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In the last four years, I mainly used Java as a main programming language to do my work. And I just realized that it's been a while since the last time I learned new programming language. So if I have enough time I'd like to learn these languages:1. PerlIt's not a new language afterall, however I cannot code in Perl! Shame on me! Realizing the text processing power (regular expression/ text

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Phew.. minggu ini lumayan produktif. Nilai DDP kelar, nilai Gamedev kelar, udah dimasukkan ke SIAK Angie. Lumayan capeknya ya seperti biasa pas ngelayanin "komplain" dari mahasiswa. Paper TREC juga sudah di-submit. Akhir minggu ini Fasilkom tutup, soalnya ada acara family gathering. Acara ini lumayan dahsyat, seluruh elemen Fasilkom diajak ke Bandung (beserta keluarga mereka). Sebenarnya sih

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Sering sekali ketika saya bertemu temen lama, dan mereka menanyakan saya sekarang ngapain sepulangnya ke Indo, reaksi mereka adalah kaget saya jadi dosen dan yang kedua adalah respon mereka selanjutnya adalah "ooh, nyantai dong jadi dosen.."Ndenger kalimat seperti rasanya bikin panas. Mereka nggak tahu aja bagaimana dan apa yang terjadi di belakang layar. Nih ya, saya ceritain, bagi saya, kalau

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Beberapa waktu lalu ada hari Natal dan Tahun Baru, banyak orang merenung, sayangnya waktu itu saya gak sempet refleksi hehe.. Pas Natal malah jempol dibedah, pas taon baru malah ngorok dengan sukses.Tapi hari ini:Jam 02.30 dinihari @Fasilkom terbangun deh dari tidur. Rasanya pikiran sangat jernih,sangat tenang, sangat bersyukur atas semuanya. Dan tiba-tiba ingin berdoa, ingin mengucap syukur,

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Hushhhah, bukan saya yang lamaran tapi teman saya ! Minggu depan, rencananya saya akan menghadiri acara lamaran teman saya di Bandung. Teman saya ini namanya Bapak Canggih. Ni orang berjasa banget waktu gw di Belanda. Hampir tiap minggu masakin makanan-makanan enak-enak, teman hang out, curhat-curhatan ga jelas dan laen-laen.Rasanya aneh juga ketika orang ini mau lamaran, hmm waktu berjalan

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I've set my ultimate dream for 2012. Publish one paper in SIGIR/CIKM 2012. I only need one. Please help me God...

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Sudah agak lama tidak menonton bioskop, akhirnya minggu lalu nonton beberapa film.Yang pertama nonton The Three Musketeers, bagi saya sih filmnya biasa saja, dengan humor yang tidak biasa. Namun, karena waktu nonton film ini bersama teman dosen lain yang masih j*mbl* juga, jadi lucu juga soalnya ada beberapa kata-kata dalam film ini yang "menohok" terutama dari karakter si Athos (salah satu

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Ketika naik ojek tadi, seketika muncul di pikiran mengenai "ajaran2/kebiasaan2/perlakuan2" yang saya alami dari kecil sampe remaja, yaitu waktu saya tumbuh di lingkungan yang mixed. Saya sebut mixed karena walau saya sampe SMU tinggal di Salatiga yang notabene adalah tanah Jawa, orang tua saya sendiri bukan orang Jawa. Papa saya orang Ambon asli, Ibu saya keturunan Tionghoa dari Nusa Tenggara

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Beberapa waktu lalu ketika saya lagi jalan-jalan ke Plaza Senayan, ada acara launching buku Merry Riana di Kinokuniya, yang pada dasarnya menceritakan kisahnya dia sampai sukses sekarang ini. Hmm, nih orang pasti hebatlah. Kuliah di NTU, Electrical Engineering terus dia mendapatkan 1 juta dollar pertamanya pas umur 26 kalo nggak salah. Yah kagum pastilah. Tapi entah kenapa males baca bukunya,

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Aduh.. Tadi liat-liat hasil kerja mahasiswa di Quiz 2 DDP. Hmm, kok masih ada yang nge-blank ya... Moga-moga UTS hasilnya baik-baik deh...

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Pengen nulis ttg pengalaman apply US Visa :P Soalnya apply tanpa bantuan siapapun, yeah!! ;)Proses melakukan lamaran aplikasi untuk US Visa ternyata tidak berbelit-belit. Semua syarat dan langkah-langkah yang harus dilakukan sudah cukup jelas dicantumkan di website kedutaan Amerika. Anda bisa lihat disini http://jakarta.usembassy.gov/howtoapply.html. Secara umum ada tiga tahap yaitu mengisi

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Tadi pagi seperti biasa mengajar DDP sampe siang. Dan seperti biasa, maunya disambi demo program supaya mahasiswa harapannya lebih mengerti ketika melihat program dieksekusi. Tapi saya tadi agak lalai haha. Jadi biasanya sebelom eksekusi saya kebiasaan rm file-file *.class. Jadi kalau di Linux pakai command "rm *.class". Tapi tadi karena buru-buru aku tulis "rm *.java"!!!!!!!!!! Dan akhirnya

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Sudah agak lama enggak main game di PC. Padahal dulu lumayan maniak untuk main game :P Tadi browsing-browsing kira-kira game apa yang menarik. Nemu game Team Fortress 2, kayaknya sih menarik. Moga-moga Bayu dan Gatot bisa diracunin untuk maen game ini. Udah mau nyoba download tadi, tapi harus pakai Steam. Tapi kalau dilihat trailernya sepintas, kayaknya sih menarik :DNgomong-ngomong maen game,

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Semester ini bisa dibilang saya benar-benar sibuk, "dipercaya" mengajar 13 SKS. Jadi ceritanya semester ini ngajar DDP (Dasar-dasar Pemrograman) dan Game Development. Game development ini mata kuliah yang baru buka, alias promo dan dosennya pun promo :D Setelah menelaah beberapa literatur tentang game design/development ini, ternyata game bukanlah software sembarangan.Lalu apa sih bedanya game

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Lebih ramah mana orang Belanda atau orang Indonesia ? Kalau masalah individualis sih, menurut saya orang Belanda lebih individualis. Tapi kalau masalah keramahan, kadang saya merasa orang Belanda lebih ramah.Merujuk pada apa yang saya alami dulu di Belanda, kalau misalnya kita ke supermarket terus bayar di kasir. Pasti kasirnya bilang terima kasih, lalu have a nice day/ have a nice weekend etc.

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Sekitar 1 minggu yang lalu saya resmi jadi wedding crasher untuk pertama kalinya! Yup, jadi ya saya datang ke suatu pernikahan tanpa undangan. Memang kedengarannya gila sih. Jadi ceritanya, teman saya semasa kecil, ngajakin untuk datang ke nikahan sepupunya. Hmm, kalau orang laen yang ngajakin pasti saya nggak mau. Tapi berhubung temen saya ini emang orangnya rada-rada "edan" ya udah aku iya-in

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Pada hari ini di UI diselenggarakan wisuda di tingkat universitas. Melihat mahasiswa-mahasiswa yang baru saja diwisuda, tiba-tiba jadi teringat waktu wisuda di ITB dulu (S1). Pas S2 di Belanda emang sengaja gak ikut, malah liburan ke Indonesia sebelom mulai kerja disana, jadi gak ada memori apa-apa ttg wisuda S2.Waktu di ITB, wisudanya tentu saja diselenggarakan di Sasana Budaya Ganesha (Sabuga),

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Seperti biasa, weekend adalah waktu yang membosankan. Selalu saja bingung mau ngapain. Padahal kan sayang-sayang kalau weekend dibiarkan begitu saja. Mau jalan ke mall lama-lama bosen juga. Ke kantor, paling browsing dan gak baca paper. Di kosan paling ngelamun gak jelas. Kemarin Minggu akhirnya nyoba pergi ke gereja yang rada jauh, di daerah Jakarta Barat. Gerejanya namanya GKI Surya Utama.

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Pada semester ganjil 2011/2012 ini saya memiliki pengalaman baru yaitu menjadi dosen PA (semacam dosen wali) untuk mahasiswa baru angkatan 2011. Sebenarnya belum merasa pantas juga menjadi PA, saya kan masih hijau juga :-) Ada sekitar 17 mahasiswa yang di bawah "kontrol" saya. Minggu lalu kita sempat berinteraksi waktu acara PSAF. Mayoritas mereka berasal dari SMU di wilayah Jabotabek. Sempet

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Beberapa minggu lalu diundang interview untuk Fulbright Scholarship (PhD). Seneng sih rasanya walau bisa diundang saja, karena pas mbuat Study Objective + Research Statement (SO + RS) gonta ganti lebih dari 10 kali sampe mabok sendiri. Kalau ditanya bagaimana interviewnya, hmm ga tau juga sih gimana. Interviewernya ada 4 orang. Tiga orang Indonesia dan satu orang Amerika. Terus terang ini

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Phewww... what a day, just finished coding for TREC (Text Retrieval) Experiments. So many ideas being thrown in our work. Hope that the hard work will be paid off in the end.

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Beberapa waktu lalu Sehat Sutardja bilang, kalau Indonesia mau maju salah satu caranya ya orang-orang yang sekolah di luar negeri kembali ke Indonesia untuk membangun bangsanya. Tapi ya menurut saya gak segampang itulah, kan butuh lingkungan yang kondusif juga untuk berkarya. Lagipula kebanyakan orang Indo yang diluar argumennya biasanya memandang negeri lain jauh lebih nyaman, duit lebih banyak,

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Mau tahu cerminan kultur orang sini yang paling practical? Gampang, naik saja KRL. Dari pas ngantri di loket, ngantri mau naik, ngantri mau turun, gak ada yang beres sama sekali. Contoh, pas ngantri di loket, kan giliran saya tuh, kadang-kadang saya nanya beberapa pertanyaan ke orang yang jaga di loket e.g. Ekonomi AC jam berapa? Kalau Ekspress jam berapa? Ada saja orang yang nyerobot langsung

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Hmm, habis UAS adalah saat-saat banyak mahasiswa pengen ketemu dengan dosennya, bahkan berkunjung ke kantornya. Yah sudah bisa ditebaklah mau ngapain yaitu nanya nilainya lah, bisa lulus apa enggak dll. Kemarin rada bete juga ada yang dateng, hampir setengah jam memohon-mohon diberi kesempatan. Yah kalo nilainya mepet-mepet bisalah..Lha ini jauuuuuuh banget. Aku kasih tugas tambahan dua biji

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My sister is my BEST friend. PERIOD.

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I think, I'm going to stop it..

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Oh man..it's been a while since I had this kind of feeling. It really bothers me...Hmmmm... However, I don't want this feeling to go away...I really need the courage of the heart.

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Dulu sekitar tahun 1996, seorang guru Ekonomi saya waktu SMP, namanya Bu Endang lagi berbicara sesuatu dan akhirnya sampai pada suatu topik, jadi dia bilang..saya itu walaupun sakit, tetap berangkat sekolah dan mengajar kalian. Terus dia tanya, kira-kira kenapa saya tetap mengajar ke sekolah? Samuel, kira-kira kenapa?Waduh, aku sih waktu itu, yaaa namanya anak kecil polos ya hehe, hmmm setelah

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Sejak SMU, pelajaran yang paling saya suka rasanya ya Matematika ya. Yah alasannya klise-lah, ga perlu ngafal seperti biologi.. Fisika juga rada suka tapi logicnya ga terlalu suka hehehe..Ga cocoklah..Long story short, setelah menempuh S1 dan S2 di bidang Ilmu Komputer/Informatika, baru kerasa banget yang namanya matematika itu the queen of science deh..Lebih spesifiknya matematika yang rada

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Mungkin bagi sebagian orang, menjadi penggemar bola/basket atau olahraga itu hal yang aneh. Kok bisa ya kita menggemari suatu klub atau atlet.. Padahal kenal saja enggak, ketemu aja enggak pernah..Kita cuma lihat permainan mereka di TV. Kok bisa ya kita menggemari permainan mereka. Belom lagi ketika mereka kalah kita sedih dan ketika mereka menang kita juga ikut senang..Kok bisa ya? Hahaha..Masi

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Salah satu hal yang membedakan seorang juara dan bukan juara adalah kemampuan melakukan sesuatu hal yang luar biasa pada saat yang menentukan. Barusan ngelihat-lihat lagi highlight-highlight NBA playoff jaman 1990-an dan awal 2000 dimana pemain seperti Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant berjaya (yang ini masih sih).Berkali-kali mereka (terutama Jordan) menunjukkan bagaimana pada skor yang sedang ketat/

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Being attacked in the media by Lee Chong Wei (LCW) and Taufik Hidayat (TH) regarding his suspicious walkover in the Malaysian Open SS, Lin Dan (LD) proved once again that he is still the best in the world of badminton by winning the Korean Open SS 2011. The Olympic Champion made his way to the final comfortably by crushing TH & Simon Santoso in the semifinal to meet his big rival, LCW. The final

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The teaching experience last semester was marvelous for me. It was a honor to stand in front of so-called Indonesia's smart & brilliant students for about a half semester. However, the excitement to teach Programming Foundations to the students also posed some challenges.Challenges, written randomly & unstructured:- Skills were variedThe profile of the students were varied, some of them already

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Last Friday was my last day at ASML as I'm going to leave Netherlands soon. To describe my feelings, it was kind of mixed. I'm happy as I'm going to be closer to my sister and my mother, however there was sad feeling as I will leave the people that I worked with in the last 1 year. The last day was just as the same as another day except thatI have to complete all the leaving checklist and get

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/* This was written last year (2010) when confusion came around my head */I never expected to have a difficult moment to choose the next path in my life. It was stressful, confusing and absorbed so much energy. The trade offs among the options that I had were extreme and mutually exclusive. But I am glad that I've passed that moment that I chose a path. I'm confident and ready to endure for

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I've just got a news from the field that my beta patch already installed in GlobalFoundries, Dresden. So far they're quite delighted about the performance as the existing errors are gone now. Hope that everything will go allright (fingers crossed). Well, that's the only satisfaction that I can get as a software engineer, to have your software used by the big clients and it works fine.

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Sometimes our dream doesn't get along with the reality. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made for the sake of others. Sometimes we have to endure from something that we don't like. Sometimes we have to make a hard decision within an obscure circumstances. Sometimes we pray and we just don't get enlightment. Sometimes we walk in the middle of the dark tunnel and cannot see the end of it.

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Apprentice: "Jedi, I cannot start my appp properly. It always shows strange error messages. I don't have a clue what's going on. "Jedi 1: "Hmm, let me see". (Jedi 1 only restarts the app and stare at the error messages..silence..).....Jedi 1: "Apprentice, even I don't know what's happening."The Guru: "What's going on guys?"Jedi 1: "Blablablabla.."The Guru read the error messages and in one

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I am thinking to find something interesting to do in the future. One of them is doing contributions for the opensource project. To be honest, the experience of GSOC'08 was very memorable as I learned many useful things from the organization and the most important thing was, I got paid to do something that I really really love. As it's not possible to do something that I "really" love from 9 AM to

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As usual, the after office hour moment has always been the blissful moment for me everyday.However, in the same time, it is also a time when I try to contemplate about things concerning my life such as how's my feeling today, what I've been doing in the office, what am I going to do for the rest of the night etc. Despite of many things that usually pop out in my mind, most of the time I only

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Grew up together with her, I never expected that she would be a person to whom I relied to. I must admit that she thinks faster, smarter than I am. It's like she resembles my father. A person who was the best healer in my ups and downs in life. Like Laura's status said "My sister is the best healer in the world", it happens for me as well.

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I was in the middle of tough conversation, probably the toughest one in my life. I had to make a decision from a binary type question. It was not easy since I felt that I cannot take one of them in mutual exlusive manner. But I cannot do a "busy-waiting" all the time. A process should go on. I made a decision. A painful decision. However, life must go on.Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the

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Seperti biasa, Indonesia akan mengandalkan bulutangkis untuk mendulang medali di Olimpiade 2008. Akankah Taufik Hidayat mengulang sukses terdahulu? Tadi liat-liat di youtube clipnya Taufik. Liat maennya dia, emang sadis banget. Keren.Nih kalo mau liat:1. Yang ini liat di menit 5:16. Counter attack super.2. Yang ini pertahanan super, dan backhand yang kayak forehand. Gila, pergelangan tangannya

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Beberapa hari yang lalu liat-liat fs anak-anak Salatiga yang baru lulus SMU. Liat-liat comment mereka, kebanyakan dari mereka saling bertanya satu sama lain, mau lanjut ke mana? Mau kuliah jurusan apa.Setelah tak pikir-pikir, waktu dulu aku nentuin jurusan pas mau kuliah, sebenarnya aku nggak terlalu apa yang harus aku pilih. Taunya sih kalo anak IPA biasanya masuk Teknik Elektro, Teknik Sipil,

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"I'd move to Los Angeles if Australia and New Zealand were swallowed up by a huge tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in Europe, and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack." (Russell Crowe) "If you grow up in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. [

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Sebelum ke sini saya kan harus ngurus paspor, soalnya paspor saya sudah habis masa berlakunya. Lha wong terakhir bikin paspor SD. Pas SD itu, seingat saya, pas di kantor Imigrasi, nggak enak banget. Nunggunya lama banget, nggak tahu kapan dapat giliran untuk foto. Eh tahu-tahu disuruh pulang sorenya, besok suruh datang lagi. Anehnya besoknya kayak gitu lagi. Pokoknya setiap ke kantor imigrasi,

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Beberapa hari ini rasanya bosen banget. Maklum liburan udah mulai, temen-temen satu persatu pergi meninggalkan Eindhoven menuju tanah airnya masing-masing. Orang Indonesia yang masih bertahan cuma Agni, Mas Lesky, Pak Wayan. Hari ini si Jian, bakal pulang juga. Yah tambah sepi nih rumah. Sebenarnya ada sih yang dikerjain, GSoC project, tapi minggu ini lagi nggak seru. Deliverables-nya sudah aku

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Today I began to work on my project at 09.30 AM (a little bit earlier than yesterday ) considering the fact that I don't know anything about bridging the authentication between J2ME client and Acegi security framework used in OpenNMS. After about one hour googling about this matter I can't find any useful information. Hmm, should I ask my mentor how to do it? Oh come on, I still got faith that I

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Buset...Ternyata di openNMS pake Acegi security framework. Walah...walah..Ampun...Ampun..Apalagi ini..Masa setiap hari harus belajar dari NOL terus. Harus explore lagi nih...Belom lagi entar komunikasi JME dengan Acegi belom tau caranya..Atau jangan-jangan malah nggak bisa connect lagi mereka hehe.Haduh, caranya gini..liburan bener-bener coding setiap hari hehe...Gila, IF banget ga seh.

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Tadi kan gw ngubah web.xml nya si opennms. Supaya REST servernya bisa terintegrasi dengan existing code. Tadinya kan gw bikin server baru di port 8182. Nah sekarang mau gw ubah jadi pas ada HTTP GET ke http://localhost:8080/opennms-webapp/notification XML responsenya langsung dikirim.Udah nambahin REST application-nya. Servlet mapping, servlet adapter.Semua library udah di-define di pom.xml. Si

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Today, I had a call with Matt to review my work. Well, how was it? I think I made a progress and completed my last week's target. For the first time, I committed the new code to the branch repository. w00t!I got several feedback and todo list:Change the REST application to run in the existing servlet container rather than listen in the separate port.Add the acknowledgement feature.Integrate JME

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Google Summer of Code 2008, officially starts! So, what I've done these days?1. Install the tools and development environment. - Operating System: Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) - Eclipse 3.3 with the WTP to edit the source code. - Subversion (SVN), to check out, check in source code from the repository. - Maven, build the source code.2. Download the source code of OpenNMS, build it, install

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Finally the results of accepted students in Google Summer of Code 2008 were out yesterday. As one of the applicant I was pretty curious whether I will be accepted or not. The schedule for the announcement was 21st April 2008 at 19.00 UTC but somehow when I logged in to the webapp the status of my applications still the same. There was no "rejection" or "accepted" status. Feel strange, I went to

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At last after waiting for about 1 month, the result of the exams are published. When I looked to my evaluation page, I was like freezing for about 5-10 seconds. The results are far more better than my expectation. Now, full 30 ECTS (6 courses) are already in my pocket therefore I passed the scholarship's limit that is 22 ECTS. Looking back to Sem-1, it's a tough semester since the courses are

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Tadi barusan iseng-iseng ngeliat siapa aja sih yang ngakses blog ini. Wah asalnya bermacam-macam. Tapi ada yang menarik sih tadi, ada yang domain name-nya utwente.nl. Siapa ya? Kayaknya aku nggak kenal orang dari Twente. Dan ternyata, dia sudah beberapa kali mengakses halaman blog ini sejak sekitar tanggal 22 Januari 2008. Dan tahu nggak, sebelum dia ngakses blog ini, dia nge-search "samuel

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As you might know before, my lastname is Louvan. Many people, especially new friends, wondered what does Louvan mean. As a hint, I was born in a city named Leuven. It is located in Belgium. That's why my father gave me Louvan for my lastname. But hey, Louvan it's not the same with Leuven! Did my father make a mistake?? Gave me a wrong name?? Hmm, unfortunately not my friend. He's not that stupid

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Suppose I will pass 22 ECTS this semester, I would like to do following things in the next semester:1. Read the lecture material before attend the class!2. Manage carefully my study time. Use ECTS guideline!3. Take as many courses as I could. Drop some if I could not cope with it.4. Read algorithm books, solve TopCoder/ACM problem as many as I can.5. Attend more party! Got to know more

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Setelah hampir seminggu tidur jam 4 atau jam 5 pagi. Akhirnya, hari ini aku bisa tidur panjang full 12 jam non stop ! Rasanya enak banget, damai, dan puasssss. Tugas-tugas sudah selesai dan sudah di-submit. Yah semoga bisa dapet nilai bagus deh. Dua hari ini bisa istirahat sebelum mengerjakan tugas-tugas lain :( di liburan Natal dan Tahun Baru. Semangat-semangat!

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Today's date is 6-12. Three years ago on this date was a very emotional and memorable for me, as on that date my father passed away. At that time I still cannot believe why he left us so fast. In the middle of these busy days and I remembered about my father in the same time, makes everything very difficult. I just feel want to cry everytime I think about him, about his kindness, high sense of

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I just realized that my hair now is getting longer and longer. That means I need to make it neat everytime I finish my shower. Several days ago, after took a shower, I looked into the mirror, wow my hair was so messy :D. I tried to find my comb but I could not find it. And then, AHA! I saw a fork near the washtub. Can you guess what happened next?

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At that time, I didn't fell well in my stomach. Yeah, nature call! I just rushed out from my room, and oh my God both of the toilets on my floor were occupied! Without thinking, I run again upstairs, and both of the toilets were available, finally! Ok, 1....2... minutes, I finished my obligation :D and then flushed the toilet. Suddenly I realized, I forgot to bring tissue roll!! Well, what's

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Several days ago, I visited Arya's blog and in his blog he mentioned that Bryan McKnight's song with the title "Win" can boost up your spirit. Filled with curiosity, I went to YouTube and searched the song. Well, the first impression was hmm..it's just a normal song. But after I listened carefully to the lyrics, I was like, wowwww! And now, "Win" is a must song for me everyday. If you're too lazy

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Wow! Time goes by so fast! It's already near on the end of November which means this semester will end in one month. Still, I can't believe that I can still survive here in Eindhoven haha. Thks God! Ok, until now I haven't written about my experience here in Eindhoven. So, because I'm in lazy mode currently and I want to improve my English, I will write something right here, right now! If you

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Bosan dengan rutinitas weekend yang begitu-begitu saja, saya memutuskan untuk mencari kegiatan yang berbeda dari biasanya. Setelah dipikir-pikir, saya memutuskan untuk kerja sosial di sebuah LSM di daerah Kampung Melayu. Di tempat tersebut saya menjadi sukarelawan, guru matematika untuk anak-anak setingkat kelas 2 SLTP.Kenapa saya memilih kegiatan ini?1. Saya menyukai matematika waktu saya

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I was in the electrical workshop accompanying a Schlumberger engineer when I met this UK expat. At that time we need a tie-rap to tidy up the cables in the cabinet. So my fellow SLB engineer said to that UK guy, "Sir, do you have a tie rap that we can use?" He answered," You need a tie rap? F*ck me!!" I was very surprised when he said that. After that he wore his safety helmet, safety gloves,

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Several days ago, still in the ENSCO-108 rig Papua, we had a morning meeting in the conference room. After the Well Site Leader explained several main issues that we should know, the round table update began. Drilling engineers, ENCSO HSE, and other contractors updated their current status and activity. Finally, it's Halliburton's turn, represented by a US expat. He said, "I have no significant

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In this last two weeks, it's a tedious adventure for me since I should work in an offshore rig in Papua, ENSCO 108. Even last week I consider it as "hell" because of the high pressure and difficult situation. My main objective here is to enable telecommunication from the rig to the outer world. You think it's simple? Hell no!! Working here it's very different than in the Arkadia office Jakarta.

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Employee in a company is no more than a single record in a database. They never see you as a human. You could be deleted/updated/inserted. You're nothing.

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In the last vacation, I had a chance to go to Parakan. Parakan is Fenny's hometown.The decision to went there didn't come in easy way. My primary concern is about my confidence to drive my car alone. It is true if I often drive car in Jakarta but Fenny always accompany me at that time. Somehow I could build up my confidence and took my sister with me. Located 54 km from Salatiga, the trip to

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Everyday I try to be a better person than yesterday. I'm trying to be more discipline and enthusiast in my life. But somehow I find it's difficult to improve myself. If I look back and see myself now, I understand that there is a degradation of discipline in my everyday life or even something that still not improved from the past until now.Evidences:1. Past: In April 2006, I could wake up at 5

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This Friday, BP Indonesia employees get a chance to meet one of the executive director of BP global, Iain Conn. Mr. Iain Conn is an executive assistant of BP's CEO Lord John Browne. In the townhall meeting, Mr. Iain talked about several current important issues around BP. It is clear from his speech he expresses very much concern about safety in BP's operation. He said that BP is not about money

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For you that interested to pursue graduate study, maybe you've heard about Graduate Record Examination, abbreviated as GRE. GRE test usually comes as a requirement in the admission process in a university. GRE comprises three sections, quantitative (math), verbal, and analytic. For most international student, specificallythose whose native languange is not English like me, the verbal section is

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About a year ago, I was a system programmer, enjoyed all night coding, closely interacted with gcc, Java etc. Now, I am no longer a programmer, even I don't do any technical task, I would say, it's more administrative work, that I should done. In the beginning of the transition, I felt that it's hard for me. You know, being a programmer, you just sit down, wait for your project manager to come

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