Rainy Season Has Shown Its.. Water.

[edit: This post was written on October 31st but neatly stored on my local notes since I haven't had the time to be in touch with the Internet until now, November 20th.]

It’s been a week or so in Bandung, this lovely city *yeah rite* always receive a dark and cold rain. A pouring one mostly. The rain usually comes down in the afternoon, long until the night ends. I just wish that this year there will be no flood in some parts of Bandung (and many other cities) like always in the previous years.

When I heard the word Bandung, I always remember a quote from a blog I read somewhere in the net as follows “Bandung, the city where the border of the road, the sidewalk and the sewer aren’t clear!” Hahaha.. :p Well, to some extent, that was mostly true. But notice that there are still a lot of places with a very clear border, and are nice to walk on especially in the morning or in the afternoon.

Anyway, regarding the rainy season, this year it has proven that indeed i like rainy season more than any other seasons. Well, in Indonesia there are only two seasons anyway, rainy season and the less-rainy season that is. Heheh.. :p Maybe it’s more because the situation that cause my feeling to be more peaceful when it’s raining. That’s not always true actually, especially when I’m around on my bike, I would definitely grumbling all the way heheh..

I like rain, especially when I’m in my room. Alone (well, I like to have companion more, but what can I say :p). I can prepare a very hot chocolate, unplugged musics or maybe the ubiquitous The Corrs. Hold a grip on the long-awaited-hasn’t-read-novels. Dimmed light. With a scene of a beautiful shiny-greeny-little-garden seen through my window, isn’t life so beautiful?

Peace. Out.

So, how’s life?

The very question my friends would ask me. And the identical answer would they get: “Pretty much the same”. Well, it’s not that I’m having my old dull life. But instead, I have a very nice and interesting life, at least since my one semester visit to Germany. And the life of me, hasn’t change so much ever since. Everything seems to be unexpected, a rollercoaster of life you may say. Nice? Sure it is, the quotation from Gump always cheer my always-turn-up-and-down-every-second-or-so life as his mother always said that life’s like a box of chocolate, never know what you gonna get. Not the case with a box of Kit-Kat though :p

So what’s with that “same” answer mentioned? Despite the always-change life I have, I still have pretty much the same pattern, but better lately I think. I still have the very same oat as breakfast. Still the same chococinno every morning. Watch movies every now and then. Listening to music whenever I have the chance. Read topics most interesting to me. Use the same operating system(s) in my work: Mac OS X, Windbloze and Linux. Add a little jogging two or three times a week with some light work out. Attend meetings. Do the research. Dreaming about the very same person every now and then etc. So that pattern hasn’t really change so much, except my sleep time. I finally could manage to fix the biological clock of mine, thanks to Ramadhan that is.

And the best out of it: I sure do believe that happiness is (also) a state of mind. All I need to do is just tune the right frequency to have that Happy Radio of ourselves. So, cheer up! Happy being happy! Good luck..

Peace. Out.

Untitled Sunday

It’s all started out with a quiet beautiful sunday morning. It was bright, yellow flowers blossoming although some of them fallen in pieces onto the ground.

It was warm and comfortable in the morning. In a very short glance I remembered how hot and humid the day could become when the sun was staring down right over my head as it was in the previous day. But the splash (or maybe “hot burst” to be precise) didn’t draw me from enjoying the nice early weather.

As I arrived at the lab and fired up my hackintosh, a bell rang telling me that my sister has her birthday that very moment. Ow yes, 7th October I remembered. Not a very good brother myself, but I try to keep track of at least moment-of-importance of people from my surroundings. I didn’t want to waste time as I texted her immediately and say her a happy birthday, and wish all the best for her.

The girl in mention is the one who laid her left hand over my shoulder. She’s my younger sis, and the one next to her is my older sis. The embraced as the youngest is my li’l bro.

Anyway, I came that bloody Sunday to supervise the last day of the PV installation (read: Photovolataic Installation). All the job done, only mount the PV on the roof that is. There are still some work left including the wiring and such though. But that’s another story since we need an appropriate electric-current inverter to be available to have the system fully functional. Here’s a screenshot of what the mounted PV looks like.

I hope I could write a detailed technical-explanation regarding what this is all about. Included but not limited to what the research goal is, results achieved and such. But later.. :p

Peace. Out.

Photovoltaic Installation

Can you guess how high was I standing? Well, not that I can see the whole Bandung up there, just enough for me to see what were the contractors doing up on the roof between Bio-building and FT-building (in ITB). Today is the third day they have work on the installation of photovoltaic panels. Here’s a wiki page describing what a PV panel/cell is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell in case you’re wondering.

This installation is part of my research project carried out together with my thesis supervisor Dr.-Ing Aman Mostavan. Roughly a year ago, he instructed me to send a research proposal to ITB. It was my first research proposal and lucky enough to be accepted by the institution and granted the rights to be funded IDR 50 Million for a work period of 10 months. The research period ends this November.

Tired for sure. But what a great experience indeed.

Peace. Out.

Neu Freunde

[New Friends]

Wow what a life! Yesterday Bama introduced his friends he knows from his primary school! Isn’t that cool, still having contacts with your buddies from that early days of your schooling period?

So, that’s us having dessert in the ice cream shop right in front of our (Me, Pandu & Bama) little shop. There, you can see (part of) our signage in the top-left of the picture. We previously went to break our fast in our favorite Japanese resto, still in the area of CiWalk. From fore-left to right: Intan, Me, Pandu, Dinda, Eva, Bama. And of course, one more person who took the picture: Euis. I know, “Sunda pisan..” :)

This time the picture was taken by Intan, and there’s Euis replacing Intan’s place. Not much of a picture variation indeed. Hehe.. :p

Peace. Out.