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Lazy Update

February 20th, 2005. Published under Daily Journal, Games, Techie Stuffs. No Comments.

More than a month since my last post. Many things to write but I’m lazy so I’ll only give a brief summary:

• My two other colleagues, Shirley Wibisono and Lisa Handayani left the office. Shirley went to Jakarta to work at an advertising company. Lisa stayed in Surabaya but she now works at a trading company. Good luck to you girls.
• My office annual meeting this year took place at Trawas. We had a good time there, even though we only stayed a night. Hope next year would be even better.
• I changed job from a Web site developer to an editor. Neither a promotion nor a demotion. But I needed a change.
• Added a monster database to my Ragnarok Online site.
• My StarOne Post-paid subscription was activated at the beginning of this month. Wow, 24/7 Internet like I always wanted to have.
• Promoted as the moderator of the OpenKore forum.

A Few Great Things

January 9th, 2005. Published under Daily Journal, Games, Movies, Techie Stuffs. No Comments.

I don’t know what to say. But it happened again. Indonesia, my country, once again must suffer very very deeply. Like we didn’t have enough suffering yet. Nobody, nothing, can ever explain why this must happen. Only God knows. But who am I, dare to question this to the Greatest Being. This at least proves one thing. Every single life is only a split second away from death. You never know when you will go to the other realm. You just can’t resist when the time comes. Nobody can help you. What you can do is to stay alert and get ready. Live your life better every other day. Don’t only do what you want to do, but also do what you have to do.

Great Income

Okay it ain’t great. But it’s good. At the end of last year I got my salary doubled. Not just me, everyone got doubled. It’s a bonus (we call it THR) from the company I am working at. Aside from that, some of my Ragnarok Online clients also delivered the payment for my botting service. Also, when I was in Jember for Christmas. I bought a new starter pack for my CDMA phone. Starone didn’t work there. I chose Flexi from Telkom. I got a whopping credit which is worth 100 thousands rupiahs while I only paid 40 thousands. Another end-of-year promotion. Even better, I could use it to connect to the net for free during the promotion. Because of that, unfortunately, my sister didn’t let my phone rest afterward :D. She was really in to friendster recently.

Alexander the Great

It’s the movie I saw recently with some of my colleagues: Anton, Lisa Gabus, Shirley Cools, and Yendy. Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, and Collin Farrel starred in the movie. The movie had a rather long duration, almost three hours. But it had not yet covered all the great adventures of Alexander, one of the greatest Greek kings. A good movie compared to the recent Troy movie. The war scene is one of the best. Too bad there were too much gay things in the movie. I didn’t know whether Alexander was gay or not. But the scenes were simply too much. It made me uncomfortable. Also, the scene of Alexander’s death was pathetic. No match compared to the memorable Archilles’ death in Troy. Well, this movie is okay for everyone who loves middle ages’ things, like me. Recommended.

Great Body

A few days ago, Vebby, my work-buddy, lent me the DVD of Britney Spears‘ Greatest Hits. The interesting thing was the complete Britney’s naked scene from Toxic. You could see, well, the body women longs to have and men desires to beep… (censored). Very highly recommended for all Brit’s fans. Although you’re not a fan of her, you will surely fall for her great body unless you have no interest in girls anymore. Just admit it damn it. I intended to post some of the shots here. But on the second thought, I didn’t think it would be wise. Some kids might come here and read my blog.

Turning Point

December 24th, 2004. Published under Daily Journal, Movies, Techie Stuffs. 3 Comments.

Many things happen lately. It’s near the end of the year, so I need to prepare a better new year.

Thursday, Dec 16: A New Phone

After some researches, I finally decided to get a new mobile phone, Nokia 3205. It is a CDMA phone, with some good features: integrated camera, polyphonic ringtones, cut-out cover, infra red connectivity, and Java-based applications. I plugged in a Star One ruim in my new phone. Star One, the postpaid version, offers an unlimited Internet connection at a flat fee. It is the main reason why I bought the new phone. I need a cheap and unlimited Internet connection to support my activities: works, studies, entertainment, and online games. The connection, unfortunately, is not that good. It is slow and I often got disconnected unexpectedly. Yeah, what do you hope from a cheap connection.

Monday, Dec 20: National Treasures

I asked Bambang, a colleague, to accompany me watching National Treasures, starred by Nicolas Cage and Diane Kruger. Nicolas Cage is a well-known actor. Diane Kruger is known from Troy, an epic movies, where she played Helen, the Trojan most beautiful girl. National Treasures is a movie about a treasure hunter (Nicolas Cage) who wanted to hunt the America’s greatest treasure. He partnered with a museum officer (Diane Kruger), his loyal friend, and his father. The hunting was not easy because a group of bandits, who used to sponsored him, wanted to claim the treasure. The movie is good at manipulating and twisting the American history. Well, it was nothing like Indiana Jones or Tomb Raider, but it had nice fresh jokes, some cool actions, but almost no romantic scenes. Not bad.

Thursday, Dec 23: An Important Decision

There was a big meeting at my office today. We discussed about the new system that would be started next year. At first, I didn’t get so interested in the meeting. But it changed when the boss announced the new teams. I used to work by my-self, without a team. But the new system forced me to be in the software team. My concern was that the team leader didn’t master my field, Web development. He was a desktop applications programmer. I didn’t think it would make any sense to be responsible to someone that didn’t even understand what I did.

No, I don’t underestimate him whatsoever, but we do different things. Since I didn’t like the situation, I chose not to be in the software decision. I voted to be in the download or entertainment teams. Later, I was included in the entertainment teams. My decision shocked almost everyone. They thought I must be in the software team. Well they thought wrong. But it was not the important thing. The important thing to me is to do what I want and do it well. The decision had been made. There’s no way I will regret it. I know what is good to me more than anybody else.