Wanted: Lecturer (Information System)

Ok, I’m a little desperate, so I thought it won’t hurt if I post this here.
We need a lecturer, a good one with great personality, who can teach information system subjects, a programming whiz, and is willing to teach in English. If you know anybody or if you’re interested, please do let me know.

By the way, these are some tips on how to survive the teaching demonstration procedure in our faculty ~ compiled from watching numerous teaching demos:

1. Smile , scary, non-smiling lecturers are not welcomed here.
2. Show us that you really know something. Most of the time, when we ask a candidate to demonstrate their teaching ability, they brought us the very outer layer basic stuffs. For instance, if the topic is on C++, he/she will choose to discuss the chapter 1 : The very introduction to C++ programming. It may be safe but does not help much in convincing the panel. We need to see if you know more than just HelloWorld.c. So pick a topic that you are really good at, and has some technical depth in it.
3. Don’t say that hard skills are not needed anymore in IT. It’s not true, we need to prepare students for their internships, so obviously hard practical skills are what we’re looking for.
4. Show some interest and show us that you actually enjoy teaching, believe it or not, so many candidates don’t look like they really enjoy teaching.
5. If I’m one of the panel and I appear tired and I start to yawn, I can assure you that I don’t make that up. I have the tendency to sleep during lectures, so yea .. do something about me. If you can spark my interest, I think you’ll make a fine lecturer – of course you’ll get my vote !

We’ll be waiting for your application ^^ , good luck !

KOPI DARAT – YAHOO DEVELOPER NETWORK

Yahoo! Developer Network datang ke Indonesia!

Rekan-rekan diundang dalam acara Yahoo! Kopi Darat pertama, dimana anda dapat bertemu dengan tim dari Yahoo! dan dapat bertukar pikiran serta mengetahui tentang Yahoo! developer tools. Kami akan berbagi mengenai Yahoo! APIs, web services, dan Blueprint – platform milik Yahoo! untuk mengembangkan dan mendistribusikan pelayanan rich mobile Internet.

Pernahkah teman-teman berpikir untuk memulai menciptakan aplikasi mobile/desktop ataupun pelayanan pencarian pribadi? Inilah kesempatan yang baik untuk mendalami dan mempelajari hal ini lebih jauh dan bertemu dengan para pengembang lainnya!

Come join us for drinks, snacks and Yahoo! merchandise. Sampai jumpa di sana!

Yahoo! Kopi Darat

Tanggal:
21 Maret 2009

Jam:
10.00am – 12:30pm

Speakers:
Chang Sau Sheong, Engineering Director of SEA
Prashant Kirtane, Global Head of Yahoo! Mobile Engineering
Turochas Fuad, Head of Yahoo! Mobile SEA

Tempat:
Mistere Champagne Lounge
The Ritz-Carlton, Jakarta
Jl. Lingkar Mega Kuningan Kav. E1.1/No. 1
Jakarta 12950
RSVP HERE: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/ymda09/rsvp.htm
or email ymda@yahoo-inc.com

Kami juga ada di Facebook!
Bergabunglah di event kami http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149775460416&ref=nf

Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) adalah sumber utama bagi pengembang dan mitra dalam memanfaatkan Yahoo! platform untuk aplikasi mereka sendiri. Sejak Yahoo! meluncurkan YDN secara resmi pada tahun 2005, perusahaan terus membuka APInya dan menghadirkan elemen utama dari platform Yahoo! bagi pengembang pihak ke-tiga.

PU Students : Contact me or Galih if you want to join , ASAP !

Revolutionising Love

During my couple of days of immobility (the typhoid attack), I watched numerous movies. One of them was “Revolutionary Road”, a drama featuring the ever-famous ill-fated ship couple: Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet. My initial opinion on the movie: blah, thank goodness Titanic had sky rocketed their names. However, several hours later, it made me realise something.

Leaving Jack and Rose behind, Leonardo and Kate transformed into the Wheelers, a picture perfect couple in 1950s era. Both of them found themselves trapped in their accumulated dissatisfaction in their life and marriage. He hates his job but could see no other option but to do it anyway. She dreamt of becoming an actress but the road doesn’t seem to lead her anywhere nearer.

They fought often, he cheated on her, and their marriage was in the verge of dying. Until one day, she tried to recall their happier times, when they were both younger and were dreamier. She remembered he once said about how much he loves France! In desperation of finding a better life, she suggested France to him. They were excited and quickly immersed themselves in the plans for France. Children’s toys were packed, they told their neighbours and then, he told her that he didn’t want to go to France after all. He got promoted at work so he shouldn’t really be going to France and my guess is, he was just too afraid to make any drastic change anyway. She got disappointed and the story ended tragically.

Boring, huh? Why talk about these sorts of stuffs in a movie? That’s when I realised how most of us had overly glorified the wrong kinds of love story. The emotions are more intense when the love is either forbidden, unrequited, tangled with adrenaline-packed dangerous scenes, dreamy love at first sight, or fairy tales.
Let’s see, the worlds greatest love stories: Romeo and Juliet, and in Asia we have Butterfly Lovers, Disney has Snow White/Beauty and the Beast, then we also feed on Korean dramas with their story of dying lovers, and of course, that ill-fated ship movie- the Titanic.

We smiled and sobbed over the great romantic love scenes, but nobody ever questioned, what actually happened after the story declared: “they live happily ever after”. Or what will happen if both of them stayed alive? Will their relationship survive? I think this idea of all-intense, dramatic love interpreted as real love has penetrated deep in our mind. Thus from time to time we hear people saying, ” I think my soul mate isn’t my wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend, I think the right person was this person whom I met during whatever but due to unfortunate situation we could not be together. But I think she/he still loves me as much as I still love him/her bla bla bla”. These people must have a life so boring that they need to induce some drama just to make it sound rather interesting.

Love should not be great because it was so darn difficult to attain, it is great if it survives years of crying babies, children throwing their tantrums, financial crisis, job-related stresses, faltered dreams, you know, the boring stuffs! If after decades of those boring issues you still can look at each other and love each other, then that’s better than great! Even though the movie industry probably will never pay a dime for your love story.

Moodle Toodle-oo

A couple of months ago, we were approached by President Junior Middle School’s principal who was looking for some e-learning solution for the school and we gladly suggested Moodle to do the job. Naturally, after being such a convincing smart-arse about how cool Moodle is, the principal gave us the honour of providing Moodle training for the system admin and teachers. And we did it (with some teeny problems during the training -_-). Kudos to PU’s three musketeers!

The proof: we got this cool honorary keepsake from the school ^^.

Typhoid Fever

This is the second time I had typhoid fever. I know the symptoms all too well now. It started with series of strange unexplainable headaches, and then the next thing you know, you could barely eat anything, you feel nauseous, your muscles ached, you feel bloated, sore throat sometimes with mouth ulcers too, and it is definitely typhoid if your tongue has this horrible taste – as if a thick layer of phlegm sits on top of it. Fever and muscle aches got worse around 6 pm until midnight. Oh well… take care.

Valentine’s Project – Handmade Card

Membuat kartu valentine seperti di atas ternyata sangat mudah. Mengingat kondisi ekonomi yang agak kacau belakangan ini, membeli selusin mawar mungkin bukan ide yang terlalu bagus. Makanya saya mencari alternatif yang lebih murah meriah. Kalau pengen coba ikuti saja langkah-langkah mudah di bawah ini ^^.

Bahan-bahan:
1. Karton atau kertas buffalo (bisa diambil dari sisa assignments-nya anak2 PU)
2. Kertas-kertas ukuran A4 warna atauuuu … kertas-kertas dari majalah bekas yang nuansanya merah-pink-dll.
3. Gunting
4. Lem Uhu – bukannya ngiklan, tapi ini memang lem paling cocok karena bening dan cepat kering. Lem kertas biasa kurang kuat, dan kalau pakai lem Aica-Aibon takut ditangkep karena dikira akan disalahgunakan -_-.
5. Loveeeeeee …. karena proyek ini membutuhkan kesabaran !

Caranya
0. Ambil karton, potong bentuk hati untuk dasarnya.
1. Kertas A4 – diposisikan portrait dilipat dua, kemudian buat garis-garis dengan lebar 1 cm. Kemudian potong kertas selebar 1 cm, dan potong di lipatannya juga.

hasilnya
2. Kemudian gulung kertas agar menyerupai mawar, jangan lupa sekali-sekali agak dipencet-pencet ^^ supaya realistik. Lem ujungnya.

3. Lumuri bagian bawah mawar kecil dengan lem. Penting: beri lem di bagian tengah mawar agar merekat kuat. Kemudian pasang di hati.

4. Kalau ingin membuat daunnya, caranya sama, cuma agak dipencet lagi agar menyerupai daun ^^.

Good luck and have a great Valentine’s day !!

Primacy, Recency, and 5R

Stuffs I learnt from today’s workshop:

1. When we study, 80% of the information will be gone within 24 hours. Eeeppp !!!

2. To prevent the information from running away, we need to transfer the content of our short-term memory chip into the long-term one. To do this we need to do the 5R , I think R means repetition. So the speaker at the workshop said the formula is STM + 5R = LTM.

3. What is this bloody 5R?

R1 (1st Repetition) : If we repeat what we learnt in the next 10 minutes after receiving it, we can retain it for one day.
R2 (2nd Repetition): If we repeat it one day after R1, we can retain the information for 1 week
R3 (3rd Repetition): Repeat this a week after R2 and we can retain the information for 1 month.
R4 (4th Repetition): If we repeat it 1 month after R3, we can retain the information for another 3 months.
R5 (5th Repetition) : If we repeat this 3 months after R4, we had placed the information in our long term memory.
In other words if we assume 5R as a function that copies STM into LTM , it’s better to write it 5R(STM) = LTM.

4. There is this thing called primacy effect and recency effect. Which means, students only remember what happen during the earliest portion of the class and the latest portion of the class. That explains why we remember the first boyfriend and the latest one most ! Anyway, this means, if we give 2 hours long of lectures, students will only pick the first 10 minutes and maybe the last 5 minutes , the rest get wasted. So the solution is …. a break every 30 minutes ! Therefore there will be more primacy-recency information get stored. Students will actually remember more ! Amazing, I wished some of my lecturers knew about this !

5. Another proof of the theory stated in #1 , the workshop was super long, almost 8 hours-long , yet the above 4 items are the only ones I remembered.

Learn Korean part 1

I prefer to start from the important stuffs.
( I decided to use Gongjincheong romaja encoding instead of HNC because I find it easier. )
Now, let’s start!

Coffee = Kopi 커 피 (mirip bahasa indonesia ya ? )

Rice = Bab 밥 , and the famous bibimbap dish is written: 비 빔 밥. If you’re looking for bibimbap in hotpot that’s dolsot bibimbap = 돌솥 비빔밥.

Ramen = ramyeon 라 면

Cookies = kuaja 과 자

Egg = Kyeran 계 란


Orange = oraenji 오랜 지


Carrot = Danggeun 당 근


Watermelon = subak 수박

Hamburger = Haembogo 햄 버 거

Pakchoi (i love this vegie ^^) = baechu 배 추

To be continued in part 2 ^.^ , I’m hungry.

Dilarang Masuk

Thanks to Dilla, I got a picture of our latest dorm regulation.

My complaint: the regulation wasn’t enforced well enough !! Raawwrr !! I still see some males loitering in my block ! Yes, they maybe cats, but they are still male !

Hangul typing in Mac OS X

Follow the following step:
1. Go to system preference

2. Click on the International icon (the flag) and add Korean as input method

3. Whenever you need to type in Korean, go to the menu bar and switch the input

4. Tada !

The above sentence is annyeong haseyo, to type that, I tried several methods until I found the right way -_-,
you should type “ngan nyeng ha sey ngyo”. Ha ! Painstaking for beginners.