I See the Moon

At home, with D80, 1/60s, f/2.8, 24mm, ISO100, 13.07.2008

I miss you, my loves!

Short version.

I see the moon
The moon sees me
The moon sees somebody I wanna see
So God bless the moon
God bless me
God bless the somebody I wanna see

Long version.

I see the moon and the moon sees me
And the moon sees somebody I wanna see
God bless the moon and god bless me
And god bless the somebody I wanna see
God looked down from up above
And he picked you out for me to love
He picked you out from all the rest
Cause he knew that I loved you the very best
I see the moon and the moon sees me
And the moon sees somebody I wanna see
God bless the moon and god bless me

Cicak

Originally posted here.

Celine & Wina are having another holiday in Jakarta.
Celine has finally speaks her first word, “Cicak” or Gecko in English.

Celine & Wina sedang berlibur lagi di Jakarta.
Akhirnya Celine bisa menyebut koleksi kata pertamanya, Cicak.

Celine, in JBP, with D80, 1/125s, f/3.2, 24mm, ISO400, 02.08.2008

Wina, in JBP, with D80, 1/25s, f/2.8, 14mm, ISO100, 02.08.2008

Olympics Update, Day 7

• Lili & Nova won against Thailand’s pair and went to the semi.
• Vita & Flandy won against Denmark’s pair and also went to semi. All Indonesians final dream for mixed doubles is still possible.
• Tomorrow Markis Kido, Hendra Setiawan (Come on another Setiawan!), and arguably our best player so far in Olympics, Maria Kristin Yulianti will play.

Other News:

• Argentina football team will play against Netherlands in QF. It should be a good game. Here I’m talking about men’s football team.

Originally posted here.

Olympics Update, Day 6

• Maria Kristin Yulianti in semi final beating India (Yeah, a revenge from Singapore Open 2008 lost)
• Sony Dwi Kuncoro lost to Malaysia. No more men’s single in badminton.
• Markis Kido & Hendra Setiawan won against Malaysia. I just watched it live.
• Lili, Nova, Vita & Flandy will play in last 8 tomorrow.

Originally posted here.

Olympics Update, Day 5

• Triyatno gave another bronze medal for Indonesia from another weightlifting event.
• Taufik Hidayat lost to someone from Malaysia.
• Lili & Nova won against South Korea pairs.
• Vita & Flandy won against Germany pairs.
• Hendra & Markis won against China pairs.
• Alvent & Luluk lost to Japan pairs.
• Maria Kristin Yulianti won against Tine Rasmussen (GREAT!!! Tine won Singapore Open, let’s see if I got one of the picture when she as here.)

Originally posted here.

Olympics update, Day 2

• Maria Kristen Yulianti proceeds to the 2nd round beating Juliane Schenk from Germany.
• Eko Irawan of Indonesia won bronze, the first medal for Indonesia in this year’s Olympics.

Other news:

• Argentina football team won 1-0 against Australia.
• Argentina women’s hockey team drew against USA.
• US men’s basketball team won against China.
• List of Asian countries who got the medal: China, South & North Korea, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Chinese Taipei, and of course Indonesia.

Source: a lot of sources.You can ask uncle Googgle.

Originally posted here.

Indonesian Idol 2008

Well, i rarely watched these Idol things (Okay, let me say it properly, this Idol competitions), but suddenly while I logged in to this blog, I was asked to watch the result of this year’s Indonesian Idol.

The winner is a street singer (In bahasa Indonesia: pengamen), which is a good thing. At least hopefully his life will be much better in the future although I expect he will never forget his root. It was also said that he still (or already?) has one toddler, which make the winning is so much better.

Life changed & people changed!

Originally posted here.

Book Summary: Database Management Systems, Chapter 01

Details:

Database Management Systems

Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke
ISBN 0071230572

Chapter 01: Introduction to Database Systems

Fow now, it’s only Chapter 01. The other chapters are coming up.

Originally posted here.

08.08.08 08:08:08

This picture got the big prize for the exact time it was taken, 08.08.08 08:08:08.
Wina was almost getting ready for her NDP event in her school while Celine was getting ready to go with Bunda.
See the original post here.

Stolz und Vorurteil

Jane Austen was a famous English novelist^[1] whose novels were translated into a lot other languages than English and some even made into movies.

One of her books that I want to discuss here is her Pride and Prejudice. I’m not going to discuss the book, the plots, the main characters. I’m going to discuss the difference of translation versions between 2 translator of this book.

The first translation is by Helga Schulz, with title “Stolz und Vorurteil”, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag with ISBN 3423123508. The second one is by Ursula and Christian Grawe, with the same title and the same publisher with ISBN 3453123247.

See the complete post here.

Dedication: Zard’s Izumi Sakai

Today, I dedicated this site to present some random Zard’s videos. One of the member of Zard, Izumi Sakai, who died just last year, 27 May 2007. Along with books, musics, especially Japanese musics have their own right to claim that they have a role in my life. First dedication goes to Zard. Thank you for the music!

Originally posted here.

Books

I read a lot of books since I was a kid. From comics (Well, they’re books too, right?) to novels like Harry Potter to serious books such as Project Management books. I was blessed that I was able to read really early (but I can’t remember when that was). Some of the first books I read were for example a book about the prophet Muhammad pbuh and of course Enid Blyton’s books.
When I contemplate whether this hobby of mine affected my life, I can certainly say that it did. If I hadn’t read those books that I read, I might not have inspirations I needed.
One thing for sure, at least, reading a book can make sure that your time in a day will be gone without you noticing it. It’s a very useful, especially when we have to wait for a long queue or we have to travel far daily to our office.
Nowadays other than reading, I use audiobooks as alternative and I also use the digital format of a book such as in Mobipocket format. With these formats, I could ‘bring’ a lot books with only using my mobile phone. Isn’t that nice?
Note: I list some of the books I read in goodreads.com.
Originally posted here.

A Good Season Ahead?

Will it be a good season ahead for Liverpool? They just destroyed Rangers 0-4 on their soil last Saturday. Although Keane was not scoring, Torres and the other players played a very attacking football. A good sign for the fans like me. Let’s hope we will have a good season in the beginning, in the middle and in the end until finally we re-capture the League title after almost 20 years.

Originally posted here.

Celine's New Picture

One of them is here.

Indonesian English

One day after school, my daughter Wina saw her friend was carried by her mother, and then this conversation happened between Wina, Bunda and her friend’s mother.

Wina to Bunda: Mom, I not gendong. Baby gendong.

Friend’s Mom: Indonesian English, ya? (This is Singlish)

Wina: No, Jakarta.

Origial post is here.