life's like this - avianto's journal

Finally! I've got my visa extended! Now I can live in Germany until 2005 and also can travel around the Schengen countries freely. Hmm, if only I can work someplace to get some travelling money =).

Today I also have the second lecture about Collective Intelligence. I really like to write some of this incredible theory presented by the theory maker himself, Pierre Levy but I will do it on my other 'new' website here.

I am going home now...

Ied Mubarak everyone! Today I did my Ied prayer at the Turkish Mosque here in Lübeck and taste a couple of Turkish dishes which are great! Love it. I also met another Indonesian who live and work here for quite some time... So, I really enjoyed myself today and I even wear my best suit today just to show how good I feel =). I also did some presentation in the Visual Communication class about CSS and Web Standards. Well, I am quite content today and this day will be remembered as one of my best day in my life. / Read more …

Some people had been asking me the same question (with some modification for each person) since the first day of Ramadhan; "Are you fasting? Is it hard to fast there? Can you stand to fast there?" Well, sorry to dissapoint you all but I can only say; "I was fasting for the last 30 days. No, it wasn't that hard. Yes, I can stand to fast while watching other eating their lunch". The truth is I found out that fasting here was not as hard as many people always told me. Well, maybe because I did it in the autumn / Read more …

Finally, today I have my mobile connection! Thanks to my neighbor who accompany me to the mobile phone store. Well, there are lots of mobile provider here in Germany (O2, Vodafone, T-mobile and others) but after asking around and found out that only one provider can send SMS to 'almost' all Indonesian mobile provider then I choose T-Mobile D1. Why 'almost'? Well, I don't know why but I can't send SMS to IM3... I can send SMS to Telkomsel, ProXL and Satelindo but not IM3... By the way, do you know that the popular German word for mobile phone is / Read more …

I've met another Indonesian here in Lübeck. He is studying at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and coming from Bandung, that is so cool. So, now I know 2 Indonesian beside me living in Lübeck. The other one is living next door and studying at the University of Lübeck. Well, anybody have some information about other Indonesian living in Lübeck? Let me know... / Read more …

No.. not me =). Three of my friends from college are getting married soon. After some quite time not getting any wedding invitation from my college friends it was quite surprising to get three in such a short period... Now almost half of my college friends are married. Ten years had passed since the first time we (72 of us) met and time is moving so fast and now some of them already living in their next part of their life. Amazing and sometimes freak me out... But everybody have their own path of life, I am happy with my / Read more …

I visited Lübeck Funfair last night. Well, it's not a big funfair but quite fun =). I didn't ride or try anything, just walking around to see the show and the people. Then after that we went to the campus and there we have a birthday party! One of our senior having his party celebrated and since he is coming from India then we have some kind of Indian party and music with Hindi music and dance. It was so cool and fun watching lots of people from different countries dancing with the Hindi music =)). What a day, now / Read more …

I found a very hard time to write about my project in the Project Week... The project is so obvious if you are in front of the interface but to translate the concept or the implementation I found it was a very difficult task. So I will write about it some other time, but I will write it for sure... The project is just too much interesting to be undocumented in words. So, about my life... if you are still interested ;). It's been a slow but time consuming week. More assignment to do, less time to do it and / Read more …

Today is so bleak... Grey sky, a little bit of mist, no sun. Not a day for walking in the park or riverside. Compare to Jakarta... the weather is, well, you can read this weather report courtesy of WeatherOnline (WetterOnline - the Deutsch version) and compare them yourself. And the temperature still keep on dropping... / Read more …

I've seen lunar eclipse this early morning... =), well.. the photo is crap I know it, but that's the best snaps I could get with my digital camera. It was a beautiful sight, slowly but sure the moon get darkened... and when the full eclipse happened the moon turn into red and then the clouds blocking my view =(. Well, at least I saw it... / Read more …

Another great layout from Thalia. Love the new layout and colors, especially those tab navigation and it a tableless design also which always have plus point in my book. Good work, Thal! / Read more …

I am doing the Project Week this week. What is the Project Week? Well, as a part of my study here at ISNM we will have to do a project about something in a week and exhibiting it to everybody. Quite refreshing after one month full of assignment and lectures =). The current Project Week's theme is "Information Street". The basic idea is to walk from one point of the city to another point and gather some information, any kind of information, from it and in the end present that information in some kind of exhibition. So we collected the / Read more …