The Amazing Rush: Indonesia

2010
01.25

The following post will be made in Bahasa, so if some of you doesn’t understand it, learn Bahasa. :P

Judulnya apaan sih? The Amazing Rush? Kok kayak The Amazing R*** yap? *silahkan tebak sendiri, harusnya gampang :P *

Emang, ini kita semacam copasdit (copy paste edit) dari The Amazing Race (beh, awalnya disensor sekarang malah ditulis gede2) dan ditujukan bagi orang-orang Indonesia yang belom pernah ikutan The Amazing Race Asia (yang US jelas gak mungkin lah), dan yang mau ikutan The Amazing Race Asia 4, tapi sampe sekarang belom dikasitau kapan pengumuman casting The Amazing Race Asia 4. Singkatnya, ini ditujukan buat penggemar The Amazing Race dan penggemar travelling nekat.

Secara orang Indo satu-satunya yang baru ikut adalah The M & M  Brothers (you-know-who), aka Mardy and Marsio, maka kita tentu sangat berduka cita dong, masa orang Indo yang baru ikut TARA cuma 2 orang? Oh wait, masih ada Brett and Kinar (meskipun ga bisa dibilang ikut sih, kalahnya aja malu2in :hammer: ). OK, anyway.

Purpose of this post? Nyari orang2 yang mau bantuin :hammer:

Jujur aja, kita short of people. Jadi ya… butuh bantuan gitu :P

Terus yang mau ikutan, gimana caranya?

Well… tunggu pengumuman berikutnya. Setidaknya sampai kita selesai mendesain semua task dan challenge, serta dapet izin dan tanggal yang pas. Mungkin ada casting *jiaaaahhh*, ato first come first serve basis. BTW, yang mau ikut tampaknya mesti bayar, soalnya kalo gratis jelas almost impossible lah :P

OK, segini dulu post nya, see ya soon!

Leaving Tomorrow…

2010
01.09

I’m leaving Jakarta, Indonesia tomorrow. I’ll be going to Almaty, Kazakhstan, to meet some Borat over there (wait, a teacher of mine have already tested this) via Seoul, South Korea. And why I go there?

  1. To prove that Borat is not a Kazakh journalist. Borat is a comedian, actually =))
  2. To justify my teacher’s experiment last year: Asking “Do you know the movie Borat?” to Kazakh people, and see how their face turned into.

WAIT. Why does this post sound more and more Borat? FORGET ABOUT BORAT! And the real reason is…

  • Participating in International Zhautykov Olympiad 2010.

And I’ll be going to have some ice-skating there. Oh, and maybe make some snowman, and throw some snowball. It’s going to be freezing over there with -10 degrees at night. I hope the worst didn’t happen, -20 degrees of Celsius? That would break my bone.

OK, time to sleep, time to rest. It’s already 4 am, and I’m still blogging with listening to songs.

Lessons I’ve Learned from MatiBeku.com

2010
01.03

First of all, this blog got a new Page. A new DIY The Amazing Race page! Basically, I’m just copying it from the now-defunct-part-of-geocities-site, and adding some topics like the U-turn, and I’ll be updating the page with another tasks such as speed bump (maybe possible in some large race), and some more pictures to show.

And, main part. I’ve learned something, as the admin and creator of the MatiBeku.com. Here it is, the rules of how do you survive in first 13 levels in MatiBeku.

  • Read the manual. A lot of people simply asks at the contact page, “hey how to fill the stars”, or, “how do you answer?”, or, “the page is broken, there is no form to submit the answer”. And here’s mine: your head’s freakin’ broken. read the manual, again. a lot, if you want to.
  • Google it. Wikipedia it. Search somewhere. Here’s the first thing. A lot of people simply asks at the contact page, and reply the post on the forum, and asks, “how do you open the source code?”, or the worst part: “please tell me the answer. I don’t know what a hexadecimal color is.” And I tell you, GOOGLE IT! A lot of people simply doesn’t know, or doesn’t want to know how to find something on google. I tell you. Screw you. Just search on the net.

This looks like a bad post, really sorry, but I should let people know, right?

OK, time to go. Ja na~

About MatiBeku.com

2010
01.01

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything to this blog. And why is that?

1. I’m feeling really lazy. Really. To just log on to this blog and write something, and I can’t do it, because I’m lazy.

2. Second thing. I’m too busy. It’s been a long time since I got access to internet. Well, not really, but I’ve got no time to write anything.

3. The host’s somehow sucks. Do you know why in the past 2009, I reset this blog for I-don’t-know-how-many-i-did-that-because-it-was-so-many? Because the blog has an error log that grows in size. really. Last time I checked, the error log was about a size of 80 MB, out of 100 MB allotted for this blog’s quota. And I simply have to log in to the cpanel and delete the log. That’s why it is so hard to upgrade WordPress, because my blog’s quota is… wait. I should use ‘was’. OK, fuggetaboutit.

And now, main issue. Happy new year 2010!

About the title. Hmm..

It relieves me so much, that many people actually created riddle games like http://www.projectriddle.com, and http://www.nyonnyonnyon.com. I think it was inspired from MatiBeku. Or that’s just my thinking? :P

And I feel so happy when seeing all positive comments about MatiBeku. And how do I know about the positive comment about MatiBeku?

I just searched twitter with matibeku as the keyword, and many people liked it, with some cursing it :mrgreen: You know what, you’ll get really happy just by seing that, on top of those people’s suffering and struggling for solving each riddle (mwahahahaha)

And that’s why it makes me happy. Simple, isn’t it? Many thanks to Dimitrij and Arwin, too, for taking part in creating the riddles in MatiBeku.

And, last but not least, and again. Happy New Year 2010 guys!

PS: Should we pronounce 2010 as two thousand and ten or two thousand ten? I refer to the latter, though.

If The Amazing Race is visiting Indonesia, how would you create the challenges?

2009
12.01

Yup, that’s the question that pops my mind when I didn’t feel like cubing right now (oh yeah, now I’m playing Rubik’s Cube), because my cube just feels like… shrinking.

Is it shrinking?

Is this cube, my cube, shrinking?

OK, forget about the cube. Let’s talk about what if TAR visits Indonesia in one leg.

If I were the one to create the leg, I will make it somehow like this:

1. Somewhere to Jakarta, Indonesia. Go to Melawai, and eat 6 spicy bakso soup (meatball soup) with your partner.

2. Detour: Old or New?

Old: Go to Museum Fatahillah, and locate an item based from a picture. If you found it, tell the guard, and receive the next clue.

New: Go to Grand Indonesia Shopping Town, and watch the fountain with the lighting effect in the Crossroads of the World. Once the fountain show’s finished, find a certain man near the fountain show to receive the next clue.

3. Go to Yogyakarta by Bus (mwahahahahaha)

4. Go to Malioboro Street, and search for your next clue in front of Pasar Beringharjo

5. Roadblock: Who’s ready for window-shopping some clothes?

Locate a stall in Pasar Beringharjo, and find the clue in the stack of Batiks. (there are some stalls that provide the clue, and each stall only has a clue)

6. Pit stop: Candi Borobodur.

Enjoy the race, it’s going to be very tiring race :P

The button with his sad story to be trapped in a blue-painted school

2009
11.30

Two months, I’m not blogging, and I’m back!

Now I think my English teacher has given an assignment to me, and she’ll soon regret it.

The assignment simply says this: Make a story, ANY story, with any types of languages (it could be slanks, aussie’s, brit, except ALAYs) in English, using a button as the theme, and how the button end up here.

So I took the word “end up here” as end up in my school, SMAK 1, which is painted blue, the same as the fire department in front of my school. And so, here goes the story.


Once upon a time, there was a button. The button was simply a button attached to an elevator, in a certain hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. There was only a button, since the button was located on the ground floor.

“It is boring to be the up button! People pushes me, again and again, over and over. I hope I’ll become a down button!” That’s what the up button thought, and so, let it be. The up button suddenly changed to the down button, with a magic from Tinkerbell.

Obviously, people stop going up with the lift. Because at the ground floor, the lift won’t even go up. It stucked. There are no basements at all, I assure you. And the down-once-to-be-the-up-button simply had another to share.

“You know what, it feels really-really happy, nobody touches me with their dirty hand!” That was what the down-once-to-be-the-up-button thinks. And the down button danced. At least in its mind.

After several days, the down button was still happy. The down button was still the down button. However, one day, the down-once-to-be-the-up-button has another thing to share.

“I miss their dirty hand. It feels really boring, when you should do something and you don’t. I wish I became an up button again. “ And so be it.

The down button wass worked again, fully functional, and people started pushing the button. After weeks , our-old-friend-the-up-button had something to share. Again.

“Yucks! Do those people ever wash their hands? I’m sick of their filthy hands! I don’t want to be touched by those filthy hands, ever!” And so be it.

Nobody touched the up button with their filthy, dirty hands. Instead, nobody touched the up button ever. Simply because the button was broken. And what else? Did the button starts the monologue again?

Nope. The repairman came. And by just seeing the up button, it is decided that the button is unrepairable (at least for now), and now I will quote what the repairman said. “Let’s just pull this freakin’ button out, and throw it with another piece of rubbish!”

And so be it. The button was thrown. The story ends. NOT!

“ I am hungry… I need food… I miss becoming the lift button again..” That’s what the button said, in the darkness. When suddenly, the world turned into the darkness, as the button collapses.

When he woke up, he found himself in a certain school’s lift. He saw a person was installing the button with a lift in a blue-painted-school-inspired-by-the-blue-painted-fire-department-that-is-located-in-front-of-the-blue-painted-school. And when he knew that, he was very happy.

However, sometime he feels not happy, because filthy hands touched the button. And that’s why the lift in that-blue-painted-school sometimes broken. And that’s how the button ends up here.

-XXX-

Yeah, what the heck, I don’t care. I simply feel regretful for my friend who created the idea for the story, for I am failing to make a normal story. Mwahahahahaha…

Ok, 1.39 am right here, I’m over and out!

And those “activists” were sweeping Malaysians

2009
09.10

Honestly, I can’t believe that those anti-Malaysians were sweeping Malaysians in the roads of Jakarta. That is just ridiculous.

Oh, sorry for talking without any preliminaries. Here’s the topic of the day:

Activists conduct sweep against Malaysians on street

The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Tue, 09/08/2009 10:33 PM  |  National

Dozens of activists from the Ganyang Malaysia (Crush Malaysia) Volunteers conducted a street sweep against the neighboring country’s citizens on Jl. Diponegoro, in Central Jakarta, on Tuesday.

The ID card check lasted about three hours before the police stepped in and dispersed the activists, who failed to find any Malaysian national.

The volunteers, clad in red and white accessories, stopped every pedestrian, motorcyclist and driver, asking them to show their ID cards.

One of the volunteers, Aji Kusuma, said the group initiated the sweep as they were disappointed with the government’s slow response to Malaysia’s repeated claims on Indonesian cultural heritage.

“Our dignity and pride has been trampled on, but the government seems to ignore it,” secretary-general of the Volunteers to Defend Democracy (Repdem) told The Jakarta Post.

“We need a decisive government and we don’t think it exists under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.”

The ID check caused the traffic around Cikini in Menteng district to halt for several hours despite the police’s efforts to channel the flow of vehicles to alternative routes.

Central Jakarta Police chief of operation Adj. Sr. Comr. Aries Syahbudin said the sweeping was considered illegal.

“They did not notify us about their rally in advance,” Aries said.

The activists threatened to conduct another sweep in the next few days.

“We will evaluate our action today before we plan the next rally. It could take place outside the Malaysian embassy,” Aji said.

Founding president Sukarno launched a Ganyang Malaysia campaign in the mid 60s to fight against the formation of a Malaysian confederation state, which was deemed as a neo-colonialist power’s move to lay siege to Indonesia. (bbs)

Yeah, really. Now what was the reason of the sweeping?

One of the volunteers, Aji Kusuma, said the group initiated the sweep as they were disappointed with the government’s slow response to Malaysia’s repeated claims on Indonesian cultural heritage.

Then don’t do any illegal sweeping in this country! What effect will that bring? Nothing, only hatred and more hatred! You’re just putting gasoline into the hatred fire! Congratulations.

“We need a decisive government and we don’t think it exists under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.”

And if you think the problem lies in our county, in our government’s lack of actions, then protest to Indonesian government, not sweeping those Malaysians! An internal affair problem should be processed by Indonesia, not bringing it to something international!

And congratulations, “activists”, you’ve created a mockery of Indonesia. If you want to protests about Malaysia’s claims, then do it properly, following the rules and laws, not an anarchy-type like this.

Honestly, this is an irresponsible freedom.

PS: If you want to sweep those Malaysians really bad, how about go to Afghanistan, sweeping for Osama bin Laden? That’s a good way. Oh, and bring those FPIs too.

Ulangan Harian Deustch 2 Kelas XI

2009
09.07

Soalnya (note: ini buat kelas XIA3 ama XIA4, ga tau kalo kelas lain)

Translate dalam bahasa Inggris:

The tone creates the music

Not A Soul Calls Me*

Palas Orchester, Max Raabe’s Song

Not a soul calls me.*
No one shows any interest in me.
As long as I’ve lived here,
it’s almost a taunt,
my telephone has been silent.

Not a soul calls me.*
No one shows any interest in me.
And I ask myself,
does anyone occasionally
ever think of me?

I find the situation highly fatal,
for the current age not normal,
when everyone only complains about
the telephone fraying their nerves.
I hardly dare go out the door,
for I’ve always suspected
that as soon as I leave the house
it rings or beeps.

However…
Not a soul calls me.*
No one shows any interest in me.
As long as I’ve lived here,
it’s almost a taunt,
my telephone has been silent.

Not a soul calls me.*
No one shows any interest in me.
And I ask myself,
does anyone occasionally
ever think of me?

Perhaps it’s that some
believe I’m in the land of the Danes.
Or far from here,
where the hyenas yawn.

Because…
Not a soul calls me.*
No one shows any interest in me.
But it’s not my fault;
I pay the telephone bill every month.

That was no longer acceptable.
There had to be a solution!
Right away for me it was
an answering machine.
And then when I came home,
I was overcome with happiness and joy.
Merrily blinking at me, the machine said
that someone had called.

The sweet voice of a woman
betrays me and says:
“Forgive me, my dear sir,
I dialed the wrong number.”

PS*: Yang ada bintang itu sebenernya terjemahan gak harfiah. Terjemahan harfiahnya itu No Pig Calls Me, tapi Schwein ato Sau bisa diartikan sebagai brengsek (bastard).

Udah, tinggal terjemahin ke bahasa Inggris, piece of cake lah… *setidaknya lebih gampang daripada Jerman-Indo*

Sumber

Lagunya aslinya kocak abis..

A competition… for free.

2009
08.29

— English Version —

Indonesian version below this one.

I was just thinking about making a math competition here, in my website. The purpose is to broaden the mathematical skills of everyone.

The problems won’t be too hard, even obvious for some IMO competitor, as this competition act as an inspiration for starters in olympiad.

The language of the competiton will be Indonesian (Bahasa), and English. The problems will be posted at a subdomain of wangsacl.com. However, this is a competition for free and for fun.

This is just an idea, but it will be implemented and created somewhere along this week.

This competition acts as a replacement of a delayed competition created in olimpiade.org.

— Versi Bahasa Indonesia —

Saya baru berpikir untuk membuat sebuah kompetisi matematika olimpiade di sini, di situs ini. Tujuannya adalah untuk memperluas kemampuan matematika semua orang.

Soal-soalnya tidak akan terlalu sulit; bahkan beberapa akan tampak sangat mudah bagi para peserta IMO, karena kompetisi ini bertujuan untuk menginspirasi para peserta olimpiade.

Bahasa yang digunakan adalah bahasa Indonesia dan bahasa Inggris. Soal-soal akan dituliskan di sebuah subdomain pada wangsacl.com. Tetapi, kompetisi ini tidak berhadiah apa-apa, hanyalah kompetisi untuk kesenangan semata.

Saat ini, ini hanyalah sebuah ide, tapi akan diimplementasikan dalam seminggu ke depan.

Kompetisi ini adalah pengganti sebuah kompetisi yang terlambat diadakan.

eRepublik Indonesia

2009
08.19
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Bergabunglah bersama eRepublik Indonesia!
Sekarang eIndonesia sedang menyerang eUS bersama aliansi PEACE. Akibatnya, Amerika hanya terdiri dari 8 negara bagian sekarang. Kalahkan Amerika di eRepublik!

PS: Kalau mau kerja, coba ke perusahaan saya di sini, mungkin saya bisa bantu :mrgreen:


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