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In order to respect Carla who tagged me, twice; and to respect my sweetheart who asked me to write my things quite a while ago, I decided to write this post.

Okay, not all of those sentences are true, but the latest. In fact, I am quite bored, I want to write something, but I don’t know where to start since I haven’t write anything for a long, long time, so I guess this is a good material to help me start.

If you have noticed the title, it’s a bit different from what others have done, it says 7 things, not 8 things. That’s because I like the number 7. The items will be listed in alphabetical order. So, without further ado, let’s bring the list on.

7 Things I am Passionate About

1. Computer and video games
2. Food
3. Information and computer technology
4. Movies
5. My family
6. My sweetheart
7. Mystery

7 Books I Have Read Recently

1. Bible
2. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture — Martin Fowler
3. Ruler of the Land (comic)
4. Shanao Yoshitsune (comic)
5. The Data Warehouse Toolkit — Ralph Kimball et al.
6. The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit — Ralph Kimball et al.
7. The Pragmatic Programmer — Andrew Hunt et al.

7 Things I Want to Do Before I Die

1. Live a pleasant life before God.
2. Marry her and have a couple of sweet kids and several grandkids.
3. Satisfy my parents’ needs both materially and spiritually.
4. Start and grow my own company, preferably a game studio.
5. Stay (not just visit) in Surabaya, Jakarta, Singapore, UK, and USA.
6. Take my family to visit at least one country in each continent on earth, well perhaps except Antarctica.
7. Write a book and publish it.

7 Things I Have Learnt in These Past Years

1. God does work in mysterious ways.
2. Google is one of my best friend.
3. Humans are full of surprises.
4. No limits in learning.
5. Promises and commitments are easy to make but difficult to keep.
6. Sometimes, even the predictable is unpredictable.
7. True love does exist.

7 Things That Attract Me to My Best Friends

1. Common interests
2. Kindness
3. Sincerity
4. Can’t think of anything else, I guess I am not too demanding of my friends :p

7 Songs That I Can Listen to Over and Over Again

1. Because of You — Kelly Clarkson
2. Dragostea Din Tei — O-Zone
3. Du Qing (White Snake Legend Closing Theme Song) — Gao Sheng Mei
4. I Need Some Sleep — Eels
5. Most Christian praise and worship songs
6. Qian Nian Deng Yi Hui (White Snake Legend Opening Theme Song) — Gao Sheng Mei
7. Suteki da ne (Final Fantasy X Theme Song) — Ritsuki Nakano (Rikki)

7 Things I Say Often

1. Amen
2. Buzz, dah makan?, dah tidur?, lagi apa?, love you, miss you (only to her)
3. Damn, shoot, sial, what the…
4. Double kill, monster kill, triplle kill, killing spree, owning (mimicking the narrator of DOTA)
5. Edan, gundul, sinting (meaning: crazy)
6. Hehe
7. Oh ya? Masak? Mosok? (meaning: really?)

This is yet another new feature that make Google is indispensable when online. See the badge to the right saying, “Chat with me”? If you click on it—provided I am online and not busy—you can chat with me via Google Talk directly. You don’t need to login to Google Talk, you don’t even need to have a Google Account to do this. You are treated as a guest user of course.

If you are a webmaster, this feature means your visitors can chat with you directly in real-time. You can provide customer’s support and immediate feedback. This is similar to the previously available meebo me widget. If you want this capability on your website or blog, just head to Google Talk homepage and click on the new Chatback link, or use this direct link. There you can customize your badge and you will be given a code snippet to put on your website or blog.

The day before yesterday, November 21, I attended Felix Harianto’s wedding party at Shangri-la Hotel. He is my ex-classmate from SMUK Santo Paulus Jember. It was Wednesday, so it’s rather odd since most people pick weekends as their wedding days. But Felix told me earlier in an online chatting session that he chose the day because it was the anniversary. Plus, the cost for renting the place is cheaper than weekends.

The event started at 7pm, but I came to early at around 6pm. Fortunately I came with my lovely Martha so it was not a problem to kill some time. We came straight from our offices since it was an ordinary work day.

The wedding place was so well decorated. There was plenty of food. Although at first only a few people came, later that night the room was crowded. There are no special events though. No dances, no bouquet toss, and even, sadly, no photo sessions. Felix did ask me to take some pictures when I was about to go home. But his wife dragged him somewhere else and it was late already, so that didn’t happen.

The party was also a small gathering with my old friends who currently live in Jakarta: Alan, Benny, Indra Setiawan, Kwok Siong, Susanto, and Yananta Muslie. Unfortunately, Handoko couldn’t make it there because he was sick. It has been almost ten years since I last saw them. Some didn’t change much while some others I hardly recognized. Here are my small updates on their info:

Alan

This skinny fellow lives, surprisingly, near my place at Kelapa Gading.  He greeted me first that night when he came with her girl friend.

Benny and Kwok Siong

They currently worked together at Sunter area.  Benny looked the same like I last saw him at high school, but that’s not the case with Kwok Siong who got fatter and rounder face.

Indra Setiawan

He was one of my best buddies back then. Unlike the others, I already met Indra in Jakarta last year when I was looking for a boarding house at Kelapa Gading. He came with his girlfriend later that night. Currently, he worked as a sales for a chemical company in Cibitung.

Susanto

“Wanna buy some computers, Den?” that was his first reaction when I met him. Apparently, he sells computers. He also didn’t change much in appearance.

Yananta Muslie

This was another best friend of mine in high school. Living at Serang, Banten, he turns out to be a successful player in the lumber business. He is married and will soon be a father since his wife has been being pregnant for about seven months.

That’s all for now. Until next time guys.

Congratulation to the newly married couple: Felix and Delly.