Good Luck Matin!

Genk ONI 12 Comments »

Sabtu kemarin memang sudah niat malas-malasan saja, TA? emm… lupa lagi deh. Paginya si Adi datang untuk ngopi anime, tak lama kemudian Fian dari Loenpia juga datang untuk ngasih kaos pesenanku yang terlambat dan damn! ternyata nggak muat! (sebenarnya sudah kuduga sih =p), jadilah aku harus menunggu lebih lama dari temen-temen loenpia yang lain untuk make kaos debutan kita itu. duh!

Malamnya, Lagi-lagi aku harus mengucap selamat tinggal pada seorang teman lagi demi mengejar masa depannya. Matin telah diterima kerja di PLN dan seperti halnya Encup dulu, dia akan menjalani latihan perang dulu (wamil) sebelum nantinya harus siap ditempatkan di mana saja di seluruh Indonesia. So sesuai tradisi ONI, acara perpisahan di gelar sabtu itu. Banyak juga Genk ONI yang ikut, antara lain Aku, Matin, Syukri, Vandy, Amed, Kunce, Encup, Latief, Fani dan Jati.

Setelah muter-muter gak karuan, akhirnya diputuskan untuk makan steak saja di Bantumi Bentuman. Sampai disana kok seperti sudah dipersiapkan saja buat kita, ada meja tengah yang pas buat 10 orang. Menjelang malam ternyata kita adalah pelanggan terakhir hari itu jadi bisa bebas ribut tanpa takut mengganggu ataupun malu pada pengunjung lain. hehehe.. Lepas dari Bentuman karena belum puas juga dilanjutkan ke area Jagung Bakar lesehan di Simpang Lima, sudah lama juga nggak ke sini ya. Pokoknya puas lah, thanks ya Tin, thanks teman-teman.

Sebenarnya hari itu juga ada kumpul-kumpul anak elektro subjur Informatika di rumah Dendi. Sorry Den, aku gak bisa dateng, steak jelas lebih menggiur… eh maksudku, ini kan perpisahan buat Matin, ketemunya lagi entah kapan gitu. Kapan-kapan aku diajak lagi ya.

at bantumi     jagung bakar


Tasty Kiwi!

Blogging 4 Comments »

Bored with regular Wordpress layout? Do all blogs appear the same to you? Content on the left, sidebar on the right, and that’s it? Centered, narrow width that makes you regrets buying that brand new widescreen monitor? If that’s the case, maybe you should try Kiwi. Kiwi (i’m still confused whether to call it a plugin or a theme) was developed to break the old mold of blogging. Well, particularly blogging on wordpress. Basically Kiwi is a theme, but it does much more work than a regular theme. Kiwi packed with many plugins that makes blogging life easier and more enjoyable.

Some of the Kiwi’s highlight features are:

  • Meta image post, means that you can have different banner image for every post you made.
  • Randomized banner, self explaining, you know what it does.
  • Featured Post, if you feel that some of your post are masterpieces and you don’t want it to be buried within your achieves, then this feature is exactly what you want.
  • Del.icio.us plugin, you can list places where have you been to according to del.icio.us
  • Latest comment plugin, well em…self explaining, it lists recent comment received by your blog.
  • Category list and category menu, nothing really new here, but it is more nicely formatted.

Few months back there, installing Kiwi need lots of sweat and patience, you need to install separate Wordpress plugins in order Kiwi to work. Although doing so is not that hard, but it was definitely not for everyone. I’ve tried the old Kiwi and it’s nice, but I never truly set it up on my blog. My wait for a better Kiwi is finally paid off with Kiwi 1.1 release (which is compatible with Wordpress 2.0). All things are packed in one place, and activated just like any other regular theme. Really nice work! So what are you waiting for? Don’t continue to read this stupid blog, go get Kiwi now!

If you wanna go further, then the CSS file is there for you. You can find some of the CSS in Crystal site. I use Kiwi Peachy, by the way and tweak it my taste, but since I’m not a CSS guru at all, so I still used table tag here and there. I also striped some of Kiwi feature, especially things that generate random things, not only to reduce the load time but also because I thinks this blog is mine, so I decide 100% what I want to display :-) ) Well, at least for now. By the way, what made this Kiwi template is so special to me the sunflower picture on the left-top side, because it was actually shot by me, during my trip to Curug Sewu, two weeks days ago. :-)

FYI, Another promising Kiwi-like project I found on the net is Squible, but it is still in early development stage and has not released a full version yet. Currently what I like most about Squibble is their slogan: “Squible, as Stable as Donald Trump’s Hair!“. Eh, now how cool is that?


Kamen Rider Kabuto

Otaku Stuff, Tokusatsu 20 Comments »

Be Prepared! The Newest Kamen Rider has arrived. Kamen Rider Kabuto is the fifteenth installment (according to its official site) in the Kamen Rider Series. It began aired on 29 January 2006 on TV Asahi. The Rider’s design seems back to its root, beetle! My Favourite modern Kamen Rider is Kamen Rider Faiz (2003) and after that, the series’ quality seems somewhat declining downward spiral. Looking at the first two episodes of Kaboto makes me believe that the down time is going to end, hopefully Kabuto will satisfy tokusatsu hardcore fans like me. Henshin!
You can download the episodes here (via torrent) :
episode 01
episode 02

Anyway, strange things do happen. Kamen Rider Kabuto’s release is also celebrating 35 years, long journey of Kamen Rider tokusatsu show. On it’s official website, all kamen rider is listed and given a little explanation. However, we miss something here. Where the hell is Kamen Rider Jo / Zoe? According to the show’s timeline, it should be listed after Kamen Rider Black Rx, but it’s not there? Why? I don’t have any idea about this, maybe they’re produced by company other than TOEI? Maybe it’s business things? Please tell me.


Selamat Marantau, Hur!

Personal 9 Comments »

Kemarin, adalah hari terakhir di Semarang buat temenku Luhur. Dia akan pergi dan tinggal di bandung sesuai dengan tuntutan pekerjaan yang baru didapatkannya, di sebuah kantor surat kabar nasional.

Luhur ini temenku SMP (tapi tidak pernah satu kelas, di SMPN 1 Semarang), SMA juga (satu kelas di 3 IPA 3, SMU Negeri 3 Semarang) bersama Dendi dan Tisa. Setelah lulus SMA lama sekali kita tidak pernah kontak lagi, sampai kemudian bertemu lagi di acara reuni SMP awal 2004 yang lalu. Mungkin karena ada persamaan kesukaan, musik jepang, anime, tokusatsu dll, kita jadi sering bertemu lagi. Terlebih setelah kira-kira setengah tahun ini dia jadi tetangga.

Jadilah, sebelum berangkat ke Bandung, dua hari terakhir dia sibuk mempersiapkan “bekal” untuk di sana, mengcopy lagu-lagu, clip dan lain sebagainya di rumahku. Foto dibawah itu malam sebelum dia pergi. Oh iya, hadiah perpisahannya dari dia cukup aneh, sticker berukuran 17cm x 17cm dari bintang JAV idola kita Miyabi. Hahahaha.. aneh! :-) Thanks ya Hur, semoga kau sukses di sana. Ganbatte!

Last Pic     Miyabi hehehe


Kantor, Loenpia, kemudian Semawis

Genk ONI 10 Comments »

Sejak mulai kerja magang ini, aku selalau menganggap weekend adalah waktu yang paling berharga. Karena itu, maka tidak juga TA bisa menghentikanku dari kegiatan keluyuran. Sabtu kemarin pagi-pagi aku sudah di kantor, tentu saja bukan kerja melainkan membetulkan blog yang sempet agak error. Tapi itu bukan tujuan utama, bandwith nganggur kan harus di manfaatkan hahaha.. :-) aku masang donwload untuk ditinggal.

Sehabis dari kantor, anak-anak Loenpia ada kopdar di Cimed, cuman sayang yang hadir kali ini cuman berlima, biang keroknya antara lain adanya seminar WiFi oleh Onno W Purbo di Hotel Pandanaran. Huh! Tapi lumayanlah, urusan pemesanan kaos kayaknya sudah beres. Selain itu sempat dibahas juga permintaan dari panita Blog Award 2006 untuk jadi koordinator daerah Semarang.

Menjelang sore, Encup yang kemarin ditinggal tidak ikut ke Sukorejo, merajuk minta jatah makan-makan. Jadilah Genk-ONI kelayapan lagi. Terhasut oleh tulisan Dendi tentang Semawis, aku usulkan ke Semawis saja. Eh ternyata rame ya. Isinya 90 % penjual makanan. Jadi terbayang sendirilah aroma sepanjang jalan itu.

Pengunjungnya juga kebanyakan warga pecinan sendiri (yang ceweknya cakep2!), jadi kita tampak sedikit mencolok. Yah kan nggak banyak pribumi di sana :-). Tapi ternyata kita tidak jadi makan di sana, Encup meragukan ke-halal-an makanan yang dijual di sana untuk umat muslim. Selepas dari Semawis, kita makan mie di Jalan Kartini dan menghabiskan malam di rumah Lek Su. Sebenarnya mau ke Matin untuk minta maaf tentang salah paham jadwal Sukorejo kemarin (salahkan Vandy!), tapi setelah didatangi ternyata Matin sedang ada urusan kerja. Maaf ya Tin, dan selamat sudah diterima kerja di PLN! Kapan makan-makannya?

We on Semawis     Don't listen to it!


What Feeling Do You Represent?

Personal 3 Comments »

What Feeling Do You Represent?
You represent... naivete.
You represent… naivete.So innocent and trusting… you can be very shy at times, but it’s only because you’re not sure how to act. You give off that “I need to be protected vibe.” Remember that not all people are good. Being too trusting will get you easily hurt.
Ikuti kuis ini

Dari Markum yang sok baik. Btw, gw naip? wah kayaknya gak cocok deh. :-P eh tapi artworknya keren!


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