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New Ragnarok Online Site

September 6th, 2004. Published under Daily Journal, Games. No Comments.

I got to give a private lesson to H again today. This was the second and hopefully the last. She had finished most of the project. I fixed some cookies problem on her project and she thought there were no other troubles. Good then. I came home to prepare for the church. Wait… I remembered. There was no service today since everyone was going to the revival service (KKR) by Mr. Stephen Tong. Gosh, I don’t like it. They all look the same to me so I didn’t go :(.

By the way, I started to create a new site just for fun. A Ragnarok Online site. I am playing the game currently so I think I’ll enjoy creating the site. I just finished the layout, introduction, and the game control sections. Many more to go. I may continue on the next weekend. By the way, you can find the link up there, after the Contact me link. Feel free to give any input.

What’s Wrong With the Search Engines?

August 17th, 2004. Published under Games, Techie Stuffs. No Comments.

Today I checked this site access log. Great, the Google bot finally showed up in the list. Then I performed a search for this site on Google. Darn, still no results. Maybe Google had not indexed my site yet. At least Yahoo and Altavista already did. Well I’ll check to make sure. What the!!! My site disappeared from their listing. How could that happen? Arrrggghhh… I didn’t do anything stupid to this site lately but why the heck did the search engines not list my site? Bah, I couldn’t find any clue :(.

This site gets slower, it must be because I write blogs almost everyday. My blogs are all shown at the homepage so it will take a while to load the whole page. Do search engines hate this? Well I hate this, maybe they do too. Now I display only the last seven blogs at the homepage. It should be a lot of faster now to load the page. The older blogs can still be reached from the Archieved blogs section, so it won’t be a matter. I hope the search engines will like this new design.

There was no badminton practice today as the gym was closed temporarily. We are celebrating the Indonesian independance day today so most activities are suspended. It should be a holiday too but my office moved it to yesterday so I got to work today. No badminton meant more time to play RO :D. My magician was up for 6 levels today from 26 to 32. Not bad. I did the first few levels solo. Upon reaching level 30, however, things started to move very slowly, so I tried to make a small group to help me level faster.

My first group-mate today was an archer. He was at some levels below me but it was really not a big deal. I only needed someone to hold back the monsters for a second while my magician was casting his deadly spells. Although the magicians’ spells are so powerful, they need time to cast. If the magician is hit during the casting, the spell will be cancelled. That’s why I needed somebody to cover me. Later the archer introduced me to his friend, a thief (not a real thief of course, it is a profession in RO like archer or magician). We teamed up together and kicked the monsters’ asses.

Everything was great until an acolyte offered her service. My teammates gladly welcomed her as she could heal their wounds. I personally had no need for acolytes since magicians are seldom to get hit. Unfortunately, the acolyte had a bad intention. She tried to break our team apart. She only healed the thief’s wound. She even tried to seduce the thief to leave the party and started to go duet. Her sheme succeeded as the thief followed her will. This made the archer really upset and he started to bother them by kill-stealing the monsters they were engaging. The thief didn’t like the action and they started to insult each other. It wouldn’t do any good to me so I decided to leave the broken group and started soloing.

Some times later the archer asked me to rejoin because the acolyte had left. It looked like the archer and the thief had been in peace once again. Hahaha, I know it’s only a game, but it’s really funny when the emotions are involved.

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.