Sunday, July 13, 2014

Saturday, May 17, 2014

[BOOK] STEVE JOBS


Steve Jobs. Who doesn't know him? Father of invention. He is big. He is genius.  

I was a computer science student and I have worked as a programmer for a half year. I am an IT person. Wow. Haha. It would be funny if I don't know the man who invented computer and all of its derived devices I have been using until now. To be honest, as a dumb student, I thought Bill Gates were the first man who invented computer. God, microsoft had definitely blown my mind up haha. Yea, the first computer I knew was a windows based computer, and my current computer is also using windows. Well.....

What I knew about Steve Jobs was he is the founder of Apple Inc. I didn't know if he is the man who invented the first computer with GUI even before Bill  Gates. Then my college friend gave me a copy of a movie titled "Pirates of Silicon Valley". It turned out that he is not an ordinary man. He invented everything related to all computers and gadgets we are all using now.

This book tells us all about Steve Jobs from he was born until he became one of the most influential people in the world. It took me three months to finish this book. It's clearly obvious because it is an english book with more than 600 pages inside it and english is not my common language as well. I had tried hard, fellas. But thank God I love the way Walter Isaacson wrote the book. I could easily understand paragraph by paragraph. You know sometimes reading a biography book is boring, right? Isaacson has proved it wrong! 

I won't write the review or resume or whatever because I believe there are already thousands of articles talking about him, completely. Here,  I just want to share some interesting points I got from this book. 

Steve Jobs was a genius, but had bad temper.
It can't be denied. Since he was a child he had learned about electronics from his father. His father gave him a 'working table' therefore he could learn anything he want using some little equipments. He was a curious boy. He also had a high sense of design and art. He knew how to turn simplicity into something elegant and fancy. But badly, it turned him into a bloody perfectionist person. The impact was when he led Apple, everytime his employees couldn't fulfill his expectations of making a product, he would shout to them in a very annoying way, or he could fire his employees right at the moment. I can't imagine if my boss were like him, I'd better resign soon LOL.

That's a complete apple!
Details are everything.
When his company was making a product, he had to know every part, every tiny part of it. Each part must be perfect. If he said the color is not match then the product wouldn't be released. That's what makes his products are all amazing. He didn't think about money, he just wanted to make good and powerful products.

He was handsome, wasn't he? haha
Father of innovation.
Machintosh?
iPod?
iPhone?
iPad?
iTunes?
He brought everything that seemed not possible to reality. 
I don't need more words.

Steve Jobs with iPad
Oh yes, don't forget PIXAR.
He was also the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He's one of the founders, along with Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter. Toy Story was their first animation movie, one of the most successful animation movies of all time. Then it followed by another great movies like Finding Nemo, Monster Inc, The Incredible, Cars, Wall E, Up, Monster University, with all great success. 

Edwin Catmull, Steve Jobs, John Lasseter

I do admire Steve Jobs. He was genius. He knew what people need. He knew what was gonna be hits. The world of technology would be nothing without him.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

CHVRCHES


C H V R C H Îž S

Chvrches (pronounced as "churches", sometimes stylised as CHVRCHES or CHVRCHΞS) are a Scottish electronic band, formed in 2011. The group consists of Lauren Mayberry (lead vocals, additional synthesisers, and samplers), Iain Cook(synthesizers, guitarbass, vocals), and Martin Doherty (synthesizers, samplers, vocals). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chvrches

This band is one of my favorites. First time I heard them on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. They covered "Do I Wanna Know" by Arctic Monkeys and "Team" by Lorde. The lead vocalist has such a unique voice, perfectly combined with amazing electro-sound music. They made me fall in love. Then I started to search their music on internet and WOW I love their songs. My favorites are Recover, Gun, and The Mother We Share.

The band released an EP titled "Recover EP" on 2013 and an album titled "The Bones of What You Believe"  on the same year. They have been known worldwide and already attended some big music festivals like SXSW and Coachella. They also had won some awards, the last was "Twenty Quid Music Prize" for best British pop single of the year: The Mother We Share from Popjustice.

You can check them out on their Youtube channel. You won't be disappointed, I guarantee it!
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Everything happened for a reason, a good reason, or even some good reasons.

Hari Jumat ini merupakan hari libur yakni untuk memperingati Good Friday atau Paskah.
Hari Jumat ini merupakan hari seharusnya ada di rumah, di kampung halaman, Purwokerto.
Hari Jumat ini merupakan hari di mana saya tersadar kalau pagi ini saya masih terbangun di Bogor.

Kecewa? Sedih? Wajar, itu sudah pasti. Bayangkan saja saya belum pulang ke rumah berbulan bulan, terakhir bulan Agustus tahun kemarin, hiks. Seharusnya semalam saya naik kereta Serayu Malam bersama sahabat saya, Hanna. Namun sepertinya Allah berkehendak lain. Hanya Hanna yang naik kereta tersebut.

Semua berawal dari kemacetan Jl. MH Thamrin. Selesai shalat Maghrib, saya bersama sahabat saya, Bimo, pulang dari kantor. Saat melewati jembatan penyebrangan HI, kami berdua ternganga. Macetnya luar biasa, hampir tidak ada pergerakan sama sekali. Pemandangan saat itu lebih mirip jalan raya yang disulap menjadi area parkir gratis. Kami tadinya berniat untuk naik kopaja ke Stasiun Sudirman, namun pemandangan luar biasa dari ujung thamrin sampai ujung jalan menuju Sudirman membuat kami memutuskan untuk menuju arah sebaliknya, arah ke Stasiun Tanah Abang. Kebetulan kondisi jalur menuju Tanah Abang terlihat lancar.

Namun, kami kembali ternganga (ini bahasa dari mana sih 'ternganga' haha). Baru beberapa saat kopaja kami melaju, pemandangan 'luar biasa' yang sama terlihat dari sebelum halte Sarinah sampai ujung perempatan. Oh God. Saat itu saya masih santai karena waktu masih menunjukan pukul 18 30. Kereta Serayu berangkat pukul 20 36. Selow...

Baru kali ini saya merasakan Jakarta macet luar biasa, sebelumnya macetnya biasa aja. Serius deh. Karena kami tidak tahan dengan macet yang super duper tidak manusiawi, akhirnya kami jalan kaki. Iya jalan kaki. Kami pun sampai di Stasiun Tanah Abang pukul 19 30. Sesampainya di sana ternyata kereta jurusan Stasiun Jakarta Kota berikutnya datang pukul 20 18. Yassalam itu sudah pasti saya bakal ketinggalan kereta Serayu. Untungnya Bimo langsung dapat kereta arah Serpong. Tidak lama kemudian kereta jurusan Stasiun Manggarai datang. Saya memutuskan untuk naik kereta tersebut. Namun, entah kenapa kereta yang saya tumpangi sempat tertahan hampir 10 menit saat akan masuk Stasiun Manggarai. Saya mulai was was. 

Di Stasiun Manggarai saya masih harus menunggu kereta tujuan Stasiun Jakarta Kota. Pukul 20 00 saya berangkat dari Stasiun Manggarai. Saya sudah yakin bahwa saya bisa mengejar kereta Serayu. Namun lagi lagi saya diuji, kereta tertahan lagi saat akan masuk ke stasiun Juanda. Saat itu saya sudah pasrah "Ya Allah apapun kehendakmu, hamba pasrah... Namun sesungguhnya hamba ingin sekali pulang ke rumah". Saya mengirim wassap  ke Hanna, menanyakan apakah keretanya sudah mau berangkat atau belum. Sesampainya kereta saya di Stasiun Jayakarta (satu stasiun sebelum Jakarta Kota) Hanna memberi tahu saya bahwa kereta sudah berangkat. Saya langsung...............lemes. Saya mulai merasakan ada liquid menggenang di ujung mata, namun saya berusaha untuk menahannya karena tidak mungkin saya tiba tiba nangis di depan para penumpang lain.

Kebetulan sahabat sahabat saya yang lain sedang meet up di Stasiun Jakarta Kota. Saya langsung menemui mereka, baru deh saya bisa menangis •.• Beruntung sekali saat itu ada mereka, Iis, Nurul, Aziz, dan Ari. Terima kasih Ya Allah untuk mengirim malaikat malaikat penghibur ini. Entah kenapa saat bertemu mereka kesedihan & kekecewaan saya (karena ketinggalan kereta) langsung berkurang. "Saya ikhlas Ya Allah, mungkin ini memang yang terbaik untuk hamba."

Kami berlima menuju KFC di stasiun tersebut. Kebetulan saya memang kelaparan setelah melakukan perjalanan dari kantor yang sangat luar biasa melelahkan. Seperti biasa kami mengobrol dan untungnya ada Aziz yang suka ngebanyol membuat kami tertawa haha. Suatu keajaiban malam itu obrolan kami cukup serius. Padahal pas jaman kuliah mah obrolannya teh suka nggak penting hehe. Kami membahas tentang politik, ya maklum Aziz dan Ari adalah duo KPU. Karena sepertinya sudah larut dan KFCnya mau tutup akhirnya kami langsung menuju peron, menunggu kereta pulang ke arah Bogor. 

Kami melanjutkan obrolan dan makin lama makin asyik. Saya memang tidak mengerti tentang apapun yang berkaitan dengan politik sehingga banyak hal yang baru saya ketahui dari obrolan tersebut. Di dalam kereta pun kami masih mengobrol, diselingi dengan candaan kecil dari Aziz dan Ari yang sepertinya membuat penumpang lain melihat dengan tatapan aneh ke arah kami haha.

Over all, saya bersyukur karena walaupun saya ketinggalan kereta tapi saya dipertemukan dengan sahabat sahabat saya. Sahabat yang selalu mengerti, sahabat yang akan selalu simpan di tempat paling spesial di memori saya. Banyak hal yang saya pelajari dari mereka. Saya yakin Allah mengirim mereka untuk suatu alasan. Selain itu, sudah satu minggu saya batuk tidak sembuh sembuh, mungkin Allah memberikan kesempatan kepada saya untuk beristirahat total agar saya segera sembuh, amin...

I believe everything happened for a reason, a good reason, or even some good reasons because He knows what is best for us, He knows how everything should be. 
To Him we shall be brought back.
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

stop—trying

People said "Don't stop trying, don't ever give up."

I totally agree with it. But in some cases, it's different. Sometimes we need to stop trying for the right reason. Like when you really fight for someone but that person doesn't seem like you to do that, I think you need to stop. In my opinion, no matter how hard you like someone you can't force him/her to like you back. We don't always get what we want. That person might has some acceptable reasons and you have to understand.

I've been there and I already did it. It doesn't mean that my feeling will change, it won't. I'm just afraid that I'll make everything worse. You know, I feel suck when I make a person feels uncomfortable with me. All I can do is just stay away.

I believe God has another great plans for me, because He is The Almighty One.
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There is something bothering me lately. Friendship stuff. I know there’s always problem in friendship but this time it’s getting serious. Try to imagine, you had been in friendship with someone but now it’s not the same anymore. You have no idea how to settle things between you and this person. You have even said sorry but this person didn’t say anything. You have no idea what to do. You ended up being ignored.

That is not me actually. They are both my friends. I am sad to know that kind of situation. It hurts me to see that to be honest. I miss the moment when we were all together. I want to see us together again, like the old times. I can’t do anything because I do not want to interfere. All I can do is praying that sooner or later we can hangout together, forgetting all the past, become good friends.


Friendship is one of the most important parts of my life that makes it beautiful. 
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Meditation.

It's been a long time since I wrote my last post in this lonely blog. I might be too busy, too busy watching movies, reading books, and eating (certainly) hahaha.

I realized that being alone makes me stressful. But I can't deny that I also want to be all alone sometimes. I would make my room like a prison cell. No body could get in. I usually lock my self and doing anything I want: watching movies, reading, blogging, or.......just sleeping Zzz. It's not that I become anti-social, I just want my own space, my free space, without anybody bothering. I call this as a meditation. I find it fun to do this kind of meditation. Just be ware that don't do this too long, it will even make your head explodes!

Do not ever pity yourself too much because of stupid excuses like 'Nobody cares' or 'My life is so pity' or 'I don't have anyone' or 'I am forever alone' or whatsoever. Just believe that we are not alone because there is always our Almighty God, He will always be with us. Be grateful of what we have now.
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Nina Nesbitt - Peroxide (Album Stream)



FINALLY, Nina Nesbitt realeased her debut album "Peroxide" ! Her first single of this album is "Selfies" and it keeps climbing up on music charts. Good job Nina! In this album there are 13 tracks, including her previous songs like "Stay Out" and "Hold You". It's such a big success of a debut album. Like always, her unique voice makes all her songs interesting. Love  it! xx


Tracks
1."Peroxide"  
2."Stay Out"  
3."Selfies" 
 4."Two Worlds Away"  
5."Align"  
6."Mr. C"  
7."He's The One I'm Bringing Back" 
 8."18 Candles"  
9."Tough Luck"  
10."The Outcome"  
11."Hold You" (featuring Kodaline
12."We'll Be Back For More"  
13."The Hardest Part"  


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Sunday, January 26, 2014

What I learn about SHARING. What I learn about KIDS. What I learn about LIFE.

Actually it has nothing to do with the title haha.


I’ve been attending a non profit organization for more than two years, it is called LPK Tepi Sawah. This organization is suppossed to provide a good place, good facilities, and good environment for children in a small village called Cikonjen, Bogor, Indonesia. It’s such a good opportunity for me to be a part of LPK Tepi Sawah. 

At first, this organization was made to improve the computer skill of those children. But as time goes by, we’re not only teach them computer but also  basic reading, english, math, and even drawing. I am one of the teachers. We are here as volunteers.
Sunday is our day. Every Sunday children come to LPK Tepi Sawah. These children live near LPK Tepi Sawah. They always brings their own stationery. They were always enthusiastic in attending the class. We have a computer lab for computer lesson. Other activities/lessons were held outdoor.



The kids love drawing the most. Yep, like kids normally do. But they never forget to study the main lesson first, like reading excercise, math, and english. They are vaious from pre school until junior high students. Even the little ones who can’t even hold a pen :”)


They are all cute. You know, although they live far from the ‘modern-stuff’, far from the city, they never complain. What they know is just having fun, study hard, and make friends. They have pure hearts. That’s why I love kids. Sometimes I feel like they’re my own children. Seeing their smiles is pretty refreshing. It’s like I don’t want to spend my Sunday in other places.

Since I’ve been here, I don’t know, it seems that I changed into a better person. It changed my way of thinking. Like I found something I had never seen before. Those children’s smiles brought me such a special feeling, took me into a peaceful space of my soul.
They have pure hearts, innocent faces, cute smiles, unstoppable curiosity, just like the way we are (when we were kids). But the difference is (probably) their childhood is not as same as ours. For example, some kids don’t have any chance to get any good facility like ours at home. That’s why we should have been so grateful of what we had in the past, as kids. But that doesn’t make them down, I can always see their bright smiles and I can see hopes in their eyes 

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First thing in my mind for my first post in this new place

I know it's late to make a first-post-in-2014 or stuff or yeah I don't care. It's January 26th in 2014 and I'm screwed up here, in my new bedroom (yeah we just moved into a new house), have nothing to do. Thank God I am still alive. 

I always have resolutions like mostly people do (and those are mostly like wishes, not resolutions). But how to make them real? Back in 2013, I had sucessfully made some of my resolutions become real, REAL! Like I finished my first thesis and I graduated for bachelor degree and got a job. But those are not enough, yeah people have a lot of dreams, a big bunch of dreams, we are all free to dream, right? The first thing came to my mind in 2014 was I have to be a better person. Well, that's classic but powerful, I guess. 

If we think logically, everyone wants to be better. Today must be better than yesterday. Tomorrow must be better than today. Wait, then what day will you exactly be better? 
Life is not always smooth as a tiramisu ice cream (what?). But seriously, it would be boring if your life is that smooth, trust me. Life has many tastes, taste of challenges, chances, joy, tears, desperation, and love (what is it again?). You will regret if you never tried all of those tastes. Hey make your life alive man!

It's not that I've made my own life alive, man. Yeah it's hard, indeed. I mean I'm starting to feel bored with my own life. I'm just working in the weekday and being a lazy ass in the weekend. I'm screwed, totally screwed. Honestly I have many things I'm thinking about inside my mind but none of them turns into something in my real life. It's like "I know, but how?"

I hope this year will be something to me, I can do something, and I don't need to say "What on earth I have to do with my life?" 



And one thing.........
(if you don't get this I'd suggest you to watch How I Met Your Mother? He's truly awesome, he guess)

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