generator), which is purely structured and not free style (not only the rows, but also columns ^_^')

But I sure miss home right now.. thinking that I am so far from home, friends, special ones.. ^_^

But things are getting interesting from the job side; that I am learning new things.

leavin home.. :-(

a nice group photo after the youth service. I'm gonna miss these times.. ^_^

RPG Programmer

Well I've got a job now in Jakarta.. with 3 months of probation, I'm gonna be an RPG programmer (so much of a programming language I've never heard of and running on a machine I've never even know it existed).

I'll start working on the 19th Sept.. and let's hope everything's great eh? ^_^'

Job interview

I've just received a phone call from Jakarta for a job interview from Sigma on Wednesday, 7th Sept 2005 (which is 2 days as of the phone call). I thought of this as an opportunity for me, so I made a few phone calls for my flight to the capital (in which I just heard of the place crash from Medan to Jakarta this morning.. ^_^') and I'm going tomorrow..

Hangout...

Another hangout that I have been missing with my friends.. And today would be the last day we hang out with Endrew until another year. He's goin to Taiwan for Master Degree..

And as usual.. something that is not supposed to be forgotten.. a wonderful friendship.. ^_^

Clear sky...

I just feel like taking some pictures of the clear sky.. Giving thanks for the clear air and great view after the smoke incident recently.. ^_^

Crisis!!! [again]

Well.. not much of a news again eh?
My so called beloved country is being hit by another wave of economic problem.
This morning, the currency rate of IDR-USD fell to Rp11,100 per US$.

And I don't know where this came from but I heard that this crisis has been engineered by some people; and the smell of politics appear in this case.

And if these people succeed in their mission [and I don't expect that], there might come a chance of the national catastrophe like those happened in 1998 [again, this is just my thought and I pray that it will not happen].

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. ^_^