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Personalities Exposed

August 23rd, 2004. Published under Daily Journal. No Comments.

We had two sessions of knowledge sharing today. The first was about discovering our personalities by Dinny. It took place in the library after the lunch. People tend to like this kind of sharing than the technical ones. So without doubt, most of us attended the session. I think there were more at least twenty people. Unfortunately the library room is so small we weren’t comfortable.

The session did well enough though. Dinny introduced the popular four kinds of temperaments (I’d rather call them personalities though): sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic. For your information, we had been asked to do a 40-questions test earlier. The answers were summarized based on certain formula to discover our personality types. The result showed a well balanced groups. We were almost evenly divided into four groups of the personalities. Of course noone had the pure personality types. All were hybrids but a personality generally dominated the others.

I had the purest personality type by the way. From the 40 questions, 32 proved that I was extremely choleric. 5 showed my sanguine side while only 3 told that I was melancholic. From the session, I knew that the choleric is extrovert, short-tempered, a born-leader, a doer, and perfectionist. Yeah it’s pretty much like me, I couldn’t deny it. Dinny also suggested that the cholerics should find the phlegmatics as their soulmates. It sounds sensible but I prefer the melancholic. I love the intellectuals.

The next session was Anton’s guide to creating a game with Macromedia Flash and ActionScript. Our knowledge sharings will be evaluated at the end of the year. The best will get a prize. Okay the prize is not the main concern here but I felt it was not fair enough for Anton since he was the newest employee yet he got his turn before the formers. Personally I don’t think his performance satisfying today. He couldn’t explain well and clearly to us. Maybe he was nervous. Maybe he didn’t even know that most of us had no computing background. Too bad, maybe I should inform him before to avoid using highly technical terms. I decided to leave the session earlier since I couldn’t hold my tounge that always tried to take over his session. Hehehe truly I am a choleric.

Farewell Eva

August 13th, 2004. Published under Daily Journal, Games. No Comments.

I could hardly open my eyes this morning. I definitely lacked sleeping lately. I couldn’t even sleep regularly. Gosh, I remembered that I would go to Jember this afternoon so I must get up and worked from the first shift.

Today is tha last working day for Eva Soeryono, a co-worker. Vebby delightedly switched her computer with Eva’s. Maybe she’s the happiest person related to Eva’s departure. We also set up a small farewell party at about 16.00. After her short speech, some of us were given the chance to say something to her. It could be an advice, a message, or anything. Freddy, Lisa H., Herlina, Yendy told us how they felt about her. So predictable, they mostly said the good part only.

To keep everything in balance, I used my chance to show the bad part. I said about how annoying her mak-lampir-style-laughter, about how I hated her pulling my shirts, about how she annoyingly forces others to do things for her. I didn’t know how she felt when she heard me saying those things. The truth was I didn’t wanna know. Some said that I was too cruel. The hell with that. For me, saying the truth although it hurts is way much better than saying the pleasant but fake things. I was asked to tell what I felt and I did so. I didn’t want to talk the bad things only behind her back but right at her face. Believe me or not, I didn’t mean to offense or hurt her. I didn’t say the bad things because I hated her, but I just wanted her to know her weaknesses and do something about them. It didn’t also mean that I’m the all-perfect man that has the right to judge her whatsoever. I know that my self as well as others have our own weaknesses. It’s okay for me though, to have weaknesses. But it’s not okay if they start to annoy or disturb others. In this case, you must realize it or somebody must make you realize.

Well, this is me. It’s easy for me to spot others’ faults but mine. And I know that it is pretty annoying to others tehehe. Meanwhile, Vebby had a present for her. An underwear, or a bikini, I didn’t see it clearly. But Eva felt so embarrassed when little Shierly forced her to put it on.

I had reserved a seat from Jaya Utama to travel to Jember this afternoon but my auntie sent me a message that Harlin Travel–my other auntie’s transport company–was going to send a car to Jember at about 20.00. Then she asked me if I would go with Harlin instead. It was a good news, it meant saving 40 thousands rupiahs. Soon I called Jaya Utama to cancel my reservation. The car picked me up when I was eating. I ate fast so the driver didn’t wait too long.

When I just got in, my phone rang. It’s Jonathan asking about an RO stuff. We stopped at the office to pick up the real driver. The one who picked me up is actually not a driver but an office boy. Only the driver and me, we went to Jember right away. I sat on the front chair to accompany the driver. We had a little chat until we arrived at the toll gate. He stopped the car and told me that he wanted to wait the other car. It’s okay for me. Suddenly my phone rang for the second time. It’s him again asking the same RO stuff again. Haha, he started to get addicted to RO, too. Damn it, it had been more than an hour and the car we were waiting still didn’t show up. I lost my patience but could do nothing. I didn’t pay the ticket. So I moved to the back seat and tried to sleep. Some times later the driver returned and told me that the other car had not shown up yet so he decided to leave. Finally…

Shoot!!! We stopped again at a mechanic. The driver told me that he needed to repair a broken tire. I didn’t give a damn and continued sleeping. We finally arrived at my house at about 2.00AM. Can you believe it, it took us 6 hours from Surabaya to Jember. Forget it, we arrived safely anyway. I gave the driver a tip and went inside my house. My mom opened the door. She’d been waiting for me all the night. My beloved mom.

Lost Phone, New Phone

August 12th, 2004. Published under Daily Journal. No Comments.

I came earlier to the office this morning although I started to work from the second shift. I had an appointment with my colleague, Yenny, who worked at the first shift, to fill in the ADS scholarship application form together. Actually, the appointment was for yesterday, at the party. But we didn’t seem to have any time to do it. Unfortunately, Yenny didn’t brought her form so I let her use mine. Carla was interested at what we’re doing and joined us. She did give some advices to Yenny, mainly about tricking the working status and duration to get a better chance.

Finishing those pesky forms, Yenny went home and I started to work. Not so long, she called and asked if we saw her cell phone. She said that she was at home and couldn’t find it everywhere. We tried to find it but couldn’t see any clue. Then Yenny came to search the office but still she couldn’t find it. Anton even tried to be a detective with his investigative questions. Jonathan teased her by telling that somebody might have hidden it. After a while without any clue, Yenny gave up and decided to go home. Luckily she found her cell phone in her car. Can you imagine, she left it in her car but she searched else where.

On the way home, I bought a fried noodle. Honestly I was not hungry but I definitely wanted to eat something. When I was enjoying my noodle, my auntie came to my room, without knocking of course, and showed me her new CDMA phone. I was not so surprised since she had been bragging for some times. She said it was a gift from her boyfriend. She also said that she actually didn’t want her boyfriend to buy such things for her. Like I’m gonna believe it. I know that deep down in her heart she does want to get many expensive stuffs from her boyfriend, like most girls do, am I not right? She couldn’t use the phone yet so she asked me to teach me how to use it. Well, it’s a Sanex model so I didn’t expect it was as easy as Nokia phones. I was right, the interface was pretty complicated and not so straightforward. Its keys were so small I often pressed the wrong button.

Well, it didn’t really matter, she only asked me to teach her how to use it not to give a comment or review about the cell phone. I taught her the basic things, like saving numbers to the phonebook, sending an SMS, choosing the melody, etc. Au, I was so sleepy I could only play a game for an hour. At least I remembered to blog these things. Damn, I was so sleepy I couldn’t even make a good sentence. Maybe today’s blog is gonna be a complete mess but who cares.