Kuroi Suzaku's Nest

Pickpocket MO!!

2007-06-04T10:39:00.000+07:00

On that bright day, I use a city transport to get to my girl’s house. That transport car when I stop it, we still have 5 empty seats there. Three more people also hop into this car. All were men. Let say they were A, B, and C. They occupy two seats on the edge, and one seat in the middle, near an empty seat. That’s four. So we had one seat left. Not long after those three, middle aged man also hop in. Let says he is D. The person that one of those three, let said he is A, said that there’s empty seat at his left. So this middle aged man sat there.

Not long after the car started to move, a person near the edge (Let said he is B) try to give out some papers. Like an advertisement paper. He also tried to touching people’s hand like demonstrating a massage like what the paper said. D was the last person he touched. After that, he stopped the car and get out as soon as possible after paying to the driver. When the car moved again, suddenly the person at the edge (let says he is C) asked to D, “Is there anything missing? Like cellphone perhaps?” D started to panic. He checked his cellphone, which was gone already. So C suggested to D that he must hop out and chase the only person who touched him, B. Looks like C was good enough for willing to paid D’s transport cost. And that’s how the pickpocket done according the flat eyes.

Is that just it? Is it that simple? Hell no. In fact, A, B, and C are the suspect of this crime. The plan is, A told the victim (D) to sit near him. B started to take people’s attention by giving advertisement paper. A take this chance to get the cellphone. After successful attempt, B hoped out of the car. Soon after that, C warned D about pickpocket threat. After it’s confirmed that the cellphone was gone, C suggest to D to go after B. This was for keep D away from A, the real executor of the pickpocket. And viola, A was not caught, and B was found empty handed. While D was still confused where his cellphone gone.

What a great plan isn’t it? Well, this method already started long ago. But it seems lots of people still weren’t aware of it. So I post this in hope that whoever read this, can raise their awareness at public place about this threat. Be careful with your surroundings ^_____^a

Arrogant teacher!!

2007-05-31T13:37:00.000+07:00

Mew. A Lecturer, a doctor, who behaved like spoiled child. Can you imagine? Spoiled child at that age? Become a lecturer? For me, that was a disappointment. I think anyone will have this feeling if they have a lecturer like this one.

I hear this from my girlfriend. Well. This is the cause why I label him/her as spoiled child. Yesterday, my girlfriend and her group had some exams. Two of them are verbal exams. The examiner was, yes, that lecturer, or doctor, whatever. Most of the questions are answered right, at least according to the handbook from respective university. But, guess what? That doctor did not accept those answers. Why? Because those answers did not exactly same with the book he/she wrote. And for that, he even rejected anyone for those exams. And that’s including other group. What make it worse, that attitudes still continue up until this moment. What a pain. Not a single group can have exams which assigned to this doctor. If I was the examine, not my girlfriend, and not have my group’s future in our hand, I must have yelled to that doctor ignoring my own grade.

Well … maybe I to act like a spoiled child, but whenever my acts give disappointment, I always try to fix it as soon as possible. Specially, if I have lecturer role as that doctor. I wonder, is this human nature when they feel higher than other, they tend to take advantage from other? Even if it is, isn’t there a way to suppress it? I believe there’s a lot ways for that. It just that those arrogant doctors never try to fix it in the first place.

I wonder when will this country’s education will change? When will the result are looked at what the students can do, not what the students’ grade? Well, it’s up to the government and the people. Me? I’m just a lousy man who try to change myself better by learning on someone (and mine too of course) mistakes. I hope someday people will change …. Just small hope though if you looked at this community which became worsen each day :(

Unfortunate Event!!

2007-05-01T08:30:00.000+07:00

Last night, I moved to my new rent room. After shopping for my daily use, I ate a few noodles and take a shower. Around midnight, I started to sleep. Before that, I set my alarms on my cell phone to 6 o'clock. To make sure I'm not late for going to my new office for the first time.

When I woke up, I'm wondering, why my alarms didn't shout? I thought it's not reached 6 o'clock yet. But then, I surprised. Guess what? My cell phones, two of them, are gone missing. I looked around every corner of the room in vain. Then I realize that my door is slightly open. I rushed to check my wallet. Yep, what I'm afraid of actually happened. All money was gone. All of them, including small changes. That time I realize that my room has been burglarized :(

I lost estimated to more than three millions rupiahs. What a stupidity of my own. I can’t remember was I locked my door or not. This is really sucks. When I try to conserve my money for my future needs, a thief toke my cell phones which forced me to buy a new one. And because of that too, I can’t help my girl’s best friend which I promised to. I feel sick to myself. How come I so careless last night. Just when I want to do some good deeds T_T

There’s no way I can satisfy until the thief got punished for what he/she did. So, My Lord, please give him an evenly punishment for what he/she did >:(

Delayed Flight!! - Reloaded

2007-04-03T17:06:00.001+07:00

Unbelievable!! Two long delay in a row. Does my luck has run out or it's company's problem? Last month, my flight delayed 4 hours. Last night? 7 HOURS!! And it happened with a big reputation flight company, AirAsia. And guess what? According to a frequent flyer I've meet during the waiting, she said it almost always delayed! It even combined two flight schedules into one. To pressed company loss? Yeah right!! (-_-)a

I came 20 minutes before the flight schedule. I was shock already when see the retime announcement on the board which said that the flight retime from 17.10 to 22.20. I was disappointed with that already. The cause? Some said it was vehicle problems. Broken windows and some hydraulic problems. I can understand that this mean they need to retime. But, for 5 hours? That was a long time. And at 19.11, another shock came up. The flight delayed AGAIN to 00.25. What a pain.

There're some points of my disappointment. First, I wonder if this company has bases here at Indonesia? Why do we have to wait a backup plane from Malaysia? And why they didn't prepare a backup plane earlier. Second, why do we have to retime again until 00.25? It doesn't make sense. They don’t even think about customers planning at all. Well, the first one just a rumor though. But if it's true, that's a disappointment for my opinion. Oh well. I won't use this company in the near future ever again. At least until their management upgraded. See you around AirAsia!

Flight Incident

2007-02-22T11:30:00.000+07:00

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007, I had a flight from surabaya to jakarta. My father drive me to Juanda airport. Lots of uneasy feeling that time. We depart from our house nearly without sparetime incase of traffic jam. It's true that we didn't have any meaningful traffic jams. But The rain falls heavily.

We arrive at airport at 16.30 while my flight depart on 17.10. Still enough time, I thought. So I rush to check in at AirAsia counter. The counter officer said that the flight will delayed one hour, to 18.10. So I have to wait one hour. I'm fine with that actually. What makes me uneasy is, untill 18.50, there's still no news about the ship we will board. People start to wandering arround at airport lounge.

The cause of this unpredicted delay is accident of one of Adam Air ship which slip off while landing on runway 10. According to newspaper, it's sustain large pressure at a moment before landing which makes the ship unstable and broke the wheels. I don't know for the detail though. That accident makes some ships which will land on runway 10 must detour to Ngurah Rai airport at denpasar, bali. while ships that just departed from jakarta returned to Soekarno-Hatta airport.

The cleaning of runway 10 takes time. At 8.20, AirAsia ship finally arrived. We board to it at 8.40 and depart at 9.00 or more. Thus, we delayed for four hours. The last two incident involving aircraft are involving Adam Air. Still in our memories where Adam Air lost at Makassar. Now, We had a little incident involving the same company. Although there's no cassualties, this can drive people opinion about safety on Adam Air ships. Specially for the victims. As for me, we can't fully blame the company since that time, the weather suddenly turn into a really bad conditions.

I hope all companies can learn from this incident and think more about passengers' safety.

Flood everywhere...

2007-02-05T18:20:00.000+07:00

What a rough day. All of our plans are screwed up by nature. Floods are everywhere and they make mass transport's routes are messed up. Some cut their route, some even stop their services. And that’s including those which ran by transjakarta which we call busway.

Busway. When these routes implemented, people who need a neat mass transport and people who have short times are happy with this. While people who drive cars tend to disagree with the way busway ran which takes one line of the road lines for them only (which makes them can travel almost with no traffic jam, except for junctions).

When government of jakarta expanding busway routes, lots of people expected them. But no one care about their route line. Now, when we have heavy rains, some of the lines where drowned by floods. This really makes the worst situations possible. The roads which not flooded are packed with cars, and sometimes the separated busway lines which can't be used add the complexity of the problems. Until yesterday, only one of seven routes running. Other routes are flooded at some points.

I wonder when will the government start to think about flood prevention, and I mean the real prevention, not just silly prevention which actually not that effective. Rainy season is just started, and we already have this floods. I wonder what would we have next (-_-)a

iPAQ rx4500 series

2007-02-01T10:44:00.000+07:00

Great!! That's what I can say about this pda. When I've read the review, most of them said that although it's compact, somehow it not that comfortable for right handed person. But when I tried myself, it's not that bad. I can operate my ipaq with my left hand only (right handed usually hold the handheld with left hand and stylus with right hand, right? ^_^a). Either on portrait or landscape mode, I can operate it easily. I know it's hard for the first time, but you'll learn that it wasn't that hard.

OK, enough with design, let get in to the features. First, wireless connections. This handheld already implanted bluetooth 2 with EDR on it. So, say no more to slow data transfer via bluetooth. When I try to pair it with my K800i, it run smoothly. Setting for bluetooth services also easy. With only some steps, we can acquire bluetooth services of paired object. In my case, one of them is Bluetooth DUN (Dial-Up Networking) which the most important service when we can't connect via ActiveSync or wi-fi. When I try to connect using Bluetooth DUN to my K800i and access 3G network, it's connected with no problem at all.

The wi-fi also great. It's support 802.11b/g while others usually still applying 802.11b only to their pdas. I've tried it to connect to wireless access point with no problem. Except that we can't connect to access point when we connected to activeSync. This also applied to bluetooth DUN.

The other advantage of this pda is, it has 1 GB internal flash memory which make me can delay to buy memory card for it. While it has 1 GB internal memory (aside with internal 64MB RAM), it also has SD slot for SD memory card or SDIO devices. I'm not sure yet how much it can handle for external memory. If it can handle 4 GB, it will nice. But 2 GB also enough (with 1 GB internal, it will be 3 GB in total).

Lastly, the battery. The battery life are not that great. If we use it to intense, the power will depleted really fast. But when I use it to play musics using GSPlayer (music player for Windows Mobile) and turn off the display, it can run surprisingly at long lifetime. I've use it to play music for 4~5 hour and only used up the power for 20~25% which can run approximately more than 16 hours (until we run out of power, which we don't want it :p) or around 10 hour with minimum use of pda function (almost no wireless connection used).

The cons are, the button. while d-pad buttons usually not used to much, but when we need it, we can only use up-down function from scroll-wheel. and the scroll-wheel didn't do the left-right function when we reach the bottom of list icon. Here's the example. I assign the flip button (Portrait-Landscape toggle) to start button. I press this toggle button, the start menu appears. Using scroll-wheel, I move to "settings" and click it by pressing the wheel. In settings window, I can move up-down using the scroll from the last accessed icon. To select other icon, I must use stylus.

So, my opinion on this device is ... great. compact, accessing all buttons is not that hard (at least by me :p) either in portrait nor landscape. Has bluetooth 2 with EDR and wi-fi with 802.11b/g specification which give me broader connection selection, and the price is affordable. So? ... it's great :D~

Tahun Baru

2006-12-27T09:13:00.000+07:00

Jutaan orang, bahkan mungkin milyaran orang menunggunya. Menanti detik-detik kedatangannya. Dan ketika dia benar-benar datang, semua orang bersuka cita menyambutnya. Entah di club, di kafe, di jalanan, maupun di rumah. Semua bersorak gembira dengan datangnya Tahun Baru.

Setiap orang mengharapkan peruntungan baru, pembaruan nasib, dan sebagainya. Intinya, mengharapkan sesuatu untuk dirinya yang lebih baik dari tahun sebelumnya yang akan ditinggalkan.

Tetapi, sadarkah kita bagaimana waktu yang akan kita tinggalkan tersebut akan bersaksi atas segala perbuatan kita ketika menggunakan waktu tersebut? Sadarkah kita, bahwa dengan datangnya Tahun Baru ini, umur kita terus berkurang? Sadarkah kita akan perbuatan yang telah kita perbuat pada waktu-waktu yang telah lewat?

Entah kenapa, aku lebih suka di rumah. Duduk termenung. Merenungkan apa-apa saja yang telah kuperbuat selama setahun ini. Seberapa jauh penyimpangan-penyimpangan yang kulakukan dari shirath yang mustaqim. Dan tentu saja, hasilnya bisa dibilang banyak. Mulai dari hal kecil, hingga hal-hal besar yang kadang masih juga kuanggap remeh. Padahal, pada tahun sebelumnya, aku sudah berharap dan berusaha untuk memperbaikinya. Namun entah kenapa, masih juga sulit untuk mewujudkan harapan tersebut.

Tahun ini, aku masih tetap berharap akan terwujudnya perbaikan pada perilaku-ku sendiri. Apa-apa yang aku lakukan dan perbuat nanti. Bagaimana memulai untuk membenahi tatanan diri yang masih amburadul ini. Bagaimana meluruskan arah yang sudah serampangan ini. Dan masih banyak lagi perbaikan dan pembenahan yang ingin kulakukan.

Oh ... dan ... tentu aja. Setelah tahun-tahun kemarin selalu diwarnai kegagalan dalam mencari pendamping hidupku kelak, Semoga dalam tahun ini aku bisa menemukannya (ato mendapatkannya yah ... kayaknya udah nemu deh ... tapi ........ hmmm). Intinya gitu dah :p

Nah, bagaimana dengan anda? :)

Is She The One?

2006-12-25T00:26:00.001+07:00

That's what i'm thinking when meet her the second time. Se isn't that great for a girl actually. But somehow, I'm always comfortable arround her.

I know her from idRO forum three years ago. Back then, we only keep in touch by sms, phone call, mail, and email. We saw each other for the first time arround four months ago.

From our first net-encounter till our real encounter, I've known some girls. But none of them can draw out my will to go all out to know them better. But she? She's different. I always want to know her more than what I know now. Always want to get closer to her. Want to support her with everything I could. Want to embrace her when she need someone to lean to.

But still, I don't know is she understand me feeling. And even if she does understand, will she accept my feeling? I don't know. But one thing I know, I'll continue to care about her everything and continue to support her till the time of our part is come.

Saya Bukan Pengemis

2006-11-28T11:28:00.000+07:00

Begitulah kira-kira yang terucap oleh seorang nenek berbaju lusuh. Ketika itu, nenek tersebut sedang tiduran beralas koran di emperan toko, sekitar kurang dari jam dua siang.

Saat itu saya sedang bersilaturahmi ke rumah teman di Jogjakarta. Daerah Gentan lebih tepatnya. Memang sih lebaran sudah lewat sebulan yang lalu. Tapi yah, berhubung blognya barusan dibikin, jadilah sekarang baru dipost ^_^a

Saat itu, selepas shalat dhuhur, saya melihat seorang nenek yang sedang tiduran seorang diri di emperan toko yang sedang tutup. Sekilas, siapapun pasti mengira bahwa nenek itu termasuk salah satu pengemis. Bagaimana tidak, penampilannya memang tidak berbeda dengan pengemis-pengemis lain. Bahkan bisa dibilang lebih lusuh.

Ketika saya hampir dekat, datang sebuah mobil dan parkir dekat pengemis tersebut tidur. Rupanya keluarga pemilik mobil tersebut hendak membeli buah-buahan di seberang toko tempat pengemis tersebut tidur. Buat oleh-oleh mungkin. Karena mendengar suara mobil didekatnya, nenek tersebut terbangun. Seorang wanita, mungkin ibu dari keluarga pemilik mobil tersebut, memberikan beberapa lembar uang kepada nenek tersebut. Cukup besar untuk sekedar diberikan kepada pengemis. Tak disangka, nenek tersebut menolak. Beliau bilang, yang kira-kira kalau diartikan, "Maaf, nduk. Saya memang miskin. Saya memang gelandangan. Tapi bukan berarti saya pengemis yang bisanya cuma minta-minta", sambil mengembalikan uang tersebut kepada wanita tadi.

Saat itu saya tertegun. Bahkan seorang nenek, yang masih punya keluarga untuk dihidupi, bahkan menolak untuk dikasihani dengan diberi uang. Beliau lebih suka dibayar untuk melakukan suatu pekerjaan daripada berhutang budi pada orang lain. Begitu kontras dengan banyak orang yang masih suka mengambil hak orang lain walaupun sebenarnya kekayaan mereka lebih dari cukup. Benar-benar sebuah pelajaran berharga bagi saya agar selalu menjaga amanah berupa kewajiban sebelum menuntut hak. Bagaimana dengan anda?