Uninstall Photoshop - just use ms paint ^^

After watching this video, I'm very impressed that an artist can be sooo creative even only using Microsoft Paint.

LOL...

Penguin Arena - Wins Intel Game Demo Contest 2007 - Congrats

Frogames just releases Penguins Arena - Sedna's World for Windows and Mac OS X.An innovative, non violent, exciting and colorful FPS: the real First Penguin Shooter!And our game gets what it takes: Penguins Arena is a prize-winner of the Intel(r) Game Demo Contest among 145 entries from 29 countries around the world! Penguins Arena has won the 1st-place prize in the Best Game on the Go category and the award for the Best use of Torque in a game demo!

Indeed Penguins Arena is a fun, cartoonish and challenging game with an underlying message that's as real as today's headlines. What a great way to combine fun, computers and gaming to convey an urgent environmental message to people of all ages.It is also a First Person Shooter with no blood, just snowballs ; very short rounds ; reincarnations system and player interaction even when its tribe is eliminated. And of course it's a multiplayer game (LAN and Internet).Penguins Arena - Sedna's World is available for Windows and MACOS X. It was made with the Torque Game Engine.

A very nice quote about Dream Job

"Most of us spend our time over in the red circle doing stuff someone will pay us to do. If you're lucky, you spend your time in-between them, doing stuff you're good at also. Sometimes something comes along that puts you right in that sweet spot and you have to go for it. Will this be my dream job? Could be, I don't know, but if it's not, it might get me a lot closer." - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BlueBadge.aspx

Do you have a dream job ? I have one. Humm... I'm wishing I'm on the middle spot.

Sooner or later I must achieve my dream job.. next year is my first step (I hope) eventhough I'm not in game development business, but I'll try to convince my next bos to do some development in games for education especially simulation games.

How about You ? Do you have your dream job ? you should have one & persuit them.

Cheers ^^

Another MLM offer... yaiks

Just as being mention on the title, yes I got another offer from my ooooold friend about MLM business. And not like other techniques on MLM which they usually called us and arrange some meeting on a mall or other public places and also didn't give us any clue about what is the meeting is all about.

My friend called me and ask me to go to his home on 7 pm, but he didn't tell me why I must go to his house.. he just told me that he wanted to open some business, and wanted some help from me, so okay I think as a friend I should help him right ?

I came to his house @ 830pm because there some work @ office. Then he offered me to wait at his living room.. that's one thing that makes me more curious, why he let me wait ? then he came with few stranger and introduce me to them, one of them is a doctor (ex. doctor). Then they started to give some prospective to me about their product and their concept about MLM, huaaa....

I tried to control myself (because I thought it was really something important - just making me angry inside). I listen to them and their blablabla about the big money and other things. After an hour I give them smile and I said your product is very good and your concept is also good, and I said that I'll think about it because nothing's instant except noodles haha..

I also thought that I didn't want to ruin my relationship with my friend. Because many of my other friends broke their relationship because of this MLM business, so I just make some rejection with a little diplomacy.

So that's my story yesterday. I've been through it before hehe..

Irony ??

just give the comments on this picture hehe..

Almost a year ? - part1

testing video blog:
"a picture worth of a thousand words, how about moving pictures ?"

Time goes by so fast..

@ the end of December 2006, me and my friends(Ardi, Wende, Mul, Mamato, Yu) as usual each year goes to puncak.

We use alternative transporation like train from Jakarta to Bogor, then Angkot from Bogor to Cipanas Puncak.

Sunday evening - Kota Tua - alternative traveling

So a few weeks ago after I borrowed my friend's bike -0-, I decided to biking around Kota Tua teritory @ West Jakarta. Biking in the afternoon is quite nice, because less traffic & polution on the road. My first target was Sunda Kelapa port (http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunda_Kelapa ) near museum Bahari @ West Jakarta.

After arrived at Kota Tua, I asked the route to bike Ojek there about the route to Sunda Kelapa post because I've never been to there before.. and after he gave me direction.. the biking continued..

When I arrived at the gate of sunda kelapa's port, I met this group of Bule. I assumed they also want to visit this place. But when they entered the gate, the guard there asked them for entrance money - I thought it's free ?? because only cars/trucks must pay to enter this place. But when i came into the gate, the guards didn't asked me to pay. And I asked him, must I pay ? he said that it's free to enter this port, so where the money he just got go ? - to his pocket -_-.

After looking around the port, I noticed that there's no tree or any bushes there, everywhere is stone and bricks. And much worse that the water was so filthy. That's the bad part, the good part is there's still Pinishi boat, traditional boat created by Indonesian people used to sail accross the ocean (http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinisi).



After biking around the port and crossing museum Bahari about half an hour - the time was almost 6 pm - I turned my bike and continued biking to Fatahilah Museum..
I took some pictures there, here it is:

@ Batavia Cafe


@ Fatahilah Museum - nice


hey who is that handsome devil ? haha me!

So that's my alternative traveling @ Sunday evening - next destination maybe Monas ? or Sabang road that offers alot of foods and drinks. Interested to join me biking ?

My Bachelor Thesis application - Edugame - Geogame

This is the screenshots of the Geogame application that me and my bachelor thesis partner Hendy create. The game is about learning geography subject for K7 students. They can learn it online and collaborate with their friends realtime to solve geographical problem they found in the game such as measuring distance from 1 point to another point.

The point of our research was how to use the game to be a effective tool to gain attention of the student to learn and also play on the same time with their peers and teacher.

APICTA Indonesia 2006 - Merit - old news

Whoa.. what a great experience for me and my teammate Hendy Wijaya. We've won the second position (merit) in APICTA Indonesia at September 21, 2006 in the Student Tertiary category with the product name HHDEV Project : 3D MOeG(Multiplayer Online Education Game). It was so close to be a winner :) now we must prepare ourself to compete with other participant from Asia Pasifik in Macao 1-4 November 2006.

Wish us luck on the final APICTA in Macao 1-4 November 2006, thanks.

In the photos UBINUS team and Mr. Sofyan Djalil (the Indonesian Minister of Communcation and Informatics) and third person from the right is ME.