Monday, January 31, 2005

yikes!

haven't been blogging for a week now, have i? hehehe... sorry, been busy. what a hectic week! so many things to do @ work. @ home, of course i've been busy tinkering with my new pda, hahahaha... haven't finished my article for hx4700, though. been planning to do after office hours, but i simply haven't found the time yet.

went to an id-pocketpc gathering on saturday at timebreak plaza semanggi. my first. my impression was good. the gathering didn't disappoint. "rantang" was available, of course, hahaha... lotsa temptations! huh. so many people brought yummy toys. i went home thinking i need more accessories. *sigh*

Sunday, January 23, 2005

I've a confession to make: wedding parties bored me to death! Especially those where i don't know anyone. Like this past saturday night. A friend of mine from effatha, harini, at redtop hotel. I just waited until the proceeding was over, congratulated her, then went home. It was that boring. I lost my appetite completely. Also, it was one of those parties where the majority of guests are chinese. Now, i myself an half chinese, so i'm not being racist or anything. But HOW CAN YOU GO TO A FORMAL WEDDING PARTY AT A HOTEL WEARING ONLY SANDALS & POLO SHIRTS?!?!?! And i'm sure these people weren't poor or anything. They just have no taste whatsoever. I'm not exactly fashionable, but come on! If it was a beach party i'd understand. If it was MY party, i'd put a strict dress code and personally throw out anyone who was "salah kostum". Hmmm...

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

busy playing?!?!

heh. there won't be much blogs from me, since i'm currently too busy playing (or in journalist talks: reviewing) with my new pda, the hp ipaq hx4700! hahaha... i'll post a picture of it, and, of course, the result, when i'm done.

Saturday, January 15, 2005

I'm reliving friday night kokoz again! That is, at the end of exams, on friday nights, bond students would come to kokoz to party, to release some steams and stresses. Now, this is friday night, and i was stressed all day at work. Got two projects and a presentation on monday! I may not like dancing, but i sure do like music. It's hard not to move your body when you hear good music. Here, instead of dancing, i'm sitting on a comfy couch and writing a blog while shaking my shoulder and head! Pathetic, eh? Hahaha... But this feels good! Even better than the new year's eve.

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

RIP

i was sleeping when i thought i heard an sms arrived. i was right! i opened it this morning, though. couldn't be bothered to reach my mobile and read it while i was taking my beauty sleep! hehehe... sadly, it contained a sad news.

"Kbr duka cita: Mamanya Reinnese mninggal dunia tgl 11 jan 05. Saat ini disemayamkan di rmh duka : Jl. Murai III Bintaro Jaya Sek.1. tq"

Rest In Peace.

now, i didn't know reinnese's mom at all. zip. nada. not even meet her once. but i found this news intriguing, because i had a discussion about reinnese's mom with nancy just the night before, at effatha. it turned out she (reinnese's mom, not nancy) was given a wrong treatment for her cancer, the family thought. so the cancer wasn't killed, and her internal organs got damaged. not pretty. must be very, very painful. she spent a lot of months at hospital under intensive care. i said to nancy, why didn't they just take her home? it was obvious that she'd die anyway. why prolong the pain? nancy said they wanted to keep her alive as long as possible. hmmm... now she's gone, free from all the pains.

Rest In Peace.

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

i got paid!!

no, not my monthly salary. just got a call from infokomputer, asking for my bank account number. that was for the january ed. i had 4 pages there. i thought they were just joking when they told me i was gonna get paid. and now i'm going to! wow! since i'm so happy, i said i'd give half of it to them, as a treat. hehehe... i'm so generous, that's why i can't get rich! =P

Friday, January 07, 2005

weekend is coming!

i'm still bored. so i decided to read infokomputer some more. mostly i'm interested in how they do testing for networking products. take switch, for example. before i got there, the test had been a joke. they just copied a big file from a computer to another. that was it. humiliating, because it wouldn't stress the switch enough. when i was handed the job, i tried to do the same, and i discovered that it wasn't enough. guys from dataglobal, allied telesyn's distributor, told me to use a software, called chariot. i looked for it, but it's a commercial software. luckily i found qcheck, which was a trimmed-down version of chariot. i used qcheck for subsequent networking product tests. last year, i began to feel not satisfied by qcheck. so once again i tried chariot. this time, i found the work-around. so i was able to use it. alas, not long after that, i decided to move to indo pacific. but before i went, i put the software in one of the computers at info. as fate would have it, one of them re-formatted the harddisk, so all of the softwares i put there was lost. so how do they test networking products now? it's like old times all over again: by copying a big file from a computer to another! omigod. i just hope the vendors don't get discouraged and stop sending products to info, because networking products are what make info different from other mags.

tomorrow there'll be an isabu reuni of some sort. this time it'll be at muly's house. i've made an appointment to meet meiske at citos, then go to muly's house together. i hope it's going to be fun!

Thursday, January 06, 2005

a new magazine?

look at this picture:



even though i was told already that the jan ed of infokomputer will have a girl on the cover, i was still surprised when i see it myself. minimal text. no product photos. almost no bullet-points. an entirely new concept! let the picture do the talking? or rather, let the picture do the selling? hahaha...



compared to this one, last year's dec ed, which has a typical info cover, the new one is sure refreshing to look at. i applaud info for this decision.

the content, however, is more or less the same. that is, BORING! hehe... but still i was surprised to see mas jull, adam, & bowo wrote some product reviews/tests. nice change of air. or are they just under-staffed?

btw, this jan ed has a vcd, the last one i was involved in. honestly, i'm not satisfied at the final result. the acting, or rather voice acting, was bad. even mas warto & rini acted better. the content itself can use some more polishing. but this is the first vcd produced entirely in-house, so that itself deserves a thumb-up.

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

i'm so BORED!!!

i'm so BOREDboredBOREDboredBOREDboredBOREDboredBOREDboredBOREDboredBOREDbored... practically have nothing to do. and this has been a slooooow and booooring day. *sigh*

one noteworthy thing was the lunch i had with dania & ipung. went to theresia. haven't been there for a month, roughly. i wanted to have somay, but they were out. ipung ordered nasi goreng bebek, so i thought, why not. it turned out to be not too bad. quite expensive though, 15000.

that's it. nothing more. told you it was boring.

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

finished my articles!

ok, i think i still got it. the writing ability, i mean. in just a couple of minutes i finished writing (or rather, typing) my second article. it's not much, really. just under 5000 characters, for 1 page. what took me long was actually calling infokomputer and asking what kind of audio chip that motherboard has. after that, it was easy. 2 pages of motherboard reviews. easy done it. that leaves me with nothing to do. darn!

rianti asked me to upload a pic of me with tie on. actually, she wanted a pic of me with suit! hahaha... so here it is.



this pic was taken for the internal IP magazine, called InPac. Andy, who took the pic, wanted me to be shown as a gadget freak. so that was why i held my pda in this pic, even though my other hand was holding the mouse, not the stylus. this was taken way before the holidays, so my desk's layout was the old one.

Monday, January 03, 2005

i need more data!!!

had my first writing experience in 3 months, the first since i began working at ippr. what do i write?? motherboard reviews, of course!!! those guys at infokomputer sure are under-staffed. so i accepted their offer to write again. just 2 pages, for starter.

they emailed me some data and pictures. i thought i could just begin writing, like the old times. and i could! i had no problem writing. in just 10 minutes or so, i wrote more than 2000 characters, or 2/3 of the whole articles. that was just mentioning the features, stuffs, and on and on and on. but middle-way, i realised i need more data. for example, i need to know the contents of the manuals. are they adequate? i also need to know equipments used for the testing. simple things, really. things that i usually found out myself back when i was there. but now i can't! i'm at the mercy of emails and messengers! damn!

oh, by the way. we have new carpets here in the office. the desks are also repainted. nice. i also did some relocation for my stuffs on the desk. i put the computer casing on the desk, not on the floor. i also took eka's phone to replace mine. this phone is bigger and has speaker phone capability. nice. i also have a new drawer. with keys! nice.

Sunday, January 02, 2005

2005

IT'S NEW YEAR!!!!!

I began this year 2005 by staying at crowne plaza hotel with my sd oel friends. The first new year, ever, i celebrated without my family. There were just 8 of us, but it was crazy! I almost got drunk! When my face became red, i followed my friend's advice and got up on my feet. Sitting or lying down will make you drunk, he said. And it paid off! I also drink quite a lot of water, to avoid the hangover. My first hangover experience, when i was at bond, was something i'd rather forget. We just talked, played, drank, and did silly things until we realized it was time to sleep. At 5! Woke up at 8 and thought hard about taking a shower.

Anyway, thanks to the vicinity of plaza semanggi, we could go there just by walking. We went to the duck king for our new year lunch. It was great! Quite expensive by my standard, though. But hey, it's new year! Hahaha...

Just as i said before, i sent new year smses. And boy did i get replies! Some of them were protests, though, because i sent those greetings waaaaay early. I put the wrong year on my early sms, as amel pointed out. Luckily she did, so i could correct it. Otherwise i'd get more protest! Hahaha...

When it's new year, people talk about resolutions. And mine are... Well, i haven't thought about them, really. I guess for the short term is to get my contract at ippr extended to permanent employment. It's due this month. After that's settled, i'll be able to think about my immediate future. I'll also write some reviews for infokomputer, because they nicely asked me. I don't expect to get rich by doing that, since the paycheck is rather pathetic, but it'll be nice to write again. And this time, i'll ask them to put my name! =P