Bug's Lair

needs vs wants

man2 — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:51:22 +0000

Yesterday I learned how I made mistake by not letting my mind do an analytical thinking before deciding.

I lost money, although it’s just a little money, but I learned something.
1. Do think before buying. If you don’t have time to think, then postpone the buying later
2. Do you really need it? Don’t buy something because it’s fancy
3. Do you really have the money ( optional and not too important in decision making )
4. Do you know the item you’re buying? ( also optional decision option ). If it’s something you don’t know good or not, then don’t buy it. But if it’s something you don’t know, then better to have a look for it or asked someone. Or if it’s something that you know you are going to use, then just buy it.

power of speaking

man2 — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:46:18 +0000

After a long time not making new friends in my life, I started to realize that I’m a lonely man in this crowded city. Every door seems to be closed. Every person that I meet is just like a beast ready to eat me alive.

My friend told me that I’m too fearful to have a chat with someone, that I’m not enjoying my life. I know that, but I’m just too fearful to start making conversation with other people.

I can’t blame my work as a programmer which I have to deal with my computer screen almost 24 hours in a day. A lot of programmers ( especially in west countries) have the ability to talk and relate to other people better than me. There’s must be something wrong in me that I have to fix.

Today I’m starting to melt the ice by starting to greet people around me, having a small talk with new people that I’ve just met. And it works, my fearful heart starts to convert to a joyful heart. My boring days starts to sparkle. It’s important to share our feeling to other people. Although I still need to learn to speak fluently, but practice makes perfect. It just the matter of want or don’t want to.

A smile brings differences, so let’s smile as long as it’s free

Great debaters

man2 — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:49:02 +0000

Today I had a discussion with my friend about how important the knowledge is. The discussion started with how the corruption in Indonesia still a long way to be cleaned. But the media, and people needs a victim to be caught as soon as possible. And also the police has to at least do something about the corruption. But it’s just a matter of knowing that “GayTam” ( initial only for privacy) is only a small person that’s doing the tax corruption, and there are still so many other tax officer doing the same thing and in bigger cases amount of money.
Then the discussion continued talking about how a religion is connected between “just a matter knowledge” and spiritual thing of human. The discussion ended with a conclusion that it’s good to have a lot of knowledge in a religion, we have to understand what a ritual of every religion means, not just doing it without knowing the reason behind it. And also in the application it comes back to us to apply the knowledge to every situation in every aspect of our life. It’s not always true, and not always wrong. Every man has his/her own way of understanding the knowledge inside the bible, and it also determines how wise a man from his application of religion knowledge in his/her life.
And the last thing that we discussed earlier this evening was about how to overcome fear in our head. It’s between getting rid of fear from our mind by not exposing it to our senses ( by seeing it, or hearing it) and also we have to learn the fear itself from the knowledge side. Why we have that fear, and how the fear works. So in the end, I concluded that it’s good to overcome the fear itself at first by not getting to the fear too deep, after that we have to strengthen that belief by knowing how I can overcome the fear from the science side.
It’s good to have a discussion like this, it tests our mind how far we understand a problem, sharing what we know to others, and learn something from others too.

Journal started

man2 — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:25:27 +0000

Today, still struggling with the game engine, that is broken when I changed the movement system to use velocity instead of point following.

Why am I so slow handling this kind of problem, is this job really for me?

12 days in Tomia, Wakatobi

man2 — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:14:10 +0000

October 1st 2010 is the first day that I took a real vacation, and what I’m dreaming for a long time. Backpacking to Sulawesi, with 4 of my friends. It was a really fabulous time with my friends. I met some new friends there in Tomia, and some on the way I went to Tomia. The local people there are really warm and friendly.

The trip began from International Airport Soekarno-Hatta, Cengkareng, where I took a flight to Sultan Hasanuddin Airport, Makassar with Lion Air and then continued to Bau-Bau Airport with Wings Air plane. It cost me Rp 883.000 to fly to Bau-Bau with Makassar as a transit point. Then from Bau-Bau, I had to take a little ferry “KM Wisata Indah 2″ to Tomia for about 10 hours on the ocean. The ferry cost me Rp 130.000

But all the efforts were not a waste at all, Tomia is like heaven, the air is very clean, the scenery is terrific. It’s also a very good place for divers. The scenery under water is very good.

At Tomia, I and my friends met my friend Yudi which is a doctor. He also introduced us to 3 of his friends, Elisa, Nad, and Tyo. They are very friendly and accepted us like their family.

The journey in Tomia began after I arrived at Tomia harbor, and then take a little walk to Tomia Dive Center, a diving center which my friend Yudi established. Then he took us to Puskesmas in Onemay, Waha. We spent only the afternoon there, then we moved on to Usuku and spent a night there. The day after we moved to Onemay again because Yudi’s friend Elisa and Tyo just got back from Wanci island, and Yudi had to handle the Puskesmas in Onemay. So we moved to Onemay for the rest of the days in Tomia. Electricity in Tomia is only up at night. We have to prepare everything that uses electricity at night, so we can use them at days. Puskesmas Keliling car is our only free transportation. We can also rent an ojek to go to places.

There is only one restaurant in Onemay, Ayu Lestari. Ayu Lestari is our only source of food if we’re hungry and lazy to cook. The resto sells a lot of menus, like Nasi Ikan, Nasi Ayam, Soto Ayam, Nasi Goreng, Bakso, Kue Kacang, Es pisang ijo, Es sirop, Es teh, etc. The chilly sauce is also very hot.The price for rice meal is around Rp 10.000 – 15.000. The price for beverages is around Rp 3.000-5.000. Thanks Ayu Lestari.

Tomia is divided into some areas, and I just visited Onemay/Waha, Waitii, and Usuku. There is still Kahayanga that I hadn’t visited yet. Each area has each own market place. Market place only opens on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday if I’m not mistaken.

There is also night market, market place that opens only at night. Night market sells cakes, and other ready to eat foods.

We went swimming almost every day. The beaches that we visited were, Hondue, Huntete. And the snorkling spots we visited were Roma, Table Coral, MariMabuk.

We also visited Wakatobi Dive Resort at Onemobaa island which is a 5 star resort for divers. Onemobaa is an island not far away from Tomia. It only takes 30 minutes for us to reach Onemobaa island by Koli-koli or a Pompong( Koli-koli is a boat slightly bigger than pompong). They have 12 resorts, a restaurant, beach, and its own electricity generator that can light up the whole island. To be able to enjoy all these facilities you will need to spend USD 3000 / week.

There is also Pemda Inn in Onemobaa which is an inn that has many rooms that you can rent for some price that I still don’t know yet.

That’s all the story, I went home on October 12th using the same route when we go. But this time we have to spend a night in the boat at Bau-Bau, because the boat arrived at night, on the other hand, the flight from Bau-bau to Makassar is only available in the afternoon 14.00 PM. We arrived at Jakarta on October 13th. It’s sad to be e_status_hidden=1

Passport done

man2 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:09:39 +0000

Today I took the already done passport at Immigration Office. The procedure was quite easy, just needed some signature here and there, done, I got my passport. Ready for trip around the world.

The left things to is work hard, and gain money of course. And of course, leave everything to God’s purpose, that way I don’t need to fear about failures, God is always protecting me, and wants the best from me for His kingdom.

just another day passed

man2 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:32:27 +0000

Today nothing much I did, just a little bit AI coding, and some game play coding.
Children AI done, converting children to soldier done.

Tomorrow, I’m gonna take my passport at Immigration Office, hope there is no more problem with the documentations.

I hope I can finish the soldier AI, and make some simple Enemy AI walking to the base, and there will be some shootings between soldiers and enemies. hope that this will run fine. After that still have to make the level editor for the level designing purpose, because the level will be very art extensive.

Hope tomorrow will be my big day

Mission fail, backup plan

man2 — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:24:31 +0000

This evening, I was supposed to go to church, but in my way to church, it’s raining, and when the rain started to get heavier, luckily I’d been in front of Gramedia, so without further thinking, I got in to Gramedia, and parked my bike there.

Don’t know what to do, I went to the 2nd floor, and I read some books, and as usual, there were many books that came to my interest.

There were Unwritten law of business, The power of unreasonable person, Belajar Goblok dari Om Bob, Maxwell Daily Reader, China Megatrends.

After some skimming, I went to Belajar Goblok dari Om Bob, Maxwell Daily Reader, and China Megatrends. Hope these books will bring some improvement in my way of thinking and broaden my knowledge. And of course I have to finish all these books. Start not to be a procrastinator in many ways.

A day to mangga dua mall

man2 — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:33:03 +0000

Yesterday, I went to mangga dua mall helping my friend with his broken monitors. Luckily the monitor is still fixable, unluckily the former mechanic was changed to a new one. Just hope he will do his job well.
After putting the monitor to the repair shop, we went home, like usual, Jakarta’s road at evening is always jammed with many cars and buses.
After spending time for about an hour we arrived at home and ate fried rice for dinner. The fried rice was not too salty this time, not like before, the chef cooked it very salty.

After that, I just went home. Then not long after I got home, I got another visitor, he is my friend who likes game a lot. Then we spent the night playing WiiWare game. WiiWare game is better when it’s played with friends.

Luckily the morning I got my job done, although it was just a little progress. Better than not doing it at all. I hope I can do much this day.

“Trip” to International Airport

man2 — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:50:31 +0000

Yesterday I went to the Sukarno-Hatta International Airport with my friends, and my friend’s cousin.

Arrive at the gate, I went to gate E3 to send my friends, and say a have a good trip to my friends who was going to have a vacation to Singapore.

After that, I went to have a bite at Tony Jack’s, it’s not as delightful as Burger King or Carl’s Jr, but it’s okay to keep my stomach from hunger. After eat, I with my friend had a little walk before going home. I saw many people with their face expression walk entering the gate, but most of them are happy to have a trip. Some of them were students, some of them were businessman / business woman, some of them were just having a vacation differentiate from how they look. I also saw the gamelan show on the center of departure gates, it was an awesome show, showing that Indonesian culture is also a good show to watch.

The security is also very tight around the airport, police men were patrolling with a small golf electric car just to make sure everything went fine and safe. It’s nice so that we don’t need to worry about a crime there.

Going abroad all around the world was my dream when I was little, and until now I’m still eager to go abroad.. Seeing the gate with a lot of people from many countries entering the gate made me more enthusiastic about going abroad.

I have to work for this plan to become reality. And for that I have to fulfill myself with good skills that is equal to international standard. And I must have knowledge, understanding, and wisdom to strengthen my characteristic even more.

I believe I can do it.