Entries Tagged 'Friends' ↓
March 2nd, 2008 — Current Events, Friends, Pictures, Thessaloniki GR
Meet Shrek and, ehm, his girlfriend.
The carnival week has just started here in Greece. People wear masks or costumes and celebrate. On Thursday afternoon, they have what is called Tsiknopempti (Τσικνοπέμπτης, literally Burnt Thursday, it is Greek equivalent of Fat Tuesday) where people had massive barbecue to prepare for the carnival. Unfortunately, I don’t have any picture for the barbecue. The word Carnival itself has Latin origin which means saying good bye to meat (carni = meat, vale = good bye; remember carnivore?).
The origin of Greek carnival tradition can also be traced back to Ancient Greek tradition. They said that it was for honouring the God of Wine, Dionysus. That’s why the Greek Orthodox church, the majority, seemed not too happy with the celebration. Nonetheless, old and young people were celebrating on Thursday night. The carnival is also related to Easter and one of my professors said that for forty days before Easter the Greek (at least the religious ones) fast by not eating meat or drinking alcohol. Continue reading →
February 24th, 2008 — Friends, IF ITB
Just want to let you all know that if01 aggregator has been updated with the new Feedwordpress plugin. One of the most important bug that now has been fixed is “The ‘A’-only entries from wordpress-based syndicated site”.
So, starting from now, we can enjoy posts from:
And, last but definitely not least, warm welcome to: Ridho “Akihiro” Akhiro - steps of an akihiro, who has just arrived at Melbourne, Australia, to start his master degree at the University of Melbourne.
TODO:
- Update Wordpress, I’m now too lazy to update to newest Wordpress 2.3.3.
- New heads for new authors. While I’m at it, use the (currently empty) head page.
- Fill in that empty bubble in the title of the site (any suggestion?). That is, decide on the title of the site to replace the generic “if01 aggregator).
Keep on posting guys (and girls)!
PS: If you are a member of if01 and would like to be part of this site, please contact raizamn[at]gmail·com
December 28th, 2007 — Education, Erasmus Mundus, Friends, Life, Movies, Reading UK, Travel
Kind readers, sorry for not updating this blog for quite some time now. So without further ado, here is a quick recap about what I have done in UK. Continue reading →
October 21st, 2007 — Friends, Reading UK
Yesterday I had a video chat with sandclow and all I have to say it’s nice to catch up with a friend, moreover, with a friend who’s half way around the world. He is studying in Japan right now, while I am at Reading, UK.
I have tried skype but never with broadband like yesterday. We chat for about an hour before sandy decided it’s time for bed (it was already midnight at Japan). After that, I made myself a late lunch: nasi goreng.
September 27th, 2007 — Friends, Life, Pictures
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
September 25th, 2007 — Divusi, Friends, Health, Life, Songs, Sport, Work
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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September 17th, 2007 — Friends, Life, Pictures
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.
