Puasa ke dua di paris

Sebenarnya pengen meng-update blog, karena banyak ide yang mau di tumpahkan, tapi sayang waktu banyak terpakai di kantor. Ini adalah Puasa Ramadan kedua di Paris, Tahun kemarin pun saya melakukan puasa di sini, Insya Allah tahun ini bisa genap seperti tahun kemarin. Oh ya Subuh disini makin siang sekitar jam 06.03 AM, dan magrib jam 7.38 PM . Cuaca juga lumayan nyaman sekitar 15 sampai 21 derajat, karena sekarang udah mulai musim semi.

Temen2 disini suka ngumpul bareng bikin acara buka puasa bersama dari satu tempat ke tempat lain, terutama yang pelajar disini, jadi tiap hari keliling, dan biasanya setiap sabtu sore ada acara buka puasa bersama di KBRI, terus di lanjutkan dengan taraweh, ini kegiatan rutin bertahun-tahun. Bagus juga sich jadi paling ngga bisa ketemu dengan warga negara Indonesia yang lain.

Kemarin sempat bikin Kolak ubi dan pisang, dan teryata kolaknya laku keras, habis!., cuman kangen aja sich dengan tempe goreng atau mendoan bikinan nyokap, biasanya kalau buka makan kurma, terus di lanjutkan dengan makan tempe goreng dengan cabe rawit plus minum teh manis hangat rasanya mantab, setelah itu baru kolak atau asinan. Wah bulana puasa kalau di jakarta jadi tambah gendut, maklumlah camilannya banyak banget. kalau disini yaa secukupnya atau seadanya aja, selain ngga ada waktu buat masak, juga harga nya kelewat mahal, kemarin beli pisang tanduk 3 biji aja habis 2 Euro, terus ubi 05.kg habis 1.5 euro, Blewah 1.5 Euro plus gula merah, santan kara, habis deh hampir 7 euro. kebayang kan kalau duit segitu di bikinin kolak, rasanya cukup buat 60 orang tuch. Tapi yaa mau gimana lagi, walaupun mahal kadang di lakonin juga.

Puasa disini bukan hal ringan karena anda kan tahu sendiri, walaupun banyak orang yang beragama Islam, yang beragama lain jumlahnya lebih besar, jadi memang tidak mudah, suasananya akan beda dengan suasana di Indonesia, pokoknya beda banget. Yang cukup berat disini yaa menahan godaan terutama mata, karena walaupun udah mulai dingin masih banyak di metro atau di bus yang berpakaian sangat sexy, atau bahkan yang asik peluk cium di depan umum, kalau di Indonesia mungkin sudah kena RUU APP, tapi itulah, kadang suka risih juga melihatnya cuman gimana lagi namanya juga kulture nya mereka, paling yang ada memalingkan mata atau pindah tempat duduk. Gitu juga dengan Iklan2 porno di kiosk2 penjual majalah, atau di halte bus, iklan pakain dalam wanita selalu berganti setiap minggu di halte bus dari berbagai merek terkenal, dan menggunakan model yang sexy, wah kasihan banget wanita ter-eksploitasi sekali.

ya, gitulah semoga ini bisa jadi pelajaran untuk memperkuat iman, karena memang godaannya luar biasa beratnya, semoga kita semua selalu dalam lindungannya dan puasa kita di terima di sisi Allah SWT.

Anger, everyone have this....?

Anger, is part of human being, every person have this, person time to time have sadness, jelousy, happiness and anger, is about feeling, is about emotion, according to definition of anger.

"Anger is an emotional response to a grievance; real or imagined; past, present or future, based on the perception of the angry person. Rage is extreme anger whether overtly expressed or repressed. Anger is often based on the perception of threat and it is a frequent emotional component in the Fight or flight response, which is part of the broader stress response. Anger may be seem "provoked" (or triggered) by perceived threats, like conflict, or by abstract concepts such as injustice, humiliation and betrayal among others."

According to definition this is exactly extremely right, why people becoming angry, I am sure everybody was or still in this situation will 100% sure that the definition is right. You don't to keep your anger in your live and you should transfer it to some activities to release or reduce the emotion, but sometimes people couldn't because is already huge, sometimes we can't stand to keep the this emotion, and if it is blow up, for sure will be big a problem. Managing anger is not easy specially when you in the position where you have had big pressured and problem in the same times, sometime the problem are come to you, in-fact is not exactly a problem because sometimes is just matter of perception. For some people small problem can be big problem because not able to look from other prespective, or the problem growing to fast.

then the question is, how to look the problem from another perspective to reduced the anger, the answer is being positive !!

and how to be positive, always think in positive mode, read everything in positive way, never closed with narrow minded people/ negative people, keep smile even you are not happy, breath deeply when you have the problem in front of you and for sure have do a lot of istigfhar, passion and believe that all the problem can be solved without created a new problem.

one thing is also important, share the problem you have with some one you know, talk and share to them, because sometimes when you talk, you just empty an anger in your mind/soul, and never ever bring the problem from office to home or the other a way around.

let's put the glass down. is great article, I had copy from internet, is not new but could be useful.

A lecturer was giving a lecture to his student on stress management. He raised a glass of water and asked the audience, "How heavy do you think this glass of water is?"
The students' answers ranged from 20g to 500gm.

"It does not matter on the absolute weight. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is Ok.
If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right arm.
If I hold it for a day, you will have to call an ambulance."
It is the exact same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.
If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on, the burden becoming increasingly heavier.
What you have to do is to put the glass down, rest for a while before holding it up again.
We have to put down the burden periodically, so that we can be refreshed and are able to carry on.

So before you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it back home. You can pick it up tomorrow.
Whatever burdens you are having now on your shoulders, let it down for a moment if you can.
Pick it up again later when you have rested.
Rest and relax.

Life is short, enjoy it!!

Marhaban yaa Ramadhan

Marhaban yaa Ramadhan... mohon maaf atas segala kesalahan, semoga ALLAH SWT senantiasa melimpahkan rahmat,hidayah,Rizky and Barokah -Nya kepada kita semua untuk menjalani ibadah dibulan yang penuh berkah ini.. amien

Sound of Music

I know you are missing of me, and you was sad when heard this song last night, I wanna go home soon, I miss you so much my love.

I'm remember all the lyrics, once I'm home we will sing the song together. Be Good girl OK.

Papa always remember you.

First time side job, as photographer.

I have some Indonesian friends here are living in Paris, they are student. Yesterday the friend of mine asked me to help to take some pictures, since she know that I like hunting a pictures. Yes actually I like to take picture just for hobbies, to kill the time during week-end. She's is studying in Marketing Communication and one of her subject is adverstiment, after had a phone call the day before we are agreed to have an appointment Saturday afternoon in Metro Louvre rivoli.
She has list of the boutiques in 1st Arrondissment as the target of her research, the idea is to take a picture of the display in front of boutique, because of the display sometimes we are interesting to see the boutique and eventhough sometimes we bought the product even we never plan to buy it. This the reason why, display is very important and I just realized that there is special study also for this job.

We start from Rue Rivoli, but some data are not valid the boutique was changed or moved, and we can't get the good situation because during the time there is a demonstration and lots of people come to the street, I will tell you about this story letter on.

Then We start from Rue Saint Honore, as you might know that all the long of this street is full of the very class and expensive boutique, the place of people who like to spent money to follow the mode.

So visit boutique one by one of the did window shopping, have look inside the store and we are acting as tourist, since we had Asian face qnd we are speaking English they think we are really tourist, look the price, asked the brochure, she is very good to get information what she is looking for, during the day we have some difficulties to take a picture in the display because, there is security guard. So we decided to visit all the store and take a display picture during the night. for me this is very challenging because take a picture in the night without flash, is not so easy to checking the ISO and try to finf the object with limited light, but look the result is not that bad isn't.


After we walked all the way long in Rue Saint Honore, if not wrong is about more than 5 KM, we decided to take some break and we plan to have dinner and I called her boy friend to join, he can't join during the day because he should finish thesis, he plan to finish the study next month. Then we meet in Place de la concorde and we have decided to eat "fake"Japanese food. We don't really care about the taste because all of us is very hungry, just in the minute all the food are left from the table.

After we had nice dinner, we continue our work and I'm finished to take more than 100 pictures, and during the work, they realy enjoy Paris in the night, it is wonderful, even special when you are falling in love, walk together hold a hand each other, this a one of the romantic place in the world, and is very romantic moment, I'm sure they are very lucky couples, me, just happy to saw them happy, I took some pictures of them, but I will not publish here, I let my camera become the withness of they are love. Wish you good luck and good night.

2 Bulan 15 hari tanpa TV

Televisi, saat ini merupakan salah satu kebutuhan rumah tangga, hampir di setiap rumah ada Televisi, selain sebagai sarana hiburan sekaligus juga sarana informasi. Memang ini seperti sebuah mata pisau yang sangat tipis perbedaanya antara keuntungan dan kerugian menonton TV.

Mengikuti perkembangan per-televesian di tanah air, rasanya memang banyak orang yang sudah muak dengan tayangan televisi di sana yang isinya gossip, kekerasaan, exploitasi dan pembodohan, walaupun dalam hal yang lain berita yang baik dan bermanfaat juga masih ada. Kekesalan Penonton kelihatannya sudah sampai pada titik nadir, sampai ada anjuran mem-boikot TV selama sehari. Ini saya dapat dari milist atau yang menghimbau di blogs atau personal page beberapa temen yang saya kenal di dunia maya.

Protes ke penyelenggara siaran dengan melakukan boikot, rasanya koq kurang effektif yaa, karena dari setahun cuman satu hari untuk tidak nonton TV. Sedangkan 235 hari yang lainnya kita masih asyik pencet sana, pencet sini, dan menghabiskan waktu di depan TV, lalu dimana efektifitasnya. Saya bukannya tidak setuju dengan ajakan untuk tidak menyalakan TV satu hari cuma saya hanya mempertanyakan diri saya sendiri secara objective apa itu efektik?, kalau memang mau, beranikah anda untuk tidak menyalakan TV selama satu bulan atau bahkan menjual TV yang ada dirumah. Saya sudah melakukannya jadi selama 2 Bulan 15 hari tidak menyalakan TV sama sekali, suatu rekor yang buat saya pribadi cukup lumayan. Mungkin ada yang beranggapan, "wah nanti kurang informasi donk kalau ngga nonton TV", Rasanya tidak juga tuch, malah dengan menonton TV saya akan banyak kehilangan informasi karena asik dengan satu acara atau pindah dari satu acara ke acara yang lain. Bisa anda bayangkan, channel TV di tempat saya ada 400 lebih channel, dari total tersebut 60% gratis dan selebihnya berbayar. Supaya tidak ketinggalan informasi banyak sekali caranya, bisa lewat internet, subcribe rss feed dari website berita yang anda sukai, bisa juga dengan podcast news, atau membaca koran gratis pagi hari selama di Metro atau di Bus. Terus kalau mau hiburan bisa nonton Movie di cinema atau Sewa DVD / beli DVD second mulai 60 cent sampai 2 euro or kalau mau ngirit lagi pinjem sama perpustakaan.

Jadi cara yang paling efektif adalah membatasi diri untuk melihat acara TV, atau kita benar-benar memfilter dan menerapkan aturan dalam keluarga dalam soal menonton TV, Jadi sebenarnya tidak sulit untuk menghindar dari tontonan yang ngga bermutu karena filternya adalah diri kita sendiri.

Broaden my life, again and again

Today, I had changed my office for whole week, cause I have to attend training course. I have to went out from home early because the class will started at am, even though I lived in Paris but I'm never been in HQ office in Paris, where most of our executive director used to work here, that a reason to I have to come early, I am afraid getting lost again in Paris ;).

fortunently the office is one direction with my place, it took about 15 Minutes by metro and I'm arrived not far from the office, I called one of my colleagues who will also attend the class, he was there and we meet at front office.

The training was awesome, fully compressed training and straight forward with English native speaker, What have been explained with the teacher is normally what I always did in day to day jobs. Now, I do understand the theory behind, is a lot of theoretical bit confusing but I have to learn it and I am sure this will help me to pass the test to get International certification, well this is just a beginnings, Currently I'm in progress.

After the class finished at 18.00 PM, we left the office and I found that, the weather is really wonderful, bright and clear. My colleagues was asked me to take some coffee before we left, I said OK, that's fine since to early for me to go home, well we spent about 15 minutes and he should leave because he will pick-up his has to pick-up the kids, then I walked through to the closed metro, but in a second I had changed my mind, well I have to enjoy the afternoon in Paris during working day, in fact the office is not so far from Champs elysee, so just walked for 5 minutes I arrived there. I spent the time to see peoples walking, some nice store, traffic jam, tourist, wow is really different.

Any way is really beautiful day, but OK I couldn't enjoyed to much, I have to go back home because, I need to review some chapters and finished the quiz and exam and read some chapters for tomorrow. This is just only beginning, I need to study very hard, I need to focus and serious on this subject, no exception stick to the aims.

wish me luck, to broaden my life, again and again.

Bravo you passed PMI Exam

This morning during the worked, just splash in my mind... One of my best friend, I call him lelaki buaya darat, Currently his living in Singapore, his a French guy, it was long time a go he was worked in Jakarta and unfortunately I never been work together with him, but he seems to be very like Asian country, he spent more than 10 years in Asia, he was told me in previous live he was Asian, well I don't know I'm not believe on reincarnation. I meet him sometimes a go in Brunei and Malaysia offcourse, is very simpatic person but sometimes dia Gila hahhaa.

I didn't know that he take some vacation in France, because after splash in my mind I pickup the phone and called him in his office in Spore and no answer and I tried called oh his mobile, and he said, hei Dude I am in France, after second he called me back in my mobile. In fact I called him to congratulate him for PMP, because he passed the exam, he told me he was study like a more than orang Gila to pass this. From my understood, this exam is not so easy some people failed several times but he passed it in one shoot.

Bravo O.R

New colleagues, and I just Lucky

Since last three week, it is very hard week, I am so tired but I have to do otherwise someone else will do. I had very important demo project to customer from Switzerland in my office. It was struggle to get some equipment, resources, support, and luckly we made it, the project just outstanding and make customers really happy, thanks God.

During this project, one of my colleagues from our office in Switzerland come to help me, he was help a lot to success this project, because he is the one who know what the customer really want to see.

He made a good job for his last month in the company, he will go to study after this. Well is remind me also to study again, I was quite busy with work and forget a bit about my planning to study to have more graduate. Well I have to think about this again, I guess.

During this short Project, I have learn many things, eventhough this is not the first time for me, I learn more about people behavior from different country, the way of they talk, they think and they attitude, It was not so easy to manage in the beginning with multi culture of work, but with professionalism Finally I can manage it, Thanks God everything is goes well.

colleagues of my mine also invite me to had dinner with the customers, we went to nice place and very expensive restaurant I suppose, This restaurant is full classic and a lot of historical from Louis XXIV one of the King in France history , the restaurant called Cafe Trianon, it was one of the palace for Queen Maire-antoinette in 16 century I guess, and currently is become the hotel and Spa including restaurant as normal in every five star hotel in the world, this restaurant in fact is inside garden of chateau de Versailles one of the huge and nice garden in the world,

Personally If I have to dinner here I would not even pay for the bill. I am sure is very expensive but I just lucky to have dinner here, unfortunately I am not with my Camera, so I can't take some picture of this, but you can see from the link, than you can guess your self how very class this place.

Anyway It has been pleasured work with you dude, hope I can see you again and good luck for your study and keep in touch, I know because you observe my blogs, time to time;)

Ngakalin Rapidshare

Barusan aja temen posting di milist tentang ebook, kalau liat dari judul2 bukunya sich lumayan bagus, kebetulan lagi ngga sibuk banget jadi ada beberapa buku yang ingin di Download.

Sayangnya link dari blogs ini punya link ke rapidshare, penyedia tempat untuk share document, disini ada layanan free dan premium, kalau premium ngga ada batasnya untuk download dan bisa kapan aja, dengan membayar 9€ bisa dapat full access selama sebulan.

Tapi ternyata setelah di fikir2 ngga ada untungnya, karena ngga akan download setiap hari, akhir pakai yang free access aja, tapi sebelnya harus nunggu kadang cukup lama mulai dari 10 menit sampai beberapa jam.

Hmm niat iseng mulai jalan, gimana caranya free tapi nunggunya ngga terlalu lama, pasti banyak yang intersting nih.

Gini caranya,

pada saat pertama download something lewat rapidshare, biasanya download yang kedua akan menunggu sekian menit atau jam, nah cara mengatasinya adalah, kalau anda memakai windows OS, coba ke directory C:\Documents and Settings\nama_user\Local Settings\Temp

Cari file WaiT.exe, di delete aja, karena file ini bikin semacam counter berdasarkan IP dan kapan anda terakhir dowload dari rapidshare.

Setelah itu coba download lagi dari rapidshare link, anda akan di minta untuk menunggu 7 menit kalau dengan layanan free, tunggu sejenak kemudian refresh / reload lagi browsernya, dan counternya berubah jadi 1 atau 2 menit, tunggu sebentar reload lagi dan counter langsung menghitung dari 60 seconds.

Jadi anda bisa mendownload banyak tanpa perlu membayar.

Ini sudah di test hari ini, semoga Rapidshare ngga tahu kalau teknologinya sudah di Akalin.
Tolong kasih komentar, karena saya sudah sukses mendownload 20x files Pdf dalam waktu kurang dari 15 menit.

Di pecat karena nge-blog

Mungkin ada yang sudah tahu atau membaca tentang seorang secretary yang di pecat karena blogging, Di sini jadi headline di koran dan televisi, salah satunya Guardian Online.

Tulisan blog nya sangat bagus dengan bahasa inggris yang sangat baik, karena memang penulisnya orang Inggris yang tinggal di Paris, dia juga bisa bahasa Perancis dan Jerman, dia di pecat oleh perusahaan tempat dia berkerja karena menulis blog,

padahal selama dia menulis ngga pernah bilang dia kerja dimana, karena banyak yang simpati dengan Ibu satu anak ini, akhirnya banyak yang mendukung untuk maju ke pengadilan, akibat kasus ini akhirnya terbuka juga lah identitasnya Petit Anglaise ini, untuk lebih jelasnya link aja ke Petit Anglaise.


Semoga anda bisa menang.

Ayo bangkit.

Banyak orang bilang skrg sudah tidak krisis moneter lagi, tapi kenyataan belum tentu benar, krisis yang menghancurkan kita tahun 1997 telah memporak-porandakan bangsa ini, yang paling parahnya lagi bangsa kita di hantam dua krisis sekaligus, moneter dan moral, bahkan banyak yang tumbang terhantam badai tsunami seperti Garuda misalnya, sekarang sudah ngga ada lagi penerbangan ke Europa karena memang tidak sanggup lagi membiayai ongkos penerbangan, terpaksa kita ber kongsi dengan Malayasia airlines, Kapan yaa Garuda terbang ke Eropa lagi.

Masih Ingat dengan Iklan ini, dibuat sekitar tahun 1993, Kebetulan saya kenal dengan anak yang jadi bintang Iklan ini, dan saya mengenal baik bapak dan ibunya, Winu dia pernah menjadi murid saya belajar komputer, ngga tahu apakah dia masih tinggal di Poltangan di daerah pasar minggu. Salam untuk keluarga ibu Winarni dan pak Winarno, titip salam hormat buat beliau.

Factory Outlet in Paris, belanja barang ber-merk setengah harga

Paris, adalah kota tujuan wisata no. 1 di dunia, tiap orang yang ke Eropa rasanya pengen mampir ke Paris, kalau ngga rasanya belum ke Eropa. Selain tempat tujuan wisata, Paris juga merupakan tempat untuk shopping, karena memang Paris juga menjadi saah satu pusat mode di Dunia. Jadi ngga heran kalau banyak Butik-butik di Paris. Buat orang yang berduit, harga berapapun pasti di beli, coba aja sepanjang jalan Champs Elysee, baik di kanan dan di kiri penuh toko barang dengan merek terkenal, kayak Luis Vitton, Mont Blanc, Hugo Boss, Cartier, dan banyak lagi.

Kalau mengikuti hawa nafsu, barang-barang bagus itu pengennya sich di beli, tapi gitu ngeliat harganya wowww, yaa tapi kalau uang bukan masalah silahkan berbelanja disini, Orang dari Indonesia memang terkenal royal untuk berbelanja, sampai di salah satu gallery terbesar di Paris untuk Shopping mereke hire orang Indonesia, karena saking banyaknya orang Indonesia yang berbelanja di Galery Lafayette.

Orang di Paris kalau belanja ada waktu-waktunya, kebanyakan dari mereka menunggu sale atau soldes, ini biasanya dua kali dalam setahun, yaitu musim panas dan musim dingin. Soldes musim panas baru aja selesai minggu lalu. Memang kalau kebetulan lagi Soldes barang-barang bagus di jual dengan discount yang menarik, soldes disini di bagi 3 session, session awal discount mulai 20%, session kedua biasanya 2 minggu sesudahnya discount mulai 30%-40% nah di session terakhir 50%-70%, tapi pada session ke dua biasanya barang yang bagus sudah habis duluan, jadi harus cepet.

Selain menunggu soldes untuk mendapatkan barang bagus dan murah ada cara lain, yaitu dengan berbelanja di Factory Outlet. Factory outlet disini beda dengan yang ada di Jakarta atau Bandung. FO disini hanya menjual barang-barang ber-merek dan bukan barang bekas import, tapi barang yang memang tidak laku pada tahun sebelumnya atau musim sebelumnya, jadi kwalitasnya sama persis dengan yang jual hanya agak sedikit out of date.

Ada dua tempat FO yang bisa saya rekomendasikan untuk berbelanja di Paris, yang pertama adalah La Valle Vilage di daerah Val d'europe, Ini sudah di luar Paris, tapi bukan berarti tidak mudah di jangkau, Ini dapat dengan mudah di jangkau dengan menggunakan kereta Api, dari Paris bisa naik RER A dengan jurusan Parc Disneyland atau Disneyland Park, dan berhenti di statiun Val D'Europe atau satu stasiun sebelum Disneyland. Factory outlet ini buka setiap hari dari jam 10.00 pagi sampai jam 20.00 Malam. Kalau anda kesini ada sedikit trick untuk mengetahui factory outlet ini, begitu keluar dari stasiun Val D'europe anda langsung masuk ke dalam Centre commerciel atau Mall, ini seperti kebanyakan Mall di Jakarta, tapi FO bukan di sini, jadi anda bisa jalan terus di dalam mall sampai bagian paling ujung, kemudian nanti akan ketemu dengan food court dan, seteleah ketemu food court anda terus saja dan barulah memasuki kawasan FO. konsep toko disini cukup menarik karena setiap brand memiliki toko sendiri bergaya rumah modern.

Factory Outlet yang satu masih berada di dalam Paris namanya Marques Aveneu, Untuk mencari tempat ini ngga terlalu sulit, tapi kalau anda baru pertama kali ke Paris jangan lupa untuk membawa peta Paris dan juga peta bus dan Metro, Jadi dari Paris anda harus naik Metro No. 13 jurusan Saint Denis, dan berhenti di stasiun Marie de Saint Queen. Terus dari sini anda coba cari restoran Quick, dan terus menyebrang dari restoran Quick. Anda bisa Naik Bus No. 166 atau No. 137 Jurusan Colombes, dan anda harus turun di bus stop Marcel Paul, atau halte bus ke empat dari tempat halte bus anda. Dari sini nanti ada keliatan Plang Marques Aveneu, jalan kaki kurang lebih 900 meter. Atau anda bisa juga ke tempat ini dengan menggunakan kendaraan pribadi, silahkan liat Peta ini.

Yang harus di perhatikan dalam berbelanja di FO tidak semua FO di Marques Aveneu ini Bebas Pajak, anda masih kena pajak 19%, tapi ada beberapa toko yang memang tax free, walaupun barang tersebut masih kena pajak, tetapi masih lebih murah 30-50% dari harga di toko di Paris. Kalau Barang yang ada di La Valle Vilage hampir semuanya bebas pajak, dan juga lebih murah 50% dari harga di Paris. Jadi silahkan mencari barang bermerek dengan harga miring.

Perang Harga VoIP, cari kwalitas atau harga.

Tinggal jauh dengan keluarga memang ngga gampang, kita harus sering keep in touch dan telepon adalah salah satu cara melepaskan rindu dengan keluarga, untungnya sekarang international call ngga terlalu mahal karena banyak layanan VoIP ( Voice over Internet Protocol), jadi cenderung relatif lebih murah bahkan ada beberapa negara yang kalau kita call itu free alias ngga bayar apapun walaupun international call. Sayang nya ngga ke Indonesia atau Jakarta.

Selama ini saya selalu menggunakan skype-out paling ngga sudah sejak 3 tahun lalu waktu di Malaysia, dengan menggunakan layanan ini kita bisa telpon via internet dari PC yang terhubung ke internet ke PSTN (Public Switching Telecom network) atau ke GSM (Global Sytem for Mobile) dengan harga yang relatif murah tentunya di banding dengan International Call dari Telephone Fixed atau GSM. Tapi dengan Skype kalau kita call ke PC ini gratis, dan layanan spt ini banyak sekali yang bisa call PC-PC gratis, selain Skype kita bisa pakai Yahoo messager, Gtalk ( google), VoipStunt, atu bahkan fixed phone di rumah yang dari provider internet disini saya bisa telpon free ke beberapa negara spt Cina, US, Australia dan Singapaore tapi Indonesia ngga lah yaa.

Selama ini saya cukup puas lah dengan layanan yang saya pakai di atas, tapi beberapa minggu lalu seorang teman bilang kalau ada layanan yang kwalitasnya lebih bagus dari skype-out dan lebih murah, well saya bilang OK nanti aku coba, Nama softwarenya VoipSTUNT, cara installnya mudah tinggal clikc next, smapai selesai, kemudian create account dst.
Saya coba iseng telpon ke Kantor di Malaysia dan ngobrol dengan temen disana well hasilnya ngga jelek, cukup bagus kwalitasnya spt kayak kita telpon fixed to fixed, Sepertinya Encoding cukup bagus.

well karena ngga bisa coba untuk telpon ke Indonesia, saya belum bisa membuktikan lagi punya credit saya di Skype masih ada bberapa euro jadi masih bisa telpon untuk beberapa hari. Tapi pagi ini saya lagi asik telpon ke istri tercinta, eh telepon disconnect wah ternyata pulsa habis. Aku fikir ini kesempatan untuk coba VoipStunt, karena sudah biasa dengan layanan seperti ini ya mudah saja buat saya untuk bisa beli credit di VoIPStunt cukup dengan menggunakan internet bayar 10Euro, dan melanjutakan obrolan yang sempat terputus.

selama telpon saya coba perhatikan kwalitas nya so far OK, walaupun tidak terlalu jauh berbeda dengan Skype-out. Tapi saya sedikit terkejut koq price per menit 0,070 Euro / menit, cuma karena masih dalam conversation yang serius saya ngga perhatiin cuman saya check aja berapa pula saya berkurang. Setelah ngobrol selama 13 menit 12 detik saya di charge sekitar 0,84 cent Euro. Wah ini terlalu mahal, spt anda lihat capture call list yang saya pernah lakukan di bawah,

Setelah saya selidiki ternyata kenapa VoIP stunt lebih mahal, karena dia menerapkan satu Zone Tarif untuk Indonesia -land phone (PSTN) sebesar 0,070 including VAT. Sedangkan Skype-out menerapkan tarif yang bebeda ada Jakarta (PSTN) tarif sebesar 0,036 including VAT dan 0,070 including untuk Call ke seluruh PSTN di Indonesia.


OK akhirnya memang teliti sebelum membeli sangat penting, kadang referensi dari kawan ngga bisa di bilang OK begitu saja, karena kebutuhan sangat berbeda, Tapi saya sudah mencoba dan buat saya kwalitas keduanya boleh di bilang sama, Saat ini skype-out masih lebih murah untuk saya, tapi yaa OK ngga pakai skype dulu sampai credit di Voipstunt habis, mungkin ada yang bisa kasih info lain kalau ada VoIP yang lebih murah dari Skype.

3G in Indonesia, are you ready ?

I have read some articles from International Herlad Tribune, last week end, the topic is talk about 3G bussiness not really successful in Europe after spent a lot of money on investment on new technology, some operator seem not really happy with the result. I am not pretty sure that this can be comparation when we would like deploy it this nez technology in Indonesia, So far the technology is driven by end user, we can calculate how much money user will spent everymonth for mobile communication, even in Europe not offten people are like doing 3G video call among each other, there is some reason behind, perhaps because of the quality of video ? because to expensive, or because I am not 3G subcriber.

Is really a question, people still thinking that phone is only communication tools, and communicate with people can use anything, SMS, Chat, etc not necassary with 3G phone. So is a question do I need 3G, Is it sure that Indonesia need 3G ? I am pretty sure not. Even some people are use to download with 3G phone but less than 0.01% since internet in Indonesia are very expensive.

Hope Indonesia will not follow European operator was failed to generate revenue after implement 3G network.

Some link could be interesting :

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/30/business/3G.php

Bisakah podcast bisa menaikan traffic internet di Indonesia

Di Indonesia sptnya teknologi internet masih cenderung sebatas untuk download, browsing atau chatting. Dan lagi lagi yang di download masih selalu lari keluar negri, karena memang sangat sedikit sekali lokal kontent yang kita miiki, jadi kalau memang industri internet di indonesia kembali booming spt sebelum masa krisis tahun 1997 maka kontent local harus jadi pendorong penetrasi internet ( traffic download itu sendiri).

Saya lagi mikir, mungkin Podcast bisa jadi salah satu cara untuk meningkat kan penetrasi internet, kalau saja banyak orang indonesia yang podcasting ( setahu saya di itunes belum nemu content local indonesia), Kemudian pertanyaannya kenapa harus podcasting yang bisa mendorong local content, gini memang ngga banyak orang yang punya komputer tapi banyak sekali warnet dan sekarang keliatannya trend penggunaan Ipod / MP3 cenderung meningkat. Terutama di kalangan anak muda seluruh dunia ( kalau di paris sini ngga yang muda dan yang tua ber ipod ria di metro, bus atau di jalan, termasuk saya) pada awalnya sich cuman buat mendengarkan music atau lagu kesayangan tapi akhirnya koq mubazir cuman untuk dengerin music aja, yaa akhirnya saya banyak subcribe ke free podcast atau yang berbayar, tujuannya bisa keep update informasi atau teknologi selama perjalanan dari rumah ke kantor, jadi kalau malem tinggal connect Ipod ke PC dan update automatic, karena beberap podcast yang saya ikut langganan update setiap hari.

Kembali ke soal di atas, kenapa podcast bisa meningkatkan traffic internet di Indonesia dan meningkatkan local content, ya manusiawi saja kalau orang sudah addict dengan misalnya Lawak nya patrio atau hal yang sifatnya rohani sperti dengerin ceramahnya Aa Gym jadi masih sempet dengerin misalnya waktu makan siang atau jam istirahat di kantor, tetep keep update.

Kalau orang banyak melakukan ini saya yakin penetrasi internet di Indonesia akan semakin naik dan lagi lagi memang kebutuhan local content untuk podcast bisa membantu. Dalam podcast kita bisa ngomong apa aja, cerita apa aja tentang tergantung dengan topic dari podcasting itu sendiri, ambil contoh bebebapa blog di luar negri selain menuliskan text di blog nya juga di sajikan dalam bentuk audio, jadi ngga perlu berlama- didepan komputer, nah memang podcasting ngga selalu menghasilkan uang di awal tapi kalau anda sudah punya banyak penggemar, kayaknya suatu kebahagian tersendiri, hmm mungkin bisa saja dengan revenue sharing jadi ISP yang di untungkan dengan banyaknya traffic download memberikan sumbangan kepada podcaster local...


pasti banyak deh yang mau podcast kalau gitu, any way podcast itu ngga melulu harus dengan Apple atau dalam ipod / mp4 format, bisa juga koq dalam bentuk mp3, karen intunya cuma bikin rss file saja.

Dibawah ini beberpa link untuk podcasting, atau coba googling aja untuk bisa dapat banyak informasi tambahan, di tunggu deh podcaster-podcaster pioneer Indonesia.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/
http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/
http://www.voxmedia.org/wiki/How_to_Podcast

Hello Papa

I called my wife today, and during the call my son just come to her mom and want touch the phone, she the phone to him before she told me some body want to talk. I heard his voice say "Hello Papa, hello Papa" then the voice gone.

I recognized, this is Rafi's voice, wow I am very surprise heard that voice, he try to speak now. My wife told me she always said "hello Papa", each time the phone at home ringing.

I really miss you son, I will not forgot when you give me big smile, you are my sun shine and I always remember when we play football together you are very happy and serious like professional player.

thanks to say hello to me.

.......another year have to finish.

After several month this blogs are not yet update it, I am really sorry for friends are alwasy visiting this blogs time to time.

I was so busy since last posted in may, had a lot work, a lot of travelled. First to Stuttgart, and back to Paris, and stay for a night after that to Hongkong and Jakarta spent one week of each, and back to France with family for some early summer vacation, and sent it back them to after spent for a month here, rest for few days and fly back to france and stop over in Kuala lumpur for half day to see some friends and to get some infos and opportunities.

what a busy life, and also had many project on going in the same times, that's the reason I couldn't update this blogs, well I don't know from where I have to start, since a lot of story are pass in last two month at least. But eveyrthing was Manifique, I am very happy see my wife, my son grow-up and walk, kicking a football, I am happy to see my little girl have a lot of question about anything, and sometimes it's make me confuse to find the right answer, I will gonna miss this in moment again, hope I can manage it, and we can be together again.

Now back to the life, it is very hard but I will survive, and win the games, I knew it because I believe.

Insist on realism

I still not finish reading one book "Execution the discipline of getting things done, by Larry BOSSIDY an Ram CHARAM ", just finished chapter One and continue to chapter two, and I had impressived with the author of this book, there is one page with one subject "Insist on realism". Is talked about realism, I took the paragraphe, cause is interesting for me to remain my vision ;

Why, people don't want to open Pandora's box. Some people think that make life uncomfortable, they want to hide mistakes, or buy time to figure out a solutions rather than admit they don't have an answer at the moment. They want to avoid confrontations. Nobody wants to be the messangger who gets shot ot the troublemaker who challange the authority of superior.

Well, offcourse not easy to life in uncomfortable zone, you have time to time to adopt with situations/environment is changing all the time, you have to manage how not to be reluctant with a lof of things, not so many people are taking the risk to be messangger, because they know the consequncies as I mention, in previous writing, you, what is your thinking in your mind.

Everything have a risk, you have to calculate all the risk, minimalize the risk and take some execution once you know and able to take the decision, Risk is interesting is not a gambling is a logic, is math, is a life.

You, is something about you're thinking in your mind.

It's about 15th years ago, I was read a book "the magic of thinking big", at the time I just said, well this book is good to motivated your self. Read from story of successful person, or failed story from some persons, is like kind of autobiography, for some extra ordinary people.

As a ordinary people in live sometimes we faced some problem, we get some good news and bad news, always change all the time not permanent and absolute, Sometimes you're very well motivated, sometimes narrow minded and not open mind, this is normal I guess. But we have to remember that this kind of situation is from the outside environment, now how to manage this to adopted by your mind. I am sure as human you always expected the good think, but this is not realistic, I am feeling that if life without problem life, is more difficult, is seems to be no harmony don't you??

It's very interesting if you could solved one problem, and another's problem will following your life to be solve too, I'm quite sure that this is not easy for some people, even my self sometimes I was thinking that problem always never ending.

I'm subscribed for several mailing-list where currently are discussing about some subject, as usual many-of reply, comment, argue,debate for the subject, content,substantial issue. This is very good, with this I can see some people not agree with the others comment, and others are support the other person instead of arguing/ fighting with other members, but make life will more interesting, when you could get some opinion, suggestion, critics, even at the end you should compile decide/execute by your self. I got some summary that people are optimistic, looks like people are always think optimistic, the one who narrow, seems to be always think opposite, But I can't blame them, why they always narrow, pessimist, negative, or sometimes to optimistic, unrealistic, they have to do that. They can do want ever they want as long as still corridor of discussion, they can think what they want.

So, the final conclusion, is

- What you're saying, is what you're thinking,
- What you're doing, is what you're thinking,
- What you're planning, is what you're thinking,
- What you're thinking is what you're reading,
- And What you're reading is back, about what you're thinking.



If you thinking positive, you're brain will always make positive direction , the opposite thinking you will drive you become negative. So what is inside our mind will be representing who we are .