life's like this - avianto's journal

I am exhausted… Totally tired… But I am relieved.

My first year at ISNM is officially finished. Well, still need to finish a couple of small things and assignments but no more classes and lectures.

Our open house went well and I am quite satisfied with the result.

Next step will be secure my place for my study abroad program (Third semester at ISNM means that you must have some kind of credit study from outside ISNM and usually with other universities or company outside Germany). Where? I can’t tell you right now as it will be a surprise ;)

So yeah. Two semester already passed. One more semester then I am done with my Master study. Quite fast, isn’t it?

Anyway, wish me luck to get my place for my study abroad. It will not easy but I hope that I’ve could make it.

Been very very busy lately. It’s the end of my second semester (still one semester to go) and we all here are busy preparing for our school’s Open House. Editing film, preparing IR beacon, finishing project website, finishing game design project and lots of lots stuff need to be done before Friday. Go to the projects list page and see how many projects that I involved with. So yeah, just steal some time from my lunch break. I have to get busy again now. Laters! / Read more …

Yes, another lyric to get on with my life… (or just an excuse to write an entry while busy like bees) Deep Binocular So this is what you mean And this is how you feel So this is how you see And this is how you breathe Sometimes I know Sometimes I go down deep Oh Beneath the deep blue sea Touching every breath All a slight off hand For everything you left Sometimes I know Sometimes I go down deep Oh / Read more …

It’s Saturday (Like I have to care, I am still busy doing my school’s work =P), it’s 18.11, the sun is shining brightly, the breeze is quite chilling… but the best thing is: it’s 27°C now!!! Wooohooo! Love it! Well, that’s it for today. Have to get busy again… at least the weather is friendly today. / Read more …

After midnight soundtrack. Been busy lately. Somewhere only we know Keane I walked across an empty land I knew the pathway like the back of my hand I felt the earth beneath my feet Sat by the river and it made me complete Oh simple thing where have you gone I’m getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you’re gonna let me in I’m getting tired and I need somewhere to begin I came across a fallen tree I felt the branches of it looking at me Is this the place we used to / Read more …

It’s a rather old trick but I’ve found it cool so I have to implement this trick here, call me a trend-follower ;). It’s called live comment preview trick. What does it do? Well, right now if you are typing your comment here then your writen comment is directly previewed live under the “Post” button. So there is no need to have a separate preview page and you can see what is you are typing live. Neat, eh? Just a little addition to spice things up. Hopefully it will works across browser. Other thing is I fixed the “Remember personal / Read more …

Most of you already familiar with my preaching on Web Standards. Especially about tableless design, yeah those XHTML and CSS. Most of you even flame me for my critics on your table layout and give me some hard time by give some ambigous and absurd reasoning. (My all time favorite is “everybody have the right to choose! you can’t force people to do it the standard way” - well, they are right tho, who am I to force? But that is not the point of this entry). So instead of preaching on the wrong side of the ear, I always / Read more …

I love you and thank you for your support through out these years! You are really an awesome mom! I am so proud of you! Now you are getting older and wiser I hope that I’ve made yourself proud to have me as your son. Love you!!! / Read more …

Yay! I’ve made it to 25% of storage capacity in less than a month. Hmm, with the current speed I think I will run out of space in just 4 month. Not bad. I really push my Gmail account to the edge now ;) / Read more …

… is today. Woke up early. Voted at Hamburg. Went back home. Wished for the best. For the people. For the country. For the future. / Read more …

Godote’s Forum presenting offline | chapter one: the first book from Godote Forum featuring works of GF members. Intended to trigger creativity, as well as provide a conducive environment for forum members to learn from each other and promote mutual respect for each other’s works, this book is one example of offline events organized by GF. For those who are not it yet, Godote’s Forum is an Indonesian designer online community. A great one and quite big too. One of the best designer community I’ve ever involved with. So if you have interest with design or you are a designer / Read more …

Yesterday was the first graduation day for ISNM (It’s my school now if you haven’t know it already). The first generation students (Also known as ISNM 1.0) were finished their study and it’s time for them to return to society ;). Congratulations! You are all deserved the celebration and I hope all of you will have brighter future ahead. I am sure I will going to miss you all here but maybe we will meet again sooner than we expect. Also thank you for providing me some tips and tricks for the last couple of months. My salutation to all / Read more …

After reading Mr. Budi Rahardjo’s weblog entry about “Dimanakah para pemimpi (komputer) Indonesia tinggal?” (in Indonesian, my native language) I realize that this is what I’ve been missing from the IT scene in Indonesia. We have tons of “technical” IT mailing list and almost none of the IT mailing list that discuss theories, philosophies, activities and other non-technical stuff but still important in the IT scene. From technical point of view Indonesia IT scene is great. Most of the IT experts are technically good and capable and obviously can compete with other country’s IT experts (although it could change according / Read more …