.:abhista:.

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I was very excited to go to Bogor for the join plonning session. It is gonna be my first business trip out of town after three years working. I was so much looking forward to it, staying in a hotel, not working in the office Especially because I envy Haryo, he’s been around much. Projects in Bandung, and now to some other big cities for deployment.

But now I must say goodbye to that dream, cause in the last minutes, one of my managers decided to bring less people to the meeting, and I am one of the removed names ( Now, Didit will mock me even more, he already said that it’s only to Bogor, while he is going to Medan. Bogor is not out of town he said, and even that I’m not going, hiks…

Good thing is, I already got the laptop. I got it sooner because I was supposed to go to Bogor. Well, I am not so sad anyway, I can handle this. It’s just some meeting. Hopefully soon I’ll get a training abroad. Surely I’ll be happy then

wassalaam wrwb.

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Lately, I spent quite a lot watching TV in the weekends, since my pals are busy with their romance life :p And I found an interesting drama, it’s a korean drama which is being re-aired. The story was a simple romantic comedy. It was fun to watch and the cast is kinda cute :p Her role name is Hang Ji En (don’t know the right spelling), and her real name was Song Hye Kyo… I track her down in the net and found some info and pictures, but she doesn’t look really cute like in the movie. Maybe the story makes her look cute :p I don’t know… but surely I would like to meet someone that cute hehehe…

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Yesterday night, I once again acted spontaneously. Faisal sent a message telling that Abe is in Jakarta and he’s in his hotel room. It was already 19.30 and after long games of ping-pong I was surely heading home. But, the thought of meeting my old friends boosted my spirit, and I took a cab right away :p

Suprisingly, they asked me to join them to TransTV to watch live extravaganza. Well, I was always interested in new things, and since I’ve never saw live shows before (except Dewa’s concert), I agreed with high interest. Also to help me forget the bad memory of when my friend asked me to see Grand final penghuni terakhir II, but then there’s no ticket left for me (

Btw, it was fun. It was totally different from watching it on TV. There were games, beatiful people, crews, casts, farhan, and the fun of watching teenagers rush to take a picture of the casts And, Abe also rush with them, well can’t blame him to be banci foto right? He actually managed to take a picture with some of the cast, including Aming. Surely he’ll post them to his blog :p

I end up staying in his hotel, and got back home early in the morning, take a shower and now I’m already in the office. With some funny feeling in my head and stomach. That was a great night, thanks bro. Hopefully this will be not less better day

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~ahSongHyeKyo….

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Hari ini rada lembur dan karena skrg lagi ujan deras, gua ngeweb sana-sini deh, eh pas ke detik ada berita tentang PDA Palm yg baru… wwuiiiih, great suprise! Really cool gadget :p Storagenya pake 4GB microdrive, dan udah ada WiFi. Sisanya standard sih, bluetooth, Garnett, SDIO/MMC, 65K display 320×480 +landscape mode. Dan semua kelebihan Palm, great battery life, great OS…

Take a look for yourself!

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Today was kinda different from the previous days at Sun. Today there’s Hendarto’s treat of Bakmi GM’s for everyone at SMI, but in the same time there’s PS unit lunch meeting at Ratu Thai. I can’t choose, PS unit meeting is mandatory :p Besides, Bakmi GM is usual food, but I haven’t had Thai’s food before :p It was fun, the meeting was only small part of the lunch, and I got to get to know more of the PS team. The food was great, not to great, and I only regret having the jellyfish (I just found out that you can eat jellyfish :p).

Also, today there’s a project meeting right after the PS unit meeting, followed by the project technical meeting. It all finished at 17.30. Fuih, but it kinda gives me the work atmosphere, kinda motivating, cause before I just do stuff not knowing what exactly what I supposed to do :p

And from personal life, I began to realize how important to watch your statements. Now, my bosses are watching whatever I say in the community. Besides that, I don’t wanna look just talking trash. I learn from my muslim college alumni mailing list, that one should really backup what he/she states with authentic/formal reference. So, that means I cannot say something like “I read this once, but can’t remember where..” or “I heard someone said somewhere, sometimes ago that…” This is kinda hard for me cause my knowledge is not so extensive, I lack of reading, and I usually forget where I got what I know :p Well, I am trying to fix it :p Just now, I said something in JUG ID mailist, and someone mocked my answer, well it was not wrong, it’s just not right :p I really should have double-checked before I answer…. I need to be smarter and more careful… maybe even in this blog, I sometimes states something I can’t backup, please bear with my mistakes guys

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Dapet undangan musical baton dari si abe. Sebenernya masih gak ngerti ini apa yaa, tapi gua coba deh. Kalau gak salah sih, ini sebenernya pesan berantai doang, mungkin mirip sama orang-orang yang nulis bulletin di friendster, trus setiap yg nerima ngisi jawaban sendiri, trus mempost lagi, dst. Tapi yang ini tentang musik, makanya gua mau, dan kasian juga si abe kalau gak diresponse, nanti nangis-nangis kan susah aku hehehe.

Nah, kali ini pertanyaannya dan jawaban gua sbb:

1. Total volume of my music files on my computer:
   Computer? What computer? Sadly, I currently don’t have any computer ( So I can’t answer this questions… but I’ve burnt every mp3s to CDs, but I couldn’t remember how many CDs are there…. maybe 10 CDs.




2. The last CDs I bought:
   Padi, self-titled album… padahal jarang2 loh gua beli CD hehehe. Selama ini baru mbeli 2 yang asli, 2 yg bajakan :p




3. Song playing right now:
   Padi, menanti sebuah jawaban, mungkin karena gua lagi kesepian Teman-temanku pada berkawinan semua, hiks… Tapi emang, lagu-lagu padi selalu ngena buat gua, melodinya simple tapi nyangkut banget, top banget emang si Piyu… liriknya juga lumayan maut tuh bagi orang-orang yang merasa romantis :p Gua sih biasa aja, cuman soal menanti sebuah jawaban, emang gua sedang menanti jawaban sih,....




4. Five songs i listen to a lot, or means a lot to me:



5. Padi – Menanti sebuah jawaban, nice song, sweet, and still fresh, got it in my cellphone.


6. Padi – Siapakah gerangan dirinya, same as above


7. Romeo – memori, the theme song for Linda’s walimah


8. Sarah McLahan – Angel, a very touching song, slow and deep, very sexy voice



9. Steve Vai – Tender Surrender, a killer melody, nice attractive sound and techniques, really want to be able to play it in a gig…




10. Five people whom I’m passing the baton:



11. Linda


12. Diaz


13. Ira


14. Raf


15. Wida

fuih, kelar….

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Kemaren sebelum pulang kantor, mampir ke blog Poetra, dan nemu sebuah post ‘menarik’ :p marriage syndroms... Seperti bisa kalian tebak, gua langsung aja tertarik dan membaca posting itu dengan sepenuh hati :p Tentunya tak lupa berdoa supaya gua bisa cepat kawin :p Setelah selesai membaca dalam hati (soalnya kalo kenceng-kenceng ntar dikira gilak :p), gua gatel banget pengen komen di post itu, tapi karena kepanjangan (karena diboncengi oleh nasehat, ceile), jadinya gua kirim lewat email ajah.

Di ujung email itu gua nulis, bahwa gua merasa munafik karena gua ceplas-ceplos soal nikah kesana kemari tapi gua sendiri belom nikah, padahal gua sebenernya pengen loh So, sepanjang perjalanan pulang ke kos malam itu, ditemani bintang di langit dan bau got, gua kepikiran terus alasan apa yg gua pake kalo ditanyain kenapa belom nikah? Yg pertama kepikiran adalah masalah duit, yu-know-lah, me got financial problem :p Tapi, kalo dipikir-pikir, temen-temenku yg sekarang sedang dalam proses nikah juga gak beda jauh kondisinya, malah bisa lebih susah dari gua… so what else… next, baru inget kenapa gua gak berani mulai cari calon, yaitu karena bbrp bulan yang lalu sempet dilarang oleh ortu, alasannya sih ekonomi. Takut kalau tiba-tiba ada kebutuhan dan gua gak sanggup, mereka nggak mau gua sebagai anak cowok paling tua, yg harusnya gak nyusahin ortu, yg harusnya membantu biaya keluarga, dll, malah mbalik harus ditolongin melulu… Yap, that’s the main reason beside the true reason that I’m a bit scared….

Karena gak tenang, akhirnya abis makan malam gua nelpon rumah, gak tau mau bilang apa, yg penting nelpon dulu. Awalnya gua cuma konfirmasi soal tiket buat si Adi balik ke rumah… dapet yg rada mahal, karena mungkin dah musim liburan jadi susah nyari tiket. Untung semuanya dibantuin ama Yenni sang resepsionis :p Abis tuh, gua bilang mo ngomong ama nyokap, pas nyokap ngomong dengan tak biasanya gua bertanya, ‘apa kabar Mak?’, beneran loh, gua ama ortu gak seakrab kayak Linda dan Iin dengan ortunya.. mungkin karena mereka perempuan kali yaa… anyway, sepertinya ibuku bahagia tuh ditanyain kabarnya, mengetahui bahwa anaknya perhatian (duh ge-er banget dah)... Terus karena bingung gua ngobrol gak jelas sana-sini, sampe gua sadar bahwa nelpon ke rumah itu mahal Jendral!! Akhirnya gua nekat-nekatin deh, dengan suara terbata-bata (jadi merah dan kotak-kotak gitu loh :p), gua memancing ke arah percakapan itu… dan akhirnya sodara-sodara,... percakapan itu pun terjadilah… bla bla bla (ini gua sensor maksudnya, soalnya rada memalukanpun :p)... dan kesimpulannya ortu gua nggak kayak kemaren lagi, ngelarang mencari calon, sekarang BOLEEEH,.... asek asek asek… ini mungkin karena gaji gua yang dah lebih gede atau karena mereka sayang dan pengertian ama gua :p Iya iya gua tau, yg kedua kan.. ck ck ck gak perlu lah diingatkan.

Yah, ada rasa lega, karena hal yang mengganggu gua selama ini dah lepas, tinggal satu lagi yang sangat mengganggu gua skrg,... yaitu kejombloan ini yang semakin terasa hehehehe… dah ah. back to work.

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Last nite I did some rough calculation on my finance for this year. I had to do this because of the Mission Impossible that I am in now, buying a house. This is a very expensive mission I wrote my expense posts and tried to find posts that can be tightened. And all I can think of is the living cost post. Well, the food expenses is kinda high in the city. Also, I had a bad habit when it comes to shopping, fortunately not too bad. But, unfortunately, the cost-cutting didn’t have a significant effect on my financial condition. The next step is to find additional income sources. And pathetically, it was dominated by selling my properties… (

This house-buying things really shaken my vision. Business dreams, marriages, gadgets, car, everything seemed hard to achieve now. But, the good thing is, now I am more careful in spending money, well hopefully. Buying a house, using a bank loan, IS a liability, but in the long term I hope it is a way to save money, especially from a bachelor lust of hobbies that costs a lot.

I remember when I started to do some interviews at Sun, Linda said that I was kinda fit in the career path. But my ambitions was all about running my own business. The main reason is ego and personal-satisfaction. But that was before I have to think about paying credits every month Now, I AM in the professional path, having quite good sallary for my age, and a nice career path, and most of all, a regular income. So like everybody said, most people don’t run their own business because of fear of losing the feeling of safety from the regular paycheck Well, I am one of the fearful people now… yes, it means, I am going in another direction from my ambitions… Well, I guess life’s ain’t always how you want it to be.

Btw, one of the additional income source that I could think of is writing. I kinda love writing, non-fiction, but not very proud of my skill, not to mention that I haven’t wrote a book before. But, now I am thinking, maybe this is the answer to my financial problem. I don’t know how much you can make by writing books, but it surely better than selling my stuff :p And also, maybe it’s an alternative of my professional goals, being a writer and a professional at Sun, or maybe another company, it sounds very nice and puts off a lot of questions, at least for now. Besides, I have achieved nothing all this time, thinking about business, maybe I’m just don’t have what it takes. Maybe, this is not the first time I questioned my goals, but I think this is a good time to start taking actions on other options, writing. I have wasted years not having the guts to try, and now I am desperately need more money, I hope it can be a good motivation help me God.

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Menanti Sebuah Jawaban
-Padi

Aku tak bisa luluhkan hatimu
Dan aku tak bisa menyentuh cintamu
seiring jejak kakiku bergetar
Aku tak terpagut oleh cintamu
Menelusup hariku dengan harapan
Namun kau masih terdiam membisu

[Reff]
Sepenuhnya aku ingin memelukmu
Mendekap penuh harapan tuk mencintaimu
Setulusnya aku akan terus menunggu
Menanti sebuah jawaban tuk memilikimu

Betapa pilunya rindu menusuk jiwaku
Semoga kau tau isi hatiku
Dan seiring waktu yg terus berputar
Aku masih terhanyut dalam mimpiku

*duh-adayangmaumemberiguajawabangak?

Kalo mau denger reffnya telpon gua aja. Gua lagi pake nada dering lagu ini *hehehe