Recent Problem
This really bothers me a lot like almost everyday, Internet Connection. I have posted once (a year ago I suppose) that I cannot live without internet unless I am traveling on holiday trip. Guess what, the internet services provided by My Telecom on my apartment probably the worst I got so far in my life. A year ago back in Indonesia, I subscribed to a wireless service (it’s called RT-RW connection) hosted by a group of people (which I myself not sure who they really are). At that time, the connection was totally sucks, however the good point is the IIX connection (local Indonesia Internet Exchange if I am not mistaken) is extremely fast though it wasn’t that stable. The downlink connection could hit up to 200KB/s, the downloading from local storage such as GudangUpload or Indowebster wouldn’t be a major problem.

The service however was shut down because the lease of the tower was over. Then I subscribed to speedy which is far better than the previous one and also very stable, but the cost is kinda overpricing. I finally subscribed to fastnet service simply because it’s cheaper and the speed is higher. So far I can say that fastnet service is the best I ever had regardless the fact the speed of RMIT campus connection is so superb. The downlink connection for international can hit up to 1MBps pure while the local can hit 4MBps pure (pure simply means: per person per computer regardless how many people connect to the service). This is yet the best I have so far. Looking at services I have described, I can simply say that My Telecom service is not so much different with the wireless connection I have subscribed a year ago. It simply SUCKS. Every now and then I got disconnected. How come I do a research with such an internet connection? I can’t even googling.

Probably, some of you are wondering why the internet services means so much to me. First reason is because Microsoft creates Windows Live Messenger (WLM) which acts simply as a bridge for me to keep in touch with my friends. I spent a lot of time chatting on MSN and I simply can’t live without WLM (I don’t know if this will change later in the future and probably it just will). Second reason is becoz they have created Google search engine which simply makes my life a lot easier to search every single any-thing in this whole world; Facebook and Friendster again to keep me in touch with my friends; Yahoo!Mail, Gmail, and Hotmail which is simply magic coz you can send anything to anywhere around the world. A year ago, I was dreaming that once I have moved to Melbourne I could have a superb internet connection with extremely high speed, and people keep telling me such a ‘lie’. Now I know. The thing is for me (it’s always about me and you may not agree with me) there is no such thing as very fast internet services in Melbourne, It’s BULLSHIT and a total myth. Fastnet can simply do a lot better and by the day Telkom releases the ADSL 2+ services, it will be going crazy.

Wrong Choice of Major
I don’t know whether I have chosen the correct major, one that really suits my interest and hobby. I don’t realize it so much the major I took will be involving so much analytic thinking on design especially about images and stuffs. Thing is I can’t read meanings from images I see and I meet in everyday life. Moreover I don’t have that much ‘creativity’ it needs in this course. But luckily I have my little sister who more or less understands about the elements in design. I consult about this design thingy with her to have my idea becomes a work of art. How lucky I am to be honest. My mom and dad doesn’t have skill in designing, they just don’t. But it happens to be that the rest of the family members has the interest in designing starting from me. However, I am now only interested in the website designing (designing bot programming whatsoever) rather than anything else. In the end, you can say I am currently struggling to have my course goes smooth and aims for HDs as well.

Thing is, I feel like I just need more time to work everything out. Probably a week break or so will do in order to gain my motivation and interest that seems to lose away starting from the beginning all over again. I never have this ‘losing interest in studying’ before, well, sometimes I have to admit that I got tired with all the ‘never ending projects and assignments’ sort to say but still it never let me down way too much. If problems are solved recently, it also definitely helps me to gain again my motivation. In the end, I suspect that all of you guys happened to have the same problem during the high school and university life. If you don’t, well, I should say that you are definitely the type of person who does not enjoy life as much as I do. In the end, I still believe that there is always a way out from such a temptation. Again, the very last thing I could do is sit back, relax, and enjoy life; either the answer will reveal by itself or we are the one who should find it out, either ways no one has the answer.

Cheerz and All the Best of Luck,
~PeteR

Originally posted 2008-04-07 09:19:57. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Udgah jem 2.24AM, rencana maw tidur tadi jem 2 segh cuma gara2 kebanyakan maen thecrims jadi lupa…duh gw bete, gw masuk penjara lage di thecrims hukzzz…harus nunggu 1 harian lage dah baru bisa maen. Yup, gw maen thecrims lage, dulu segh maen terakhir pas di semester 2 barenk2 ama anak2 kampus…seru and addictive cuma itu kali yagh yg cocok buad describe game ini…So, kalo lage bosen and gag ada kerjaan, cobain degh thecrims.

Harii ini kerja lage, jem 2 sampe jem 10 malem…gag brasa udagh 4 hari beturut2 gw kerja. Kemaren pagi pas bangun berasa banget capenya gimana, skrg gw bener2 taw segh gimana kalo bonyok gw kerja terus tiap hari dari pagi ampe sore lanjut lage malem-nya, itu pasti capenya bukan maen lage degh…cuma mereka betah2 aja, so salut pastinya and thanks to God karena mereka udagh dikasi kesehatan buad kerja terus

Liburan ini gag taw maw ngapain,,rencana maw design web tp koq niadnya blom datenk2…maw bikin ulang bebipetshop gw yg dolo pake JSP skrg maw dihajar pake Silverlight,,tinggal tunggu waktu segh kerjanya kapan…trus maw isenk bikin game lage pake Visual C++ 2008, isenk aja daripada gag ada kerjaan, yagh toh yagh toh….

Oh iyagh gw lupa, punya 1 project yang harus dikerjain, maw rekaman 300 sparta….ayo felix kita mulai project ini project anak2 stress:D hahaha…buad yg penasaran tar kalo udgah jadi kita release ok:D hahaha…

So, gimana liburan kalian kali ini? find something interesting or spending the whole holiday sleeping? the point is HAVE FUN! XD

Cheerzzz,
PeteRAoKi

Originally posted 2008-06-24 09:31:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

welcome back to my lovely blog..well, this is the second part of my holiday journal…I hope everyone who reads my blog was surprised of what I’ve been doing lately, and please dont be bored to check the latest update of my blog…

As I’ve said before this is the second part. Continuing the first part, banyak hal2 yang mayan terjadi dari update 1 ke update 2….What I’ll be talking much on this entry is about banjir dimana2 selain itu some minor activities I’ve been into lately…

Banjir, emang gag diduga banged negh taon ini. katanya segh siklus 5 taon-an. For me, it’s bullshit and there’s no such thing “banjir 5 tahunan”..Holy Crap!!!! masa ada segh banjir yang datenk setiap 5 taon sekali??? gag ngerti gw, coba aja liad tiap taon tuh pasti banjir and siapa yang disalahi? kalo banjir 5 taonan maw nyalahin sapa??? dasar aja tiap kali pembangunan gag disertain pembangunan sistem pengaliran yang bae. Yang dipikirin tuh asal rumahnya/apartemennya bagus udagh degh gag masalah. Liad aja kalo kaya gini terus maw jadi apa negh Jakarta lama??? kolam renang?? -pulaw tenggelem… Well, emang segh this is not the rite time to blame someone or anyone..but, hey come on, this shouldnt be happening every year rite, we can minimize the possibility even to lowest possible number that might come out.

Rumagh gw kena juga negh di tangerang cuma thank to God semuanya masi bae2 aja. Keluarga gw, sodara2 gw, tetangga2 gw masi bae2 aja…they survive. Buad beberapa orang yang kurang beruntung I say my prayer that God will help we all to pass this insane floods.. Buad keluarga yang kehilangan sanak-family, semoga tetep tabah. Kita berharap kejadian seperti ini gag herus terulang tiap taonnya..gag cukup cuma berharap aja, we have to do something….something…..and something….Moga2 ke depannya ampe taon ini abis gag ada lage kejadian banjir kaya awal taon ini, ok..Mari kita berusaha:)

Trus…gw masi menikmati liburan gw yang tinggal sebentar lage 2 weeks to go then back to campus. Well, to be honest I am that eager as I do before. mungkin gara2 banjir kali yagh, cuma yagh harus maw gag maw maju terus degh. Selama sisa liburan ini gw bener2 pengen abisin dengan maen Tantra…harus ngejer lvl 76 negh hahaha sebelum balik..adugh keburu ga yagh?> hehehe…doa-In degh mudagh2an bisa kekejer…..anyway udagh dolo yagh buad this entry….well, there will be another minor update before I get back to Jakarta…that is the last ok;p see yagh all and gud luk

CheerZzzzZ,
PeteRAoKi

Originally posted 2007-02-05 01:03:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Words of the day: "It is very sad indeed to deal with the fact that you do nothing except ‘waiting’. *edited for reason (thanks to Herman)* So sad but true, for me there’s only you"

Current Situation
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Well, it’s week 5 of my academic study..this is the last week before I and all my friends have our holiday. It will be about 2 weeks, which means quiet a long time break. In the last 5 weeks, I thought there were many interesting things to look at especially when projects fill every second of our life..It is terrorizing, yes it is haunting us down! But, I am very happy indeed to know the fact that I have very supportive friends now and there in the campus..We do chat a lot, we are having funs like there is no tomorrow. Well, there is tomorrow but it’s wonderful to know that we are standing together to face these projects. Maybe "it is better for you to walk together in the darkness rather than to walk alone in the light". I know that there are still some limitations to but this issue wont be stopping me to work harder on my own..

Holiday Plan
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Talking about holiday, I bet that you guys already had bunch of ideas of where to go or what to do during this break period. I mean 2 weeks is indeed a very long break, well at least I think so. I also have built my own holiday plan, the aim is I can enjoy and relax while at the same time learn something new or something interesting.

For some of my friends, the holiday starts on Friday or even faster; but for me it starts on Saturday. I still have to do my IELTS test on Saturday, well I hope I can do excellent in this test in order to have my "one-step-closer" ticket to go to RMIT. In the mean time during the holiday, I still have to do some preparation to go to RMIT. I need to complete some legal documents maybe it will consume some of my time during the holiday, but if I can sort this thing out pretty quickly then I dont have to deal with these documentation stuffs later on.

Other things I would like to do during this holiday is to hang-out with some of friends, well it’s Ajeph the holiday planner. We chatted a lot before of what to do during this holiday, and crazy ideas just like flyin everywhere. Maybe, if things go accordingly we will go together like two or three times during the whole holiday..I myself plan to go to mangga2mall, my favorite place of shopping ever of course. I have planned to buy a new razer gaming mouse, the DiamondBack 3G but I am still considering one or two things. Well, maybe we plan to have buffet dinner during this holiday..I should talk to Ajeph about this plan, but to those who want to join, welcome!

Moreover, I also want to allocate some of the holiday time to do things I love the most. Since playing game is not my top priority anymore, then it wouldnt have any relation to gaming whatsoever. Well, I guess it would be either dancing, spa/sauna, or desktop customizing. But, i really prefer dancing pretty much. It’s been like 7 months the last time I danced, well usually during my gym session I joined street jam or street dance class for 1 or 2 hours session. It was really fun to have this hobby, all of your body moves and synchronize to the music beat. I am sure this holiday, I’ll find some time to dance again…I just luv dancing:p

One thing that is also important is to do my project during this holiday. I owe some AGDP (advanced games design and programming, it was ACG  [advanced computer graphics] before) assignments during the lab session, I guess I should start working on these assignments no matter what. The project however is really tiring, I try to divide the job to my partners in the mean time but it makes me even more confused. The reason is probably I also dont have like really high skill in programming, I myself still struggling with my own coding…if it is mixed with the other, it will be very tiring to integrate all the modules. If I dont divide the work, it seems like I am so selfish to take all the portions, well that sort of thought would never ever come to my mind..the main reason is (like i said previously) my coding skill is not in very high level, in this semester I struggle even more than the previous semesters…To divide the work while at the same time facing the fact that I still have problem with my own coding, well the best of this you can imagine yourself..or if you guys have better suggestions then lemme know:p

Finally, the AGDP course sums up my whole plan for this holiday. I know I’m going to miss campus during this holiday, this semester campus it’s really my second home where friends never die. It is killing me now to go to and back from campus, the traffic doesnt make sense at all, I cant even imagine what is it gonna be later in the future. It’s been my 5th year in Jakarta since 2002 (the year I move to Jakarta from my hometown), the traffic never been better ever unless it is holiday where everybody goes outside town. My campus environment is really warming this semester, I found out many changes around that make campus having more souls. To those who have been very supporting throughout the first 5 weeks of 5th semester, I just wanna say "thank you". Maybe some of you know already,that currently I am facing quiet a stressful problem with my "love life", maybe the only reason to this problem is "I’m not brave enough to express my feeling to this girl I like", you know that I’m sucks when dealing with this stuff yet being a good student doesnt help me solving this problem. I just dont want this problem affect my academic performance in this semester, I have enough "degradation in academic performance" last semester. If I can work this problem out, well that’s means I already make some progress, rite?

I think I have written quiet a long story for this entry rite especially for my holiday plan. So, are you guys ready to have this holiday? What about your own plan for this holiday? Have you decided what to do or where to go? If you havent, then better decide now cause holiday like this never come twice in your life…Happy Holiday!

CheerZzz,
PeteRAoKi

Originally posted 2007-10-03 08:51:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

New Year’s Resolution
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It’s totally different from last year. This year I dont have any specific resolution to go with. In case you are wondering of why? My reason is fairly simple coz I’ve learnt from the past that when you set up a resolution, there should be something you wanna achieve. But, if you fail to achieve your resolution you’ll be feeling like ‘there is something is missing this whole year’. For the very least, this is what happens to me in the previous year. I set up 7 resolutions in total (if I am not mistaken) and surprisingly only 3 in total are fulfilled. I feel like I’ve done less effort to achieve them. So, this year I’m starting out with no plan at all. I am curiously waiting for more bumpy roads ahead coz when your life is plain, simple, and straight you’re definitely going to miss out a lot of things.

Projects and Exams
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New year turns out to be a full intense week of work especially for those who are taking Multimedia Streaming (heard of, this year the name is Games Technology). The project is a huge work for both teams (FYI, there are only 8 students in total so there are only 2 groups in total including my group). After doing some discussion in advanced we have decided to work together, it turns out that the two groups are making the same identical game however different game play. Even though the result was far than what we have expected from the very beginning, IMHO we are all proud of what we’ve done. 80%-90% of the engine is fully re-usable. So, I just want to thank all the group members: Garry (algo specs.), Glen&Stephen&Ryan (char. game engine), Xang&Oline&Arly (game server setting, bunch of ideas as well), and me (pompom specs. wahaha)

IPC 2008 was quiet a successful project as well for Software Engineering (SE) class. Even though the final mark (as a whole) is not as high as the the other teams, IMHO there are a lot of things we, team PAGE (Peter Andrian Garry Enterprise), can learn from this project throughout the semester. The course’s requirement is extremely very demanding from week to week, but with all the supports we have received, we can deal with them. Paperworks are done and closing report is published as well. I still keep the whole documentations of IPC 2008, and the website is now on further maintenance by Kurniady (just pay a visit to  IPC2008-Official Website in case you guys are wondering what kind of website the team produces)

Exams. I have 4 exams for the final. The courses are as follow: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software Engineering (SE), Distributed System (DS), Advanced Computer Graphics (ACG). 3 of them are open books type of exams, so basically there is nothing to be worried about. AI was the one that is extremely dangerous to everyone including myself. But AI was done as well as SE, there are 2 left on upcoming Tuesday and Thursday.

Things I do lately
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So, we are now movin’ out to the things I do lately. Besides the projects and stuffs, I have quiet a lot of things to do esp. the preparation for going to RMIT. Everything is now ready except the living accommodation which I haven’t found one till I wrote this entry. I have re-submitted all the applications, however I haven’t received any good news. Hopefully good news are coming next week.

Forum is still running almost every night (anyway, is it forum or conference?) where we share things, ideas, and opinions as well.

I spend my day by playing Rising Force (RF) online lately. Playing on private server turns out to be more fun than official server coz everything is extreme and different than the usual.

I am watching Gossip Girl as well lately. I love the way they use the words for everyday conversations, it is so meaningful. Just like Ally McBeal and The OC.

I do some updates on D’abc 2008 Official Website (here is the link as well D’abc 2008-Official Website), It is very fun when rushing out is the constraint. Thanks to Jesslyn Bobby a.k.a JeBob (the sexiest) and JeWong as my bosses, you guys rocks.

Relationship? I am not really into it this new year. Stay single as usual turns out to be more fun. I see some of friends are having quiet ‘a drama’ to deal with when they are into a relationship. Broken heart seems to be a very bad experience for me, turns out she is with someone else now. This experience teaches me, ‘If you are into an intense relationship with someone, with the love you have for this particular person in your heart, and you have decided to have a further and more serious relationship, you should be rushing in real soon. Rushing in here simply means, get your ass off the chair and start doing something to make it happens or otherwise you’ll be regretting this thing when the person you love is with someone else. But, if there is someone (as a normal person I prefer a woman/lady/girl wahaha…) who wants to know me deeper (lolz), welcome! (FS or MSN, lolz)….

This is my very final week I am going to spend here in Jakarta, 4 days left including the two exams. On Wednesday, some CS students are going to waterboom, Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK). I guess this is going to be a farewell for us, me and others who going to RMIT. I am going to make sure that everyone is having a lot of fun there, you guys suppose to have fun. On 1st Feb, I am heading back to my hometown to spend holiday there for a week. Heading back here on 9th Feb, and spend a day (10th Feb) here. On 11th Feb, me, Herman, Ricky, Seindy, and Glen will be leaving Indo on the same flight; Dennis however, will be following a week after on 18th Feb. Hopefully we are going to find a lot of experience there, sure we will.

12.53
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I think this is a wrap for this entry. Before it ends, I just want to say thanks to some of my friends in BiNus Int’l : Aulia&Pxang&Kurniady (almost every night forum on MSN), Ajeph (my moi lolz, oi moi…), Om Garry (the abandoned man), Lawrence (Bos laptop, call: 08119132xx wahaha…), Jan (si anak kentud), Indra (Indra-Man wahaha…), Bambang (Pak Tri’s son), Fa (apa yagh julukannya, yang pasti enak buad diisenkin), Sri (superwoman), Arly, Asta (RAN, indahnya warna-warni dunia..), Cimoy (daniel to Cimith to Cimeth to Ncim to Cimoy finally), Mike (team sukses), Oline, Jebob (the sexiest), JeWong(my Boss), Andrew(cie2…yg udagh jadian kapan makan2nya), and other whom cannot be mentioned one by one, Love You guys (I do but I’m not a gay wahaha) and I will be missing you guys a lot, and hopefully I will be seeing you guys lately (hikzzz….sedigh). And thanks as well for IS-04 friends: Natzh, Lisa, and Sylv (B.F.F, xoxo), Viny, Danu, Yoan, Tree, Gollum, Hendy, argh….sapa lage yagh, ‘Nenek’ as well, hahaha…everyone whoever get in touch with me thanks for everything guys, I really hope to see you all lately OK;)

"Coz friendship is the only little thing that remains forever, no matter how far you go, no matter how hard it is, no matter what, they all can’t beat this. Purely a nature of a person who goes on with life" – Peter Suryaatmaja

STFU NooB,
B.F.F (Best Friend Forever),
xoxo,
Cheerz,

^PeteRAoKi^

Originally posted 2008-01-27 09:50:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

You’ll experience Elementary School, everything is just wonderful..you’ll love sport and friends a lot. For me Elementary’s Friends are just irreplaceable, they are wonderful though they don’t do much to listen to your life story. But, they are there for you.

You’ll experience Senior High School, things are about to get tougher from here. You’ll start to worry about school, about choosing University at the most. Most of us decide to go to College, some of us decide to go University directly, others are struggling to get rid from High School as soon as possible. Girls are going to hold a 17 party, boys wanna look awesome in front of them. High School drama begins. We start to find our true friend(s). People are getting jealous because we are way to smart, we are way too beautiful, we are way more popular, and so on. Some of our friends are just "USING" us to boost their mark, they are too dumb. Hell, who cares. No, they don’t yes they just don’t. But believe me, High School are the place where valuable and unforgettable moments are born. You’ll have fun, fun as in real fun. You’ll get crazy and enjoy youth the most.

You’ll experience University Life. We are starting to think about future career. What we are going to be in the next few years. Some people change, they are no longer high school friend you know before. Yes, we change. Some people change for good, no one change for bad yes indeed. We find friends who understand us from the inside, they respect us and they really treat us like a family. Some of us are again just "USING" us to help them better, they don’t care of your condition. They just dont.

You become jealous of other people because of the money, fame, intelligence, etc. Don’t ever say you never jealous to them, that is NAIVE and a total ABSURD. People can accept such fact. You’ll hate them, you do. Things are getting tougher from here. You’ll meet people you never expected before, they are way too weird for you. You become much more sensitive to cope with the changes. You’ll say and scream that "LIFE IS UNFAIR", "PEOPLE DO LESS, BUT THEY RECEIVE MORE". Things are not turning the way you want them to be, and you’ll cry. No one comes to rescue you, but your true friends will definitely do. At the end of the day, when you look in the mirror you’ll say "I am here all alone, friends are there but they dont live in your heart. You”ll say to yourself It’s not the end of the world, my life is about to begin and I’m ready to make a killing." And by the time you say that, you are 21 already.

"Your life is way too precious to be spent by doing nothing except study. Get drunk and go outside and find more and more experiences while you can. When you die tomorrow, no one never knows." Good Luck.

Cheerzzz,
PeteRAoKi

Originally posted 2008-07-22 02:06:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Kekecewaan ini terus bertambah setelah gw taw apa yg harus dikerjain buad Design for Interactive Media 2 (DIM 2) and Web Database Application (WDA)…tp gw ga bakal bahas segh knapa gw kecewa banget  ama 2 subjects ini, probably in the next post I’ll describe thoroughly the reason why..

Skrg ini tension buad assignments bener2 lage on, it’s close yes indeed…they are all so close..I just wanna say sorry if it looks like I dont care about my friends…gw bukannya sombong gag manggil di MSN, I have no intention to do so..kadang2 gw emang lage ngerjain assignments tp status-nya tetep online,,,kadang gw lage nonton olympic gw tinggal aja MSN gw…

di assignment2 yg gw kerjain itu ngak gampang sebenernya buad gw,,,I find them very difficult to do..pake Software Autodesk Maya buad modelling aja,,,gw bisa butuh waktu 1-2 jem buad model 1 item in 3D space, I really dont have skill to use this software…pake Flash pun gw gag terlalu bisa, kadang gw harus baca tutorial sana sini biar daped effect yg bagus tp yg ngajar gw gag suka,,,susagh segh emang,,,, pake PHP pun gw baru first timer,,,gag ada yg bisa ngajarin gw dari basic jadi gw harus liad2 tutorial sendiri dari internet, bener2 gw harus belajar dari 0…sama kaya dolo gw blajar C ato Flash di SMA,,,so semuanya di semester ini gw blajar dari 0 tanpa bantuan dari orang laen, kecuali om google (now I understand, apa jadinya dunia ini tanpa google…..),,, so the tension is ON!….

so, to all yg bilang gw sombong,,as I said before I never have intention to do so…I am walking through the hard time…and I hope they can understand it…friends 4ever….

"Anything you can do, I can do better…"

Cheerzzz,
PeteR

Originally posted 2008-08-21 07:10:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter