Petra’s Blog

Bulan ini banyak banget di sekitar gw yang kejatuhan bahagia. Ada yang lulus lah, ada yang jadian lah, ada yang diterima sekolah lagi lah, ada yang diterima kerja lah, macem-macem.

Gw?

Entah yah, paling gak yang bisa gw syukuri sekarang itu adalah kerjaan gw udah gak terlalu banyak jadi bisa fokus ke studi and komputer yang gw sayangi ini udah bisa jalan lagi setelah rusak. Kecil seh dibanding berita-berita bahagia yang dialami temen-temen gw. Tapi paling gak gw bersyukur banget udah ada yang bisa disyukuri belakangan ^_^

Yesterday I attended my friends’ graduation day. ITB holds three graduation days in a year: October, April, and July. I graduated last October and yesterday was my friends’ turn. Since I still live in Bandung (and I still study there) and especially yesterday was a special day for my former classmates, I had to attend it. Many of my former classmates who had already graduated also came yesterday. That made the day so exciting.

There was one different thing from yesterday that made me so envious. I don’t know what to call it but it is a tradition for the all the student unions there to make a parade to welcome the graduates. At my time, it was banned because there were few cases of fights between student unions. But since ITB had new rector for few months now, the tradition was unbanned. Gladly, there was no fights or such yesterday.

Graduation days always make us feel mixed feelings. First of all, we are happy because after years we struggled, in the end we could finish it. But in the other hand, we are always sad to leave all of it especially at the moment we had to part with our friends. But people always say “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened“. And I’m pretty sure of it.

I’m really happy for you, guys! Good luck on your next journey whatever path you may take!

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I have a really bad conversation skill. It just occurred to me and it’s not just in English but also in Bahasa Indonesia. At first it didn’t bother me a lot. But soon after I noticed that many people tend to ask me to repeat what I told them, I just realized that my conversation skill is becoming worse. It’s even worse than many years ago when I don’t like to talk at all.

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I just got back from the concert whose conductor is one of my classmate, Ghifar. You know what, I kind of hate watching concert. It’s just because watching concert is making me so envious. I always feel fascinated about how they play, sing, and dance.  And I’m feeling regret leaving my piano lessons many years ago.

Anyway, the concert was great! Good job, Far!

Saya dan beberapa rekan JUG Bandung diundang untuk menjadi narasumber untuk acara COMIC dua hari yang lalu. Untuk yang belum tahu mengenai COMIC akan saya jelaskan sedikit. COMIC adalah sebuah acara yang mengumpulkan beberapa komunitas atau praktisi di Bandung untuk saling bertukar cerita, pengalaman, ide, dan wacana. Komunitas-komunitas yang diundang tidak hanya komunitas yang bergelut di bidang Teknologi Informasi ataupun bidang Multimedia, tapi juga komunitas lain yang menggunakan teknologi-teknologi untuk kegiatan mereka. COMIC sudah ada dari 2 tahun lalu. Rencananya memang selalu diadakan setiap bulan tapi karena satu dan lain hal baru diadakan 6 kali termasuk yang kemarin. Saya sendiri sudah pernah hadir 3 kali sebagai penonton ditambahkan 1 kali sebagai narasumber.

COMIC kali ini menggunakan tema “Komunitas Pengembang dalam Menggalang Kebersamaan“. Tema ini kebetulan saya yang menyumbangnya. Awalnya memang agak sulit untuk mencari narasumber yang berdomisili di Bandung. Saya sendiri juga tidak banyak mengikuti komunitas-komunitas pengembang. Yang saya tahu antara lain Java User Group Bandung, Open Solaris User Group Bandung, dan MySQL User Group Bandung. Mengundang 2 dari mereka menurut saya akan membuat acara tidak terlalu seru karena semuanya berada dalam satu bendera dan juga orang-orangnya itu-itu saja. Untunglah selain JUG Bandung diundang tim pengembang Wordpress yakni mas Setyagus dan rekan-rekan.

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Dua minggu ini gw dibuat kesal oleh kelakuan komputer gw sendiri. Gimana enggak, komputer yang isinya banyak kerjaan penting dan dokumen-dokumen penting udah dua minggu ini sulit dipakai.

Kekesalan ini bermulai dari saat gw bermain game tiba-tiba listrik di rumah mati. Begitu dinyalakan, monitor menyala tapi tidak menampilkan apa-apa. Bahkan tidak ada tulisan “No Signal”. Oke, gw langsung berasumsi Graphic card gw langsung rusak.
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Kalau sering meratiin status YM/FB/Twitter/Plurk gw, pasti sering ngeliat kalau gw pasang status “Pengen Selimut Tebel“. Yup, belakangan ini gw pengen banget punya selimut tebel. Emang sebelumnya belum? Sebelumnya seh gw udah punya selimut. Tapi tipis banget dan bahannya itu kasar banget. Dan itu sekarang udah gak tau ke mana. Yah, gak apa-apa ilang, daripada menuh-menuhin kamar tapi males dipake.

Beberapa bulan terakhir ini Bandung tuh udara malamnya relatif lebih dingin. Ditambah lagi sorenya sering banget hujan badai. Gak kebayang dinginnya malam-malam. *brrrrrrr*

Gak sempet beli selimut baru. Di mana yah nyarinya yang tebel dan lembut…

Just got this re-post comic from a friend’s plurk. Although this is a hilarious joke, the first two box are really something.

There is this kind of man that is very insensitive about gifts. A man that really want to give something but never have clue of what to give. If you ever watch The Big Bang Theory you might compare it with the scene where Sheldon Cooper bought many Christmas presents for Penny.

Yet I might never know this kind of man exists if I had never knew one example well. I know if you give hint about what you want for gift, the gift itself will lose its sentimental feeling. But you might want to know the fact that men are not mind-readers. And actually you might could not guess what they are capable of. I mean -especially for that man I know and I believe most of them are- just tell them what you want and they may cross the sea to get it for you.

Or why don’t you post a wishlist like I do. That could ease the effort.  At least the hardest things they could get are deciding between the choices and getting the gift