The Wonderful 2 Hours Saturday Night

we had a wonderful dining at Hartz Chicken, the whole family had wonderful dining experience. we were dining for almost over 2 hours, we enjoyed the pleasant service, cozy place, and a movie projected on the screen.

here we are:


of course, what makes the event so special, is LALA. she loves the place, she enjoyed meeting and talking with people, she played everywhere with everyone. checkout the pic here, she introduced herself to a cute foreigner. she also got really acquainted with the restaurant manager. :)

The Power of GTFW

I am impressed with the power of GTFW!
GTFW stands for "Gamatechno Framework". It is very easy to use, and far much more advance compared to other framework I knew before. Even a novice like me found GTFW very easy to use. GTFW is one of the masterpiece of Gamatechno, developed primarily by sicopak, neofreko, Ageng, Pakdhe Paydjo, heribertus, teguh, trias, widodo.

You can crosscheck with pak Endar, he saw me creates new project only in seconds, and within 3-4 hours I was able to fetch data from JSX (Jakarta Stock Exchange). I have fetched all of the market index data, everything from 2004 up until today. I really need those data (related with my previous article), but JSX has the same characteristic with Bapepam: they don’t provide a user friendly interface. By now, if I need JCI (IHSG) data, I don’t have to go to the Faculty of Economics.

Soon, I will publish the data, for free… *winking to momon* :)
Here is the the snapshot, showing my customizations from the default GTFW template.

I Really Hate Pocket Cameras...

the last several days, you can see Mt.Merapi clearly, one of the most beautiful view ever. the blue sky is everywhere, clear from clouds. it really challenges my "photographic sense".

but as you can see from the pictures, pocket (or automatic) cameras can't reproduce picture as it seen from our eyes. i really missed my old professional camera, with its filters, I'm sure I can freely set the camera so it will reproduce the best picture as our eye can see.

*sigh*

The Fresh New Vista Fonts

impressed by the presentation made by a colleague of mine, I curiously hunt for the new vista fonts, the new fonts which gives much better clarity and readibility in documents or web pages. try it in your presentations, and you will definitely want it.

review and snapshots about these fonts is available from Poynter. the next picture is a a replacement for Arial: Calibri and Corbel.





the next picture is a replacement for Times New Roman: Constantia (a great complement for Georgia also).



if you need these fonts, you can download it here.

The Wedding Week

Last weekend was a happy and adventurous week. There was a total of 5 couple engaged in a wedding, uniting them into unbreakable family bonds. Of course, five is the number where we got invited. I’m sure there’s plenty more couples getting married in early January 2007.

We travel from Yogya to Tegal, and then crossing the Java Island through Cilacap back to Yogya. The first wedding was my own younger brother, held in Tegal. The second was the wedding of a very good friend of mine, Haris (also a fellow colleague at Gamatechno), held somewhere near Cilacap (this is where the adventure begins, keep reading). The rest is a subsequest wedding namely Hesti (my fellow colleague at Inspira), Hoki (my postgraduate friend) and Wuri (one of my wife’s colleague during in Trijaya).

The travel was adventurous, because we got lost during the search of the second wedding location. Haris should have guided me using a much more accurate map, such as Google Earth. He misestimated a lot. We departed from Tegal at 14.30, we already in Kondangan suit (batik) because we should have reach the location within one or two hours (as estimated by Haris). Well, in fact, during the search of Wangon intersection, we got lost somewhere around Ajibarang, Rowulu and Maos and Cilacap. The tense and stress even higher, because there was a full blackout (mati lampu) after Wangon, and we still had to travel all the way through the pine forest (yes, again, Haris also forgot to mention this), alone in the complete darkness. Alhamdulilah, we arrive in location at 19.30, after a total of 5 hours driving. Due to the misestimation, we were facing another threat: nearly out of gasoline. Luckily, there were many bottled gasoline retailers nearby. After having a full meal, we departed back home, another 5 hours drive to Yogya. We arrived at 02.00 a.m. in the morning, completely exhausted. anyway, it was a very challenging and fun adventure :)



Enough for the short story, enjoy the pics.