OOP - The Sixth

Children's Favorite

2011-06-23T21:39:00.001+07:00

You must be familiar with this song:

"Potong bebek angsa, masak di kuali
Nona minta dansa, dansa empat kali
Sorong ke kiri, sorong ke kanan
Lalalalala lalalala la la"

And sometimes, there goes the extended play:

"Masuk ke hutan, nyolong rambutan
Dikejar-kejar sama orang utan"

- which is *exactly* an idea of mine and my friend Yasil 12 years ago, back at the elementary school. Exactly when we were 9 years old.
Now it has been children's favorite, and the song feels incomplete without the extended play.
How fun :p

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Changing the strings again (at last)

2011-05-05T22:12:00.001+07:00

Not much is gonna be the content of this post. The picture is self-explanatory. (Oh hey I still have some unused black strings!)

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Bad day. Lol.

2011-04-27T22:02:00.001+07:00

Today a series of unfortunate events happened. First I lost something worth around a hundred thousands rupiah, then I lost 40k worth of phone credits, bought something useless, and unintentionally destroyed an important thing for my bachelor thesis.

This morning I went to look for a replacement for my wrist watch battery, which died exactly at the 24th of April, 4:47:35 pm. The battery is not a usual one, it is a little bigger and you need a screw to turn it and make it work.

With my ear phones channeling music from my HTC, I rode my bike around pocin and kober, but couldn't find any shop that sells the certain type of battery. So at the last shop I stopped then asked for a AAA battery for my now-dead remote control of my room's air conditioner - more on that later. There was a phone voucher shop nearby, so I unplugged my ear phones and put them in my jacket, stopped there and bought a couple of 20k electronic voucher for my phone. I was expecting an instant 40k to be delivered to my account but there seemed to be a connection problem so I decided to wait for a while. Since there were no signs of topping up my phone credit, I left to wake potato up for brunch.

Then I realized I lost my HTC original ear phones. Maybe I dropped it somewhere, but it definitely had to be around the voucher shop. So I returned there to demand for my undelivered phone vouchers and to ask if any of them saw my ear phones. Gained nothing, I decided to just let it be.

Later I got to the campus with potato, then played around for a while and continued my bachelor thesis. I did something simple to my mysql database - only changed the user privilege's password, but then it gave me hours of trouble. I had no access to my thesis website because of the invalid database password. Until the night came, I tried to find a workaround for my server, which was frustrating.

That night I only received 20k phone credits, not 40k like what I paid for. I was already frustrated to complain. And not just that - the 20k that I got was immediately depleted because of a short unexpected 2MB Internet usage. So I went back to zero. I spent all 40k of money on useless phone credits.

When I got home, turned out the battery I bought for the remote did not work; the remote was already broken.

People said good things will come after a series of unluckiness. Let's just hope so!

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Chords of "Full Moon Prayer" by Core of Soul

2011-04-12T23:12:00.001+07:00

It is one of my favorite songs from the 2001. Don't Ask. The unplugged version is way better than the original.

See the video here:

Verse:
G Bm C G D Em C D  
Chorus:
Em C D  
Bridge:
Em D  
Intro:
Em F#m G C G C D (2x)
Come on baby all the way.. all the way yeah
All the way to the glowing moon.. yeah  
G                 Bm                      C
    Midori ni nesobette ougon no daichi omotte
                 G         D            Em
Haha naru chikyuu oshiete dono kurai tooi no
         C              D
Hoshi ni tatte terashikaesu  
G                 Bm                      C
    Inochi no yadoru haruka naru ginga kara ima
                 G         D            Em
Hitosuji no hikari ga watashi wo terashite kureru
         C              D
Aserazu ni aruite yukou  
Em    F#m         G
* God give me the power
   C          G          C          D
Taikiken tsukinukete universe wo oyogidasu
Em    F#m         G
    Koko kara tobidashite
   C          G          C          D
Shiroi usagi no odoru tsuki e yukou  
Chorus:  
And when I get there
    Em      C
** Volume agete utau yo
        D
Yoru no gekkou to tomo ni anata no mado ni todoke
Em            C
Kako no tsumi wo oyurushi kudasai
        D
Watashi kara koe wo toranaide, Inochi wo motte yukanaide  
    Em       C
Anata ni kikoemasu you ni
      D
Kioku no okusoko kara yomigaeru negaigoto
    Em       C
Osanai watashi no matsuge ni tsumoru
      D                                                            Em
Yuki o furihattara massugu mirai ga mieta  
D Em D Em D Em D
(Speaking in English)  
G             Bm                      C
    Umi ni dakarete hareta uchuu o mitsumetemo
                           G        D             Em
Chichi naru chikyuu wa shiranai no sono saki no nanika o
           C               D
Ryuusei ni notte kubi wo nobasu  
Em    F#m         G
* God give me the power
   C            G        C          D
Taikiken tsukinukete universe wo oyogidasu
Em       F#m        G
    Koko kara tobidashite
    C            G      C       D
Shiroi usagi no odoru tsuki e yukou  
Chorus:  
And when I get there
    Em      C
Volume agete utau yo
        D
Yoru no gekkou to tomo ni anata no mado ni todoke
Em          C
Koukishin wo oyurushi kudasai
       D
Tsuki no unga no ato wo otte tabi ni dekakeyou
    Em     C
Anata ga uruoimasu you ni
        D
Yubi no saki ni hitoshizuku yume ga furueteru kara
    Em     C
Mizutamari ni nami ga tatsu nara
        D
Yurameku kiiro ga Mata maruku naru made mateba ii  
(Repeat Chorus) 

Microsoft One

2011-04-02T01:05:00.001+07:00

To continue what I have written on my last post, I am writing this entry to talk about the Microsoft One.

It was a very tiring trip to BEJ, much more tiring than other trips I have ever had. I had to take a train trip as early as 6.30 in the morning and go home at 8 pm, yet the experience was priceless and the tiredness was not felt. The final round of the Microsoft One program was one of the most precious experiences I have ever had in my life.

Burhan, Willi, Brendan, Steven, Me, Andi, Dimas, Sandro, Fanny, Resha, Livia, Arta, Hera, Yuvita, Mbak Novi (Judge)

Okay enough with the cheesy opening paragraph. It was tiring as hell. Physically and mentally tiring I think I could die. We had to be there at 8.30 and I came there at like 7.50 am. Until 9 am, which was finally the time the program began, there were already 14 people out of 20 listed. I don't know why the other six didn't come, but all I needed to know was that the applicants were already narrowed down to 14 before it even started (yay?). Willi, Brendan, Burhan, Sandro, Fanny, Resha, Yuvita, Dimas, Andi, Steven, Hera (Aussie), Livia (UPH), and Arta (UI). Well those are the names of the other guys based on the sitting position as far as I could remember, and fortunately I remembered them well.

The first round was a group case study. We were split into three different groups; I was grouped with Burhan of FT UI and Steven of IPB. The groups were given a case about a launching event of Internet Explorer 9. Although the idea that my group presented was pretty cool, I personally think I gave the worst performance and Steven did his part really well. Oh – it was Mbak Ndari's birthday that day so we kinda gave her a surprise by bringing a previously prepared cake and candles into the presentation room. Later we had lunch (unlimited free magnum for dessert!) and continued mingling around. Sadly, it was the last time (that day) we would see Arta, Burhan, Sandro, and Brendan as they were eliminated from the top 14 right after.

The next round was a personal interview session. The last ten people were once again grouped, now in five, and headed to different rooms in different floors. I was grouped with Steven, Dimas, Hera, and Resha. While waiting for our turns I found out that Steven has had a lot of experience failing in life but knows how to beat a shark by punching it on the nose, Dimas, who has two older brothers who are already successful abroad, doesn't believe in big wishes coming true, Hera actually took a Diploma program before continuing her study to Australia, and Resha was actually a calmer person than I thought.

The day continued and the five of us finished our interviews and headed back to where the ten people split. This time, the judges announced that two more had to leave the building because they didn't make it. I was thinking that it would be the time I headed home. Turned out I was chosen to stay with Resha and Hera. It was time for Steven and Dimas to go. Seeing them sent home just like that was really… frustrating. In my personal opinion, they were better guys than me.

With the last eight guys remaining, we had to go through a series of interviews (again!) with three different people from the directors board. One of them was Indian who practically would not understand Bahasa Indonesia well enough. I had a tough time with him. After the interviews, all of us headed home and continued to wait (in pain) until the announcement on the next Monday.

On MS One

2011-03-29T20:36:00.001+07:00

As I may have mentioned before, this is my last semester in fasilkom UI, hopefully. Like other normal last semester students, I have started making CVs and tried to remember what good deeds I have done throughout the years. Actually it was kind of difficult to make, as I don't really keep track of everything I have done. Sadly, I even forgot what achievements I have and I am not even sure of what organizations I was in and what events I have attended.

There is one major opportunity that I am pursuing, that is the MS One event. I just receive a notification email last night that I passed the interview, which took place in UI last month, and got a chance to continue to the first phase of the final round this Thursday. I will have to be ready for it, as this might be my once in a lifetime chance.

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Last Semester Syndrome

2011-03-08T00:35:00.001+07:00

So I've been having the syndrome that people usually say as "Last Semester Syndrome". It is a situation in which you really feel the urge to finish the campus as early as you can, because you are already bored of the life there, while at the same time feel insecure about what may come in the future and what may happen after you graduate. It is common, I guess. But I didn't think it would hit me that badly.

This semester, in my last moments in the campus, I only enroll two courses. One of it is not counted as a real course because it is basically just a regular meeting with my TA lecturer every Wednesday, while the job is done alone in the lab or at home. The other one is also not really intensive because it is only scheduled once a week, and it takes place in the lab. Studying in the lab is not suitable for chitchatting with my friends because we have to focus on our tasks.

I basically have less friends to talk to regularly each day, because either they are busy with their own researches or they just hardly ever appear in the campus. Into the first few weeks of this last semester, I've been feeling the sudden change. I miss the occasional jokes, I miss the small talks, I miss everything. Suddenly, everything makes me gradually feel insecure about my presence in the campus, about my career options, about my family, about my friends, about potato, and everything else.

By the time I have to leave everything behind, I want to leave it with a big grin. Well at least a smile, but not a faint one. I want to make sure I have accomplished my tasks perfectly so I have nothing to regret. Besides, I will have to get ready for the next chapter of my life. I have to prepare myself.

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So Far, So In Love With DHD

2011-03-01T00:14:00.002+07:00

Okay I lied when I said that I wouldn't post anything bragging about DHD, but I guess that can be tolerated right! (MyCutestWink.gif)

I've used three Android phones. The first one was Samsung Galaxy Spica which is better known as androidos 1.0, the second being Acer Liquid E a.k.a liquidos, and the newest is HTC Desire HD, which nickname is androidos 2.0, or just DHD. I would love to talk about the first two but I guess there's time for it. Now I'm about to talk about the latter. I'm not gonna write sucky reviews like I did for liquidos though!

Around two months ago I was contacted by an acer officer. He told me that my liquidos which was hospitalized for almost three months was ready to be taken. The very next day, I took it from their service center and sold it immediately at a random (yep, random) store in ITC. The money was then used for buying DHD. No hard feelings there (for liquidos), because it was already planned a long time ago at around the first week of December (which was the fifth week of hospitalization) that I would immediately *cough*get rid of*cough* I mean bid my last farewell to liquidos the next time I get it. The next few days after selling liquidos, I browsed through kaskus FJB threads that focuses on selling HTC phones. After about three days hunting I found out that the best thread that sells it with the least expensive price is the one where @gilanghamidy bought his phone from.

The transaction went smoothl- wait, no. I had problems, LOTS of problems transferring my money to their bank account. First, I had about half the money physically, and the rest was at my BNI account. Second, their accounts were only available at Mandiri and BCA. Third, I couldn't use atm bersama to transfer from BNI to any of their accounts because my potato broke my debit card. I chose the solution to those problems by trying to deposit all of my cash to BNI then transfer the money using the old way, although it would take a day for the process. So I did that, but then another problem came: the account name was not registered or not correctly stated.

The next day I came back to BNI bank hoping that I could finish my transaction quickly, but it turned out that I had to wait another day for the process. I could grow beard from my armpit for waiting so I decided to take all the money from BNI and ride my bike to Mandiri ATM and deposited everything there and transferred immediately. All was done in less than 10 minutes and I don't have to grow beard from my armpit.

The following day, DHD arrived before noon.

Now I've been using DHD for about a month, and ever since this piece of artwork landed at my hand, it has never failed to amuse me with all of its features.

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Forever Alone

2011-02-14T21:27:00.001+07:00

Got new contents

2011-02-14T20:11:00.001+07:00

So I am kinda back to doing some blog postings. Maybe I lied when I said that I would take care of this blog much better but yeah things have been kinda demanding lately (again) -___- So here I am, back in this spot with new posting materials, wishing that I can deliver things on time and on target.

No I am not gonna be bragging about the new 4.3 inch screen, 1ghz ram, dolby surround sound, powerful android 2.2 desire HD (okay that's too much) or maybe whining about how unproductive my holiday was, but I guess I'll post some fun stuffs regularly. Later on, I will post some stuffs on kaskus too maybe... if possible.

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Kegunaan Database Merge Replication pada SQL Server

2010-12-10T22:07:00.001+07:00

Di dalam penggunaan sebuah aplikasi, terkadang kita membutuhkan database yang tersimpan di dalam sebuah server. Biasanya, jika aplikasi yang kita gunakan adalah aplikasi web atau minimal memiliki web service maka kita bisa mengakses database tersebut. Untuk itu, dibutuhkan koneksi internet untuk menghubungkan aplikasi kita dengan server penyedia database. Di sinilah terkadang terjadi kendala jika koneksi internet tidak memadai atau bahkan tidak ada sama sekali.

Bayangkan sebuah situasi dimana ada petugas pemerintah yang melakukan sensus penduduk ke daerah-daerah. Petugas tersebut menggunakan laptop yang di dalamnya tersedia aplikasi sensus penduduk. Aplikasi ini perlu berhubungan dengan database yang disimpan pada server di Jakarta lewat koneksi internet. Akan tetapi, tugas tempat ia bekerja adalah daerah-daerah pedalaman di Papua yang tidak terjangkau oleh koneksi internet sama sekali. Oleh karena itu, dibutuhkan solusi untuk mengakses database selain menggunakan internet.

Untuk mengatasi masalah di atas, salah satu solusinya adalah dengan melakukan Database Merge Replication di SQL Server. Guna dari database replication ini adalah untuk membuat salinan database pada PC yang dimiliki client dan bisa disinkronisasi suatu waktu dengan database di server. Si petugas akan menerima replika dari database sebenarnya ke dalam laptopnya sebelum berangkat ke Papua. Database yang ia terima ini nantinya hanya perlu diakses secara offline dengan aplikasi sensus penduduk tadi. Setelah si petugas ini kembali ke Jakarta, ia akan melakukan sinkronisasi perubahan database yang dimilikinya dengan database pada server lewat jaringan intranet.

Server yang menyediakan database yang direplikasi disebut sebagai database publisher, sedangkan laptop client yang menerima replika database disebut subscriber. Publisher melakukan publikasi database yang akan direplikasi melalui SQL Server Management Studio. Setelah itu, ia bisa menambah subscriber (local subscription) yang akan mengambil replika database. Client yang membutuhkan database ini akan "berlangganan" database yang dipublish ke dalam database yang dimilikinya. Syaratnya, database tujuan pada client harus memiliki struktur tabel dan stored procedures yang disalin dari published database pada server.

Kebutuhan untuk menggunakan fitur ini tidak begitu berat. Pada komputer client hanya dibutuhkan sebuah aplikasi SQL Server Express untuk mendapatkan replika dari database pada server. Di sisi server, dibutuhkan sebuah SQL Server 2005 atau yang lebih baru asalkan bukan yang express, karena membutuhkan SQL Server Management Studio.

Teknik Database Merge Replication merupakan teknik yang cukup umum ditemui di perusahaan-perusahaan yang melakukan pekerjaan ke daerah-daerah terpencil seperti perusahaan survey, sensus, audit, dan lain sebagainya. Selain meminimalisasi penggunaan internet yang tidak stabil, kegunaan teknik ini adalah untuk menekan dana pembuatan infrastruktur serta pengeluaran biaya internet per orang. :)

(Un)healthy Cigarettes

2010-11-12T20:53:00.001+07:00

This is a picture of "healthy" cigarettes. In its back is written:

Rokok ini memakai tembakau pilihan yang diracik dengan ramuan tradisional warisan leluhur, tanpa menggunakan bahan kimia, sehingga mampu menetralkan Tar dan Nikotin.

Menghisap rokok ini dapat meringankan dan melonggarkan pernafasan.

Raih kenikmatan merokok yang tiada tara, sejak manusia mengenal tembakau.

Below it, there's a warning:
MEROKOK DAPAT MENYEBABKAN KANKER... (etc)...KEHAMILAN DAN JANIN.

On its side, there's a note: TAR: 45,76mg; NIKOTIN 0,56mg

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Definitions of GPS

2010-11-11T11:53:00.001+07:00

what's with the toilet guys srsly

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Chords of "Darlin' My Home" by Core of Soul

2010-11-09T21:41:00.001+07:00

Fans of Core of Soul must know this song from their album "One Love, One Day, One Life". Here's the chords. Girly song, this is.

Romaji by: cori

Intro:
A F#m Dsus4 D
A F#m Dsus4 D

(Verse 1)
A
Hello darlin'
F#m E D
tadaima to ieru shiawase ima kamishimete
A
Hello darlin'
F#m E D
sayonara wo iu sono hi made watashi no subete wo sasageyou

(Pre Chorus)
G
anata ni dakarete
D
hagukumarete
A
sasaerarete
F#m G
hagemasarete
D E (stop)
koko made koreta n' da yo

(Chorus)
D E
nakitai toki ni koso
F#m A
omoidase kono machi no oshie
D E
warawaseta hito no kachi
A
waratta hito no kachi
D E
ongaku wa PE-SUMEIKA-
A F#
sono egao ga PI-SU MEIKA-
D
kono machi ga aru kara
E A
watashi wa doko e demo yukeru no sa

F#m Dsus4 D

(Verse 2)
A
itsuka darlin'
F#m A
ima made no
E D
subete sutete kaette kitemo
A
kitto darlin'
F#m E D
watashi nara kono basho kara mata SUTA-TORAIN wo kiru

(Pre Chorus)
G
anata wo omotte
D
mezashite
A
tachikaette
F# G
mata waratte
D E (stop)
ai shitsudzukete yuku yo

(Chorus)
D E
nakitai toki ni koso
F#m A
omoidase kono machi no keshiki
D E
egao tsukuru hito no machi
A
egao ni naru hito no machi
D E
subarashiki ENTA-TEINA-
A F#m
sono sugao ga PI-SU MEIKA-
D
anata ga iru kara
E A
watashi wa doko made mo yukeru no sa
A7
uuuuh

(Bridge)
D
kasenjiki no hanabi
E
omikoshi no atsui yoru
F#m
fuyu ni mawaru kanransha
A
akari tomotta HA-BA-
D
owari aru inochi wo
E
ikinuke All the people
A
kono machi no you ni people
A
takumashiku are people

D E
osekkai na hodo
A F#m
Darlin, you are my home
D E
wasureraresou mo nai yo
A F#m D
Darlin, you are my home

A F#m Dsus4 D

Applying for Asdos Position

2010-10-28T21:54:00.001+07:00

I actually got rejected when I applied for the lecturer's assistant vacancy. See picture for detail:

(a one liner blog! this should have been posted on twitter but I think my blog is empty now, so yeah)

Froyo Leak on Acer Liquid E + Screen Caps

2010-09-10T18:51:00.001+07:00

Around two days ago I just flashed the Android 2.2 Froyo leak into Liquidos. It now has a totally modified UI called "Acer UI", which is quite unique. It doesn't follow the usual fashion of Android user interface like the ones used in other Android phones.

When you press the unlock button on the left side of the device, you'll directly go into the widgets screen, which is actually the lock screen. Yes, now the lock screen contains widgets. To unlock it, you need to "flip" the screen over by peeling the bottom left corner of the screen upwards.

You'll find yourself on the home screen, with a notification bar in the middle (not on top like usual). If you try to swipe the top screen left, it will show any recent running applications, and to the right it will show the media player. Below the notification bar is a set of shortcuts which can be customized. Notice that I changed the standard messaging application with the Handcent SMS.

And here you will not find any widgets, which sucks, because you need to lock-unlock your phone to gain access to the widgets screen (which is the lock screen). On the lock screen, you can't directly modify its content. You can modify it via the "widgets" application from the application drawer, or by holding the "home" button for a few seconds. This time, it's not the lock screen you're taken to. It's where you modify the lock/widget screen, and you can put widgets here. It's impossible to put shortcuts and folders here though. Bummer :(

Back to the home screen. The notification bar is clickable, and if you click it, it will show the details. You can also swipe it left or right to view more notifications. Also, the shortcuts are actually swipeable (is it even a word?) upwards. It will open the application drawer. You can also access it with the menu button. There are a few new apps here.

"Decor", to decor your home screen and set ringtones.

"MsgExpress", like "Friend Stream" in HTC, to see the recent updates on Facebook and Twitter. If you update your status with this application, it will be seen as "via Acer Mobile". (contents censored)

So far, this has been a huge change in Acer Liquid E. With a huge change like this, it is very possible that old users will find it difficult to get used to the new user interface. No problem though, there's an option to revert it back to the Froyo Android UI.

I actually wanted to write more about its performance, but I'll let other sites (probably the more trusted ones) show them. As for me, I got 28 MFLOPS when I tested it with Linpack, and got around 700 for my Quadrant's score.

Chord Wiro Sableng

2010-08-30T23:53:00.001+07:00

Pada bagian rap sengaja saya ngga tulis chordnya, karena kalaupun ada akan cukup sulit -.-

(Rap)
Rambut gondrong tampak keren
Tegap gagah perkasa
Siapa dia? Wiro Sableng
Membela kebenaran
Membasmi kejahatan
Inilah dia Wiro Sableng
Sikapnya lucu tingkahnya aneh
Percis orang yang kurang ingatan
Dan tak sadar
Dia selengean
Tapi cinta damai
Wiro Sableng disukai banyak orang
Wiro Sableng dasar sableng
Gurunya gendeng muridnya sableng

Cm             G#m
Aku melangkah menyusuri dunia
     Fm             G
Mencari arti kehidupan
Cm                     G#m
Walau rintangan menghalangi aku
Fm                     G
Tetap tabah menghadapinya

Fm
Sibakkan tirai yang
                Cm
Menyelimuti diri
    G#m   A#m       Cm
Meraih satu keputusan
Fm
Tegakkan keadilan
              Cm
Seluruh jagad insani
     G#m      A#m
Cahaya kemenangan
               Cm
Menyatu hati nurani

Wiro Wiro Sableng
Sinto Sinto Gendeng
Wiro Murid Sableng
Sinto Guru Gendeng

Wiro Sasono itu nama aslinya
Lahir dari ibu bernama Suci
Dengan ayahnya bernama Raden
Ranawolan
Dan dibesarkan oleh seorang guru
Bernama Sinto Geni
Alias eyang Sinto Gendeng
Atau Sinto Sinto gila

Wiro Sableng
Mewariskan sebuah senjata sakti
Berupa kampak bermata dua
Berhulu satu berkepala naga
Kampak Naga Geni 212 namanya
Senjata pamungkasnya Wiro Sableng
Yang hebat
Yang siap membasmi
Orang orang jahat

Cm       G#m        Fm
Angka 212 memiliki makna
                  G
Di dalam kehidupan
Cm            G#m
Dalam diri manusia terdapat dua
Fm                     G
Unsur ingat duniawi dan Tuhan

Fm                        Cm
Segala yang ada di dalam dunia ini
        G#m   A#m       Cm
Terdiri atas dua bagian
Fm
Yang berlainan
            Cm
Namun merupakan pasangan
     Gm           A#m       Cm
Semuanya tak dapat terpisahkan

Wiro Wiro Sableng
Sinto Sinto Gendeng
Wiro Murid Sableng
Sinto Guru Gendeng
(2x)

Chord Digimon Versi Indonesia

2010-08-30T23:35:00.001+07:00

Lagi pengen iseng nih, kebetulan abis iseng nyanyi-nyanyi lagu Digimon versi Bahasa Indonesia, dan berikut inilah chordnya yang iseng saya bikin. Mudah-mudahan pas… :

Intro:
G# F# F (6x)

G#
Menjadi KUPU yang sehat
Cm
Terbawa angin berkilau
C#m
Sekarang kupergi
E F# G#
untuk bertemu dikau

G#
Hal yang bukan urusanmu
Cm
Lebih baik lupakan saja
C#m
Tidak ada waktu
E F# G#
untuk bermain-main

Pre-Chorus:

         G#              C
Apa yang wow wow wow wow wow
       F            G#
Bisa dicapai di langit ini
             G#               C
Tetapi wow wow wow wow wow
C#       D#      E      F     D#
Kita tidak tahu rencana esok hari

Chorus:

    G#       D#                  F
Setelah mimpi panjang tiada akhir
C
Di dunia sepi
        C#       F
Hingga pikiran bersemangat
C#         D#
Kelihatan akan kalah

    G#       D#                  F
Tapi kepak sayap tiada kabarnya
C
Hanya berkhayal
    C#       F
Pastikan bisa terbang
E F#     G#
Oh sayangku

Stuck in My Head

2010-08-16T05:08:00.001+07:00

There is always a song that gets stuck in my head in every Ramadan. These songs get stuck mostly because they are on tv during the sahur time or near ifthar. Well, you know people usually turns on the tv during sahur at 3 am to watch comedies and near 6 pm to keep track of ifthar's time.

If I recall correctly, a few years ago there was Opick's "obat hati/tombo ati" from RCTI, and then Ungu's "para pencari tuhan", and then Gita Gutawa's doa berpuasa. This year.. what is it?

... apapun yang terjadi.. ku kan slalu ada untukmu...

...it's from XL's commercials -.-

Battery Leeched

2010-08-06T06:10:00.001+07:00

Recently I just did something revolutionary to Androidos: rooting. At the same time, few applications got its update for a newer version. So after rooting this androidos I directly upgraded some of my applications too.

Some of the apps were google maps, facebook, twidroyd, and some few stupidly addicting apps like moron test. Assuming all is going to get well, everything was installed. But then disasters happen.

First, I can see that androidos' battery gets drained far quicker than usual. I could keep androidos turned on for 10-12 hours until eventually I had to recharge it. But now I couldn't even do anything while it is charging. It even drained my battery while charging lol. So I have to turn the packet data off, close all apps, and keep it plugged in for a guaranteed performance.

But who wants to keep his mobile phone attached to a single place? That kills the phone's purpose of being "mobile".

Not only that, I also suddenly got a "low memory on disk space" notification while actually I haven't installed big apps. Then I checked what had caused a memory leak too. Turned out it was my contacts data, which had been nicely destroyed by the Facebook sync.

The sync caused my contacts to get much more data than they needed. They got ten times same phone numbers, also ten times same email addresses. Sadly, their profile pic isn't synced. At all.

Luckily I saw @EuroDroid's tweet recently that said the new facebook app had a bug that really drained your battery. Good, now I know the root of all evil in my phone. It's time to downgrade it and resync my contacts only from gmail.

Rickroll'd by cleverbot

2010-08-03T21:32:00.001+07:00

Blogaway! Blogger Client for Android

2010-08-02T20:01:00.001+07:00

This post was made using Blogaway. And now I'm gonna try uploading a picture...

Is it working? :o

Refresh!

2010-07-30T22:15:00.001+07:00

If you have seen any of my pictures of my room that is uploaded via twitter or maybe this blog, you will realize that the picture above looks somewhat different.

In one of the recent posts I shared a story about my room being repainted, and I had to sleep outside for the time being. Now, I'm already back in my room.

My room's wall used to be double coloured; green and blue. Off the floor upwards it was blue coloured, and separated by a wall decor was greens all over to the top. Now, it is all white. Well, I wanted to make it look pure and brighter so white is perfect.

Not only my walls were repainted, the settings around the room were also changed. It is as if the room was rotated 90°. The bed used to face west, which was adjacent to the window. Now it is facing south. Same thing with my laptop table. And now the wardrobe is facing east, just right in front of the window, under the air conditioner. The door.. the door stays in its place of course -.-

Sometimes, you want to make a little change at least to refresh your mind, and that little change could be your room redecoration, your sleeping position, your attire, or simple routines. Make little changes, so you'll be ready for big ones :D

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On Blogger Clients for Androidos

2010-07-29T23:19:00.001+07:00

So, I've been trying out blogger clients for androidos tonight. So far, I have tried three different free blogger clients. First one was Andro-blogger, second was Blogger-droid, and the last one was Blogaway.

Basically, the features that I want from the application are simple: core blog post and image upload. But yeah, being an end-user really makes you a jerk, because you start to ask for more and complain on other things. Same thing happened to me, I began to find weaknesses of each blogger clients.

First one that I tried was Andro-Blogger, which sadly only got three stars on the market. It can retrieve your blog posts, read them, but no edit feature. Also, you can read the comments there, and again, no post comments feature. The reading panel doesn't have a zoom out feature for unknown reasons. Unfortunately, it has no upload picture feature for its editor. To cover it, it can host a picture from other sites, which means it allows posts with multiple pictures.

Second, I tried Blogger-droid. It is very simple and there's not many functions. No reading feature, no comment feature, but it covers my basic needs. It supports image uploading, though I haven't checked where images are uploaded to. It also has a somewhat bad interface, as if the application was made without thinking of the user interface. This app is good for immediate blog posting.

Third one was Blogaway. It has the best user interface out of these three. It supports text styles, picasa image upload, and reading old blog entries. So far, it sounds better than the other two, but not until I tried to post the blog. It didn't reduce my 1MB picture and posted it directly to picasa, and later it kept failing to post the entry to my blog for some reasons I dont know.

So, after trying those three, actually I liked the third one best, only if it didn't fail to upload my post, and didn't upload the image. The first one doesnt have a photo upload feature, which was essential. Now I'm back to using the second client :>

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The Cold, The Smell, and The Mosquitos

2010-07-29T22:32:00.001+07:00

My house has been repainted these whole two weeks. And my room, it's being repainted right now.

First I thought I'd sleep over at one of my family member's room. But seeing Marfa is already older, and I'm too old to sleep in mom and dad's room, I decided to sleep outside.

It is the musholla that I chose to be my temporary hall of slumber (kinda cool name but weird) so I (with the help of those painters) moved my bed here. Also, temporarily the musholla is moved to the living room. Later that night, I claim the territory as mine.

There are always pros and cons, of course. Pros, I can run to the bathroom quickly without having to open my room's door. I can get to the kitchen, living room, etc a door shorter. Basically I can navigate everywhere easier. Well, not a really good advantage there, but yeah it's okay.

Cons, no air conditioner (but it's outside, it is cool here), hundreds of mosquitos, kinda dark, less privacy, and being near the toilet means the smell around my bed depends on what happened inside it. I'll just wait until my room is finished being painted, then I'll return to my rightful throne, my bed. (triumphantly)

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Acer Liquid E: A Solid Liquid In Your Hands!!!

2010-07-24T16:54:00.001+07:00

(entry blog ini ditujukan untuk dilombakan pada Explore Your World With Liquid E - Blogger Competition)
(bukan ditujukan untuk lomba My World With Liquid E – spAcer Writing Competition)

What Is It?

Hmm.. pertama kali saya melihat Acer Liquid E di ICS 2010, yang nyangkut di pikiran saya adalah desainnya yang elegan dan futuristik. Saya sempat dibuat bingung berada di manakah letak layarnya, karena bodynya dibuat seolah-olah menyamarkan keberadaan layarnya. Eh, begitu layarnya dinyalakan, barulah saya bisa lihat kalau di bagian depan, yang berwarna hitam glossy yang luas itu adalah layar WVGA 3.5 inchi. Wah, ini dia yang saya cari-cari! Layar sentuh yang luaaaaasss dan pastinya bikin puaaasss B-)

Tampilan eksterior dari Acer Liquid E ini juga terlihat mengkilap. Bahkan bisa saya pakai buat ngaca walaupun agak gelap (ya iya lah! warnanya kan hitam! *timpuk pake sendal*). Warnanya hitam dan lekukan-lekukan desainnya terlihat “strong”, sehingga mengingatkan saya kepada Darth Vader, si musuh utama dari Luke Skywalker, yang berwarna hitam dan terlihat gagah perkasa. Kenapa Darth Vader? Karena di belakangnya selalu ada kacung-kacungnya, Stormtroopers, yang bisa diibaratkan sebagai handphone-handphone lain dengan kualitas alakadarnya. Hehehe.. Eits, ternyata eh ternyata, walaupun casingnya berwarna hitam dan mengkilap, ternyata saya ngga banyak meninggalkan jejak sidik jari di sana. Entah apa mungkin ini saya aja, atau memang ada yang mengelapnya tanpa sepengetahuan saya? *lirik mbak-mbak SPG* *mimisan*

bahkan Darth Vader pun menyukainya

Di bawah layarnya ada logo “acer”, dan disusul dengan empat buah “tombol”, yang ternyata adalah touchpad. Urutannya dari sebelah kiri adalah “Home”, kemudian “Search”, lalu “Back”, dan terakhir yang paling kanan adalah “Menu”. Acer pede aja ngga memberikan navigation pad, atau trackpad, atau trackball, atau apalah itu. Pastinya sih pede dengan kualitas sensitivitas layar sentuhnya. Acer gitu loh.

Di sebelah kiri, ada tombol lock/unlock yang fungsinya… ya untuk lock dan unlock lah -_- eh, tapi ternyata bisa digunakan juga untuk mematikan handphone lho! *kaget* Lalu di sebelah kanan ada tombol jepretan kamera serta tombol volume, dan di bagian bawah ada port miniUSB yang multifungsi, yaitu untuk bertukar data dengan komputer serta untuk menge-charge baterai. Emang dasar handphone jaman sekarang, untuk menge-charge baterai tinggal colok saja Acer Liquid E ke laptop dan biarkan beberapa saat. Pasti baterai akan segera terisi :D

Yang menarik lagi adalah bagian atasnya. Ternyata ada tiga buah lampu yang berfungsi sebagai notifikasi untuk message, missed call, dan battery status. Wah, kebayang kalau udah ditaruh di kantong kita hanya tinggal “ngintip” saja untuk mengecek sms yang masuk, atau jumlah missed call yang diterima. Ngga perlu repot-repot mengambil dari kantong dulu. Praktis. Sesuai dengan temanya, “Pocket Your World”.

Terakhir, yang ngga kalah kerennya adalah tulisan 5.0 MEGAPIXELS di bagian belakang, tepatnya di bawah kamera. Seolah menandakan inilah era kejayaan smartphone dengan kamera berkualitas tinggi. Ngga sabar mau melihat isinya!

Love On The First Sight

Saya sih udah ngiler begitu melihat ketajaman dan lebar layarnya. Ya gimana ngga coba, 800x400 itu LUAS BANGET, seakan-akan kita ngga perlu takut nyemplungin aplikasi apa aja ke dalam home screen. Kontras warnanya juga kelihatan gimana gitu, kesannya seperti melihat layar TV High Definition. Tajam banget! Padahal warnanya 265k lho. Apakah ini karena keajaiban nama “Liquid” ya, sehingga kualitas warnanya seperti “cairan” warna yang menghanyutkan?

Dengan membawa OS favorit kebanggaan dari yang muda hingga para manula, yaitu Android Éclair 2.1, Acer Liquid E(clair?) memilih “gandengan” yang tepat. Tampilannya yang menarik bisa bikin siapa saja yang melihat langsung jatuh cinta.

Begitu tombol unlock ditekan, langsung saya disambut dengan animasi slide yang aduhai… cantik banget! Wallpapernya, dimana gambar-gambar yang muncul di layar bergerak ke sana kemari, ternyata sudah didukung oleh LiveWallpaper! Wow, ini kan wallpaper yang populer itu, yang gambarnya bisa disentil-sentil dan diganti-ganti sesuka hati itu loh. Saya semakin merasa jatuh hati kepada sang pujaan baru ini, Acer Liquid E. Ingin rasanya saya membuat pantun untuknya…

Bulan dan mentari jatuh cinta…
Angkasa raya gegap gempita…
Acer Android penuh pesona…
Hangatkan hati para pengguna…

Hati ini terasa rindu…
Ingin segera kita bertemu…
Apa daya lihatlah dirimu…
Tak ada uang, aku tak mampu…

Liquid E dengan Android…
Jika ini mimpi, tolong aku dicubit…

love from the very first sight

Seperti air yang mengalir, pantun-pantun romansa meluncur begitu saja dari mulutku…

Karena sudah jatuh hati, ingin rasanya saya mendalami fitur-fitur Acer Liquid E. Langsung saja saya menelusuri kelima buah layar homescreennya. Wow! Haluuuuusss dan lancar sekali transisinya, seperti menyisir gelombang air di sebuah sungai kecil. syuuurrr… syuurrr… Inilah kehebatan Capacitive Touchscreen! :-B

Homescreennya luas, banyak bisa ditaruh widgets di sana. Di ujung kiri dan kanan ada widgets populer yang terkenal dengan nama carousel. Nah, inilah salah satu exclusive feature yang dimiliki Acer Liquid E. Keren!

Begitu tombol main menu dipilih, di layar langsung muncul dengan rapi empat deret aplikasi-aplikasi yang sudah diinstall. Aplikasi yang paling pertama dicari oleh orang-orang yang baru beli smartphone biasanya begini:

Social Networking
Chat
E-mail
Games

Biasa lah anak muda, saya senangnya terhubung online terus 24 jam untuk update status dan lain sebagainya. Sekarang pun saya baru habis update status di Twitter. Hehehe…

Nah, untuk aplikasi Twitter, saya sempat mengira Acer Liquid E ini akan menggandeng Twitter For Android, alias aplikasi resmi Twitter yang digunakan khusus untuk Android. Ternyata tidak demikian untuk Acer Liquid E. Aplikasi twitter yang digunakannya ternyata adalah aplikasi favorit saya, Twidroid, client twitter terbaik tahun 2009-2010. Wow! Best phone, best apps! *pingsan*

twidroid, aplikasi twitter terbaik untuk handheld terbaik!

Dan namanya juga handphone Android, untuk chatting kita bisa memakai salah satu dari ribuan aplikasi chatting yang tersedia di Android Market. Ada Ebuddy, Meebo, YM for Android, dan sebagainya. Tinggal pilih! :-B

Buat ngecek email, di hape ini juga ada aplikasi email yang ngga tanggung-tanggung, gak cuma menyimpan satu account email saja, tetapi maksimal SEPULUH account! Gimana tuh, buat yang suka gonta-ganti pacar tiap hari, atau yang suka kirim-kiriman email sama sepuluh orang cem-cemannya, pasti bakal kesengsem sama aplikasi emailnya Acer Liquid E. *dijitak pacar*

Saya terus iseng-iseng nyoba ngetik SMS, cuma buat menghilangkan rasa penasaran gimana ngetik di Acer Liquid E. Ternyata, walaupun dengan posisi portrait, keyboard yang muncul di layar berukuran cukup lebar dan tepat ukurannya dengan ujung-ujung jari saya. Pilihan bahasanya pun juga banyak, ada Latin, Chinese, Japanese, dan lain sebagainya. Seandainya saya jago bahasa Cina… Acer Liquid E aishiteru… (Lho, itu sih Japanese -_-)

Selanjutnya, favorit saya: Games. Dari dulu, main games di handphone sebenarnya kurang bisa memuaskan hasrat saya. Dengan kualitas handphone jaman dahulu yang ecek-ecek, saya sudah merasa illfeel dengan kata “mobile games”. Eh… ternyata eh ternyata, tahunya, ternyata main game di Acer Liquid E ini enteng bangeeeet! Sedikit-sedikit nyoba main game balapan “Raging Thunder” dengan Accelerometer… eitss! Hasilnya lancar banget! Kenapa ya? Padahal ini game berat lho.

Jawabannya adalah… Acer Liquid E didukung Qualcomm Snapdragon 8250 berkecepatan 768MHZ, RAM 512MB, dan ROM 512MB! Atau, dalam bahasa yang lebih dimengerti orang awam: pokoknya prosesornya cepet! Makanya pantas kalau main game berat lancar-lancar saja! B-)

Buat mendengarkan musik, Acer menyediakan player sendiri, yang namanya nemoPlayer dan Spinlets. Kualitas suaranya jernih, hampir ngga terasa ada “noise” atau orang awam biasa menyebutnya “kresek-kresek”.

Terakhir, ada beberapa aplikasi khas Acer yang hanya ada di Acer Liquid E. Ada Acer System Updates, yang fungsinya adalah untuk mengupdate firmware. Buat yang ngga tahu, firmware itu adalah operating system di mobile phone, seperti Windows & Linux di PC. Jadi dengan aplikasi ini kita bisa download langsung firmware yang baru untuk diinstall di hape ini. Lalu ada juga Acer Setting, yang gunanya buat mengatur bluetooth, wi-fi, dan lain sebagainya. Ya.. semacam shortcut gitu lah, biar gampang nyala-matiin fitur-fitur mobilenya. So handy! :D

Prove that 5.0 Megapixels!

Saat saya melihat foto-foto yang suda ada di dalam handphone ini, saya shock. Mbak-mbak yang difoto cantik bangeeeeett… *bulu idung dicabut sama pacar* aduh ehem maksud saya kualitas gambarnya bagus bangeeeeet… Gambarnya ngga pecah walaupun saya zoom. Bahkan sebuah tulisan yang jauh bisa kelihatan jelas dan gak berbayang. Semakin penasaran saya dengan 5.0 MEGAPIXELS ini!

korban (sebelah kanan) dan pacarnya yang suka mencabut bulu hidung

Langsung lah saya buka aplikasi kameranya tanpa pikir panjang. Saya (pinginnya sih sambil ngumpet biar ga ketahuan) memotret mbak-mbak SPG yang sedang asyik menjelaskan fitur hand held Acer Liquid E ini kepada para pengunjung. Awalnya saya mengira hasil fotonya akan berbayang, tetapi ternyata nggak. Kemampuan kamera 5MP ini menghasilkan gambar yang tajam.

Sedikit kekurangannya, untuk melakukan fokus terhadap objek foto ternyata kamera ini membutuhkan waktu beberapa saat. Kemudian, ternyata saya baru sadar… kameranya tidak dilengkapi flash. Tapi ngga apa-apa toh, kualitas gambarnya sudah SANGAT memuaskan hati :D

Setelah banyak memotret SPG (dan saking banyaknya sampai bisa dikoleksi!) kayaknya asyik kalau mencoba kualitas videonya deh! Langsung saya nyalakan youtube, lalu membuka video klip musik band favorit saya sepanjang masa, (you know, lah…) Ridho Rhoma and Sonet2 Band, dengan kualitas maksimal. Wuuuuushhh… itu progress bar penunjuk waktu video terlihat ngebut selaras kecepatan internet wi-fi yang luar biasa. Gambarnya juga ngga kotak-kotak, ngga pecah sama sekali. *baca ulang brosur* HAH!? Bisa muter video hingga 720p? Pantes!

ternyata Steve Jobs sama Bill Gates juga mengakui kehebatan Acer Liquid E…

Wrap Up!

So… That’s all, hampir semua fitur yang menarik tentang Acer Liquid E ini sudah saya bahas. Kesimpulan yang bisa saya ambil:

Desain eksteriornya jenius! Sangat user friendly.
User Interfacenya Android 2.1 yang dibawanya sangat familiar. Seperti handset keluaran Google pada umumnya, Acer Liquid E ngga terlalu banyak menambah fitur-fitur khas yang berlebihan.
Kecepatannya ga perlu diragukan, karena RAM besar dan prosesor bagus.
Keyboardnya cukup lebar, pas di jari.
Walaupun tanpa flash, kualitas kameranya sangat memuaskan.
Nggak ada radio tuner, ga masalah. Banyak aplikasi Android yang berfungsi mencari frekuensi radio secara online.

Dengan kualitasnya yang setinggi langit seperti ini, siapa sih yang ngga mau sama Acer Liquid E? Masih belum puas? Boleh dibaca sendiri nih specnya dan juga aplikasi apa aja yang sudah ada di dalam handphone ini.

picture & spec source: gadgetin.com, amazon.com, twidroid.com, gsmarena.com, acerid.com

Facebook Roadblock

2010-07-19T17:32:00.001+07:00

Just recently I was trying out a new feature on Psi Instant Messenger, which (supposedly) allows me to connect to the Facebook Chat using a Gmail account. It didn't go pretty well, because I typed my Facebook password wrong (lol). Later, I tried to sign in to Facebook using Firefox, and suddenly I had to enter my password again.

I entered my email address and password.. then:

"We'll start by asking you a couple of questions to confirm that this is your account"

wtheck I'm interrogated! The page address was https://ssl.facebook.com/roadblock/

Then I clicked Continue:

Okay, captcha. And then:

Do you recognize the account activity listed above? Do you? HUH?

Let's see what will happen next. I picked "It looks unfamiliar" by the way.

Then they asked me to create a new password. durr.

This blog post will be a good proof why I changed my password for those of you who's playing my pet society account. I'll give you the new password later. Toodles!

Swwweeeeeeeeet

2010-06-22T23:53:00.001+07:00

That's what you get for having a sweet girlfriend! *points at the mirror*

androidos!

2010-05-31T00:24:00.001+07:00

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the android blogger client.

Favorite Genre of Music?

2010-05-30T00:34:00.001+07:00

Yep, everyone has one. Or maybe some, it depends. I myself also have several different favorite genres, which can be grouped by time. Let's break it down one by one:

1. ~~Westlife~~ Pop

I used to listen to Westlife ALL THE TIME when I was 9 or 10, every morning in the car on the way to school. Mom would play the cassette in an infinite loop mode, and me and Nasha would sing every songs in the album while reading the lyrics. Each time a new album was out, we would buy it and replace the old one with it. When we were bored, we would switch it with pop compilation albums like "NOW 5", "NOW 6" or "NOW 7". I wonder how far did "NOW" go before they eventually stopped counting to infinity. Last time I checked it was 47. Forty generations after mine.

And pop, everybody loves pop. Including you.

2. Japanese Pop/Rock

Japanese songs, though I couldn't understand what any of those singers tell, played an important role throughout my adventure in music (wthell) during the period of junior high and high school. It was the music that I listened to almost every time at that time. Even once I had my Nokia 3230 cell phone which was inserted with a 32mb memory card it was full of Japanese songs. Haruka Kanata, anyone? Naruto? pfft, old times. xD

I didn't listen to the songs because I watched an anime which had the songs in it. I listened to those songs simply because they're good. Now I am at a community that's like a lot more of anime freaks than I am, I don't feel like I don't really belong whenever I listen to these songs.

I even got asked several times whether I watched the <insert a random loli anime here> because I hummed the tunes of its sound track.

3. K-pop and Korean boybands (seriously)

This one was around 2006-2007, mostly when I played Audition (Ayodance) A LOT in internet cafes. Most of the songs were from the game, and I even downloaded >30 songs from a blog that was dedicated for download. Well, most of them were catchy, but the down part was 1. they were boybands, 2. they were boybands, 3. they were boybands. You know Korean boybands, always show their abs while singing, while there's never any relationship between singing and abs.

4. Japanese Jazz

This one's different from J-pop/rock, and most of the time I only listened to one band of this genre: Round Table Feat Nino. It was around 2008 when I started listening to Jazz, and this one was also influenced by a game: Stepmania. You know, DDR, O2jam, the likes. But this one's on pc. I still listen to this genre nowadays.

5. Rock, in general

I would sound stupid for sharing useless things like "I like FOB, Good Charlotte, Green Day etc" but that's the truth, and everybody knows, everybody likes them. I sound stupid, end of story.

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So yeah, those are my favorites.

What if I had bought them all

2010-05-14T13:26:00.001+07:00

This is the list of several core software that I have in my computer and some games that I usually play:

I would have spent 23092 US$ if I had bought them all, which means:

Thanks to MSDNAA and MSDN premium subscriptions… and several abang-abang pinggir jalan who sells game DVDs cheaper xD

The Trendy Attempt

2010-04-30T23:13:00.001+07:00

Exactly in the evening of 30th of April at around 8 to 10 pm there was a planned attempt by hundreds of Fasilkom UI students to make #compfest2010 a trending topic. The attempt was a failure, yet the fun we had and stupid exaggerative tweets that were overabundant totally made our night.

Sad, indeed, as Pepe would have gone to the campus naked (though I wouldn’t want to see him if he did so), Naning, Arini, and several other girls would have run around UI, Lucy would have treated (and maybe still will do so) everyone free Hanamasa, and even some random people will give you free iPod for the most creative tweets.

As the attempt was over, the result felt kinda pathetic:

Compare it with another trending topic “Gulf”:

The complete story for this topic is here at Mashable.com

Probably this is not the time yet for #compfest2010 to be a trending topic. Nonetheless, I can feel the positive atmosphere radiating from everyone who helped the trio (Naning, Panji, Asad) with those tweets tonight. May Compfest 2010 be a huge success.

*back to playing PES. dammit i am two goals behind*

Back in Business

2010-04-27T01:31:00.001+07:00

It’s been a while since I really wrote a blog post. I’ve been busy doing other things, but mostly I have been spending my days being a lovey dovey boyfriend for my cute potato (dammit she’s too cute!). I know I had to write a thing or two here regularly but the thing is I had some kind of loss of passion to write. As a result, I gradually lost the writing skill that I had a long time ago. Even the most recent post that I just made a few minutes ago didn’t look well structured. Maybe this one too.

Recently I realized I used to have a lot of fun writing blogs, because it fits my principle perfectly that I get happiness by making other people happy. Though there ain’t any reader in this blog, I did find it really fun sharing things that made my day, or prolly just made me giggle five minutes before I posted it.

I am now back in business, I’ll try to fill this site with contents again.

Black Eyed Peas, Whopper, and Potato

2010-04-27T01:00:00.000+07:00

Prolly no one except the certain significant other of mine will understand why I put those three objects together as a title for this post, but usually she’s late at recognizing things too, so yeah, she won’t find out quickly :P

Two BEP songs have been playing repeatedly in my playlist, one is “Meet Me Halfway” and the other one is “Alive”. These two songs have been my favorite for some months, and I can listen to these two hit singles in an infinite loop because I love them. They were stuck in my head around the time I had a very unforgettable moment. I daresay these songs picture the moments perfectly.

Next object is a whopper. I have written something about it in one of my previous posts, didn’t I? did I? well uh idk forget it, but this luxurious junk food (i wonder how a junk can be luxurious) was one that helped me paint the unforgettable moment with its sweet and (also) unforgettable sensation.

Lastly, it’s not a real potato that I’m talking about here, but it’s a shorthand for “couch potato” which describes this certain significant other of mine perfectly: a total slacker :))

Back in the 30th Dec last year, prolly those things were some factors that set me in the mood, and were the ones that encouraged the action that I took later that night. What if the song that got stuck in my head was some stupid house-dut (house music+dangdut remixed) and the food that we ate was not a whopper but maybe a standard fried rice? Things might have gone differently, but the end result is still the same xD

Random Facebook Wall Online Game

2010-04-15T21:55:00.001+07:00

Taken from my wall.

Gilang Bhagaskara awakes to find himself in a room. His head is still spinning around. There is a CAR KEY lying on the floor. There is a faint glow from the WINDOW. Exits are SOUTH and WEST.

Tues at 21:22 · Comment

KD likes this.

^lol
Exit through SOUTH

Tues at 21:34 ·

ignoring the pain in the head, he tries to walk SOUTH. He walks slowly to the door and opens it. Turns out it's a garage. He is now looking at the EXPENSIVE HONDA CAR. The GARAGE DOOR is closed. There's also a faint glow from the WINDOW.

Tues at 21:41 ·

Break the window of EXPENSIVE HONDA CAR
Sorry, just feeling like being violent :p

Tues at 21:49 ·

panics! The alarm went off and made a loud noise. He closes both ears with his hands and runs back to the previous room, closing the door behind. +4 ADRENALINE. -2 CONFIDENCE. Exits are SOUTH and WEST.

Tues at 21:55 ·

Hey why -2 confidence -.- one should be confident after being violent -.-
Okay then
Exit through WEST

Tues at 21:57 ·

tries to open the door but turns out it is locked! What is he going to do?

Tues at 21:59 ·

As you wish, check INVENTORY -.-

Tues at 22:01 ·

checks his pocket and draws a box of BLUEBERRY FROZZ, his SMART PHONE, and SOME CASH. GOT RP500! The SMART PHONE is showing the TWITTER TIMELINE. He checks the other pocket and draws a STRANGE KEY

Tues at 22:05 ·

Make a random call from the SMART PHONE

Tues at 22:09 ·

tries to speak to the conversation partner at the other end of the phone. Apparently he doesn't speak English, but Chinese.

Tues at 22:13 ·

Well can't the character speak chinese? Aw come ooon -.-
Try to exit through WEST with the STRANGE KEY

Tues at 22:15 ·

opens the door and walks through the LIVINGROOM. There's a random Indosiar Sinetron showing on the TELEVISION on the southern side of the room. A COMFY COUCH and a COFFEE TABLE is in front of the tv. Exits are EAST and NORTH.

Tues at 22:19 ·

ARPT

INTERCEPTION
Stand on COFFEE TABLE, JUMP KICK the TELEVISION

Tues at 22:25 ·

RESTART;

Tues at 22:29 ·

kicks the tv so hard that it explodes. The explosion blows him meters away to the wall. HIDDEN DOOR REVEALED.

Tues at 22:30 ·

restarts and resumes from the check point. HIDDEN DOOR REVEALED.

Tues at 22:31 ·

ARPT

TALK with HIDDEN DOOR

Tues at 22:31 ·

Prastudy Fauzi

/*
Yah, gagal, kirian bakal kembali ke
" awakes to find himself in a room. His head is still spinning around. There is a CAR KEY lying on the floor. There is a faint glow from the WINDOW. Exits are SOUTH and WEST."
*/
... See more
Inspect hidden door

Tues at 22:32 ·

Check the COFFEE TABLE
Exit through HIDDEN DOOR

Tues at 22:33 ·

thinks that's an awesome idea! The HIDDEN DOOR replies: "LOREM IPSUM DOLOR SIT AMET". He draws his SMART PHONE and writes down what it says. +4 CONFIDENCE

Tues at 22:34 ·

inspects some mysterious patterns on the HIDDEN DOOR and can't understand anything. -7 INTELLIGENCE. He walks to the COFFEE TABLE, takes a can of PEPSI and a box of POCKY and walks straight through the HIDDEN DOOR. The HIDDEN DOOR closes suddenly. The HIDDEN ROOM is dark.

Tues at 22:37 ·

reads the TWITTER TIMELINE and receives a reply from his girlfriend saying how handsome he is. +5 CONFIDENCE.

Tues at 22:38 ·

Play with fire
~:))

Tues at 22:39 ·

ARPT

Use HIDDEN POWER

Tues at 22:40 ·

starts glowing on his head. Thinks he looks cool with a glowing head. +5 CONFIDENCE.
He can now see his surroundings. There's a CHEST on the right side, and a SWITCH to turn on the lamp to his left.

Tues at 22:46 ·

Shake PEPSI throw PEPSI randomly

Tues at 22:48 ·

ARPT

lift CHEST, throw to SWITCH

Tues at 22:49 ·

throws PEPSI to his head, explodes.
-5 HEALTH.

Tues at 22:52 ·

Use POCKY as a MAGIC WAND

Tues at 22:55 ·

Eat POCKY

Tues at 22:55 ·

waves his pocky around and a pikachu appears out of thin air. PIKACHU JOINS THE PARTY. Tries to eat the pocky, but PIKACHU steals it from him. Item lost: POCKY.

Tues at 23:22 ·

Throw POKEBALL at PIKACHU

Tues at 23:23 ·

tries to lift the chest but it is too heavy.

Tues at 23:26 ·

reaches out his pocket but there is no POKEBALL left. He throws his SMART PHONE instead. PIKACHU gets mad. FIGHT, RUN, DANCE?

Tues at 23:39 ·

Dance

Tues at 23:41 ·

ARPT

FIGHT
then (SWORDS) DANCE

Tues at 23:46 ·

TAIL WHIP, FLASH, DREAMEATER, or SNORE?

Yesterday at 10:57 ·

TAIL WHIP till 1st pokemon dies, then use TACKLE with the second one..

Yesterday at 11:05 ·

ga ada yang lanjut lagi?
then
TO BE CONTINUED TO
EPISODE 2: PIKACHU'S REVENGE

Yesterday at 16:38 ·

then EPISODE 1 : The Pikachu Menace...

Yesterday at 17:46 ·

~this post serves as a backup for my stupid wall game, don’t expect much.

CGT 2010 – Round Table feat Nino “Message”

2010-03-14T09:08:00.001+07:00

As I have written in one of my previous posts that at CGT 2010 we will perform “Message” by Round Table feat Nino, so here it is. Enjoy :D

Googling My Name

2010-02-28T01:33:00.001+07:00

Have you ever googled your name? Which page were you actually at? Well look at this for the result when I searched my name on google.com (not google.co.id):

As you can see, THIS blog sits at the throne, it is the top site when you type “gilang” on the google.com search panel and hit the Search button. This blog is the website that you will be redirected to whenever you type “gilang” and hit the I’m Feeling Lucky feature.

No worries for the closest threat that sits on the second place because that blog (Gilang Pratama) isn’t active anymore. At least the last post was made in 2007, which means it’s kinda forgotten now. Probably, before this sciters.blogspot.com existed back then, Gilang Pratama sat on the throne.

No worries too for the second closest threat which is in fact a facebook page, and it seems like it’s dead too.

The image search from google returns this picture as the top search. Congratulations, Dazzlin’ Doctor from UGM :P

How about http://gilang.hamidy.net, the blog that the other gilang in my campus made? Just keep up, dude, you’ll eventually surpass this uber random site. Oh, just FYI, the other Gilang Bhagaskara made it to the first page too :))

Siaran TV Senin, 10.40 Pagi

2010-02-22T11:25:00.001+07:00

Jadi ceritanya gua semenjak hari Jumat kemarin sampai Senin ini lagi sakit. Dikira sekitar hari Minggu gua udah mendingan, tapi ternyata masih tetep sakit walaupun udah minum panadol, paramex, bahkan obat batuk cina yang harganya 50.000 (tapi rasanya tetep kayak OBH Combi =.=). Jadinya gua ga masuk ke kampus di hari Senin ini, dan terpaksa nonton TV aja di rumah, gara-gara potato ngga ngizinin internetan >:0

Begitu TV gua nyalain, channel yang langsung ada di layar adalah channel 14, SPACE TOON. Pasti gara-gara Marfa abis nonton kartun tadi pagi. Langsung aja gua ganti ke channel lain yang kira-kira punya acara yang berbobot. Target utama gua adalah Global TV, Metro TV, dan Trans TV. Biar kegambar, urutan stasiun televisi di TV gua begini:

TVRI
Trans TV
TPI
SCTV
RCTI
ANTV
Indosiar
Metro TV
Trans7
Global TV
TVONE
OChannel
JAKTV
Space Toon

Karena tombol angka-angka di remot TV gua rusak, terpaksa gua harus pencet atas atau bawah untuk menuju ke saluran TV yang gua mau.

Pas mau ke Global TV, gua harus melewati JAKTV yang ternyata lagi promosi Lejel HAPPY CALL FRYING PAN, dan kemudian ke OChannel yang juga ternyata lagi promosi benda yang sama, dengan video koki yang sama, hanya sedikit lebih terlambat dari JAKTV. Kemudian gua ke TVONE, yang ternyata lagi iklan. Sampai di Global TV, ternyata dia juga lagi iklan. Oh well, turun lagi ke channel-channel lain.

Setelah itu gua turun ke Trans7 yang lagi nyiarin reality show yang judulnya “60 seconds”. Entah lagi ngapain mereka, kelihatannya presenternya lagi bawa-bawa nasi bungkus nawarin cabe rawit ke target pejalan kaki di jalan raya, tapi yang jelas gua ngga tertarik. Channel selanjutnya adalah Metro TV, gua berharap ada siaran berita olahraga atau seenggak-enggaknya siaran berita internasional apa aja yang bisa bikin gua terhibur. Dan gua mendapatkannya… dalam bahasa China. Ternyata Metro Xin Wen. Duh. Mana bisa gua ngerti. Gua turun lagi.

Di Indosiar, as expected, lagi ada adegan “sinetron” atau lebih tepatnya “sinema india wannabe” dimana sang jagoan (cowok kekar rambutnya gondrong) sedang berjibaku dengan dua-tiga orang penjahat yang ingin membunuh kekasihnya. Tentu saja percakapannya didubbing. Sesegera mungkin gua loncat ke bawahnya, ANTV.

Ternyata di ANTV lagi ada film petualangan luar negeri! Woooohoo~ kelihatannya cukup menarik, ada sekumpulan petualang yang tersesat di hutan, dan kelihatannya mereka lagi bersembunyi dari orang jahat sehingga mereka ngga bersuara sedikitpun. Suasana sunyi senyap, hanya ada suara-suara langkah kaki. Akhirnya salah satu dari mereka bersuara, “kita harus keluar dari sini,” OH COME ON, kenapa mesti didubbing? Ga kenal teknologi yang namanya subtitle? D:

Di RCTI, sesuai perkiraan juga, lagi ada dahSyat. Judul acaranya harus ditulis dengan cara begitu karena… ya… kalian tahu lah. I instantly skipped to SCTV. Ternyata lagi iklan. Setelah itu gua langsung ke TPI, dan tanpa perlu lihat isinya gua langsung pencet tombol bawah lagi langsung ke Trans TV. ternyata di sana ada DeRings. Judul acaranya juga harus ditulis demikian karena… ya…

Setelah bosan melakukan perjalanan turun dari channel 14 ke bawah, gua memutuskan untuk kembali melihat acara apa yang ada di SCTV dan Global TV karena tadi lagi iklan. Pertama-tama gua ke SCTV, ternyata lagi ada film FTV dimana ada anak cewek yang kuliah di Bali dan tinggal di sebuah kos-kosan sedang berkenalan dengan bapak pemilik kosannya. Karena ngga begitu tertarik, gua ngelanjutin skimming channel-channel lainnya.

Balik lagi ke Indosiar, ternyata sang jagoan gagal menyelamatkan kekasihnya dan sambil berlinang air mata berkata “aku selalu mencintaimu, kekasihku” (masih didubbing). Kemudian Ia membakar kayu yang mengelilingi jasad kekasihnya tersebut. Adegan tersebut dilakukan di depan sebuah kastil, tapi anehnya di dekat mereka ada orang-orang yang memakai seragam pegawai negeri. Gua jadi bertanya-tanya, di negara apakah sebenarnya adegan ini diambil?

Gua berhenti dulu di Trans7 untuk melihat iklan Tori Tori Cheese Cracker, baru habis itu ke Global TV. Di Global TV ternyata lagi ada sebuah acara kriminal, dimana sedang ada adegan rekayasa ulang kriminal dengan tulisan di kiri bawah “reka ulang adegan ini diperankan oleh model”. Yah, kecewa deh. Akhirnya gua memutuskan untuk nonton dahSyat aja. Sayang, saat kembali ke RCTI, acaranya sudah berganti menjadi… Silet.

*matiin TV, nyalain laptop, blogging* (oops, ketauan deh sempet online :P)

Woot

2010-02-16T14:18:00.001+07:00

(taken from Encyclopedia Mythica)

Definition of Woot:

A supernatural being of the Kuba. He is the son of the sky-god Mbomba and the earth-mother and lives among mankind. His sister and wife is Mweel. Woot named all the animals and the plants.

The nine sons of Woot — who are also called Woot — helped their father in different aspects of creation, clearing the land and planting. The two youngest sons invented the idea of pointed things and the skill of sharpening. When the inventor of pointed things wounds the sharpener, evil and death were introduced into the world. Another son slept with Mweel and was subsequently banished. Woot put a curse on the village so that all the women living there became barren as a result. Eventually he relented and lifted the curse.

woot, i never tought the word would actually have a deep meaning xD

Cabaret, Dirty Minded Director, and Boredom

2010-01-30T19:52:00.001+07:00

The title speaks for the new movie I just saw, Nine. I’m not a movie critic here but allow me to summarize what I saw for half an hour before I eventually walked out of the studio while the movie hadn't even reached half of its way.

Nine is a musical drama. You know, High School Musical, etc but it’s with Italiano style. The story takes place in Italy, and the time period is around the second world war or a few years after. Well this was as far as I could know about this movie before I went to see it today. It turned out that there were way more that I had to know before I decided to choose it over Dwayne’s Tooth Fairy. This makes it to the list of my “Top 10 Boring Movies”, along with Feast of Love, Harry Potter 6, and several other ones. (my list of “Top 10 Boring Movies” doesn’t have Twilight in it, because it belongs to my list of “Movies With Gay Vampires In It” that only has the Twilight Series in it)

If I have to say what this movie is about, then there’s not much that I can say. The plot was simple actually, well at least until the part where I walked out through that studio door: A sex oriented movie director, Guido Contini, is making his ninth movie, and is involved in an affair with an actress (Penelope Cruz, forgot what her name in the movie was, let’s just call her that way). He seldom thinks of everything around him as a stage where women in cabaret costumes dance erotically (and once he thinks like that, goes another five minutes of an erotic dance on the screen).

The first scene involves a director, Guido Contini, who walked into a movie studio, and started to imagine wild things: dancers, music, and a full stage cabaret set. Then everybody started to dance and sing several songs, but mostly I just heard them shouting “Guido! Guido!” as the lyrics. The dance? It was erotic. I mean, what do you expect when there’s a woman in a cabaret costume, a pole, and a stage? You’re right, I was expecting she was going to do pole vaulting in a cabaret costume too, maybe while riding a horse to spice it up, but sadly she was just pole dancing instead. Not a good first impression for this movie, that was what I thought. I was right. Because the next whole scenes were just repeated routines.

By the way, there was a scene where Penelope was the main character for one of Guido’s freakish thoughts. I’ll try to summarize what she did:

strums hair
exposes chest cleavage
slides down the stairs
rolls on the floor
clutches chest
opens legs wide
gets up
shakes butt
walks slowly

Okay I think that’s enough to describe how erotic the dance was. Once again, I regret I didn’t watch Tooth Fairy today, for I would have had a good laugh instead of holding my head on my palm for an hour and a half before eventually went out in boredom. Oh, actually I giggled a little when Penelope said the infamous dialog: I’ll be waiting for you here with my legs open! :))

Technical Blog

2010-01-27T19:55:00.001+07:00

I’ve just made a new blog that focuses mainly about technical stuffs, so why don’t you pay a visit to this link? It’s still empty though, but I’ll write some serious stuffs there.

*nods and puts up a serious face* *hair starts falling*

Wild Imagination

2010-01-22T19:11:00.001+07:00

Just recently I just discovered that I’ve got this somewhat useless talent: Blabber about crazy wild useless things in YM and turn it into something awesome. Oh, if you have read several posts of mine before you must have known the pattern. They’re stupid (yet funny and wild) conversations between me and either victim KD, or victim AP, or victim AR, and recently with victim SM >:)

Enjoy this post.

(before you start, you may want to check who the characters are. check them on facebook)

gilang: salam rindu cup cup muah katanya
gilang: katanya munir
KD: terima kasih banyak
KD: si haido blom?
KD: lagi stress dirumah dia
gilang: haido lagi BBan
gilang: bau badanan
gilang: jadi meper2 ketek ke tetangga2
KD: gelai abis
gilang: sambil mulut dimonyong2in
gilang: unyunyunyu gitu
KD: makin gelai
gilang: abis itu ketawa sambil megangin perut
KD: trus buka celana
gilang: abis itu lari sambil tangannya di atas
gilang: masih ketawa. mulut masih unyunyu
KD: trus naik metro mini
gilang: ke kantor polisi ya, bikin ktp baru
gilang: jadi aditya zainir
KD: pas ktpnya selese pergi beli baba rafi
KD: kenapa jadi munir..??!!
gilang: trus tiba2 semua orang di dunia ini yg namanya aditya zainir pada buka celana
gilang: dan ikut ke baba rafi
KD: trus baba rafi jadi bisa pergi ke eropa
gilang: ikut imagine cup, tema: how BB can help human solve the toughest problem
KD: yaitu bagaimana menggunakan bb sambil naik motor
gilang: ga pake celana, mulut nyunyunyu. oh man, juara satu nih
KD: pastinya
KD: blom lagi polandia terkenal ama sate padangnya
gilang: pake bumbu rujak
gilang: diulek pake bibir, harus sambil nyunyunyu
KD: ~nyunyunyu

~nyunyunyu

(The End)

formspring.me

2010-01-14T21:56:00.001+07:00

Q: “If you could wake up as anyone tomorrow, who would it be?”
A: “I would be Lionel Messi and score a lot of goals against Sevilla \o/”

Ask me anything

The Daily Sounds

2010-01-13T22:25:00.001+07:00

There's this website (http://www.dailywav.com) that gives you a sound taken from movie conversations or TV shows each day. It has run for 15 years and it always gives different sounds everyday. The sounds ain’t big in size actually, just around ~40 kb so you can download em from your blackberry *points at a potato* >:)

So I explored the pages and downloaded several sounds from the recent dates. Some are interesting, and some are unknown. I’ll pick random dates in 2009 just for fun :P (click on the quote to download the sound effect)

26 July 2009: "Do my eyes deceive me? Is this some apparition I see before me? Or could it be... my hero! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! He he he he he!" [Mark Walton (Rhino) from Bolt]

03 February 2009: "Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just do things." [Heath Ledger (The Joker) from The Dark Knight]

30 December 2009: "Good afternoon. My name is Russell, and I am a Wilderness Explorer in Tribe 54, Sweatlodge 12. Are you in need of any assistance today, sir?" [Jordan Nagai (Russell) from Up]

So, we’ve got one from “Bolt”, one from “The Dark Knight”, and the last is from “Up”. Download em, and listen to what they say. It’s fun, and it gets more fun once you realize that the dates aren’t random :))

Long and winding story to get a KTP

2009-12-29T13:48:00.001+07:00

I just realized that I actually have this long and stupid story about a 15-year-old girl trying to get her KTP. Enjoy the laugh.

By the way, if you don't know who "Nicky" is, you might want to open this link first before reading.

Fan of Bellamy (1:51:13): I'M 15!!!
Fan of Bellamy (1:51:21): *backflip 360 heeldrop*
Gilang Bhagaskara (1:51:27): okay okay 15
Gilang Bhagaskara (1:52:02): *you didn't land your feet on my face, you landed on pak chan's face*
Fan of Bellamy (1:53:04): *runs away*
Fan of Bellamy (1:53:13): He didn't get to see my face
Gilang Bhagaskara (1:53:23): somehow, you left your NPM
Gilang Bhagaskara (1:53:45): why the hell does anyone leave their NPM after kicking a dean?
Fan of Bellamy (1:54:18): Bahaahahahahahah bad storyline bad storyline!
Gilang Bhagaskara (1:55:21): okay, let's just say you left yours. it was like, "KAPOW, OH MY FISHIN BUBBLE GUM CHEWING GOAT, I'M SO DEAD, HERE'S MY NPM AND NOW IT'S TIME TO RUN AWAY"
Fan of Bellamy (1:55:39): actually I manipulated the NPM somehow before he saw it
Gilang Bhagaskara (1:56:06): yeah you manipulated it into someone else's which is not mine
Fan of Bellamy (1:57:44): Yes it was ulfah's but she manipulated it again somehow to YOUR NPM before the dean saw it.
Fan of Bellamy (1:58:03): And you ran out of time
Fan of Bellamy (1:58:04): No manipulating for you
Gilang Bhagaskara (1:59:45): why would she be in the story? -.- she was sleeping all the time, she was sleepthinking that your npm was mine, and deliberately sleepchanged it to /my/ npm which was actually yours, handed it to the dean, and back to sleep. and yes, we both ran out of time
Fan of Bellamy (2:03:30): BAD STORYLINE BAD STORYLINE
Fan of Bellamy (2:03:55): But fortunately I summoned buri buri zaemon earlier so he manipulated the NPM to the dean's npm when he was in college
Fan of Bellamy (2:04:07): Now the dean is left confused
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:04:25): look, we're on the oscar nomination award show, and my storyline is nominated as the most creative and mean story. i winning?
Fan of Bellamy (2:08:14): The storyine won but sadly pak chan is claiming the storyline saying it's his awww pooooor boy
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:08:44): i'm not that desperate anyway
Fan of Bellamy (2:08:44): So he got to the stage taking the credit
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:09:03): because later pak chan treated me a whopper
Fan of Bellamy (2:09:04): Bahahahhahah whateeever
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:09:13): and he kicked you out when you were begging for one
Fan of Bellamy (2:09:49): YOU LET GO AN OSCAR FOR A WHOPPER? DUMBASSSSS
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:10:31): yea, i didn't need to win this one because i had won 371284623846 other oscar awards the other day
Fan of Bellamy (2:10:57): Wtffish
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:11:13): and my passive income is x USD per day, and replace x with infinity.
Fan of Bellamy (2:12:55): So I was outside the building, mourning because you and pak chan kicked me out. It was snowing hard *l'ebay*. And suddenly someone said to me "I can buy you every BK in the world if you want me to". Turned out it's Bellamy
Fan of Bellamy (2:13:34): You got bored with your money and pak chan and I travelled the world with matt, dom, and chris HAHHAHA
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:14:58): next second, Bellamy turned his face to you. that was the time you realized that he wasn't matt bellamy from muse, that's NICKY BELLAMY. you had been riding along the different guy~
Fan of Bellamy (2:15:02): You died out of boredom, I died out of happiness
Fan of Bellamy (2:15:47): WHO THE HELL IS NICKY BELLAMY
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:16:08): ... that was the expression when you saw NICKY BELLAMY'S face
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:16:47): couldn't accept the truth, you ran away, cried, and returned to where I was, and I was still eating whopper, lots of em
Fan of Bellamy (2:17:47): Then I ran away from that nicky-anybody and accidentally bumped to Dominic Kyle Sandoval the man with black hair and blonde streaks of Quest Crew
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:18:19): your argument is invalid
Fan of Bellamy (2:18:31): I left you who ate trucks of whopper and got fat, I flied to LA
Fan of Bellamy (2:19:22): Let's just say I bumped to dtrix after I ran away from you and pak chan -.-
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:19:48): no nicky bellame?
Fan of Bellamy (2:21:27): So I ran away from nicky-whatsoever and got to you and pak chan, and ran away from you too, and bumped to dtrix. Are we clear?
Fan of Bellamy (2:21:28): Not you too but you two I meant
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:22:31): so, you officially ran away from pak chan? suddenly, you got an instant college drop out!
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:22:47): no wait, pak chan was not that mean
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:23:58): he didn't drop you out from fasilkom, but made you sit down on lab 1103, and gave you tons of recursive programming assignments
Fan of Bellamy (2:24:30): I got a semester off and traveled the world with dtrix
Fan of Bellamy (2:24:35): You got a semester off and worked at a BK in the south pole
Fan of Bellamy (2:24:46): No I got a semester off BOOOOOO
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:26:48): turns out dtrix is pak chan's brother! pak chan gave him his laptop, full of DDP assignments, and you were attached to this dnickytrix to do DDP assignments for the rest of your life. no, dnickytrix can't do programming. did i not say dnickytrix?
Fan of Bellamy (2:27:42): Wtfffffffffffiiiiiish
Fan of Bellamy (2:29:54): Somehow I ran away, again from this other nicky and ended up in fasilkom's canteen. I ordered indomie telor kornet, ate it, and lived happily in fasilkom. Pak chan became so kind to me somehow that he freed me from any assignments and homeworks
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:31:02): too long, didn't read
Fan of Bellamy (2:31:42): Ffffffffish
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:32:28): you ordered indomie telor kornet but couldn't pay it because you didn't have any money. though pak chan was nice to you, the canteen people were mad at you and made you wash the dishes for the rest of your life.
Fan of Bellamy (2:33:54): But the dishwashers recalled a touching moment when I interviewed them for PMB and freed me yeaaaaaay
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:34:32): before you got freed, one day, one of the dishes slipped and fell to the floor, exploded, and you died because of it. yes, dish explodes sometimes.
Fan of Bellamy (2:35:13): No turning baaaack!!!
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:35:51): :\
Fan of Bellamy (2:36:18): Bahahahahahaha be creative dude go on
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:37:04): (well i was gonna say something really reeeaaally mean but i'm afraid it would make you cry, so i'm thinking about other ideas)
Fan of Bellamy (2:37:23): Wtfffffish
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:37:54): (okay this new spontaneous idea is simple)
Fan of Bellamy (2:38:36): Why is the whole thing about me? How were you in the north pole?
Fan of Bellamy (2:38:38): Spilll
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:38:52): you bid farewell to the canteen people, packed your bags, and walked away from fasilkom. you realized you had nowhere to go but to the BK in south pole, place where I worked
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:39:09): and it's south pole, not north pole, short memory syndrome sucks huh?
Fan of Bellamy (2:39:40): Ahahahahaha whatever
Fan of Bellamy (2:40:16): And that's lame, why would I have nowhere to go zzzz
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:41:10): because the first thing that came in your mind after you left fasilkom was me, you just couldn't sleep each night thinking of me
Fan of Bellamy (2:42:17): Wtheck is that -.-
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:42:31): what the heck is that? that's truth!
Fan of Bellamy (2:43:34): Yes I couldn't sleep, thinking about you because I still remember that you owed me 1000000$ somehow
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:44:24): i paid you that money because my BK-in-south-pole business made me a hamburger tycoon
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:44:34): so that was an easy money
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:44:58): didn't i mention that my passive income from making movies were x USD per day, and replace x with infinity?
Fan of Bellamy (2:45:09): Waith $1000000
Fan of Bellamy (2:45:19): *wait
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:45:28):
Fan of Bellamy (2:46:35): Who said you couldn't pay? So yeah I got my money back and met up with the real Quest Crew members and left you at the pole with your burgers
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:47:33): hey look! Quest Crew just hired a part-timer, guess who was it? NICKY BELLAMY IS BACK~
Fan of Bellamy (2:49:28): Then because I've met QC I got back to Indonesia *technically running away from nick* and actually 2 years passed by and I got my KTP
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:49:57): awwww that's a sweet way to get your KTP
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:50:08): so this story is all about you getting your ktp?
Fan of Bellamy (2:50:26): BAHAHHAHA idk -.-
Fan of Bellamy (2:51:50): Hopefully real life won't be like that. Super tough -.-
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:52:08): you looked at that new ktp in your hand. you cried, you held it high, and read it out loud: "kartu tanda pecinta nick, namely Fan of Bellamy". YOU WERE NOT GIVEN A KTP BUT A KTPN INSTEAD
Gilang Bhagaskara (2:52:27): okay that would be super lame ending
Fan of Bellamy (2:52:38): WTFFFFFISH

on Windows 7 and Dell Vostro 1088

2009-12-24T22:43:00.001+07:00

This is the first post that I made using windows 7 MSDN AA from my new laptop Dell Vostro 1088.

(and yet the shortest blog entry i guess?) xD

This blog has long malfunctioned, but it's okay

2009-12-10T22:04:00.001+07:00

At first I thought this blog would be a way for me to express what I feel, but later I couldn't use it as what it should have been. I just couldn't express what I felt to this blog, since it would ruin my privacy. Thank God I still have my clear mind, because I'd better keep what I think in my mind and not express it in a form of wall of text. *brb deleting emotional entries*

top gan

Matchups

2009-12-09T09:25:00.001+07:00

Recently I opened a pokemon face off site that gives you two random pokemons and lets you choose which one would win if they battled. But it seems the randomizer was kinda effed up that things like these happened:

how the hell can a cocoon win against a legendary fire beast

and this one is a battle between a caterpillar and a dragon

I can't decide... which side will win (no, srsly)

On being a coverboy and a self-reflection to the past Me

2009-11-29T10:22:00.001+07:00

I had the experience of being a coverboy, once. It was when I was on the 6th grade of my elementary school, SDIT Nurul Fikri, which means eight years ago when I was 12 years old.

It was that day, when one of my neighbor, who was working for a well-known child magazine "Andaka", visited my house for a short interview with me. She told me that my profile was needed for an article on that magazine. Look at this picture for a comparison between the present and the past Gilang:

lol I was chubby

On that article, my neighbor wrote a LOT of things about me, which I didn't think was going to be added to that article. Nothing much about me that anyone could write on a two-page article, yet this reporter did an amazing job to rant about a lot of things that I did, which in fact I didn't do. lol. See it yourself.

look at that pose! how cute!

If you noticed it on the last picture, she wrote that I was already a competent user of Ms Office Word, Excel, Power Point, and Page Maker since grade 3. In fact, I was only good at opening a new file, reading it, and closing it again :P

And why does a 12-year-old boy have to be good at Ms Page Maker?

Lastly, this is the short biography of me on the bottom-right corner of the page:

Full name: Gilang Bhagaskara
Nick name: Gilang
Gender: Male
Hobby: Reading books
Favorite color: Green
Favorite food: Pizza
Favorite fruit: grapes
Pet: cat

No changes, except my hobby :P

I fell for it

2009-11-22T23:05:00.001+07:00

I don't usually fall for for any spamming facebook applications that pop on my notifications such as "You have 1 new message!" or "X has just commented on your wtfEGYPTIAN name", but today I just clicked on this "What legendary pokemon are you?" link on my notification as soon as it appeared there.

Turned out it was a trap, that link brought me somewhere outside Facebook, which was irrelevant to what it offered.

I am sorry, Abra

2009-11-17T21:57:00.001+07:00

Recently I took this test from this website and i got around 85% correct answers.

I AM SORRY ABRA FOR MISSING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IN THE LIST D:

also, I totally forgot lapras.

Penguins know what to do

2009-11-17T13:50:00.001+07:00

Recently I put up a status message on my meebo which was written "I am a penguin, meow"

Conversation A

[13:44] andinii: penguin is mooing
[13:44] andinii: not meowing
[13:44] gilangbhagaskara: how about cows and cats
[13:45] gilangbhagaskara: THEY BARK
[13:45] andinii: TRUE
[13:45] gilangbhagaskara: how about dogs
[13:45] andinii: quacking
[13:45] gilangbhagaskara: how about chimpanzees?
[13:45] andinii: they talk
[13:45] gilangbhagaskara: now that's creepy

Conversation B

[13:57] random penguin maniac: wtf are you meowing
[13:57] random penguin maniac: penguin are supposed to be 'dood'-ing

Conversation C

[14:19] finally.whatever: Umm.. a penguin.. like this? =(^-^)=
[14:19] finally.whatever: miaow =(^o^)=
[14:20] chester_barklight123: :3
[14:20] chester_barklight123: exactly!
[14:20] finally.whatever: :))
[14:21] chester_barklight123: halfbred between a penguin and a cat, to be concise :))
[14:23] finally.whatever: catenguin..? How come?
[14:23] chester_barklight123: ... penguat?
[14:23] chester_barklight123: getting more awkward

This video is not relevant to the discussion above

Old stuff yet still funny

2009-11-16T21:57:00.001+07:00

I don't really want to write anything actually, so, yeah.

The Fail Stamp is actually for sale

2009-11-15T22:35:00.001+07:00

One of my posts talked about The WTF Stamp. Well actually if you visit this site, you'll see that it has FAIL/WIN stamps for sale. That made me wonder if there was a certain stamp brand that allowed you to create your own stamp text.

I found this company which sells customizable stamps that you can order to be sent to your mailbox. It's the Ideal 50 Custom Self-Inking Rubber Stamp. Get yours here if you want one. Oh, buy me one, btw. I still want the WTF stamp.

http://www.stamp-connection.com/products/I-SCS50.html

http://www.rubberstamps.com/id50rubstam.html

Mermaids are gone; welcome onions

2009-11-11T18:40:00.001+07:00

If you have noticed it well, I changed the banner of this blog once again. This time I only removed the mermaids and put some onions and fishies. Not much for a change actually, but quite significant.

Mermaids -> onions. onions. o..nions. why the heck are onions underwater? and one of them is frozen. hmm.

this is the previous banner, in case you miss the mermaids.

The Black String

2009-11-07T00:04:00.001+07:00

At last, I put the black string that I bought a few months ago on my guitar. I didn't seem to match the entire look of the guitar because it looked like the only one being different (of course, putting a black string in the middle of the transparent strings no wonder will make your guitar look strange).

Now I feel regretful because of it. I shouldn't have bought the black strings in the first place. I'm gonna buy the appropriate color next time. ohwell.

see? The rightmost one, the only black one.

Chord of "Round Table feat Nino - Message"

2009-10-28T20:53:00.001+07:00

With the help of one my friend, Khanis the saxophonist (it rhymes!) we finished this song's chord. I think this is the first that has been uploaded to the Internet. I've seen some other chords such as "Beautiful", "Rainbow", "Let Me Be With You", and "Puzzle" which are easy to find via google. Maybe this will spread later, we don't know lol.

Kindly give us feedback for any language or chord mistakes you find, because we can't speak or listen to fluent Japanese, and we're not pro at music :)

Intro:
Emaj7 Bm7 C#m7 Amaj7
G#m7 Gm7 F#m7 B

Verse 1:
Emaj7 Bm7 C#m7
ima mo mune ni nokoru
F#m7 G#m7 Amaj7
miakogareta sakamichi
B
kakeagaru toki
Emaj7 Bm7 C#m7
hitotsu no deai kara
F#m7 G#m7 Amaj7
kasanerarete yuku
B
konna fuu ni

Pre Chorus:
Amaj7 G#m7
hitonami no naka ni anata no
F#m7 Emaj7
kage wo sagasu
Amaj7 G#m7 Amaj7
yokogiru kuruma wo oikoshite
B
kono mama

Chorus:
Amaj7 G#m7 C#m7 Bm7
magarikirenai KAABU wo
Amaj7 G#m7 C#m7 Cm7 Bm7 Emaj7 F#m7
SUPIIDO wo agete hashiru
G#m7 Amaj7
kono mama doko ka e
G#m7
tsuredashite hoshii no
F#m7 G#m7 Am7 Bm7
kiseki ga okoru you na yokan

Emaj7 Bm7 C#m7 Amaj7
G#m7 Gm7 F#m7 B

Verse 2:
Emaj7 Bm7 C#m7
setsunasa wo kakushite
F#m7 G#m7 Amaj7
imi no nai koto wo
B
hanashite'ru

Pre Chorus:
Amaj7 G#m7
tsumetai shigusa ni karamaru
F#m7 Emaj7
amai kotoba
Amaj7 G#m7 Amaj7
anata wo hikidasu kikkake wa
B
oshiete

Chorus:
Amaj7 G#m7 C#m7 Bm7
tomerarenai kono kimochi
Amaj7 G#m7 C#m7 Cm7 Bm7 Emaj7 F#m7
kokoro wo yurashite'ku dake
G#m7 Amaj7
kawashita sishen mo
G#m7
ameoto ni toketara
F#m7 G#m7 Am7 Bm7
azayaka ni nurikaerarete'ku

Solo:
Emaj7 Amaj7 G#m7 F#m7
Emaj7 Amaj7 G#m7 Bm7
Amaj7 G#m7 F#m7 Emaj7
Amaj7 G#m7 Amaj7 B

Amaj7 G#m7 C#m7 Bm7
tomerarenai kono kimochi
Amaj7 G#m7 C#m7 Cm7 Bm7 Emaj7 F#m7
kokoro wo yurashite'ku dake
G#m7 Amaj7
kawashita sishen mo
G#m7
ameoto ni toketara
F#m7 G#m7 Am7 Bm7
azayaka ni nurikaerarete'ku

Chorus (outro):
mou ichido aitai kara
wasuresasenai de hoshii
dakishimete ite ima sugu

============

Many thanks to Khanis, she's a really talented musician. Hopefully we (MICymphonia feat Khanis maybe? xD) will perform this song on the next CGT :P

Overkill Performance of "Beautiful" (Round Table feat Nino)

2009-10-23T11:03:00.001+07:00

This is a video that I found on YouTube. It's overkill.

See his/her channel here

It's time for dinner

2009-10-18T23:59:00.001+07:00

source: http://imager.cc/page17/dinner/

I hate this week

2009-10-14T09:38:00.001+07:00

This week feels like hell. There are three assignments deadlines which are technically simultaneously and there are other stuffs that bug me every night and day. I couldn't even go home before the night fell and yet everyone blamed me for not coming home earlier.

Also, tomorrow there will be a show on the canteen for the asteroid acoustic band competition. Nice timing. That's why I hate this week. I hate this week. I hate this week. I HATE THI- *gets shot and dies*

The Slideshow

2009-10-07T08:12:00.001+07:00

I've been doing this website project with Raufan (which in fact is a French word) and Sinnad's private secretary, Nanying, under the command of Doraemon for a confidential issue. And this is not related to world domination.

this is the doraemon we are talking about. run for your life, srsly.

So this website is about the recent Earthquake in Padang. What we have to do is simple, only to make an up and running website which has a Silverlight slideshow and a photo gallery. First thing first we had to learn how to embed that slideshow to our website. I found out that there was a slideshow which was ready to use from a website so we didn't have to code everything from a scratch.

After the slideshow problem was finished, we continued to make a website template. At first we relied on Nanying's skills on photoshops and CSS but it turned out that she was just slacking around raping cats then made a mediocre template so we decided to store her template for use later and ~~stole~~ legally downloaded random templates from the interweb.

I didn't know what we were thinking but the templates that we stole were stupid. Or crazy, maybe. Why would someone use a Barack Obama template on a website about earthquake? In case you didn't know, there is a template for a Barack Obama-themed website.

It turned out like this:

But then someone was smart enough to notice that it would look moronic if we put the Stars and Stripes on a website about earthquakes in Indonesia. So we decided to change the template to a better one. Then Raufan (this is a French word) downloaded a Sherlock Holmes (WTFHOLMES) template so that it would look smarter enough, at least smarter than the look of the BarackObama template. Because Sherlock Holmes sounds smart. But later it destroyed our template because...

...we don't want a Sherlock Holmes picture and a "Sherlock" title on our website for sure. And we don't want to make a misinterpretation to the readers who may think "I guess there's someone who caused all of these disasters, I need clues, watson" in Sherlock's style. So we tweaked it a bit and this one is the most recent version of this website:

Slideshow, photo gallery, twitter updates, news, etc. Now I need to quickly go to the campus. I hate this morning. Why the hell am I posting a blog?

TRAP

2009-10-05T14:15:00.001+07:00

okay this is a successful trap.

[14:12] gnalig: sin, mau nembak nafuar kapan?
[14:12] Sinnad: pas MK
[14:12] Sinnad: SIALAN
[14:12] Sinnad: SIALAN NGGA GW BACA
[14:12] Sinnad: BANGSAD
[14:12] Sinnad: GW DIJEBAK

EDIT 1: so, the victim wanted me to tell the truth but in fact I already forgot what we were talking about, so, yeah.

EDIT 2:

we were talking about the deadline of the IT Project Management assignment, I asked people "when is it?" then the whole room but Sinnad answered "Thursday". Then I told him, who was sitting not far from me, if I asked him via Y!M "when is the deadline of the assignment?" he must answer "Thursday", and the next part of the story is what you have seen on the conversation above.

The WTF stamp

2009-10-05T04:55:00.001+07:00

I want one, buy it for me, else Batman will drop this bomb on your head

Poring

2009-10-02T20:31:00.001+07:00

do re mi fa so la si doooooo~

Tired

2009-10-02T04:17:00.001+07:00

It was the fourth time this week that I went home late at night. This means I haven't ever gone home before 8pm from the campus since the Idul Fitri holiday. I wish I could return home sooner because it's becoming a habit, a bad habit, for me.

"So, why didn't you just return home before the night fell?"

Actually I would love to do that, but you see I have tons of assignments that I don't know whether I have been doing it efficiently or not because of tons of other things in mind. No you may not ask anything about it. Not only that, the fact that I have a lot of friends at the campus that support me in many ways makes me want to spend a longer time with them. And other reasons unmentioned yet really happened.

Tonight, for example. I had to wait until 8pm until one of my senior Sagi returned to the campus from his workplace. He promised me to discuss about a new website project that he gave me this afternoon via email. So, here I am, back home at 10.48pm and is writing this blog at 11.13pm. Lol this blog must have been a waste of time too..

MK-ULTRA

2009-09-28T15:56:00.001+07:00

This new song by Muse is actually taken from the name of a CIA evil project in the 1950s. Here's the article from http://listverse.com/2008/03/14/top-10-evil-human-experiments/

Project MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA, was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence, that began in the early 1950s and continued at least through the late 1960s. There is much published evidence that the project involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methodologies, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function.

Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions. LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject’s knowledge and informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after WWII.

Efforts to “recruit” subjects were often illegal, even discounting the fact that drugs were being administered (though actual use of LSD, for example, was legal in the United States until October 6, 1966). In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, and the brothels were equipped with one-way mirrors and the “sessions” were filmed for later viewing and study.

In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA files destroyed. Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding the project were destroyed, making a full investigation of MKULTRA virtually impossible.

I do

2009-09-28T12:25:00.000+07:00

Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.

The Underwater

2009-09-27T09:42:00.001+07:00

Yes, the theme for this new blog template is the underwater. I didn't make the whole thing myself. I stumbled upon a template somewhere and decided to make it my blog's template. Now I can post bigger pictures. This post will be edited later tonight. *14 hours later* It's night time already and as I had promised before, I'm updating this post.

First thing that may catch your attention is the banner. The huge banner with MERMAIDS. There have been three people who asked why so suddenly mermaids and I've given three different reasons to them, none of which were true. The banner before was like this, in case you forgot:

It used to be the legendary L and Kira pair; L is pointing at Kira while stating the formula for The Fourier Sequence and Kira is surprised, saying "OMGWTFBBQ!?". The subtitle "We code... ... and we have fun with it" was just added about two or three weeks ago.

I'm considering to give the blog a vertically gradient background color from a lighter color to a darker one, maybe next time when I am less lazy. Then the sidebar has got some unnoticed changes, with the Blogumulus cloud tag still sitting there on top of the list. I removed the feedjit view tracker and the image links to several websites then added a list of links to some of my friends outside the standard blogroll.

What I hate from this template is that the sidebar is way too small, and the color is dull. I may later edit the sidebar size and put several lighter colors and maybe a better banner and fonts.

What happens when a little girl name a pet

2009-09-25T01:44:00.001+07:00

Four years ago, my little sister only had four names in mind for a male cat that was born at that time: Mary, Lily, Kathy, and Togi. Of course nobody in my family would accept any of the names but later the cat was named Togi. Don't ask me why, simply because none of us wanted the girly names for a macho male cat.

On a slightly different case, a girl was asked by her teacher to describe an imaginary crossbred animal and apparently she chose an animal which was a crossbred between a fox and a duck. Take a look at the lame name for the animal that she eventually gave.

Suzy, you just made my day, really, thanks dear.

(source: HERE)

Operation Rolling Capo: Failed

2009-09-24T20:36:00.001+07:00

So today I went to PIM to buy a rolling capo as promised on my previous post, and went home with empty hands. Actually today's trip was just a normal family trip to a family restaurant on a mall, except I wanted to buy a rolling capo and my sister wanted to have her photos printed on a photo studio. Me and my family left home at around 12 and headed directly to PIM.

I went to the nearest musical instrument store which was on the floor above the Sushi Tei and asked how much the price for a rolling capo was, and the shop assistant told me that they didn't even have the standard capo on stock. They don't sell the rolling capo either.

The second store was on the south skywalk. The shopman was alone in his shop with only a customer. I had to wait for him to finish before eventually I talked to him. I asked whether he has the STANDARD capo on stock or not, and he said no, and then I asked for the ROLLING capo, hoping to get a yes as an answer but then again he didn't have it. He didn't even sell it on his store.

The last store was Gramedia, again, but this time it's not the Depok's Gramedia but it's PIM's. As expected, they don't sell it.

I found out that there was a store in Atrium that sold tons of musical properties. They are closed until 28, and I forgot what the name was. Lalala~

The dinner

2009-09-24T00:17:00.001+07:00

Tonight at 23.59 is the deadline for an AI course homework. Yet I found myself at 21.00 still sitting, eating a bowl of crabs and slices of meat on a 120k per person all-you-can-eat restaurant in PIM. Actually tonight's trip wasn't intended for that ultra expensive cuisine but for some reasons that I actually forgot, we ended up not doing what we wanted to do and chose to have a dinner, of all places, on that place.

***

On a totally different topic, I have decided that I will learn to play the guitar for the song in this video:

so the next time that I go to the nearest musical instruments store I will buy the rolling capo. Good news for anyone who loves that song, bad news for me since it will be a hell lot of effort D:

That's it for today's blog post now I'm back2sleep cya.

Star Wars in Ancient Java

2009-09-22T22:15:00.001+07:00

random starwars maniac: i am now imagining star wars in ancient java
gilang: KULO NUWUN
gilang: said one of the clones
random starwars maniac: WAHAI LUK SANG PENAPAK LANGIT, TERIMALAH KERIS CAHAYA MILIK AYAHMU
gilang: *ning nang ning glung ning nang ning glung*
random starwars maniac: AYAHMU, ANAKIN SANG PENAPAK LANGIT, KONON KATANYA TEWAS DIBUNUH OLEH MAS VADER
gilang: *taraktaktaktaktak dues*
random starwars maniac: Narrator: DAN LUK SANG PENAPAK LANGIT PUN MEMULAI PERTEMPURAN DENGAN KERAJAAN JAHAT YANG DIPIMPIN OLEH MAS VADER
random starwars maniac: BERSAMA TEMANNYA
random starwars maniac: HANDIKA SOLO
gilang: (kanjeng mas vader sounds better)
random starwars maniac: (sure)
random starwars maniac: LAYA ASTRINIDESI
gilang: *taraktaktakdungplak
random starwars maniac: DAN ALIEN RAKSASA NCUK BOCAH
gilang: *tuliiluliiiit tuiiiiiiiiiiiiit*
random starwars maniac: *fast forward to episode 5*
random starwars maniac: KANJENG MAS VADER : WAHAI LUK SANG PENAPAK LANGIT, KONON SEBENARNYA AKU ADALAH BAPAKMU

random starwars maniac: *rewind to episode 4*
gilang: D:
random starwars maniac: KANJENG OBI TUWUN KENOBI : WAHAI LUK SANG PENAPAK LANGIT, SEMOGA KEKUATAN BATARA DEWA TURUT SERTA DIRIMU
random starwars maniac: (shit i'm running out of ideas)
gilang: (shit what do i have to do for background music)
gilang: (let's just skip to the part where the hand was cut off by lightsaber)
random starwars maniac: (go ahead)
gilang: (whose hand? yodel?)
random starwars maniac: (whoever you want)
gilang: Narrator: TARAKTAKTAKTAK LANGIT TERBELAH PETIR MENYAMBAR-NYAMBAR, AMARAH DEWA TURUN DARI LANGIT
gilang: LUK SANG PENAPAK LANGIT : CIYAT
gilang: KANJENG MAS VADER : EITS
random starwars maniac: *DUDUDUNG TAK TAK*
gilang: Narrator: MAKA SEPERTI DITAKDIRKAN DALAM PRASASTI YANG TERTULIS OLEH MAHARAJA BARATHAYUDHA NATANEGARA
gilang: Narrator: SANG AYAH DAN ANAK BERTARUNG DENGAN KERIS PUSAKA YANG DIBERI KEKUATAN BATU GIOK PONCOBUMI
random starwars maniac: (dood you are straying a bit too far)

gilang: LUK SANG PENAPAK LANGIT : HAITS
random starwars maniac: *TARAKTAK*
gilang: Narrator: KERISNYA KENA MA'CRESS KE TANGANNYA KANJENG MAS VADER

gilang: KANJENG MAS VADER: ADUH ALAMAK MAAS MAS MBOK YA PELAN-PELAN THO
random starwars maniac: *JRENG JRENG*
gilang: (dood there's no guitar)
random starwars maniac: (that's not a guitar)
gilang: (then what)
random starwars maniac: (uh some gamelan instrument)
gilang: Narrator: TANGAN KANJENG MAS VADER PUTUS TUS
random starwars maniac: *GONGGG*
gilang: (run out of ideas)
random starwars maniac: DAN KERAJAAN JAHAT KANJENG MAS VADER PUN LULUH LANTAK BERKAT SEPAK TERJANG LUK, HANDIKA, DAN LAYA
random starwars maniac: BUMI BERGETAR, LANGIT SORAK SORAI GEMBIRA
random starwars maniac: (uhhhh ending song goes here?)
gilang: *TARAKTAKTAKTAK*
gilang: *NINGNINGTANGNING GLUNG NING NANG NING GLUNG NING NANG NING GLUNG*
gilang: 99x
gilang: *music fades*
random starwars maniac: *BIG APPLAUSE*

We will be victorious

2009-09-22T01:31:00.001+07:00

Paranoia is in bloom,
The PR transmissions will resume,
They'll try to push drugs that keep us all dumbed down,
And hope that we will never see the truth around

Another promise, another scene,
Another packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed,
And all the green belts wrapped around our minds,
And endless red tape to keep the truth confined

They will not force us,
They will stop degrading us,
They will not control us,
We will be victorious

Interchanging mind control,
Come let the revolution take it's toll,
If you could flick a switch and open your third eye,
You'd see that
We should never be afraid to die

Rise up and take the power back,
It's time the fat cats had a heart attack,
You know that their time's coming to an end,
We have to unify and watch our flag ascend
They will not force us,
They will stop degrading us,
They can not control us,
We will be victorious

Muse - Uprising

Considering to Change Layout (again)

2009-09-21T23:39:00.001+07:00

I'm considering to have a layout change on my blog again. This one is dull and I am bored of it. I'll make another one when I'm not so lazy, or leave it until I stumble upon a nice blog template so I don't need to make one myself, which is more likely.

Anywayz, I haven't tuned my guitar with the black strings, it still has the previous clear strings for its first until fifth. The sixth one was changed already because it was the only one which was broken off, but the color was silver plated so it is not black. I wonder how bad it will look if it has only one different color there :\

32

2009-09-21T23:26:00.001+07:00

The number of songs on my "Jam Session" playlist. I usually spend about half an hour to one hour a day to practice playing my guitar and bass by randoming the songs on this playlist. I have to play the song on my guitar once one of it is randomed on my foobar, without looking at the chords sheet. Some of which are difficult, few are easy, but mostly tiring. I won't list the whole songs but some of those (un)lucky picks are as followings.

(Band - Song - Instrument)

Round Table feat Nino - Let Me Be With You - Bass

Jason Mraz - Curbside Prophet - Guitar

Christian Bautista - The Way You Look At Me - Guitar

Muse - Uprising - Bass

Green Day - Peacemaker - Guitar

L'Arc~En~Ciel - Daybreak's Bell - Bass

Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning - Bass

RAN - Hanya Untukmu - Guitar

So far, I always had to "cheat" a little because I always missed several parts on those 32 songs but it's okay I'm still learning :P

The 95k Guitar Strings

2009-09-17T02:15:00.001+07:00

Recently I just bought a set of guitar strings from the local bookstore Gramedia. I bought it there because it appeared to have a musical instruments store on its ground floor and due to the fact that there aren't any musical instruments store in the Margo City. Yes I'm blaming them for not having one because there are still about 50% of their blocks that are still unused, left empty, and dead.

The usual set of guitar strings that I buy regularly whenever I run out of them cost me around 40k, but today when I checked the stall there were NO my usual set of 40k nylon guitar strings. Instead they had several packs of ridiculously expensive imported BLACK nylon guitar strings sets which cost 95k - 250k. I didn't know that they were black in color until I bought the cheapest of one of them home and opened it enthusiastically. To my surprise, of course, they were black. And my usual guitar strings are supposed to be normal clear color.

Oh well, I guess I'll just use it. By the way, it had a card in its packet which has tips for acoustic guitar players:

Use only a few wraps on the tuning key post. If you tie the string properly, it should hold. Remember, the fewer the wraps, the less string there is to stretch and drift out of tune.
Stretch your strings gently.
Scribble a little graphite into the nut slots. This will prevent the string from sticking into the slot.
Always tune up to the note, never down. Tuning up to the note will keep even pressure on the string and tuning key post.
Using an electronic tuner helps with ear training and tuning.

Blogging in English?

2009-09-10T21:21:00.001+07:00

I started blogging in English occasionally since I wrote this entry in August '08. It means I have written English posts for more than a year now. Actually I would love to write the whole entries in English but it didn't happen due to my extreme laziness (FFFFFUUU-), I just wrote less than half of my long posts in English. More than half of my posts are in Indonesian.

I wasn't really thinking to bring my blog to a higher level by writing posts in English. It's just I wanted to make a personal self-teaching facility since I have never (I'm stressing this word "never") had any helpful English courses except the English class on the first semester. Also, there are other factors that encouraged me to start writing in English such as Thomas' foreign prophecies and other friends' blogs.

Very recently, I felt a lot more motivated to write in English, because of a recent visit to some of my new friends' blogs which in fact are written fully in English. I hope I will write a lot more English posts.

Mocca - It's Over Now (Chord)

2009-09-05T22:25:00.001+07:00

Okay, for the first triple post ever in my blog, I'm gonna post this chord. This is not mine, I saw the video on Youtube and wrote down the chords because I was too lazy to do it myself lol. Youtube video reference, credit goes to the author:

Mocca - It's Over Now

Intro:
D Bb A (4x)

D                        Bm
I know that you're very nice
G                   A
never ever tell me lies
D                              Bm
you're always there to comfort me
G                          A
and cheer me up when i am down

          D          Bm
however that is it
G
you've got your world
     A
and i've got mine
     D                         Bm                G   A
and after all that we've been through i must say

D                 Bm                  G   A
sorry honey, my heart is not for you
D                 Bm                  G   A
sorry baby, this love is not for you
D                 Bm                  G   A
sorry honey, my heart is not for you
D                 Bm                  G   A
sorry baby, this love is not for you

D Bb A
it's over now

D Bb A

however that is it
you've got your world
and i've got mine
and after all that we've been through
i must say

sorry honey, my heart is not for you
sorry baby, this love is not for you
sorry honey, my heart is not for you
sorry baby, this love is not for you

Mocca - I Love You Anyway (Chord)

2009-09-05T22:05:00.001+07:00

Yes, today I'm posting not only one, but two or maybe three chords. I also made this myself.

Mocca - I Love you anyway

Intro:
A7M Edim Bm7 E
A7M Edim Bm7 E

    A7M             Edim
its 10 pm and you're late again
      Bm7                         E
and i can't understand what kept you so long
    A7M                      Edim
now look at you wearing that shirt again
         Bm7                   E
dont you realize how ugly that thing is

         A7M           Edim
but even so i love you anyway
              Bm7
no matter how things have gone
          E
you'll always have me

(2x)

A7M Edim Bm7 E
A7M Edim Bm7 E

        A7M                 Edim
now here it comes you complain again
               Bm7
complain about everything
               E
its driving me mad
    A7M                      Edim
now look at you wearing that shirt again
         Bm7              E
dont you realize how ugly that thing is

         A7M           Edim
but even so i love you anyway
              Bm7
no matter how things have gone
          E
you'll always have me

(4x)

A7M Edim Bm7 E
A7M Edim Bm7 E F

(Overtone: 1/2, A7M -> Bb7M)

         Bb7M          Bdim
but even so i love you anyway
                            Cm7
no matter how things have gone
                    F
you'll always have me

         Bb7M          Bdim
but even so i love you anyway
                            Cm7
no matter how things have gone
                    F             Bb7M(till the end)
you'll always have me

you'll always have me
you'll always have me
you'll always have me
you'll always have me

Sudden Echo Slam

2009-09-03T08:47:00.001+07:00

Me: "Yesterday must have been the worst earthquake I have ever felt."

Reader: "Wait, so you have felt other earthquakes?"

Me: "Yes, four times if I recall it correctly. Twice at home, and once at my gramps' house. The worst before yesterday's earthquake was when I was at my gramps' house."

Earthquakes, tremor, vibration, or if you don't know, it's the natural disaster that causes the DDDRRDRRDDRRRDORORODRDROODRROODRR sounds. Yesterday I was sitting in front of my laptop at my usual place, 3308, when suddenly Fuady lifted his huge body up his chair and shouted "EVERYBODY RUN OUT NOW FGSFDSASDFJJJ I'M OFF BYE!" and the next second I know, I was outside of the three-storied building without bringing my cell phone, laptop, bag, and was shoeless. The tremor stopped minutes later, and we returned to the lab to continue our activities like nothing happened.

Suddenly I felt my head all dizzy, and couldn't step properly. "IT'S ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE FGKLDSGIHOEJEKOIGDFK WHERE'S MY TOOTHPASTE!" my friend screamed. Later I was outside again, but now with my cell phone, shoes, and my motorcycle key. I decided not to reenter the building again until 10-20 minutes later, and found out that there was a third vibration, which I didn't feel, from my friend.

Turbo Battle Armor

2009-09-03T08:34:00.001+07:00

A few days ago I found out that I had my name listed as one of the lecturer's assistant for TBA class, which doesn't stand for Turbo Battle Armor of course, it stands for Teori Bahasa dan Automata (Automata and Language Theory). I was sure that I wouldn't be chosen as one of them so when I saw my name on the list, I felt like being struck by a thunder (though I have never experienced it and never want it to happen).

If you want to know what TBA is, go to the 2nd floor of Gramedia, look for the "Dictionary and Literatures" book section, and you will find this "Teori Bahasa dan Automata" book on the top of the shelf, between a German to Indonesian dictionary and French verbs book, and above the English proverb books. In fact, this book never talks about the language, literally, neither Indonesian, nor English, and of course not Turkish either. It talks about constructing diagrams of Turing Machine, Finite Automata, and some Discrete Mathematics stuffs. But strangely, the Gramedia supervisor put that book there, not on the computer science section or mathematics section \(-__-")/ hooray.

This makes my to-do list longer than usual, because the usual to-do list on my holiday was:

1. slack off

2. repeat 1

Now my new to-do list is:

1. classes, full mon-fri, go home on 16.40 almost everyday

2. study

3. conference

4. prepare courses

5. gives classes

6. check homework

7. MIC stuffs

8. slack off

9. repeat 8, yes, this is important

I don't know why, but I love being involved in some hectic activities, instead of slacking off and constantly playing games and guitar. Oh, I think I'm gonna learn some songs with my guitar now... where is it...? Oh snap I left it at the campus. Time for an air guitar show then :|

Hypothetical Girlfriend

2009-08-27T05:14:00.001+07:00

Soooo at last I've met those 2009 freshmen. My opinion about them? Mmm maybe later, not this time :D

There's this guy who caught my attention because he stood out amongst the other guys. I'll tell you why:

This is his facebook profile

Oh lol, he's in a relationship with a woman from Japan, or a woman with a Japanese name, or a woman who faked her name into a Japanese one. Cool, let's see who she is...

It seems I've only got one mutual friend with her, and I guess it's that new student. No wonder.

that's riiiight... but... but...

...But later I found out that he's the one and only friend that she's got, which turned out to be her relationship partner, which later made me think:

This new guy, apparently, has made a new account on Facebook for the sake of making himself in a relationship with someone. And this someone, apparently is an imaginary meido. (The Mio Akiyama character is from an anime entitled "K-On")

In case you're wondering who he is, yes, this is the guy who made the description of JAGUNG as "Justice Alliance of Gundam Under the Name of God".

FFFFFFUUU-

What a week

2009-08-23T19:38:00.001+07:00

Oh man, what a week.

Blahblahfish - Translate it to something, and back to English

2009-08-16T00:32:00.001+07:00

This is the web site: http://www.blahblahfish.com/en/

It basically translates your sentence into a different language, and translates it back to English.

My chosen language was English - Japanese.

Aaaaand my sentence was taken from one of my recent facebook status messages:

"Pardon me miss, I seem to have lost my phone number, could I borrow yours?"

1st translation:

"Me, me who borrow your kind of the fact that my my telephone number is lost and being will do you pardon the failure?"

(yes i borrowed your kind of the fact)

I translated that new sentence, and I got this in return.

2nd translation:

"As for me, as for my my telephone number of my your type it is lost being, you permit and fail, with you borrow the fact which is said?"

(how can i borrow the fact which is said?)

Again, I translated the new sentence.

3rd translation:

"In regard to your me, in regard to my my telephone number of my your type you lose, allot, it fails borrow the fact which is said?"

(of course it fails borrow the fact)

Okay this is getting absurd, but I will translate the new sentence again to another one.

4th translation:

"Although you regarding, me, that the fact which is said the loan which fails it loses in regard to my my telephone number of my your type, allots?"

(where does the word "loan" come from?)

In case you've forgotten what the actual sentence was, it was:

"Pardon me miss, I seem to have lost my phone number, could I borrow yours?"

There's no need to translate it any further since it will just expand indefinitely into undefined blabbers.

Been busy lately

2009-08-12T15:07:00.000+07:00

August. Oh my, this is probably the most hectic month of my life.

This loop of moments just rotated indefinitely day by day. Same activities, everyday. Well I ain't blaming anyone or myself for this rant since this is the way that I chose. Besides, I love making myself busy with things.

(time out, changing songs to a little more upbeat one. previous one was "LP - My December" which is as slow as a snail)

(Ok, "Westlife - Bop Bop Baby" sounds good. Go on.)

Yeah, that's it guys, I'm probably in my most hectic moments of my life. Wait, I haven't told you anything.

I'm still waiting for my TBA score to be published, also the day when I can fill out my IRS after it has been delayed twice. Hopefully TBA's score will leave me smiling for the rest of the day.

OH. Finally it popped in my mind. I've upgraded my laptop and added a new 1GB memory so it is now a little faster. Nice job.

Trolling Around Omegle

2009-07-27T18:01:00.000+07:00

So, we all know that omegle is an anonymous chat website that lets you to talk to total strangers. Here are two of my stupidest omegle chats.

1. Serbian girl?

This is a chat session that I got with another Indonesian person

Connecting to server...
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
A word of advice: "asl" is boring. Please find something more interesting to talk about!
Stranger: hi
You: hi
Stranger: f/m?
You: f
You: u?
Stranger: m
Stranger: where u came from?
You: serbia
You: you?
Stranger: indonesia
Stranger: u have msn?

now I am f*cked. he's indonesian. later, it turns out that he's a student in Labschool Kebayoran

2. Can we speak in english?

This is a chat session with a Turkish person. Being a Turkish speaker though not fluent, I talked to him in Turkish. Translation next to the chat

Connecting to server...
Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on.
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
A word of advice: "asl" is boring. Please find something more interesting to talk about!
Stranger: hi
Stranger: asl
You: 22/f/serbia
You: you
Stranger: ella
Stranger: 18 m turkey (seeing that he's turkish, i spoke turkish)
You: nasilsin? (how are you?)
Stranger: sen nasilsin (how are you? - he asked back)
You: iyiyim (fine)
You: i know turkish a little
Stranger: buyur (i don't know the meaning, probably "good")
Stranger: msn adresin varmi (do you have msn address?)
You: yok (no)
Stranger: ii
You: istanbuldamisin? (are you in istanbul?)
Stranger: hayir düzce (no, duzce)
You: duzce istanbuldan nerede? (where's duzce from istanbul)
Stranger: istanbuldan doguya dogru 2 saat (i think it means "it's a two-hour trip from istanbul")
You: oyle mi (i see)
You: ben istanbula gittim (i've been to istanbul)
Stranger: nasil guzelmi (was it good?)
You: evet guzel (good)
You: bosporusa gittim (i've also been to bosporus)
You: kebap yedim (i ate kebap - yeah, i know i just talked the talk)
You: can we talk in english?
Stranger: baybaros olmasin o gittigin yer (i don't know the meaning of this sentence)
You: anlamadim, agabey (sorry i don't understand the hell you're talking about, sir)
You: can we talk in english
Stranger: no
You have disconnected.

"Andai waktu dapat diputar kembali"

2009-07-24T00:48:00.001+07:00

Inilah salah satu keinginan manusia yang sangat sering dibayangkan oleh kita. Seperti apa pun masa lalu kita, pasti ada saja rasa penyesalan dan keinginan dari diri kita untuk mengulang kembali, merasakan kembali masa-masa bahagia di masa lalu, atau memperbaiki segala kesalahan yang pernah kita perbuat di masa lalu. Saya pun sering merasakan yang seperti ini, dan saya yakin kalian juga demikian.

Rasa ingin untuk kembali ke meja ujian, memperbaiki jawaban soal-soal yang kita sesali karena pada saat itu kita tidak bisa menjawabnya. Rasa ingin untuk kembali ke masa-masa SMA, saat kita berada di depan gawang lawan dan tinggal melesakkan gol yang pada saat itu gagal kita lesakkan dan akhirnya kita gagal membawa SMA kita menjuarai kejuaraan futsal. Rasa ingin berjumpa kembali dengan sanak saudara yang telah lebih dahulu meninggalkan kita selamanya, dan kita tidak sempat memberikan segala yang terbaik baginya. Ya, semua itu pasti pernah kita rasakan.

Tapi, apakah kita yakin kalau seandainya waktu dapat diputar kembali, kita akan bisa memperbaiki segala kesalahan kita di masa lalu dan menjalani hidup yang lebih baik? Apakah dengan kesempatan kedua itu kita dapat menikmati hidup dengan lebih nyaman daripada yang kita rasakan sekarang? Apakah kita akan bisa menjawab semua soal-soal matematika yang pada saat ujian lalu gagal kita selesaikan? Apakah benar, memutar kembali waktu adalah sesuatu yang kita butuhkan?

Mungkin ya, dan mungkin kita akan bisa mendapatkan hidup yang lebih baik daripada yang sekarang kita jalani. Mungkin juga tidak, karena kita terlalu terlena dengan keadaan masa lalu yang sangat membutakan kita dengan segala keindahannya, karena kita bersedih dengan segala rasa penyesalan yang semakin bertumpuk karena ketika waktu diputar kembali kita telah mengetahui nasib kita (dan nasib orang lain) tanpa bisa diubah lagi keadaannya.

Bukan itulah yang seharusnya kita harapkan. Bukanlah bagaimana kita dapat memperbaiki segala kesalahan kita di masa lalu. Bukanlah bagaimana kita dapat menikmati segala kejayaan kita di masa lalu. Bukanlah bagaimana kita dapat menjalani hidup di masa lalu itu dengan lebih baik sehingga hidup kita kini menjadi lebih baik lagi. Tetapi, rasa syukur dan introspeksi diri lah yang perlu kita lakukan. Rasa syukur karena telah menjalani hidup yang cukup bermanfaat bagi diri kita dan bagi orang lain, juga introspeksi diri agar segala kekurangan kita dapat menjadi pelajaran bagi kita di masa mendatang.

Semua itu untuk kehidupan kita sekarang dan di masa mendatang, agar kita menjalani kehidupan yang lebih baik daripada yang telah kita alami di masa lalu, dan bahkan mungkin kita dapat menciptakan keadaan bahagia seperti yang kita alami di masa lalu lagi nantinya jika kita terus memperbaiki diri hari demi hari.

*terinspirasi dari beberapa kisah seperti "Proposal Daisakusen" dan "17 Again"

So unfortunate, yet so funny :D

2009-07-19T23:21:00.001+07:00

Recently I saw this unfortunate open tab on Facebook that shows an incomplete page title like this:

Which if I switch to another open tab, it will show itself look like this:

And the reality is like this:

Unfortunately it was cut on the word "gaya" on the last part so it reads "gay"

Whoops, a blog already? Awesome!

2009-07-18T01:20:00.001+07:00

I'm quite satisfied with the achievement that they have made: they have made a personal csui2009.blogspot.com blog, just even before they know each other. Well this enlightens things up a little bit, but still there's a long and winding path in front of us, us as the committees and as the new students.

I'd see how they progress and will keep an eye on the movement before they face the real thing at the campus. Well, to be honest I wonder who made the whole blog, the layout, the neat scrolling text, and especially the content. He must be an outstanding individual.

I daresay it fits my preferences

2009-07-17T03:26:00.001+07:00

This is an interesting post about how I tweak my laptop. Yes, the very thing whose keyboard is what I am pounding on with my fingers right now. It's hot, you know. The hotness that doesn't happen generally on laptops when you use it, and I can assure you that's not good news.

She's been hot lately, I wonder why. Pun intended :D

Okay, I'm not talking about the hotness here. I'm about to talk about the laptop customizations, the tweaks, that have been set that it would *fit* into my style, AND also to reduce long waiting time as a result of the slow processing time of this machine. Set me up on fire, now. I need it :P

First, the theme. It's XP, but if you look at this picture, it's a Vista at a glance. I just hate the XP bluish and greenish theme that has been decorating _most of_ computers since 2003 and that's one of those Microsoft designs that I don't really enjoy. My theme has been made so that it doesn't irritate the eye, the elegant black taskbar which lays finely just at the bottom part of the monitor, combined with a dark themed wallpaper.

The taskbar has the essential quicklaunch buttons to shortcuts to programs that I navigate _too_ often, you can see the show desktop icon, browsers, Yahoo Messenger, Foobar2000 (which will be covered up on a later part), the Mobile Connect icon to get me online, SciTe to keep me code things when I'm less busy or has too much freetime (I seldom code simple things on my free time, but not much. DON'T EXPECT ME TO CODE ANYTHING BIG), and a quick button to show up the minilyrics when I'm listening to the music.

On to the Desktop. I've covered a little bit before that I've got dark themed wallpapers to match the theme, preferably dark bluish wallpapers. On top of the desktop, there's the Rocketdock. It's a handy shortcut to (again) my favorite folders and applications. They're extremely helpful because it takes time even for a few seconds to open the windows explorer manually with the WIN+E button and navigate your way through the long and winding folders to reach what your destination might be.

For me, there are folders that I do visit regularly, such as the "CSUI07" folder that contains my campus slides, my organization folders, my projects folders, and whatnot. Also the music and picture folders and the download folder and other shortcuts that will keep most of my time managed so that I could start what I want to do, directly.

The next item that is on the spotlight is the pool of cool applications that have been set up on my laptop to ease my works and hobbies. We have the Minilyrics here, it's a fancy lyrics showing application that automatically downloads lyrics to your computer as soon as your song gets tuned in by the mp3 player you're using right now. Set yourself your favorite Minilyrics position and color, but I love it on the top, just next to the title of the application that I am using right now (well that sucks for google chrome, I know, because its tabs are at the very top portion of the monitor).

I need to learn guitar tabs, guitar chords, and this is the best application in this era that a music learner really should own. The Guitar Pro. Without taking into account what your version is as long as it's above the 3rd. I'm not talking about producing music here, so it's purely about learning music, not making music. It's not editing sound effects. It's reading partitures.

The last one is my favorite Foobar2000 music player. It's not the standard foobar with the standard appearance that you just tweak a little. It's a foobar that's using the IBIZA theme so it matches _perfectly_ with the environment I am using right now. It's also the reason why I'm changing into this vistaesque theme: to match the IBIZA foobar theme. Click the image for a better view of this foobar I am using right now. The above part is the minilyrics that's showing the song that's being played right now: Keane, We Might As Well Be Strangers. Also, you didn't see Kuburan Band on the playlist. That's only your imagination.

There are several other tools which I won't explain since you are already familiar with, such as the games and the picture editing tools. Where I got them is not something to ask, but trust me, It's important to tweak your desktop or laptop so that it matches your personality and your preferences perfectly. Well that gives you extra time to spend if you can make those time consuming process time of your computer or the user time.

If you can shorten the user time, the process time gets shortened too. I myself use windows hotkeys really often, such as the WIN+D to open the desktop, WIN+E to open the explorer, F2, F5, ctrl+left, ctrl+right, ctrl+shift+up, alt+backspace, ctrl+enter, alt+left, alt+right, and many other hotkeys to help me navigate myself easier than moving the mouse (well your hands are already on the keyboard, so what's the deal with the mouse) except when I want to. That way, I can improve my typing so it gets faster and more accurate :)

Try it yourself, it's fun :D

Only two posts this month?

2009-06-28T23:08:00.001+07:00

Okay, this month I've abandoned my blog for quite a while and that's why this page doesn't seem to change since the last time I updated it, which was about two weeks ago. I had many ideas that have been popping in my head and by the time I was about to write them down, they were gone. There aren't so many things that I want to write for this blog post so I'll just continue with a standard type of essay. Okay I'll write things that have been happening for the last few days, or weeks. I'll write these things in no sequential manner.

There was the Canteen Music, an event that occurs regularly on Wednesday, taking place at my campus' canteen. This event has been running since last semester. But since June is already the month of holiday, the canteen has been less crowded and there has been less people who volunteered themselves to play music for that event.

Seeing this chance, Me and several friends of mine (Me - guitarist, Sonya - vocalist, Haido - percussion/vocalist) made a small group and called ourselves MICymphonia (lol, by the time I wrote "MICymphonia", the song I was hearing was titled "Symphony") and tried to play four songs: Beautiful (Round Table feat Nino), Flying Without Wings (Westlife), This I Promise You - NSync, and Hanya Kamu Yang Bisa - Tiket. It went well except for the horrible melody part of "This I Promise You" and the extremely tiring chords of "Beautiful". Imagine you have to play hanging m7 chords for a song which runs on a 2x90 beat non stop for three minutes (okay, you didn't imagine it, I know. but trust me it's hard).

Another event was the interview for the future PMB committees. It went well except for the fatigue that had been accumulating in my body since the night before: I had had a futsal sparring against people from Microsoft in Semanggi. They were also coders, they also looked geek, but hey, they really could play futsal and trust me they are pro. The game ended at about 11 pm so I had to spend the night at one of my friends' apartment (i really mean it, an apartment) to be back at the campus early in the morning.

The last week of June, at the 24th to be precise (wait, that's not really the last week, but never mind) was my father's golden birthday (1959-2009). For the present, me and my sisters gave him a photo frame complete with a close up picture of him in it. He's a really great father indeed.

Guess I've written quite a load of ideas, maybe this is the time that I stop writing and save my other ideas for the next entry. It's time to study Pumping Llama.

Gilang Bhagaskara dan Gilang Bhagaskara

2009-06-13T23:03:00.001+07:00

Di Facebook ada seseorang yang bernama persis dengan gua, yaitu Gilang Bhagaskara. Begini salah satu sesi chatting kami.

Gilang Bhagaskara (the other one): lo pernah di kasih tau sama orang tua lo nggak,arti gilang bhagaskara itu apa
Gilang Bhagaskara (me): yaa.. cahaya matahari
Gilang Bhagaskara (the other one): kata bokap gw, bhagaskara=matahari pagi, sedangkan gilang dari kata gemilang
Gilang Bhagaskara (me): lah
Gilang Bhagaskara (the other one): jadi gemilang matahari pagi. indah ya?

Indah sekali lang, sungguh indahnya nama kita. *terharu*

The Aftermath

2009-05-28T04:43:00.001+07:00

contains inappropriate language

Hey Manure,
My name is Lionel Messi, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are fat, retarded, no-lifes who spend every second of their day losing in football matches. You are everything bad in football. Honestly, have any of you ever gotten any medals? I mean, I guess it's fun making fun of people because of your own lack of skills, but you all take it to a whole new level. This is even worse than losing to Everton in the FA Cup.

Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much perfect. I was top scorer of the Champions League, and starter on my International team. What sports do you play, other than "jack off to Cristiano Ronaldo free kicks?"? I also win La Liga, and play in the Champions League final (I just scored; Shit was SO header). You are all faggots who should just kill yourselves. Thanks for listening.

Hey Catalanfags,

My name is Cristiano Ronaldo, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are fat, retarded, no-lifes who spend every second of their day worshipping Puyol's ass. I was godlike at our match today and I have successfully assraped Puyol that I got a yellow card. I mean, cmon he was so macho at that game I got aroused and shit was like going well between us I almost forgot we were in a football match. When I realized it, the ball was coming at me and it got blasted away by Puyol, again and again. Then I continued to assrape him until fergie swapped my position with roonery.

Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much perfect. I was last year's and was about to be this year's top scorer of the Premier League if only I played against Hull City. Shit got wrong and Anelka stole another one of my title for this season. In our match today, I was so sure to score from that only free kick if only Giggs didn't jack off to his shitty kick and say "you'll get your chance next time, honey. next time. make it a goal next time" but there was no 'next time' for me. So I continued to rape your defense with my godlike stepovers and flips until the ball gets tackled away and I lay down crying.

"wtfdidtheballhitthepost"

"shit I only got subbed in, tackled someone to death, gets a yellow card, and loses the game"

"whosyourdaddy now? boys, show me your ass"

"no, not there, a little bit lower. can you do the same to my butt?"

(compiled from various sources)

Just wanna post it here somehow

2009-05-16T01:07:00.001+07:00

This is what you get from entering the faculty of computer science.

Proof that we're computer scientists 2

2009-05-12T18:56:00.001+07:00

random pkmn maniac: A wild Raticate appeared!
gilang: Ghastly, I choose you!
gilang: Ghastly used lick!
random pkmn maniac: eww
random pkmn maniac: oh wait
random pkmn maniac: It doesn't affect Raticate...
gilang: FFFFUUU
gilang: Ghastly used Shadow Ball!
random pkmn maniac: DUDE IT DOESN'T AFFECT RATICATe
gilang: Ghastly used Dream Eater!
random pkmn maniac: Raticate used HYPER BEAAAAAAAAM!
gilang: NNOOOOOOOOOOOOO
gilang: It doesn't affect Ghastly...
gilang: wait
random pkmn maniac: FFFFUUUU
gilang: HOW THE HELL A WILD RATICATE LEARN HYPER BEAM
random pkmn maniac: easy
random pkmn maniac: he stole a TM from a store *flicks hair*
gilang: oh i thought he was a half-bred between raticate and dragonite

random pkmn maniac: nah, that's another story

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random pkmn maniac: A WILD RATINITE APPEARED!
gilang: uh
gilang: uh
gilang: GHASTLY, COME BACK
gilang: METAPOD, I CHOOSE YOU
gilang: METAPOD USED HARDEN!
random pkmn maniac: FFFFUUUU
gilang: *flicks metapod's hair*
random pkmn maniac: i hate fighting against metapod
random pkmn maniac: it's so hard D:
gilang: just burn it to death
random pkmn maniac: BUT HE USE HARDEN TO MAKE IT HARD
gilang: FFFFUUU I DIDN'T SEE IT COMING
random pkmn maniac: *flicks metapod's hard hair*
gilang: BUT HOW
random pkmn maniac: fine
random pkmn maniac: *bends metapod's hard hair*
gilang: *metapod's hard hair breaks off*
random pkmn maniac: *flicks ha-FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

On Being One of The Three Committees

2009-05-08T23:12:00.001+07:00

It was such a hard decision that I made. In the first place I didn't have any idea that I would be at exactly the same position as Deni or Alex were at. It was all based on what you call as "courage" to change things. I, who hadn't been known in the campus as anyone important suddenly made a HUGE change and threw myself into a world of professionalism and big responsibility, by becoming one of the three committees of the next PMB in my campus.

I am really glad about my team who are very professional and responsible for every actions that have been made up until now, and I believe that with the courage and the responsibility that we have right now will make the PMB even better than the previous ones. We will need your help, yes, a help from you who are reading this maybe because you have been tagged on facebook or are viewing my blog right now, to bring our hopes, visions, and missions into reality.

Thank you for entrusting this heavy task on us, I am sure we are going to do this with a lot of fun and spirit to make a better 2009. Let's do this with a feeling of joy, not burden. Let's fly, Ayas, Nunug. Let's show the world what we've got :D

Funny Joke

2009-05-04T22:30:00.001+07:00

Scene : Men's restroom.

I was barely sitting down when I heard a voice from the other stall saying: "Hi, how are you?"

I'm not the type to start a conversation in the men's restroom but I don't know what got into me, so I answered, somewhat embarrassed, "Doin' just fine!"

And the other guy says: "So what are you up to?"

What kind of question is that? At that point, I'm thinking this is too bizarre so I say: "Uhhh, I'm like you, just traveling!"

At this point I am just trying to get out as fast as I can when I hear another question. "Can I come over?"

Ok, this question is just too weird for me but I figured I could just be polite and end the conversation. I tell him, "No........I'm a little busy right now!!!"

Then I hear the guy say nervously...

"Listen, I'll have to call you back. There's an idiot in the other stall who keeps answering all my questions!!!"

http://www.citehr.com/20865-conversation-mens-restroom.html

Last Post This Month

2009-04-30T21:37:00.001+07:00

Ok, karena pada awal bulan gua udah ngepost sebuah entry yang berjudul "First Post This Month" maka kenapa ngga gua post juga di akhir bulan dengan judul "Last Post This Month"?

Hari ini, hari terakhir di bulan April, adalah deadline pengumpulan aplikasi PO PMB 2009. Kemarin gua dengan Krisna udah maju ke depan angkatan 2007 untuk mempresentasikan visi dan misi serta tujuan dari keinginan kami untuk maju sebagai PO. Selain gua dan Krisna, masih ada lagi Ardith, Nugroho, dan Iqbal. Ok, yang kemarin itu mungkin ngga usah dibahas ya. I believe there's nothing to talk about yesterday.

Draft pre-proposal sudah dibuat. CV sudah siap. Semalaman suntuk gua ngerjain kedua hal itu dengan rencana hari Jumat ini tinggal nunggu CV dari Krisna dan aplikasi kami bisa langsung disubmit ke DPM. Tiba-tiba, siang hari ketika gua sedang menyelesaikan beberapa pekerjaan, di jendela IM meebo gua Krisna menyapa dan menyatakan dia ngga jadi maju sebagai PO. Kalau udah begini berarti tinggal tersisa gua, Iqbal, Ardith dan Nugroho yang masih berkeinginan untuk jadi PO.

On the other hand, keinginan gua untuk menjadi PO ini ditentang oleh orang tua gua. Ya, walaupun mereka berkata "pikirkan lagi, ini amat sangat berisiko" gua tahu mereka ngga mendukung keinginan gua menjadi PO. Saat ini, dan untuk ke depannya nanti gua butuh banget motivasi dan juga demotivasi agar gua bisa menentukan pilihan gua. Gua bisa stress kalau terkatung-katung begini. Mudah-mudahan pembicaraan dengan Ilman, Ardith, Nugroho, dan Fajar besok bisa menghasilkan keputusan terbaik buat gua.

Double-sided mind battle

2009-04-28T21:14:00.001+07:00

This post is retrieved from a recent wall post on my profile on facebook

Gilang Bhagaskara hobby dengerin musik-musik rock, tapi juga suka dengerin musik-musik jepang. ada yang tahu round table feat. nino?

51 minutes ago

Aji Roland Putra Tumbelaka at 20:11 on 28 April

saya tahu lho.

Gilang Bhagaskara at 20:13 on 28 April

oalah wow what a coincidence. tahu laruku juga dong?

Aji Roland Putra Tumbelaka at 20:15 on 28 April

oh iya dong saya suka banget tuh. best band ever lah XD

Gilang Bhagaskara at 20:17 on 28 April

wah selera kita sama ya, tau lagu laruku yang driver's high kan? keren banget loh, jadi sound track great teacher onizuka! ~_~

Aji Roland Putra Tumbelaka at 20:19 on 28 April

iya tuh, gw suka banget anime, apalagi naruto. wuih itu mantep banget deh ga ada yang ngalahin XD
btw tau lagunya samurai x? itu lho, sobakasu. seneng banget tuh gw XD

Gilang Bhagaskara at 20:22 on 28 April

naruto! baru-baru ini yang waktu sasuke berantem sama itachi keren banget tuh! ujung-ujungnya siapa yang mati?
sobakasu gua suka banget, apalagi penyanyinya kayak masih anak kecil gitu, siapa namanya.. judy and mary?

Aji Roland Putra Tumbelaka at 20:23 on 28 April

iya kali ya judy and mary. gua cuma suka denger aja sih XP
eh btw gw denger itachi bakalan mati! OMG!

Gilang Bhagaskara at 20:28 on 28 April

ITACHI MATI? kan dia padahal jago banget.. T_T
mangekyou sharingannya ga tertandingi padahal.. eh itu di volume selanjutnya ya? udah keluar belom sih?

Aji Roland Putra Tumbelaka at 20:29 on 28 April

EH IYA! Kan harusnya udah keluar! OMG gw harus beli nih T_T gw juga ngefans berat sama itachi T_T

Muhammad Juliandri at 20:31 on 28 April

zzzz..

Gilang Bhagaskara at 20:33 on 28 April

eh btw kemaren gua ke toko anime di itc lho, ada gantungan kunci naruto bagus banget.. ada itachi juga. pengen deh gua beli tapi duit gua lagi ga cukup... T_T

Aji Roland Putra Tumbelaka at 20:37 on 28 April

wah kalo gua lagi nabung nunggu gelar jepang XD ntar mo beli borongan buat kado ke sodara2 biar pada suka naruto juga XD

Gilang Bhagaskara at 20:40 on 28 April

ih gua nitip dong, gua ga bakal sempet ke gelar jepang nih.. T_T
gua pengen banget denger band-bandnya mainin lagu laruku, apalagi yang niji, driver's high, apalagi kalo ada yang mainin lagu digimon.. "show me your brave heart!" lo suka digimon juga kan?

Aji Roland Putra Tumbelaka at 20:43 on 28 April

Oh iya dong, gw seneng banget tuh lagu pas mulainya... itu tuh, yang 'menjadi kupu yang sehat...' trus tengah2nya make 'tetapi WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW', asik banget tuh. Kalo ga salah namanya butterfly ya?

Gilang Bhagaskara at 20:46 on 28 April

ih iya lagu yang itu jg, gua suka banget! :D di situ ada yang potongan film pas bagian agumon berubah itu ya kan? jadi greymon ya kalo ga salah?

Aji Roland Putra Tumbelaka at 20:50 on 28 April

iya greymon XD tapi kalo gw sih lebih seneng garurumon ^^ keren aja serigala gitu ^^

Gilang Bhagaskara at 20:58 on 28 April

digimon keren-keren banget perubahannya..! ^^
tapi gua ga suka gundam loh, gundam keliatannya cuma menang gede-gede robotnya aja tapi biasa aja ah filmnya, gambarnya ga bagus.. bagusan digimon udh ada efek-efek 3D nya xD
pokoknya, gundam jelek deh..

Aji Roland Putra Tumbelaka at 21:02 on 28 April

Well you got me there D:
Fine, i'll give up. You win this time, but JUST YOU WAIT D:<

Gilang Bhagaskara at 21:03 on 28 April

winning over something in the internet doesn't make you look less retarded btw. ok time for a blog post.

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This post is retrieved from a recent YM conversation

gilang: wtf are you doing with facebook at a time like this
jiro: what do you expect
gilang: playing pet society
gilang: and btw
gilang: keep posting at my wall in a stupid way
jiro: why
gilang: that way we'll look as if we're weeaboos
jiro: good idea
jiro: there
jiro: NOW YOU DONT DARE BACKSTAB ME BY ACTUALLY POSTING SMART STUFF
gilang: WEEABOO
jiro: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
gilang: go on
gilang: let's talk about sobakasu by judy and mary
gilang: first person to say "WEEABOO" lose
jiro: :|
jiro: go on
gilang: uhm
gilang: which chapter is naruto on in indonesia?
jiro: uh
jiro: dunno
gilang: book?
jiro: dunno
gilang:
gilang: OH
jiro: DUDE I NEVER READ NARUTO ANYMORE
jiro: go on, your turn
gilang: oh
gilang: say that it's out already
gilang: naruto next volume
jiro: go on, your turn
jiro: so how long will we continue embarassing ourselves
gilang: until there's someone joining our conversation
jiro: but what happen if noone join D:
gilang: most likely no one will join
gilang: LOL
jiro: D:
gilang: OH YEAH
gilang: someone
gilang: SOMEONE
jiro: WHO
gilang: juliandri
jiro: REFRESHING
jiro: so
jiro: what will we do now
gilang: continue
gilang: his comment was just zzz
jiro: continue, then
jiro: and post in on your blog
jiro: complete with this ym log
gilang: k
gilang: go on
gilang: YOUR TURN
jiro: uh
jiro: i'm not sure what to write
gilang: just say anything
gilang: swimsuits etc
jiro: wut
jiro: WHY SWIMSUITS
gilang: uhm
gilang: then talk anything about japan carnival etc
gilang: AND THAT YOU ARE PLANNING TO BUY NARUTO KEYHOLDERS, LOTS OF THEM
jiro: fine, why not
jiro: go on
jiro: YOUR TURN
gilang: quick, any 90s japanese song
gilang: QUICK YOU F*****
jiro: FFFFFFFFFF SLOW DOWN
gilang: not yet
gilang: that's for my post
jiro: oh
jiro: uh
jiro: uh
jiro: DIGIMON
gilang: OHYEAH
jiro: BUTTERFLY
gilang: that's for your post
gilang: i posted "brave heart"
jiro: go on, your turn
jiro: SO HOW LONG SHALL THIS CONTINUE
gilang: well shi-
gilang: this post shall be a LONG one
jiro: I KNO
jiro: i spammed XD a bit too much
jiro: TIME TO CHANGE TO ^^
gilang: but but
gilang: that's already a long one
gilang: shall we stop
jiro: sure why not
jiro: BUT WHO WILL LOSE FIRST
gilang: ha, i'll make you lose
jiro: FFFFFFFFFFFFF
jiro: but how
gilang: wait, my computer suddenly slowed down
jiro: k
gilang: your turn
jiro: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF RAGE
jiro: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
gilang: give up
gilang: GIVE IT UP
gilang: NOW
jiro: i
jiro: I
jiro: I CANT REBUT THE OPINION IN A WEEABOO WAY
gilang: HA
jiro: I MUST SUPPRESS MY POWER LEVEL
gilang: :>
jiro: FINE
jiro: I'LL GIVE UP

Drabble!

2009-04-17T21:58:00.001+07:00

The awesome result from "Drabble!" website I got.

The Battle For The Probter Book

Under the bed, Ken stalked his probter book. He had been busy with the probter book for hours and now wanted nothing more than a loving cuddle or a silly massage from his lover Raufan.

He said this last thought out loud, and all of a sudden his hairy Raufan appeared at the door, grinning quickly.

"Put down the probter book," Raufan said huskily. "Unless you want me to stalk that probter book on your nipple."

Ken put down the probter book. He was macho. He had never seen Raufan so bald before and it made him enormous.

Raufan picked up the probter book, then withdrew a laptop from his beard. "Don't be so macho," Raufan said with a bald grimace. "A dolphin bit my belly this morning, and everything became stubborn. Now with this probter book and this laptop I can huskily rule the world!"

Ken clutched his imbecile belly slowly. This was his lover, his hairy Raufan, now staring at him with a bald beard.

"Fight it!" Ken shouted. "The dolphin just wants the probter book for his own hairy devices! He doesn't love you, not the loving way I do!"

Ken could see Raufan trembling slowly. Ken reached out his nipple and touched Raufan's beard huskily. He was hairy, so hairy, but he knew only his imbecile love for Raufan would break the dolphin's spell.

Sure enough, Raufan dropped the probter book with a thunk. "Oh, Ken," he squealed. "I'm so loving, can you ever forgive me?"

But Ken had already moved under the bed. Like a bridge that stands over the river of love, he pressed his nipple into Raufan's beard. And as they fell together in a stubborn fit of love, the probter book lay on the floor, enormous and forgotten.

OH SO GAY