life's like this - avianto's journal

I am a part of a cult. A cult that happened to have small amount of number but very loyal and dedicated to the cult. A cult that defy the majority of lemmings and proud to be part of the not-common society. A cult that only want to get its job done instead of scratching their head wondering why some evil things happened to them while doing their job.

People ask me why I joined this cult. Well, the answer is easy, I want to get my job done. Period. I don’t want to get bothered by other external things that had no connection with my job. The other answer is probably, it looks cool (I always into coolness).

Yes, I am a part of a cult famously known as “Cult of Mac”. And today is one of those big day for the Cult. It’s Tiger’s launching day.

It’s been almost two weeks since the last official birthday announcement of mine ;). Been busy with lots of stuff, something what I usually called “Real Life™”. Here are some recap, in case you want to know, well… even if you don’t want to know, I’ll write it anyway. Thesis’ News Not much. Just finished writing three of my supposed to be five chapters. Those two missing chapters are “Introduction” and “Conclusion”. Yeah, I know it’s kinda strange to work from the middle (I was starting with chapter III) but it worked, at least for me. So yeah, the ‘soft’ / Read more …

… is the atomic number of zinc. … is the number of days in the months April, June, September and November. … is in years of marriage, the pearl wedding anniversary. … is the code for international direct dial phone calls to Greece. … is the suggested year of Crucifixion of Jesus. … is the biggest size of Apple Cinema Display now. … is the designation of Interstate 30, a freeway that runs from Texas to Arkansas. … is the number of tracks on The Beatles’ eponymous album, usually known as The White Album. … is the number of / Read more …

Writing thesis, one chapter each week. Yeah, right. That was the idea until last week. I was about to send one chapter to my advisor when I thought it would be better if I read it once again. Big mistake. As I read it again, I thought "Wait a minute... This is not what I want to say. What was I thinking? Why did I wrote this non-sense?" Gnah! Anyway, to make the long story short, I've to spent the entire last week to rewrite that chapter again. Nice week, indeed. But just writing thesis with no play will make / Read more …