Saturday, June 28, 2008

Adiós Mi Guitarra

A little bit more than a month ago I had to make many hard decisions. Coming back home was both exciting and overwhelming. Flying for more than 24 hours, across the ocean was hardly possible (or impossible) if I want to bring all my belongings.
Therefore, starting from 3 months before I go home, I start to give away or throw things. I had to throw my shoes, shirt, t-shirt, pants, sell my Yamaha keyboard and lots of things. But there is one thing that I really had a hard time to let go. It was my guitar. Considering what I had to go through when I bought that. It took 3 hours of a bus ride to go to the music store and another 3 hours plus getting lost somewhere in Phoenix to go home.
So I had to wait till the last second to let it go. I sold it, though I actually want to give it away but I need the money to buy another guitar back home.

Adiós mi guitarra, yo sé que usted más divertido que cuando estás conmigo..

No microwave? No problem..

Yesterday I bought some Bright Moon (or Sweet Martabak :-P). Actually for the last two days I always bought it. It's one of my favorite food and everybody in the house also liked it. Usually we (or I?) can finish it within minutes..:-)

Last night I couldn't sleep, so I pack up my backpack and move from my room to the dining room. I was planning to study German. It was around 11.30 PM when I suddenly felt the urge to munch something. You know how I get hungry easily when I'm thinking (maybe I get hungry easily all the time :-). I was sitting at the dinner table and there was a small plate of something I couldn't really see because of a food cover on it. So I opened it, to my surprise it was the Martabak. Without thinking even once I grabbed one large piece and took one big bite. It was cold, not as good as when it was still hot. I was saying to myself, too bad there's no microwave. I could turn warm up this cold lump of sweet martabak.

On the edge of my desperation I remembered my laptop exhaust. It always blows out hot air when I play game. So, I put a couple martabak in front of the exhaust, play MOHA Airborne for a few minutes and voilà, hot martabak is ready to be served.

You can try this at home. But this won’t work if you have one of those cool and quiet laptop (sorry Mac users :-P)

No microwave? No problemo… :-)

Friday, June 27, 2008

Windows cannot find any network

Windows cannot find any network

Is the sentence that I've been reading for this couple of days. For the last two years I had been living in areas where Windows always find networks, either secured or unsecured.

Now that I'm back to Indonesia, my home country where Wireless Internet connection is less common (which I think 'less common' is an understatement :-), my laptop cannot seem to pick up any wireless signal.. Gone is the night of endless browsing, typing anything that crosses my mind in the Google search box.

When, In my lovely country, can I find doors to internet everywhere so I can just jump out and travel all around the world..someday..

when there's no more hunger and poverty,

when everyone receives equal opportunity,

when no crime goes unpunished

and no good deed goes unrewarded..

when pigs fly in the sky...

someday..someday..