Lala and The Ducks...

here's another adventure of Lala. she's very happy being around the ducks.

Summary of Lala's Adventure

too many skipped adventures... here's a summary.

The Adventure of LALA !

gosh, http://lala.edinia.net is down!
from now on, I will regularly upload LALA's newest adventures here. This is LALA at the age of 1,5 years. enjoy the pics!

The Aura

I wanted to write about this since weeks ago. It is about the fact that I am "different" from the metaphysics perspective. This is said by a friend of Bunda Lala, a staff at Bapeda DIY named Yudi. Suprisingly, a friend of my brother in-law also said the same months ago (perhaps last year). Of course my parents were also surprised, and revealed much more interesting related past stories about my father. The two fact spoken by different person encourages me to write about this. Here goes the long full story...

White and Yellow Aura

As we get acquinted each other through YahooMessenger, Yudi visited us at home. After a short small talks, he said that I am different from the perspective of metaphysics. Moreover, he said that I have a a thick white-yellow "aura" surrounding me. White color means that the person is quite religious. Black color represents the opposite. Toward white color is Yellow and Red, where Red represents the highest level of aura. Person such as saints (orang suci seperti ulama) and people who has healing capabilities has this Red aura. My fact finding through googling also match with what is said by Yudi, that aura colors are in sequence: black, white, yellow, red.

Yudi was quite suprised "seeing" me for the first time. He thought I have some kind of amulet (jimat), but of course I don't have any. He said that I have an occasional (infrequent) "invinsible companion". The companion just come and go, because I had not realize its presence. Its presence are for good purposes, brings protection for me. According to Yudi, it came from someone (a saint or orang sakti) existed many generations before my father. As told by my father, the companion once with him, but it is with me now. You will find more about what is told by my father later.

Yudi said that at the age of 40, the aura will be thicker and I will experience the need of its presence. Wihh... Spooky... Later on, he also said (via YM) that I should not carelessly use my hand for punching and mencubit. If other normal person's hand weighed 1 Kg, then mine would be 10 Kg (It is what Yudi said. I know I already weighed over 100 Kg, my hand would already heavier that others... hahaha). In my hands, there are enormous energy which could have negative effect on Lala if used carelessly. Cool... its like the Dragon Ball Legends. But thats it, I don't have much detail about it from Yudi.

The Untold Stories

Knowing that there were two identical fact spoken by different person, my mother urges father to reveal the untold stories. There were two stories, both occured when we live in Bali (I was about 5 years old).

This is the first story. When me and mother walked together, there was a Balinese told my mother that there was "something" following me. But mother ignored it because of the irrelevance with our religion.

Second story is about my father. Father accidentally once also had "an accompanion". Said to be accidental because my father practiced regular dzikir taught by someone without any intention but to worship Allah, but later the dzikir was known to attract "companion". Father then no longer continued that dzikir before he went to Mekkah, because friend of him remind him that "if you need any kind of protection, then ask for it directly to Allah, no need for perantara". Father assumed, perhaps his companion was then moved to me...

Third story from father, confirming that there was someone (a saint or orang sakti) from few generations beyond my grandmother (great great great great grandmother, etc).

Morale of The Story

I appreciate what have been told by Yudi, it updates my knowledge about the metaphysics side of myself. But I was never realize it anyway, so I was also never ask anything (protection, rejeki, or else) to this "invinsible companion". Hopefully this will make myself a much humble servant to the Great Al Mighty Allah. Amin.

Home Decorating...

During my last days off my work, I mostly spend hours in decorating my home. As said by Bunda Lala, gardening is included as part of home decorating. It is a very exciting, and it felt almost like doing fitness (pushing myself to the limit until sweating all out).

In the end, I feel happy. I was wondering why I did not have the same excitement on regular weekends (Sunday). I think it is because of my long day off my work. Long holidays made me wanted to do something with my home. On regular Sunday, I was spending the day refreshing myself after a week at the office. At that time, home decorating was not on my plan.

Let me share some of my excitement. My first excitement is the sunflower seed! I got it in Ace Hardware shop at Artha Gading Mall Jakarta. As you know, my quest for sunflower has not been a satisfactory. So, if the sunflower is hard ot find, then I intend to create a farm of sunflowers! Ace Hardware actually has three type of sunflower seed with beauty and uniqueness of each own, but firstly I will try this one (Autumn Beauty).

The second excitement is an indoor sculpture fountain (I don't have the official name). It is a stone curved in such an artistic style with water flowing from top. Most models have stone balls rotating on top of it (over the flowing water). We thought it would be nice to have the sound of rippling water in our home. It would bring the relaxing sound of water. This is also inspired in Ace Hardware shop. What excites me is the hunt for sculpture fountain. In Ace Hardware, the price is quite enormous, one item priced Rp. 900.000. Bunda Lala said that she once knew that Mirota Batik has the same item, but only priced one-third. As we got to Mirota Batik, the item is still expensive, priced Rp. 700.000, not to mention the lack of models. So the hunt continued to Kasongan area. There we found many model of sculpture fountain, and of course with only one-third price from Ace Hardware shop... hehehe...

The Harsh of Jakarta

Well, a couple of days in Jakarta, has not change my impression about Jakarta. Jakarta is still a harsh place to live in. As said by Bunda Lala, Jakarta is only good for shopping or a short time living.

When you're on the road, you can feel that the "atmosphere" is negative. Busses and cars are always competing, traffic is heavy. Imagine if I have to live in Jakarta longer... Arrgh!

In fact, during her study (diklat) last month, Bunda Lala also experienced a harsh moments when she and her friend in a cab. There was an incident among cabs, the other cab accidently scratch the cab which Bunda Lala inside. The mistake was on other cab driver, but he got angry and chased Bunda Lala's cab. She said, it was like in the movies, a downtown chase until they all stopped because of the traffic jam. The other driver stepped down and went forward Bunda Lala's cab with "Parang/Golok". Bunda Lala escaped the cab, ran away from the fight among cab driver. She don't know what happened to the poor cab driver...

Edan!

Gas Station with 67 Toilets!

You would not believe this... on our way back to Yogyakarta, we stop by at Tegal to refuel. There we found a Gas Station with 67 toilets! The banner said they have achieved recognition from MURI (Museum Rekor Indonesia). Surely we would not miss that unique gas station.

Beside the toilets, the gas station also has cafe, prayer room, changing diapers area (babies stuffs) and quite a number of rooms for the travellers to rest or taking a nap. Suprisingly, the toilets were very very clean and neat. The women's toilet was equipped with newspapers to wrap "pembalut" neatly. The rest area was also equipped with CCTV pointing at the parking area, so that travellers can always monitor their cars. The bed is for rent, Rp. 20.000 for 5 hours of nap.

The owner pick the right place for the gas station. Tegal is in the middle of Jakarta and Yogyakarta, so people would most likely need to refuel, rest and lunch. If any other mall has the concept of "one stop shopping", I think the gas station applying the concept of "one stop resting".

It was a very cozy gas station. Checkout the pictures yourself. I would definitely go back there again next year.

Bone Investment Starts Now!

this is a great article! written by my favourite sports-medicine author, Sadoso Sumosardjuno! I completely rewrote the whole article, so that I could publish it here. The article remains in Indonesian, though.

Its quite a long article, but I can tell you the summary. It's about the bone density. It appears that bone density increase along with the mechanic-stress or activity done by the bone. This means that people who had sports regularly, also had a much better bone density. When the bone receives mechanical stress, it triggers the intake of Calcium ions. Again, this means that drinking calcium-milk must always followed by exercise regularly.

enough for the summary, enjoy the fulltext below. :)
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Olahraga untuk Atasi Osteoporosis
Oleh: Dr. H. RM. Sadoso Sumosardjuno, SPKO

Kompas, 21 Oktober 2005

Tulang adalah jaringan dinamis yang diatur oleh faktor endokrin, nutrisi dan aktivitas fisik. Biasanya penanganan gangguan tulang – terutama osteoporosis – hanya fokus pada masalah hormon dan kalsium, jarang dikaitkan dengan olahraga. Padahal, Wolff sejak 1892 menyarankan bahwa olahraga sangatlah penting.

Osteoporosis (kekeroposan tulang) adalah proses degenerasi pada tulang, Mereka yang sudah terkena perlu berolahraga atau beraktivitas fisik sebagai bagian dari pengobatan. Olahraga teratur dan cukup takarannya tidak hanya membentuk otot, melainkan juga memelihara dan meningkatkan kekuatan tulang. Dengan demikian, latihan olahraga dapat mengurangi resiko jatuh yang dapat memicu fraktur (patah tulang).

Olahraga, obat-obatan, dan pengaturan makanan yang baik merupakan kombinasi yang baik untuk menanggulangi osteoporosis dibandingkan dengan pengobatan atau pengaturan makan saja. Perlu disadari bahwa tidak ada istilah terlalu tua untuk olahraga.

Mereka yang berolahraga teratur kepadatan tulangnya lebih baik daripada mereka yang tidak beraktivitas fisik. Tingkat kepadatan tulang ini terkait dengan beban aktivitasnya. Jadi, atlet angkat besi memiliki tingkat kepadatan tulang tertinggi dan perenang paling rendah.

Walau begitu, tingkat kepadatan tulang atlet renang dan mereka yang mulai berolahraga renang pada usia lanjut tetap lebih tinggi kepadatan tulangnya pada kedua lengan dan ruas tulang belakangnya daripada yang tidak olahraga sama sekali pada usia yang sama. Mereka yang tidak beraktivitas fisik akan menurun kepadatan tulangnya.

Dampak Latihan

Olahraga meningkatkan kepadatan tulang pada bagian badan yang mengalami pembebanan. Pengukuran pada petenis pria usia lanjut (rata-rata 64 tahun) menunjukkan, ada perbedaan mencolok antara besarnya tulang pada anggota badan yang dominan (lengan) dibandingkan dengan bagian tubuh lainnya.

Penelitian Dalen dan Olsson pada pelari lintas alam pria usia lanjut menunjukkan perbedaan yang mencolok pada massa tulang: massa tulang pada kakinya 20 persen lebih padat daripada yang bukan pelari dan tulang-tulang pinggangnya 10 persen lebih padat daripada yang bukan pelari.

Smith dan teman-teman meneliti 30 perempuan usia lanjut dengan rata-rata usia 84 tahun. Mreka dibagi daam 2 kelompok sesuai usia, berat dan kemampuan jalan. Satu kelompok mendapat program olahraga selama 30 menit, 3 hari per minggu, selama 3 tahun. Kelompok lainya tidak berolahraga.

Pada akhir penelitian terdapat perbedaan kadar mineral 5,6 persen. Ada peningkatan 2,3 persen pada yang berlatih dan penurunan 3,3 persen pada yang tidak berlatih. Selain itu, terlihat kenaikan kadar kalsium yang mencolok pada yang terus berolahraga, sedangkan yang tidak kadar kalsium total dalam tubuhnya menurun.

Pada penelitian selanjutnya, latihan beban dinamis pada lengan bawah perempuan yang telah menopause (53-74 tahun) menaikkan kepadatan tulang 3,8 persen setelah 5 bulan latihan 3 kali per minggu dan sekali berlatih 50 menit. Yang tidak berlatih kepadatan tulangnya terus menurun.

Ada teori yang menyebutkan bahwa tulang merespons secara lokal pada tempat yang mendapat beban dan terjadilah pertumbuhan tulang (osteogenesis). Teori lain adalah sel-sel tulang yang terkena tarikan mekanis lewat latihan dan olahraga memicu masuknya ion-ion Ca ke dalam sel diikuti oleh produksi prostaglandin dan oksida nitrit. Maka aktivitas enzim yang memicu hormon pertumbuhan meningkat. Terjadilah remodelling tulang.

Program Pencegahan

Berbagai penelitian telah menunjukkan bahwa tulang memerlukan sejumlah pembebanan seumur hidup agar selalu kuat dan sehat. Jadi mitos bahwa makin tua makin perlu pengurangan latihan olahraga adalah tidak benar. Justru mereka yang berusia tengah baya dan lanjut usia harus teratur berlatih, yang programnya secara bertahap harus ditingkatkan.

Aktivitas latihan termasuk peregangan dan relaksasi. Namun, para peserta perlu diperiksa dulu sebelum ikut program pelatihan agar porsinya sesuai dengan kemampuan. Program yang baik untuk osteoporosis adalah kombinasi antara lima tipe latihan-latihan olahraga, yaitu aerobik yang terbebani berat badan, latihan dengan benturan keras, latihan untuk kekuatan, perimbangan dan kelenturan.

Aktivitas aerobik berbeban berat badan adalah jalan kaki perlahan, cepat, atau jogging. Tulang-tulang pada pinggul, punggung dan pinggang akan mendapat banyak manfaat dari latihan ini.

Latihan dengan benturan keras adalah tenis, bola voli, bola basket, lompat tali, lompat vertikal yang dapat meningkatkan kepadatan tulang jauh lebih cepat. Pada latihan ini tulang mendapat pembebanan 3-6 kali berat badan. Kelemahannya adalah beratnya pembebanan pada sendi sehingga kurang aman bagi yang telah osteoporosis.

Penelitian Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D dalam Journal of The American Medical Association (1994) menunjukkan bahwa latihan kekuatan – misalnya angkat beban – dua kali seminggu dapat mengurangi resiko fraktur pada wanita pascamenopause.

Latihan untuk perimbangan tidak meningkatkan kepadatan tulang, tetapi menjaga agar tidak mudah jatuh. Soalnya, perimbangan biasanya bagus pada usia dibawah 50 tahun dan setelah itu menurun.

Program Latihan

Bagi mereka yang telah terkena osteoporosis, pola latihannya berbeda dengan program pencegahan dan harus dilakukan dengan benar, hati-hati, dan perlahan. Pada tahap awal, latihan diutamakan pada kelenturan sendiri dan secara bertahap ditingkatkan dengan pelatihan kekuatan dan anggota badan. Bila kekuatan dan daya tahan telah meningkat, waktu latihan harus ditambah.

Pembedaan pola ini penting karena latihan tertentu dapat meningkatkan resiko fraktur, misalnya lompat tali, jogging, senam aerobik benturan keras, senam dingklik (step robic), jalan dengan beban di pergelangan kaki atau pergelangan tangan, dan sebagainya.

Seseirang yang pernah mengalami fraktur karena osteoporosis mungkin masih sering sakit waktu mulai berlatih. Karena itu, Anda yang mengalami fraktur tulang belakang pada enam bulan terakhir dan masih sering merasa sakit saat beraktivitas fisik mulai saja berlatih pelan-pelan.

Demikian pula bagi yang beresiko terkena fraktur walau belum pernah terjadi fraktur. Soalnya, berkurangnya massa tulang (yang meningkatkan resiko untuk mengalami fraktur) akan meningkat jika seseorang tidak aktif dan terlalu lama beristirahat di tempat tidur.

Latihan yang Aman

Agar aman bagi yang sudah terkena osteoporosis, jangan berolahraga yang memberikan benturan dan pembebanan pada tulang punggung. Ini berarti jangan melompat, senam aerobik benturan keras (high impact aerobics), dan joging atau lari.

Jangan berolahraga atau beraktivitas fisik yang mengharuskan Anda membongkok ke depan dari pinggang dengan punggung melengkung. Ini berarti jangan sit up, crunch, meraih jari-jari kaki, atau berlatih dengan mesin dayung.

Jangan pula beraktivitas yang mudah menyebabkan jatuh. Jadi jangan berlatih dengan trampolin atau senam dingklik, berlatih di lantai yang licin, atau menggunakan sepatu yang solnya keras atau licin.

Jangan beraktivitas fisik yang memerlukan Anda menggerakkan kaki ke segala arah dengan beban. Pinggul yang telah melemah akan lebih mudah patah tulang lewat latihan ini.

Latihan yang aman adalah olahraga jalan kaki. Berjalankah paling sedikit dengan kecepatan 4,5 kilometer per jam selama 50 menit, 5 hari dalam seminggu. Tentunya ini dilakukan secara bertahap.

Pada kebanyakan orang yang osteoporosis, jalan sangatlah ideal. Meningkatkan daya tahan (endurance), kelincahan (agility), mengurangi kemungkinan jatuh, dengan resiko cedera yang kecil pula. Anda juga dapat mengangkat beban, baik perempuan maupun laki-laki, dari beban bebas (dumbel kecil) hingga mesin latihan beban. Terutama ditekankan pada latihan-latihan pinggul, paha, pinggang, lengan dan bahu.

Latihan sebaiknya untuk meningkatkan keseimbangan dan kelincahan, juga ekstensi punggung. Ini berlawanan dengan gerakan fleksi punggung, yang harus dihindari. Latihan ekstensi punggung dilakukan dengan melengkungkan punggung dan cukup aman.

Latihan dapat dilakukan dengan duduk di kursi dengan atau tanpa beban, dengan dasar gerakan melengkungkan punggung. Latihan-latihan ini menguatkan otot-otot besar yang menahan agar tulang punggung lurus, mengurangi kemungkinan bongkok, mengurangi rasa capai di punggung dan menguatkannya.

The Husband Returns...

Bunda Lala has returned home! she returned with outstanding achievement and many exciting stories!

she achieved the best score among other participants, even excel many of the seniors and officials. she has difficult times there, but alhamdulilah she made it very well. i'm very proud of her...

and now,
this blog is now changing callsign into "The Husband Returns"...

of course, i should mention this, we've just had one of the most wonderful honeymoon ever... *wink*

Lirik "Tak Bisakah", Peterpan

I was deeply in love with this NEW song from Peterpan, "Tak Bisakah", taken from the album "Alexandria". I dont know why, I just loved the arrangements, I played the song all and all over again (hope my fellow here don't get bored). Oh one other thing, the male voice (ariel) *matched* with my voice, the deep voice of him... hehehe...

I searched the net (googling), I was unable to find the lyric anywhere... surely, it was just launched last night. so be it, let me be the first to document the lyric.

I think this would also be a nice ending to my blog. this song will be the closing theme song... mellow sekaleee...

here it is (revisions are welcome) :

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Hatiku bimbang dengan tetap pikirkanmu
selalu... slalu dalam hatiku
kumelangkah sejauh apapun itu
selalu... kau di dalam hatiku

aaa... aa...
aaa... aa...

kuberjalan berjalan memutar waktumu
berharap temukan sisa hatimu
mengertilah ku ingin engkau begitu
mengerti... kau di di dalam hatiku

reff:

tak bisakah kau menungguku
hingga nanti kita menunggu

tak bisakah kau menuntunku
menemani dalam hidupku

oo...
(instruments playing)

kuberjalan berjalan memutar waktumu
berharap temukan sisa hatimu
mengertilah ku ingin engkau begitu
mengerti... kau di dalam hatiku

karna kau menjadi hidupku
kemana kau tahu isi hatiku
tung... gu sejenak aku disitu u
jalanku... jalan menemukanmu

back to reff...

Good Living

Alhamdulilah. simply spoken for myself, for all of the goodness what I have been given up until now.

"Good Living", a word that I always said after having finished my hard workout. Doing workout in a hotel, having having a nice shower with warm water, still had the time do other 'lifestyle' stuffs. It is a good living. Alhamdulilah.

it is only a matter of days now, until Bunda Lala returned home. She would be home on the next Sunday (Sept 25th). I have prepared everything, especially myself. I have done hard workout to present her a surprise: the new 'super' me. (super = perkasa, bukan supermie lho).

tanpa terasa (gmn inggrisnya nih),
time has passed six weeks since Bunda Lala left for duty. this blog has been a record of every good thing on me while she left. it is nice to have this new experience, writing 'diary' in the internet. thank you also to friends who had been contributing here. sadly, this blog would probably also be terminated by the time Bunda Lala returned home.

*smiling*

Landak...

not much to say... it's me with the hair standing straight... it's my tipical hair, if its too short, then it would "njegrak" like a hedgehog. [:P]

The Last Samurai...

"The Last Samurai", it was an unbelievable great movie. I weep while watching the last part of it. It was a movie about honour, dignity ...and many other I could not write here (because what I felt is rumbling). The essence was more like the movie "Last of the Mohicans". I'd really like to have the DVD.

It was worth the struggle. When the movie at its intense moment, I was in the middle of my workout, all sweating out, but the officers in the Novotel's gym just would not even assisted me to facilitate me praying. I had to take a bath, then went to the basement. Luckily, the movie has not ended, and I still get the chance to watch the last part. again it was worth the struggle.

After a rethought, I might have been "reminded" by God, not to prioritize the movie instead. The situation was conditioned so that I could not pray in the gym, I should be bathing rightaway and pray in the appropriate place. Speechless to say, but it gave a nice ending in this afternoon.

The TOEFL Challenge...

this morning, I had a TOEFL prediction test. I did not quite prepare myself. After attended the alumni event help by MIPA Faculty last saturday, Pak Nurrohman (head of the computer science department) took us to dinner at "Sendang Ayu". It was a great saturday night with Anjar (and his future wife) and Mekom, but I got home very very tired. Even I tried hard to study at dawn, I could not withstand the drowziness. I fell asleep, but I managed to study a bit in before the test.

I was very eager to get good scores on this. If I achieved the highest score over 600, I could have a handphone as present from the test provider (Pusat Bahasa in Faculty of Economics). It was very challenging. If I don't made it, then I just have to retake the test somewhere after September. Test results would be available by tomorrow... I was anxious and nervous... Will I made it...

About High Intensity Workout...

Friends often asked and wondered, why I always had muscle-injuries after I done some workout at Novotel. Am I trying to reduce weight? Am I trying to shape-up?

Sports has been part of my lifestyle since junior high school. I even studied one book title "Sports Medicine" intensively. It was a great book, but I cannot find it anywhere now.

anyway, back to topic. How we do workout would depends on the goal. Goal setting in sports can be achieving one of the following: 1). Power, 2). Endurance, 3). Vitality (kebugaran). Goal for Power; means increasing muscle strength, enabling the body to lift heavier load. Goal for Endurance; means increasing the cardiovascular (kemampuan pompa jantung, efisiensi paru-paru dan peredaran darah) capacity and capability, enabling the body to withstand activities in the long run. While the goal for Vitality simply maintains current health and cardiovascular conditions, preventing from degradation as result of the aging process.

Of course, every goal has its own workout programme. Focus on Power, the workout programme would maintain less repetition (as the weight load increase) and less frequency. Focus on Endurance would maintain light weight load, but higher frequency and repetition. One important thing, you will gain Power or Endurance only if you increase the intensity on every workout. If you don't then you would simply maintain optimum Vitality.

Between workout sessions, it is quite normal if your body experience muscle-injuries. High intensity workout would "torn" some of the muscles, especially on the muscle's surface. It is normal, because our body has been given capability of adaptation. Torn muscles will heal, and the body will create stronger muscle-cells afterwards in order to prevent muscle-injuries, also compensating higher weight load for future workout. We should be thankful to God, for this wonderful gift. It is amazing how God created our body. Subhanallah...

How our physical body change, is just a side-effect of workout. It is up to us what we want to do with our body. Either shaping-up or reduce-weight, it's your call. In average, body impacts would be seen after 8 weeks of workout.

Personally, I always strive to reach beyond my limit. It felt great knowing you can surpass yourself, becoming stronger than before. It was inspired from the Dragon Ball legends... :D

Power Overwhelming!

My Research on Smartcard

friends keep asking me, what are you doing all night long in the office? what is so good about Gamacard? what does it relate to SSL (secure socket layer)?

this post will be the answer to those questions. I wrote this so that I dont have to repeat the same answers to different persons all over again :D

The root of the answer lies back in the theory of "computer securities" (as what i tought in UAD). Some of the aspects of security are: Authenticity, Privacy and Integrity. Each aspect is solved by applying different technology.

Aspect of Privacy concerns to ensure that the message is read by the intended recipient, not by other people. This relates to Public-Key Cryptography.

Aspect of Integrity concerns that the received message is not altered (modified) during the transmission. This relates to Digital Signature.

Aspect of Authenticity concerns how we can be sure that the user (sender of the message) is authentic (not someone pretending to be the sender). Authenticity can be based on one of three things:
1). based on what we KNOW (such as username/pass, PIN),
2). based on what we HAVE (such as tokens, smartcards),
3). based on what we ARE (biometrics, such as fingerprint),
the more combination we have, the more we can be assured that the user is authentic.

How does this theory relates to Portal Akademik and Gamacard? as you might have aware, traditional user login involves sending the username/password across network to be authenticated by the server. it is sent in plaintext, someone could intercept and read it. my research focus on: 1). how we can have a secure transmission (encrypted) between browser and server, and also 2). how we can be sure that whoever logged-in is truly a legitimate student (not someone pretending to be student).

my first goal is done by setting up an OpenSSL (and the related certificates) in the webserver. Setting up OpenSSL is quite straightforward (as long as your linux-box have all the required libraries). You will end up having a HTTPS server :D Transmission between browser and server will automatically be encrypted. There are concerns from my friends, that HTTPS would result in a slower response. I said, lets give it a try, since our webserver is a dual-xeon processor with 2GB of RAM :D

the second goal involves Gamacard. Gamacard plays a vital role in enforcing user authenticity. Of course, the system would run just fine without Gamacard, but lacks the aspect of Authenticity. The nice part is, according to many references, when browser make a HTTPS request (therefore browser should respond with a valid certificate stored in the computer), browser can "automatically connect and read certificate stored on smartcards". To do so, you don't have to create a specialized plugins or other. All you have to do is to create a PKCS#11 file structure on the smartcard, and store the certificate inside. That is what I have been trying to do during the past days. I am trying to create a PKCS#11 compliance smartcards.

Imagine, if UGM becomes the first university who adopted DigitalID, where everyone needs only ONE CARD to access every digital services at UGM. Its my dream.

Another Saturday Night Sadness...

It happened again... the same thing happened as were what happened last week... the feeling of sadness raised again...

what triggered it was quite strange. i was doing my hard workout at novotel, when Indri AFI (in indosiar) sang "Jangan Pergi Dariku" by Krisdayanti. all of the sudden, i started to cry. my tears wet my eyes. in a hurry, I sent a SMS to Bunda Lala. suprisingly, she replied that she was also compassionate by the song. we were linked.

it was quite odd... I started to cry as soon as the song began. I never had this experience before. Krisdayanti is Bunda Lala's favourite singer. Long ago, I once given her an original KD compact-disc as birthday present. Although we never played the CD (because we didn't have any CD player), we had quite plenty of lovely memories with the song.

I continued my hard workout until 21.30. I tried hard to let go my sad feelings. Due to the hard workout, I experienced almost a complete fatigue. When I got back to the office, I even still breathe quick and short, I easily felt "ngos2an".

Eventually, this sadness will make me even more powerful and "slim"...

Power Overwhelming!

Alhamdulilah. We finally succeeded! After days of research and spending the night at the office, we finally made it! It felt great and overwhelming!

It was Bayu who made a nice tune-up on what I have researched. Before I went to novotel this afternoon, I was already given up on my research. I have spent days of studying and doing experiments, but results were not satisfying. I didn't even know that my last configuration was a successful one, until Bayu made a few tune-up.

Kudos to Bayu!
It worth the effort. What we have learn on smartcard application development will create a much more possibilities in the future. After tonight, we are energized and ready to do the next research.

an Awful Drink... M150

this afternoon, I and Bayu took the Friday prayer at Masjid Kampus. At the moment, there was an M150 (the super drink promoted by Jackie Chan) promotion. the sales girl give away M150 for free.

do you know... M150 is the worst supplement drink among all. It tasted BAD! Too much bitter. M150 made my throat dry (I think it used too many synthetic sugar, like aspartame). it felt awful in my throat. Even worse... My face spontaneously crinkled, my worst face expression I ever had.

I still wait for the "other" effects. Will M150 give enormous energy and spirit? will it boosts my productivity? will the "energy" lasts througout the day? Will my heart beats faster? Will it makes me shaking?

anyway, despite of the "other" effects, I would simply NOT recommend any of you to drink M150. Hatred at first sight...

One Happy Bachelor...

this evening, I (and also the other bachelors) was invited by Andi to celebrate his birthday. The vote goes to Papa Ron's Pizza. It was my first time visit, so did Andi.

At first, Andi was quite unsure about the place. Deep inside, he prefer Pizza Hut than Papa Ron. Papa Ron's interior was not too stylish and comfortable. Of course, most of all, he was worried if Papa Ron tasted bad.

Apparently, things were not that bad. In my opinion, Papa Ron turned out great. It tasted delicious. The lasagna was soft, creamy and delicious. The Loaded-to-the-Max pizza was thicker (filled with cheese and stuffs), much more tasty and delicious compared to Pizza Hut. We were all happy and satisfied (of course with stomach full of pizza). Checkout the pic!

All in all, it was one of a great bachelor night. Andi is indeed the bachelor-of-the-day. Thanks again Andi, hope someday you will soon no longer becoming a bachelor :D