Selamat para S. Kom

Mengucapkan selamat pada para S. Kom
entah S. Kom nya ini ntar bakal jadi
komputer, kompor, komersial (pedagang glodok) ato apapun
yang jelas kalian sudah sukses jadi S. Kom
list bakal terus diupdate kok, kalo mau ditulis, bilang aja :)
apalagi klo yang lupa ditulis :D

Gunawan Liaw S. Kom
Lydia Theodore S. Kom
Benedicta Tiffany S. Kom
Cipit S. Kom? *kg tau nama asli lu pit sumpeh*
Candra Dewi S. Kom
Agnes Idris S. Kom
Nita Krizia S. Kom
Alung S. Kom (kg tau lung nama asli lu maap)
Anto S. Kom
Willy Wijaya S. Kom
Fransisca Hana S. Kom
Helen K. S. Kom
Bobby Limitra S. Kom
Rangga K. S. Kom
Roy S. Kom
Hendri S. Kom
Erika Untung S. Kom
Juliarto S. Kom
Corryna Apritasari S. Kom


S. Kom Spesial pake TELOR (dapet A)
Sherly Isabela S. Kom

Lom Sidang Entah Kapan non korban ATL
Winart Widjaja
William Louis
Vanny Valleria

Calon/Terancam S. Kom korban ATL
Freddie T
Anthony K.
Hendra P.
Hans I.
Arif M.
J. Nathanael
Deny Y.
Himawan P.
Mellisa S.
Vincent A.Y.
Anastasia S.

Well sekali lagi selamat menempuh hidup baru sebagai S. Kom. Buat yang belom sidang termasuk saya, semoga tetep kuat menghadapi kejamnya hidup XD

Penulis yang sedang bosen dan depresi
Nathanael~

dia bangkit dari kubur :D

setelah balik dari jepang
dia tidak bernafas selama 1 bulan
mengalami koma parah selama 1 bulan
dan akhirnya setelah genap 3 bulan, pada hari ke 3
dia bangkit dari koma nya itu
dan siap membantu saya

pengumuman nomer xl gw yang
0817 65 65 xxx
itu uda aktif lagi dan siap dihubungi
klo yang sempet cari2 gw *sok eksis* selama 3 bulan kmaren
mohon maaf, keuangan yang cekak (bohong) dan kemalesan (yang amat sangat)
membuat hal tersebut susah terlaksana

Readers pernah kg si males sampe segitunya?
Padaal kan komunikasi penting ya kg si?
dari sini juga jadi ketauan siapa aja yang suka nyariin ato ngak
tapi tenang penulis bukan orang beken jadi ngak banyak yang merasa
kehilangan. Sempet juga si berasa sedih coz kg ada yang nyariin
tapi oh well~

gimana? tertarik buat coba? matiin hp seminggu liat siapa aja yang nyariin
p.s: biar murah pake simcard yang lagi masa tenggang asal jgn bablas aja

Dreams of 2008 and New Year Resolution

Before saying anything let me say
Merry (belated!?) X'Mas 2008
happy belated new year 2009

Usually every year i wrote down my new year resolution on someplace which will get lost soon. So this year i think I'll share my new year resolution with you guys. This new year kinda boring for me because nothing special and i fell sick XD oh well but that's something new to celebrate new year in almost 20 year of my life ;)

This entry was also written because there is some nice word that i read on one of the forum that i join. The word is like this

"What will you do if you wake up and realize that the last 6 year of your life is only a dream?"

Simple question yet tricky to answer. I believe that as a human we always never had enough, and we always wanted to change the past. So rather than look back 6 year ago (which i have forgotten what i have done in 6 year anyway XD) i prefer to look back in this 1 year.

2008 year has been a great year. Lots of things happen starting from the first day of 2008 where for the first time i celebrate new year not in my house but on someplace in Kelapa Gading watching firework in a rain. After that i barely remember what happen so i will write down few things that i remember in 2008. Last year the girl i had crush for almost than 3 years give me somethings for my birthday party which makes me feel really happy. Little incident happen that almost makes my lil precious present gone, but thanks to that now I know my own feeling. My birthday party in 2008 is the best ever, for the first time i got more than 2 present :p poor me for being happy on 5-7 present only eh?

After that my trip to join AYF because e-mail that was sent by one of my favorite lecturer. And luckily AYF 6th takes place in Japan. Place that I've been wanting to go for so long!! Surprisingly over there its not only the beauty of Japan that makes me feel thankful to join that event. But there i also could meet with tons of participant (student and few amazing lecturer) from all around Asia. I learn about their dedication, passion and manage to see how small i am in this big world! There i meet few good friend that i hope i could keep in touch as long as possible! AYF 6th is the place where i learn to trust and keep faith on other people again. Thanks prof Kip Cates for creating such a wonderful event. Until now i haven't actually finish the entry on what i do over there. And i don't think it will ever finished because i started to forget the detail i do over there, hopefully i could finish it this month! I don't want the precious memories consumed by time that i cannot remember it anymore.

2008 was also the year where i learn to be more punctual. Few reason is one of my lecturer prohibited for his student to be late for his class, and he do that by doing quiz early in the class. So far I've skipped more quit than the quiz that i take (reason : my laziness). After i came back from Japan i think my time management became better. I realized one of the reason i can't be punctual is the environment where i live. In Indonesia it's really hard to be on time because EVERYONE is simply NOT on time! But I'll try to be punctual as long as i can and we will see how long i can do that ;)

On the end of 2008 the lecturer that make my AYF trip possible resign because of healthy reason. On behalf of those who has been taught by hear i would like to say my biggest gratitude to Mrs Henny Surya Ningsih for all the time and care given, especially to the 1st generation of applied database classes. We will never forget you (even if we might forget what you taught us XD, gomen!!) I also learn that resting is as important as working! (actually i my case i need to learn working is as important as resting)

And also 2008 is the year where i actually to decide to graduate early on somethings such as fun. I rarely go to internet cafe to play online game or such a thing anymore T_T and maybe some of my friend can't accept my early graduation on fun. Because my graduation also means i choose work upon someone's Birthday. Nevertheless once you graduate you can't back, end of conversation. So what i can do now is walk forward to reach my dream!!

So far that's all memorable event on 2008. So what would i do if its only a dream? The main purpose of this entry is to all of us to reflect that the time that has passed is not a dream. Therefore we always need to do our best in every situation. Time that has passed can't come back.

So based on that my 2009 new year resolution would be
1. Try to be punctual
2. Graduate on time
3. Hopefully i could join the 7th AYF
4. Finish 90% of the task given to me
5. Learn to say sorry for the 10% of the task that can't be done (hey I'm a realistic person, please note that!)
6. Get accepted on some place that sounds cool and cool for real!
7. Keep in touch with everyone, because friend is precious after all.
8. Figured out what i can do in life!
9. Dedicated my life for people that need
10. stop breaking my new year resolution that has been done since i-don't-remember-when

Well what about you? Have you do some reflection on the year that has past? If you haven't please do because people need to learn from mistakes, be thankful on what they have achieved, and strive to the future! If you have done it why don't you share your resolution with me??? Drop a comment k and i will reply back ;)

Extra Ordinary Me!

At first, i wanted to named this entry with "Super Me" but afraid that some people will misread it as one of the famous instant noodle in Indonesia, i decided to change the tittle. This entry will be short and instead of i want you to read it, it's more like a memo to myself in the future!!

Today November 11th 2008

Lots of things happen
Things that makes my heart really happy
Just because i could do something to someone
Things that really disappoint me
Just because i am not as good as what i think of
Things that makes me hate this world
Just because that's how the world is

Even though one day i will forget what happen today. Today i make a promise and swear to myself that i have to be Extra Ordinary!! And i will use all of the time and power i have to change this world into a better and safe place so people could once trust each other again. Today once again i learn not to easily trust other, and i hope i will never change!

For me in the future
Jeremy Nathanael C.

Indonesian Street Food

Ziep from Vietnam ask me about Indonesian street food. And I think some of you will be interested also. So I’ll post it here. Hope you find it interesting or useful, and if there’s any serious eater around you let me know. My dream is to travel and taste the food around the world.


Siomay
Description : Unlike Chinese, Indonesian siomay doesn’t consist of two parts (layer and filling). Indonesian Siomay looks like meatball and eaten with peanut and soy sauce. Indonesian siomay usually eaten with hard tofu, cabbages, potatoes and other. Usually it’s made from fish.
Taste : It’s a little bit chewy and because it got fish in it some people think it smells not good. But once you taste it, you’ll became addicted to it.



Gorengan
Description : One of the most famous street foods in here. Gorengan in English means “deep fried”, that’s because how to make gorengan is to fried lots of things. Just like Japanese tempura, Gorengan came in many kinds. There are tofu, tempe, cassava, sweet potato, and more.
Taste : Because usually they’re coated with some kind of flour, it became crispy. Because it came with lots of variety you’ll never got bored with it. Some people eat it with seasoning such as raw chili, chili sauce, salt and so on. And what makes this food popular is because it’s cheap.



Rangi cakes
Description : Made from corn cakes that’s baked for a few minutes until it became a little bit crispy but chewy inside. After being cooked, melted caramelized red sugar added.
Taste : One of my personal favorite. With friendly prize you could get some rangi cakes that enough to stuff your hungry stomach. It taste great especially because there’s red sugar added in the end, make it smells good and taste good. Yumm caramel <3



Otak-Otak
Description : Otak means brain in English, but worry not this food got nothing to do with it. Made from mixing fish, flour and spices until it became fish paste. Some people said that it looks like Indonesian siomay. What makes it different is that Otak-otak was wrapped with banana leaves and burned directly on fire. After done spicy peanut sauce was added. Taste : Superb! If you eat at the right place it will taste magnificent. Because it’s wrapped with banana leaves there’s this nice scent and since its burn on fire it got this nice smoky feeling. For best result it would be better to burn it using wood. The banana and fire small will reduce the fishy smell. It got chewy texture and the spicy peanut sauce makes it taste better.



Tahu Gejrot
Description : Tahu is tofu, while gejrot is a little bit hard to describe. I think it means smashing something that’s soft and watery, like sponge. Some people called it smackdown tofu in English. First you fried the tofu like usual, what makes it special is the sauce. The sauce made from garlic, raw chili (Indonesian people like to eat spicy food), vinegar, red sugar, salt, and lots of things that the seller refuse to tell me >.<
Taste : It’s really unique. It’s spicy but at the same time because there’s vinegar added it became refreshing also, but that’s not all don’t forget the sugar. Sugar will reduce the acidic feeling created from the vinegar and gives nice sweet flavor. One of Indonesian delegacies you should try.

Well that’s all. The most important things is even though Indonesia got lots of unique street food. Currently our traditional food is dying because they can’t compete with modern snack, such as crepes, burger, fried potatoes with flavor, and so on. What about you? Do your countries have some kind of unique snack? Share it with us ^^

500 million dollars in Zimbabwe

During AYF i remember professor Kip Cates mention about how bad the economy on Zimbabwe is. Few days ago while I'm surfing on the net i found out this thread on the most famous local forum, and when i tell about it to Anastasia she seems interested and i hope you all will be interested also. So I'll try to share it with you guys, sorry for the lame English before that ^^

First of all be thankful this is not your country, not much we can do to help Zimbabwe but at least we could try to make sure such a condition doesn't happen in our country.

Guess how much you could get with that amount of money? The 500 million dollars that just printed in may 2008 in the picture only equals 2 US dollars, and that's the amount Zimbabwe people need to pay for one time meal. on July 2008 Zimbabwe bank introduce a 100 billion dollar bill, guess how much dollar it is?

That's 5 time meal for us. The condition of Zimbabwe dollar makes even the slightest change at the currency exchange became a big change of price inside Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe hold the record for the biggest inflation that could happen in minute count. Could you imagine how hard the work for shopkeeper there because they need to change the price every minute? Does your boring job sounds more better and interesting for you now?

Even though they hold lots of record, none of them could be proud of. Based on what i can found this all could happen because of several factor. Zimbabwe involvement on the Democratic Republic of Congo during 1998-2002 has drained thousand of dollars and lots of their resource, even though peace treaty is signed on 2003 things in Africa doesn't go any better. Lots of abuse, sexual violence still happening even right now in the border. This is considered one of the worst since the world war, that's why some people named this war the "African War". See what war could bring to our country? And there's also some racism problem that makes white farmer has to move in and out from Zimbabwe, this has make the world trust on Zimbabwe drop low. Long live racism? I'd say racism is not even good enough for dog food!! Proud on your nationality, religion, race or something like that is not bad, but see where excessive proud would take you.

This is how much your going to receive on your payday. Wallet? forget it, you need a bag or sack to bring that amount of money with you.

Could you see the price over there? 10M, 15M and the 50/60M sign is the example on what I've said above on how fast the price change in Zimbabwe.

5M vegetable

Now you believe when i said you need to bring a bag or sack when you eat outside?

when you thirsty and go to the bar. I'm amazed on how much money you need to pay.

Want to buy a chicken?

To expensive? then the egg maybe..........

I can't even tell, however the source said that this is a picture of beggar in Zimbabwe...

Well that's all for now. Remember it could happen in our country, therefore it's our job to make it not happen. Remember the power of youth we've been taught during AYF? I hope you found this entry interesting. Please drop a comment, just click the cone of ices below if you want to drop a comment. Or if your to lazy to do so, just drop it on the chat box provided next to this entry. I want to know your opinion ^^

Interesting fact about Zimbabwe:

1. Even though the national language of Zimbabwe is English most of people there use other language as their main language.
   
2. Zimbabwe is the place where Baden-pawell give birth to scouting.

p.s: credit goes to whoever take the picture, that picture is not mine, and the entry based on few articles that i read.

Day 1, arriving in Japan – Keisatsu – Penguin, Rocket and Banana!!

Prologue
Dear reader yang baek-baek dan imut-imut pasti pada pengen tau kan kabar penulis selama di jepang. Perjalanan dimulai dengan banyak barang yang ketinggalan, maklum penulis emang dari dulu ngak bakat beres-beres, yang ketinggalan itu antara laen swimming suit, surat undangan (OMG penulis dah takut aja dideportasi ato jadi luntang-lantung di negeri orang) well daripada lama-lama langsung aja lanjut ke ronde berikutnya.

Sampe Soekarno Hatta sekitar jam 5 sorean abis itu cipika-cipiki sama mum n ketemu sama peserta AYF laennya yaitu abang Qeis. Langsung dah bung nat melangkah jauh ke dalam airport abis dilirikin sirik sama orang-orang dengan pandangan “geblek banget si ni orang kampong” penulis akhirnya selamet sampe ke ruangan terakhir yang dipercaya kalo pesawat uda dateng para penumpang bias naek (yang ternyata bener loh).

Flight bisa dibilang just so-so, penulis yang kalo uda naek pesawat kg kalah parno nya sama chiaki tanpa nodame nya pengen pingsan aja tiap kali pesawat take-off, mendarat, apalagi klo kena turbulence. Menu makan yang disiapin ada 2 kali antara laen, nasi pake kari buat makan malem atau macaroni pake ayam cincang (ngak menarik deh bentuknya jadi ngak dipoto), sama satu lagi nasi lemak atau omelet pake sosis sama tomat benyek(standart)

Part I Keisatsu
Setelah selamat entah gimana caranya penulis akhirnya berhasil mendarat di Narita Airport, Jepang pada pukul 7:35, setelah menikmati beberapa langkah pertama dengan gaya norak yang disepakati *buka kaki lebar-lebar terus tarik napas hembuskan sambil teriak TOKYO!!!!!* well ngak sampe teriak si soalnya penulis ngomongnya pake nada standart aja uda dilirik sama orang Jepang. Setelah itu abis pelongo-pelongo kaya orang dongo penulis tau-tau disamperin sama 2 orang berbaju jas rapi dengan senyum pake gigi palsu satu. Pembicaraan yang terjadi kurang lebih seperti ini “ware *something-something* keisatsu” and I said, “what?” Guess what they said next, penulis kg merasa bersalah soalnya kebalik inget keisatsu sama tokutastu, penulis mendadak dikasi liat dompet yang dibuka ala film-film sambil dibarengin omongan Japanese Policeman.

Reaksi? Yah mungkin klo mo dapet reaksi yang sama kudu makan pare isi beling, ntar baru deh bisa tau gimana reaksi penulis waktu itu. Tapi entah kenapa mungkin karena ini polisi giginya palsu dan Inggris nya ngak fasih-fasih banget pas penulis jelasin pake tampang melas (dan panjang lebar) malah akhirnya ditunjukin arah sama polisi nya. Nut yang tadinya uda sempet panik dan nilai polisi Jepang kurang kerjaan ditunda deh, soalnya dengan inggris yang pas-pas an mereka tetep berusaha mengarahkan penulis supaya keliatan lebih cerdas dikit di airport mereka yang notabene canggih (minus wifi gratis, orang jepang pelit wifi harus bayar)
Setelah lepas dari ajakan kenalan keisatsu (inget yah bukan tokusatsu) penulis kembali kesasar. Namun kali ini ngak lama, karena mendadak dateng 2 neechan (istilah minjem dari bu henny) sama 1 cowo dateng bawa poster AYF, OMG I’m saved. Penulis yang pelit ini dikasih pilihan mo naek bus dengan harga 3000 Yen atau naek kereta dengan harga total 1300 Yen, yah tebak ndiri deh penulis ambil yang mana, klo misalnya kalian salah tebak brarti bukan pembaca setia vanilla ice cream blog keren ini :p

Jadi reader ternyata Rp 170.000,00 itu berarti jalan sekitar 2 jam sambil bawa barang-barang yang berat total nya kurang lebih 15 killo, sambil keluar masukin dompet dan karcis karena jaket yang ngak praktis, pake keringet, pake ditabrak orang jepang, dan pake banyak lagi deh biar komplit. So reader, next time you found something priced Rp 150.000 or more, please remember my story and think whether that item is that worth or not.

Sampe di NYC dengan kaki kemeng, tangan lecet akhirnya penulis selesai naro luggage dan mutusin mo nekat jalan-jalan di kota dengan dianter sama 2 aniki ganteng demenan Lele dan Selvy, ternyata yang bilang klo di Jepang banyak cowo cakep n cewe kawaii ngak salah. Penulis sepanjang jalan matanya kelilipan malaikat mulu. Beberapa foto menarik yang sempet diambil antara laen, pas ngeliat salah satu advertisement board yang lgs bikin inget sama kampus dan dosen tercinta, sama toko yang jual Jeans titipan salah satu sesepuh, modelnya sama persis kayak yang ada di website. Untuk melepas laper penulis makan “Chicken Curry Rice Extra Hot” yang bikin orang jepang merem melek karena pedesnya. Di lidah penulis? Mantaf! Bumbu karinya yang kentel dan wangi rempah bikin nafsu makan meningkat, terus untuk nasinya mungkin karena nasi uduk nya pake beras jepang jadi rasanya lebih enak yah. Total biaya makan pertama kali ini 1000 Yen, paket makan included sama Cold Ice Tea (sama minum aer putih 4 gelas gratis, di pesawat dehidrasi bo)

Part II Pinguinu, Roketo, Banana
Jadi abis capek jalan-jalan akhirnya udah waktunya makan malem di Fuji Canteen, Fuji Canteen ini tempat makan resminya anak-anak AYF nantinya karena selaen murah makanan nya juga enak dan porsinya mengenyangkan =), beberapa menu yang disediakan dan menarik perhatian penulis antara lain adalah 2 makanan dibawah ini.

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Setelah makan ada sedikit kata sambutan dan perkenala dari peserta AYF yang laen, total peserta AYF ada sekitar 100 lebih orang, dari 20an Negara, dan 40 Universitas, salah satunya BINUS University tercinta dong :p, sama ternyata isu yang sempat penulis bikin sendiri kalo keterima AYF itu gampang ternyata boong berat XD karena disono tanya2 banyak orang yang terpaksa pergi meninggalkan teman coz dari sekian yang diterima cuman 1. Well that makes me a lil bit proud.

Abis makan akhirnya saat yang ditunggu-tunggu tiba, setelah denger isu kalo mandinya barengan, ternyata yang tadinya isu beneran kejadian >.<. Peserta semua mandinya barengan dan penulis yang tadinya masuk masih pake celana dalem terpaksa ikutan budaya timur dah harus tottaly naked, because one of my room mate that’s a Japanese said, doing so is considered VERY RUDE! Yah akhirnya penulis ikutan copot, ternyata ada sensasinya sendiri. So apa hubungannya sama judul part 2 ini? Penulis yang sepanjang siang uda puas matanya kelilipan malaikat malem ini terpaksa liat berbagai macem roket, pisang, penguin berbagai ukuran. Sigh my virgin eyes, besok harus cuci mata lagi deh. Well that’s all for day 1. dapet Room mate nya baek banget yang orang Cambodja, belom apa-apa uda dikasih 2 oleh-oleh yang satu postcard ada tulisannya yang kedua dikasih gantungan kunci merangkap gunting kuku. Well emang orang asia Ramah-ramah yah.

Oh iya tambahan sedikit, suhu disini sekitar 12-20 derajat, sementara matahari bersinar cerah banget, jadi rasanya kayak di Jakarta tapi ada yang setel AC suhu maksimum. Yah that’s all for today, penulis juga uda makin ngantuk, daripada telat sarapan hari ini buat besok tidur dulu yah =) Thanks for reading and don’t forget to drop a comment kali-kali reader ada yang mo berbagi pengalaman ditangkep polisi di Negara orang, ato ketemu bentrok budaya yang mayan ekstrim kayak kejadian, coz penulis suka banget kalo blog nya dikomenin meskipun yang jelek ato ngak penting.

Note to self: today I learn that keisatsu and tokusatsu is two different things, note that!


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dipost secara buru-buru dan capek
jadi klo ngak ada potonya menta maaf sebesar2nya