A Convert Job

From yesterday, I want to convert all my blog to English. Maybe you will ask me, why I do that. Well, let time answer your question. I also want to say thank you to all of you that give me a comment or support to my blog. I hope my blog can make your knowledge more and more go forward. Sorry for my bad English hehehe, but I will try hard to convert all of my blog. Thanks and always check my blog because there is something new for you :)

Research Before We Buy

In Surabaya there is so much hypermarket like giant, hypermart, and carrefour. Their competition is also become more tight. The consequence they often compete to give lower price, and they also advertise their price in newspaper. But the question is, is it true that we can get the same price between the price in advertising and the reality in there? As customer, we must research because sometimes the price is not same that we look in newspaper. I personally have experience that the price in newspaper is not the same with the actual price from the label. Is it a cheat to inrease their revenue? Who knows?

Improve yourself

Improve yourself, I think we can answer it with "I already smarter than when I was 5 years old". Yes it's true, but it's only our knowledge. How about our personality? Does it improve than 1 or 2 years ago? I doubt we can do that in a short time. It's really difficult to change our personality for a short time, but if we can make it for more better personality, why not? In this life, we can reach success in career not just depend of our intelligent but also our personality. I hope we all can improve our personality as well.

Lee Kwan Yew VS Gajahmada

According to the title, in this conversation I want to make Indonesian people remember that we ever had a great man called "Gajahmada" in the Majapahit kingdom (his position is like prime minister). There was a joke that Indonesia will go forth if there is 10 Lee Kwan Yew (was a prime minister of Singapore), but I can argue that only with 1 man is more than enough, that man is "Gajahmada" (when Gajahmada lead this country, the area of this country is more bigger than Indonesia). But now the question is, where we can find a man like Gajahmada in this country?

What's up I??

First I want to say sorry that this topic is still in Indonesian language, because this topic is about my opinion aboout my country and I want all of Indonesian people can read it clearly so I must write it with Indonesian language so all the Indonesian people can read it without misunderstanding.

"Mungkin anda bingung dengan judul di atas, saya sengaja mengambil dari judul album Agnes Monica yaitu "What's up A?" dimana huruf "A" disini untuk Agnes, tapi saya rubah menjadi huruf "I" untuk Indonesia. Kemarin saya membaca koran, dan membaca kalau Exxon mobile sebagai operator blok cepu selama 30 tahun. Banyak yg pro dan kontra. Saya sendiri sebagai pihak yg kontra. Akhir2 ini kita sebagai masyarakat baru tahu kalo ternyata banyak kekayaan alam di negeri ini yang dikuasai pihak asing (dari negeri barat seperti AS) dan hasilnya saya rasa juga banyak dikeruk untuk pihak mreka sendiri. Saya sebagai orang awam juga tidak mengerti apakah perjanjian tsb menguntungkan Indonesia atau tidak, tapi yang saya lihat negeri ini tidak maju2 dan selalu hutang kepada bangsa barat.

Yang saya ingin berbagi cerita disini adalah keanehan bangsa ini, waktu saya kecil saya suka naik sepeda keliling sekitar rumah saya, saya paling benci jika saat saya maen sepeda ada anak2 yang dapat embel2 pribumi mengolok2 saya sambil berkata Cina, Cina, Cina trus mereka melempar batu ke sepeda saya. Saya sebenarnya ingin berkelahi dengan mereka tapi sudah berapa kali orang tua saya menasihati kalau tidak ada gunanya malah2 kita sekeluarga akan berada dalam kesulitan, lalu saya nurut saja. Sampai saya masuk SMP ada istilah ospek, dimana hari terakhir semua harus mencium bendera merah putih, saat SMU juga sama. Tapi meski saya sudah SMP maupun SMU, kalau bersepeda lalu berpas-pasan dengan mereka anak2 yg mendapat predikat pribumi saya selalu mendapat olokan yang sama ditambah dengan kata2 "jan*uk". Yang saya tangkap disini adalah kebencian mereka terhadap etnis saya, yaitu etnis Tionghoa. Tapi saya tak habis berpikir, RRC tidak pernah menjajah Indonesia, yg menjajah adalah Belanda, AS, Jepang, Portugis, Inggris, Spanyol tapi dengan orang barat mereka anak2 itu bisa berkata "hello mister", "good morning" dengan bangganya (saya saksikan sendiri waktu itu ada orang barat yang melewati sekumpulan anak2 pribumi).

Sekarang saya ingin bertanya yang membuat Indonesia hutang juga mereka bangsa barat itu, kenapa malah orang yang tidak pernah menjajah mereka malah benci? ini adalah keberhasilan Belanda dalam menjalankan devide et impera (pernah ditulis juga di koran Jawa Pos mengenai hal ini). Bandingkan Indonesia dengan bangsa2 yang bisa menjadi besar seperti RRC maupun Korea Selatan, RRC tidak membenci orang Indonesia jika kita ke sana, tapi mereka memang membenci bangsa AS, Inggris, Jepang dan bangsa2 lain yang pernah menjajah tanah mereka (RRC dahulu pernah dibagi menjadi jajahan 8 bangsa). Bangsa Korea juga membenci Jepang karena tentara Jepang pernah menjajah dan memperkosa banyak gadis2 Korea. Saya rasa bangsa ini banyak dibodohi dan untuk membuka mata mereka adalah pendidikan yang benar dan sesuai fakta. Bagaimana dengan anda??"

Customer Service

Yesterday arround 07.00 pm, I went to small restaurant near of my house. That restaurant is selling my favourite food there is "gurami bakar" ("gurami" fish), hmmm... yummy and the price is average and can take away. For the first time I go to there, I have a good impression, it's about their service because after I buying that food and want to go home, there is one waitress open the door and say thank you before I leave that restaurant, although there is no boss at the moment. It's a simple thing, but it has a good impression for me. When I came to that restaurant for the second time, I still have that special service (the waitress open the door and say thank you before I leave). I'm still impressed.

But when I came for the third time I did not have that special service again. I'm surprise but I just keep silent. When I came to that restaurant for the first and second time I didn't brought any stuff except that "gurami" fish, but in the third time I brought many stuff from the supermarket and I still had to open the door by myself. Wew... I really disappointed because the waitress only watched me (not trying to help me open the door).

From the real story above, we can think that service is really important if we want to keep a good relationship with our customer. But how about if we have a really bad customer? I think we can avoid it using a polite or diplomatic way.

Angry & Happines

What is happines? We feel happy if all things happen like we think. If it doesn't happen like we think we can angry or disappointed (in the other word we are not happy). But in this world when we live with many people, how can we make all happen like we think? Because of that, a man that always want to win all the things he wants is tend to not happy. If we can control our emotion and ambition (EQ) we will be become more wise. Recently I often see on newspaper there is so much EQ training for public. Actually EQ can be train by ourself if we have high motivation to change ourself to become more positive. If we angry for the right motivation then it has a positive benefit, but anger that only base on emotion will not make positive benefit. Anger can be controlled if our mind aware that we are angry about something. Yeah this is the most difficult part, anger that we can controll, so we still mindfull what words that we will say, reaction of the person that we angry because of him, why we need to angry, is it worth if we angry. With that practise ini, I sure we can controll our emotion (especially anger), so we can be more happy.

Handphone VS Rp 100

Today I think I want to talk about social politic in my country rather than computer stuff. Maybe it's refreshing of my boring day with computer, coding, and fixing hardware problem. Now in my country, many young people have handphone although some of them I think doesn't need handphone. But the handphone become a lifestyle. Everybody must have it, if they don't want to be "gaptek/kuno" or just for prestige.

I want to talk about a public facility called public telephone ("telepon umum") that we can see it on street. But in my country the goverment and some people doesn't care about public telephone (sompe people attempt to destroy that public telephone just for fun). It become a rubish. I really sad to see that, because when I was in junior high school ("SMP") and senior high school ("SMU") I often using that facility (public telephone) and many people still used it. The price is really cheap, with only Rp 100 we can talk for 3 minutes (compare to handphone GSM/CDMA).

In this article I want to focus about some people that destroy that telephone, why they do that? the public facility is destroyed by public. Doesn't they also need that cheap facility too?

Traffic jam, queue & amelioration

In Surabaya we always have a traffic jam :(( especially in office hour. But if we want queue then the problem (traffic jam) will gone, but we must patient to wait for our turn hehehe. What is the difference between traffic jam and wait for our turn? Both of them are due to bottleneck in street, but if we are in traffic jam we don't have a sureness when we can out from traffic jam, whereas if we queue we have a sureness that we can go although slowly. The ridiculous thing is many people know that there is a traffic jam because of some bottleneck in street but they don't want to queue contrariwise they want to go ahead from the left or right side so the more bottleneck in that street.

What is the relation between above story with corruption? Maybe there is no relationship, but I think there is a similiarity here, that is corruption is done because someone want to become instantly rich but the effect is our country not get more prosper in the other hand it make our country more slower to become a rich country so a corruption is the bottleneck. Solution? We must become an independent country, to become an independent country we must patient and always improve our people (education is the point). With a smart people we have a high consciousness as a part of country. If our country become more prosper, then we also have a prosper life (although not become rich person ^_^). What about you?

Marketing yourself

This is my personal opinion about we cann't escape from the word of marketing if we want to live in this world (including selling yourself hehehe), wait..... I mean not selling our body but how to make ourself valuable and has a selling point. For example, many people after graduated from university often confuse why they are rejected from a company which is they apply their application form. This problem happened when they doesn't have a strong selling point in skill, performace or good communication (including negotiation). This is similiar when we are looking for a girlfriend. In this case we look of the our girlfriend's selling point, which point is suitable with us, this is the same if we want to reach a girl that has a good selling point, we must look ourself. How about your selling point?

What's next in this small world?

Sometimes I often think what will happen in the future, and sometimes it become a reality.
For example when I was still in primary school (in 5 grade), I always thinking about car design, at that time a car had a "slim" body (didn't had aerodynamic body) and I think it's not a good design. Then, I ask to my father why it had a bad design? and why not follow the design of jetplane that I always saw from the cartoon movie? After 14 years, there is much car that have a wider body in the bottom (like Nissan Xtrail, Honda CRV, Toyota Fortuner, that now we called it SUV). If I bring my draft (when I was in primary school, I like to draw a car or plane according to my imagination) to Honda/Toyota, were they want to receive a primary school kid's design?? hehehehe. Sometimes a child is more imaginative than adult.

What about now? I think in the future the ability of gadget (like handphone) will increase so much with WebOS as the basis (not CiptOS ^_^). What about your dream?

Sad.......

In this article I want to talk about the prospect of the programmer job in Indonesia. Hmm.... I think in Indonesia, the level of programmer is still below the doctor profession, maybe they assume the programmer is the same with computer technician or AC techniciant or refrigerator technician hehehhee. When I was still in university I have ask to my lecturer about the fee of making inventory program which is consist of buying transaction, selling transaction, opname transaction, selling retur, buying retur, and this program only for single warehouse, single size & single currency with an ordinary report and omzet report. My lecturer say that it cost about 4 million rupiah!! But after I graduate, to sell that Inventory program for 4 million is difficult, if there is anyone want to buy from me about 3 million is very lucky for me, and there is a person or small company that sold 500 thousand only for inventory program. Yeah.. the price difference is too big, maybe the program that I sold is custom program and the cheapest one is a ready program that cann't be customized, but the fact told me that the cheapest one can also be customized. Hmm.... maybe we are now in the era of cheapest things + stable product + life time guarantee. So I must follow it or maybe in Indonesia especially in Surabaya we need a programmer community which is there is a regulation that control the software price so that we are not enter the unfair competition. So the standarisation is not only for coding but also in price. What about your opinion??

Hello World...

This blog using 2 language, first is Indonesia (because I’am born in Indonesia and still live in there) as the primary language, second is english. I hope I can write to this blog continuously. Sorry for my bad english, cause I still learning to improve my English.

House of Flying Dagger (Film)

Is there anyone that has been saw this film? From the story side, this film is good. This film has a setting at Tang dynasty where there was a rebellion that lead by a someone that nobody know his hiding place. His hiding place was known as The House of Flying Dagger, "flying dagger " mean their main weapon is a small dagger which can be thrown like a bumerang. The main actor/actress for this players are Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi, and Takeshi Kaneshiro.

Something that really special from this film is the special effect for the artistic fighting and it has an art value, it's really a “Martial Art!!!” The fighting scene of this film is similiar with Hero (Jet Lee, Tony Leung, Maggie Chang, Donny Yen & Zhang Ziyi). I have seen this fighting scene more than once (same with Hero), my favourite fighting scene is the fighhting in bamboo forest. The fighting scene is more interesting than Jedi fighting in Star Wars.

Beside of that, the Zhang Ziyi dancing is really eksotic, and she also has cute face hehe, if I has a girlfriend like Zhang Ziyi I will stand forever in my house with her… (Oopss… hehehehe ^_^)

Oracle Magazine

Did you know that we can free subscribe for 1 year Oracle Magazine? Yes, it means we can receive FREE Oracle Magazine in front of your door. You can follow the link that I give in the link section in my blog. Or if you want to know anything else about oracle magazine you can try this link www.oracle.com/oraclemagazine

The day in my office

Yeah today is monday, start to working again… Now I use VS.NET with the C# language, I use Oracle 9i as a backend database and Crystal Report 11 for reporting tools. All this stuff is a new "toys" for me, because I usually use Delphi 7 (my favorite language 4ever) and I only use that stuff for 1 client that request me to use that stuff. The most difficult things is connecting CR11 with VS.NET because if I click the refresh button in CR, my program will show an warning error. I think the problem is about CR.NET SDK. Anyone can help me??