My Dear Country

My Dear Country

'Twas Halloween and the ghosts were out,
And everywhere they'd go, they shout,
And though I covered my eyes I knew,
They'd go away.

But fear's the only thing I saw,
And three days later 'twas clear to all,
That nothing is as scary as election day.

But the day after is darker,
And darker and darker it goes,
Who knows, maybe the plans will change,
Who knows, maybe he's not deranged.

The news men know what they know, but they,
Know even less than what they say,
And I don't know who I can trust,
For they come what may.

'cause we believed in our candidate,
But even more it's the one we hate,
I needed someone I could shake,
On election day.

But the day after is darker,
And deeper and deeper we go,
Who knows, maybe it's all a dream,
Who knows if I'll wake up and scream.

I love the things that you've given me,
I cherish you my dear country,
But sometimes I don't understand,
The way we play.

I love the things that you've given me,
And most of all that I am free,
To have a song that I can sing,
On election day.


Norah Jones...


-- what is happening to you my dear country. I heard many things happened to you. Many victims...
It is sad that the biggest part of you, the poorer, are still be the poorer...

Elections, which people say are part of democratization, will it really help them? Who knows....


"But the day after is darker,
And darker and darker it goes,
Who knows, maybe the plans will change,
Who knows, maybe he's not deranged."

Nak

Jauh Jalan Yang Harus Kau Tempuh
Mungkin Samar Bahkan Mungkin Gelap
Tajam Kerikil Setiap Saat Menunggu
Engkau Lewat Dengan Kaki Yang Tak Bersepatu
Duduk Sini Nak Dekat Pada Bapak
Jangan Kau Ganggu Ibumu
Turunlah Lekas Dari Pangkuannya
Engkau Lelaki Kelak Sendiri

Andra, be tough person.... we proud of you

this song makes me trembling: "Nak" by Iwan Fals

In Memoriam... my beloved father

It has been 40 days since he left us (Javanese calendar). He has passed away, but his spirits, thought, jokes and smile are remain in my heart.

He was a good person for his family, neighborhood, church and many more organizations. Not only because he is a teacher... but his life as a simple person always makes me believe that God give us anything that we need to solve any problem...

I do proud of him... he is the person that always supports me, gives me freedom to do what I want to do, but asks me to be a responsible person. He is the person that always faiths with family as well as religion... or even neighborhood.

It is so sad as you left us so early... but we believe that you are happy in heaven... with all brothers and sister who left us earlier... My warm regards for them...

Be happy my beloved father... be our spirit... We do love you....

Sukendar Pr (Semarang)

"...Makin mantab dan melanjutkan semangate Pak Yadi Swargi yang selalu smart tuk Gereja. Kesan mendalam ketika bareng beliau di DP Klaten. Berani dan tegas..."

Aryo Seto (Austria)

"...Dadi kelingan zaman samono... berkumis, berkacamata, kocak, tamiya......"

Fristian SJ (Rome)

"...Pribadinya yg menarik dan kocak semasa perjumpaan kita dgnnya di seminari atau di Klaten kiranya masih membekas dlm ingatan kita. Kita percaya, jejak2 kebaikannya juga tertera di atas sana..."

Weather anomaly

It should be summer in southern hemisphere. But it seems that anomaly happens, as it is still 21 degrees in Sydney.  The peak of the summer usually comes at January to February. New term should be introduced here… “Global Cooling”.

 

Image was taken at Berowra Water (Bushland area)

It's just a mobile

That mobile phone… you may record all the conversation but still… you would not able to say that it was me…

I don’t know who brought it… sometimes it wasn’t me… and you can’t say that it was me. It’s just a mobile.

Let me finish my cigarettes… before it is banned… in my own room, in my own ashtray.

A night at Melbourne

Down in Melbourne, near Flinders Station… Surrounded by artistic buildings with colorful lights, which warm the 22 degrees night. I sat there for a while, feeling the peaceful atmosphere, watching many peoples smiling and some of them laughing. Some youths singing accompanied by guitar in the front gate of flinders station.

I’m wondering people in the world feel the same.. peace… no more rockets strike Gaza.. no more crying caused by war… Everyone smile to each other.. no matter where you coming from, no matter what is your religion… no matter what is your skin color…

Rest In Peace

My mobile rang last night... Someone told me that Mr. Willy Setiardja has passed away...

I remember him well... He is my Latin language teacher when I was in Seminari Mertoyudan High School.

He is a very smart person but very low profile.... He masters many languages such as Latin, Greek, Netherlands, Portuguese, English, etc....

I love the way he taught.... sometimes he forced us to learn the vocabulary, grammar, etc... but sometimes he told us ancient stories... the one that I love was Trojan Horse.

His house is in Jogjakarta, it's 60kms from Magelang (our school)... and he went there couple of days in a week by bus.... I met him when he was more than 60 years old... he still taught us with full of spirits.

His brother, Gunawan Setiardja, is a professor of law in Soegijapranata Catholic University.

Mr. Willy, there are hundreds of students who pray for you and thank to you..... be in peace... we love you.

Amo et facio quod volo

(I love and do whatever I choose)

Absence makes love grow fonder

Well, yes.... absence makes love grow fonder.... not much to say :)

First provisional mark of this semester

Glad..... that's what I feel now...

What I'm afraid about is just this subject... it's a Haskell thing which learn about inference rules, induction proof, virtual machine, exception, concurrency, etc... but all are learnt in the concept level and simulated by using Min-HS language....

The first day, there were about 20 students in the class....

The third week, it becomes about 13 students....

and after the sixth week, it just 5 I think....

Anyway... I tried to love this subject... it's very challenging...

However... it's too difficult, huh..... I just got 60% off all the assignment, 50% on the mid exam, and 70% on the final exam.....

I'm doing well on the other subjects... but I felt that I will not pass this subject....

finally the provisional mark has came.... and I got... CREDIT.... yay...... I pass this subject.....

and I got the second rank of 5 postgrad students...... so, possibly no one gets more than CREDIT for this subject... heheh.....

ClassKey: 08s2COMP9161

StudentID: 3228xxx

Name: Nugroho, Robertus Setiawan Aji                    

Program: 8682  

Plans: COMPCS       

Login: rsxxxxx

tut: tue14a

midsession_q1: 3/6

midsession_q2: 16/19

midsession_q3: 6/22

midsession_q4: 6/6

final_q1: 19/20

final_q2: 4/20

final_q3: 14/20

final_q4: 15/20

final_q5: 20/20

final_provisional:   66 CR 

rank:   2 /  5

It remains me on what I got from the last semester... I got the 10th position of 67 students... and it was CREDIT as well... If I'm not mistaken 22 of them were failed...

Well... study abroad is not as easy as we think.... but as long as we work hard... at least PASSED is easy, hehehe...... 

The concerto of the week

Many things happened this two weeks.... just like a harmony in a violin concerto (which I haven't finished since 4 months ago)

Last week :

  - Fortissimo: Finished the final exams, beers....

  - Pianissimo: Well sleeping... ahhh... after many weeks of the hell....

                      having cam session with family all day long... watching Andra riding his baby walker.... cancel all appointments.. hiks..

This week:

  - Jazzy at the first day... not much thing to do in the office..., pitching with friends and clients.

 - Staccato at the second day.... huh... project deadline is two weeks left... 40hours anyway...

 - jazzy again tomorrow.... Iphone tech talk...

   hope till weekend, hahah... many appointments anyway...

Wondering to continue the third page of eight pages concerto :D

Transport Telematics

You must be familiar with "telematics" term..... either heard it from television or newspaper.

There is a telematics expert as well in Indonesia... 

but really, it's not just about determining whether an image is original or not, or analyzing video :)

Telematics is the integration of telecommunication and information system... have a look at wikipedia for more information.

So what is "Transport Telematics"? It's the implementation of telematics in transportation sector. The well known synonym for this term is "Intelligent Transport System" (ITS), or some people call it "Vehicle telematics".

The example of transport telematics are Electronic Road Pricing, Emergency and Breakdown System, Intelligent Speed Control System, etc...

We should proud, Singapore as part of Asia is the first country which implements ERP and it has been followed by many countries around the world.

My latest writing is about "Location Based Service" as the backbone of ITS. The characteristics of LBS as a Location-aware Application are aware of:

   - where the user is

   - when the user using the service

   - what is the user using the service for

Those three questions must be addressed by a good LBS application. And hence, it could be a great support for ITS since position and time are very important for transport telematics implementation.

Transportation is indeed a very important system that needs to be well managed to support the economic growth. It becomes the basis of industry society.

Indonesia as developed country could benefit from the implementation of transport telematics. Traffic congestion, speeding, safety are some issues that can be solved by ITS implementation and dependency to human resource such as police officer could be decreased. Well, of course the mentality of the driver needs to be managed as well :)

Abstract 

Transportation is an important aspect of economic growth. It becomes the basis of 

industrial society. Hence, good transportation management is needed. Intelligent 

Transport System (ITS) is a technology to address that issue. Transportation problem 

such as traffic congestion, speeding, emergency and breakdown service, traffic 

condition, and route and navigation can be solved by ITS. Location Based Service 

(LBS) as the basis of transport telematics, plays important role, specially it provides 

opportunity to private sector to be able to supports transportation regulator. 

Keyword: Intelligent Transport System, Transport Telematics, LBS 

*Image taken from: http://www.hel2.fi/liikenteenohjaus/eng/pt_telematics.asp

Mapping, the essential of Location Based Service

Today, I finished my another writing about Location Based Service... Well, it is not a deep discussion about LBS itself nor the mapping technology. My concern is about how essential is mapping to a LBS application and what will be the challenges and future developments that need to be addressed by software developer. I have done many mashups projects this year (recent one is property.adandsell.com.au) and GIS websites such as mymarket.com.au (demographic website based on the trend of gardening data in Australia -- Liquid Vision rebuild project). I found that map is an important visualization for the LBS or future of the Internet (It's proven by the increase of visitors for more than 150% in the property site and 30% of selling rates). Map provides better visualization especially for navigation services rather than lengthy text based information).

Abstract 

 Mapping is an essential component on a LBS application. Mapping provides better 

visualization of information to user rather than lengthy text based information. There 

are a lot of mapping Application Programming Interfaces (API) that can be used by 

LBS software developer to enhance their application. This ease-of-use API is a 

breakthrough in LBS development and is proven to generate thousands of location 

mashups that are very useful for user. There are a lot of challenges that needs to be 

addressed by software developer related to accuracy, clarity of information, user 

contributed content, dynamic content and other attributes such as richer road 

attributes and richer Point of Interest. 

Keyword: LBS, Mapping, Map API

My next project will also related to LBS system and the use of PDT (positioning determination technology) such as GPS, WIFI and cell based communication. Hmmmm..... I'm just afraid whether it could be finished in a semester or.... save some parts of it for the better future, hehehe.... 

Well... dunno.... I still enjoying the new programming language Haskell.... which is not related at all to my project. Hiks.... why I start to love this functional programming.... It's just so beauty... the syntax, concepts, and the difficulties of learning it....

My impression about Australian television

Hmmm... I'm still watching SBS station now :)

just want to comment that it's so different compared to what I found in Indonesia....

I just came home from work this arvo, then slept for a while.... 

Then... yeah.... watching TV...

it was about the philosophy of coffee.... how the coffee change the world... in Australia, it's just like a culture to go to cafe and just enjoying latte or cappuccino.... It's showing how starbucks penetrates the world with it's standardization of drinking coffee... hem it was mcdonalization... now perhaps starbucks-ization :)

Then, the followed by The inside mind of Hittler.... (which is I'm watching now).... insightful and worth it to be watched.

How full of knowledge for audience those..... Hem...wondering if we get those kind of series rather than soap operas (sinetron) as what can be found on most of channels in Indonesia...

cheers

First Sentence Syndrome

What a title....?

yeah, I don't know....

I used to write papers now... I need to supply 5000 words paper each two weeks..., I have written research proposals, reports, etc....

So, it's not my first time.... But, why the problem is always the same.... I confuse on how should I start my writing.... hiks....

Yeah,  theoretically, I know how to solve that problem (as what I always suggest to my student -- when I was I teacher )... but, it's so difficult for me to push the keyboard and start writing the first sentence. The effort of doing that  is perhaps half of all the efforts on finishing the paper itself... 

I have the idea, I have the outline... But, not in English, not in Indonesia.. the first sentence is something that makes me like a stupid person (I do)....

So, if it is fine... then I will call it "first sentence syndrome".... 

Yeah.. I need medication, please help......

cheers,

Image processing real world problem

What happened this morning in Sydney was the error of computer that misinterpreted the plat number of vehicles that passed the toll / tunnel.

Read more at here

In Sydney, we can use an electronic tag which implements RFID to pay the toll, or if you don't have it, a camera will take a picture of your car and then process the plat number. if the plat number can't be read, then operator will manually do that.

This is the same technology on speed camera or traffic light camera, etc....

Well, it's not complicated technology.... I believe many Indonesian researchers have done it...

So why don't we implement that in Indonesia... ?

Well, it's easy to do a tricky thing to avoid the camera... especially in Indonesia where there are a lot of similar vehicles, etc.... and actually we don't need that if we able to be honest and wise person.....

cheers,

Image processing real world problem

What happened this morning in Sydney was the error of computer that misinterpreted the plat number of vehicles that passed the toll / tunnel.

Read more at here

In Sydney, we can use an electronic tag which implements RFID to pay the toll, or if you don't have it, a camera will take a picture of your car and then process the plat number. if the plat number can't be read, then operator will manually do that.

This is the same technology on speed camera or traffic light camera, etc....

Well, it's not complicated technology.... I believe many Indonesian researchers have done it...

So why don't we implement that in Indonesia... ?

Well, it's easy to do a tricky thing to avoid the camera... especially in Indonesia where there are a lot of similar vehicles, etc.... and actually we don't need that if we able to be honest and wise person.....

cheers,

Interoperability of Positioning Determination Technology

Well, it's not well written yet....

but this is my latest paper about:

Abstract

Currently there is no single position determination technology that able to provide ubiquitous location based service due to the limitations of each system. Hence, interoperability of more than one platform of technologies is needed to support the service. Interoperability can be achieved by creating layers that provide a common abstraction for the application and the systems. The study case is computer network architecture, which already implements the layering method to get interoperability of all different network devices. This common abstraction is important, especially for LBS software developer to create an application that works on all position determination platforms and to get higher quality of information. By having the common abstraction, hybrid location technology is happened. 

I decided to start my final project as early as possible.... and lucky me.... I have gotten the supervisor... and she said that instead of doing project... I'll be a research assistant for her research (my project will be a part of her research) as well.... 

And lucky me again.... the research will be related on what really I like about.... and actually, it is what I haven't understand about..... and it's related to the position determination technology (which I learn this semester)

Thanks God..... (especially for "hidden treasure" (as what Ling said) for me)....

cheers

IPDN visited Seminari Mertoyudan

I'm proud to be an alumni of Seminari Mertoyudan....

Hopefully IPDN becomes more humanist :)

Cited from http://mertoyudan.org

Posted by Martinus Hadisiswoyo SJ

Hari Jumat, 15 Agustus 2008, Seminari Mertoyudan dikunjungi oleh Tim yang berjumlah 6 orang dari IPDN (Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri), Jatinangor Sumedang. Drs. Srimoyo Tamtomo, SH,MM, Kepala Biro Umum dan Keuangan yang menjadi ketua Tim, menjelaskan alasan mereka berkunjung ke Seminari Mertoyudan. 
Suatu ketika, mereka menyampaikan gagasan kepada Menteri Dalam Negeri (Mardiyanto) yang juga mantan Gubernur Jateng untuk mengadakan studi banding ke Akademi Militer Magelang dan Akademi Kepolisian Semarang.Tanggapan Bpk. Mardiyanto : "Berkunjung saja ke instansi sipil.Datang ke Seminari Mertoyudan, belajarlah dari sana". Jadilah mereka mengadakan kunjungan pendidikan ke Seminari. Kecuali berkunjung ke Seminari Mertoyudan, mereka juga mengunjungi Pondok Pesantren Al Zaitun Indramayu dan Ponpes Gontor Jatim.
Kunjungan ini dilaksanakan terkait dengan rencana mereka untuk menyusun berbagai pedoman, baik akademik maupun non-akademik dalam rangka pembenahan pelaksanakan pendidikan bagi para Praja IPDN.
Mereka datang pada pukul 09.15, diterima oleh Rm. Rektor, Direktur, Minister, Pamong Umum, didampingi 2 guru. Setelah perkenalan singkat di kamar tamu DP, mereka keliling kampus. Dimulai dari kamar tamu DP, mereka melihat dapur, refter, valet, kamar tidur MP, kelas-kelas, Gedung Musik, menuju Lab. Komputer, lalu menuju ruang rapat di Medan Utama. Kepada mereka, Rm. Direktur memberi penjelasan singkat tentang SMA Seminari, lalu disambung dengan penjelasan dari Pamong Umum tentang pembinaan siswa di Asrama. 
Baik waktu keliling kampus maupun selama pertemuan, mereka nampak antusias menanyakan macam-macam hal tentang Seminari dan pembinaan yang diberikan kepada para siswa.Kepada mereka kami bekalkan buku pedoman pembinaan dan beberapa panduan untuk pembinaan siswa di Seminari. Mereka berada di Seminari hingga pupul 10.30, 15 menit melebihi rencana. Lewat kunjungan studi banding ini kiranya mereka mendapat banyak inspirasi untuk mengadakan pembenahan bagi Praja IPDN. Kepada mereka kami jelaskan, di Seminari kakak kelas/senior tidak diberi kewenangan memberi sanksi atau hukuman pada adik kelas (yunior). Mereka tentu berharap, ke depan di IPDN tidak lagi terjadi tindak kekerasan dari senior pada yunior, yang sampai membawa korban seperti masa yang lalu.

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I'm extremely worry

She's the super woman... a mother, lecturer, 

supervising house builder, and a great wife for her husband

Andra is in hospital now... he got fever.. but still giving his smile to his mother... what a wonderful boy.

I'm here, 8 hours away from them... it's just painful, do you know how I fell? Yes, I'm extremely worry.

I've got ticket to go back to Indonesia in a few days... but I still need to sit for several exams. My wife is the person who always give me spirit... yeah.. I'll do my best for you guys...

get well soon babe...