Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Solving Real Problems ...

One fine day, a bus driver went to the bus garage, started his bus, and drove off along the route. No problems for the first few stops - a few people got on, a few got off, and things went generally well. At the next stop, however, a big hulk of a guy got on. Six feet eight, built like a wrestler, arms hanging down to the ground. He glared at the driver and said, "Big John doesn't pay!" and sat down at the back. Did I mention that the driver was five feet three, thin, and basically meek? Well, he was. Naturally, he didn't argue with Big John, but he wasn't happy about it.

The next day the same thing happened - Big John got on again, made a show of refusing to pay, and sat down. And the next day, and the one after that, and so forth. This grated on the bus driver, who started losing sleep over the way Big John was taking advantage of him. Finally he could stand it no longer. He signed up for body building courses, karate, judo, and all that good stuff. By the end of the summer, he had become quite strong; what's more, he felt really good about himself.

So on the next Monday, when Big John once again got on the bus and said, "Big John doesn't pay!," the driver stood up, glared back at the passenger, and screamed, "And why not?" With a surprised look on his face, Big John replied, "Big John has a bus pass."


Moral of the story: (SEE BELOW)


"Be sure there is a problem in the first place before working hard to solve one."

Sunday, September 25, 2005

DARE TO BE

When a new day begins,
dare to smile gratefully.

When there is darkness,
dare to be the first to shine a light.

When there is injustice,
dare to be the first to condemn it.

When something seems difficult,
dare to do it anyway.

When life seems to beat you down,
dare to fight back.

When there seems to be no hope,
dare to find some.

When you're feeling tired,
dare to keep going.

When times are tough,
dare to be tougher.

When love hurts you,
dare to love again.

When someone is hurting,
dare to help them heal.

When another is lost,
dare to help them find the way.

When a friend falls,
dare to be the first to extend a hand.

When you cross paths with another,
dare to make them smile.

When you feel great,
dare to help someone else feel great too.

When the day has ended,
dare to feel as you've done your best.

Dare to be the best you can At all times,
Dare to be!

Saturday, September 17, 2005

sentimentil



Hmmm udah lama banget ngga update blog, mungkin udah hampir sebulansehabis balik dari sweden, aku beneran sibuk kerja like a crazy dog, karena emang aku di kasih project cukup banyak dari WIMAX, IMS, CMM, mutimedia brodcast, Interconecting, Video telephony sampaiMVNO/MVNE, capek tapi seneng aku bisa belajar banyak dan beberap project deadline nya end of this monthtiap hari minimal ada satu meeting kadang 2 atau bisa tiga, bisa kebayang deh kalau meeting sama orang françaisminimal 2 jam, bener-bener ngga efesien, kalau sampe 3x sehari kan udah 6 jam, untungnya selama meeting aku masih akses WIFI jadi email email yang harus di reply ngga ke-tunda.
tapi karena kebanyakan kerjaan yang deadline akhirnya aku batalin schedule ke shanghai this week 21-27 sept, to badtapi ngga apa-apa next time masih ada chance koq untuk ke sana.
jadi udah tiga minggu ini bener2 capek ngga karuan, balik dari kantor udah jam 9.30 malem terus pagi jam 9.30 udah di kantor lagicuman gitu balik kantor ngga bisa langsung tidur karena harus masak dulu, maklum ngga ada yang masakin, sampe kadang wanto yang jogjanemenin alias aku masak sambil chatting hehehe, nanti kapan- 2 kita makan bareng yaa wan, untungnya aku gampang makan apa aja as long as not porc and the friends, kayak tadi siang sebel banget makan di kantin, pas liat menunya sich telor made in gran mere, di tulis cuma makebawang bombay dan jamur, cuman aku curiga begitu aku buka eh ternyata ada si MR.LARDON, nama sich keren, cuman ini masih sepupunya porcuntungnya masih ada kentang goreng dan brokoli dan sayur sawi, plus bread and yoghurt nature, sebel udah bayar 7€ eh ada yang mau ngejebakdengan MR.Lardon, yah gitu lah nasib disini kalau makan mesti hati2 atau tanya dulu baik baik, untungnya mereka disini cukup jujur, kalau adaporc dia bilang emang aja, cuman aku tadi udah keburu beli coupon di mesin dan udah di deduct dari ID CARD.
aku dapat email dari Sarry, katanya monika mau married wah senengnya deh denger itu, akhirnya aku telpon aja dia eh beneran lho akhirnya kamu ketemu juga dengan pria yang mudah-mudahan baik, aku liat dari photonya sich kelihatannya baik, semoga gue ngga salah yang mon, dan sorry banget gue ngga bisa dateng, kalau elo mau honeymoon ngirit elo bisa dateng ke paris dan stay di apartment gue cuman dont doing activitieshoneymoon yaaa hahahahahhaha dia ngakak habis, sebelum nelpon monika aku telpon my beloved wife, oh honey I miss you so much, aku baik baik saja sambil niruin gayanya ratu, siapa hon penyanyi ratu yang beranteman sama maya nya dhani...??? disini ada sich acara gossip cuman lain ceritanya hehehe, tapi kadang aku suka stream dari websitenya liputan6.com, kan ada cek ricek, atau otista atau apalagi lupa,yah biar ngga planga_plongo aja kalau kamu cerita.kamu tadi bilang kamu lagi sibuk apa? katanya ngga ada kerjaan koq sibuk??? lagi ada project yaa. anyway good luck deh. cuman lupa hari ini ngga sempettelpon Acha, maaf yaa sayang papa sibuk banget, besok deh insya Allah papa telpon,I believe some day we will together here, you can see tour eiffel innight, I am sure my tears will goes down when will saw you impresse with the light, paris is city of light, we will go to disneyland paris, and we will play ski and snow during winter, Insya Allah I promissed to you my baby valentine some day you will here with my handsome rafi, it will not only my dream like last night.udah ah koq jadi sentimentil gini sich, hmm gara-gara dengerin lagu lagu padi jadi sentimentil.
aku tadi sore pulang cepet banget, pas liat jam di komputer wah udah jam 19.20 wah aku harus cepet pulang nich karena kulkas udah kosong, dan supermarche dekat apartment tutp jam 8 malem, ada sich yang buka sampe jam 10 malem cuman luamayan kalau jalan kaki sambil bawa belanjaan, switch off komputer langsung say ok bOn weekendterus temen2 ngeliat pada melongo, aku ngga habis pikir koq mereka pada bengong, ah cuek cabut ternyata baru sadar kalau baru jam 17.15 pas sampai jalananheehehehe pantes aja pada bengong. udara cukup dingin hari ini, sekitar 12° kayaknya udah mau musim dingin nich, tapi untungnya bus yang ke pont de sevres datenngjadi ngga lama kedinginan di luar, pas di dalam bus, monsieur LEVY owner apartement tempat aku sewa telpon, dia mau undang aku dinner di rumahnya next week, aku bilang ok, kalau ngga ada halangan aku dateng deh, tapi kalau ada perubahan jadwal aku, akan aku kasih tahu.
akhir sampe di apartement beneran masih sore, syukur deh masih dapat ashar, habis itu baru pergi belanja wah senengnya bisa pulang sore dan kulkasnya isi lagi jadi masih di temenin sama lagu lagu nya padi dan dewa, sambil masak nasi di rice cooker,untung dulu bawa rice cooker ngebantu banget, tapi lebih seneng lagi kalau bawamagic jar, sayang waktu itu cari yang kecil ngga ada kalau ada kan bisa masak buat berapa hari tuch jadi ngga repot, nanti deh kalau balik ke jakarta bawa magic jar,atau ada ngga yah yang mau training ke sini, titip magic jar dong..... hahahaha
hmm nasinya udah mateng, udah dulu yaa mau masak, hmm hari ini masak oseng_oseng toge,jamur, wortel dan paprika di tambah ikan asin gabus.... hahahah udah seminggu ngga makan kayak ginian, kebayakan makan sandwich..udah yaaa next time sambung lagi...

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

sepeda masuk hotel

Well, aku bangun pagi banget hari ini, udah semacam kebiasaan kalau mau pergi suka ngga bisa tidur takut kesiangan, padahal tadi malam tidur udah jam 12 lebih karena banyak setrikaan. beres beres sebentar bersihin apartment dan ready to go, dari apartment aku jalan sebentar ke jasmin statiun, karena deket situ adahalte taxi, dan in 10 Minutes, taxi dah datang, bonjour Monsieur, a Charle de gaule aeroport sil vous plait, deux D (2D) sil vous plait, dah afyer itu silence not so much talking. I feel like a free, karena keluar dari paris yang orangnya very love to much they langague, menurut keterangan, denmark dan sweden they speakenglish everywhere and is a common.
arrive in CDG, pay taxi dan wait nico, ngga lama dia dateng, terus register e-tiket luamayan pajang antrian bukan karena pesawatnya full, tapi karena gate yang dibukauntuk register cuman satu hahaah, c'est normal, this france.... harus sabar sabar deh disini.
akhirnya beres, dan kita masih ada waktu sekitar 1 jam, mampir sebentar di cafe untuk breakfast, croisson, cafe jus, standard breakfast di sini. lumayan mahal untuk breakfastcost about 8.9€ per person, anyway is bussines trip. ok we had boarding and once again have to patient, karena di tempat boarding ada masalah sedikit, padahal pesawat udah delay 15 menit dari jadwal, Ok once again c'est normal. in total pesawat delay for 45 minutes dan take off to Copenhagen, denmark. ini the best way untuk ke Malmo SWeden, jadi Malmo ituujungnya sweden dan dekat banget dengan ibu kota denmark copenhagen. dari copenhagen kita naik train ke malmo, cost about 10€ one way, serunya train ini nyebrang selat cukup panjang juga selatnya, tapi ngga sepanjang selat sunda, ada lah sekitar 15 menit di atas laut.
akhirnya sampai di malmo, jam 4 sore, waktu disini sama dengan waktu di paris, jadi ngga ada time different, cuaca cukup cerah banget, 25° is better than paris karena selalu mendungoh ya sweden ini termasuk schengen country, tapi mereka ngga pake euro, mereka masih make Krone sweden, 1€ = 9.38 Krone. jadia kita terpaksa harus tukar duit dulu di money changgeraku pisah sama Nico di stasiun karena hotel kita beda, aku di scandic kramer hotel http://www.scandic-hotel.se ngga jauh dari central stasiun cukup jalan kaki about 500 meter dan ini termasuk hotspotnya di malmo, malmo kota pelabuhan cukup besar dimana export dan import ke negaran scandivania dan europe berawal disini.
setelah check in, aku telpon nico untuk ketemu di stasiun lagi karena kita harus sewa sepeda, yup sepeda engkol, it's very common to have this, dan it will helpfull to work karena kalaujalan dari hotel te tempat acara america's cup lumayan jauh, aku sewa sepeda buat 1 minggu, cost about 500 krone atau sekitar 45€ hmmm lumayan mahal, anyway ini perlu jadi is OK, toh bisa aku reimbust hahaha. terus dimana-mana banyak oran make sepeda dan tersedia tempat khusus untuk parkir sepeda, karena banyak yang kerja di copenhagen parkir sepeda di stasiun.terus trang udah lama ngga main sepeda, jadi paha pada pegel semua nich, sempet kram sebentar tapi ayooh di geol geol terus oeeyyy. sampe ke tempat acreditation sebagai perwakilan dari kantor, kasih passport akhirnya dapat pass untuk support acara ini,setelah dapat passport aku ketemu product manager yan handle ini, namanya scott, australian yang ngomongnya bleketekbeleketek, ibaratnya ngmomon bahasa udik, alias english kampung. kita discuss sebentar soal kerjaan etc etc
terus kita di invite untuk BBQ party untuk semua peserta baik dari Event organiser, partner dan peserta racing, big party beruntung masih ada cola dan kambing sama beef, soalnya lainyabeer, wine, sampanye dimana-mana.
mulai sore udara jadi berubah windy, temperature berubah banget jadi 9° huaaaaa, mana haru naik sepeda lagi.... brruuururrrrr anginnya dingin banget.... kayaknya besok harus beli jacketamerica's cup nich biar ngga kedinginan. terasa deh pegel di kaki karena udah lama ngga naik sepeda ditambah dingin aaahvh sempet kram beberapa menit dan ngga bisa geol geol sepeda. terus kitabalik ke city center, karena mid augustus sampai 26 agustus adalah malmo festival, jadi rame ada live musik dimana-mana dari khusus untuk anak muda yang heavy metal, disco, techno, juga buat babe-babeyang suka 70 atau yang 60 cuman sayang ngga ada dangdut, dangdut is music of my country hahahahah.jadi sampai akhir bulan ini ada banyak keramaian yah macam pasar malam dan kaki lima di blok M, disini bisa cari tas Luis Vitton yang aspal atau kacamata Gucci samuannya made in cina, karena penjualnya aku liat face chinoax, hahahah another petaling street kayak di KL.
ok luamayn udah dicovering malmo sebagian dan balik ke Hotel, aku ngobrol dengan nico di lobby sambil minum coffe, terus ngga lama datang jean-domique, aku kenal jean-dominique udah lama 2 tahun laluwaktu settingg jawa games di KL, selama ini belum pernah ketemu cuman kerja lewat YIM atau di Skype, akhirnya ketemu juga di Malmo, ngga lama kemudian dateng temen ya dia frederic, dua-duanya jagoan javakita stay di bar sampe diusir dengan halus ahahah krena uda mau tutup.OK, akhirnya kita cabut, ternyata jean-domonique dan frederic stay di hotel yang sama dengan aku, than I have problem karena ngga tahu haru taruh dimana sepeda rental tadi, aku terus tanya sama receptionistdia bilang, yes, sir we can give our big storage to put your bike, you could check that room, ok aku check cukup lumayan gede, jadi aku ambil sepeda dari tempat parkirdan aku taruh di depan lobby, aku masuk lagi dan tanya receptionist, are you sure, I can put my bike here, yes certainly sir, wow is very impresive, gue bisa taruh sepeda masuk hotel bintang Lima, ini ngga kanmungkin di jakarta bisa kayak gini,
yep, mean that everyting is possible, could not image in, but is true, is possible...
well i have to sleep, because, will be busy tomorrow.

Friday, August 19, 2005

c'est secret code pour toujours

aku udah beberapa minggu yang lalu dapat ATM atau disini sebutnya carte a bleu apapun bank nya disbut card bleu mungkin karena warnanya biru, tapi tiap bank memang punya logo yang bebeda.
beberapa hari yang lalu aku ngambil uang di ATM, seperti biasa semuanya in french.. terus ambil 10€ dan OK, kalau kita liat di jakarta macam BCA, BII, BNI, Mandiri atau bank bank lainnya, menu di ATM kan banyak tuch bisa bayar ini, bayar itu, kalau disini menu nya yaa cuman bisa retrait atau ambil duit, atau cari mesin yang lain untuk bisa transfer etc.
yang menarik, kalau kita dapat kartu ATM biasanya selalu dapat pin code bisa 4 bisa 6 angka, dan di sarankan sama bank penerbit untuk menggantinya di ATM terdekat setalah kita dapat, kalau disini ada 4 digit sebagai pin code dan ini ngga bisa kita ganti sendiri lewat mesin ATM, event kita call customer services ( 0,34 € perminute, is not free to get servcies ) dia ngga akan ganti, solusinyaa paling ganti kartu kalau mau. jadi itu nomor pin dari dapat sampai 20 tahun tetap sama ngga perlu ganti2, kecuali kalau hilang.

kalau diliat dari security, emang bagus jadi tiap kartu ngga sama pin numbernya, soalnya kalau sama sekali ilang satu dan bisa di akses bisa ke akses semua tuch duit di rekening, tapi repotnya harus menghapal banyak pin, kebayang deh, untuk masuk pintu gerbang apartment harus make pin code, terus pake atm make pin code, di kantor akses internet make password, kalau kata carlos nanti Mouse di kanto di kasih pin code juga atau di password. sekarang kebayang kalau kita punya 5 rekening di bank minimal kita harus menghapal lima tadi di tambah bermacam device yang butuh pin code, di satu sisi bagus membuat otak kita selalu menghapal kan sesuatu yang penting, di sisi lain lumayan repot is up to you to decide,

c'est secret code pour toujours

Monday, August 15, 2005

undiscovered Paris

This week is a long weekend in french, on friday my boss asked me what I will do for the weekend, I have plat to visit one of my friend in bretagnee, but his not available ok will plan another time, so i said nothing todo my be will discover paris once again and again hahahah, in fact this month is quite empty paris because some pariesen are took vacation in august but not me, even I am living in paris.



so Michael asked me if I would like join to have big branch in one of the famous place close to Hotel de Ville, the place call "le pain Quotidien", in fact this bulongarie or bread store but they mixed some kind of restaurant. The address is on 18, Place du Marché Saint Honoré c very closed to Metro Hotel de Ville on Line 1. so We meet there at 12h00 infact I bit late because small raining and wait metro about 10 minutes because on sunday metro is not like working day every 5 minutes.

I arrivé at 12h30, and I called him after reach Hotel de Ville, and we just walk about 3 minutes we arrive on the Bulongarie. we have wait a bit because all the place are full, and finaly we got the place outside, is a bit cold because the weather changing all the time, even this summer but sometimes cloudy dan windy? this I called cold summer hahahhaha too bad with this weather can't go to paris plage, no body will "berjemur" a long the seine river, oh ya Paris Plage is Artificial Beach, they put some sand along the seine river and make environment like you are in front of beach, but that's pariesien make artificial just to make cheap rarther go to the real beach, in breetagny or nice. but this already since long time ago is some kind of touristm interesting agenda in each summer.



back to the bread store, we order main menu on that restaurant and some additional drink, like juice and dejarling tea with youghourt package. the main menu is include bread once again french bread, even bit taft but finally I like it, also we order salad with salmon. we have wait for sometimes because I can saw there is some customer and I saw there is some Qeue waiting for the table.

upss our food arrive and they have speciality for Jam, we can took anything all the jam and chocolate, it is very nice original and nature, I will buy this when I will back for vacation because they also sale the jam, chocolate, etc. I forget this bread store are originally from Belgium but the have several branch in many country but not yet in Jakarta hehehe.The price for this branch is very rasionable for both les than 30€



after finish, michael asked me to discovering some place in paris not far from this area, we visiti some places like jewish places area and some museum, and he stop by in olivier and Co, this store are selling everything from olive, you can have olive oil, savon, cream for skin , salad, cake, or even cuissine from olive wood, the price product is around 10 - 25 €, is very good stuff for souvenir, and



we also visit the tea shop, I am forget the name but you can find all tea from anywhere arabic tea, chinesse tea, green tea and all tea pot are very nice, beautiful.



afte that we go to Bibliotheque national de François Mitterrand, in paris 13th arrondisment, is new building and and very nice place to hang out because in front of the building you can see on stair up to the top building and see another side of seine river, east part of paris. We enter inside the builidng and you can read the book for 3€ for one day, or member for year for 30€ and 15€ for student, this building are very big building with plenty of book and video and audio, this can be good place for the weekend, is a quite nice and not even expensive. I am not saw so many student because this is summer holiday for student. in the other side of the buiding we visit the cinema, this cinema have 24 studio, is that big isn't ??. there is one trick to watch sinema cheaper than normal way, normal way is 10€ for see one sinema, but you can buy ticket for sinema is about 40 € for 6 times visit and valid for 6 month, is a good for student. but this ticket we can buy too so is one advantage..




we visited some stores in that builiding are sell DVD, oh my good the price is crazy, the soldes or sale is 5€ most is not recognized movie, and the cheap one is 19.90€ upt to 75€ for movie with 2 or 3 DVD. crazy.... unlicensed DVD or DVD9 in Kuala Lumpur or Jakarta is only less than 1€ good quality and brand new with new movie ahahahahha pirated VDV on our country is more crazy hehehe



then we go back to the rue de rivoli, one of the famous place because there is Museé de Louvre, I still not yet enter this museum because always have a lot of people waiting during this summer, may be next time when my family visiting me,




So we visit the book store this time and they selling a lot of English book, hahahah I am supose buy the book normally I should buy French book but too bad my french not good enouogh to understand what written on the book, in fact I aml bought some book about french culture but writtern in English is more easy for mt to understand french culture. the title is " French or Foe" by Polly Platt is one of famous book for foreigner are living in france. and Michael buy book French Chesses, I asked him is strange for you to buy this book ???, he told me ah I buy this for you even you told me you have experience with french chees, wow I was supprise thank for the Gift, Thank anyway



finally we discovering magazine sections, he not buy anaything just saw some models wathcing and buy model magazine, he told me this a good place to see a model live hahahahha, yes you can't affordable this Michael is to expensive for your life hahaha, he arguing with me, if I am lucky I can have it, ok if you are lucky I wish that ;)

we are back and he drop me in Maison de la radio france, because he will cross Seine river to 15th and I just walk to my apartment...reading new boook with norah Jones on my PC sing a song and with my best friend a cup of tea, dejarling tea....., with litte mint a secret receipt from my Malek wife.

Saturday, August 13, 2005

perjalanan ke Marseille



so, finally i was not able to manage the story about travelling to marseille it was two weeks ago but I am very busy and don't

have time to write in my blogs;

I got called from my Chief, his in Marseille and his very happy I could visit him, because he not have a lot vacation he will back soon to Kuala.

so I aggree to visit him with confition, If I could get the ticket.

the next day, aku cari info how to go there, well pada dasarnya kita bisa ke Marseille dengan pesawat atau TGV, kalau di Air France ada over utk pergi ke Marseille PP dengan hanya 100 - 120 €. yaa cuman masalahnya ngga bisa ke sana pas weekend akhirnya aku putusin naik TGV, this opportunities nyobain kereta listrik cepat di europa

aku pernah punya cita-cita naik ini, alhamdulillah kesampean juga. the fastest way to get ticket bisa access www.sncf.fr, ini kayak PJKA di indonesia; kita beli ticket Online

wah kalau ini bisa di lakukan di indonesia aku yakin para calo pada melongo hahaha.

basicly sama kayak semua ticketting online, kita tentuin jadwal dan jam, kemudian kita bayar dengan credit card atau ATM ( carte de bleu ) untuk beli ticket online ini,

cuman masalahnya waktu itu aku belum punya ATM atau credit card, akhirnya aku buat deal dengan temanku untuk gunain credit card dia dan aku kasih cash uang nya

kedia, and François setuju, akhirnya aku dapat confirmation ticketnya lewat email dalam bentuk PDF tertulis nama dan tujuan, jam serta nomor kereta, cuma selebar kertas

dengan complete bar code. aku sedikit ngga yakin dengan ini sampai aku nanya berkali-kali dan temenku bilang yes, it should work with that, c'est tout.

system ini canggih bener2 bisa ngilangin calo dan antrian di gambir hehehe.


TGV

hari jumat aku pulang agak cepet sekitar jam 4 sore padahal kereta terakhir yg tujuan marseille jam 19.20, tapi karena ini first time I should prepare and see the situation, dari office spt biasa naik buse ke pont de sévres terus naik metro line 9 dan stop di stasiun Franklin D Roosevelt terus ganti metro line 1 ke Gare de Lyon, di sini ternyata salah satu dari beberapa stasiun TGV lumayan gede banget dan banyak orang karena weekend banyak yang PJKA juga disini alias Pulang Jumat Kembali Ahad, dan setiap ada jadwal yang datang selalu orang menuju ke TGV, in fact kita bisa beli juga ticket ddari automatic machine just last minute before you go, cuma biasanya kalau kita take in advance jadwal misalnya beli over internet bisa dapat ticket lebih murah 20% dari harga normal, misalnya masih di indonesia terus mau travelling ke France bisa online order dari jauh-jauh hari dengan konsekwensi tiketnya non refundable.

karena masih ngga yakin denga tiket kertas tadi aku tanya ke officer disana dan dia bilang this OK, not happy with her answer because she english not good and my Francais also bad, aku nanya ke beberapa petugas sampai ada yang speak english better than the other, he said this absolutely right ticket cause you bought from internet and this valid ticket, donc c'est clear. merci monsieur, je comprix.




Ini photo special buat carlos francis



setelah nunggu beberapa sampe pegel akhirnya kereta aku datang dan berada di line yellow artinya aku harus ke bagian lain dari stasiun Gare de Lyon, gila kayak lebaran di indonesia karena banyak orang pulang untuk weekend dan ini musim liburan jadi banyak anak2 sekolah dari luar paris datang ke paris untuk liat menara eiffel heheheheh norak juga yaa kayak kita mungkin ada beberapa diantara kita belum naik ke monas hahahahhahaha kalau ngga salah terakhir ke monas SD, anaku Khansa aja lebih tahu KL tower dari pada monas, karena terus terang emang di belum pernah ke Monas, next time deh kalau aku cuti aku ajak dia ke monas to be proud with what we have that I our founding father also can create good monumen, event not enough because now the people are running to create new Mall,

setelah naik kerete dan nemu tempat duduk ngga lama kereta jalan, oh ya kereta ini ada dua level kalau ngga salah di tingkat atas kelas 1, cuma kalau liat ngga banya bedanya antara kelas satu dan kelas dua cuman untuk kelas 1 jarak untuk kaki lebih panjang jadi lebih enak aja, anyway this OK only 3 jam saja untuk jarak 800KM more less sama dengan jakarta surabaya dan selama naik kereta ngga berisik sama sekali dan cukup nyaman perjalanan cukup mulus. cuman sayang utk ticket lebih dari 65€ segelas air pun ngga ada, heheheheh tapi kita bisa beli makanan atau minuman di restorasi dengan harga yang cukup mahal, dan disini restorasi ngga jalan2, cukup kita yang datang kalau kita perlu and is emporter alias take away. karena aku udah beli minum dan sandwich is Ok for 3 hours, lumayan bisa istirahat nyaman kog TGVnya.

akhirnya sampe di marseille jam 11.30 sekitar 10 menit sebelumnya Malek Call and mention he will pickup me in station, and i few 15 minutes after arrive in Marseille his come with his Smile heheheh, I didn't saw him since last year, I left Malaysia.

so his driving to his house and he completely lost Marseille his like foreigner is his home town, he said Marseille changed a lot, finaly we arrive in his house and at the time he had some friend for small dinner, and his wife gave me marrocaine sup, it is very nice and we talk a lot until finaly we notice that is already 2 am, and we go for sleep, during the chat his wife serving me Mint Tea, speaciality for Marroc, she also told me how to make this tea, is very nice tea really nice, thank for the tea Sadia, it's very good tea, I will try your receipt sometimes.

Vieux port

in the morning Malek asked me to go with him to service center to change oil for the car, after change the oil, he took me to some place in marseille like museum zoological and some place like vieux port, its very nice, and we cross the tunnel under the sea to go one place; is market the biggest market in Marseille when you can find anything and I found a lot halal food, specially beef halal, wow Marseille is feel like at home, is not easy to find halal food in Paris, so he bring me some sosis and marquez ( sosis for algerian / arabic country ), thank Chief for your kind and attention.

me at zoological museum

we back to home and stop to buy th french bread, the good one is called bannete, in fact his right the bread is different, so finally we do barceque and during that barbecque we discuss about cheeses because there so many cheeses, and I learn a lot about cheeses,

in the night we visit some place in marseille, is very nice place very different compare with paris, from the building and architec complete different, you feel like in mediteranian country rather feel in france he;eheheh;he, infact I would like stay in marseille longer than for weekend but I have many things todo in Paris, but for sure I will visit Marseille sometimes, so he also invite me to have some dinner in vieux port and I choose La bouyabase, special food from marseille, disini orang lebih suka makan ikan dari pada daging atau porc, karena ikan mudah didapat disini.



Jembatan membelah Karang

mediteraniean sea


Malek avec Sabry


in the night we visit some place in marseille, is very nice place very different compare with paris, from the building and architec complete different, you feel like in mediteranian country rather feel in france he;eheheh;he, infact I would like stay in marseille longer than for weekend but I have many things todo in Paris, but for sure I will visit Marseille sometimes, so he also invite me to have some dinner in vieux port and I choose La bouyabase, special food from marseille, disini orang lebih suka makan ikan dari pada daging atau porc, karena ikan mudah didapat disini.

so it's very nice weekend, thank a lot for very good weekend boss and your hospitality. wish you allways happy, have good life and success in your carrier, may Allah bless you and your family


Friday, July 29, 2005

Weekend in Marseille

This weekend, aku mau pergi ke Marseille ke ruman previous Boss Malek, he call me last thursday and he invite me to come.


so... for the story.... wait next week, Insya Alla will be available next week.


Bon weekend

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Video conferencing

I was very busy during last two weeks, ah God... I have a lot of thing to do, until can't do for relaxs.

event to update my blog, I was visiting many place last week and went to my friends house Francky, I didn't have time to update... back to apartment at 10h00 tired already.

yesteday I was solved some problem in Video gateway solution, and we can make video call and you can see all the participans, on your screen mobile.

it's great, in fact I have good support from UK,

Olfa one of team member was very happy because she wanted this demo for some country, and last night my self, Olfa and Nicolas we went to restaurant in Champs élysées, very nice restaurant because all the made from fruits or mixed with fruits.

Olfa is Belgian Arabic, she speak french, anglais and arabic and Nico is french he speak english and often he forgot about french language..........


Ok, I have to go.. photo will upload letter

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

An Studio

















































Finally I found apartment, so last weekend saturday and sunday not going anywhere just stay at home watching TV ( tv cable included), washing, ironing and cooking, nasi goreng wow so delicius...

But I am feel empty event furnish apartment coz my Khansa, Mas Rafi and Sikutata... are 11.000km far away just saw you in picture, what ever it's far you are always inside my heart... deep inside...I can feel your smile.

Friday, July 08, 2005

Tepat hari ini.........

Hari ini rafi, genap 2 bulan... wah udah bisa apa yah, seminggu yang lalu dia udah bisa senyum sendiri katanya sich lucu banget, soalnya pipinya itu temben banget, yaa tapi sayang aku ngga bisa liat dia sementara ini hik... yaa Insya Allah kamu jadi anak yang saleh, berahlak mulia dan berbakti kepada orang tua, Agama serta bangsa dan negaramu, maafkan papa pergi meninggalkanmu, semua ini papa lakukan untuk masa depan kalian yang lebih baik, semoga nanti kita bisa berkumpul bersama pindah ke paris dalam waktu yang ngga terlalu lama.

Dan hari ini aku pindah ke apartment baru, studio ngga kecil dan ngga besar sedang aja di paris 16th, tempatnya ngga jauh dari metro dan cukup tenang. Di bawahnya ada supermarket lumayan gede, jadi kalau perlu apa-apa ngga repot, kamarin udah teken kontrak dengan agen dan pemiliknya.

yang punya orangnya baik banget, kalangan orang kaya di perancis, semua barang sebagian baru, sampe handuk dan bed cover aja di beliin yang baru, terus di refrigator udah di sini beberapa botol coca-cola, orange jus, ada beberapa apel, jeruk dan pisang plus di siapin roti and Jam. di tambah ada lavaza coffe and dejarling tea. wah serasa di service apartment.

luar biasa, and amazing banget, yang apartment punya dulu kerja sebagai engineer nuclear, namanya michel levy, istrinya namanya michele, dia punya 2 anak udah besar cewek dan cowok.

habis sign contract kemarin aku di temanin gimana caranya operasikan semua peralatan dan kunci-kuncinya apartment. terus di antar sampe di hotel tempat aku stay selama ini. mereka berdua hari ini mau travel ke selatan perancis, sebulan disana dan langsung ke mau ke venice italy. mereka bilang honey moon dan di lakukan every year.
Kalau bukan orang kaya agak susah yaa traveling every year with long time. Terus di invite aku untuk dinner di rumahnya bulan september, I said OK.

Jam 9.30 PM, Mas Harun telpon, dia mau ngajak ketemuan di Eiffel.. aku telpon zita dia ngga mau katanya mendadak lagian udah malem, karena di tinggal agak jauh dari paris, akhirnya ketemu di Eiffel malam tadi cukup dingin mungkin sekitar 16-18 derajat.

Mas Harun datang sama istrinya dari UK dan hari ini mereka ke german, sempet photo-2 di Eiffel terus kita ke arc de triomphe denan iseng dan nekat kita nyebrang jalan raya dan ngambil photo di tengah jalan supaya bisa sapat posisi tepat arc de triomphe tadi. terus lanjutin ke Invalide dan beberapa tempat tapi sayangnya keburu malam dan kita ngga kebagian metro, akhirnya jalan kaki dari invalide ke Eiffel tower, karena disana banyak taxi. oh ya...nanti kalau dapat photonya sama Mas Harun aku, upload deh ke blog.

pisah di Eiffel tower, Mba Ida kasih titipan dari my wife tercinta... (cieee, suiiitttt suiiittt)
Bumbu nasi goreng berbagai rasa, bumbu instant kayak rendang dan gule, terus Buku resep memasak gampang dan nikmat (Wah seru nich). Kompas, aku agak kesulitan kalau mau shalat eh ternyata setelah aku coba arah shalatku selama ini udah bener, cuman kurang miring dikit.
kemudian photo Princes, Khansa dengan pakain tari India........ oh elle très joli,kata orang perancis... cantik banget gitu boo.

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Arc de trioump

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I am in Arc de trioump, the temperatur is very hot.


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Champs élyées,


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Museé Du Louvre

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Museé Du Louvre, Ramai dan panas

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Istananya Napoléon

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