Daydreamer: 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Saturday Drawing

Been busy lately with office works... ;)

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Mural

When I did my routine maintenance, I found some interesting pictures from my sister's folder. The pictures were taken near her campus. So, check 'em out!

Since yesterday my little sister had been busy painting a caricature of her high school teacher. She said she would give the painting to her teacher as her birthday present. And since I had no other particular activities since yesterday, so I took some pictures in the making of the painting.

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Lorem Ipsum - All the Facts

Web designers and web programmers must be familiar with these words, lorem ipsum. The words usually used as temporary text put on a website before they are replaced with the correct one. But, do you know where the words come from? I searched through the web and found an article explained the details and the origin as well of the words. So I quoted the article and put it here, in my blog.

Lorem Ipsum

"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..."

"There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."

Grasshopper on Flower

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Wingletting with the golden scrawl
Of its finest sinews,
The grasshopper loaded its trailer-belly
With many coastal herbs and faiths.
"Ping, ping, ping!" tra-lah-ed the zingzinger.
O, swanderful!
O, illuminate!

Velimir Khlebnikov

Old World Christmas Ornament Green Grasshopper #12048

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Morning Dew

As a sheer whisper on the grass she sat down.
In the cold morning sun she starred at me.

Dark and gray had now been gone,
whilst the sun shines with golden beams,

through a drop.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Facebook Anthem

I know you all guys have a facebook account. But, do you know that there is a facebook anthem composed by two funny guys? Well, I was just rolling over the youtube and found a theme song for facebook users.

Following is the lyric I made while listening to the song. I just typed what I heard, so I'm sorry if some words are missing or wrong. I would be pleased If any of you have listened and would like to add/replace the words I made. I hope you guys love facebook as much as I do...Enjoy!

Action Figures

Wehehehee...Been more than two weeks I haven't touched my blog since I went back to my hometown, Jogja (Post will be added, just be patient ;p). While we're waiting the story to be wrapped up, here I give you some of my brother's action figures collections.

Idham Saputra

This is one of my college friend, Idham Saputra. He is quite funny. If you want to know more about him, please click here.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Blog Swap!

It is Blog Swap Day — meaning that someone else will be writing today’s post. This is my first blog swapping and I'm very excited. Below is the article wrote by Amy, my blog swap partner. You can find my words over at no. 15, while in the meantime check out what Amy got for my blog.

I'm Amy from over at No.15. I'm a photographer and web designer. This is my first blog swap and Felix has been kind enough to let me share one of my favorite artists, Steve Scott.

He is a London based illustrator and animation director. Making really cool commercials and music videos. One of my favorites of his is The Parachute Ending for Birdy Nam Nam.

BIRDY NAM NAM - THE PARACHUTE ENDING from Steve Scott on Vimeo.

Alterations in My Life

This is a special post for the local readers, because I'll write it in Bahasa Indonesia. Actually I wrote this article when I was in college. I didn't know that I could write such article because as some of you may have known that I'm not really into writing. Allrighty then, let's just begin the show. Anyways, I just can say apologize for other readers aside Indonesian.

Siti Wahyuni

Here is my latest artwork request from my colleague, mba Siti...

Tools of the trade:

1. Images emailed by mba Siti ;p
2. Wacom Intuos 4,
3. Manga Studio EX 4,
4. Adobe Photoshop CS 4,
5. Picasa 3 (I wish it is 4 also - lol).

I also have uploaded the photo for you to see that there are no differences between the real photo and my drawing. If you want to see the original image (the photo) before I drew it, you can click the below link:

Show image, the password is: show image

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Basic Processor Overclocking Guidelines

This tutorial was initially made by my friend, Caesar. He is quite good at tinkering computer hardware. He learned overclocking by joining various overclocking forums on the internet, reading through PC magazines, and of course, self-experimenting his very own old-but-good-enough PC.

So I thought of sharing this tutorial to all of you guys who are interested in overclocking.

Please note that I will only cover the basic guidelines for Processor overclocking. In case you find some difficult terms, I've already provided a simple glossary at the end of this guideline to help you.

Nyaahahaaa...

This is my first award from a blogger friend Shella. I'm so honored to get this award. I essentially wanted to post a new article on my blog when I saw a comment from her telling me to take the award. It’s been a few weeks I haven't posted something on my blog as I was very busy at the office lately. Anyway, thank you for this nice award. I’ll be waiting for another one. Hehehee…

Friday, August 28, 2009

Funny Answers

Updated at: 14.20 PM

I got these pictures from a thread in a forum. They are so funny...Check 'em out!

Point Blank

Recently I've been addicted to a new online First Person Shooter game called Point Blank. I'm addicted to the game because it reminds me of the glorious Counter Strike which I played when in junior high school. Today I'd like to give you a glimpse of the game. Hopefully you are interested and we could meet on the game.

We all know that the Indonesian gamers community is getting bored with Counter Strike which is aged more than 10 years and long being a first person shooter game. Nevertheless, the community expects an online FPS game that supports the new online features such as private room, clan support, ranking system, customizable weapons, characters, and others. It may be one of the considerations KREON Co., Ltd finally decided to bring on Point Blank, an Online First Person Shooting Game with high level realistic game play.

Hotspot UI - A New System to Stay Online

The University of Indonesia has been developing a new information system called Hotspot UI. Hotspot UI is a wireless network system that allows users to connect to the internet 24/7 through a mobile computer such as laptop or PDA in all the University of Indonesia coverage areas without any charge. The main objective of this new service is to give facilitation for all members of the university to gain access to the university main network service and the University Integrated Network service (JUITA) whenever and wherever, instantly, easy, and simple.

Hotspot UI can be accessed from some areas around the campus in Depok. The hotspot UI coverage areas include the office of the University Head (7 spots), Faculty of Economy (10 spots), Faculty of Social and Political Science (5 spots), Economical Post-Graduate Program (3 spots), Faculty of Psychology (9 spots), Faculty of Computer Science (7 spots), Faculty of Law (5 spots), mosque (5 spots), Faculty of Social Health (7 spots), Faculty of Nursing (5 spots), Faculty of Math and Science (5 spots), Central Library (4 spots), and Faculty of Humanities (3 spots). The status of all coverage areas is active and usable.

Timun Mas - A Folktale from Central Java

A long time ago, there was a farmer couple. They were living in a village near a forest. They lived happily, but their life would be much much hppier if they had any children. They hadn’t had any children yet for more than 20 years of their marriage. Every day they prayed to the God for a child.

One day a giant passed their home. He heard what they were praying. The giant then gave them a cucumber seed.

“Plant this modified-cucumber-seed, when it is ripe, eat the golden cucumber and do a “WooHoo” at full moon night. Then you’ll get a daughter,” said the giant.

“Thank you, Giant,” replied the couple.

“But in one condition, in her 17th birthday, you must give her to me,” said the Giant.

How to Make a Spoiler Button

I was wondering when reading an article posted by Miaw, si KucingTengil about the crop circles. She put a spoiler button on the article to open some images in order to save place. Then I immediately did some research on how to add the spoiler button. I found some tutorials but most of them were too complicated. We have to put the javascript to our template's HTML script. After collected some script resources and tinkering Miaw's blog scripts, I started learning the script and tried to modify it. And violaa...Here is the easiest way to add spoiler to your blog post. I'm gonna show you how with a spoiler button.

Howdy guys...

Today when I was (and now still) surfing on the net, I found an interesting article posted on a blog. It was an article on how to get more money from the internet. I know most (or all) of you must have a facebook account. So I think it's easier to join and start earning more money.

Here are the steps:

Unforgetable Moments

Then the sun rose slowly from behind the mountain...

It was very beautiful...

The most beautiful sun we had ever seen...

It hailed us with its bright-orange color and rounded shape...

When the first time it came up, we felt a warm breeze pulled gently at our hair and everywhere there was the scent of fart...

I stopped breath and stared at my friend...

He then laughed out loud and ran away from me...

I could not put up with his behavior, so I ran after him and all of a sudden we fell down to a vale, the vale of darkness...

M-Learning for Students - Is It Possible?

You might still remember of a TV commercial telling the story of a man going back home on foot because he missed his last bus. In the story, the man looks very calm and not too worries about the bus when he takes out his mobile phone, puts on the headset, plays some songs from the phone, and walks down the street whistling cheerfully. “I love missing the last bus home…,” he said.

Imagine when we have a different situation. A student suddenly, one day, is not able to attend classes for sick or other important reasons. Yet, he is not too restless about the lessons left behind. He just grasps his mobile phone, learning the left lessons through video streaming or video calling, downloading available learning applications in the form of java, flash, or 3GP application, and doing other teaching-learning process via his mobile phone. It probably gives a futuristic impression overmuch, but such things are possible to be done at present time since technologies are more advance currently. Mobile phones in this day and age are equipped with the capability to connect to the internet, to play and record audio, video, and picture or photo, and to run software applications such as Java, Symbian, Flash, and so forth. In addition, the development of 3G technology gives a faster data transfer with better quality and, of course, less expensive tariff. Thus, the above story is not just an overrated thought anymore considering all the advance technology that we have nowadays.

Internet Growth in Indonesia - Factors Encourage It

The world’s Information and Technology growth has brought a significant impact for the internet industry in Indonesia. The Indonesia’s information technology sector has been growing so fast and very progressive at the moment. Frankly, there are three factors that encourage the internet growth in Indonesia: accessibility, bandwidth capacity, and tariff.

First of all is accessibility. The internet access in Indonesia must be provided not only for people who live in big cities like Jakarta, Bandung, and Surabaya, but also for people in every nook and cranny of the country. According to an Apricot forum held in Bali last year, the internet penetration in Indonesia is still near to the ground, which is only 8.1 %. Indonesia, in fact, is in the 13th place for internet using from all over the world. But, with the estimated population of 221.4 million, the internet penetration number becomes incredibly small.

Paris as the World’s Fashion Centre

If you are asked by someone about the centre of fashion, I bet your answer will be Paris. Why would everyone say that Paris is the world’s fashion centre? Here is my opinion why Paris could be the world’s fashion centre.

The term fashion usually applies to a prevailing mode of expression. Fashion has been invented in Europe since the 14th century. In France, the fashion style was influenced for the first time by a designer named Rose Bertin, a millionaire and a dressmaker to Marie Antoinette. Fashions among upper-class Europeans began to move in synchronicity in the 18th century especially in France. Colors and patterns of textiles changed from year to year.

How to Comment on My Blog

Updated on: August 22, 2009.

Hi guys...First of all, I'd like to say sorry for the inconvenience that you are unable to give comments on my blog. I know some of you will say, "Koq disuru registrasi sih? Ribet ah!", then you will think that it's gonna take some time to fill in your name, email, etc. The fact is that you don't need to register to comment on my blog. There are two options if you want to comment on my blog. First, you can stay anonymous (or Guest) and add comment on my blog. Or, authenticate yourself by login to one (or all) of your existing member account such as facebook, google, twitter, yahoo, blogger, or openID. You just login with your username and your password then you can start commenting on my blog. I'm gonna show you how to do it. It's as easy as blinking your eyes. Good luck, I'll be waiting for your comments on my blog. Thanks!

Merantau

...Every child must someday leave their home
...and faces the many challenges in life.
Challenges that will guide him towards becoming a man.

Maybe this is the best Indonesian action movie so far. It's just like we are watching a Bruce Lee movie but with different actor and different culture. Bruce Lee is replaced by Yuda, the main character of the movie, and the Chinese famous kungfu culture is replaced by the Indonesian traditional martial art, silat.

This Weekend

Oldies

Where did you spend your weekend? Was it fun? Hmm…I bet it was. Well, today I'm gonna share my experience spending the whole weekend around Jakarta. It was all started from Kota Tua (Eng: the Old Town of Batavia) and ended karaoke-ing with my friends.

12:34:56 07/08/09

What's with those numbers? If you see them in order, they will show a complete decimal numbers from 1 - 9.

The clock striking 12:34:56 07/08/09.

Then what did you do at that once-in-a-lifetime event? You probably slept through a day or working at the office (just like me ;p). Lest you think it was no big deal, reporters across the country scrounged up numerologists to explain the deep significance of it all.

"It's a good day to make money and have good health," said Betsy Carlson in the Palm Springs Desert Sun.

Mbah Surip - A Tribute To

Today we lost one of the most fenomenal singer in Indonesia, Mbah Surip (Eng: Granpa Surip). With his outstanding song titled "Tak Gendong", Mbah Surip died at his popularity, just like Michael Jackson. No one could replace him. His sincerity in living the life has inspired many people in Indonesia. Good bye Mbah Surip. Thank's for bringing happiness for all of us. I love you, full!

How to Change Label Name

This is my first post in terms of blog tips and tricks. I decided to make the blog tips because there have been many requests from friends to customize their blog. I hope in the future I could give more useful tips and tricks to optimize other blogs. Let's just start the first tips.

Today I'm gonna give the tips on how to change the label name of your posts. Let's say you have a bunch of posts with the label name 'My Blog' (label name is taken from my blog) but you've decided that you'd rather call it 'My Diary' instead. You can edit the name of a label directly from each post (as I did before I found the trick - it took me a long time to change only one label), but there's a simple workaround to accomplish your goal:

1. Go to the Posting --> Edit Posts tab for your blog.

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Refael F. Koetin

One of my best buddies...

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Take a Peek

My first post in August...There are two important events will be happen during the month. First, Indonesia will have its Independence Day two weeks from now. And as a moslem, I will have a holy month of Ramadhan. Happy vasting, everyone!

Corruptor's Clock

Purportedly, in the “hereafter” beyond this world, every single country will be given an extraordinary clock by the God. That clock is very special because it can give us an idea about honesty level from the government official of each country. The more a country citizens are honest, the slower the hand of clock ticks. And so with the other hand.

The Filipina’s clock ticks extremely fast. It means, the accusation was right that Marcos did corruptions. The same with Congo’s clock, Mobutu Seseko’s country, which ticks faster. There are a lot of dissimilarities for each country. Cameroon and China are pretty fast. The United States is quite normal, while Iran ticks incredibly slowly.

Komodo National Park Goes to Final

Jakarta - As an Indonesian, we should be proud of our beautiful natural sceneries. On July 21 2009 at 12:07 GMT (19:07 WIB), New 7 Wonders Foundation, has announced Komodo National Park (Ind: Taman Nasional Komodo) as one of 28 finalists eligible to proceed to the final stage (Stage III). Indonesian people are expected to support as much as possible so that the Komodo National Park in Flores, Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara, could be one of the seven wonders of the world.

Yesterday I found an interesting object to be put on my snapshots. It was a doll. Anyway, it's not an ordinary doll which girls always play with. It was a wood-made doll. The doll was actually bought three or four months ago at an exhibition. The name is "HORTA" grass doll (Ind: boneka rumput horta). It is practically a plant media packed in the form of a doll grown by grass. This doll is very suitable as an exercise for children on how to grow plants so they will care more to their environment.

Horta doll is made of wood powder formed in various kinds of shape and grass seed is put on top of that so it will grow hair (in the form of grass). It's really easy to grow the hair. First of all, place the doll in the water container with the position of the head facing downward for approximately an hour. Then place the doll on a dry case. Don't forget to water its head every day. After a week, you can see the grass will start growing. You can do some experiments to make the doll more stylish.

So-Called Pool

A friend of mine was visiting Jakarta a couple of days ago. He told that he wanted to go for a walk while in Jakarta because he had to get back to Semarang on Monday. So I took him to Margo City to play pool. I thought that i had practiced with my colleagues back then so I could show him (a.k.a show off - ind: pamer) I was a great player. We rented a table and ordered some drinks. I took the break, and...

Broken Pot

A few weeks ago, I went to my friend's wedding. At the party, we had chit-chat and laughed together when suddenly my friend accidentally broke a flower pot (well, it wasn't a flower anyway).

Friday, July 17, 2009

Blossom

I don't know what kind of flower this is. But clearly, It's very beautiful when it blooms.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Bike to Campus

Here are the moments I caught with my phone cam a couple of weeks ago when I went cycling to the campus with my best buddies. Please enjoy!

Last Day as a 3D Editor

Today was my last day being a 3D editor. Next week I'll be working on my new position as a Database Administrator. It was pretty sad to leave my team because I just started to feel comfortable around 'em. Good bye Stealth mouse,,Good bye black sunglasses,,Good bye dual monitor computer...

Custom Shoes Designs

Yes...A couple of months ago, me and my two siblings started to have a small business on designing custom shoes. Here are some of the last orders before we shut the door for a while because we are going to spend our holidays (with the money from the profit, of course). Hohohoo...

Tools of the Trade (with some last orders):

Garuda di Dadaku Movie Review

Today I went to Pejaten Village with my little brother to watch the movie "Garuda di Dadaku" (kaya anak SMP/ SMA baru belajar bahasa Inggris :D). Many people said it was a great movie. So, I wanna prove it myself and decide whether it is a good movie or not.

I actually arrived at the cinema @ 11.30 am, but got the tickets for playing @ 3.10 pm. So I had to wait a couple of hours before I could see the movie. I then decided to have lunch at a bistro not far from it.

Indisputable Truth

yeah…Satan is trying very hard to bring us closer to him. That’s why everywhere we look we always seem to be easily aroused and then later on fall to masturbation… so let us all be strong and fight these urges!!! Pray…

Friday, June 19, 2009

Peace!

I saw a picture of a man on my desk this evening. I was just wondering whose drawing was that. Then I asked my little brother but he didn't know it. Instead, he passed over me and went to sleep (geez!!). After a while, my younger sister came to my room and asked where 'the picture' is. So, I gave it to her and asked how to make one. She explained that the artist used a linocut technique to make the artwork.

Basic Stages in the Process of making Comics

One day, a friend of mine asked me about the stages we should do during the comic process. So I gave her the steps:

1. Pencil. hand drawing remains on top of all. Though we can use pen tablet to draw an image, drawing on a computer just cannot beat out the flexibility and details of direct hand drawing on the paper.

My Friend in Action

I just don't know how to say it. When I opened my facebook today and updating the status, I peeped on the right side of my home page, precisely on the highlights section and saw a photo album uploaded by my friend. It was quite appealing to me.

Hiruma Yoichi

Another artwork by my little brother. At first, I didn't notice that it was his own hand drawing. But after he showed me the original artwork (before the editing process), now I believe that IT IS his own hand drawing. The name of the character is Yoichi Hiruma.