tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56086442011-08-23T14:03:28.355+07:00Jazzing Up the DayJust my rumbling mumbling about what i do everydayNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-91694852509540621932007-07-09T16:45:00.000+07:002007-07-09T17:09:40.443+07:00Individualist v. Socialist or more than that?It's interesting how a person can evolve based on his surroundings. I still remember my days back in the States where everyone tends to be individualist. It is very common to see a person walking in a shopping place or mall all by himself and I used to do that all the time. That was like 3-4 years ago. Now I have lived in Jakarta for more than 2 years Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1159804491312306162006-10-02T21:53:00.000+07:002006-10-02T22:54:52.123+07:00The Blue GroupWow..it's been forever since I filled up this blog. A few things have changed, now I am a trainee. I just got back from a remote area around 2.5 hours from Palembang for about 1 months with another 11 ppl. It was quite an adventure, especially considering the length of time, I was close to having a vision of a beautiful cow...ekkekeke. I am included in Blue Group or Group 1. The Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1148833344337676442006-05-28T22:42:00.000+07:002006-05-28T23:22:24.380+07:00Unmemorable Long WeekendAnother week, another very long weekend. Thursday was the Ascension day (if im not mistaken). So, along with this weird Indonesian government policy that states that everytime there's a Harpitnas (hari kejepit nasional alias National Stuck Day hahahahaha) everyone will have the break-together (cuti bersama) on Friday, I had another very long weekend.Actually there is notNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1147631513360853912006-05-15T01:04:00.000+07:002006-05-15T01:31:53.413+07:00Makin Myself BusyOn Tuesday, while I was workin, AM all of a sudden msg me on Yahoo!, been a bit while... and she told me the news about certain someone who has just got surgery done.... it's not a regular surgery.. a plastic surgery. Wow...ahhaha.... he's the first amongst everyone that I know well that have done that. Yea he's a bit eccentric and it's a bit surprising, but if someone's going toNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1147063920529183352006-05-08T09:41:00.000+07:002006-05-08T12:49:23.570+07:00LimboismLast weekend... Limboism. That word kind of sum up part of my weekend. Started out on Friday... while "ngaso"-ing at home after comin back from work, AD asked me to go to Aksara as he was lookin to watch a presentation about FengShui... of course I wasnt interested on the presentation, but it's better than stayin at home i figured. So I went to Aksara, who knows I can find some bargain Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1140165089605316522006-02-17T15:25:00.000+07:002006-02-17T16:10:42.480+07:00Pure Nerd60 % Nerd, 26% Geek, 13% Dork For The Record:A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.You scored better than half in Nerd, earning you the title of: Pure Nerd. The Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1139988184682389812006-02-15T13:55:00.000+07:002006-02-15T14:23:04.720+07:00Opening the CardsLast night I went to a BBQ with my friends. I was just comin back from Balikpapan and got the news of the party via SMS on the night of Valentines (not that anyone care about it hahaha). I was assuming it's just gonna be a harmless BBQ party of course. Then I came with TL at about 730ish. Surprisingly, there were a few bottles of vodka and wine up there. Apparently it's not just Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1139053507754538332006-02-04T18:38:00.000+07:002006-02-04T19:12:25.726+07:00Another Seinfeld Moment?It's interesting how I can relate to things that's happening around me to a sitcom...Seinfeld. There was an episode when Seinfeld was going out with someone. He is a stand-up comic, so he loves to crack some jokes. Ironically this women hardly ever cracked a smile, even when he jokes. Then he went into her apt, and he met her roommate. He joked a bit and she laughs Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1135177597945995732005-12-21T21:22:00.000+07:002005-12-21T22:20:42.800+07:00Da MoviesI am apparently too lazy to write reviews for 10 movies hahahah so I'll just put in a grade and a small comment ;).TAEGUKGI 87/100(Very good one, showed deeper conflict than that of "Saving Private Ryan", a bit too melodramatic and exaggarative at times )SPRING SUMMER WINTER FALL AND SPRING AGAIN 91/100(Impressive, I don't know the name of a single character and there's hardly any Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1134847646765287272005-12-18T01:44:00.000+07:002005-12-18T02:45:17.656+07:00Jiffest TripIt's mid december in Jakarta. It's time for the Film Festival that I have been waiting for, Jakarta International Film Festival alias Jiffest. I was so excited that I bought the Gold member tickets (good for 10 movies) for 100k about a week before the festival (9-18 December). Here is the list of movies that I have bought the ticket for,1. Taegukgi (The Brotherhood of War) - South Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1131649922762021022005-11-11T01:53:00.000+07:002005-11-11T02:16:49.623+07:00Distant Memories Coming BackI have been close with one or more friends of opposite sex in the last few months (not that I'm a playboy...ahhaa..still single anyways or am I being a Seinfeld ?[whole different issue!]). But this one, really brought back my college memory and how I kind of threw the "relationship" away for selfish and stupid reason. When I was in college, I always have a few friends Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1126809083014510852005-09-16T01:15:00.000+07:002005-09-16T01:31:23.020+07:00TOTALly weirdA couple days ago I went out with MT and met KLM at a cafe in Dharmawangsa Sq. I talked about my appointment for an interview with TOTAL...the oil company of course. Did you know what was KLM's response? He asked me with a serious mimic, "TOTAL buah segar itu ya yg di panglima polim?".... he he he.......FUNNY FAMILY GUY STORY: Peter Griffin suddenly daydreamed about what if he go to Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1122866316054898852005-08-04T09:44:00.000+07:002005-08-06T03:30:59.003+07:00Culture ShockEveryone who went back from a country far far away to Jakarta after not coming back for years tends to have culture shock. I have this friend, her name is TS. She used to be my phone friend, we used to talk a lot about the boring life up in the states, the people and the state of our life ahhahaha. She just got back from LA last tuesday. I met her for the first time down here in Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1122702594206163922005-07-30T12:32:00.000+07:002005-07-30T12:58:24.746+07:00Deja Vu and Dreams Having a dream in my sleep for me is a very regular thing to occur. Having a dream that ended up as an deja vu in the future is also very common for me. Almost once a week it always seem that I experience the stuff that I exposed to the other time, in my assumption it's in my dream. It always occur in my dream as a random, trivial stuff so I always end up not remembering the Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1121226182441771812005-07-13T10:38:00.000+07:002005-07-27T11:52:39.063+07:00Heavy on the PlaylistAlbums that I have downloaded the past month....Kaiser Chiefs - EmploymentThis garage rock band named themselves from a football club down in South Africa. The music in this album while not so original, but so diverse and mostly catchy. "Everyday I Love You Less and Less" is a very anthemic song with funny sometimes stupid lyric :D. "I Predict a Riot" is their catchy first Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1120997720876240082005-07-10T18:49:00.000+07:002005-07-10T19:25:10.956+07:00CriteriaEvery person seems to have their own criteria for his/her companion. Sometimes that criteria are kind of absolute , like same religion, no smoking, working etc etc etc. But sometimes that feeling just came out of the blue, without caring about the criteria that have been set.....u might have told people about he and she must be like and must not be like and it might just fall flat in yourNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1120447170756825952005-07-04T08:59:00.000+07:002005-07-06T00:34:35.643+07:00July is ComingStarted out on Thursday, me and MT went to Citos to meet IY. The story on IY is pretty interesting, I have only met her twice, one of em was a month ago with CS people (she came to CS once and really loved it) and the other one when I was watching Stereosoul with friends, that one was quite a short one. So she's pretty much still mysterious to me, only more as friend of a friend. Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1120161629622005722005-07-01T02:23:00.000+07:002005-07-01T03:00:29.643+07:00Twenty FourJuly 1st, 2005I am officially 24 years old.I usually don't really care that much about birthday. It's very rare that I celebrate my birthday. Especially after passing the 21 year mark. I don't really feel that I have that mark that I'm aiming. 21 years old is the legal age, what next? 25? the age when your car insurance dropped? :P. Ever since I passed 21 years old, I always feel that Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1119531237234215442005-06-23T18:58:00.000+07:002005-06-23T19:59:13.533+07:00Batman BeginsI watched the movie on the first day it played, yesterday. It got rave reviews from my friends who already watched the movie during midnight screening. I noticed that Christopher Nolan directed this movie. For those of you who haven't heard of this guy, he directed a masterpiece, mind-bending movie titled Memento, one of my personal fave.I anticipated a movie that is deep in Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1119527895164203502005-06-23T18:23:00.000+07:002005-06-23T20:06:07.576+07:00Transformed?A few days after I went out on the Sunday nite with MT, AY and PPN... MT told me how AY was impressed at how I have changed since the junior high school days. I was like,... I think I'm still the same person with just a little bit more confidence. AY said that I was never talkative the last time he really knew me (junior high that is), I was too inward, introvert, shy and that kind ofNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1119271793619304632005-06-20T19:19:00.000+07:002005-06-20T21:21:04.003+07:00Longgg RecapHaven't got a chance to fill this thing up as I've been a bit out and about the last few days, hehee...on Thursday, I went to PS with MT to see his close friend WD and her relatives...nothing really interesting to tell about. As we talked, PPN txt'ed us asking us to come to a "dugem" session....on Thursday. Actually, her brother was going to play there. I haven't "dugem" for a pretty Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1118860118919488172005-06-16T01:13:00.000+07:002005-06-16T01:28:38.926+07:00Playing ChessI used to play Chess a lot when I was in elementary. It was even my x-tra curricular activity back then..talkin about a nerd :D. That's not the kind of chess I'm talkin about though. It's my mind who has been playing chess lately. You know that in Islam our biggest jihad is the war between desire (nafsu) and brain (akal).....it's always a constant war that never ends til u die.......Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1118639356520052592005-06-13T10:47:00.000+07:002005-06-13T12:09:16.543+07:00Arisan: Reason to GatherEvery few months, my junior High school friends (Alpus friends that is) always hold an arisan event for us to gather and meet. Arisan might sounds girly and shit for the guys, but if you think about it, it's a great media/reason to meet each other. When you say reunion, it sounds cheesy, why reunion every 3 months ? ehuehue. When you say arisan, oh okay we're just gonna Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1118462348588195092005-06-11T10:13:00.000+07:002005-06-11T11:24:09.230+07:00Before SunriseOne night, I was having a little insomnia as it was around midnight when I decided to watch "Before Sunrise". I suddenly found this DVD lying around my bedroom, probably my bro already owned it for some time but I was not aware of it. I have already watched Before Sunset and was really impressed by it. The strong dialogue, the sort of immense feeling that sparked between Jesse and Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1118345890617546272005-06-10T02:35:00.000+07:002005-06-10T02:45:19.590+07:00Loud and Energetic BunchYesterday, out of the blue, MS txt'ed me to tell me about my high school same-bench (sebangku :D, can anybody come up with a better word?) friend, DS. He apparently is having his vacation out of his graduate study up in Singapore. We were a pretty unique friend, we have a lot physical stuff in common...like our lips..ahhahah....we used to sit at the back right corner of Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1118297702775722462005-06-09T12:52:00.000+07:002005-06-09T22:09:44.800+07:00The Failed PledgeOn Tuesday I pledged myself to not go out because I have been out a lot the last few days and my mom didn't seem to be pleased by it. Well, it worked til when I picked my sister up at her school, MS txt'ed me...she told me that she's in Dharmawangsa buying ticket for her Bali trip (ahhh..want to go :P) and she asked me to meet. ha ha...I haven't seen her for some time and Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1118034531559161522005-06-06T09:49:00.000+07:002005-06-06T12:15:09.110+07:00Maliq and D'EssentialsThis band has been touted as the next big thing in Indonesia music scene. The first time I heard about these guys was in Java Jazz Festival (ohh... my wet dream), I was going to come in and watch them but it was really overcrowded and I only kind of listen their music from the outside, I thought they were playing some BNH tune and it was solid. I didn't stay for very long upNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1117946062324427542005-06-05T10:23:00.000+07:002005-06-06T12:49:06.140+07:00Djarumit's friday, TGIF? well for people like me not really ehuheuehue... was asked to stay at home during the day because nobody's home and my maids had been coming and going in a very short term...the last one ran away about a few weeks ago, she's from Bali and we already even paid for the flight and stuff and yet...she ran away. There goes my chance to eat free Bebek Bali :D. Anyways, she toldNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1117652085962241562005-06-02T01:18:00.000+07:002005-06-02T01:54:46.000+07:00Mr. Prawiro is blocking my house....Wednesday, midweek, the midst of not knowing what to do...is it rite? well not sure about that...one thing for sure, I noticed there's a lot of tents and police cars around my house. It's because one of the ex-minister named Radius Prawiro passed away last Thursday. The interesting thing was that the tents has been there since that Thursday, and it's still Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1117565304581201752005-06-01T01:31:00.000+07:002005-06-01T03:18:44.163+07:00Please, Humour Me?I didn't do much today, because I got a bit sick...well it's actually not THAT bad...but enough to hinder my activity...cancelled a few plans. I think I got the flu from MT and DY when I went to his place to play WE (Winning Eleven 9) the other day. Anyway I lost 20k rups that day, coz I lost the bet on the game hohoohho. demmm yu MT, I'll fare much better next time ;). Overall,Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1117460146850015732005-05-30T20:25:00.000+07:002005-05-30T20:36:06.576+07:00WaitingWaiting is the most torturous thing that humans have to do. Why wait? We cannot do a lot of things that we can usually do when doing other stuff...waiting for the doctor's call? you cannot go out....waiting for a phone call? you cannot call anyone else or go out...waiting for a ride to come? you cannot go anywhere other than the rendezvous point.....torturous isnt it?...........Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1117449754220684722005-05-30T17:16:00.000+07:002005-05-30T19:23:14.836+07:00Want To Work for Ari Wibowo?I actually got this one from my high school's mailing list. I think it's been circulating everywhere...It's becoming a source of polemic between us. The feminist side thinks that this show is very degrading because Ari's trying to make his search of PRT as a commodity to make money... while the cuek side thinks that it shouldnt be a big deal because..well, it should beNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1117124001391071052005-05-26T19:29:00.000+07:002005-05-26T23:23:42.136+07:00Instant ClassicEvery year, there's always an important sporting event for MEN...yea real men (sounds machismo? :D), who likes soccer and stuff like that. This year is an odd year, so there's no big event like EURO or WORLD CUP going on....This year the Day is Champions League Final. The culmination of inter-club competition. Fortunately, this year the final brought up a great matchup between an Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1116864616386972312005-05-23T22:09:00.000+07:002005-05-23T23:14:14.136+07:00Boredomfrom Wikipedia.orgBoredom, or ennui (pronounced "on-we," this French word comes from Old French enui, root of the English word 'annoy') is a reactive state to wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious stimuli: suffering from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, etc., or do (physically or intellectually), while not in the mood of "doing nothing". Those afflicted by temporary boredom may Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1116607571408105752005-05-20T23:34:00.000+07:002005-05-21T09:53:17.326+07:00The Insignificant FridayWell some of you might wonder what happen to that stuff that RD talked about, well it turned out that it's kind of true everything cannot be fully logical, especially when it's Ghaib related...you can get crazy thinking about why Allah create human being to be abdis, was Allah craving for attention?...well only Allah knows, and I have no business trying to figure out why..Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1116438326754606572005-05-19T00:36:00.000+07:002005-05-21T11:19:40.340+07:00Another Stunner from Dave ChappelleYep , he pulled another stunner.. It was reported that he's in South Africanot because he checked into the mental facility, instead he got thereto consult with his close Moslem friend named Salim ...and yes, he'sa MOSLEM since 1998..considering the kind of jokes he usuallycame up with, that's a shocker to me.On the Beach With Dave ChappelleDave Chappelle shows Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1116094110425056352005-05-15T00:46:00.000+07:002005-05-15T01:41:34.996+07:00Cruisin For BruisinSaturday always seemed to be the day I went out a lot. I'm not actually a big fan of going anywhere far on that day due to crazy traffic and stuff, but for whatever reason, I still go out anyway. Went to Pasar Baru with AD after lunch to buy some film rolls, well a lot of em. We saved 5000 rups per roll in Ps Baru. I haven't been to that place for ages though. Actually I did Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1115969447328434812005-05-13T14:06:00.000+07:002005-05-21T11:23:36.700+07:00Dave Chappelle's Woeugh ogh, Dave Chappelle, what is wrong wit u? I guess the pressure of trying to live up the huge expectation for the third season apparently has taken its toll....I would admit his skits in "Chappelle's Show" were really hilarious. My personal fave was the one about the blind black- white supremacist named Clayton Bigsby. still confused? This guy is a black man who's blind butNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1115916317736854482005-05-12T23:06:00.000+07:002005-05-12T23:56:35.690+07:00Wedding GaloreWell.. I'm pretty close to 24 years old rite now, it's the time where I always end up in someone's wedding every weekend...yep it's that time. It's pretty analogous to when we're at around 2nd grade in high school when we seemed to be in someone's sweet 17 invitation. I actually have my own streak, coming into someone's wedding every weekend for 4 straight week... well it's probablyNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1115832455507045982005-05-12T00:12:00.000+07:002005-05-12T00:27:35.523+07:00Amazing RaceI would like to congratulate Uchenna and Joyce after winning 1 million US dollars through Amazing Race 7. I think I can honestly say that show is the only reality show I faithfully follow. The episode finale was pretty hectic and eventful. The three couples seems to be constantly exchanging position every single task, even Uchenna and Joyce lost the first hour and had to lose all Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1115662375957905482005-05-10T01:06:00.000+07:002005-05-10T01:12:55.963+07:00just feels like putting funny quotes... "You know the difference between a dentist and a sadist, don't you? Newer magazines."- Jerry Seinfeld, in "The Yada Yada"- "I used to play in a Death Metal band. They either loved us or they hated us...or they thought we were "okay". Most Death Metal bands have dark names like "Obituary"..."Mortuary"..."Rigor Mortis". We weren't Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1115526251598362082005-05-08T10:23:00.000+07:002005-05-09T02:14:08.846+07:00A Case of SaturdaysI did not have a solid plan to go anywhere that day. Well, I was hoping that the DAU people actually asked me to go watch Maliq at NYC if that's turned out to be true. I didn't hear any news from them...so scratch that from the plan. AD went to my place, he was apparently bored at work and decided to went off early. We ended up eating Yamin at Pertok and did the usual reading Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1115370679409104112005-05-06T16:10:00.000+07:002005-05-06T16:11:19.413+07:00Janji JoniI actually watched this movie last Monday, utilizing that nomat thingy in Wijaya with my sister. I have heard pretty good reviews about this one, so off I go. The main idea of Janji Joni was pretty creative, who would have thought there would be a movie about the movie roll delivery guy? Another reason I watched this movie was to see the gorgeous Mariana Renata, she's probably not that Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1115312197417436082005-05-05T23:48:00.000+07:002005-05-06T00:06:03.476+07:00DVD ReportI went to Mal Ambassador today to accompany my mom. I was a bit bored, so I went to 3rd floor and did some DVD hunting. Here's what I've got..1. Seinfeld season 1-3 (been looking for this for ages! cannot wait to watch every single episodes)2. Be Cool (to see Andre 3000's debut ;))3. Clockwork Orange (Collector's item, already watched the movie, but it was so good that I decided to buy Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1115310868286310092005-05-05T23:11:00.000+07:002005-05-06T00:09:42.973+07:00Jayus GaloreI met a few of DAU gang last weekend in Dharmawangsa. They were pretty loud and energetic bunch. I actually like 'em a lot, of course I've known em for about 7 years or so. One of them, IP loved to spew lots of jokes. A lot of those were actually funny. Some of those were not so funny, or Jayush... We love to kind of poke fun of her Jayus jokes... well these are a few of em...IP: Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1114953649100513842005-05-01T20:15:00.000+07:002005-05-01T20:20:49.103+07:00Physics of Hell*The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid-term. The answer was so "profound" that the Professor shared it with colleagues, and the sharing obviously hasn't ceased...Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote Proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law, (gas cools off whenNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1114773787355288242005-04-29T18:12:00.000+07:002005-05-21T11:21:11.400+07:00I ran across a great Daniel Ziv interview in Fairy's website (see link on the side). For those of you who don't know Daniel Ziv, he is the author of Jakarta Inside Out and Bangkok Inside Out. He used to be a regular contributor in Djakarta! magazine (my fave local mags). His brutally honest, thoughful and funny observation of Jakarta's pop culture made him one of my fave writerInside Out with Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1114715459611536332005-04-29T01:29:00.000+07:002005-04-29T02:53:56.870+07:00THE ZAPA WEEKIt's been a week...well last weekend was pretty interesting. Me, AD dan Dheet went to TS's wedding reception at Bidakara. I expected to see some of my ol Zapa friend, well the expectation was fulfilled and then some more. I counted there were about 70 of my Zapa friends came to the wedding. A huge surprise considering last week there was also a wedding and there were only about 10ishNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1114615806920011862005-04-27T22:18:00.000+07:002005-04-28T00:57:47.993+07:00some interesting stuffSelling iPods, cellphones, and digital cameras by vending machineApparently they’re now selling digital cameras and iPods via the vending machines at San Francisco International Airport (isn’t this more of a Japanese thing?), right alongside typical airport vending machine fare like KitKat Bites and Jelly Belly jellybeans (which means that all those hours we spent in collegeNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1114024692934540862005-04-21T01:40:00.000+07:002005-04-21T02:18:12.936+07:00Wow...I haven't touched this blog for almost a year! I am sorry for anyone (if there's any ;)) who's waiting for the review of that movie heheheeheh....now I don't have clear enough memory left about Eternal Sunshine to write a review but I know for sure it ranks among my best all time.There's lots of stuff changes since May 04....now I am back home in Jakarta in this "new" home in Brawijaya. I Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1083482083084080862004-05-02T14:14:00.000+07:002004-05-02T14:20:27.826+07:00I went to Houston on Friday afternoon. My CPU started acting up on Thursday. It started heating up to about 70 C when I played CM. That's pretty scary, FYI the processor would melt if the temperature reaches 90 C. I checked the Motherboard temperature and it's only about 30 C... So the problem must be on the heatsink. So I decided to go to Houston to buy a heatsink. Well, I can actually opted to Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1083297054884809352004-04-30T10:50:00.000+07:002004-04-30T10:54:01.060+07:00narok joke lagi ah "On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the fuck did you get that banana at..." -Mitch Hedberg- LISTENING TO: Placebo - Every Me Every You Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1083067061914242462004-04-27T18:57:00.000+07:002004-04-27T19:01:00.436+07:00Came across with this joke "One time a guy handed me a picture of himself, and he said, "Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture of you is of when you were younger. Here's a picture of me when I am older. You son of a bitch, how'd you pull that off? Let me see that camera..." -Mitch Hedberg's standup- LISTENING TO: Jimsaku - I'm Gonna Catch YouNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1082867058897578052004-04-25T11:24:00.000+07:002004-04-25T12:00:34.700+07:00Well I cancelled my plans to Dallas coz I did not get anyone to accompany me driving up there. But... I did save my money on car insurance... hehueue ....*jayus STAND-UPS I watched this show on Comedy Central the 100 greatest stand-up comedians. Basically it's one of those list shows that I usually love to follow, but of course it is not one of those absurd made up list that VH1 usually Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1082798061767551842004-04-24T16:14:00.000+07:002004-04-24T16:24:01.466+07:00I missed my Friday prayer today! well yesterday technically. How could that happened? On Thursday I drove J up to Houston to pick up his extended passport. My car's compressor has not been functioning for awhile and needs to be changed. The cost for this job would be very very expensive as the price of the compressor itself can reach about 500 bucks. So my car's AC is not cold at all. The Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1082609945486945182004-04-22T11:59:00.000+07:002004-04-22T12:06:41.216+07:00Today, I just found out that Wiranto has been elected to be the Indonesian president candidate from the most powerful party Golkar. Hearing this news, I was pretty shocked. The more shocking thing is that some of my friends actually supports his candidacy. What the heck? What happen to my Indonesia? Don't they all know that this guy is considered as an alleged war criminal by UN. Yes, by UN. It'sNgacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1082573954956742902004-04-22T01:59:00.000+07:002004-04-22T05:12:24.216+07:00Ahhh, lazy days being unemployed....... Uncertainties everywhere....... but you know, Friendster kind of helps :D... well I miss my ex-roomie too... probably want to go to Dallas this weekend, watching some stand-ups....that would be pretty fun. I spend too much time playing this CM game...getting too addictive...yea this game is pure pure evil... so I advise everyone of you not to play Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5608644.post-1059000546364797462003-07-24T05:49:00.000+07:002004-04-22T02:27:10.200+07:00Hello people, I am Ngacier, well it is not my real name, but I want to keep myself in some level of anonymity if that's ok for y'all, and My English sucks at times so for those of you who only speaks English bare with me, I will write some blog in Indonesian if I'm lazy. I am an Indonesian who's studying Chemical Engineering in Texas A&M University, sounds pretty nasty huh... well .. shortly (Ngacierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05329193918948801124noreply@blogger.com0