Archive for July 2009

“8 o’clock” Syndrome

Pip pip pip pip pip pip…Alarm hp berbunyi. Sekenanya gw matikan benda berbunyi itu. Ah, mengganggu saja. Tapi masih mending lah, setidaknya benda itu berguna. Secara fungsinya sebagai alat komunikasi mulai pudar. Sekilas gw lihat layarnya, tertulis 07.45 disana. Well, it’s time to get up. Kasak kusuk nyari handuk, Ponds, Lifebuoy, Clear, Pepsodent, ama daleman. Yeah, saatnya membasahi tubuh yg berkeringat ini. Ya, berkeringat….

Guyuran pertama disambung dengan guyuran guyuran lainnya. Njrit, dingin bgt. Seketika teringat rumus Fisika waktu SMA dulu, ketika 2 zat cair dengan massa, kalor jenis dan suhu yg berbeda dicampur, maka suhu akhir, ‘ta’, bisa dihitung dengan rumusan persamaan m1.c1.(t1 – ta) = m2.c2.(ta-t2). Hemm…If I am this good at Physics, what on earth am I doing at IT?? Pertanyaan ga jelas lainnya muncul mengisi agenda mandi pagi gw. Hahaha, lucu juga ngeliat tampang mikir gw dengan mulut berbusa. Eh..ganteng juga dink!! Continue reading “8 o’clock” Syndrome

Gw orang Minang

Gw katakan kalo gw itu orang Minangkabau atau singkatnya Minang bukan Padang. Gw kadang sering jengkel sendiri kalo ada yg mengkategorikan gw sebagai orang Padang, tersesat sekali mereka itu. Sekedar info, Padang itu adalah ibukotanya Sumatra Barat. Jadi, kata Padang itu sendiri mewakili tempat. Sedangkan gw, bukan dari daerah Padang, karna bokap gw dari Maninjau dan nyokap dari Lintau. Jadi jengkel gw ngeliat rumah makan padang. Gara-gara mereka, jadi tersesat satu negara ini. Gara-gara mereka, jadi tenggelam kata Minangkabau itu sendiri. Padahal toh orangnya dari Bukit Tinggi, ato Pariaman, ato Sawah Lunto!! Bagh!! Sasek sadonyo!!

Jadi…5 Gery Chocolatos sama dengan??

Gery Chocolatos

Gery Chocolatos

Awalnya sih gw ga begitu peduli ama yg beginian, tapi kemaren pas hari Sabtu kejadian aja gitu. Jadi gini, gw emang suka bgt ama Gery Chocolatos. Ya, coklat stik batangan yg mirip dengan sesepuhnya dulu, Astor, emang sering gw konsumsi belakangan ini. Secara emang enak dan…… enak, apalagi kalo dingin, ya cocoklah. Buat lo yg belom pernah makan, cobain gih…Gopek ini doank!!

Hari Sabtu kemarin, sepulang dari servis motor, gw langsung ke Giant Kelapa Dua, secara gw ga megang kunci rumah dan kakak gw emang lg belanja di Giant. Ya weis, sekalian beli Gery donk!! Biasanya, gw beli Gery itu 3-4 kotak, isi 1 kotak = 5 Gery, dengan harga perkotaknya gw ga tau, secara gw ambil aja gitu ga itung”. Belajar dari pengalaman, biasanya kalo gw beli eceran di warung-warung, harga 1 Gery = gopek alias Rp. 500. Asumsinya, kalo di jual eceran dengan harga segitu, udah pasti si penjual ambil untung donk. Mungkin aja harga aslinya sekitaran Rp. 400 – 450. Berarti, dengan kemampuan berhitung gw yg sangat sangat mumpuni, harga 1 kotaknya sekitar Rp. 2.000 – 2.250.

Entah knapa kemarin gw cek harga persatuannya di Giant, ternyata Rp. 590. Ok aja sih ama gw, ga masalah. Toh masing-masing warung ataupun supermarket berhak mendefinisikan harga mereka masing-masing. Tapi anehnya, harga 1 kotak yg isinya 5 Gery, dijual dengan harga Rp. 3.600an, anehkan?? Seharusnya, kalopun mereka mau pukul rata, okelah bisa dijual dengan harga Rp. 3.000, tapi ini Rp. 3.600, kemana 1 lg Gery-nya?

Sebenarnya mungkin itu trik dagangnya mereka juga kali ya. Mungkin justru dari situ mereka bisa ngambil untung. Daerah abu-abu antara benar dan salah. Intinya, sebagai konsumen, kita-lah yg musti pandai-pandai. Kalo mo belanja di liat dulu baik-baik, cek dulu harga ecerannya, karna kalo beli sekotak belom tentu lebih murah.

Crap…it’s weekend!!

Yeah…I know..weekend is supposed to be a nice good thing, because most people don’t do what they most do, working, even God loves it, because He doesn’t have to work too. He said, “Yo Evil, pass me the popcorn!! Let’s watch what this God damn human would do for this weekend, because at the last episode he did a hilarious shit, he kicked the ball!! And Angle, 2 more sodas ok!!”. See…everybody loves it..Btw guys, don’t bother to understand what they’re talking about, it is out of your league!! You know, God’s thing..

So to say, here I am at the office, thinking very hard about what would I do for this weekend. Just in case God watch my episode for this weekend. It would be lame if He just saw me sleeping all day long, right? Or, watching tv series all day long? Yeah…Beside, how weird would that be, He watches me watching..See my point?

Argh…I need some inspiration. Hemm, maybe naked marathon? I bet He would’ve shocked!! But that would be too vulgar, I’ll lose my face to society. Maybe robbing a bank? Naaaahhh…He doesn’t love action movie. Oww…maybe hanging out with friends…but who!! Argh…God damn it!! Just tell me what should I do!! Just give me any sign about anything interesting that You want me to do for this weekend. You hear me, I will not move an inch until You give me any sign!!

- five minutes later, silently -

I think I’ll just go to the cinema….besides God would watch John at channel 3.242.411.345!!

The Zen of Python by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those!

Ahh…Almost 9 years

Last Sunday, someone texted me. Just asking how I’m doing, where I am, and other normal social stuffs. Well..thanx for making my monochrome Sunday into more colorful one. So after some replies, she said, “Almost 9 years we lived in the same town”. Then I thought, “What the hell…9 years?!!”

When she said that, it made me realize, she’s been, not just in the same town, but also in my life for almost 9 years and still there. Well, yeah I do have other friends but they were not there anymore. We got separated, mind our own life, live in different city, no more phone calls. But she…….just still there.

Yeah…we have our history together. We have our own moments together. Even though we’re not together anymore, it is worth to remember…And for those 9 years, no matter how good or bad it is, I’m grateful that you were part of it.

for you, the one who got away

Nyontreng for dummies

01. Pastikan nama lo terdaftar dalam undangan

01. Pastikan nama lo terdaftar dalam undangan

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RikiPribadi.com is a valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!

Yahooo…Kebetulan hari ini gw rada lengang, jadi bisa curi” waktu buat ngurusin blog ini, sekalian aja gw test ke-valid-an mark-up blog gw lewat W3C Validator. Buat lo yg mungkin belom tahu, W3C Validator itu semacam service yg disediakan oleh W3C ( World Wide Web Consortium ) buat ngebantu lo ngevalidasi apakah mark-up html lo bener apa ngga. Nah, kenapa musti divalidasi??

One of the important maxims of computer programming is: “Be conservative in what you produce; be liberal in what you accept.”

Browsers follow the second half of this maxim by accepting Web pages and trying to display them even if they’re not legal HTML. Usually this means that the browser will try to make educated guesses about what you probably meant. The problem is that different browsers (or even different versions of the same browser) will make different guesses about the same illegal construct; worse, if your HTML is really pathological, the browser could get hopelessly confused and produce a mangled mess, or even crash.

That’s why you want to follow the first half of the maxim by making sure your pages are legal HTML. The best way to do that is by running your documents through one or more HTML validators.

Ok, sekarang lo akses ke alamat ini, http://validator.w3.org/, trus masukin url blog lo apa. Trus klik “check” deh. Jangan lupa berdoa… Continue reading RikiPribadi.com is a valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!