August’s Digest

Trip To Mount Bromo (And Surabaya)

As you might know from my public calendar, early this month I went to Mt. Bromo (with transit in Surabaya first). I was very delighted to have holiday out of town, especially for having a trip back to nature. And indeed it was a very pleasant trip. I met 5 new friends, well actually, from those 7 persons who went there together with me, I only knew 2 persons before. Those guys really know how to make a trip enjoyable. Can’t wait for the next trip! Lombok maybe? Haha..

Anyway, some of the images below were already posted at my moblog directly from the scene, or so. I was quite amazed at how good the HSDPA signal from my provider there, although you really have to find the right spot to be connected. But being a big city though, it wasn’t as easy as I thought to find HSDPA signal in Surabaya when compared to Jakarta or Bandung. Moreover in Mt. Bromo, it WAS difficult. Well maybe that’s the fun from being mobile in Indonesia, you really have to make good use of your feet and hands when searching for signal. Giddy Up! :p

Ow, a reader inspired me to explain this: the 1st four thumbnails on the second picture is NOT a view of an ocean or a lake. It’s a carpet of clouds. We can see that view since we’re at a higher elevation than clouds. Very, beautiful!

SOEDOE Exhibition @ Jakarta

Not much to say about this. It was an exhibition in Balai Kartini, Jakarta, held by the Indonesian Government for five days from 6th to 10th of August. It’s free, both for the exhibitors and the visitors. But you know, being a *FREE* government agenda, most of the times we have to get a good grip and high measures of patience when dealing with the people.

Also, there’s nothing special with the selling revenue. But that’s not the point from the first place. We really hope to get a good publication and a higher public awareness from the exhibition. I hope I can see the results soon.

We welcome you, Ramadhan

And last but not least, *eww, the language*, Mohon maaf lahir dan batin. Bener2 minta maaf seandainya ada salah2 kata ato perbuatan ato menjatuhkan harapan dan sebagainya, mohon dimaafin. I truly am. Mudah2an kita bisa belajar lebih baik lagi dalam Ramadhan besok.

Anyway, I was also delighted when I read the news that says this year, most likely there will be no difference among muslim organizations in Indonesia regarding the decision for the starting date of Ramadhan and Shawal. 1st of Ramadhan will be on the 1st of September, and the 1st of Shawal will be on the 1st of October. It’s just great.

Peace. Out.

A Counter Post

After finally I have the time to re-read what I’ve written in this blog, especially several latest posts, I came to a conclusion that this blog (literally or not) has become too much a junk with all those sad-and-melancholic-posts-which-drive-me-nuts™. Too much mellow-type posts here, doesn’t mean I have no other life than what you’ve read here for sure. It’s just because maybe I don’t have the time (/energy) to dump it here. Even if I finally manage to write, it won’t change the nature of this blog, a rarely updated junkyard and playground. Hehe.. :p Ow well, we’d better start. Stop mumbling. Opening is so not important. Okay. Get ready. Here goes. Ta-da. *Would you stop it?!*

Okay, now where should I start? Maybe the last two weekends. Oh boy I love weekends on summer so much. It began with a beautiful morning, I decided to wake up early and went jogging. It took me less than 10 minutes by foot to sabuga (ITB’s sport center). And less than 30 minutes later to have the nice quiet track as you can see in the image to become the world’s most populated jogging track. Okay, maybe that’s a lie. But I swear it was so dense I hardly breathed. Or is it because I was so exhausted?

After I took some rest, I was tinkering a bit with my lappie when I remembered that I have a debt to this friend of mine. I owned her a treat for a simple reason yet funny. I passed my expectation at my iBT toefl test. Ow well, apapun-bisa-diproyekin™ kan ntan? Hehe.. To make the long story short, here’s her post.

We went to Wendy’s at Braga together with Bama and Andien. It’s my favorite place to have my favorite menu(s): spaghetti and big-classic-combo! I eat like crazy as always haha.. The sun was great, It was a hilarious day, lots of laughter and some bashing of course heheh.. My saturday ends with a nice novel reading at night.

At sunday, together with soedoe team we went to do some experiments at one of our team-mate’s house. At where I met this two cute little girl, Asha and Aya. I spent some great time with them to pick Kirschen (Bhs. Indonesia: Kersen, I found the word at my German dictionary as Kirsche: Cherry in English, but Kirschen is not cherry we all usually refer to) and play horse, I was the horse of course, boy they were heavy! Too bad I didn’t take any photos of them. Have I told you guys that I want a daughter so bad, more than I want a wife? I’ve had the wish since I was in high-school a very long time ago.. Crazy huh? Ow well, I have never been accused of being normal anyway :p

Last weekend, I spent a night at my parent’s with some friends, soedoe team that is, minus Widy and Ilma. It was meant as a ‘company-outing’, sort of. And for sure, we had fun. Anyway, the swimming pool you see, is not my parent’s :p The little guy there, is my brother, I taught him how to swim, no success yet. Oh brother..

So, I got to go. Will go to Jakarta, Pras’ place, gonna come to ICT Expo there tomorrow. Maybe more on this later.

Peace. Out.