iz my laive

2008-09-15T00:20:00.001+08:00

time for bed!

2008-09-13T12:39:00.001+08:00

showered and ready to go

2008-09-13T10:53:00.001+08:00

waking up on a saturday morning, nice to wake up late and relax

2008-09-13T04:48:00.001+08:00

another fasting day ahead... day #13

2008-09-13T01:16:00.001+08:00

time for bed...

2008-09-13T00:09:00.001+08:00

at home, watching Ike wreak havoc

2008-09-12T15:54:00.001+08:00

wow! more responses!

2008-09-12T14:18:00.001+08:00

back from a break to Plangi

2008-09-12T11:50:00.001+08:00

wow! more responses!

2008-09-12T11:36:00.001+08:00

struggling through...

2008-09-12T10:10:00.001+08:00

status at the office... its too early for me... where's my coffee?

2008-09-12T06:34:00.001+08:00

kachow! on ping.fm

2008-06-07T15:40:00.003+08:00

Catching up!

- My band played in a record breaking 31 hours of non-stop jazz. Link
- I had to travel on the night Chris Botti came to town (sucks!)
- I've linked up this blog with my other blog. I guess I'm trying to converge blogs.
- I'm now Plurking. Link.
- I'm looking forward to joining up with another Big Band, how I juggle both bands will be a mystery for now.

Thats all for now.

2008-04-26T22:52:00.003+08:00

Live Report from Arcadia\'s Black Cat!

Ok, so we got here a little late. Well, just in time actually. I parked the car at another buildings parking lot, and hopped it on foot over to the Plaza Senayan Arcadia building. Made a quick stop at Duta Suara to buy a couple of Chris Botti\'s CD\'s. I actually have some of his CD\'s but thats another story for another time.
Made it over to Black Cat at 16:00. A few other people were here from other communities as well, such as AyoFoto, Komunitas Jazz Kemayoran and Blogger Indonesia. Not quite sure how I got invited, but here I am.

OK, its a bad shot. Too much backlight. Hey, its a mobile phone camera, what can you expect. Of course, any charitable acts are welcomed. *self-pimpage*

I\'ve been reading a bit about Chris B, and aside from him being a trumpet player, like me, thats about all that we have in common! Well, we both like jazz. The interview is starting, so I will listen for a bit before I add more.

Anyway, May 24th... Balai Kartini? Find me next to the stage! If I can afford the tix!

2008-04-03T11:00:00.003+08:00

so what is a blogger?

if you have a blog, does that make you a blogger?
if you have a blog, but you dont update it? does it mean you are no longer a blogger? (assuming you were a blogger in the beginning).
if you have a (or several) blogs? can you claim not to be a blogger?

so what makes you a blogger?
conversely,
what doesnt make you a blogger?

so what is a blogger?

2008-03-29T21:40:00.001+08:00

I AM A BLOGGER

I AM ABOUT FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF OPINION.

I WILL NOT BE CENSORED

2008-03-27T12:01:00.008+08:00

My band is playing here tonight.

And I've got a cough, but I'm still playing.

2008-03-10T22:20:00.002+08:00

MyBand Goes to the Java Jazz Festival

Well it happened. We played at the famous Java Jazz Festival. We didnt have much time to prepare, as we were told by Mas S about 3 weeks beforehand. We were actually in the middle of preparing for another event when we learned about the opportunity.
With such short notice, we decided to play songs that we have mastered, instead of trying to get in a new playlist. Since it is a jazz festival (of sorts) we chose our songs carefully, getting in the more standard jazz tunes and our most decent sounding swing tunes.
We ended up with the following list:
1. Satin Doll
2. The Way You Look Tonight
3. Fly Me to the Moon
4. How High the Moon
5. Girl from Ipanema
6. You are the Sunshine of My Life
7. Quiet Night of Quiet Stars
8. My Favorite Things
9. Birdland

We also managed to get some singers to perform together for some songs: How High the Moon, Girl From Ipanema, Fly Me to the Moon. Additionally, we got some rest time for the Big Band while the singers did Just the Two of Us and Didadaku with the rhythm section.

MyBand was the first show of the day and we were neatly tucked away, off to the side in the Talent Stage. So we didnt expect the parking lot to be full nor would we have any body watching us, but it was and we did.
The parking lot was pretty full when we got there at 3:00PM. We had wanted to drop off our equipment and our instruments near the entrance but we couldnt. We had to park all the way over yonder and lug our stuff to the hall. Being a small band we didnt have our own roadie crew. Being a small Bigband, we had the dubious honor of having to lug our own chairs too! Yes the committee didnt or couldnt provide us with chairs for the event.

We were warmed up and ready to play by 4:00PM, but we had to wait until our actual time of 4:30 before we could start playing. These guys were pretty strict on the rules. I guess it is important if you have multiple stages that are pretty close to each other. I would be pretty upset if I couldnt hear my band because some other band was tooting around. So at exactly 4:30, our conductor picked up the mike, and in his very Javanese accent announced who we were, and what our first song would be.
Before we knew it, we were already at our 5th song, we had already covered half of our repertoire, introduced our singers and had quite a gathering. I estimated about 50 people, consisting of friends and spouses, jazz community people and people just wandering between shows. At the end of every solo, we clapped for our own just because we could. It helped to pump up the crowd too...
We closed with Birdland, its a crowd pleaser song, rather fast paced, loud, jazzy and a definite toe tapper. All ini all, I think we had as much fun as those that turned up to watch.

2007-09-12T16:42:00.000+08:00

Dear Little Sarah,

Everyday we hope and pray for your recovery. We know its a tough and trying job, but we know you can do it. We are also praying so that your mom and dad will be comforted, strengthened and given hope.
We look forward to the day when we can hear your laughter, share your joy, listen to your stories and maybe even play with you.
We long for the day when we can read your dad's blog about you, perhaps even one day we can even read your own blog with your own thoughts and writings.

Dear little Sarah,

please remember that although we haven't met, we are all so fond of you. We all want the best for you and your family.
So please little Sarah, get well.
You can take your time, we know little babies can get tired, so gather up all your energy and fight that illness. But don't take too long, we want to see you smile, laugh and play as soon as you can.

Sent with lots of hugs and kisses from all you uncles and aunts from the Kampoeng Gadjah.

2007-08-15T11:20:00.000+08:00

another new day. i didnt feel well yesterday, so i stayed at home with the Daughter who was also sick. We watched silly cartoons all morning, took a nap after lunch, then she watched more silly cartoons, read some books while i played on the Mini.

Today is back to work. I'm planning on an Independence day camping trip with Son. Should be fun!

2007-08-11T12:59:00.000+08:00

its a new day. at least i think it is. what day is today? anyway, i joined up id-gmail. why? i think its because i need the challenge. i think im up to the challenge. i hope i am.

anyway lets see how long i last there. could be that i outlast, outwit and outplay everybody there. (yeah right)

we shall see....

we shall see....

am i a glutton for punishment? for embarassment? for amusement?

we shall see...

My new desk

2007-02-23T13:50:00.000+08:00

Ive relocated to a new desk!

2007-02-22T12:08:00.000+08:00

Just testing the blog function in my phone. Its pretty cool: I take a picture, add some text and a title, and i send it off to Blogger. Voila! i have a blog entry. I just need to re-learn typing on a candybar phone (pressing 2 three times really fast to get the letter 'C').
At least this will mean I can update the blog as soon as I have the idea, instead of waiting till 'I have time' (never).

cheers...

2006-11-10T21:47:00.000+08:00

hah! its been soooooo loooooooooooong since my last entry here. at lot has happenned. a lot. where should i start? dont want to talk about work, cause that is soo boring. at least for me. havent touched my camera's in quite a while. havent looked through my 'scope either. well not true on both counts, my son and i watched a partial lunar eclipse a while back and took some shots. unfortunately we are situated quite close to a major metropolitan area with some really star unfriendly lighting. Plus some neighbor was burning either trash or leaves, giving us a pretty hazy sky. Hence cloudy seeming pictures.
i've resumed playing music again. semi pro. we actually have paying gigs! its not much, doesnt cover any expenses that are incurred, but fun nonetheless.
we've bought, bought, debated,sold and sold bought some vehicles from our stable. i'm pretty happy as far as those go. my only issue is that i now have 3 additional gasoline induced holes in my pocket.
we've gone camping. the whole family. that was fun and relaxing. the only problem there was that it hadnt rained in quite a long time and so the field which we camped was very , very dusty. plus when we awoke the next day, some rather confused footballers were waiting for us to pack up and move so that they could have their pitch back in time for the game of the week. apparently we had camped on a football pitch of the nearby village. well we didnt know, we got there at close to midnight, it was pitch black, and it wasnt really a proper football pitch... it didnt have goalposts.

2005-10-15T08:55:00.000+08:00

shit.... i'm a geek.... not much of a revelation but a disappointing acceptance.

2005-06-21T10:27:00.000+08:00

wow... it's been a while since i last ranted here... i've had so many things going on in my life, i haven't had time to write till now. I had a couple of minutes to kill so I tried the BlogMap (you can see it on the side bar and here ) Its pretty cool. Not very accurate, but cool.

2005-05-03T20:04:00.000+08:00

Dvorak
Lewis P
Uneasy Silence

wow. that's all i gotta say. if this is true, it'll probably be the biggest thing since watergate and michael bolton's songs..

2005-05-03T17:04:00.000+08:00

time travel

so cool. we should have thought about this sooner. but had it been any earlier, it would have been quickly dismissed as a prank. nowadays i think people are a bit more open minded.

2005-04-29T21:37:00.000+08:00

crap

This is so embarrassing. Regardless of who is at fault, or the cause of the meelee, it is just plain embarrassing. Some notes: there are a lot of racist foreigners, there are a lot of racist Indonesians.
Notes to myself: if ever I get into an argument for my son or daughter, I hope I can keep a cool head and not resort to violence or name calling or any other low form of expression.

A bit of curio, how can a person who claims to be a Nationalist, prides himself of being Indonesian, put his son to go to an International School. The Jakarta International School at that. Can you not find a more bourgeois school? There are other better "English speaking" schools in Jakarta that are more nationalistic.

Jeez, I still cant get over how embarrassing this is. Unfortunatly for him, he will have to bear the consequences of SBY's policies and wrath.

sheesh....

2005-04-26T13:39:00.000+08:00

race a definition...

the link above i guess shows that race is more of a sociological construct than anything else. i think it also is because we have become a more heterogenic society with more cross breeding as transport technology has progressed. so then at one point, when we have all cross bred and have become a civilization of partial breeds, then we will have become a homogenic society.

at that point, what will the role of tradition, heritage and culture play? what will happen to the "mother tongue" ? will that be more of an issue on where you live, and not what your geneaology is? isnt that already happening?

hmmmm.....

2005-04-25T23:43:00.000+08:00

oh, one more thing, ive been looking at a pyramid scheme that some people have been touting. man, it really looks enticing. except that i'll be the guy at the bottom feeding the guys up top who do very very little.
no wonder its illegal in some countries.

but they have ways to get around that i guess. all you have to do is provide a receipt for "services rendered" and you are now a consultant. i wonder how they pay taxes. its not a steady source of income is it ? i guess it is.

i suddenly remember this guy on tv in the US who tried that "i can teach you how to make a lot of money right from your own home" line. last i heard that guy was bankrupt and indicted on a pyramid scheme accusation.

i suddenly have the urge to search up on this topic....

2005-04-25T23:10:00.000+08:00

uggghhhhhh..... sooooo many things to write about, so little time and so much laziness...
things i want to write about :
- personal space and lack of it. sheesh... i was standing in line for something and this guy kept inching up to me. i didnt appreciate it at all. gotta give a guy some space ...
- which side of the road do you drive on? left or right? which side of the sidewalk do you walk on? which side of the stairs do you climb up on? i hate it when i have to zig and zag when people walk on different sides of the path. shouldn't there be some common ettiquette on how to walk on sidewalks....
- small plane seats on long flights. airline people need to wake up and realize that people are getting bigger. i think the statistics on body mechanics need to be readdressed.
- can we also take a look at the BMI index as well ? I mean why are asians (actually isnt the race 'mongoloid') put in a different category than europeans (caucasians) ? the diets of people around the worlds are now almost similar thanks to McDonalds and Starbucks, 2 champions of globalization.
- speaking of 'race', according to this race is more of a sociological distinction. and has almost no biological merit. every homo sapien has the same biological potential. to get sick, healthy, fat, diseased, whatever. that a certain sociological group of homo sapiens have the propensity to be small, or large or whatever may be due to surroundings, culture etc. so if you take that individual (say from very young) out of its regular surroundings and put it into a different group, that individual would obviously adapt to its new surroundings. it happens all the time right ?

thats enough for tonight.... ive got so many things i want to do and write about but time is always an issue.... even as i write this beside my sleeping spouse.
just so that i write this down: i want to preserve my family pictures. i want to start reading up on the new horizons of technology to keep up, i want to go out and take more pictures, i want to go and take pictures of the stars, the planets, the moons. i want to go camping again. i want to read more books (real literature to counter my current dosage of pop novels). i want to be able to spend more time with my family....

sheesh...

2005-03-18T18:02:00.000+08:00

heyy, my friends got a baby.... pretty cool. His name is Noe, with an umlaut over the e. Its a Hawaiian name, so go figure out how best to pronounce it. Anyway, welcome to the world little Noe.
Here is the gory details.

2005-02-20T16:07:00.000+08:00

gladiarama another one of my photographic friends... somehow i find humour in some of his photos...

2005-02-12T22:15:00.000+08:00

...and would you like a salad with your CO, SO2 ?

On the way to return a rented movie (Big Trouble, Tim Allen, if you must know), I passed by a strip mall of sorts. You know the kind, various eating joints, with outdoor seating, candle lights etc. Right next to the outdoor seating, is the car park (parking lot).
Some really smart guy, left his two little kids (age around 6-7) inside the car (Volvo XC90), windows rolled up with the engine on as well as the AC. It was around 7:45 in the evening, it wasn't too hot outside, but very similar to a warm summer night in the higher latitudes.
Now, I've tried to sleep in a car that had the AC on and its engine on. I couldn't. Because I was deathly afraid of dying of CO from the car. I was about 17 at the time. During those years I had read so many magazine articles about couple dying inside a car, dying of carbon monoxide poisoning. What had happened is that these couple after "doing the deed", would fall asleep in the backseat of the car (AC on, engine on, windows rolled up).
So I guess, I'm a little paranoid.
In any case, in some countries, it is illegal, to leave your children unattended in a vehicle.
Especially when the windows are rolled up, regardless of the AC being on or off.
Especially when the engine is on. ("oops sorry dad, i didnt mean to kick the gear in reverse and run over that nice man who was eating dinner.")

The other issue that I have with this scenario, is that there is a restaurant and there are *people eating* on the back end of this car!!!!! (it was parked head facing out, with its tail towards the restaurant)
I don't care how efficient the burn cycle is of the engine, as long as it is using carbon based fuels (petrochemical based), it will be spewing out CO, SO2, and God knows what else. Its bad enough that we have to inhale this crap every day, every night, but to also injest it at the same time ? From our food, water, wine, salad, entree, desert ??

Sheesh.
I can imagine the discourse between myself and the driver of the car. "It was only for 5 minutes to return a video". "Mind your own business". "The people inhaling the exhaust of my car don't seem to mind".
i'm pasting a googled eye smiley here.

cheers.

2005-02-12T09:51:00.000+08:00

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

2005-02-11T21:32:00.000+08:00

from LooseWire
dude firefox rules.....
but seriously, firefox is the browser. i think it is really cool. lots of features, very user customisable. my only complaint is that some websites' flash isnt shown properly, especially with Java menu's. I wish i could give a good example. maybe when i do i'll post it here.

currently i'm using the following extensions:
- addblock (oh how i love this one....)
- bandwidth tester
- tabbrowser
- all-in-one gestures
- habari xenu
- infoRSS

ciao...

2005-02-09T14:16:00.000+08:00

today is CNY (Chinese New Year). I have a very sore throat. My doctor says I have very swollen tonsils and it seems to be caused by some sort of infection.

Great.

anyway, i'm spending this day scanning the hundreds (if not thousands) of slides and negatives. digitally preserving them for my son and daughter.

I took my digital camera to the shop on Monday. its been bugging me for quite some time. I know some people are laughing at me coz of it. "Get a C*N*N".
No thanks....

My Celestar 8 finally arrived. Purchased in '99. Box opened in '03. Finally used in '05. Now I can go and take closer shots of the moon. Well gotta wait for the DigCam to get back from the shop....

2005-02-02T10:49:00.000+08:00

changed the template today... got bored with the old simple one. maybe one of these days i ll design my own... yeah right...

2005-01-26T15:42:00.000+08:00

Sofie's World: sepenggal catatan buat roy suryo...

wuakakakakakkakakakakaka :D gua gak ngetawain Sophie lho... gak ngerti gua, heboh banget sih ampe banyak sekali orang tersenthil sama omongannya Roy Suryo....
hehehe jujur sih, gua juga kadang kadang gatel pengen ikut angkat suara kalau denger roy berceloteh.....

wakakakakakaak.....

2005-01-26T15:26:00.000+08:00

Gerakan Bawah Tanah - Mr. GBT: How to test programming capability?

ha! this was an interesting site for me ... the comment by anonymous really got me thinking... right now its still considered cream of the crop coz its a favorite uni. but once the other uni's get better lab equipment, get better funding while the cream of the crop uni is busy resting on its laurels.... then no longer shall it be considered the cream of the crop uni...and it certainly will be the cheapest of the crop.... wakakakakakakak :D

2004-09-07T10:18:00.000+08:00

dude.... the taxi driver this morning had some interesting thoughts regarding Indonesia. We were driving through a rich part of Singapore, he then offhandedly commented that at least 10% of the owners of the landed property in that particular neighbourhood belonged to rich Indonesian's. He then went on to say, that Indonesia is so rich, being blessed with so many natural resources from Oil to Gold, from Timber to Rubber.

but...

if only the leaders of the country knew how to better use the resources of the country for the betterment of its citizens....

2004-07-04T17:34:00.000+08:00

Untitled Document
some very nice photos from leo.... love the BW tones... the play of shadows...

2004-06-04T23:17:00.000+08:00

Kinesis Photo Gear [P-Series] Packs

looks real interesting... but I bet it makes me look like a doofus (that being the technical term for Nerd).

2004-05-08T09:58:00.000+08:00

oopss mustve pressed the wrong button... anyway i was ranting about blogging and probably how my comments were very naive and indicative of how newbie i was to this whole process.