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A Little Story

There was a boy who had a long distance relationship with his girl. At, first everything seemed to be fine. But after a few months, something began to get wrong.

One day, the girl made a call. She then asked a little question, “are you really serious ‘bout our relationship?”. “Yes, I am”, said the boy. “When will you marry me, then?”, asked the girl again. “As soon as I can. Just pray for me that I’ll get a job soon”, said the boy. The girl then closed the conversation and she was suddenly hard to find. When the boy tried to call, her number was not active. The message he sent was often delayed or even unsent. The boy then made a promise to call the girl whenever her number was active.

And that day finally arrived. Her number was finally active, and he called her. They talked each other for a few minutes. It surprised the boy when the girl said “We have to be done”. “Why? We can’t be done, I love you. I’ll think about it before agreeing it”, replied the boy. “I’m sorry, but I feel hurt”, replied the girl.

A few days later
The boy sent a reply, “I can’t understand it still”. “Don’t worry, we can still be friends”, replied the girl. “If that’s what you really want, I will let you go”, said he. “If someday I’d like play around your town, would you mind letting me come into your house?”, asked she. “Of course. But would you let me come to your house too?”, asked he. “What for?”, asked she. “To have you engaged”, said he. “Please, think about it once again”, said the girl. “Thank you then for everything. Please forgive all my mistakes to you. The time we spent together will always remain. I will not forget it”, said the boy again. “You’re welcome. I’d like to apologize to you too”, said the girl. “Let the destiny bring us then.”, said the boy.

A few weeks later
“Boy, I really can’t be with you anymore”, said a message of the girl. “Okay, then. But if fate brought us together, would you still wanna be with me?”, asked the boy then. “No. I really can’t be with you”, said she. “It makes me sad. I’m about to do a job interview. Would you please pray for me?”, said he. No reply until a few minutes later ….
“Boy, please don’t cry. Just keep our friendship. I’ve learned many things from you. I won’t let anyone talk something bad about you. If you ever find someone new, keep her trust and faith. Ok?’, said the girl. “Ok. I’d like to apologize once again. I won’t let anyone talk something about you either. I might be not good enough for you. May you find someone better. Love him sincerely too”, said he while his was actually crying.

On the day of Iedul Fitri, the girl sent a message to the boy with using a new number. One week after it, the boy sent a news that he got a job. They sometimes still communicated by short messages like when the boy told the girl that an article written by him was publisehd on a tabloid. The girl congratulated him for that.

But one day, none of the girl’s number was ever active. The boy still tried to call her and sent her message but they were unsent. He tried to send her e-mail, but it was never replied. So they never talked each other again. He just kept living his life just like nothing bad ever happened. He kept trying to find someone new while he was praying that someday he could see the girl again.

Four and a half months later
The boy felt that he really missed the girl. He just wanted to talk to her. He sent a message to her sister’s Facebook account only to make him sure that the girl was just fine, but there once again was no reply. Waiting impatiently, he then decided to access the girl’s Facebook account. He was surprised and shocked when he found out that she had got married about two months before, only about a month after their last contact.

He finally knew the reason of the words “I really can’t be with you”. Yes, he did know. The truth is that the girl knew for sure that she would be married to someone else. She just didn’t wanna tell the boy about it. She didn’t even send him a wedding invitation. He knew that she was really a kind girl who knew that if she did tell him or send him an invitation, it would really break his heart and even make him cry.

Today….
The boy is walking still. Facing his solitary life. Searching for someone to fill an empty space inside his heart. He knows he will surely find someone, a perfect one for him. He keeps believing that sooner or later he will find her. The beloved and loving one. The very special one.

Based on a true story
I'd like to thank any people who inspired me to write this

A letter to 7.4.9.

I wish it were me you always talked about. Yes, I always wish it would really be me you’d share your life with. And I always wished that I would spend the rest of my life with you. But I didn’t seem to see that it was me. You never even gave me a chance to talk to you. You seemed to misunderstand what I ever wanted to say to you.

Sometimes I thought that we could be a perfect couple by sharing our habits of writing together. Sometimes I even saw the face of my sister in you. And I also saw a part of me in you. I still feel that I’ve found every girl I need in you. Yes, you, En. You with your jilbab, with your mysterious beauty, with your curiousity, and of course, with your glasses (I have told you that I have a little fetish on a girl with a glasses). But I just couldn’t touch your heart. Though I really wanna love you. Though I s I just don’t know if it will really happen. 

I know, it was my fault to have scared. Then you wanted me to stay away from you. I’ve been keeping my promise to stay away from you, though sometimes I just “watch” you from the distance by reading you words. And I still write some lyrics to say how much I wanna love you.

But still I don’t know whether fate will bring us together or not. I can only pray for it. 

Waiting for my book...

Last week, my manager told me that I had to finish writing my book at the beginning of this week so it would be able to be published at the end of this year. And I Thank God I was finally able to finish it on time *hoping there'll be no need to make any major revision*.

I'm waiting for it to be published. Well, my name won't be shown on its cover, but I promise you, you'll see "some parts of me" inside its contents. So, just wait for it and of course, I will surely announce it when it's finally published.

Berinternet dengan Modem IVIO StarOne di Ubuntu 9.04

Modem IVIO yang dibundling dengan paket internet StarOne ternyata dapat dikenali dan digunakan dengan baik di atas Ubuntu 9.04. Anda tak perlu repot-repot melakukan instalasi driver modem dengan chipset CP2102 tersebut. Yang penting lakukan langkah-langkah berikut ini:

1. Masuklah ke terminal
2. Pastikan modem Anda terdeteksi oleh sistem dengan mengetikkan perintah berikut ini:

$lsusb

3. Jika terdapat keterangan seperti di bawah ini (keluaran di komputer Anda mungkin berbeda), berarti modem sudah terdeteksi dengan baik

Bus 001 Device 011: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc

4. Ketikkan perintah dmesg untuk melakukan konfigurasi modem tersebut

$ sudo dmesg

5. Ketikkan password anda bila diminta
6. Bila anda menemukan baris dengan tulisan seperti di bawah ini

[ 759.536044] usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 759.705347] usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 760.048695] USB Serial support registered for cp2101
[ 760.048736] cp2101 3-2:1.0: cp2101 converter detected
[ 760.160045] usb 3-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 760.314192] usb 3-2: cp2101 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 760.314225] usbcore: registered new interface driver cp2101
[ 760.314230] cp2101: v0.07:Silicon Labs CP2101/CP2102 RS232 serial adaptor driver

Berarti modem tersebut sudah dapat digunakan.

7. Sekarang, jika anda belum melakukan instalasi wvdial, install wvdial dengan mengetikkan perintah

$sudo apt-get install wvdial

8. Setelah wvdial terinstalasi, editlah file konfigurasi di /etc/wvdial.conf. Anda bisa menggunakan teks editor favorit anda seperti vi, gedit, mousepad, atau kwrite. Yang penting anda harus mengeditnya sebagai superuser, dan edit konfigurasi wvdial.conf menjadi seperti ini (dan jangan lupa untuk menyimpan perubahan ini):

[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Stupid Mode = 1
Modem Type = USB Modem
ISDN = 0
New PPPD = yes
FlowCOntrol = CRTSCTS
Phone = #777
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Username = starone
Password = indosat
Auto DNS=1
Baud = 230400

9. Jika ingin melakukan koneksi internet, ketikkan perintah berikut ini:

$sudo wvdial
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT#777
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT#777
CONNECT
--> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Fri Oct 30 20:12:27 2009
--> Pid of pppd: 6112
--> Using interface ppp0
--> pppd: �[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: �[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: �[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: �[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: �[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: �[06][08]��[06][08]
--> local IP address 10.242.56.34
--> pppd: �[06][08]��[06][08]
--> remote IP address 10.64.64.64
--> pppd: �[06][08]��[06][08]
--> primary DNS address 124.195.15.100
--> pppd: �[06][08]��[06][08]
--> secondary DNS address 114.5.5.5
--> pppd: �[06][08]��[06][08]

10. Anda siap berinternet dengan Ubuntu

Dual Boot

Berhubung saya capek menghadapi virus yang terus membuat komputer saya di kantor crash melulu, saya pun memutuskan untuk melakukan instalasi dual boot Win XP dan Linux. Untungnya, semua staf di bagian tempat saya bekerja diberi kebebasan untuk melakukan instalasi software di komputer yang dipakai.

So, setelah memperoleh hard disk dengan ukuran yang lumayan, saya pun merombak komputer yang saya pakai. Dan yang saya pilih untuk berduet dengan Win XP Home adalah Ubuntu 9.04 aka Jaunty Jackalope. Alasannya, dari riset kecil-kecilan yang saya lakukan, Ubuntu 9.04 terasa cukup ringan plus saya juga merasakan betapa mudahnya mengatur jaringan dan internet di atas Ubuntu 9.04 tersebut. Tinggal masukkan almat proxy,IP, DNS dan nNetmask, semuanya beres. Kartu jaringanyang dipakai langsung dapat dikenali dan digunakan.

Cukup untuk saat ini karena sata harus menyiapkan diri buat menulis buku pertama saya.

Ben

Ben

Ben, the two of us need look no more
We both found what we were looking for
With a friend to call my own
I'll never be alone
And you, my friend, will see
You've got a friend in me
(you've got a friend in me)

Ben, you're always running here and there
You feel you're not wanted anywhere
If you ever look behind
And don't like what you find
There's one thing you should know
You've got a place to go
(you've got a place to go)

I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"
I used to say "I" and "me"
Now it's "us", now it's "we"

Ben, most people would turn you away
I don't listen to a word they say
They don't see you as I do
I wish they would try to
I'm sure they'd think again
If they had a friend like Ben
(a friend) Like Ben
(like Ben) Like Ben

Originally performed by Michael Jackson
Re-performed by Boyzone (with Stephen Gately on Lead Vocal)

Dedicated to the memory of

Michael Joseph Jackson
(29 August 1958 - June 26 2009)

and

Stephen Patrick David Gately
(17 March 1976 – 10 October 2009)