Road to Magelang street

Long time no ride a bike on night. Customarily, I ride with Bebe, Ari Momo, and Yeni Noel. That's my major formation every ride a bike. That day we want to ride in rising upward routes. Flocked together in the center of Jogja city and then started to ride. We ever ride along this routes, but we gave up in the middle or routes, haha because it was too night. So, we started this ride earlier at 4 P.M.. We all ride mountain bike a.k.a MTB, so, whatever the routes, no problem.


The finish line is our campus staff's house located in Magelang street. The routes more than 10 kilometres. We ride along the highway, we ride along the edge because too dangerous to made a race with motorcycles or cars. Safe way, safe on arrived. We arrived on Mr. Topo's house at 6 P.M.. We just took a rest while laughed together. That's was our longest route ever. Mr. Topo knew that we were tired, so, he bought Nasi Goreng or rice fries for us. My stomach was full up. My friend Tee who live near Mr. Topo's house joined with us too.


The time was too night, 8 P.M. and we had something (tasks) that must be done soon. We went back to our house. The routes when we went home is like downhill. We thought it must be faster than when we started. Yeah, that was true in the early. Rain made us stopped and took a rest while wait the rain till done. Too long we waited, so we desperated to continue. Few minutes after that, Noel's rear tire blew out. Hoahhhh!!! Finally, I took over Noel's bike and Ari accompany me waited in the edge of way while Bebe accompany Noel went to her house. After that, Bebe took and ride his motorcycle to picked me and Noel's bike, then Ari went to his house. Few minutes later, we updated and connected on facebook. Oh, I felt comfort knew they arrived on their house safely.

ride (or photo) around jogja

My friends: Ari Momo, Yeni, Bebe and I still weak after road a day before. No problem, we ride and have fun together. We'll feel tired if we do something with not fun. No tired, just fun. Same like a day before, we road with the same bike too. The differences is we had a new member and we started the journey in the afternoon, about 3 or 4 P.M.. The new member is Tee, she is my friend in campus, we're studying in the same grade and major. She's tomboy like Yeni hohoho. So, I felt like ride with my boy friends. No racism & discrimination. Just go!

I thought that day we'll ride our bike, what was happen. I felt like in photo session. Started from we flocked together, we took pictures together. Everywhere we passed, we must took some pictures. Tee & Yeni are likes to did that, maybe because they're participating a photography community. We just road around Jogja city, when we arrived in city field, we took pictures again. Hoahhh it wasn't boring. We spent time for took some pictures more than ride a bike, it was fun!!! We did a lot of madness pose in front of peoples around, LoL.

We forgot about the time. We ride until evening, about 7 P.M.. Then, we continued our journey, we walked to city field to enjoy the atmosphere there. There is Sekaten that held untill the middle of February. Sekaten is ceremony to celebrate Islamic new year, but it wasn't the ceremony. It was the traditional market that held before the main ceremony. Enjoyed the night at Sekaten, bought some traditional food, laugh out loud, and slept like a pig after that.

half way

Now, bike fever sweeping Jogja and other cities in Indonesia. Very long time I'm not riding a bike. I was starting my bike history last January (2011). Honestly, I wasn't interest to did it, because I don't have a bike in here. My friend, Yeni, she lend me her bike. The bike's old, but it didn't really matter, because we just road in the flat ground, not for downhill. The bike's used just for daily use, but it's comfortable for ride around the city.

Honesty, we'll ride in tomorrow, but I thought I must warm up. Yeah, Ari momo, Yeni & Bebe were accompany me road a bike around Jogja. It's unusual, we started in the evening. Ya!! Night biking. We had no routes that evening. So, we just ride around Ari's house. Suddenly, Bebe asked us to road to my bureau chief' house in my campus. We road with our full strength, but in the middle of journey the problem came up. The Yeni bike's gear injured and needed a service. Finally, we aren't continued the journey, because we'll ride again in tomorrow.

Before we went back to our house, we ate together in a food spot that located along the highway. We ate batagor, batagor is bakso & tahu goreng. In english batagor is fried tofu & meatball. The route is uphill, we need more energy before went home. Save more energy for tomorrow. YAY!!!

no skate,no movies,no bike,just shopping

That day was boring day. Since woke up in the morning, I just thought about my plans today. Plans about skateboard at afternoon and watch movies at night. Skateboard kit checked, but I had a problem with the bearrings. So, I cancelled the plan for go skateboard. After that, time clean the boardinghouse and took a bath. Before did it all, I sent SMS to my friends, I invited them to road a bike around the city. The boardinghouse and my body were clean, Yeah!!! Then I called my friends to confirm about watching movies, they gave me positive replies that means the program will be held.

About 5 P.M., my bike friends called me, they said "I can't go, I have an urgent program, I forgot to tell you about it, blablablablabla"... I'm very disappointed heard that. Just go just go, I thought, I have one more program today, watch movies. Same like my friends before, my friends who wanna watch movies with me said the same. Damn!!! I'm so angry that afternoon. Sick with it, so stressed.

I have an idea to kick my stress. It's very efective to forget about something that makes me stress. No skate,no movies,no bike, just shopping. I bought something for my monthly need. Special for this, I bought more snack hohoho. Coke, wafer, breads, cookies, noodles, etc. Shop till you fresh, don't shop till you drop.

Movies Time (2nd)

Time to refresh the hectic brain with movies. After success watched movies at night before, my friends and I did it again. Same projector which prepared by Yosi, notebook and movies by Baskoro, white canvas by Johan, place and sound system by Anggi (new comer, hohoho), food and beverage by Alex, and spirit by me, LoL!!!




Before watched the movies, we ate together. Alex bring a lot of delicious food from his home. The foods are suitable with our tounge haha. That night was a horror night!!! Bas was playing a lot of horror movies start from 9 P.M. until 2 A.M. Scream together, laugh out loud together. It's so silly, we watched together but we're still scared.


The movies finished at 2 A.M.. Our stomach which full of food and soft drink became empty because of the horror movies, then we bought some foods in McD. So yummy and also made our stomach looks tubby hahaha. Horror night closed with hamburger, french fries, and coke...grookkkk I'm so tubby.

Action!! Cut!!

Long time not playing in the first place where my skateboard community ride and had fun. My community named Gedung pusat skateboarding. It created about 90's, that's year when I was a young boy, but when I was a child, my father bought me mini long board. Since 2007, I began to study in Jogja where far from my hometown, and since that year I started to play this X-treme sport again. Peoples who play in GP is from various place, background, culture, religion, campus, and interest. That's why, we created a skate videos tittled "Melting Pot".


In this early year, one of my friend in GP, Zoul. He want to make a documentary video about skateboard life. He's studying about broadcasting in Art Institute of Indonesia. So, he invited all GP crews and others skater outside GP crew to join in his program. His program is final exam in his campus. Located in Gadjah Mada University, peoples played skateboard and had fun. Started in the morning, and finished in the afternoon. The video record finished because the rain came in that afternoon.



In this event, I enjoyed skateboard. Not just that, I became additional photographer that document the atmosphere in there. Fifty-fifty, back flip, smith grind, nose grind, they did those trick. I tried the big spin trick, that's my favourite trick. When I tried to do that, one of my bearrings broken. That was suck, just in time, I went to machine shop and bought a bearring. I tried again and I got the big spin. No pain, no gain. I was record the atmosphere, check this out

I want to ride my bicycle

Biking is my sport beside fishing and skateboarding. In this early year, bike lifestyle grow faster in Jogja. A lot of people use bike to go to wokr place and other purpose. Now, bike it's not just a tool for sport, but for real transportation. It's practical, no need gasoline, economical, and absolutely make our body keep healthy. In the evening untill night, in Jogja, we can see peoples ride on their bike around Jogja. The various of bike which they ride is much. Start from mountain bike a.k.a MTB, old bike, fixed gear, tandem, custom and hand made bike.

That phenomenon made me want to buy a new bike, because all this time, I was ride using my friend's bike (Cenoel). Sometime I feel not free when use it. Maybe because I can't modify it and I must ride it more careful because it's not mine. I was search for new bike with Ari Momo and Bebe in some place near Ari's house. I got some candidates. For now, I can't buy this, because I don't know where I'll stay and live after graduate from my university. My hometown is not Jogja, and maybe I'll work in other city. If I buy it and I move to other city, it's difficult for me to bring the bike. Cenoel have no problem with that, she happy to lend her bike to me. So, let's ride!!!

jumbo cat fish

go fishing!!! that's my another activities besides doing my final assignments and anothers daily activities. it can coached our patience. be patient to get out target and you'll satisfied when you catched your target. additionally, you get bigger from your original target.

like usually, my friends and I feel free after completed the study registration. my friend have a new spot for fishing. not far from my boardinghouse. about 15 minutes to arrived in the spot. started from my campus, my friends and I went to the spot with big laugh along the way to the fish spot.

hey ho, this spot's for beginner. we can caught the fishes very easy. I was catch the jumbo fish cat. the weight is about 8 ons, I really satisfied, because in that day I just caught that big fish. very fun and exhausted. we were fishing till the sun disappear from our eyes...we do it every month, it's very fun activity.

fun with the animals

it's time to improve my photography skills. last tuesday (28/12), I ask my friend Bas to accompany me explore about photography. finally, we went to animal market. I have a lot of digital gadget, but I love to took a photograph with the manual camera. I was using nikon F60 in this event and canon ixus (digital) too.

look at the hamster, I interested with the expression. I forgot to set the speed of ixus, so the photograph looks a bit of blur. I will not buy the DSLR before finish explore the manual. manual still the best than the digital.

christmas, christmas, christmas

every year, my major in my campus always make a christmas celebration. this year, I wasn't coming to the christmas celebration on December 17th. actually, I always came to the event, 3 years before I came to the event, but not for this year. a lot of deadline and appointments. my plan's to spent my holiday with my (ex)girlfriend is fall. I'm not regretted with the condition, but I regretted why the condition became like this. yeah right, it's over, but I hope to be in relationship with her again. till now, I still see her face everywhere, on my mind, on my dream, everywhere. MAD!!! that's me, freak. I don't know who's my destiny for my future. just let it flow.

well, I spent my christmas celebration with my friends in the church in a day after christmas day. I act as a documentator (photographer and filmer). it's very fun. a lot of programs like dramas, choir, bands. everybody jazz up the event till the end. althought it was rainy, young peoples, oldies and the teens flocked up there. very nice atmosphere.

I got a christmas gift on December 24th, a day before the christmas day. yeah, that's the gift. sport shoes, nike T-Lite VIII. I got nike shoes whereas I'm dreaming to get an AND1 shoes hohoho. it doesn't really matter. the shoes came with orange box. I like the (simple) box, inspiring...

in the end...merry christmas!!!

fishin on the bog

mad of fishing. my friends in my trip community mad with fishing activities. we're dreaming we get big fishes like fisherman on television. our plan next year's go to karimun island to hunt and get strikes big fishes in there, but we must upgrade our fishing pole because we'll not fishing in the pool, but in the sea. beside that, we must save our money to prepare the trip, because we must rent a yacht to go in the middle of the sea. impossible if we're fishing in the ashore. save the plan for next year, this end month, before we spend our long (christmas and new year) holiday, we made a trip together on the bog. yeah, we were fishing there.

a day before went to the bog, my friends and I bought a fishing pole in the fish shop. various brand and quality made me confused, because we didn't know about the brands and prices of fishing pole. the owners of the shop are helpful, they helped me to choose the best fishing pole that suited with me. my friends bought a fishing pole for fishes that the weight's about 2-5 kilograms. what we bought? we bought a rail, fishing rod, fishing hook, and its accessories.

the shop list are completely bought, then we went to the Anggi's warehouse to stringing a fishing pole. it's so difficult for me. because we never did it before, we're ready to take serious risks if the tools are broken off. we were googling to get the information about how to stringing a fishing pole, finally we did it, the fishing pole is matched and ready to rock the bog on the morrow (24/12). we took a long time for it, we bought the fishing pole at 3 p.m and fixed at 7 p.m

the next day, in the morning, about 7 a.m, we flock together in Bas house, had a breakfast together and about 7.30 a.m we were going to the bog in Klaten. we arrived in the location at 9 a.m. 5 peoples with 5 motorcycles. Alex, Anggi, Theo, Bas, and me. the atmosphere on that day is very hot, no cloudy and rainy, sunny.

just Alex, Anggi, and me who's fishing. Bas and Theo just brought their camera, they wanna took our activities in that day. we (Alex, Anggi and me) looks like artists that's haunted by paparazzi. the result's very disappointed. we just got small fishes and sometime our fish hooks are broken off because the big fishes. forget about that, the closing ceremonial is had a lunch together. we ordered a lot of seafood menu and ate them together. road to karimun guys!!!

a day off as fisherman

August till December is my time in my 7th semester. in this 7th semester, my lesson about practical work made me busy, confused, and high on stress. developed software everyday, revision, developed again, analized and tested..... not just a developer, but also work as a designer, tester, analyzer. the final step of my lesson is final presentation at December 8th. I prepared it all carefully, and to get the best final presentation. It's done and on that day I felt free. my brain started to calm down. on that night, I invited my friends to joined a trip on the morrow.

I invited my friends suddenly because I didn't know what I must did on the morrow after the final presentation. I just need to made my brain free. on the next day, we flocked in my friend's house. my friends who joined this trip is Jo, Alex, Thomas, Yosi, Anggi, Inne. What a trip? the trip is GO FISHING!!! we had a day off as fisherman in the fishpond.

the atmosphere when we arrived is cloudy and just waited for rain. in the middle of fishing time, the rain is came to make we wet, but we still waited our fishhook eaten by the fishes. sometime we got a big fish, sometime we got (very) small fish. laugh out loud together and the trip closed with lunch together with the fishes that we got. so grateful.

Still with JavaFX

Same topic & people. Different place & event. Ya, I became a speaker in the second time on the same topic. Last year I did the same thing. No complex preparation for it. The committees asked me to become one of speakers on this event (UKDW nutz 3.0 - Open source day) on May. I suprised when I walked around the place that this event located. Crowd of Peoples be anxious to find out. Nervous? Just a little bit. Fighting!!! The location of the event is in my campus, but I stand not like in my campus. I felt like faced with strangers haha, maybe because I didn't know with the audiences. My major is Information System and most of audiences is from Informatic Technology.

Started from 9 AM, I became the first speaker. About 1 hour I was standing in front of the audiences. Maybe a little nervous because I'm the youngest speaker from 3 speakers in this event. All in black made me enjoy!!! Black trouser, black shoes, black blazer, white shirt. Nice!!!

It's done, I got nice souvenirs hoho. White shirt and mug. That's tux dude!!!

Get well soon Jogja

I think all people in this world know about Merapi eruption. That's a fire mountain in Indonesia, more precisely, this mountain located in Jogjakarta. The big eruption start on November 5th. Ways in the city was full of ash, but now... Jogja city is more safe than before. Little eruptions and earthquakes from Merapi.

Dozens of deaths from this disaster and tens of thousands more displaced.

I'm studying in Jogja and I knew what they feel right now. They lost their treasures and families. I wont talking about the victims, that's so sick. They not just need foods, medicines, and clothes. They need better future.

Just hoping ...this disaster will be done as soon as possible. And the peoples can work and life like normally. I miss the blue sky and big beautiful clouds. Not like now, volcaninc flood, overcast and storms.

Work overtime as an editorial staff

Deadline is a familiar word for me, sick with it but I love that word and also living with that beautiful word. Without it, my life feels nothing. That's why I always have a lot of activities inside and outside campus. Deadlines about software developments, teaching, graphic designs, journalism, communities, and also enjoy skateboarding and mad time with friends. Last October, my partner Elly who's work in the editorial staff said that the deadlines is coming. Yeah, in my campus, I joined in 2 editorial staffs, 'Koran Kampus' or Campus Newspaper and SI Mix. Both are different. Koran Kampus is in the university level and SI Mix in major level.

Deadlines in Koran Kampus (KK) is more extreme than in SI Mix. In KK, we work done outside of normal working hours, overtime. We started working at 5 PM and went home at 6 AM. SICK!!! that's make me feel sleepy, because it always happen about 2-4 days.

I work as designer. Layout the articles is my main task. Look at that picture above. That's what i prepared before the war. A bag (laptop and gadgets inside), ionic drinks, foods, and of course, task list of designs.

That's my friends who's always work overtime together with me. From left, Elly, Ardiana, Rosa. We work, we sing together every midnight (if work overtime), laughed out loud together, and also had fun. Work time felt fun time. Nice editorial staffs environment.

Cobras Time

Robert 'Cobra' Silas Kabanga. A talented guy who's my senior in campus and GP-Skateboard. He came from Lombok and was studying in Jogja majoring Informatic Technology. That's why every break time when we were play skateboard, we talk about something smells technologies. Finally, last October, he's graduated from our campus (Duta Wacana Christian University). Hardworker, stylish and also a nice guy. Every people in GP-Skateboard called him Cobra. He did a lot of trick clearly. He participated in skate competition in Jogja and he got prize because of his best trick on that event. WOW!!! In GP, just Cobra and I that came from Duta Wacana.

Yeah right, after graduation party that held in my campus about two days (October 23-24, 2010), he planned to go back to his residence at Lombok. Lombok island is near from Bali island. His older brother also came to Jogja to join the celebration. I like this part. In October 25th (sunday), he text me suddenly to joined with him and others friend to go to Depok beach. Ate together for sure, we usually do that every we got a big moment that affected with our life.

Sunday morning, I cancelled all my activities that day. No clothes wash, no appointments, special for this moment. Start from 7 AM, the atmosphere is cloudy, made me pesimistic and think "it will rainy". GOSH!!! that's became true, start from flocked in Hotel until arrived on Depok beach, wet wet wet because of rainy. that was sick!!! Peoples are Cobra, his mother, his brother, Jimos & girlfriend, Melong & girlfriend, Fajar, Dede, and me. Depok beach is just a small beach. You just can play ATV, kites, and don't play water because the waves is big, maybe because it's the first time I came to this place and the atmosphere was so bad. Peoples usually come here to enjoy the holiday with friends while eating a lot of seafoods. You can buy fishes and ask the food stall around the beach to cook your fishes. Sounds good, save your money too.

What we were eat? Sea food? of course!!! We surfeit because of it. Crabs, squids, mollusks, and fishes that grilled with good taste. YUMMY!!! I wanna try this in other day with friends, homies or just my self. After ate together, took pictures, we went to Ganjuran temple (it's first time too). Just enjoyed the environment and respect with others.

NOW, Cobra's on Lombok or Bali, he's working there. We will meet in the top of our success. Nice quote COB!!! Good luck!!! God bless!!!

I just had no idea about '11'

PHOTOGRAPHY! lately, a lot peoples learn about that. peoples show off their self picture that captured from their (D)SLR camera. They took pictures with DSLR or SLR camera, but they did it in auto setting mode. OMG! why not just use a pocket camera or phone camera? Learn more about the functions of DSLR, the characteristics, why use it for photographs. And also about photography knowledges. From 100 photos taken, (PRO) photographers maybe only got 1 decent photo impressions. Photography is unique, unlimited.

I'm not joining on photography community, especially in my campus. DWPh. That's photography community in my campus. Last month, DWPh made an event, yeah!!! photography competition to celebrate the 11th anniversary of DWPh. Theme of competition is '11 (eleven)'. Knew about that, me and my friend (Baskoro) was hunting in every place in Jogja that inspiring me to take a picture according to the theme.

I'm not using my SLR camera. My cellphone camera is enough, still with my favourite (macro) lens. I had no idea. Traffic light, food court, plaza, street, parking lot, we was there. Still no idea. Till now, I have no idea about 11. Whereas, I was born on March 11st. Nonsense. Finally, I didn't collect a photograph at all.

that's my friend photograph that he submitted for this event
title:'waiting time'

and that's the photograph that win the competition
title:'daily use and see'
yeah!!! that's macro, dude
he get Rp 111k