May 31, 08 - Birthday

I wake up quite late in my brithday. I think it should be around 10 in the morning. This is a quite busy day for me.

I was going to Uni at 11 something and reached there at about 12 PM. Being there around 1-2 hours, then I met friends in Melbourne Central.

At 3 PM, I moved to see around to look for a book. Then, around 3.30 PM, I went off to Fawkner Park along St Kilda Rd to play soccer. But, after I reached there, it turns out no one to be there. So, I called Agus to confirm about it.

Then, he said it should be in Princess Park, near Melbourne University and asked me to wait in his apartment (it's quite near from Fawkner Park) and went to Princess Park with Awi. Awi was actually already wait for Agus for quite some times. He said he's been there for about 1 hour.

We played soccer till around 6 PM and luckily Awi is quite generous to drove me and Agus back to Agus's apartment. I accidentally left my jacket in his apartment, so I need to take it.

I rushed home since my brother already said that we would have dinner together. So, I think it would be our dinner like last year. We out from apartment around 7 PM and reached the place around 7.40 PM. And it turned out that he invited his friends for dinners, so it's a quite big dinner.

I'm amazed that time since it's a surprise for me. I don't expect to have dinner with his friends. I just imagine that we would have dinner, three of us, me, my bro and sis-in-law.

And in the end of the dinner, the lady owner turned off the light for about a minute just to bring cake out. It's quite amazing, since there's some other occupied table in the restaurant. And most of them sing Birthday song for me.

After dinner, we went to one of my brother's friend's house located nearby. We played Wii and some other games and also chit chat around. I played Jenga almost all the time. It's quite fun, though. Jenga is something like Uno Stacko, but it's from wood.

Then, about midnight, we went off to Stoker, it's a pancake house. It's quite long wait there. We ordered pancake and had to wait for more than 30 minutes. But, we finished it just in 10 minutes, not so a good idea.

In the end, we reached home at 1 AM something and it's really a tiring day. But, overall this is fine. I like it to have such a gathering.

How I would pass my birthday next year? Hope that it would be better than this.

May 31, 08 - Stay in Melbourne?

I got a very good option to stay back in Melbourne this year.

My current boss is really pleased with my work and he offered me few options about what I would gonna do in the forthcoming months. He said he could write a letter for immigration to give me a working visa; so that means I could stay back here for a while. He also said that it could be just for few months or more than that depends on me.

He is quite understanding person; not a fully one, i think.

I think I would go home by this July. But, I'm in the middle of decision. I don't know which way I should take.

Staying back here for couple of years are not my option. I'd like to be back there with the one that I love so much. At least, it would be closer. And I would be back home with my mum.

Love u..

May 24, 08 - Nights @ Lab

For few nights, I've been here in the lab; project lab. Yeah, actually this room is dedicated to project team so that everyone has their own single computer. It's almost like office.

I'm kinda busy with my project lately. And as my part as database engineer, so I must prepare the database. The worst part is that I must do it here, in the lab. Since I have no good machine to run Oracle at home. And also I don't want to bother to re-compile the query or transfer the file.

Right now, I'm doing function and procedure for the database. It's turn out that there are some differences between Oracle and SQL Server; even though the basic stuff are the same. So, I still need internet access to search for correct syntax and tips 'n tricks.

Puff.. Hope that I could finish most of my part by Tuesday next week, so that I could have a better week next week. Hehe..

Just my own business.
And hope that i get my rewards.

Hope so.

May 19, 08 - *stucked*

Hm.. here I am, stucked in the middle of nowhere.

It's a bit hard to do part in my project. Every single thing is unsure and the time is running out.

The project is already out of control and noone could make it back on track again. I'm not sure what should I do right now. I think the better way is to keep my mouth shut and do my part.

But, even when I'm doing my part, there are more and more issues raise up. And the solution is really slow. I can't really make decision by my own because it will impact on other thing. So, getting response from other members is also one of the problem that I get in the team.

I can't say a lot at the moment. I just want to finish it and could be go home soon. :D :D

I don't know where should I stand for and what action should I take. It's a bit strange team.

In the end, I just want to see the result of the project later on. Hope that I could finish it by the time.

May 12, 08 - 11 Days w/o Update

Wow.. It's already 11 days since the last time I blog here. Hm.. Yeah, it's such a busy week for me.

Last weekend, I put my eyes on a Java source code for GpsMid. It's an GPS application that run in mobile phone. I should look for particular function that build within the application. It's such a complicated work for me.

I've never really seen any Java code for almost 3 years. Yes, I did some coding 1 year ago. But, it's not really a big java source code. That's just a single simple java file.

Ok.. enough to discuss last week. Today is monday. I can't really say that I love Monday. But, I think I'm a bit relieved that it's Monday again. I don't know why, but since I lost interest with my project, I'm more eager to work.

Even though, it's not really a good work. But, I think it's good enough for me to do something rather than just doing something for this d*mn project.

I miss my home now. I miss my dar. I miss my mom. And I miss my sis.
Hope that I could be there right by the time.

Yup, I think I would be in Jambi in late of July or early of August. I know that it's a bit hard to explain, since everyone said to me, at least you work first in Australia and get PR, then you could go home. But, I think it could be the right time.

Yeah, I just hope that my choice is the correct one. I hope that we could go on stronger and stronger. Plan is already there and it's up to us to fulfil it. And I will fight for it. Jia You!

Quote of The Days - History

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
(Posted on 10th May 2008)

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
(Posted on 7th May 2008)

You do not stop learning because you grow old
but You grow OLD because you stop learning
(Posted first time)

May 01, 08 - The Decision

Yeah, as you know that I already decided to go home this July. Yup, back for good forever and ever.

I'll be here again this December for the graduation and also could be another trip in forthcoming years. I already fall in love with this such lovely city. Melbourne is voted as the most liveable city in the world along with Vancouver in the top position.

I'm sure that some other day, I should be here again.

Today, I'm talking with my boss. I just moved to his company in the early of this month. He's such a nice body. I just know why my friend there said that it's such a lovely place to work.

But, the company is really small. Since the main business is just to do survey for another company. And my main duty is to produce a report for that company. Even though, to do so it's not as easy as it's said.

From these few weeks, I could say that it's needed around 2-3 full days to produce a complete report for a medium-size company. If the company has a lot of 'unusual' report, it would take longer.

My bos, he really could read what is in my mind. He talk about the challange today that he knows I could be bored in few months time. And he starts talk about research or another thing.

Right now, I just do everything first, since I need to take the responsibility for 3-4 weeks in May-June when one of the employees takes annual leave. He is the person which usually do the thing with database, so it could be that it would be my job later on.

I'm thinking to talk to my boss around end of May about what I'm planning ahead. Hope that we could work out a way later on. :D :D

May 01, 08 - "Silly Stupid" Thing

Hm.. Suddenly, I just remember about this thing, since I'm dealing much with the project lately.

I took a project this semester as part of my study for Master degree. The project is basically about GIS and sponsored by IBM. My team consists of 6 students, including me.

The most silly thing is we have two persons in the team said that they don't want to know about coding or implementation part. And they just did testing and analyst.

It's just so silly that I can't think why they want to do so. I don't need someone with Master degree to do analyst, since even they don't know about the capabilities of any application or software language. Then, how they could describe about the analysis.

And the document that they did for the analysis is far too much out of the hand. I'm just wonder right now, who will implement all those things that they already put in the documentation. It's just so silly.

I think I just need someone with really good English command and do the documentation. And he/she doesn't need to be a Master student. It's just so silly.

I can't imagine that a Master student basically just do the documentation and doesn't care about how it would be implemented; and even doesn't know a bit of it. It's just so ridiculous.

Do you that to become a business analyst then you don't have to know about what the technology could offer? Then, the most silly thing is that to become an architect, you don't have to know about the technology. I don't know where this guy come from. It's just so ridiculous.

I just want to be happy and walk out of the campus with a good reference and a Master degree. Hope that it could be an achievement for my lifetime.

Would talk about another thing in my other blog.
Cheers, buddy!