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Kania: Pengalaman Ngabuburit di luar rumah

September 02, 2010 11:12 AM

Minggu lalu, saya penasaran coba ngabuburit plus buka puasa di luar, eh ternyata toko dan resto sebagian besar sudah pada tutup. Padahal langit masih terang benderang. Beginilah nasib orang ‘baru’ di daerah yang totally different from where they came from. Di Amsterdam, walaupun jam sudah menunjukkan pukul 8 malam, langit masih cerah ceria (kalau tidak hujan, tentunya). Cuaca disini juga totally moody. Kadang cerah, lalu tiba-tiba hujan rintik-rintik, lalu cerah lagi, kemudian mendung, hujan deras, cerah lagi, malah kadang mataharinya terik, dan.. Entah kenapa hujan lagi. Dan begitu terus iterasinya sampai berganti hari.

Nah, melihat langit masih cerah, saya pun bersemangat untuk jalan keluar. Rencana buka puasa di luar nyaris gagal ketika melihat toko-toko sudah tutup. Ya tentu saja, saya kan keluarnya jam 7 malam. Toko disini umumnya tutup jam 6 malam, kecuali gerai fast food seperti McDonalds, Burger King, atau lokal punya Hema, Febo, dan Albert Heijn. Yang lokal punya ada gerai khusus yang kasih injury time sampai jam 8, tapi ada juga yang lebih malam lagi namun hanya gerai tertentu saja. Padahal rencananya mau ngabuburit sambil window shopping tapi ternyata semua tokonya sudah tutup.

Karena belum gelap, kami pun jalan-jalan menyusuri pertokoan Kalverstraat yang sepi… karena sudah pada tutup. Suhu waktu kami keluar rumah sekitar 17 derajat celcius, tapi di tengah jalan hujan turun beberapa kali. Dan selepas berbuka, hujan turun lagi, kadang deras kadang tidak. Begitu melihat keterangan suhu, rupanya sudah menjadi 7 derajat celcius! Disana temperatur yang terbaca belum tentu yang terasa, jadi bisa saja angka menunjukkan 17 derajat Celcius, tapi berasanya seperti 7 derahat Celcius. Tidak tahu kenapa, walau pasti ada alasannya sih.

Karena punya pengalaman begitu, niat ngabuburit dan berbuka puasa di luar saya pun jadi drop. Nanti, kalau masih mau buka dengan makanan beli, ya, beli saja dulu makanannya baru dibawa pulang untuk dihangatkan.

Planius: Garut, 23-24 Mei 2009

September 02, 2010 07:00 AM

Perjalanan ke Garut terdiri atas 3 kloter, kloter pagi, siang, dan malam. Pembagian kloter based on kesibukan masing-masing peserta, ada yang harus kerja di hari Sabtu Ceria :) Kloter pagi itu gw, mba Anita, mba Eko, Iem, dan mba Deny, dengan menumpangi mobil mba eko dengan driver sewaan. Kloter kedua, Faisal sendiri dengan menumpangi bis dari Lebak Bulus dan tiba di Garut sekitar jam setengah 6

Andin: Information Siege

September 02, 2010 05:01 AM

Ndari: Strengths Finder 2.0

September 02, 2010 04:47 AM

One of my colleagues gave me a book called “Strengths Finder 2.0“. I don’t usually like self-help books, because I think it’s full of crap. But I like this one because it’s very succinct. Anyway, basically what the book is saying is that we focus too much on fixing our weakness. When instead we could’ve [...]

Narpati: Transkrip Sidang Raker Komisi I dengan Menlu dan Dubes RI Untuk Malaysia

August 31, 2010 02:23 PM

Tanggal 25 Agustus 2010

Bisa dibaca di:
http://www.jurnalparlemen.com/sidang/2010/08/raker-dengan-menlu-dan-dubes-ri-untuk-malaysia

Tya: Jika kau berharap bisa tidur dan bangun semaumu, menggunakan uang sesuka hatimu, pergi kemanapun dan kapanpun, bermain sampai kamu puas... So, jangan pernah berharap jadi istri/suami apalagi jadi ORANGTUA... Karena kamu faktor penentu kebahagiaan keluargamu tidak hanya di dunia tapi di AKHIRAT..

August 31, 2010 05:45 AM

Steven: Google Analytics Individual Qualification Exam Tips and Guide

August 31, 2010 04:17 AM

It has been a long time that I wanted to take Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) Exam, but I couldn’t take it until recently. Most of the reason were time and the courage to bite the bullet and do it.

Google Analytics IQ allows individuals to demonstrate proficiency in Google Analytics. It covers web analytics techniques and Google Analytics implementation, administration, and analysis tools.

So for those of you who were preparing for Google Analytics IQ Exam, I would like to share some tips. I’m not saying that you would get 100% after following my tips, but at least you would get 94% (just like me). Without further ado, let’s dive in.

Google Analytics IQ Exam Format

First you need to know the exam format. You could take Google Analytics IQ Exam online at http://google.starttest.com/ Here, you need to purchase “Google Analytics Individual Qualification – US English” package for $50. If you get a voucher coupon code, get it ready when you are about to pay for the exam. The Google Analytics IQ Exam itself contains 70 multiple-choice questions that you need to answer within 90 min (1.5 hour). In order for you to pass this exam, you must score 80% at the least. You needed only 75% to pass the exam in the past, but Google has changed it.

If you want, you can pause the exam and come back to it later for multiple times, as long as it is still within 120 hours (5 days) after you started the exam. You could also marked questions and go back to them later while you are taking the exam. After 90 min elapsed, Google Analytics IQ Exam window will stop your activity and grade your exam.

Multiple choice questions could be tricky, especially when it asked you to choose more than one answer, so really study the materials first until you really understand the theory, the reason behind it, and its application.

Google Analytics IQ Reference Links

Second, it is an open book exam where you can gather all information from any source and use them while taking the exam, so I would like to list several links that would be really helpful both for learning and reference while taking the exam.

• Conversion University Help. This is an absolute MUST resource that Google provided special for those who are preparing Google Analytics IQ Exam. It comprises close to 3 hours long video online tutorial of every topic that you would see on the exam. I would dare to say that this tutorial contains EVERYTHING you need for the exam, so focus on it.
• Google Analytics Help. The “What can we help you with?” search bar is essential to find some reference material quickly. I used it a lot while taking the exam. Google.com is a good place to search Google Analytics materials, but it will lead you to other sites that might have unrelated Google Analytics content, so Google Analytics Help search would help you better since it will only refer you to Google Analytics support materials or user-submitted materials.
• Google Analytics. Open your Google Analytics window. If you don’t have one, you would probably want to sign up for it first, and play around with it little bit before taking the exam, because you would need to know the kind of reports that Google Analytics has, how to access them, and what information would you get from each report.
• Google Analytics’ Official Youtube Videos. If you want to learn more about the real application of Google Analytics and what’s the best practices for implementing Google Analytics for your site and business, Google Analytics Youtube channel is the perfect place
• Tool: URL Builder – Analytics Help. When you are asked to create a tagged-URL, this little tool will help you to construct a proper URL-tagged link.
• Google Analytics Tracking Code API. This is a good place to get more detail information on some GA Tracking Code questions.
• Regular Expression (Regex) IP Address Exclusion
• Metric Definitions

Google Analytics IQ – Learning Focus

The exam was pretty thorough in covering all materials about Google Analytics, so the learning focus here is more about topics that I wasn’t really familiar when studying for the exam. You might already know the topics below pretty well, but if you were a newbie like me, you would probably need to focus on these topics.

• E-commerce tracking – method used to track e-commerce transaction, when to use e-commerce value and goal value
• Filter setup – Regex for IP exclusion and link parsing, match type, order of execution
• Cookies – type of cookies, expiry
• Multiple domain and sub-domain tracking
• URL tagging – what tags being used and how to use them
• Pageview and event tracking – which one is better, how to set them up
• Google Adword integration

If you are serious about taking the exam and dive-in deeply into Google Analytics world, I would recommend you to buy these two books from Avinash Kausik and one book by Brian Clifton.

Conclusion

At the end, it all depends on how well you prepared for this exam. I was preparing for about one week to take this exam. Some of you might need more time, and some of you might need less time to ace this exam. One thing that will help you is to take this exam during quiet time when you won’t be disturbed by your surroundings or other tasks. You need to realize that you are under 90 min time limit here. I know that you can pause the exam, but if I were you, I want to finish the exam once and for all. I mean…it took me 30 min to convince myself to begin the exam, so I don’t want to go through that “mental agony” again. You want to finish the exam in one take, while all the materials are still fresh on your head.

I would also use this time to thank you several websites that helped preparing me for this exam: Danny Ng, WhiteRabbit at Thinkerati.com, and Heidi Strom Moon. These fellas helped me to muster up my courage to take this exam. Granted this exam is not SUPER comprehensive like a CPA exam; but still, this is my first certification ever…so it’s a big deal for me. My hope is that I can guide you along to the right direction just like these websites did for me.

If you passed the exam, you will receive a Google Analytics Qualified Individual digital certificate like the one below. Good luck with your exam. I hope I can help you little bit in preparing for it. Let me know how it goes for you. If you took the exam before and think that I need to add something to this preparation page, feel free to leave comments below.

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Cynthia: working oh working..

August 31, 2010 12:00 AM

i just recently had my second monthly pay and my stamina is drop down dead. since this holy month, i got sick nearly twice a week. starting from a mild stomachache for two days and continued by a stupid sprue. it located in front of my tongue and it almost successfully weakened my appetite. This disease last for a week and cost me nearly hundred bucks when i'm in the middle of financial crisis. damn.

the interval between the recovery is just a couple of days and then my blood pressure went down, forcing me to take an early leave from work *yay!* but don't be happy just yet, cause on that very day, i got injured again because of my clumsiness. i took another day off and even today, the wound still a bit hurt.

while the wound is not even healed yet, i got bit by some bugs caused itches on my both hands. i guess the medical department is fed up seeing my face every single day. and now, again.. i got a sore throat and bad cough while i guess my blood pressure still have not reaches its normal limit.

so much for working in jakarta, huh? but if i'm not facing this now, when will i be ready? i should overcome my weak immune system problem and try harder to make it stronger.

~gak sabar nunggu bulan depan buat daftar gym :D

JePe: Another Interesting Comments

August 30, 2010 06:20 AM

All of the jokes were taken from comentary in: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/08/29/1710203/What-IT-Stuff-Should-We-Teach-Ninth-Graders

The OP asked: “what IT stuff should we teach to 9th graders?”

backups are important.

Yes, the 11th Commandment: “Thou shalt make backups” Unfortunately, it was on the third tablet…

Sorry, that was the OLD Testament. According to the NEW Testament, only Jesus saves.

Not to worry. You can rebuild the third tablet by XORing the odd bits on tablet one and even bits on tablet two.

And thus, there shall be no backup!

Aside from the jokes, the thing that really matter:

Backups are meaningless. Being able to restore is important.

Narpati: TAKDIR lirik

August 29, 2010 05:06 PM

TAKDIR
Ian Antono
Ali Akbar

orang bilang kau nekad
orang bilang kau jahat
karena milik sesama
kau sikat tanpa sisa

orang bilang kau salah
orang bilang kau dosa
namun engkau abaikan
seolah kau tak mendengar

tak kenal kata salah
tak kenal kata dosa

gejolak jiwa
datang kapan saja
kepada siapa saja
sering tak terduga

jalani hidup
mesti segalanya
tak seindah mimpi
yang menghiasi tidurmu

pesona dunia
tinggalkan luka
karena tak kuasa
menggapainya

yakinlah takdir
tak mudah dihindari

walau harus terhina
walau harus tercela
walau bertaruh nyawa

JePe: Terima Kasih, Malaysia

August 29, 2010 03:20 PM

Adalah tindakan yang tepat dari Menteri Luar Negeri kita untuk menolak penarikan duta besar. Saya tidak habis pikir dengan emosi beberapa orang yang tidak mengerti betapa seharusnya kita berterima kasih kepada Malaysia, saudara serumpun kita. Tidakkah mereka telah membuka mata kita? Sebelum Anda menuduh saya tidak nasionalis, mari kita bahas mengapa kita perlu berterima kasih kepada Malaysia.

Sebelum kasus tarian Reog, batik dan budaya Indonesia seakan-akan berjalan kepada kepunahan. Kementerian pariwisata bahkan tidak pernah secara serius memperhatikan daerah-daerah potensial. Bahkan, informasi tentang penyelaman dan wisata eksotis di Indonesia malah didapatkan dari orang-orang asing. Yang ada di acara TV, kecuali TVRI, semua menayangkan wisata ke luar negeri.

Seberapa tersentaknya saya? Terus terang, saya baru membeli batik setelah Richard M. Stallman (RMS) waktu itu datang ke Indonesia. Ketika saya turut menemani dia, dia menanyakan tempat untuk membeli CD-CD gamelan. Bahkan, ketika di Plaza Senayan, kami mampir ke sebuah toko. Di sebelah kiri toko itu, semua penganan Indonesia seperti risol dan sebagainya ditawarkan. Di sebelah kanan, toko itu menjual semua penganan asing seperti tart, cake, dan sebagainya. Menariknya, RMS hanya ada di etalase kiri.

Astaga, beliau yang adalah seorang bule malah membeli barang Indonesia. Mengapa saya yang orang Indonesia justru kehilangan identitas Keindonesiaan saya? Benar-benar, saya pun merefleksikan diri dan memutuskan membeli baju batik. Saya juga ketika berkunjung ke kampung halaman di Samosir membeli baju-baju. Sayang, di Tomok pelayanannya membuat saya malas memborong. Saya hanya membeli beberapa saja.

Berbicara tentang Malaysia, saya baru tahu kalau ternyata kita berbatasan dengan 10 negara. Selama ini, saya pikir negara tetangga kita hanya Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapura, dan Filipina. Hal yang paling parah lagi, saya mendengar dari narasumber di TVOne, ternyata dulu diakui hanya ada 3 mil batas laut kita. Baru sekitar tahun 70-80an ada konvensi PBB yang memberikan batas 200 mil untuk negara kepulauan. Indonesia termasuk yang meratifikasinya.

Masalahnya, Indonesia belum menyelesaikan PR-nya. Kita masih belum selesai mengadakan perjanjian dengan 10 negara-negara tadi — hanya beberapa negara saja yang sudah selesia. Bayangkan bom waktu ini: Seandainya Indonesia tidak segera menyelesaikan masalah ini dan Indonesia dicabut haknya dari 200 mil batas pantai, maka di selat Sunda akan ada perairan internasional. Bayangkan, di antara pulau Sumatera dan Jawa akan ada perairan internasional!

Bukankah kita sekarang sedang dibangunkan dari mimpi indah? Bukan saat ini kita sedang kembali dipertanyakan: apakah Indonesia? Apakah Indonesia hanya bagi pulau Jawa? Apakah Indonesia hanya bagi Jakarta? Apakah saudara-saudara kita yang selama ini meneriakkan referendum benar-benar membutuhkan keadilan? Apakah memang kita, Indonesia?

Steven: Calling to US and Canada is Getting Cheaper with Google Call

August 28, 2010 02:07 PM

In case you didn’t know what in the world is Google Call, you should probably start by watching this video.

Google Call is Cheaper

This new little neat feature that Google just released couple days ago was so popular that over 1M calls was made 24 hours after it was released (Source: Google Tweet). I think it was so popular just because of the fact that you can make a FREE online call to any US and Canada phones, and it will remain free at least for the rest of this year. The cost to make international calls is not bad either (Google Call Rates). For example, it only costs me $0.03/min (3 cents) to call to Jakarta, Indonesia. This rate is actually comparable to my traditional calling card’s rate. I think Skype, who offers similar services, will be blown pretty hard by Google this time. As for comparison, Skype Call will cost me $0.041/min (4.1 cents) to call to Jakarta, Indonesia. As you can see, Google Call is much cheaper than Skype Call. One hour phone call through Google will cost me $0.03×60=$1.8/min, whereas Skype Call will cost me $0.041×60=$2.46/min (or roughly 36% more).

Google Call, Google Chat, and Google Voice Integration

The only downside right now is that you can only use Google Call through your Gmail’s Google Chat.

I don’t know if this fact will change in the future or not. I would assume that mobile phones will soon be able to take advantage of this VoIP calls considering how many new mobile apps being created daily. It just depends on Google’s and Carrier-specific policy. If you didn’t find the Google Call button in your Gmail’s Google Chat, don’t worry. It happened to me also. Just wait for couple days. Google is slowly rolling out this feature to its customers. One little caveat, you have to set your language setting to “English (US)” in order to use this service, at least for now. Even though you live outside U.S., you’ll still be able to use this service to call US & Canada phones as long as you set the language setting properly. FYI, if you subscribe for Google Voice, your Google Call will show up using your Google Voice’s number on the receiver’s caller ID, and it will use the same number every time you make calls. It’s kinda neat because other people can save that same Google Voice number on their address book, so your name will show up next time you call them.

Google Phone Booth

Don’t worry. Even though Google Call is not available through our phones now, Google Phone Booth will be available shortly in the airports or colleges near you. I thought this was only a joke. It turns out it wasn’t. The article said that Google will roll out Google Phone Booth within few weeks. This phone booth will look exactly the same like your traditional phone booth. The only difference that it will use internet connection and Google Call to place a call, instead of the conventional telephone lines.

Let me know what do you think about Google Call, especially when you found one of these Google Phone Booths popping out in your area. Happy calling!!!

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JePe: Cerita Tanpa Alkisah

August 28, 2010 06:43 AM

"Dude, are you going in? Sudah lama berdiri, kok, gak masuk juga?" Tukas Raphael kepada Arjuna yang hanya berdiri di depan pintu. "Cepat putuskan mau masuk atau mau keluar," lanjutnya lagi.

"Raphael, hentikan!" Tegur Master Splinter.

"Oh, maaf, maaf. Saya permisi," ujar Bima. Ia terkesiap melihat begitu banyak lampu dan makanan. Ia pun segera minggir dan mempersilakan keempat kura-kura dan guru mereka masuk. Hari itu cukup panas dan ia sebenarnya memutuskan untuk sekedar sesekali memberi dirinya kemewahan. Sayangnya, ia begitu bingung untuk masuk. Ia masih berhitung dan termangu melihat orang-orang di dalam makan dengan nyaman.

Ah, senangnya bila ia bisa seperti demikian setiap hari. Perang Bharatayuddha seakan sebuah memori dari masa masih dekat. Ia dengan pakaian kegagahannya berperang bersama saudara-saudaranya dalam menuntut hak yang telah terampas. Kemenangan yang luar biasa. Begitu banyak yang mengeluk-elukkannya.

Sinar keemasan yang jatuh saat ia memakai jubah perang. Sinar temaram pagi dari jendela-jendela kuil begitu menguatkannya. Di tengah ketenangan itu, ia bersujud dan ibunya datang memberikan berkat. Segenap rakyat di kiri dan kanan menyambut dengan khusyuk dan kekaguman yang mendalam.

"Hoy, ngape lo bengong?" Petruk menepuk punggung Bima membangunkannya. Bima terkejut dan terkesiap.

Petruk dengan bijak kemudian tersenyum: "Yuk, lanjut lagi."

Keduanya pun kembali ke perempatan jalan dan berjualan koran dan rokok. Hari yang semakin panas tak mengendurkan mereka untuk terus berjualan. Dalam kondisi puasa seperti ini, pendapatan dari rokok bisa menurun. Mereka harus juga menjual hal-hal yang lain.

Bima mengelus-elus perutnya. Ia bingung, entah harus mengelus perutnya ataukah harus mengelus kerongkongannya. Ia sangat lapar dan sudah seminggu ia belum makan. Tetapi, hari ini matahari terik menerjang seperti tanpa ada penyaring. Terus langsung menusuk ke dalam sum-sum. Ia seorang ksatria dan ia sudah terbiasa untuk ini. Tapi, ia terbayang akan ibunya, Kunti.

"Hey, bengong lagi, bengong lagi." Ujar seorang pemuda. "Kalian keluarga yang sangat kolot!" "Kalau saja kalian ikut meminta-minta seperti orang-orang, kalian pasti sudah enak. Inikan zamannya orang menjadi dermawan."

Ucapan pemuda itu benar-benar menohok hati Bima, tetapi ia tahu. Ia sedang melakukan penyucian diri. Bahwa ada hidup yang lebih besar dari pada hidup itu sendiri. Bahwa ia sedang berusaha menjalani kehidupan mulia yang

"Ya, ya, ya" Ujar pemuda itu tepat memotong batin Bima, "kalian kalau berkata itu selalu menggunakan kata-kata sulit! Ini zaman pragmatis, Coy!" "Silakan bawa filsafat lo itu kepada orang-orang kaya."

Untung saja saat itu sudah setengah tiga sore. Pemuda ini selalu menantang Bima dan menunggu saat sampai Bima marah dan menggunakan kekuatannya. Tapi Bima tidak bergeming. Ia tahu bahwa provokasi itu tidak akan membuat ia mati. Pokoknya ia harus diam.

"Ah, gak asyik! Mendingan gw ke sono aja biar resep!" Tukas pemuda itu meninggalkan Bima dan keluarganya. Bima melihat pemuda itu pergi ke perempatan lain tak jauh dari situ. Ia melihat di kejauhan pemuda tersebut bertemu Gadis Penjual Bunga dan membantu anak itu berjualan. Wow! Jadi banyak yang beli.

Bima lalu menghampiri seorang pedagang kaki lima di pinggir jalan. Kepada pemuda berbaju lusuh berwarna hijau ini Bima mengeluh:

"Barda, susah sekali, yah, berjualan."

"Lo, masih untung, Bim. Coba lihat gw. Tuh, kebetulan bakal ada anak-anak lewat."

Seorang anak bersama Ibunya lewat keduanya.

"Mommy, let me give the beggars."

"Oh, good boy, kamu, Nak. Hayo kasihkan kepada mereka. Ini."

Ibu itu mengeluarkan dompetnya lalu memberikan anaknya uang. Dengan polosnya, anak itu lalu memberikan uang kepada mereka berdua. Lalu dengan bangga:

"Look, mommy. I have give them money."

"Good boy, son. Now, let's walk out of here."  "Mina! Cepat bawakan makanan si bungsu ini. Setelah itu keduanya berlalu.

"Tuh, padahal gw jualan. Mentang-mentang gw bawa monyet di pundak dan gw buta, mereka mengira gw pengemis yang bisa main Topeng Monyet."

Keduanya tersenyum kecut.

TIBA-TIBA

Priiit….! "Dilarang berjualan sepanjang jalur ini." Ujar seorang berseragam dengan menggunakan pengeras suara.

Lalu, dari balik truk tronton di belakangnya, keluar segerombolan orang berbaju dinas dengan pentungan. Segera, mereka mengejar satu-persatu pedagang asongan. Bima sang Pahlawan hanya bisa berlari. Barda pun hanya pasrah saat dagangannya berserakan dihambur-hamburkan oleh petugas-petugas itu.

TAMAT.

Andin: X10 Mini Pro

August 27, 2010 03:17 PM

Finally got one during an expo promotion, after my friends and even my mom told me it's out (yes, thank you.. at last retiring my dumbphone). Quite happy with it, despite the tiny screen. Still searching for more apps, but in the mean time, these are my personal assistants:

• Opera Mini 5
• Vignette Camera (demo) - if only I could buy the full version..
• Documents To Go
• Simple Weather
• eBuddy
  
• Blogger-droid
• PdaNet
• Notes
• Compass - my husband finally could go in peace knowing I would know where I am at all times
• Advanced Task Killer
• Stop Mosquito - hey, we're living in the tropics
• ASTRO File Manager
  
• Fring (direct download from it's mobile site)

Andin: 29 days later

August 27, 2010 03:12 PM

You were right
And I don't wanna be here
If your gonna be there
Was that supposed to happen

I'll hold tight
I'll remember to smile
Though it has been a while
And without you does it matter

There's no room
No place to start
When our souls are apart

I wanna travel through time
See your surprise
Hold you so tight
I'm counting down the days tonight
I just wanna be a million miles away from here
I'm counting down the days

How've you been
It's just the usual here
And days are feeling like years
And every day's without you

Now I cry
Just a little too much
When I think of your touch
And everything about you

I feel cold
I'm in the dark
When our souls are apart

I wanna travel through time
See your surprise
Hold you so tight
I'm counting down the days tonight
I just wanna be a million miles away from here
--Natalie Imbruglia, Counting Down the Days

JePe: Live Streaming UI

August 27, 2010 02:56 AM

Saat ini masih ada live streaming untuk menyaksikan wisuda UI untuk S1. Besok juga ada untuk S2. Kemarin juga ada.

Silakan ke http://www.ui.ac.id/id/ untuk melihat.

Narpati: Sembilan Tulisan Adik-Adik Panti Asuhan

August 26, 2010 06:45 AM

Bisa dibaca di:
http://www.ajangkita.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28948

Menarik, Miris, dan Terharu.

Tya: udah dapet tiupan lagii... aku disuruh kasih makan Sayyid sebelum 6 bulan... TIDAK AKAN! biarlah bayi orang lain gendut lucu... aku takkan terpengaruh.... insyaAllah...

August 26, 2010 05:29 AM

JePe: KDE SC 4.5 In Review: Blazingly Fast!

August 24, 2010 04:52 PM

Akhirnya saya berhasil memasang KDE SC 4.5 dengan menggunakan overlay qting-edge. Sebelumnya Gentoo memutuskan untuk menunggu sampai versi 4.5.1 keluar. Hal ini karena ada beberapa galat yang diketahui mengenai KDE SC 4.5.0, kalau tidak salah galat di akonadi. Secara pribadi, saya tidak begitu mengerti masalah tersebut karena saya hanya menggunakan fitur Desktop Manager dari KDE.

Saya, sih, sebenarnya sudah malas memasang. Waktu minggu pertama keluar, KDE SC 4.5 harus dipasang dari SVN. Sayangnya, protokol SVN yang digunakan tidak kompatibel dengan proxy UI. Tapi, tadi saya lihat Rekonq sudah keluar yang baru dan butuh Qt 4.7 dan KDE SC 4.5. Jadi, saya coba saja pasang keduanya dan berhasil. Ternyata, KDE 4.5 sudah tidak perlu akses SVN. Yay!

Beberapa hal yang menjadi kelebihan 4.5 dibandingkan KDE SC 4.4:

1. Tema oxygen menggunakan efek blur dan berjalan cepat di grafik nVidia.
2. KMail tidak lagi hancur saat menjalankan fungsi filter pada INBOX dengan banyak surat. Yang pasti, KMail terasa enteng.
3. Katanya Konqueror sudah bisa memakai Webkit.
4. Responsif! Implementasi memori bersama sudah berlangsung. Detail silakan ubek-ubek planet KDE.
5. Bahasa Indonesia lebih terintegrasi! (Setidaknya di Gentoo yang memasang dari kode sumber)

Yang pasti, KDE SC 4.5 semakin matang dan luar biasa. Saya belum sempat eksplorasi jadi cukup segini dulu informasi saya. 

Spesifikasi:

• KDE 4.5.0
• Qt 4.7 beta2
• Rekonq 0.6 beta (0.5.82)
• Skrinsut Notifikasi+Run+Bar:

Berikut tampilan desktop normal:

Vita: Moralitas Fulus

August 24, 2010 12:31 PM

Betapa mirisnya (dan lbh kearah kesel jg sih) kalo melihat banyak org2 yg nyari uang tuh dgn segala cara.. apa aja dihalalin.. Kalo yg gede2 seperti para tikus, markus, dll ato rampok bank sih udah bikin elus2 dada sambil guling2..Yg bagian itu.. well.. masya Allah.. yasudahlah..

Dimulai dari yg kecil aja deh.. yang terjadi setiap hari… curang dlm transaksi misalkan.. uang kembalian dikurangin, timbangan telor/beras/daging .. you name it.. dikurangin, kelapa muda dikorupsi, gak naro harga di resto trus ditembak 1 juta aja (ini lebay sih)…

Belum lagi yg nipu2 lainnya.. pengemis2 yg berpura2 lusuh ato berpura2 buta… sok2an keilangan dompet lalu minta 10rb bwt ongkos.. “tolong bu.. 10ribu ajaa… saya gtau lagi hrs ngapain”.. or apapun yg ibu di stasiun yg blg ke gw hr ini “bla3 zzz… tolong.. bla3.. zzz 10rb aja.. zz…” –> I was listening to my mp3 btw, but I got the hint.. Atau berpura2 jadi tmn SMP dan blg ibunya sakit lalu datang ke rmh minta uang.. atau.. berhutang beratus2 ribu – juta, berpura2 dgn berbagai macam alasan kepada hampir semua tmn SMAnya, lalu tak sepeserpun dikembalikan dan tak bisa dihubungi…

Belum lagi yg korupsi waktu.. Supir angkot yg ngetemnya masya Allah.. atau supir taxi yg sengaja dibkin jalan muter2.. ato dilambat2in.. Ada lagi pengamen.. udah ngamen gak niat.. mintanya maksa, gak diksh marah dan maki2, duitnya dipake bwt bli rokok…

Hal2 serupa seperti di atas itu muasih berjuta2 macamnya.. Iyaa.. ngerti.. cari duit susah.. kehidupan mereka tuh gak sempurna dan susahnya setengah mati.. kebutuhan primer aja gak terpenuhi… tapi apakah harus dgn cara seperti itu? Orang lain tuh berjuang cari duit sampe sakit2an.. Kerja hilir mudik 30Km.. lembur, dll dst… makan ati ama temen kantor, diteken client, diomelin manager..  Bahkan ada kakek2 yg jualan ulekan, keranjang seberat itu dipanggul keliling kampung, naek turun kereta saking gmaunya ngemis ama orang.. Siapa sih yg beli ulekan lebih dari 2 dalam 1 rumah? Frekuensi ulekan dia laku dlm 1 bulan mungkin cm 5-10.. maybe even less..  Ada lagi kakek2 yg ngumpulin rumput liar seabrek2 cm dengan buat 2000/hari.. Ada abdi dalem yg gajinya cm 15rb/bln, tapi penuh senyum dan jujurnya bukan main.. Gak malu apa sama orang2 ini..? Perjuangannya ampun2an cm demi sepeser dua peser duit yg dibuat bli beras 1 Kg aja gak cukup..

Apa iya “Fulus” itu sedemikian mengerikannya? Membuat orang kefefet sehingga menghalalkan segala cara?

Dikey: Here I Am

August 24, 2010 05:18 AM

dah berabad-abad rasanya ngga mampir buat ngisi MP, ternyata dah banyak yg berubah euy! *norak mode on*

Anyway, kemarin jalan2 ke gramedia setelah buka puasa, dan menemukan buku ini. Cukup menarik sih isinya apalagi kalo dibahas langsung sama ybs. ckckckck... 
Menurut buku ini, kalo si sulung berpasangan dengan si tunggal, maka si sulung sebaiknya yg ngemong si tunggal. Pfuhhh, hard work to do nih... 
*picture's taken from gagasmedia.net

JePe: Another Phishing Attempt

August 23, 2010 07:25 AM

Lagi-lagi ada sebuah penipuan daring. Sebuah surel dari orang tak dikenal mengaku sebagai Admin meminta pengguna untuk menyerahkan nama penggunanya dan sandi. Dari surel laporan para pengguna (terima kasih kepada sivitas yang telah melapor), saya melihat efek lain dari semakin canggihnya teknologi penerjemahan. Bahasa yang digunakan semakin hari semakin alami. Untungnya, ada kata-kata yang tidak seperti ditulis oleh manusia asli.

Mengenai pengguna dan sandi, kami para Admin tidak akan pernah meminta Anda untuk menyerahkannya. Alasan yang paling kuat adalah kode etik. Selain itu, kami memiliki akses kepada data Anda secara langsung. Tidak perlu kami meminta Anda untuk menyerahkan data. Lagipula, untuk apa?

Intinya seperti pada halaman depan webmail:

Administrator UI TIDAK AKAN PERNAH meminta password Anda. Jangan pernah memberikan informasi apapun terkait usename dan password UI Anda kepada siapa pun. Salah satu contoh penipuan dapat dilihat di sini.

Berikut ini adalah contoh penipuan yang telah beredar:

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Subject: Dear Pengguna UI Account
From:    "UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA WEB SERVICE" <casacdirector@att.net>
Date:    Sat, August 21, 2010 9:43 pm
To:      undisclosed recipients:;
————————————————————————–



Dear Pengguna UI Account,

Kami sedang meningkatkan data base kami dan pusat e-mail account yaitu
tampilan situs. Kami akan menghapus account email yang tidak lagi usia
aktif untuk menciptakan lebih banyak ruang untuk account baru users.we
juga telah memeriksa sistem audit keamanan yang luas untuk memperbaiki dan
meningkatkan keamanan kita saat ini.

Untuk terus menggunakan layanan kami Anda diminta untuk memperbaharui dan
comfirmed kembali data account yang Anda minta e-mail di bawah ini.
Jika account Anda akan segera dinonaktifkan dari database kami

Untuk menyelesaikan konfirmasi account baru Anda, Anda harus membalas
email ini segera dan masukkan rincian account Anda seperti yang diminta di
bawah ini.

Nama Pengguna:
E-mail Username:
Password:
Ketik ulang sandi:
Tanggal Lahir:
Masa Depan Password:


UNIVERSITAS INDONESIA WEB SERVICE

© Copyright 2010 Buscar

Tya: kebiasaan tidur Sayyid

August 23, 2010 05:51 AM

Bismillah...

1. Dulu awal2 sampai Sayyid 1 bulan.
    ini sih gak usah ditanya... sussaaahhh buangettt... sampe aku bener2 kecapean dan nge-drop... plus jatuh tingkat pe-denya...
Alhamdulillah masa2 itu dah lewat...
2. Mulai 1 bulan ke atas...
Kalau mau tidur, abis nyusui... maunya ditimang2 sambil ditepok2 panlatatnya baru bisa tidurr..
Sebenarnya posisi ini melelahkan ... pusing juga... kalo bangun di malam hari, aku harus terbangun cari posisi enak utk menyusui sampai akhirnya tidur, ditaro lagi di kasur dst dst... Itupun kalau2 Sayyid nggak "tidur ayam"  yang kebangun kalo denger suara dikit aja... kalo dah kebangun, aku kembali bangun lagi, menyusui, dst dst... fiuuhhh
Ibuku menyarankan utk m enyusui sambil tiduran...
Saat itu masih agak2 susah, akunya yang gak nyaman, karena masih nyeri di alat menyusuiku... yang intinya belum mahir dah...

Tapi, aku terus2an coba dan belajar sampai akhirnya..
3. Mulai di tengah bulan ke-2 Sayyid tertidur sambil menyusui... dan aku pu...

Maya: Sawatdee Khaa

August 22, 2010 05:45 PM

Finally, my first stamp on passport, and it's not even for overseas study, so yay for me!

Day 1 - Silom + Patpong

Arriving in Suvarnabhumi in one piece, extremely awed with the interior, and headed up to the 4th floor right away. Folks in the internet said to get easy cab with no additional charge fee, go to the departure gate and grab a taxi from there. So I did. And it worked. It cost me only 320 Baht to reach the guest house in Silom road. All you need to do is learn the useful Thai phrases. Like "Sawatdee khaa/khab - Hello", "Khorb Khun khaa/khab - Thank you" and numbers. Hehehe.

The Sun Flower was a tremendous lil guest house and it's very clean. I strongly recommend that place for you who wanna stay in cozy yet strategic location. First time I saw that place, it's like lotus blooming out from a dark and mysterious pond. Very impressive.

In the evening, a leisure walk through Silom - Patpong road is a must. There's so many souvenir shops there, but you HAVE TO bargain. Hard. Or else you'll get mugged right in front of your nose, without you knowing it.

Patpong is a night life district in Thailand, famous for it's dancing girls and striptease shows, and it's pretty expensive. Their mar-comm guys advertise the menus right then and there in the road, giving pictures of girls of your choice. Bare. Hahahahaha, first time being shown the menus I was pretty in shock, but after you got use to it, it's getting more hilarious than frightening.

I had dinner in Noodie, and the ice tea with milk shall be my only drink from then on =D

Day 2 - Chatuchak Weekend Market + Suan Lum Night Bazaar

Coz it's Sunday, we're supposed to attend the church at 7.30 am. But alas, we woke at at 7am instead. So, it's a big laugh. Then we're finally ready at 10 o'clock, hurriedly grab a cab with its apparently non-English speaking driver. It was pretty chaos, we had the map to the church, but it's written in Thai. Hahahahaha, we went round and round to find the blasted location, but in the end we had breakfast in McD instead.

McD in Bangkok (at least in Silom road) is much more better than the one in Jakarta. The coke is in large portion already without the up-size option, and it has pork in its menu. Hahaha, I loved it.

After that, I went to Chatuchak weekend market, using BTS to Mo Chit station. Fyi, did you know there's a Thai movie called BTS Love Story? So sweet..

Anyway, we arrived in Chatuchak and spent five freaking hours, walking and buying and browsing and sightseeing with so many tourist from all over the world. You name it, you got it. Italian, Russian, France, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Mexican, Australian, Portuguese, Arabian, Malay, US, Spanish.. OMG!

Shopping in Chatuchak is one of the best shopping experience I ever had so far. Too bad it's only open at weekend. The price was so low, or maybe it's because I came with a friend of mine who got some guts in her blood. She could haggle to the rock bottom price (450 Baht to 20 Baht, for example) and survived without getting killed. Crazy Indon!

I could get my hat for only 70 Baht, and everything is around 50-100 baht. It's so cheap lah..

From Chatuchak, we continue the shopping journey to Suan Lum Night Bazaar cause it's (not) near from our hostel. The front desk in Sun Flower insisted that we should walk cause it's within walking distance. So we did as he told, and we walked, and walked, and it's far. Hahahaha. Or maybe that's just my Indon lazy blood refusing to exercise.

Suan Lum Night Bazaar shopping experience is nowhere near the Chatuchak's. People in Chatuchak is way more friendlier and it's way more crowded (thus the enjoyable views of Jason Mraz wannabe, Super Junior wannabe, Eva Mendez wannabe, etc =P)

Suan Lum offers crazy prices. Crazy expensive, that is. But thanks once again to my outrageous pal, we conquered the place. She could spend AN HOUR to make the price lower from 450 Baht to 200 Baht, and it's pretty normal, cause after that, she spent another hour to reduce something from 290 Baht to 270 Baht. Oh my goat, it's just 20 Baht, 6000 perak!

In the end, we spent four hours, ended up buying magnificent wall ornaments from a handsome Thailand-US guy ;)

Day 3 - Temples + Chao Phraya + Siam Paragon

At first, we planned to go to Grand Palace via taxi boat across the Chao Phraya river. But alas, the place was closed that day for non-Thai people. Why? Cause it's Buddhist day =( Sigh..

No worries, cause after that, the tourist police advise us to go traveling using tuk-tuk for only 40 Baht. We visited Wat Pho, Reclining Buddha and some other tourist centers. It's pretty much a win-win situation. The tuk-tuk driver received some commision and we got to do sightseeing.

Funny thing was, at one point, the tuk-tuk driver strongly told us to "Only looking! No buying! Five minutes only, Ok? No Buying! Only Looking!" but in the end my friend bought lots of Thai silk. Doeeenkkkk!

The same tuk-tuk driver also introduced us to The Bangrak restaurant in Bangrak district. The place is so unique, with many dolls and artifacts, but with non-English waiters/waitresses. =_= The food was magnificent, but so does the price. We spent 1800 Baht in that restaurant, for four persons. The tom yam is so damn good. though, unlike the one I tasted in Jakarta. And besides, since we did so many shopping and traveling, I didn't eat that frequent, so there goes my food budget in one serving. Hahahaha.

Ah, off we go to have some Thai massage. After that, we browsed the MBK - Siam Paragon mall, but nothing beats the Chatuchak.

Day 4 - Phratunam Fashion mall + Siam Niramit

First of all, our track record is getting worse. This time, I woke up at 11 am when I was s'posed to join the National Independence ceremony in KBRI. Sigh, but since we're late already, we decided to shop =S Girls..

We went to Phratunam Fashion Mall in Ratchatewi area where everything is sold in wholesale price. I immediately tawt my girlfriends would LOVE to shop here cause the price is so cheap and the clothes are made in Korea anyway. No need to go direct to the country =P

The mall is located near KBRI so I took pictures at the front gate since I have no guts to step inside =D The embassy was a bit different from what I've imagined it would be. It got double layer protection (=_=)

Anyhoo, upon entering the Phratunam Fashion mall (it's more like ITC in Jakarta, actually, only with cuter and cheaper price products), I regretted bringing so many clothes. Mark my word, dear friend. DO NOT bring too many clothes to Thailand, three tank-tops, one outer wear and one short pants were enough. The rest you could buy.

At one shop, I was so in love with a hat (yes, me and my obsession with hats) and JRENG JRENG, the seller was Korean. So, 'ahjussi', 'hangul saram', and 'kansamhamnida' were coming out from my mouth. That was pretty chaotic, I ended up not buying it though, and I regreeeeetted it!!!

“Girls, skipped the Siam Paragon and Suan Lum Night Bazaar and go straight to Chatuchak weekend market and Phratunam Fashion Mall for maximum shopping time”

We spent 5-6 hours in that fashion mall, we nearly missed the Siam Niramit show at 8 pm. Gyaaah!

Speaking of Siam Niramit, I've never been to that kind of cultural/dance show for the whole 26 years of my life. That show costs for like 1500 Baht but it's so much worth it. Damn it's gorgeous, the lighting, the tremendous stage, the special effect, the music, the dancers, have I mention the stage? I loved it! I rate it 9 out of 10. There's also shuttle car picking us up to/from Thailand Cultural Center MRT station so worry no more on how to get to that place.

Ah, what a night. After that, we dined in Burger King (disappointing place, by the way, they should learn from BK in Jakarta) only to see guy kissing another guy in the mouth. And they're not even good looking so no fun seeing it =|

The next day would be the day I went to Phuket, so I'll write that one later. All in all, Bangkok is a great city for traveling. I love going there. And hopefully I could visit it later in future year.

Steven: Amazing Story About a Dog Rescuing an Injured Dog

August 21, 2010 04:09 AM

I found this video from a friend of mine who posted it on her Facebook page. It is about a dog in Chile who found one of his friend got hit on a busy road and tried to save him.

Despite of the busy road, this dog kept trying to walk into the middle of the freeway to rescue another dog. The amazing thing about this whole story was that the dog was dragging the other dog not by its mouth but by its claw around his neck. Little by little, he dragged the other dog to the side of the road until some workers spotted them and rescued the injured dog.

If a dog can help another dog like that, how much more we, as a human, should do the same, or even better. After watching this video, I was reminded by this verse.

“A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” – Proverbs 18:24

I know it was hard sometimes to help others, especially when you were not in the position to help, but that’s actually when we can make a difference. When you are well off, perfectly healthy, and everything is good, you won’t have problems to help others. It is when the hardships come that we are reluctant to help others. I just want to encourage you to help others as much as you can. This piece of advice is for me too. I realized so many times in my life that I should help others, but I didn’t. Can you show yourself as a true friend who sticks closer than a brother?

To close, I hope this passage can remind you what love and compassions really are.

“Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.” – Romans 12:9-21

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Tiwi: Guy with a Tote Bag

August 19, 2010 03:46 PM

One evening at Plaza Indonesia.
I texted thru BBM, "I'm in the front of Cartier".
"Ok, I'll go there" he replied.
Not so long, the guy showed up from a corner...
...carrying...a...tote bag...
Oh my...
I whispered, "Oh well then, It's confirmed".
At that moment I feel like singing Katy Perry's song.
Or maybe I'm just too old fashioned.
#fiksiAgakMini
Disclaimer: Jika ada kesamaan nama atau peristiwa, itu hanya kebetulan belaka.

Mahli: IOI 2010 result

August 19, 2010 09:42 AM

The result of IOI 2010 is pretty much fixed. Indonesia got 2 silver (Aji, Ashar) and 1 bronze (Chris), and Harta got a very unfortunate position of being the third highest non-medalist. Ashar (Suwardi? — he needs to change his blog name to sushar ) fulfilled his target of obtaining a silver [...]

Cynthia: F-F-F-F-Falling..

August 19, 2010 10:24 AM

entah knapa dari dulu gue hobi banget sama yang namanya jatoh.. ga ada ujan ga ada angin jatoh aja gitu.. jatoh ke selokan.. jatoh dari motor.. jatoh dari sepeda.. jatoh di depan kereta yang mau berangkat.. bahkan jatoh di dalem mall dan diliatin banyak orang dengan ekspresi keheranan pun sering terjadi..

kalo jatohnya di lantai biasanya cuma memar doang gak sampe berdarah, lain kalo jatohnya di aspal atau di rel sampe menggelinding2, biasanya seluruh badan ampe sakit.. hiks.. contohnya tadi malem, pas gue pulang bareng temen gue dari kampus lewat balerung, gue jatoh lagi.. lokasinya deket tempat gue jatoh naik sepeda yang menyebabkan telapak tangan gue nyaris dijait.. setelah dilihat2 lagi masi ada bekas lukanya nih keren juga di tangan gue..

so what's the point here? gue hobi jatoh.. bukan hobi yang menarik.. dan gue akan berusaha mengurangi track record jatoh gue di masa yang akan dateng..


semoga setidak2nya luka kali ini akan menghasilkan bekas yang cukup keren.. seperti bekas luka jatoh ke selokan yang ada di lutut kiri gue yang bentuknya kaya cakar beruang.. hahaha..

JePe: Cinta Untuk Blog Staff UI

August 18, 2010 02:43 PM

Sang maestro Koben telah berhasil memperbaharui Blog Staff UI menjadi versi 3.0.1. Lompatan iman yang terjadi sungguh luar biasa karena Blog Staff UI menggunakan versi 2.6 yang sudah jauh ketinggalan. Secara umum, lompatan ini tidak menimbulkan efek apa pun kecuali Akismet yang harus diset ulang.

Latar belakang dari pembaharuan besar-besaran ini adalah akibat dari semakin banyaknya plugin dan tema yang tidak lagi kompatibel dengan WPMU 2.6. Selama ini dilema yang terjadi adalah perubahan antarmuka pengguna yang bisa membingungkan pengguna blog lama. Akibatnya, kami memutuskan untuk Blog Staff UI tetap pada versi lama dan hanya memperbaharui versi mahasiswa menjadi 2.9.

Ada pun perubahan yang merusak:

1. Tema untuk halaman administrasi SpotMilk dan Barunino tidak lagi dapat dilakukan.
2. Perubahan antarmuka yang radikal dapat membingungkan staf lama pengguna.
3. Ada galat yang mungkin tidak diketahui.

Untuk poin ke-3, kami berharap bagi Anda pemilik blog untuk melaporkan galat tersebut melalui surel atau pun kotak komentar. Tentunya, perubahan yang drastis ini memiliki kompensasi positif sebagai berikut:
 

1. Tema-tema yang selama ini tidak dapat aktif/rusak telah dapat dinikmati. Beberapa tema tersebut salah satunya tema yang dibuat khusus untuk Web Personal Dosen dan dikonversi untuk dapat digunakan oleh Staff UI. Saat ini saya memakai tema tersebut.
2. Plugin-plugin tambahan termasuk ShareToAny. Saya sempat memasangnya, tetapi terasa cluttered dan saya tidak mengejar SEO.
3. Tema-tema dapat lebih diubah dan beberapa bagian dapat dimodifikasi.
4. Dan lain-lain yang belum dieksplorasi.

Selamat menikmati.

JePe: Selamat Ulang Tahun Indonesia

August 18, 2010 09:08 AM

Selamat ulang tahun, Indonesia.

Narpati: Alat Bantu AlQuran Daring

August 18, 2010 05:47 AM

Ndari: When there are 2 choices.

August 17, 2010 03:46 PM

I never thought I’d ever be one of those people having to choose between work-satisfaction & money/benefits, but I am now. The job that I’m doing now gives me one of those thrill & excitement like no other. I suppose it’s one of those things you’ve always dreamed of, being in a huge corporate where [...]

Kania: No Good TV = MTV

August 16, 2010 06:38 PM

Want to do something but can’t figure out what to do? or into the insomniac zone but don’t want to eat? Tune in to MTV. The real trashy so-called music television which actually only offer half portion of music. The rest is trash. Teen Cribs, My Super Sweet 16, Teen Mom, The Hills, The City, Jerseyshore, Made, Dudesons, Real World… ALL CRAP. Even the music videos are craps and almost not proper to watch. Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Kesha, Usher, all offer nothing but improperly dressed women and men. Yikes. They played the same music videos and the same tv programmes over and over again. I bet the people working at MTV are all bored with those, too. MTV also have some series like Blue Mountain State and RJ Berger, and guess what? They’re crap as well. I only stand to watch the series only at the first episode and lasted no more than 10 minutes before clicking the remote control and switch channel.

The only MTV programme that are worth to watch and wait for the next episode is Pimp My Ride. And the people of MTV decided to cancel the show on 2007. What? So those Pimp My Ride I’ve been watching were those of before 2007? Maybe, there is nobody working at MTV programming room. MTV had decided to fire all those unlucky people (due to recession) and placed a machine instead. Inside the machine there’s some processors running some computer programs that iterates daily and made few decision making steps.

Huh. Wonder if I could just cancel the MTV channel and switch with HBO…

Kania: Bieber Mania

August 16, 2010 06:03 PM

I cannot say where do I stand on Bieber Mania. I am woman and no longer a fourteen year old junior high school girls, even my high school days were long gone before daylight. However, I am totally understand and highly tolerant for those tweens who are madly in love with Justin Bieber. I myself used to be fourteen and go insane over a Hanson brother or one Boyzone member. Blame it on hormones. I used to look up to Leonardo DiCaprio and feel that he is the most gorgeous human being in the world. Jared Leto, James Marsden, Joshua Jackson (old school pin up boys, of course) are all in the outs compare to Leo. But then, watching him on Inception and looking at all the news pictures, I beg to differ. He’s not that gorgeous! I don’t know if Leo was never THAT gorgeous or that he’s just failed to grow old gracefully. I am beyond confused but decided to let the thought go away.

Hence the crazy little girls over Justin Bieber. Maybe, for some grown ups, Bieber is not that cute or not cute at all. He has this hair bang that swept across the face and (almost) didn’t suit his facial structure. And those big set of teeth. But for the tween girls, he’s like a statuesque roman god with all the right feature and flawless. I totally get it. Maybe, say 10 years from now, one of the fans would look back on old Bieber pics and the current Bieber and said to herself: “Heck! I’ve been fooled!” But by then she already had all her Bieber paraphernalias all stored up in the warehouse, if not trashed out completely.

What I don’t get it is the grown ups hatred toward Bieber fans. I can understand the Bieber hate. But telling ALL Bieber tween fans that they’re completely out of their mind, is too much! Like I said, they’re just fourteen! Let them be. Let them grow, and learn their own lesson.

Anyway, Mr Bieber himself is NOT without talent. I cannot decide whether he is super talented or just plain good at it, though. He can dance. Just watch his youtube channel and see the clips from his early teenage years (oh, he IS early teenager, geez…) His latest clip, “Somebody To Love” with Usher, was one of the prove. And that bowling alley dance on “Baby” is awesome (do you know how slippery is a bowling alley?). He reminds me of Chris Brown’s early stage of popularity. Both of them focusing their star power on sophisticated street-style dancing. But then, Chris hit Rihanna and he went down, down, down.

Bieber, along with Taylor Swift and Jonas Brothers are the only teen popstars that ever made it to my playlist, though. I do get some Miley or Pixie Lott songs playing as well, but I don’t think she belong in the same group with them.

Justin Bieber ft Usher – Somebody To Love *love the pink fans dance behind Usher!*

Justin Bieber ft Ludacris – Baby

Andin: Daftar Sebagian Angkutan Kota Jakarta dengan Emisi Buruk

August 16, 2010 03:25 PM

Kenapa bus sekolah aku dapat stiker lulus uji emisi padahal asapnya bau?
--my 3rd-grader nephew

Jakarta sesak dengan polusi meskipun konon kabarnya ada Undang-Undang dan badan pemerintah yang mengatur emisi. Melihat angkot-angkot tidak berperikemanusiaan menyemprot racun karbon & timbal ke pejalan kaki, saya percaya sepenuh hati bahwa semua peraturan itu hanyalah dongeng belaka. Agak sulit dipercaya belum ada gerakan yang sedikit memaksa pemerintah untuk meningkatkan kualitas udara. Dulu ada Clean Air Project yang menyediakan SMS hotline untuk laporan kendaraan beremisi buruk, tapi sepertinya tidak jelas hasilnya. Ada lagi sebuah inisiatif di tingkat Asia, namun itupun belum bisa menghadang akar permasalahan.

Katanya lagi, warga bisa protes lewat surat resmi atau surat pembaca... yang mudah-mudahan dibaca oleh petinggi badan perhubungan/transportasi dan moga-moga ditindaklanjuti. Saya sendiri skeptis terhadap jaminan mudah-mudahan dan moga-moga. Lagipula, saya bukan "orang jalanan" yang punya banyak kesempatan mengumpulkan data angkot-angkot keparat untuk disetorkan para penegak peraturan. Jadi, biarlah saya protes di sini saja, plus saya jadi bisa mengajak partisipasi pembaca menyumbang data. Kemungkinan data di bawah ini akan terus diperbaharui. Sampai kapan? Sampai Jakarta keluar dari Top 10 Kota Paling Berpolusi di Dunia (one can only dream...).

JePe: Happy B-Day

August 16, 2010 08:52 AM

Happy Birthday, Debian.

JePe: Just A Recall of Memory

August 16, 2010 08:40 AM

Hello, just want you to know that I'm still alive. I just want to talk about random stuff that popped over this week. Enjoy!

Anyway, interestingly, this week there is a lawsuit encounter between Oracle and Google. The holy father of Java, James Gosling, whom leaved Sun after the acquisition, already predicted that Oracle will sue Google. SUN, whom play fair and square, never used their patent offensively. Even when Google makes Darvik, the Java JIT JVM for Android, SUN just let it slipped away. SUN had to put their relationship with developers in good terms. Well, Oracle surely not need to. They sue Google for Darvik.

This, according to Google spokesmen, is an attack not just to Google, but also to all of open source Java implementor. That's may be true, we can imagine all the enterprise Java goodies from IBM and other implementor becomes a good attacking target. Well, so far I only reading on one side of the story. So, Oracle, what's your reason for that?

Another great story is KDE SC 4.5.0 finally launched. Sadly, I've read that it would not be in Gentoo before 4.5.1. Sad indeed, I'm using Gentoo. FYI, I'm interested in two DE right now: Enlightenment (E17) and KDE 4.5. Both have strong connection with embedded devices. Since its early days of development, E17 had been known compiled to Zaurus (Yes, THE archaic smart phone). Meanwhile, Trolltech, the company behind Qt, the base of KDE SC, had been bought by Nokia.

I wish I can buy Beagleboard. Can someone from Indonesia without credit card buy that stuff? Dear lazy webm help.

How about GNOME?

Well, we'll wait for 3.0. From my personal opinion, I have two things about GNOME that should be changed: 1) The dumbed down version; 2) trying to be conservative. I like being conservative, but, I don't think less feature is "less is more". The most reason I would stuck to GTK+ is because of existing application rocks. Applications like Pidgin can't be replaced with Kopete, yet. I wish KDE SC could make a better solution for proxy environment. Firefox still uses GTK+ and many sites are doing well on that. Webkit just a new player being adopted worldwide Firefox still de facto.

Btw, happy feasting for you that do that.

Kusut: Python Web Frameworks

August 14, 2010 08:20 PM

I wanted to write about this for sometime. DISCLAIMER : I am inexperienced in this, so I might be wrong

Long time ago (approximately when Turbogears 2 was released) I decided to learn Python. I saw Mark Ramm’s talk at Djangocon and decided not to pick Django as a framework to learn. I tinkered with Turbogears 2, nothing big, just learning how things work. I stopped to learn Python and started to use it as my preferred scripting language. During this time I also took interest finding other Python web frameworks or components, learning their pros and cons without actually trying it (there are so many python web stuff out there). This weekend, I browse around finding any updates in Python web stuff since I didnt keep myself up to date. I just knew that Pylons hit 1.0 and there is a Flask out there for example.

Django
I have been using this for a few months now. It is really easy to pick up. Most of the times, Django will be enough to fulfill your Python web framework needs. A great amount of users is a big help. You may find some problems only to find that someone already experienced it and asked for help. In stackoverflow, cmiiw, there is more questions with Django tag than other Python frameworks combined.

Turbogears
Now I think they have the killer app. The much-more-than an admin app. If I remember correctly there was this application back then, but now it’s different. I dont know much about the technical detail but from what I read, it is really promising. Here’s from the docs

TurboGears Admin can be utilized to support more than just Administrative tasks. Since it is secured the same way the other TurboGears controllers on, you could use it for any user on your system. The myriad of ways you can override different parts of the system mean that this tool could be an excellent resource for rapid prototyping of a web application, or even as a provider of placeholder for future components.

and here’s from the Sprox creator

When I’m done, you will be able to easily swap between nothing, dojo, and jquery, and mootools support, or mix and match at any level. You can also switch between mongo, or any rdbms SA supports, and hopefully couchdb soon. It’s kinda scary that’s true.

It is scary! I havent tried it yet but it sounds better than the Django admin. This is enough reason for me to learn Turbogears again. It will be kinda hard since Im kinda familiar with Django now.

Mahli: Good Luck TOKI 2010

August 13, 2010 06:50 AM

This afternoon, the Indonesian Informatics Olympiad Team 2010 is departing for IOI 2010 in Canada. Do your best, guys! Don’t make the same mistakes as I did 8 years ago! No, even better, don’t make any mistakes!

Tya: ada yang udah pernah pake pentaho CDF utk bikin dashboard? ajarin donks.... *kok jadi telmi gini yaaa...

August 12, 2010 07:47 AM

Narpati: I will be still in Bali in Lebaran

August 10, 2010 09:49 AM

Won't go home. A lot of reason.
Sorry for not being in Jakarta.

~IMissKaraokeNight though...

Cynthia: i'm in love with the geek

August 09, 2010 04:27 PM

yes, i was, i am, and i hope that i always will. being in love with a geek is an adventurous experience for me. when you try to get a hold of him, it will drive you nuts. but once you have him, they'll treasure you for sure.

geeks are an unidentifiable creatures. mentally, the species can expand from a zen master to an i-don't-give-a-damn-about-this-world types. physically, they can be a drop dead gorgeous fitness type or a lazy couch type. who ever they are, they got something in common. they're geeks. and this is some facts you ought to know about them.

geeks are always be a simple person. they only have 2 statements in their head. one and zero. yes and no. once you input the yes answer, they'll take it as a simple yes. don't ever ever ever hope that they'll get your hint by showing them your gesture or your tone or your facial expression. only simple yes or no. yes means yes and no means no, with or without any hint.

geek: what's wrong with you honey?
girl: nothing... *long pause, glum expression*
geek: ooo, i thought you had a problem, no?
girl: no...
geek: okay
girl: *%&$%$^%$#$%#@@&^&*!!!

the girl wants the geek to insist asking her what's going on. she's angry because the geek SHOULD know that there IS something wrong with her without her telling. that's not gonna happen.

normal guy might take the glum hint. but geeks? no. unless you're telling them that somehow if you are being labil, you'll said yes is a no and no is a yes. that might help him a lot. believe me, it works *L-Men mode on*

geeks sometimes lost in his own world. they even forget to tell you how busy they are. you can't expect him to always read your facebook or messenger status. if you're the type of person who always wants a response for your every single stupid facebook status from your geek-lover, you'll be damned.

geeks brain is similar to computer. they'll process every single input that they get, but don't expect to get response if you don't give one. even a very intelligent computer won't respond if you didn't type any command.

girl: i can't go out tonight, i'm not feeling well
geek: do you want me to accompany you? i can cancel my appointment with my friends
girl: i don't want you to cancel it
geek: really? are you okay with this? thanks hon.
girl: *%&$^#*&^&$%$!!!

the girl is angry because the geek is so easy leaving her alone. the girl wants the geek to CHOOSE accompanying her eventhough she's asking him not to. see the contradiction? she wants him to choose it himself without her saying. this is to prove that he really care. that's not gonna happen.

this is just some funny incident that happened last week. the funny thing is, it occured two nights in a row with two different person and both of them is having the same problem.

so girls, if you really ARE falling in love with geeks, BE TOUGH. it's a long and hard and rough path to go through. if you can't take it, just leave it. you can't change the way they are. it's just going to hurt both of you.

so geeks, please please please pretty please. learn our hint, will you?

Tya: Alhamdulillah ... kemaren bisa full ASIX sehariann... jadi tambah semangatttt... terimakasih special utk mbak sinta dan mbak lita yang dah ngasih saran utk ikutan millis sehatt... Love you daah... ^o^

August 09, 2010 07:12 AM

JePe: VNC via SSH

August 09, 2010 06:49 AM

We could connect to a host that runs a VNC server that have SSH (VNC over SSH) by:

$ vncviewer -via "<USERNAME>@<HOST> -p <PORT>" localhost


It automatically sets an SSH connection via ssh program.

Tiwi: Tidung Trip

August 08, 2010 10:52 AM

Sudah lama ga nulis blog di sini *blaming the so-called microblogging sites*. Kali ini saya akan mencoba menceritakan perjalanan ke Pulau Tidung minggu lalu. Trip seharga Rp. 300,000 (termasuk perjalanan, makan 3x, snorkeling, sewa sepeda, penginapan, dan asuransi) ini dimulai dengan kumpul di Pelabuhan Muara Angke jam 6 pagi. Alternatif lain bisa juga naik dari Marina Ancol tapi lebih mahal dan quota terbatas. Kalau di sini cuma Rp.33,000 dan pasti muat soalnya tinggal disumpel2in aja kayak bis. Suasana pelabuhan sabtu pagi itu rame banget dengan anak2 muda yg gaya2 dan biasa dijumpai di mall2. Cuma bedanya ini ditambah bau2 amis ikan dan becek2nya, secara lokasinya dekat pasar ikan. Perjalanan naik kapal kurang lebih sekitar 3 jam. Untung cuaca cerah jadi perjalanan lancar jaya. Kapalnya itu kapal kayu dengan kecepatan seadanya. Katanya sih kalau naik dari marina bisa pakai kapal yg lebih bagus & perjalanan cuma 1.5 jam. Saat itu kondisi kapal yg saya naiki sangat padat sekali....

Cynthia: turn the downside up..

August 06, 2010 11:54 AM

back then when i was a college student, i visited my old high school and met my former teacher. i used to get good grades on her class, but i'm not the brightest one. i nearly even got into the top ten.

so i met her and we got a little chit chat about my present life. she asked whether i passed the SPMB or not. when i said that i did, she seemed surprised and that hurt my ego a bit. i said that i got accepted in my current campus, she even looked more surprised and my ego got hurt even more. damn, that look in her face haunted me for the rest of my life. hahaha.

i don't know, maybe i was just being too sensitive, i should feel flattered not intimidated by her response. but for all i care, i was hurt and my dislike feeling towards her kinda growing. she's my favorite teacher! i got good grades from her! and she didn't have faith in me? there i am, being pessimistic. can i do that? i mean, do i really deserve to be in here?

recently i met her again, with the same look that i remember 7 years ago. and again, she asked me how am i doing with my life. i said that i'm good, i'm fine. and i guess that's not the answer that she wants to hear because she asked the other ultimate question. "you are working now, aren't you?" like she will be surprised again if i AM working now.

so i told her that i'm working here in my current company. she seems recognize the company and yeah, you can guess the rest of the story.

but unlike my reaction years ago, now all i feel is just grateful for having what i have right now. if people considered me lucky having this life, well maybe i am. just live the life that i want to live right now. life is too short to think what others think about us. instead of being pessimistic with my life, i chose to be grateful, and that's what keeping me smile today and the day after today :)

ps for teachers out there: please don't underestimate your student. it will lead them to their self-destruction.

JePe: Sedang Masak Apa?

August 06, 2010 10:17 AM

Ugh, sebal sekali! Opera 10.60 saya baru saja menghapus sebuah entri panjang telah capek saya tulis! Ini sudah yang kesekian kali. Ingatkan saya untuk menulis blog dengan peramban yang stabil. [Ugh, padahal saya pencinta Opera, tidaaaaak.... ;-(] Maka, kali ini saya menulis dari Firefox 3.6.8 versi (jauh lebih) ringkas dari apa yang saya tadi tulis. Intinya, minggu ini adalah minggu optimasi dengan topik:

1. Penataran aplikasi e-Akses dengan kemampuan CSS3, HTML5, dan Javascript.
2. Penggunaan Hoard untuk Proxy.
3. Optimasi kernel linux 2.6.35 untuk penggunaan I/O yang berat (dah-dah lemot!)

#1 Penataran e-Akses

Berkat Adin, aplikasi e-Akses sudah dapat melakukan autentikasi secara luring. Selama ini, aplikasi ini menggunakan autentikasi langsung ke server. Hal ini beresiko akibat listrik yang sering turun naik dan Brontoks yang berseliweran. Dengan menggunakan teknologi baru (mesin penggambar/rendering engine kami masih xulrunner), saat ini e-Akses telah dapat menggunakan HTML5, CSS3, dan Javascript dengan baik. Disainer grafis kami, Fariz, menghasilkan ikon yang menarik untuk tampilan yang lebih baik. Selain itu, e-Akses sudah mampu menampilkan penyimpan layar (screensaver) video. Baru ada dua video saat ini, tapi bisa ditambahkan secara dinamis.

Baru ada tiga mesin dengan tatar terbaru ini, yang pertama di gedung PPMT dan dua lagi di ruangan kami, pengembang. Mudah-mudahan minggu depan bisa ditatar ke seluruh UI. Wow, stok mesin e-Akses sudah mulai habis. Artinya mesin-mesin ini sudah tersebar ke seluruh UI. Tinggal menunggu peningkatan penggunaannya.

Sungguh, 4 tahun riset (semenjak 2006) telah dapat berbuah manis. Saat ini melalui pengumpulan data secara anonim, fungsi perpanjangan sandi merupakan fungsi yang sering diakses mahasiswa. Para staf justru senang mengakses fungsi absensi. Mudah-mudahan, ada fungsi lainnya yang bisa ditambahkan.

Untuk dokumentasi penggunaan e-Akses, silakan akses di sini.

#2 Penggunaan Hoard untuk SQUID 3

Peningkatan penggunaan layanan Internet di UI dapat digambarkan dengan fungsi parabolik. Hal ini karena setiap hari, kecuali Minggu, selalu ada saja pendaftaran perangkat oleh sivitas akademika untuk dapat menggunakan Hotspot UI. Dengan pertumbuhan infrastruktur yang tidak secepat itu, admin harus berimprovisasi.

Salah satu admin kita, Tonny, telah berhasil mengimplementasi SQUID 3.0 dengan Hoard. Tadinya dia menggunakan SQUID 3.1, sayangnya banyak kebocoran memori sehingga menyebabkan proxy sering mati. Minggu ini, ada beberapa alokator memori dinamis yang sebenarnya hendak dicoba: tbbmalloc, tcmalloc, nedmalloc, ptmalloc3, dan hoard.

Alokator tbbmalloc ternyata punya Intel dan tidak dapat ditemukan halaman unduhannya. Saya berkesimpulan bahwa tbbmalloc itu mungkin adalah solusi tertutup. Solusi Google, tcmalloc, menurut forum-forum memiliki keterbatasan untuk mesin banyak-inti dan 64bit. Kami pun tidak mencobanya. Akhirnya, ada 3 alokator yang hendak dicoba.

Alokator nedmalloc menggunakan SCons untuk konfigurasinya, aneh sekali memang. Lalu, dicobalah ptmalloc3. Ada sedikit kilikan untuk dapat menggunakan ptmalloc3, yakni menambahkan "-ldl -lpthread" pada CFLAGS di Makefile ptmalloc3. Oh, tapi ternyata tidak bisa juga. Akhirnya, pilihan jatuh pada hoard. Hoard berhasil dikompilasi dan dipasang. Menurut penuturan Tonny, Hoard menurunkan penggunaan memori pada proxy. Yah, kita lihat nanti saat OBM minggu depan.

Buat rekan-rekan yang hendak mencoba, silakan pasang dan mulai aplikasi dengan:

$ LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libhoard.so" gmplayer

Menurut  sebuah forum di Gentoo, nedmalloc lebih cocok untuk pemakaian sehari-hari dibandingkan Hoard dan tcmalloc. Ptmalloc3 perlu investigasi lebih lanjut karena gagal terpasang. Tetapi menurut situs nedmalloc, ptmalloc3 jauh lebih baik dibandingkan nedmalloc itu sendiri. Oh, iya, GNU Libc (GLIBC) menggunakan alokator memori ptmalloc untuk alokator memorinya. Makanya, keturunan ketiga dari ptmalloc (ptmalloc3) ini sebenarnya sangat berpotensi.

#3 Kernel Linux anti lemot!

Saking sudah terbiasanya, orang menganggap bahwa GNU/Linux seperti rivalnya Windoze, suka patah-patah saat sedang terjadi operasi I/O yang berat. Ternyata semenjak 2.6.18, terjadi regresi yang menyebabkan operasi antrian menunggu sampai alokator selesai mengalokasikan beban. Padahal, dulu tidak seperti itu. Untungnya pada minggu ini, sebuah fungsi pengecekan yang baru ditambahkan dan akhirnya kernel 2.6.35 bisa jadi lebih interaktif. Berhubung 2.6.35 baru saja keluar, maka tambalan ini menunggu 2.6.35.1 atau 2.6.36. Sayangnya, tidak diketahui apakah bisa dipasang di kernel versi-versi sebelumnya. Saya, sih, gagal ketika hendak menambal kernel 2.6.34-gentoo-r1.

Tetapi, saya berhasil mencobanya di kernel asli 2.6.35. Sayangnya kernel asli tidak memiliki BFS dan Reiser4 yang merupakan hal mati yang harus ada di kernel saya. Maklum,  keduanya merupakan rogue. (Con Kolivas dan Hans Reiser adalah pahlawanku) Saya akhirnya memutuskan menggunakan zenkernel versi git. Omong-omong, salah satu pengembang zenkernel inilah yang telah menyumbangkan kode tersebut.

Hasilnya? KDE SC saya responsif saat menjalankan netbeans, mengompilasi kernel, dan emerge paket-paket acak (misalnya k3b). Silakan baca di Phoronix untuk keterangan lebih lanjut.

Bimo: Hilang

August 06, 2010 12:12 AM

BREAKING NEWS. Ponsel saya yang lucu nan menggemaskan itu baru saja dicopet. Untuk sementara, no ponsel IM3 yang dulu milik saya, tidak merepresentasikan diri saya lagi. Harap berhati-hati.

Narpati: Sebelum Marah-Marah Pada Gereja Florida

August 05, 2010 08:40 AM

Buat yang Muslim,
sebelum marah-marah pada salah satu Gereja Florida yang berencana membakar AlQuran,
coba ke toko buku atau coba cari versi online di internet,
dan cari terjemahan AlQuran oleh Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali dan Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan berjudul The Noble Qur'an.

~dan ini terjemahan yang paling sering banyak di Masjid-Masjid di sana selain terjemahan Yusuf Ali.

Cynthia: about me, credit card, my used to be lovely depok, and rock climbing

August 04, 2010 10:54 AM

the title might be too absurd to conclude, what the hell am i trying to point out in this post? but this thought was crossing my mind on my way to festive market (pasar festival, halah!) meeting my dearest friend.

i walked there accompanied by my recently favorite song, California Gurls by Katy Perry. surprisingly i enjoyed the walking moment in the middle of quite a nasty traffic in rasuna said. i hummed happily while all the security of all embassy that i passed through are looking at me suspiciously.

in the middle of the road, i got caught up by some unicef-thing, sales maybe i dont know, talking about how scary life for children out of the urban cities. he is cool, because i like to actually talk to him, and he seems sincere. unlike most of them whom i met before that only seems talkative but doesn't seem really care for what ever he's saying.

unfortunately for them and fortunately for me, this required a credit card and i don't have one. he didn't believe that i don't have a credit card and that my age is 25 (considering i'm humming and jumping around when i met him :P) i mean what's happened with people now? is it really weird to actually not having a credit card? he thought that i had some problems with the bank. but then i just smiled even though i'm eager to continue the conversation about how i once applied a credit card just for getting a little minnie mouse doll from bni. hahaha. thank god the application got rejected :P i just want the doll anyway. haha.

it takes me almost an hour to walk (and talk with that guy from unicef) from my office at wisma mulia, gatot subroto to pasar festival in kuningan. the road is nice. soooo much different from depok desert now. huh. i have to re-think about my fondness to this city. seems like my thoughts all wrong. or maybe recently has went wrong, thanks to the right-hand-man.

my journey continued and i'm about to see whether i'm interested or not in this rock-climbing thing proposed by my friend. at first i'm intrigued by the thought of having something new in my daily activities, and this something new is not just the usual thing that can be done easily by others. it's rock climbing! cool. but hearing about the team work and seeing the wall by myself, i got chickened out. damn you, wall. why do you have to be that tall?!

okay now, rock climbing is out of my list, what else?

Cynthia: taking something for granted..

August 03, 2010 04:00 PM

yes, i did.. i did taking that thing for granted. i assumed it always be there for me. i assumed that wherever it went, it will somehow coming back to me again..

unfortunate me, this time it won't be. it will leave me all alone here with regret.
cause i'm taking it for granted..

~you'll never knew what you got till it's gone..

moral of the day that i learned in a hard way:
treasure every single little moment with anyone, you might missed it. a lot.

Cynthia: jeritan hati seorang wanita..

August 03, 2010 01:20 AM

Beneath those comics stacks, there I found you
Staring deeply into some action fictional series
So stunningly dashing and makes me wanna drool
Just in a right amount of cuteness to take my breath away
My eyes just craving for more of your figure
Like wanting to savor every moment,
every movement, every melody of your beauty


At that moment, I forgot that I'm already 25.
Damn you, kiddo..

Saat kejadian, penulis sedang memperhatikan seorang anak di TB. Gunung Agung Margo City sambil komat kamit memikirkan kira2 apa ya kata2 yang tepat untuk menggambarkan anak ini. Tiba2 ayah ibunya datang dan merusak suasana syahdu palsu yang sedang dibangun oleh penulis. Grrrhh.. kenapa gue tiba2 mikir kayak gini -_-

Tya: kdang hidup terasa beratt... oh pak SBY... tahukah kau?

August 02, 2010 06:16 AM

JePe: The Real Usability

August 02, 2010 03:34 AM

Tadi pagi lihat xkcd dan dapatkan foto:

 

Hmm… so damn true!

Cynthia: me and the hard times

July 29, 2010 11:55 AM

i had a belief that every human being knew the stressful feeling when they're having their hard time. sometimes i even had it when nothing's going wrong, or even on. maybe this is what people called it "LABIL". if i am a teenager, they will call me ababil. but since i'm not, let's just stick it with every excuse that women will say when facing such thing, i'm having my pms.

pms, such a wide wide timing. it can stand for post-menstruation-syndrome or pra-menstruation-syndrome, whatever the time has come lah. the point is, women sometimes hide behind this excuse while the main truth is, they're just labil..

labil or unstable in english version, is a time when you feel everything is wrong in your life. the tree is just too green, or the cloud is just too grey. this labil thing often paired with the word lebay. lebay or exaggerated is labil's best friend.

in my case, there are signs for my every labil time. they are: cha cha milk chocolate, gery chocolatos, gery wafelatos, and chunky bar. if you ever find me munching2 those things, just be careful. that is me, trying to escape my labil time, like now.

Bimo: Genre

July 28, 2010 09:18 AM

Genre. Term for paintings or other works depicting scenes from daily life. It may be applied to appropriate art of any place or period, but most commonly suggests the type of domestic subject matter favoured by Dutch 17th-century artists. In a broader sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the

Vita: Gak Penting

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Steven: Import Content from Blogger (Blogspot.com) to WordPress

July 27, 2010 10:27 PM

For those of you who had a blog on Blogger (mine was in stevensentosa.blogspot.com) and want to import them to your new WordPress blog, I have an easy solution for you.

Do you know that WordPress has its own built-in importer for your Blogspot blog?

Go to Tools -> Import -> Choose to import from Blogger. Your WordPress will download a plugin called “Blogger Importer.” It will ask you to authorize access to your Blogger account. After that, you will be presented with list of blogs in your Blogger account. Choose the one you want to import by clicking “Import” button next to whichever blog you want to import, wait until it finished downloading content, and click “Set Author.” That’s all to it. You are done. All your content from Blogspot.com will be imported to your WordPress blog.

One drawback was that you have to set the categories all over again. If your old and new blogs have same categories settings, you don’t have to worry, because WordPress will map each new imported posts to their corresponding categories. However, in my case, since I have different category settings, I have to remap all my new imported blog contents to their right categories. It’s not a big deal if you only have 100 new additional blog posts, like in my case. However, if you have thousand of new additional blog posts, it will be quite a headache.

Most of the old blog posts that I imported to here are in Religious, Funny and Cool Stuff category now and dated back in 2007 when I first wrote blog posts. Check them out. I found some of the posts were really funny and cool, like “Some Important Laws that Newton Forgot” and “Amazing Billiard Tricks“. Since I posted them a long time ago, I didn’t even remember that I have ever published them on my old blog. LOL.

I also found that some of the pictures from the new imported posts are not linked correctly, so some pictures won’t show up. I will try to fix this gradually since they are so many posts. If you found one, please message me @StevenSentosa.

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Inu: anak kampung nonton orchestra

July 27, 2010 06:15 PM

beberapa hari yang lalu datanglah email dari big bos di inbox gw.  tumben tumbenan neh si big bos kirim email ke employee cecurut macem gw. buka.. selamat siang bla bla bla.. oh ternyata kompeni mau ngadain konser amal di  schlossgarden deket apartemen gw, liat-liat wedeh gratisan, terus juga restoran services bakalan ngasih makanan buat amal klop lah.

hari yang di tunggu akhirnya tiba, sebelum ke kantor engga lupa nyisihin baju buat dilempar ke mesin cuci otomatis, buat nonton orchestra sama makan gratis keluar duit 2 euro worthed lah .. huhuhu.  jam 6 teng cabut kantor langsung ambil baju di mesin cuci, lempar ke pengering.. tunggu 5 menit jadi lah. setrika ? oh ga perlu itu.. cukup pake jaket kulit warisan nenek moyang ketutup deh.

kayuh sepeda ke area schlossgarden ternyata udah banyak orang disono. baru kali ini gw liat tu taman di kasih tenda putih, air mancurnya di kasih bunga2 dikit sama patungnya dikasih lampu sorot, kastilnya jadi background buat orchestra, keren juga.. engga keliatan kalo tu kastil tiap pagi dikencingin anjing melulu.

ternyata denger musik langsung itu beda yah daripada denger dari mp3, somehow suaranya lebih hidup. dari konser yang menurut gw paling mantep pas ada orang nyanyi ave maria. shit men es ist sehr toll..,  beberapa wanita terlihat meneteskan air mata, auk dah apakah gara-gara musiknya yang keren atau baru dikasih requirement tambahan buat software ( hehe curhat colongan).

terus terus.. akhirnya tertutuplah tirai panggung .. terus gelap. bingung.. oh bubaran.. saatnya makan2 ? bener juga.. samperin meja jah..  banyak kata schweine2 dimana2.. masa salad  ada schweine juga ( , celangak celinguk , muter2 taman.. akhirnya bosen.. ketemu orang.. bilang.. bos balik dulu ye,  tu orang bingung.. gw juga bingung mo ngapain lagi lu gelap2 gini ditaman.  buka gerbang ambil sepeda.. pas kayuhan pertama .. jreng.. orkestra mulai lagi.. mo balik lagi terlalu gengsi buat ketauan idiotnya huhuhu

Mahli: Indonesian IChO result

July 27, 2010 10:34 AM

1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze. Congrats! IPhO result IMO, IBO results