It's about Spiderman

BANGKOK - A Thai firefighter dressed as Spider-Man to rescue an autistic boy who climbed onto a third-floor balcony and dangled his legs over the side because he was nervous on his first day of school.

Firefighter Somchai Yoosabai was called in after the 11-year-old boy's teachers and mother failed to coax him off the ledge on Monday, he said in a telephone interview Wednesday.

"He was nervous about the first day at school, and he was asking for his mother," Somchai said. "He cried and refused to let any of us get close to him."

Overhearing a conversation between the boy's mother and his teachers about his love for comics and superheroes, Somchai rushed back to the fire station to change into a Spider-Man costume before swinging into action.

"I told him Spider-Man is here to save you. No monster will hurt you now," Somchai said. "Then I told him to walk slowly toward me. I was very nervous that he might have slipped if he got too excited and ran."

Somchai, who keeps costume of Spider-Man and a Japanese superhero Ultraman to liven up fire drills at schools, said the teary-eyed boy broke into a smile and started walking into his arms.

Taken from AP, Associated Press news...

It's about Having Fun part 2

It's been a while since I post an update to my blog. This is because I have been busy with many things lately. One is caused by my work. For few previous weeks, we have to perform major reorganization in our client, so it took most of my attention and time. In the end, it works fine in general. There is still room for improvement though. Well, at least we know now how to do it well and expecting the reorganization for other department.

Other things that taking my attention is the way I'm having fun lately. I notice that I play game a lot these days. My weekend is mostly comprised of going out to to town in the afternoon, and playing game in the evening. That way I still keep the balance of socialized life :)

I just bought a Nintendo Wii with 2 cool games ( I consider cool!!! ). One is the House Of the Dead Overkill, an arcade shooting game made by SEGA. It's a famous shooting game where it's first came out on 1997 or 1998. The current release of House Of the Dead series has entirely different format. The game has a character of Quentin Tarantino game, with a lot of blood, rude language, and cut scene-like movie. It's resemble close to a movie called Planet Terror. I bought the hand cannon package with the Game DVD. Take a look the packaging.

Beside this game, I also bought a set of Guitar Hero World Tour band package. God, it cost me a lot of money, but it's worth to buy. I enjoy playing music games. It's relaxing as if you are playing real instrument.

The band package comes with a drum set, a wireless guitar, a microphone, and the Gutar Hero DVD. I was not feeling really well on the day when the band package arrived. So I have to put it in my living room, waiting to play with it if I'm feeling well.

Having feeling well, I want to try the new toy that I just buy. I try to play with the drum set, and I must admit it feel really good. It has the feeling like you are playing with an electric drum. So kudos for the producer of Guitar Hero. The game contains almost 80 songs from famous band in the world, like for example:

• Metallica
• R.E.M
• System of a Down
• Van Halen
• Black Sabbath
• The Rasmus
• Beastie Boys
  

And some famous singer that we know such as Michael Jackson and Ozzy Osborne. Below you can see the picture of my latest collection :D

I let my friend to record the video where I play the guitar while she sings. She was embarassed when I asked her to upload the video to youtube :) So instead of embarassing myself, I will show you the trailer of Gutar Hero World Tour ;)

It's about Singapura

Singapura oh Singapura...

Pretty island sets in the sea

Singapura oh Singapura...

Pretty flower blooms for you and for me

This is a piece of song about Singapura. I visited Singapura few months a go, and it has changed quite a lot since my last visit 4 years a go. For people who wants to travel to Asia, but doesn't have a lot of time, you can visit Singapura. For me, Singapura is a place where cultures from Asian's continent merge with each other. There you can experience a lot of cultural diversity and commodity. Basically, you can found these following cultures: Chineese, India, Malay, Peranakan. Peranakan is a mix culture between chineese and malay. This culture comes from the Chineese people that are born and grown in a malay environment, known also as "Straits Chineese".

During my stay for 5 days, I have taste almost all cultures in Singapura, thanks to my friend Tety Intan Sari for her companionship. At morning we already began scouring the town for continental breakfast. Afternoon is the time to visit different places in town, and tourism sightseeing. In the evening, we prepare our stomach for Singapore's gastronomical delight. I have here a video which shows you a little bit about Singapura:

And a visit to a country like Singapura will not be complete without knowing about its political situation. Its famously known as "fine city" where even bubble gum is forbidden :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore

I happen to found a funny video made by Singaporean that shows a bit about Singapura's political situation

It's about mayonaise jar

When things in your life seem, Almost too much to handle,When 24 Hours in a day is not enough,Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.A professor stood before his philosophy class And had some items in front of him.When the class began, wordlessly,He picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jarAnd proceeded to fill it with golf balls.He then asked the students, If the jar was full.They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and pouredthem into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.The pebbles rolled into the open Areas between the golf balls.He then asked The students againIf the jar was full.. They agreed it was.The professor next picked up a box of sand And poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.He asked once more if the jar was full. The students respondedWith an unanimous 'yes.'The professor then produced Two cups of coffee from under the tableAnd poured the entire contents Into the jar, effectivelyFilling the Empty space between the sand.The students laughed.

'Now,' said the professor, As the laughter subsided,'I want you to recognize that This jar represents your life.The golf balls are the important things - God, family,children, health, Friends, and Favorite passions Things that if everything else was lost And only they remained, Your life would still be full.The pebbles are the other things that matter Like your job, house, and car.

The sand is everything else --The small stuff.'If you put the sand into the jar first,' He continued,'there is no room for The pebbles or the golf balls.The same goes for life.If you spend all your time And energy on the small stuff,You will never have room for The things that areImportant to you.

So...Pay attention to the things That are critical to your happiness.Play With your children.Take time to get medical checkups.Take your partner out to dinner.There will always be time To clean the house and fix the disposal.'Take care of the golf balls first --The things that really matter.Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.

'One of the students raised her handAnd inquired what the coffee represented.The professor smiled.'I'm glad you asked'.It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,there's always room for A couple of cups of coffee with a friend.'Please share this with other "Golf Balls"

It's about Idea - Business 101 part 1

I consider ideas as God's gift to human. We human have the capability to dream. And this dream in turns gives birth to idea. We encounter ideas in our daily life. The most fundamental ideas that we experience everyday are the way we solveproblems. We need idea to go through daily problem, and from idea we can also make something out of it. Great idea canbe a beginning of good business. Innovative idea can be the beginning of innovative business. In my point of view,innovative business has the advantage of gaining fast market share. Take for example Apple's IPod. When it was first introduced, there are no MP3 player with such sleek design like IPod. In no time at all, millions of IPod were sold world-wide.

My friend told me a story once about how he started a fitness centre. He has this creative idea to put high tech equipment in his fitness centre. The intention of this equipment is not for eye-candy, but rather to assist people better in their training program. According to him, there are three things people need in order to succeed in making business. number one is IDEA itself, number two is money, and number three is marketing. All of these three aspects are unseparated from each other.money and marketing without idea would means burning all your bucks. the same with idea and marketing without money, your idea will not take off from the ground.

So everytime you have idea for a good business, always follow it by assessing the financial aspect. There are a lot of ways to get money for your business, for example from family, bank loan, and investors. Bur rather than looking for investors first, you should before hand know your financial needs. Then know your target. Target determines the way you do marketing.If you do a good assessment of your target, it can make a LOT of difference on your advertisement budget. For example,if you have an online webshop, you will not consider to advertise in the television for start, eventhough you have big startup capital. Instead, you can do your advertisement in the web since people in the web is your target market. For consumer electronic, it is inevitable to do TV advertisement because your target are as much people as you can get.

So, that was basically the beginning of business in my opinion. This blog entry will follow few next coming articles of business 101.It will be more focused on web business and combined with few insight on non-web business. The next article will be about how you give shape to your business and bring them into reality ;)

It's about Having Dream

All of you will be agree that life is not sweet without a dream. It is comparable with dreaming while you are sleeping. When you don't dream, you still sleep well, but it feels better in the morning by having sweet dream. In the course of my life, I found out that I always try to fulfill my dream. My dream never stay the same.

When I was a child, I really like to read this Japanese Manga called Astro Boy. Astro boy is a robot figure which is created on the 22nd century. The story of the manga goes about the fight between Astro boy against evil people, robots, and aliens. The advance of the technology in the manga mesmerize me, that I decided to become a Robotic Scientist. It's easy to say for 10 years old boy :D

During high school, I found a new dream again, to become a 3D artist. I played video game a lot back then. One of my favorite RPG game is Final Fantasy. I even started to study 3D Studio MAX myself. Having realized that it's not that easy, I seek help to my friend. I happen to know this friend of mine who is really good at 3D Studio Max. At his junior grade, he already made his first CG movie :D It happens that his dream is to be a CG artist, and he still faithfully holds his dream. While improving his CG skill, he tried to make his living by becoming Manga artist. He just showed me one chapter of his manga to me yesterday, and I'm quite impressed... ;) So for you who read my blog, you can have the two pages sneak preview :D

Nice Huh!!! I feel really happy to know someone like him, who can hold his dream until now. It's just like he is being loyal to one purpose till the end. While I serve more than one purpose... :D

I found myself another dream again on my university period, to be a game programmer. I found out that I'm way better in programming than in 3D graphic. To be a 3D artist, you need an artistic skill, which I'm lacking of :( Having able to master programming really fast, I divert my course to game programming. I train myself to program game. I start first by programming 2D game. My first experience was my entry for Sony Ericsson Game Competition which brings me top 20 position in the world ;) Having mastered 2D, I move to 3D game programming. I have worked once for period of 6 months with a game studio called Playlogic in The Netherlands. Here, I made my first debut on console game, Xyanide Resurrection. I was in charge of programming some of the enemy movement. It was a small fry job... but I'm really happy to be given this chance. It was a good experience though. Gaming is hard industry. Full of overtime, and high learning curve. It's really a place of survival only for the fittest.

Yet I found know myself on the junction of my life again. For me, I consider game programming takes too much of my personal time. I would like to enjoy my life, going out with my friend, chill out after 17:00. I don't see myself having that luxury if I put my career on game industry. You can't bite more than you can chew. So here I am know pursuing my career in Software Engineering. I believe that I got the skill needed and the correct attitude for this choice. I do have big dream in this so called software world. My biggest dream will be to make quality improvement for the standard of living in third world country by utilizing Information Technology. Such program that aligned well with my ideal is for example OLPC program ( One Laptop Per Child). Currently, I am managing an internet startup to provide search engine service for culinary purpose, selerakita.com. This search engine is meant initially for Indonesian market, and will be our main innovative breakthrough for IT world in Indonesia. It features the newest Web 2.0 technology along with so called New-Wave advertisement medium :) SeleraKita site will be launched on June,1st 2009. Till then, I hope that you all can pray for our success. It's always about money in the end, but our vision is not making money. It's about increasing Indonesia's technology landscape by bringing in new way of thinking to the IT market.

It's about Having Fun 101 for Engineer

The time is now indicating 21:30. I just finished updating my Facebook account, answering my friend's mail, commenting on people status and stuffs :D There is a friend of mine who just joined facebook, and we ( me and my friends in Facebook ) are really making fun of her. Not in bad way though, it's just the way we express that we are happy that she finally has Facebook. I have been busy with Facebook around half an hour, and I gotta say that Facebook put a smile on my face. It helps you to connect with all your friends no matter where they are.

Two hours a go, I was still sitting in front of my laptop, diving through documentation for a PHP framework called Symfony. When the clock hits 20:00, I told myself to quit working and have a nice bath. I always took a bath whenever my head is heating up from all my work. A nice warm bath do really help!! It lets you relax your muscle, and after that you can enjoy your evening without thinking about work anymore. So what is my work then exactly... I'm starting this website called selerakita.com which is a food search engine for Indonesia. I currently managing the website technical part. On top of that, I work as a consultant for Capgemini.

With all this loads of work, one do need to have fun. Everyone should be agree with this statement ;) No one can live without having fun. My receipes for having fun are simple, do the things you like most!!! So for example I like to play games, so I do make time to play my Nintendo DS. Having a nice dinner is also irreplaceable, especially with a nice girl. It's always a pity to know that time flies so fast when you are enjoying the moment. Food is important for your life!!! Then you need to communicate. Communicating with people can relieve your fatigueness. Talk to your family or to your friend whenever you feel stressed. Don't talk about your depression, but instead try to ask how they are, and what are they up to in lifes. Problems is part of your life, you just need to face it. And if you are a man, you should stand strong enough to solve your problem. If you are a woman, then you are welcome to talk about your problem ;) It's just how woman is.... by talking about their problem, it gives them relieveness, and that is on the contrary for men.

So life's just once, DO the most of it, and ENJOY it!!!