I Hate Holiday

I hate holiday. Every time holiday comes. It's a nightmare for me. I know it is fun to have holiday. You can rest at your home. Play some video games. Sleep throughout the day. Spend a lot of time in front of your computer. It's not like that I do not like these things, but a lot more fun things are happening outside holiday. 

At holiday, I barely meet my friends. Only when I ask the people out or someone arrange a meeting. It's just so sad that knowing I will be alone for a long long time. That's why I loved to set up meetings. It's just fun. Right until now, there are no technologies that can replace meeting communication. At meeting you can see a real living thing, face to face. You can see them smiling and we can talk, about a lot of things together. And moreover, you know that both of you are living together and that's the point. Laughing, Walking together. It's just priceless. Technologies are used for more effective communication, but the ecstatic feeling of meeting people, it cannot be replaced. 

We live in the world when communications are becoming more and more effective. My two cents are, never replace communication in forms of meeting people. You can send you feeling directly through it. Thank you and keep meeting.

Please Reply You Messages!

It is common for us to forgot to reply our messages. Emails, short messages,  or any other asynchronous chat. One day, one of my senior scold me for being passive in replying emails. That day, I learnt that replying messages as soon as possible is as important as replying you synchronous talk. 

I know you have no obligation to reply those messages, but it would be very nice if you respond quickly for something like that. You'll never know how urgent that the sender needs the reply. It is just social ethics. Even if it was one way message, it would be very helpful if you send confirmation. Does replying use time that much? If you ever in the situation that need the reply that fast, you will understand. Give yourself little time interruption for replying messages and I think you have done very good things to you people. It is one of the simple things that can make people smile. 

I myself have promised to reply any messages that come to me. I believe that my quick responses was very important and I want to give my best to every people unexceptionally. Good replying~.

Because It's More Fun

I know it should be funnier, but the context will be very wrong. The more I spend time in my life, I eventually realized that giving my life for the sake of others is more fun than trying hard for myself. It was very easy to content myself, it is more challenging to help others. 

Back in the day, I usually think about myself. How myself in five or ten years? What is the purpose of studying? How I could gain another achievement? It's always be like that. At the first time I entered college, the only thing in my mind is how to be successful like Bill gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Later on, through all of the experience at the college, I feel very hard to win people. It's easier to make people lose and abandoned than to make them better. 

After becoming a mentor and leader, I really understand the real difficulties to persuade people, to make people follow our mind and ideology. Of course it is so easy to make people mad, but the main point is not there. It is about sharing. It is not fun to smile alone. It is no fun to walk and achieve something just by yourself. Winning alone is like laughing by yourself. When you extend your mind into the sake of the other, that's the real fun begin. 

Seeing other people smiling because of our care is priceless. 

Persistance

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts.

Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

I Failed

Sigh, It's been a while. I feel I was an utter failure now. My precious division get worse every day. It was a division of my campus fellowship. I was their previous leader. I love this fellowship. It gave me my vision. It gave me home to return. It gave me peace and serenity. I was carved in that fellowship and tried to to the same to the division. I tried very hard to maintain the situation of the division. A lot of new ideas and program is done and the fellowship itself was very close. We sometimes hand out together. :3

But then, Now, the situation changed unfathomably. My successor cannot even maintain my program. A lot of programs were failed and abandoned. We had a weekly meeting and the meeting was very rigid. We only talked about the weekly task, sharing some stories, our magazine, and go home. Is that a fellowship? We did not even talk each other. Asking their day. Spend some quality time together. This semester, we only hang out once. You tend to late on the meeting. You barely ask and maintain the Intermedia-ers. 

I just want to say. I'm sorry Intermedia. I'm sorry to you. I'm sorry Intermedia 2012 because all of you cannot feel the best of Intermedia. I feel very sad about this. In that case, I will not leave Intermedia. Not until I feel Intermedia is in good hands. This is the place where my heart is belong. I won't abandon it. God has given me all the good things here, at Intermedia and I will use it to it's maximum potential. Thank you.

Mend Your Computer!

Recently, I saw a lot of my friend's notebook and complained it for being very slow. They had a lot of desktop shortcuts and widgets, unnecessary start-up programs, and installed unused applications. At the first time to boot, it needs about 3 until 4 minutes until the computer is ready to be used. When I tried to open some applications like web browser and music player, the computer response is starting to react slower. After initiating some research, I found that the main problem is because there are a lot of start-up programs that took most of the memory. After I continue some research, I found again that the main partition was heavily fragmented and a lot of registry errors. It took about two minutes to open Microsoft Office or any other heavy-weight applications.

For the love of God, mend your computer! It's not that I'm trying to control your life or whatsoever, but trust me, things will become easier with more responsive laptop. You will value your laptop responsiveness best when you in a hurry and this tip will save your day. You don't have to be an IT student to mend your computer.

I will give you some tips regarding optimizing your computer. First, reduce the amount of start-up application. This would effect a lot to the boot time. Second, remove any unused application. Third, defrag your hard drives. Fourth,  fix the registry errors. After that, I'm pretty sure that your computer will be more responsive than ever. :). Don't know how to operate any of the techniques? Just Google it. It would be to long if I explain it one by one. Good luck. If spend some hours with your computer, it will save you from a lot of accident in the future.

Development Tools Research

Back in my old days, I have developed a lot applications and programs. I've learned a lot that performance is not the rule of thumb in many cases and I gave a better perspective to structure and code readability. Until recently, I developed applications with only text editor like notepad++ for PHP. Sometimes, I used popular IDE(Integrated Development Environment) like Netbeans for Java and C++ and Eclipse for Python. At that time, I do not use any VCS(Version Control System) to share my work among my peers and it got messy a lot of times.


One day, an idea to make a little research for the best development tools came up. I want to find the best tools that can made me more productive and cleaner than ever. So, I used some of my time to find the best work environment that will give me the best result.


Text Editor


My first research is to find a better text editor than notepad++. My criteria for text editor is that it must be lightweight(run quickly after opening a file), simple design with no toolbar, easy to customize, and a directory explorer. My result came up with two results. They are gedit and Sublime Text. Both of them offer all my needs. I choose Sublime Text in the end because it has better design. :). Believe me, try Sublime Text and you will love it. Editing text was not so much fun before.


IDE


I have a lot of complain for open sourced IDE like Netbeans and Eclipse as I found a lot of bugs within their IDE. Bugs are lowering my productivity. So, my criteria for IDE is that must be lightweight, little bugs(I know that bugs will always be there, but keep it minimum), great code completion, VCS integration, unit testing integration, attached debugger, and code re factoring.  It was very much criteria for an IDE, though I think. I've tried a lot of IDE and finally I got IDEs that very much came up with my criteria. It was PyCharm, PhpStorm, and Intellij IDEA. It was very light and powerful. The only drawback is that the software is paid license and it was very expensive. You can see all of the feature on jetbrains.com. I'm pretty sure you'll love it except for the price. :D


VCS


It was quite simple to choose a VCS. I empasize more on finding a good repository for the VCS than choosing a good VCS. All VCS are good. You can choose according with you needs. I choose git because it was distributed and a lot of repository has git. After trying some online repository, I came up with conclusion that github is the best repository. It has beautiful GUI explorer and good shell. It really drives your productivity.


In short, I've tried all of this product and I got better productivity as most of the job can be solved easily with such powerful features. :)

Happiness

Recently, I chatted with one of my friend. She was a good and kind girl, although she was kinda quiet. We talked about a lot of things. We really had a huge amount of topic because we haven't met for quite a long time. At one point she told me that she has went to a village and she felt pity to the village. I asked her back "Why?" Then, she explain it quite deep. 


She said that the village are very messy. The toilets are dirty and most of the rooms do not have any doors. They had trouble in finding water. The nearest school was 2 kilo meters away and they do not have any vehicle so that, they need to walk to get to school. Electricity is one of the rarest thing, she said. She explain it in a very detail way. Until I've realized that village was very bad.


After that we kept talking and talking and after we finished talking, I was thinking a little bit for the village. It is true that the village was very bad, but it does not mean that the villager is not happy. Einstein give me the theory that everything is relative. We cannot use the same measurement in a environment. What I want to say is that I don't think that we need to pity village just because the village has so many problems. Townie has also a lot of problems. The differences id just the type of problem. Humans, in their life, need to face problems. That's the point. Wherever you lived, you will face problem that you need to solve. People that live without electricity do not mean that they are less happy with people with electricity. If the villager problem are finding a good source of electricity, the townie problem can be like maintaining the electricity or finding an environment-friendly source of electricity. Humans have problems and it is a good thing.


Moreover, humans are habitual creature. If the villager are used to lived without electricity, they would find it nice to live without electricity. They will have another kind of activity than people that live with full electricity. The villager could be as happy as the townie.


I would say that there are possibilities that the villagers are generally happier that the townie because of technology. With technology, human life will become more complex as the time passes. People that lives without technology, in this case is the villagers, will get no more problems and they can focus on their social life more than the busy townie. So, I would choose not to pity the village. It is good to pity the living, but I prefer to pity the human that lives without love whoever they are, wherever they live as the wise Dumbledore said.

Suitmedia Internship Update!

Hi! It's me again and now i will give you an update about my internship. It was really cool experience although sometimes it was depressing. It was priceless after all. 


The Place


Suitmedia has two offices. One at Bandung and the other one is located at Jakarta. The office was a little bigger than my class room but its tidier and more comfortable. It have 6 mbps internet connection and free water. It doesn't have any fancy perks like free food, soft drink, or any other perk. It was simple. We had an outing day once per month. We went to Hanamasa last month. :)

What I Do?


My first project is developing a web application for Unilever. It was a website to give a boost with their upcoming Ramadan promotion. I was quite difficult at the first part because this is the first time that I develop application using a framework. A lot of errors came up, but fortunately, my mentor was kindly enough to help me. My second project is another web application for publishing many important information. A project from unit kerja presiden.


Technical Warning!!


I used CodeIgniter PHP framework. It was very easy and light to use. I heard this the framework that have the steepest learning curve. The framework is combined with Doctrine ORM(Object Relational Mapper). It was a very nice and powerful ORM. I love to work with those two tools, but since both of the are really strict at their convention and I prefer configuration over convention like Django framework. I need to adapt with the convention and it takes quite a lot of time.


The result


I've done with these two project and I finished it. :). It was very relieving to know that my skill is adequate at the career world. I just have to polish and master it. I've learned so much within these two projects and I still have much to learn though. One of the most important that I get from this project is that I was granted access to Suitmedia production server. Cooooool. I've never configure a server before. The feeling that I could deploy my application and saw it in the internet was priceless. Thank you Suitmedia. :)




Well, in short, I still have one more month to dig a lot of diamonds of knowledge. I just have to keep diggin and diggin.

Shortest Day

Yesterday, the 30th of April 2012 was one of the day that I felt was a very short day. I felt the time is running at the fastest pace as 4 hours feels like 15 minutes. It was a day I spent with my old friends. It was almost like an ordinary outing day at the first time. We gathered around the school and went to one of our favorite mall and had lunch together.


The most interesting part of the stories is the people. The first one is one of my best friends. She was a very caring woman and we had known each other for more than 6 years. We did struggled at the same time and help each other. I shall never leave her as her friend. The second one is arguably the most essential factor of the pace. She was my ex-crush while I'm still attending junior and senior high school. She was a great girl.


The three of us the stopped at hachi-hachi, a Japanese restaurant. We directly went to the private room so that we could talk anything without any disturbance. It was a very nice time we spent there. We talked a lot of things. We told a lot of stories, and we shared our experience to each other. We laugh a lot. I interrogated my ex-crush about her new boyfriend. I was a relief to know that she was cared well by her boyfriend. 


For me, being able to spent some time with her is priceless. I was dreaming about talking to her from a long time. With this event, I want her to know that i'm still her friend and you can ask me if you need some help. Thank God that this sinner could still talk to her. From all of my ex-crush, only her that I cared the most. 


Thank you. It was, indeed, priceless. We end the day by go back to our own home together. I was simply the best ending I could had. Thank you. :)

Life Update

Hi, guys. Right now, I just want to give information about my life in the mean time. There are a lot of thing happened recently in my life an it was mind catching and unforgettable. Let's not wasting time and go to the first event.


The first one is about one of my mentee. I have two mentees and both of them are 2011 batch student at school of architecture and planning at ITB. Last week was the announcement of the result of their sub-major. Both of them want to enter architecture but, unfortunately one of them did not get it. I know that this is one of her dream. She must be quite a shock for her. One of her friends told she was quite shocked and still quiet until now. In this unfortunate event, it was a nice thing to hear that actually her grades were sufficient to get into architecture and finally she claim it to the lecturer.


The second one is about me. Recently, I accidentally knows that one of my best friends unfriend me from Facebook and messenger contact. It is true that he has the rights to unfriend everyone he wants. It is true that cyber friend connection is not visualizing the actual relationship but, I just do not like it. I'm sorry. You've done so many things only to comfort yourself, mate.


Despite all the things that happened, I really enjoyed my internship as it was very exciting to work with. It's time for me to move on and focus to reach my vision. I hope I can remove this bad feeling from me though. :)

Internship first-part

At last, I'm in the mood to write a blog again. It's been a while. I've just passed a tough semester. And now, I'm here to give a little report about my internship. I conduct my internship at Suitmedia, A digital consultancy company that mainly create web and mobile application. It was very fun after all. From the beginning of the recruitment until I sit in their office together writing code. It was indeed invaluable experience. My interview with Suitmedia was ended smoothly since I know the key to great interview. It was confidence and skill. Confidence give you a sense of conviction and determination. Skill give you knowledge and support confidence.


At the very first time, I'm quite confused to choose an internship place because I'm still not sure about my major specialist. It was between mobile and web development. Both of them are interesting field to play but I know. I don't have enough time to master both the field, for now. My choice fall into the web development, at last. :). It was a very preference matter. I choose web development because it was fun and it was the answer of my prayer.


The first day of my internship was very interesting. I've learn all about Suitmedia and my first project. One important lesson that really catch my mind is that we have to try all things to be better although we are afraid of that thing or maybe unrelated to our job. Do learn everything you can as it will give you a lot of knowledge. :). I will give full report of my internship at the next part. :) see you.

Dulu Kita Pernah Dewasa

Barusan saja saya membaca sebuah artikel berjudul "Dulu Kita Pernah Dewasa" di kaskus. Sejenak aku berpikir kalau kita makin dewasa, tetapi semakin lama aku berpikir aku merasa tidak juga. Dulu, begitu polosnya aku. Bisa ikut dalam segala permainan tanpa berpikir yang jauh. Aku berteman tanpa melihat sesuatu dari mereka. Aku tidak merasakan ketegangan dalam menjalani hidup. Jika ada kesulitan, tanpa ragu aku menelpon temanku. Aku hidpu di dunia yang bebas.


Namun sekarang, aku otakku diiss penuh dengan beragam informasi yang membuatku perlu banyak berpikir dalam melakukan sesuatu. Bahkan, kadang-kadang aku merasa kalau semua hasil interaksiku dengan orang lain itu semua hasil rekayasa agar mereka dapat menerimaku dengan baik. Semua agar tidak terjadi masalah yang dapat menggangguku dalam mencapai isi hidupku. Kalau dibandingkan dengan yang dulu, aku begitu ekspresif. Setiap orang tahu isi dari otakku hanya dengan melihat raut wajahku. Namun, sekarang aku harus jaga image setiap kali bertemu dengan orang, mempertahankan senyumku walaupun aku sedang tidak ada mood untuk senyum.


Begitu polosnya seorang anak kecil yang begitu dikasihi Tuhan. Sepertinya, tidak jelek jika mulai sekarang aku memilih untuk menjadi anak kecil yang energik dan polos dalam mengejar visi hidupku. :)