Peter Foeng Old Blog

October 3, 2007 21:06PM

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Words of the day: “It is very sad indeed to deal with the fact that you do nothing except ‘waiting’. *edited for reason (thanks to Herman)* So sad but true, for me there’s only you”

Current Situation
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Well, it’s week 5 of my academic study..this is the last week before I and all my friends have our holiday. It will be about 2 weeks, which means quiet a long time break. In the last 5 weeks, I thought there were many interesting things to look at especially when projects fill every second of our life..It is terrorizing, yes it is haunting us down! But, I am very happy indeed to know the fact that I have very supportive friends now and there in the campus..We do chat a lot, we are having funs like there is no tomorrow. Well, there is tomorrow but it’s wonderful to know that we are standing together to face these projects. Maybe “it is better for you to walk together in the darkness rather than to walk alone in the light”. I know that there are still some limitations to but this issue wont be stopping me to work harder on my own.. » Read the rest of this entry «

hua…..I just changed my blog template, it’s kinda weird though Friendster doesn’t add new template set….anyway, I just choose randomly over the available templates. Hopefully it will be a lot better for those who have complained before (lolz…)

Udgah jem 2.24AM, rencana maw tidur tadi jem 2 segh cuma gara2 kebanyakan maen thecrims jadi lupa…duh gw bete, gw masuk penjara lage di thecrims hukzzz…harus nunggu 1 harian lage dah baru bisa maen. Yup, gw maen thecrims lage, dulu segh maen terakhir pas di semester 2 barenk2 ama anak2 kampus…seru and addictive cuma itu kali yagh yg cocok buad describe game ini…So, kalo lage bosen and gag ada kerjaan, cobain degh thecrims.

Harii ini kerja lage, jem 2 sampe jem 10 malem…gag brasa udagh 4 hari beturut2 gw kerja. Kemaren pagi pas bangun berasa banget capenya gimana, skrg gw bener2 taw segh gimana kalo bonyok gw kerja terus tiap hari dari pagi ampe sore lanjut lage malem-nya, itu pasti capenya bukan maen lage degh…cuma mereka betah2 aja, so salut pastinya and thanks to God karena mereka udagh dikasi kesehatan buad kerja terus

Liburan ini gag taw maw ngapain,,rencana maw design web tp koq niadnya blom datenk2…maw bikin ulang bebipetshop gw yg dolo pake JSP skrg maw dihajar pake Silverlight,,tinggal tunggu waktu segh kerjanya kapan…trus maw isenk bikin game lage pake Visual C++ 2008, isenk aja daripada gag ada kerjaan, yagh toh yagh toh….

Oh iyagh gw lupa, punya 1 project yang harus dikerjain, maw rekaman 300 sparta….ayo felix kita mulai project ini project anak2 stress:D hahaha…buad yg penasaran tar kalo udgah jadi kita release ok:D hahaha…

So, gimana liburan kalian kali ini? find something interesting or spending the whole holiday sleeping? the point is HAVE FUN! XD

Cheerzzz,
PeteRAoKi

Hi2,

welcome back to my lovely blog..well, this is the second part of my holiday journal…I hope everyone who reads my blog was surprised of what I’ve been doing lately, and please dont be bored to check the latest update of my blog…

As I’ve said before this is the second part. Continuing the first part, banyak hal2 yang mayan terjadi dari update 1 ke update 2….What I’ll be talking much on this entry is about banjir dimana2 selain itu some minor activities I’ve been into lately…

Banjir, emang gag diduga banged negh taon ini. katanya segh siklus 5 taon-an. For me, it’s bullshit and there’s no such thing “banjir 5 tahunan”..Holy Crap!!!! masa ada segh banjir yang datenk setiap 5 taon sekali??? gag ngerti gw, coba aja liad tiap taon tuh pasti banjir and siapa yang disalahi? kalo banjir 5 taonan maw nyalahin sapa??? dasar aja tiap kali pembangunan gag disertain pembangunan sistem pengaliran yang bae. Yang dipikirin tuh asal rumahnya/apartemennya bagus udagh degh gag masalah. Liad aja kalo kaya gini terus maw jadi apa negh Jakarta lama??? kolam renang?? -pulaw tenggelem… Well, emang segh this is not the rite time to blame someone or anyone..but, hey come on, this shouldnt be happening every year rite, we can minimize the possibility even to lowest possible number that might come out.

Rumagh gw kena juga negh di tangerang cuma thank to God semuanya masi bae2 aja. Keluarga gw, sodara2 gw, tetangga2 gw masi bae2 aja…they survive. Buad beberapa orang yang kurang beruntung I say my prayer that God will help we all to pass this insane floods.. Buad keluarga yang kehilangan sanak-family, semoga tetep tabah. Kita berharap kejadian seperti ini gag herus terulang tiap taonnya..gag cukup cuma berharap aja, we have to do something….something…..and something….Moga2 ke depannya ampe taon ini abis gag ada lage kejadian banjir kaya awal taon ini, ok..Mari kita berusaha:)

Trus…gw masi menikmati liburan gw yang tinggal sebentar lage 2 weeks to go then back to campus. Well, to be honest I am that eager as I do before. mungkin gara2 banjir kali yagh, cuma yagh harus maw gag maw maju terus degh. Selama sisa liburan ini gw bener2 pengen abisin dengan maen Tantra…harus ngejer lvl 76 negh hahaha sebelum balik..adugh keburu ga yagh?> hehehe…doa-In degh mudagh2an bisa kekejer…..anyway udagh dolo yagh buad this entry….well, there will be another minor update before I get back to Jakarta…that is the last ok;p see yagh all and gud luk

CheerZzzzZ,
PeteRAoKi

As you guys already know, I am now back on blogging as the internet connection is set up already. As I said in the previous entry, I found quiet a lot of problems here in Melbourne starting from the very first day I arrived till today. These problems however makes me feeling that learning or studying here @RMIT is not that fun anymore, just like I did back in high school or in BiNus University. Apart from the problems that occur recently, I somehow feel that I’ve chosen the wrong major which supposedly to be the main reason for me to lose all interests I said previously. I’ve discussed a lil’ bit of this ‘losing interest’ kinda thing from the previous entry but this one will definitely describe how I really feel about this.

Recent Problem
This really bothers me a lot like almost everyday, Internet Connection. I have posted once (a year ago I suppose) that I cannot live without internet unless I am traveling on holiday trip. Guess what, the internet services provided by My Telecom on my apartment probably the worst I got so far in my life. A year ago back in Indonesia, I subscribed to a wireless service (it’s called RT-RW connection) hosted by a group of people (which I myself not sure who they really are). At that time, the connection was totally sucks, however the good point is the IIX connection (local Indonesia Internet Exchange if I am not mistaken) is extremely fast though it wasn’t that stable. The downlink connection could hit up to 200KB/s, the downloading from local storage such as GudangUpload or Indowebster wouldn’t be a major problem.

The service however was shut down because the lease of the tower was over. Then I subscribed to speedy which is far better than the previous one and also very stable, but the cost is kinda overpricing. I finally subscribed to fastnet service simply because it’s cheaper and the speed is higher. So far I can say that fastnet service is the best I ever had regardless the fact the speed of RMIT campus connection is so superb. The downlink connection for international can hit up to 1MBps pure while the local can hit 4MBps pure (pure simply means: per person per computer regardless how many people connect to the service). This is yet the best I have so far. Looking at services I have described, I can simply say that My Telecom service is not so much different with the wireless connection I have subscribed a year ago. It simply SUCKS. Every now and then I got disconnected. How come I do a research with such an internet connection? I can’t even googling.

Probably, some of you are wondering why the internet services means so much to me. First reason is because Microsoft creates Windows Live Messenger (WLM) which acts simply as a bridge for me to keep in touch with my friends. I spent a lot of time chatting on MSN and I simply can’t live without WLM (I don’t know if this will change later in the future and probably it just will). Second reason is becoz they have created Google search engine which simply makes my life a lot easier to search every single any-thing in this whole world; Facebook and Friendster again to keep me in touch with my friends; Yahoo!Mail, Gmail, and Hotmail which is simply magic coz you can send anything to anywhere around the world. A year ago, I was dreaming that once I have moved to Melbourne I could have a superb internet connection with extremely high speed, and people keep telling me such a ‘lie’. Now I know. The thing is for me (it’s always about me and you may not agree with me) there is no such thing as very fast internet services in Melbourne, It’s BULLSHIT and a total myth. Fastnet can simply do a lot better and by the day Telkom releases the ADSL 2+ services, it will be going crazy.

Wrong Choice of Major
I don’t know whether I have chosen the correct major, one that really suits my interest and hobby. I don’t realize it so much the major I took will be involving so much analytic thinking on design especially about images and stuffs. Thing is I can’t read meanings from images I see and I meet in everyday life. Moreover I don’t have that much ‘creativity’ it needs in this course. But luckily I have my little sister who more or less understands about the elements in design. I consult about this design thingy with her to have my idea becomes a work of art. How lucky I am to be honest. My mom and dad doesn’t have skill in designing, they just don’t. But it happens to be that the rest of the family members has the interest in designing starting from me. However, I am now only interested in the website designing (designing bot programming whatsoever) rather than anything else. In the end, you can say I am currently struggling to have my course goes smooth and aims for HDs as well.

Thing is, I feel like I just need more time to work everything out. Probably a week break or so will do in order to gain my motivation and interest that seems to lose away starting from the beginning all over again. I never have this ‘losing interest in studying’ before, well, sometimes I have to admit that I got tired with all the ‘never ending projects and assignments’ sort to say but still it never let me down way too much. If problems are solved recently, it also definitely helps me to gain again my motivation. In the end, I suspect that all of you guys happened to have the same problem during the high school and university life. If you don’t, well, I should say that you are definitely the type of person who does not enjoy life as much as I do. In the end, I still believe that there is always a way out from such a temptation. Again, the very last thing I could do is sit back, relax, and enjoy life; either the answer will reveal by itself or we are the one who should find it out, either ways no one has the answer.

Cheerz and All the Best of Luck,
~PeteR

Masuk ke semester 2, di blog gw yg sebelumnya gw tulis kalo di semester ini gag ada pelajaran yg menarik di major yg lage gw jalanin,,,Knapa? karena emang pelajaran-nya gag menarik segh menurut gw personally, ngak ada subject yg ‘memacu’ gw buad blajar lebi dari apa yg gw bisa…

Kekecewaan ini terus bertambah setelah gw taw apa yg harus dikerjain buad Design for Interactive Media 2 (DIM 2) and Web Database Application (WDA)…tp gw ga bakal bahas segh knapa gw kecewa banget  ama 2 subjects ini, probably in the next post I’ll describe thoroughly the reason why..

Skrg ini tension buad assignments bener2 lage on, it’s close yes indeed…they are all so close..I just wanna say sorry if it looks like I dont care about my friends…gw bukannya sombong gag manggil di MSN, I have no intention to do so..kadang2 gw emang lage ngerjain assignments tp status-nya tetep online,,,kadang gw lage nonton olympic gw tinggal aja MSN gw…

di assignment2 yg gw kerjain itu ngak gampang sebenernya buad gw,,,I find them very difficult to do..pake Software Autodesk Maya buad modelling aja,,,gw bisa butuh waktu 1-2 jem buad model 1 item in 3D space, I really dont have skill to use this software…pake Flash pun gw gag terlalu bisa, kadang gw harus baca tutorial sana sini biar daped effect yg bagus tp yg ngajar gw gag suka,,,susagh segh emang,,,, pake PHP pun gw baru first timer,,,gag ada yg bisa ngajarin gw dari basic jadi gw harus liad2 tutorial sendiri dari internet, bener2 gw harus belajar dari 0…sama kaya dolo gw blajar C ato Flash di SMA,,,so semuanya di semester ini gw blajar dari 0 tanpa bantuan dari orang laen, kecuali om google (now I understand, apa jadinya dunia ini tanpa google…..),,, so the tension is ON!….

so, to all yg bilang gw sombong,,as I said before I never have intention to do so…I am walking through the hard time…and I hope they can understand it…friends 4ever….

"Anything you can do, I can do better…"

Cheerzzz,
PeteR

11.22
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it’s been a while since I posted the last entry. However, now I create another one which I supposed to be last post for this month. As the title says "my very final week", so this post is going to further see the kinda of things I’ve done during this month (4 weeks apps.). I hope that I can share something with you guys whoever reads my blog. Let’s start with New Year

New Year’s Resolution
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It’s totally different from last year. This year I dont have any specific resolution to go with. In case you are wondering of why? My reason is fairly simple coz I’ve learnt from the past that when you set up a resolution, there should be something you wanna achieve. But, if you fail to achieve your resolution you’ll be feeling like ‘there is something is missing this whole year’. For the very least, this is what happens to me in the previous year. I set up 7 resolutions in total (if I am not mistaken) and surprisingly only 3 in total are fulfilled. I feel like I’ve done less effort to achieve them. So, this year I’m starting out with no plan at all. I am curiously waiting for more bumpy roads ahead coz when your life is plain, simple, and straight you’re definitely going to miss out a lot of things.

Projects and Exams
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New year turns out to be a full intense week of work especially for those who are taking Multimedia Streaming (heard of, this year the name is Games Technology). The project is a huge work for both teams (FYI, there are only 8 students in total so there are only 2 groups in total including my group). After doing some discussion in advanced we have decided to work together, it turns out that the two groups are making the same identical game however different game play. Even though the result was far than what we have expected from the very beginning, IMHO we are all proud of what we’ve done. 80%-90% of the engine is fully re-usable. So, I just want to thank all the group members: Garry (algo specs.), Glen&Stephen&Ryan (char. game engine), Xang&Oline&Arly (game server setting, bunch of ideas as well), and me (pompom specs. wahaha)

IPC 2008 was quiet a successful project as well for Software Engineering (SE) class. Even though the final mark (as a whole) is not as high as the the other teams, IMHO there are a lot of things we, team PAGE (Peter Andrian Garry Enterprise), can learn from this project throughout the semester. The course’s requirement is extremely very demanding from week to week, but with all the supports we have received, we can deal with them. Paperworks are done and closing report is published as well. I still keep the whole documentations of IPC 2008, and the website is now on further maintenance by Kurniady (just pay a visit to  IPC2008-Official Website in case you guys are wondering what kind of website the team produces)

Exams. I have 4 exams for the final. The courses are as follow: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software Engineering (SE), Distributed System (DS), Advanced Computer Graphics (ACG). 3 of them are open books type of exams, so basically there is nothing to be worried about. AI was the one that is extremely dangerous to everyone including myself. But AI was done as well as SE, there are 2 left on upcoming Tuesday and Thursday.

Things I do lately
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So, we are now movin’ out to the things I do lately. Besides the projects and stuffs, I have quiet a lot of things to do esp. the preparation for going to RMIT. Everything is now ready except the living accommodation which I haven’t found one till I wrote this entry. I have re-submitted all the applications, however I haven’t received any good news. Hopefully good news are coming next week.

Forum is still running almost every night (anyway, is it forum or conference?) where we share things, ideas, and opinions as well.

I spend my day by playing Rising Force (RF) online lately. Playing on private server turns out to be more fun than official server coz everything is extreme and different than the usual.

I am watching Gossip Girl as well lately. I love the way they use the words for everyday conversations, it is so meaningful. Just like Ally McBeal and The OC.

I do some updates on D’abc 2008 Official Website (here is the link as well D’abc 2008-Official Website), It is very fun when rushing out is the constraint. Thanks to Jesslyn Bobby a.k.a JeBob (the sexiest) and JeWong as my bosses, you guys rocks.

Relationship? I am not really into it this new year. Stay single as usual turns out to be more fun. I see some of friends are having quiet ‘a drama’ to deal with when they are into a relationship. Broken heart seems to be a very bad experience for me, turns out she is with someone else now. This experience teaches me, ‘If you are into an intense relationship with someone, with the love you have for this particular person in your heart, and you have decided to have a further and more serious relationship, you should be rushing in real soon. Rushing in here simply means, get your ass off the chair and start doing something to make it happens or otherwise you’ll be regretting this thing when the person you love is with someone else. But, if there is someone (as a normal person I prefer a woman/lady/girl wahaha…) who wants to know me deeper (lolz), welcome! (FS or MSN, lolz)….

This is my very final week I am going to spend here in Jakarta, 4 days left including the two exams. On Wednesday, some CS students are going to waterboom, Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK). I guess this is going to be a farewell for us, me and others who going to RMIT. I am going to make sure that everyone is having a lot of fun there, you guys suppose to have fun. On 1st Feb, I am heading back to my hometown to spend holiday there for a week. Heading back here on 9th Feb, and spend a day (10th Feb) here. On 11th Feb, me, Herman, Ricky, Seindy, and Glen will be leaving Indo on the same flight; Dennis however, will be following a week after on 18th Feb. Hopefully we are going to find a lot of experience there, sure we will.

12.53
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I think this is a wrap for this entry. Before it ends, I just want to say thanks to some of my friends in BiNus Int’l : Aulia&Pxang&Kurniady (almost every night forum on MSN), Ajeph (my moi lolz, oi moi…), Om Garry (the abandoned man), Lawrence (Bos laptop, call: 08119132xx wahaha…), Jan (si anak kentud), Indra (Indra-Man wahaha…), Bambang (Pak Tri’s son), Fa (apa yagh julukannya, yang pasti enak buad diisenkin), Sri (superwoman), Arly, Asta (RAN, indahnya warna-warni dunia..), Cimoy (daniel to Cimith to Cimeth to Ncim to Cimoy finally), Mike (team sukses), Oline, Jebob (the sexiest), JeWong(my Boss), Andrew(cie2…yg udagh jadian kapan makan2nya), and other whom cannot be mentioned one by one, Love You guys (I do but I’m not a gay wahaha) and I will be missing you guys a lot, and hopefully I will be seeing you guys lately (hikzzz….sedigh). And thanks as well for IS-04 friends: Natzh, Lisa, and Sylv (B.F.F, xoxo), Viny, Danu, Yoan, Tree, Gollum, Hendy, argh….sapa lage yagh, ‘Nenek’ as well, hahaha…everyone whoever get in touch with me thanks for everything guys, I really hope to see you all lately OK;)

"Coz friendship is the only little thing that remains forever, no matter how far you go, no matter how hard it is, no matter what, they all can’t beat this. Purely a nature of a person who goes on with life" – Peter Suryaatmaja

STFU NooB,
B.F.F (Best Friend Forever),
xoxo,
Cheerz,

^PeteRAoKi^

Hi everyone,…

I am back again to blogging after some period of time. My last post was on Febuary 20, 2009 and it’s about the story when I am going back to Melbourne after a very long holiday (3 months or so). This time I am no longer continuing my blogging activity on Friendster (thanks to Friendster blog by this time I have around 40+ posts) because I have now moved my blog to my own website blog. The new address is http://www.blog.peter-foeng.net and there are couples of reasons before I have finally decided to start my own website and stuffs. The main reason that I now want to start my own website is that I just want to learn couple new things with this new website and in fact I’m learning many different things and I’m happy indeed for starting applying what I’ve got during my academic studies.

Moving out to new hosting is fairly easy thing to do and thanks to Kurniady for the help because I’m subscribing my hosting to him; we are using dreamhost hosting which is indeed quiet reliable (IPC 2008 & IPC 2009 also hosted on dreamhost). Getting WordPress to work is simpe by using “One-Click” install feature and dreamhost provides several software that are ready to be one-click installed. The thing that requires more attention is when it comes to edit and modify the theme to suit my style. You don’t need to add any new functionalities because 90% of them has been provided by WordPress and you just need to read to manual guide to get things work here in WordPress. I spent quite sometime to read the manual because this is my first time to actually edit the theme. I know that this blog still has some flaws in terms of design and functionality therefore I really need feedbacks from other, feel free to drop comments and suggestions here.

The other thing that I post beside this entry is the profile page and again feel free to read my profile as well as getting me some feedback along the way. The main website itself www.peter-foeng.net is still under development probably couple more weeks I will get it up and running; there are other things that I need to do such as the gallery and the webspace before moving on the actual official portfolio. During the weeks I’ve devoted my life to get my blog up and running which is quiet fun along the way because I got a lot of feedback already from my sister and my house mates. The process of developing the design itself is very fun and I am very pleasingly satisfy with the result.

I think that’s all I need to share in this entry but in the next entry I’ll start to share about my personal and academic life recently and start to discussing some issues I deal during these times. But, in the mean time please feel free to browse around my new blog and please do drop some comments if you feel necessary. Enjoy.

• website: www.peter-foeng.net
• blog: www.blog.peter-foeng.net
• profile page: www.blog.peter-foeng.net/about-peter-suryaatmaja-foeng

Cheerzzzz,,,…

Hi all,
I’m back with a new post on my blog…..it’s about ChristMaS..So enjoy…..

Natal…yagh mungkin Natal bagi sebagian orang tuh gag begitu berarti, ada yg menganggap kaya perayaan hari raya laennya ada juga yg bener bikin persiapan jauh sebelumnya….Kalo sekarang segh bisa kita semua liad, sebelum Natal pada sibuk siap2in ornamen2 Natal mulai dari pernak- pernik, pohon Natal yg macem2 ukurannya, terus masi banyak lage degh….Ini semua pasti buad bener2 bikin suasana Natal jadi lebi ceria…Kalo gag percaya cobain aja jalan2 ke Mal2….pasti di Lobby Hallnya ada pohon Natal berbagai ukuran and yg paling unik bahannya anegh2 jadi gag monoton bentuk pohon Natal itu2 aja…..Tapi kayanya kita gag bakal bahas perayaan Natal di mal2, cuma gimana segh persiapan Natal kita? What do we expect from Christmas Celebration? Are we looking for something or Is it there but we dont realize about it yet?

Natal buad gw sendiri banyak artinya..emang segh kalo kita bicara persiapan Natal, gw segh jujur aja gag bener2 persiapin diri buad Natal emang kalo maw dibicarain pasti aja alasannya ato hal yg gw sangkal buad persiapan Natal. Tapi, bukan karena gag siapin Natal berarti gw gag siap buad Natal donk….Setiap kali bulan December, udagh pasti yg gw rencanain itu Natal. Misalnya kita maw rayain Natal dimana, siapa aja yg bakal ada….yagh secara gw live apart with my parents gw rasa taw donk, whether kita ngumpul barenk ato ngak sama mereka, gimana dengan sodara2 kita pada ngumpul juga gag? Keliadannya Naive banged segh, koq Natal harus ngumpul ama orang lain? knapa gag celebrate Natal sendirian?

Bagi gw Natal bukan sesuatu yg harus kita lewatin sendiri…semua orang siapapun itu walopun dia Bukan Christian pasti dia juga tetep ingin merasakan suasana Natal. Biarpun cuma berdua doank, at least we have someone to share the spirit of magical Christmas rite? Kaya yang gw bilang tadi, secara gw live apart ama parents gw apstinya gw expect buad Natal ama mereka donk kalo ada kesempatan…You know whenever there are two or more people sitting together Jesus comes into our hearts. A very Special Moment. Buad Natal taon ini , gw cma celebrate itu barenk dd gw semua…bonyok gw masi di lubuklinggau sana:P

Yang gw harapin dari Christmas taon ini gag beda dari taon2 sebelumnya….Gw cuma berharap Jesus Christ would come into my family and stay there forever..Karena menurut gw ini yg paling dasar…..gw segh gag berharap daped hadiah yg muluk2 gag jelas….as long as we live as a happy family, then it’s gonna be fine for me^_^

ChristMas
The Spirit of Christmas
The Magic of Christmas
The Meaning of Christmas
All the Joy
All the Happiness
All the Saddness
All the Loneliness
All the Pain
They are all lying inside our heart
Let’s us pray for a better life
Through Christmas Celebration
I believe
You believe
We believe
We are going to find the true meaning of Christmas
that lies in every of our heart
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HappY ChristMas 20’06
PeteRAoKi

Today, the result for semester 1 is released for all RMIT students including my program: Master of Computing (MC062). The result is as expected, except for 1 subject which I predicted to get “CREDIT (CR)” because I was blown away by the final exam. Previous semester (and now I can officially as my previous semester) I took four subjects, which were as following:

• Web Server and Web Technology (WSWT)
• Internet Industry Project (IIP)
• Web Services
• Document Markup Language (DML)

In this entry, I’ll make a recap on how I prepared the exam and the result I got for each of the subject. FYI, I have no exam for IIP (I won’t discuss this subject in this entry), so the marking is based on the project I’ve done for the whole semester.

Let’s start with DML. The exam format has been predicted coz my “head tutor” had told us merely the breakdown of the sections. The first section is multiple choice and the rest of the sections were “coding” type of questions. For the coding part I’ve prepared myself by doing a lot of exercise from the past exam or question from the internet. Basically what I’ve done is creating the schema for a given XML (XSD & DTD), creating a stylesheet to produce a particular result in the form of HTML from a particular XML, and practicing some xquery syntax and stuffs. I spent roughly “three days” from 1 o’clock till 9 o’clock in the evening to study in the computer lab; it was very tiring and I kinda forced myself a lil bit too hard for this. The reason being was 90% of the exam was “coding”, so the need to memorize some syntax is necessary because they don’t provide the documentation for us to see during the exam. I got “HD” for this subject. In my opinion, this subject is pretty easy and the assignment is a bit “too easy”. The first assignment can be done in 1 hour time and the second assignment can be done in roughly 6 hours (which was my working time) after they release it. The second assignment took longer because that time, I haven’t got basic understanding about stylesheet and stuff; so”Google” is my only best friend.

The second exam was WSWT. This exam was the hardest ever exam I have taken in my life. The exam format was simple: 50 multiple choice questions and some simple short answer questions for the second part. It seems easy but it was possible for a question to have multiple answers as well and for each question you answer wrong, you’ll have a penalty of 1 mark deduction. This was the trick and the idea was for us not to guess a random answer. I feared a lot already just before the exam. My mom said “I lose already before I’m actually go to the battle field”. The result was only “DI”, which is unexpected because I’ve predicted that I’ll get “CR” for this subject. I screwed the exam pretty bad and I know it by the time I left the exam room. The preparation was not good as well because the night before the actually exam I still levelled my creator in Ragnarok Online. I knew how screw this exam was going to be. But, getting “DI” is pleasently satisfying for me.

The last exam was Web Services. This exam was the last one for me and most of my friends had finished their exam earlier, so I’m kinda lazy already with the last but considering that my housemate, Evan, said that “his previous exam was pretty hard” I need to do enough preparation so that the result was not that bad. 3 days was enough because most of the stuffs was about memorizing and I only needed to gain a little understanding before I can expand it in the actually exam. For this exam, I got a lot of help from my friends explaining different concepts and ideas that might come up in the exam. Thanks to Maryanto for his explanation about “2-tier architecture” and Dennis & Evan for explanation about “Encryption and Web Security stuffs”. By the time I walked out from the exam room, I knew that 90% of the questions I got them correct and the rest are just two or three things which I was not sure about. The last day just before the exam, we studied together along with Glen and Ryan, pretty much we talked about other stuffs instead of discussing what might come up in the exam. “HD” is a sweet ending for this subject along with AUD $600 prize we (the team consists of me, Ryan, and Glen) got for presenting “the best Architecture solution” for the second assignment.

This semester exam was bitter sweet. For me there were sadness, madness, and happiness as well. I was sad because I didn’t do well in WSWT exam, I was mad because I kept on complaning why WSWT exam format should be like that, and I was happy because I’ve done extremely good in the other two exams beside WSWT. I couldn’t stop thanking God for His grace and bless so that this semester was done with a good closing at the end. I also couldn’t stop thanking my family and friends for all the supports during the exam period; it was a tight and hard but it didn’t stop me ever to stop working and pushing even more harder.

In the end, cheers to all of us. Let’s celebrate the day waiting for more surprises next semester.

Warm regards,

Peter Suryaatmaja Foeng~

Recently, I just celebrated my 21st BirthDAY, last 18 July 2008. For me, becoming 21 is when things are getting more serious. Some people say "just let it go, let it flows" other say "it’s just the same like before". Well, whatever other people say I do believe I feel different things. To those who are not 21 yet, you’ll pretty much experience what I’m going to write. To those who helped me made me what I am until now, I just wanna say "Thank You", life is just about to begin for me. So enjoy….

You’ll experience Elementary School, everything is just wonderful..you’ll love sport and friends a lot. For me Elementary’s Friends are just irreplaceable, they are wonderful though they don’t do much to listen to your life story. But, they are there for you.

You’ll experience Senior High School, things are about to get tougher from here. You’ll start to worry about school, about choosing University at the most. Most of us decide to go to College, some of us decide to go University directly, others are struggling to get rid from High School as soon as possible. Girls are going to hold a 17 party, boys wanna look awesome in front of them. High School drama begins. We start to find our true friend(s). People are getting jealous because we are way to smart, we are way too beautiful, we are way more popular, and so on. Some of our friends are just "USING" us to boost their mark, they are too dumb. Hell, who cares. No, they don’t yes they just don’t. But believe me, High School are the place where valuable and unforgettable moments are born. You’ll have fun, fun as in real fun. You’ll get crazy and enjoy youth the most.

You’ll experience University Life. We are starting to think about future career. What we are going to be in the next few years. Some people change, they are no longer high school friend you know before. Yes, we change. Some people change for good, no one change for bad yes indeed. We find friends who understand us from the inside, they respect us and they really treat us like a family. Some of us are again just "USING" us to help them better, they don’t care of your condition. They just dont.

You become jealous of other people because of the money, fame, intelligence, etc. Don’t ever say you never jealous to them, that is NAIVE and a total ABSURD. People can accept such fact. You’ll hate them, you do. Things are getting tougher from here. You’ll meet people you never expected before, they are way too weird for you. You become much more sensitive to cope with the changes. You’ll say and scream that "LIFE IS UNFAIR", "PEOPLE DO LESS, BUT THEY RECEIVE MORE". Things are not turning the way you want them to be, and you’ll cry. No one comes to rescue you, but your true friends will definitely do. At the end of the day, when you look in the mirror you’ll say "I am here all alone, friends are there but they dont live in your heart. You”ll say to yourself It’s not the end of the world, my life is about to begin and I’m ready to make a killing." And by the time you say that, you are 21 already.

"Your life is way too precious to be spent by doing nothing except study. Get drunk and go outside and find more and more experiences while you can. When you die tomorrow, no one never knows." Good Luck.

Cheerzzz,
PeteRAoKi