I woke up at around 6:00 in the morning (28/04/2006), 30 minutes after the alarm rang, after a nice long sleep on a king-sized bed, I waited for my colleague until about 7:15 and went to breakfast. Typical of an mid range Indonesian hotel they had fried rice, fried noodles and chicken porridge, I had 2 out of 3 and a cup of milk tea. We checked out from the hotel at 7:45 and I went to my school/international exhibition while my colleagues went to the office.
The exhibition was a little less than organized and when I thought it couldn't get any worse a representative of the Croatian embassy was scheduled to speak about the importance of Indonesian and Croatian economic and relationship for the next half an hour, the person couldn't speak English very well not like it matters since most people in the exhibition weren't listening anyway. An hour later they had a talk show about "Asian fashionism" the way the MC pronounced it it sounded like "Asian fascism", the topic was good some of the speakers were right on the money when they talk about fashion habits in Indonesia and how most Indonesian teenagers follows overseas trend I found the whole topic rather interesting but since our booth was as crowded as a graveyard on a rainy day I decided to pack up and leave at 13:00 which we did. We had lunch half an hour later and went back to the office to pick mine and my colleague's bag it wasn't long after we left when the office called to inform us that someone had left a bag, I knew it wasn't mine nor the GM's so we had to double back, pick the bag up go back out, unsurprisingly the driver asked for some money for petrol, we got out of Bandung at 14:30 and arrive in Jakarta at 17:30....with no pictures of Gedung Sate.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Friday, April 28, 2006
Business trip, Part Uno!
I'm in Bandung right now on a business trip, the day began as usual, I got in the office at the usual time the driver was supposed to come to at 10:00, unsurprisingly he came at 10:30 fair enough since we were planning to leave at 11:00 since there was an extra 30 minutes I had him wait in the parking lot because I still have to wait for our GM to to arrive, I had a little chat with the driver and he told me he hardly goes to Bandung, right then I knew this was going to be a bad day. 10 minutes later the GM arrived at the front office and was ready to go so I called the car again, I still refuse to believe it took 30 minutes to go to the front of the office from the parking lot .
By the time we were all ready to go the driver informed us that the car had an almost empty tank (1/4) despite the fact that we specifically requested for the car to come with a full tank so we have to go and look for a petrol station with a lower grade petrol commonly known here as "solar" oddly enough it doesn't use energy taken from the sun, confused? I am, we were officially ready to go, with a full tank, at 11:45 and we needed to be in Bandung before 14:00.
By the time we got to the toll road heading to Bandung it was around 12:30, I was not happy the GM was not happy and my colleague was asleep. the toll road was empty so I expected the ride to be nice and smooth and maybe even faster than usual, but I guess it had to be one of my unlucky days because the car can't run over 100kph, in an almost empty toll road (or as most people call it, highway), simply because it was one of those older mid 90's Toyota "Kijang" models with a busted aircon in the back seat, so it really felt like a long trip.
We arrived at Bandung at about 13:40, we had 10 minutes left to our first stop, the first thing we did was check the map, the map looked easy, the actual road wasn't. Bandung is perhaps the only city that I have ever been to in the last 15 years that has one of it's main roads blocked by shoe hawkers (the term salesmen is unbefitting for these people) so we had to go by the small roads around it. On the way to our first destination we had to go through at least 4 missed turns and a blocked main road, the traffic itself wasn't the problem here but missing a turn in Bandung isn't a very good way to get somewhere quick we went pass gedung sate twice trying to get to one place..
Eventually we arrived in our first stop at 14:30 and the even organizers weren't very amused. I was supposed to help another colleague based in Bandung for an exhibition but I was informed that the exhibition will finish at 16:00 so it didn't make much sense to go there anyway instead we went to the branch office where I met with the onsite manager. At 16:15 she left to pick up the GM from the hotel he was presenting since he has another activity scheduled at 17:00 so for the next half an hour or so I did what I do back in the home office, I sat behind a table and wait for people to walk in, I never knew an office could be so small I was even more bemused when I was informed the original office was around 1 x 2m square for 2 people so it was only natural for me to ask whether the office was about 6 feet below ground.
By the time the GM arrived we didn't do much until about 17:00 when client began to walk in, despite that we only had 5 people coming in from 17:00 we finished at 19:30 the good news was we got one applicant, bad news was we were all too tired to do anything else so we dropped the GM at the hotel he's staying in while the rest of us had dinner I got back to my hotel at about 21:00. The first thing I did was fill up the tub with hot water and took a nice long and perhaps over extended overdue bath. I set my alarm on 5:30 and went to bed at 00:00
I have yet to take a photo of kebab building (gedung sate).
By the time we were all ready to go the driver informed us that the car had an almost empty tank (1/4) despite the fact that we specifically requested for the car to come with a full tank so we have to go and look for a petrol station with a lower grade petrol commonly known here as "solar" oddly enough it doesn't use energy taken from the sun, confused? I am, we were officially ready to go, with a full tank, at 11:45 and we needed to be in Bandung before 14:00.
By the time we got to the toll road heading to Bandung it was around 12:30, I was not happy the GM was not happy and my colleague was asleep. the toll road was empty so I expected the ride to be nice and smooth and maybe even faster than usual, but I guess it had to be one of my unlucky days because the car can't run over 100kph, in an almost empty toll road (or as most people call it, highway), simply because it was one of those older mid 90's Toyota "Kijang" models with a busted aircon in the back seat, so it really felt like a long trip.
We arrived at Bandung at about 13:40, we had 10 minutes left to our first stop, the first thing we did was check the map, the map looked easy, the actual road wasn't. Bandung is perhaps the only city that I have ever been to in the last 15 years that has one of it's main roads blocked by shoe hawkers (the term salesmen is unbefitting for these people) so we had to go by the small roads around it. On the way to our first destination we had to go through at least 4 missed turns and a blocked main road, the traffic itself wasn't the problem here but missing a turn in Bandung isn't a very good way to get somewhere quick we went pass gedung sate twice trying to get to one place..
Eventually we arrived in our first stop at 14:30 and the even organizers weren't very amused. I was supposed to help another colleague based in Bandung for an exhibition but I was informed that the exhibition will finish at 16:00 so it didn't make much sense to go there anyway instead we went to the branch office where I met with the onsite manager. At 16:15 she left to pick up the GM from the hotel he was presenting since he has another activity scheduled at 17:00 so for the next half an hour or so I did what I do back in the home office, I sat behind a table and wait for people to walk in, I never knew an office could be so small I was even more bemused when I was informed the original office was around 1 x 2m square for 2 people so it was only natural for me to ask whether the office was about 6 feet below ground.
By the time the GM arrived we didn't do much until about 17:00 when client began to walk in, despite that we only had 5 people coming in from 17:00 we finished at 19:30 the good news was we got one applicant, bad news was we were all too tired to do anything else so we dropped the GM at the hotel he's staying in while the rest of us had dinner I got back to my hotel at about 21:00. The first thing I did was fill up the tub with hot water and took a nice long and perhaps over extended overdue bath. I set my alarm on 5:30 and went to bed at 00:00
I have yet to take a photo of kebab building (gedung sate).
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Just like Sunday Morning
....except it's Saturday and I'm in the office waiting for students with saturday consultation appointments and I'm in front of my office computer rather than in playing FF12. The good thing was Saturday morning traffic aren't as bad in fact it's almost empty in comparison to weekday traffic or later this afternoon so I got here within 15 minutes, Jakarta isn't such a bad place....if there were some sort of legitimate city planning in the city construction, reasonable public transport, safe drinkable tap water, cheap fast Internet, integrated infrastructure that works, cold weather, fair amount of plantations and about 80% less people.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
70/100
70%, 70 bloody percent of our foundation year program students are bellow 18 years old, that means more work for me taking care of the damn guardianship issues that means more whiny parents will whine about guardianship issues, that means more forged documents regarding guardianship issues, oh did I say forged? I meant adjusted, documents that will be dismissed in a matter of seconds after a carefull glance.
what is the obsession with sending people to work earlier in life? it won't be long until I'll see a drove of 15 year olds applying for a place in the university.
Accelerated education....BAH!! more like accelerated unemployment!
what is the obsession with sending people to work earlier in life? it won't be long until I'll see a drove of 15 year olds applying for a place in the university.
Accelerated education....BAH!! more like accelerated unemployment!
Why hello thar!
Today is my first day back in the office, apparently yesterday was a public holiday so we had a 3 day long weekend which is always good if we didn't have any deadlines on university placements blech stupid students. Anyway for the last three days I played FF12, Sengoku Musou 2, MGS 3: subsistance, ikusagami and "finished" we love Katamari well mostly that anyway, I did go out for a bit though but it was much less interesting than staying in and playing games, too bad my other job doesn't pay as much or else I'd drop this one and just translate comics for a living, that way it cuts down the time gap between being at work and game time, no wasted time getting caught in traffic.
FF12 was fun as always, ground about 6 levels up between 6 characters, the gambit system makes it easier though since you don't really do much but walk now and no random encounters just good old mob hunting, the bad (or good depending on how you lok at it) thing about FF12 is by the end of the game your characters will be able to do pretty much the same things, while the license board gves you freedom to shape how each cahacter will be in the end you'll be filling that board and everyone can an all powerfull entity.
Sengoku musou 2 is actually betetr than the last one, more releveant historical characters so bye bye kunoichi, bye bye fatass Goemon, Hello Mitsunari Ishida. Everyone who studies Japanese history knows that when you have Mitsunari and Tokugawa you get....Sekigahara so I was happy but the Kotaro Fuuma and Hattori Hanzou face off was weak, do they really need to put these ninjas in? and ofcourse to not upset the female audience they added more female characters like nene (Toyotomi's wife) why not, they had ina and noh there before. as for teh story, it seems like koei is going for the "slightly more historicaly accurate" since DW5 (in DW5 Zhuge liang ended up dead but not ater whooping Yi's ass) unless you chose the "loosing" side and won, like itsunari winning Sekigahara and everyone received the compulsory facelift. Almost forgot they revamp the whole charater growth system and you can actually buy 15 horses, yeah it's all buy or upgrade at the shop now even "get better weapons easier" skill is buyable and teh weapons are upgradeable at the shop, I just wonder of Lu Bu still lives on the 100th floor.
MGS3, still good, better actually, and I still suck.
Ikusagami is actually a pretty good game but like everything by Genki, the FMV is awful. the game itself is actuallly fun but gets harder than koei's musou series.
But that was that, from now to the next few weeks, maybe even a month or more I'll be really busy wiith student counseling and handling university placements. To be honset I'd rather be doing proper student counseling rather than giving advice on which university these kids will go to, too bad I don't have the psyc Phd to do it.
FF12 was fun as always, ground about 6 levels up between 6 characters, the gambit system makes it easier though since you don't really do much but walk now and no random encounters just good old mob hunting, the bad (or good depending on how you lok at it) thing about FF12 is by the end of the game your characters will be able to do pretty much the same things, while the license board gves you freedom to shape how each cahacter will be in the end you'll be filling that board and everyone can an all powerfull entity.
Sengoku musou 2 is actually betetr than the last one, more releveant historical characters so bye bye kunoichi, bye bye fatass Goemon, Hello Mitsunari Ishida. Everyone who studies Japanese history knows that when you have Mitsunari and Tokugawa you get....Sekigahara so I was happy but the Kotaro Fuuma and Hattori Hanzou face off was weak, do they really need to put these ninjas in? and ofcourse to not upset the female audience they added more female characters like nene (Toyotomi's wife) why not, they had ina and noh there before. as for teh story, it seems like koei is going for the "slightly more historicaly accurate" since DW5 (in DW5 Zhuge liang ended up dead but not ater whooping Yi's ass) unless you chose the "loosing" side and won, like itsunari winning Sekigahara and everyone received the compulsory facelift. Almost forgot they revamp the whole charater growth system and you can actually buy 15 horses, yeah it's all buy or upgrade at the shop now even "get better weapons easier" skill is buyable and teh weapons are upgradeable at the shop, I just wonder of Lu Bu still lives on the 100th floor.
MGS3, still good, better actually, and I still suck.
Ikusagami is actually a pretty good game but like everything by Genki, the FMV is awful. the game itself is actuallly fun but gets harder than koei's musou series.
But that was that, from now to the next few weeks, maybe even a month or more I'll be really busy wiith student counseling and handling university placements. To be honset I'd rather be doing proper student counseling rather than giving advice on which university these kids will go to, too bad I don't have the psyc Phd to do it.
Friday, April 07, 2006
BBBOOOONNNNGG!!!!
My notebook just died on me....I was working on photoshop 7 when I heard a rather loud tone from it then about 2 hours later the loading beachball kept spinning forever and the finder is not responding so restarted the computer only to find a picture of a folder with a question mark on it.....GAH!! oh ell I gues I'll just turn it off and check again in an hour or so, I'm going to do a systems check once I get back home
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
??!!HUH!!??
here's something I don't hear or get asked every day...my boss wants to buy a Darkie tootpaste, yep you heard it right, a darkie, not darlie, toothpaste. Where the heck am I supposed to get one...the one on ebay is only available for the US...BAH!
things to do today.....
-Drink Tea
-Meeting with people from SIBT (Sydney Institute of Business and Technology)
-Meeting with Bradford College representative (possibly resechedueld)
-Finish comic translation
-Buy Ace combat (high chance of being delayed)
looks like it's going to be "one of those days"....
-Meeting with people from SIBT (Sydney Institute of Business and Technology)
-Meeting with Bradford College representative (possibly resechedueld)
-Finish comic translation
-Buy Ace combat (high chance of being delayed)
looks like it's going to be "one of those days"....
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Stop thief!!
Thief! dirty lying thiefing scoundrels I say!! I received my payslip today detailing all the addition and deduction to my wage and saw Rp 1, one whole Rupiah missing in the total!! that's US$ 0.000111161!!! This great injustice shall not go unpunished! I shall reclaim that whole Rupiah that is rightfully mine!! they shall rue the day they took that one rupiah away from me!!
Monday, April 03, 2006
"The grey dawn"
As I went to the bathroom after lunch in the office to wash my hands I noticed strands of grey hair on my head, first I wasn't sure if it was due to the lighting of the room or something else but after I plucked a strand, which caused a small amount of pain, true enough it was a strand of grey hair from my head....I'm getting old.
mutli-brake drifting
After an 18 hour overtime over the whole weekend (12hr sat+ 6hr sun) I'm now back in the office...completely stuffed and my working shoes only had a one day break last Thursday thanks to a public holiday but that's pretty much all the rest I get since last Monday, the good thing is I only have a 3 day working day on he 2nd week of April, again due to public holiday, and my plan is to just stay at home and.......sit all day and do close to nothing or maybe call up an old friend and hang for a while......maybe.......if I can be bothered.......and not playing games......or sleeping.......all day.
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