Do you see what I see?
Do you feel what I feel?
Do you think what I think?
I see a lonely bright star at the sky..
I feel a breezy cold wind at night..
I think of you now, and every time..
The star reminds me of you..
The night reminds me of you..
Everything reminds me of you..
Peace. Out.
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.
Takdir telah berkata, kami harus berpisah..
Sepuluh tahun lebih telah berlalu..
Banyak hal telah terjadi..
Banyak masalah datang dan pergi..
Banyak kesenangan turut menghiasi..
Banyak karakter kukenal dan kulalui..
Sepuluh tahun lebih telah berlalu..
Karena takdir pula, kami bertemu kembali..
Setelah semua yang kualami..
Hatiku masih berdegup terlalu cepat saat menatap pengisi hati..
Masih kulihat percikan-percikan api..
Sepuluh tahun lebih telah berlalu..
Tapi perasaan itu tak banyak berubah dalam diri..
Apakah selama itu aku harus mencari..
Kebahagiaan dunia yang penuh arti..
Tidak, mungkin sepuluh tahun lagi pun tak akan pernah mencukupi..
Sepuluh tahun lebih telah berlalu..
Masih saja rahasia-Mu tak kumengerti..
Mungkin memang hanya sanggup kujalani..
Tanpa perlu bertanya atau memahami..
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[for my sister, you were right, there's always a secret behind everything. And by any means, this is not a poem, simply a blurb, i never published any of my poems]
Peace. out.
It was almost dark, and cold. But I felt happy, maybe because true happiness never depends on time or weather..
I looked at her and waved my hand from the side road. She was standing and giving her beautiful smile at me through the window just inside the balcony as I walked away.
I could see the plants she kept near the window, green leaves and red flowers with dim-lighted room as the background..
The scene repeated over and over inside my mind, day and night.. Sleep and awake.. Is it a dream? Or just a memory that will never go away..
Peace. Out.
So, I felt a bit guilty because I couldn’t fulfill the promise (sort of) to write the second and the last part of my previous mumblings. Well, what can I say but please read the disclaimer again, what do you expect from a mad man? :p
Anyway, I won’t continue the mumblings or rather to keep it for my personal consumption than to publish it here. I choose not to publish the early part of this second mumblings. Yet to ease the guilty-feeling away and to persuade me in writing another mumblings in this space in the future, here’s how the second mumblings end:
But in women case, choosing the right one to be the one you give all your loyalty, dedication, commitment, is so not the same with choosing the “right” linux distro. Its not like you can just re-format your harddisk to install your new distro then forget the old one. Women indeed have feelings. And it might last until the time you’ll never know.
Then you might ask, can you dual-boot or even triple-boot women just the way I triple-boot different operating systems in my laptop? The answer is definitely not an absolute answer for every person. Unlike linux who can live altogether in the same harddisk with no problem, women, mostly today, have no such characteristics to be able to live with other woman in the same harddisk, no, I mean under the same roof. Or to deal with the fact that the man might have someone else in mind. One worthy lesson for myself is that, indeed, too much love will kill you if you don’t make up your mind. And the credit goes to …
Face this reality, will I tinker with Slackware, Install SuSE, boot-up xubuntu, or get myself the latest beautiful MacBook Air instead? ALL HAIL TO THE MIGHTY BLUE APPLE! :p
Peace. Out.
Disclaimer: This article is a mumbling written by a man who is claimed by several persons to be mad, strange, geek, unusual etc. The article were meant as a method of expression when the author find it difficult to have asleep at three in the morning. With all due respects, the author honor the privacy and dignity owned by every women and/or every linux communities that might be mentioned in the article. All trademark/copyright/license belong to their respective owners. Erroneous english or typos weren’t intended, believe me. The author as referred in the first sentence, takes no responsibilities from any damage, losses, nausea, brain disorder, physiological malfunction, civil war, earthquake, or any effects caused by reading the material follows. I’ve warned you.. :p
If you don’t even know what linux is, simply stated it’s an operating system. Computer codes that allows you to have access to the underlying hardware of your computer, the electronic components. With an extended definition, an operating system provides you with some working environment and some programs to support your work on a computer. And if you don’t know what woman is, umm.. uhh.. I think there are no simple explanation for this.. Even Einstein once said that he understands the universe with the laws beneath, but he still doesn’t understand women.. Sorry dude.. :p
And why would I compare women with linux? Because to my opinion, somehow they share many similarities. I’ll start with elaborating linux in a non technical way I hope, and you, readers, may compare, interpret, make jokes or take whatever conclusion you feel is right for the women side. I’ll just show you some hints. I don’t ask you to have a philosophical way of thinking, just a little imagination will do.. :p Here we go..
At the time of writing, there are about 500 different linux distributions or the so called “distro(s)”. I forget where I got this statement, but let’s just follow it. If you don’t like it, stop reading and write your own blog :p This favorite site of mine btw, distrowatch.com shows a hundred distros referred as the most popular ones. Why on earth there are so many different flavour of linux? Because of different environments, different needs, different habits, different tastes from the people who crafted it or from the people the developer targeted to. Well, you name it. There should be about 500 different reasons to answer such question. Every distro usually claimed to be better from each other, but in my opinion, they just simply work best for their intended purpose or target users.
As to myself, I have always been a huge fan and quite a long time user of SuSE linux (openSUSE now). A well-polished distro originated from Germany. I have been using this distro ever since I’m still in high school, back in early year of 2000. But living in the world of open source, to have so many options is very natural. SuSE is not the only distro I ever use though. As a matter of fact, the first linux distro I installed was Slackware. Known as a highly reputable, very stable and the oldest distro ever survived until today, but maybe not the easiest distro to deal with. SuSE on the other hand, in my opinion, has always comes up with the latest stable kernel, well maintained software repositories, modern desktop environment/window manager, easy installation with a wide range of hardware recognition and not to mention the eye-candy and bling-bling stuffs. In contrast, never expect everything will work out of the box when you first install Slackware. Those features are the least expected when you install Slackware. There’re always some extra efforts needed to make everything runs smoothly in Slackware.
SuSE is considered as a modern operating system, a bleeding edge system like other well-polished operating systems. Several names included are Mandriva, Debian, PCLinuxOS, and the emerging Ubuntu and their derivatives. Mandriva is also powerful yet beautiful, pretty much like SuSE, but I don’t like it, maybe because it’s just too “French” to me.. :p On the other hand, I also like Ubuntu and its derivatives especially xubuntu because its simplicity and the work-out-of-the-box sensation, and of course because of the great support from the community.
As the case with my two favourite distros, SuSE and Slackware, I like both distros so much but however Slackware has a special place in my heart. Despite its difficulties and its old-skool techniques, it has become a distro I always come back to. No pain no gain is a perfect proverb to be applied to this distro. I learned so many things about linux and how things in linux work together, because I travel so many adventurous journey with Slackware. The feeling to have something finally runs by yourself like you wanted to, beats the glory of work-out-of-the-box and bling-bling distros.
[to be continued]
Peace. Out.
The night before, I wept all night until I was so tired and fell asleep. The next night, I didn’t want it to happen again. 21.30 I met my buddy, a parallel brother of mine. Break into the lab, plug into the network and raved. We browse, leech, talk about *nix and such, all the geeky stuff like we usually did in our good ‘ol time. It was three in the morning when we decided to leave. Haha.. Just like we did in our high school time, but with the late noodle to fulfill the hunger.. :p
That night, I can basically ran away temporarily from the burden I had.. After what happened a few hours earlier.. I really became someone else in the night, a nocturnal creature which is quite different from what it is in the day.. To make myself happier, I brought the geeky side out of me and went wild..
God, give me your strength to move on.. To make the right decision.. To give everything in me to the right one..
Peace. Out.