Entries from September 2007 ↓

After a series of goodbyes and see-you-agains, I want to share a bit of my next journey. I am selected as an Erasmus Mundus scholarship awardee in the MSc in Network and e-Business Centred Computing MSc in Network and e-Business Centred Computing (new website) program. Excited, is a feeling I am currently having. Nervous and scared a bit, since this journey I will be having is on the other side of the globe. But I want this, I want to make myself more “global”, and God gave me this.

In this program, I will study in three universities, namely:

• University of Reading, United Kingdom
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

A journey recorded in the Internet of a previous student of this program can be found in http://europeadventure.ca. He is a Canadian he seems to be a great programmer and student (managed to be at the top of his class). I am an Indonesian and forgetting how to code. But I’ll take my chances.

Now, I’m packed and ready to go (OK, not perfectly, but just a little bit more preparation). So, kind readers, see you from the other side of the globe (actually, other third of the globe, but that’s if you really have to know).

My first ever motor vehicle. I used this motor cycle for only a year or so. For a year, traveling 3733.8 km is not far, but I enjoyed it. And yet it’s time to let it go. Thanks for accompanying me. My favorite moments including: a late ride (at around midnight) through Pasupati by myself, sometime closing my eyes (for a brief moment, it’s scary).

I have a home in Bandung, at Jl Cisitu Indah IV/20. For a little more than six years I live there, but now, it’s time to say:

Goodbye, and see you all again

Yesterday I received my iPod Classic 160GB. And just now, I opened the box and since I keep my old clickwheel’s box I take some pictures of them together. Aaah, a new member have joined the family

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At last, the time has come for me to say goodbye to some people and places and things with which I spend my time quite a lot. For the first one in this series, I pick PT LAPI Divusi, IT Satisfaction Provider, a place where I (used to) work.

My first direct contact with Divusi (short name of PT LAPI Divusi) was when I have to do an internship as a part of Informatics Engineering program at ITB. The students must do an internship in informatics-related companies to feel what work would be like. I and Ridho, as a group, applied to Divusi back in 2004 (our third year). With the fact that Ridho was already joining the company as a part time programmer, the application process was speedy and easy. Fast forward to more than 2 years later, my years in Divusi has become important part in shaping myself to what I am, now.

As a new company (the company was established formally at 2004, to build a formal structure for professional services which have been offered for more than 10 years earlier), Divusi strive to be the best in the game. I, myself, witnessed and participated in, how Divusi came rescuing some abandoned projects and maneuvering to succeed in some new ones. Thanks to Divusi I got to see what is happening here in Indonesia.

Beside my work as a software programmer/analyst, I connected to Divusians in some other activities. Activities that I did not think I can actually participate in. I did mention that I went out on a several fun karaoke sessions, what’s more is that I relive my high school experience (d’uh! what experience? I was only a backup back then) as a goal keeper in futsal games. I would like to post some pictures of them to make you kind readers know what those two different times like.

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On September 9, 2007, I and several of my friends were able to get together for a late lunch at The Chicken Rice Shop at the Plaza Semanggi. The participants were Kiky, Sandy, me (raizamn), Tetty, Deasy, and Febi, not forgetting Bandoro (left early due to “unspecified-but-important” reason), and Bayu (Sandy’s cousin). It was fun, we just talked and laughed and, well of course, ate, while catching up each other’s news. I am not sure, but I think the last time I met Deasy and Febi was over a year now. The three girls seemed beaming happily. Kiky seemed fine. Bandoro too, he was showing off his “work-related-facility” (updated: the man himself has requested that this specific information is to be deleted). In the mean time, other thoughts and news from other friends can still be read through if01 aggregator.

This post was made with Flock: The Social Web Browser (and subsequently edited using Wordpress editor since I am not getting things as I want to). This post was made on my white MacBook.

This picture was taken circa 2005 in Ambon. A burnt mosque in a nearby shore showed how Ambon and Ambonese saw through tremendous struggle that time.