Ini kali keenam aku menikmati yoghurt Daisuki. Tidak pernah minum di tempatnya, tapi selalu nitip dibelikan oleh OB di kantor untuk dibawa pulang, dan tidak setiap hari pula. Paling-paling seminggu sekali.
Hingga kali kelima aku amati ada detil kecil yang mungkin sepele tetapi menurutku sangat menarik. Yaitu garis-garis warna memanjang pada sedotan transparan berukuran besar yang disajikan bersama bungkusan plastik. Dua kali aku memesan yoghurt rasa strawberry, dan sedotan yang diberikan selalu yang bergaris warna merah muda. Masing-masing sekali aku memesan yang rasa mocca dan coklat dan mendapat sedotan bergaris warna coklat terang, serta sekali memilih rasa leci dan sedotan yang kudapat bergaris putih.
Nah, entah karena sedang apes atau penjualnya mengantuk atau stok sedotan sudah habis, kali ketiga aku memesan yoghurt strawberry dan yang kudapat adalah sedotan bergaris warna biru. Rasa tidak berubah, tetap strawberry yang lezat. Cara menikmati pun sama, dengan gelas didinginkan (ala champagne, yang setitik pun aku belum pernah minum) serta beberapa bongkah es batu kotak di dasar gelas lalu dituang dengan yoghurt yang super kental itu. Tetapi kepuasan minum yoghurt seperti hilang. Meskipun, dalam 6 kali kesempatan itu, tidak ada satu pun sedotan yang kutelan.
PS:
Ya..ya... maafkan, tidak ada skrinsut. Skrinsut terbaik yang pernah dimuat di blog mungkin ada di blog Bunda Endhoot.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
Sudah Hampir Setahun
Hiatus blog ini sudah hampir berulang tahun yang pertama. Bukan karena kesengajaan, bukan pula karena kealpaan akan kehadiran blog ini. Hanya saja..
umm....
ummm.......
saya ingin mulai ngeblog di sini khusus berbahasa Indonesia. Kalau masih ada yang kangen dengan celoteh tak bermutu saya dalam bahasa Alien, eh Inggris, silakan mampir di blog satu lagi.
Hahaha... Wahyu....Wahyu... nggak keren banget seh punya blog hampir 4 tahun yang lalu tetapi masih begini-begini saja. Tidak ada kemajuan.
umm....
ummm.......
saya ingin mulai ngeblog di sini khusus berbahasa Indonesia. Kalau masih ada yang kangen dengan celoteh tak bermutu saya dalam bahasa Alien, eh Inggris, silakan mampir di blog satu lagi.
Hahaha... Wahyu....Wahyu... nggak keren banget seh punya blog hampir 4 tahun yang lalu tetapi masih begini-begini saja. Tidak ada kemajuan.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
What Fruits Are These?
I don't know this either, but let me tell you this. It taste like jackfruit and durians at the same time, smells a little bit like durians, but physically look like kelengkeng. I got them from my brother; they were wrapped in a plastic bag so I didn't know what was inside and thus I didn't bother to ask.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Move Again...
Now that my student.ugm.ac.id account has lost, I move my blog to
wahyuadi.wordpress.com.
Actually I have lost all my data there, except that I have the backup on my workstation at home. But it's not available yet right now because I still don't have time to go home and bring the copy with me. I am 400+ kilometers away from my home right now.
wahyuadi.wordpress.com.
Actually I have lost all my data there, except that I have the backup on my workstation at home. But it's not available yet right now because I still don't have time to go home and bring the copy with me. I am 400+ kilometers away from my home right now.
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Officially Move!
I hereby announce that my blog has been moved to http://wahyu.adi.student.ugm.ac.id/blog/.
If you have any difficulties accessing it, please let me know, or let the administrator know.
I hope you like it. Keep visiting, OK? And don't forget to comment out! Thanks!
If you have any difficulties accessing it, please let me know, or let the administrator know.
I hope you like it. Keep visiting, OK? And don't forget to comment out! Thanks!
Monday, December 20, 2004
About to Move...
Hi...
Long time no see, and now I'm happy to tell you that my blog is about to move to http://wahyu.adi.student.ugm.ac.id/blog/ very soon.
It's almost done right now. All I need is just a permission to place my pre-existing database (containing some postings) into the webstudent server's directory, then all should work as expected shortly afterward.
Why do I move? I have 3 good reasons:
1. Blogger is getting slower now, especially after they decided to change their look like the way they are. However, speed really matters to me. The prettier look and easier user interface can't compensate that. I simply can't stand waiting for a couple of minutes just to start writing a new post, and wait for another couple of minutes to have it published. That's quite annoying. I just want to [write | blog] and not to get impressed with the appearance. (OK! OK! Stop! You're talking too much!)
2. I've decided to give WordPress a (big) shot. It's a fast, simple, easy to use blogtool I've ever seen. It also offers a lot of customized features for the benefit of beginner and for the sake of advanced users' "itchy hands". Like they say, "WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability."
What's the point? WordPress requires a hosting with PHP and MySQL support, something that my webstudent server provides for free (but of course, with limited space :P).
3. More reasons? Aren't those enough? OK, if you insist. Since it is built entirely on PHP and backed up by MySQL, it's really a good chance for me to learn coding (programming) and learn writing (blogging) at the same time. I retain the control, I like it. I might just need bigger responsibility to cope with this bigger control.
However, I still owe many thanks to Blogger whose service has helped me into blogging for almost a year (Gee! Time's rolling fast, indeed). I thank Blogger for providing all of them for free. Therefore, I still recommend it to those who start blogging or are thinking to move from other free blogtool service providers (yes, including WordPress, if that's what you mean).
It's just like "the right tool for the right people". Pick one that suits your need.
Long time no see, and now I'm happy to tell you that my blog is about to move to http://wahyu.adi.student.ugm.ac.id/blog/ very soon.
It's almost done right now. All I need is just a permission to place my pre-existing database (containing some postings) into the webstudent server's directory, then all should work as expected shortly afterward.
Why do I move? I have 3 good reasons:
1. Blogger is getting slower now, especially after they decided to change their look like the way they are. However, speed really matters to me. The prettier look and easier user interface can't compensate that. I simply can't stand waiting for a couple of minutes just to start writing a new post, and wait for another couple of minutes to have it published. That's quite annoying. I just want to [write | blog] and not to get impressed with the appearance. (OK! OK! Stop! You're talking too much!)
2. I've decided to give WordPress a (big) shot. It's a fast, simple, easy to use blogtool I've ever seen. It also offers a lot of customized features for the benefit of beginner and for the sake of advanced users' "itchy hands". Like they say, "WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability."
What's the point? WordPress requires a hosting with PHP and MySQL support, something that my webstudent server provides for free (but of course, with limited space :P).
3. More reasons? Aren't those enough? OK, if you insist. Since it is built entirely on PHP and backed up by MySQL, it's really a good chance for me to learn coding (programming) and learn writing (blogging) at the same time. I retain the control, I like it. I might just need bigger responsibility to cope with this bigger control.
However, I still owe many thanks to Blogger whose service has helped me into blogging for almost a year (Gee! Time's rolling fast, indeed). I thank Blogger for providing all of them for free. Therefore, I still recommend it to those who start blogging or are thinking to move from other free blogtool service providers (yes, including WordPress, if that's what you mean).
It's just like "the right tool for the right people". Pick one that suits your need.
Monday, December 06, 2004
Celebrating the 1st Anniversary of BloggerFamily...
The world of blogging has never been the same since the founding of BloggerFamily© (BlogFam) on December 17th, 2003. Originally intended to connect Indonesian bloggers worlwide and maintain warm relationship among them, this forum has been amazingly gaining large participation from bloggers community. As of current timestamp, it has a total of 520 approved members, a fantastic number ever reached by a blogger community.
Basically, BlogFam is a forum for bloggers. Like any other forums, there are offline meetings for bloggers residing in certain area, sharing ideas about almost all topics you can ever name, having smalltalk in miscellaneous topics or whatever. What makes it different is that BlogFam actually connects blogs into a networked people on the Net, a well-known concept successfully implemented by Friendster earlier. Consequently, having blog is an obligatory for any member-to-be. Through the postings as well as other details in the blog, people can get along well with the owner at first encounter so that the chance of getting acquaintance in the future is widely open. Furthermore, by the time a member has already been familiar with any others, the slogan of "we are a virtual family" becomes his/her reality.
I have a wonderful experience with BlogFam. Only in a short time after signing up as a new member, I feel instantly at home with the existing members' welcoming statements. One of them, aunty JuJu, even call me with my virtual name: "Hahaha, finally you're here! Come on in! Welcome to the club, kangmasadi... and happy postings always.". It's like she has known me for long time. Later on, even though rarely do I create postings (only 7 so far since May 2004), I find it quite useful to browse to the forums. Sometimes I laugh out loud when reading spontaneous comments of a particular topic, as if I was there listening to the conversation myself. In short, I give two thumbs up for BlogFam mainly because it can incorporate all its members' diversity into UBO (United Bloggers Online).
Before I blow the candle of BlogFam's first anniversary cake, I have some wishes to make. First, the small thing. There should be an "official" timezone for all members, based on (say) Waktu Indonesia Barat (GMT+7), so that all members can adjust it with their local time. There will be no more time confusion, especially when dealing with sensitive deadline like this writing contest. Second, the big thing. I wonder if we could create documentation of all members' activities in a concise but complete manner. Not only can we have something like "memories album" containing milestone of important events, we can also have a good source of data which anyone wishing to conduct a research about blogging world will gladly receive. It can be done simply by any member who carry out the agenda, as long as s/he follows the approved format.
Amin.
*Silence grows a moment*
Phewwwwww!!! *blowing the candle*
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, BlogFam!!!
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Monday, November 29, 2004
English Fluency Degradation: How Come???
Some students, having been studying abroad before, can not stop thinking why their English fluency (particulary in a formal writing) degrades significantly when they have returned to and lived in the home country ("Indonesia") for a couple of months. This phenomenon usually raises whenever they have to make report to their school as a part of their internship assignment, a little while since their arrival. Many of them, whose IELTS score is as high as 7, make grammatical mistakes that cannot be considered as misstyping in any way and some typical errors that usually made by intermediate (or even lower grade!) students.
It is not that they do not know the cause (the "why"); it is generally believed that the lack of condusive environment plays the major roles. Instead, it is more about the "how", ie. how could it happen whereas at the same time they are still capable, according to a less-than-2-years-old English test score and their previous years of international atmosphere exposure, to communicate their thoughts in the target language?
Presuming there is nothing wrong with the existing English proficiency test they have taken, I guess it is all about motivation, which is of course partially influenced by the environment. Motivation decreases and increases as a function of some factors. At the first time they plan to study abroad, students do their best to pass the selection phases and make reasonable language preparation in order to survive in the crowd of strangers out there. In other words, the uncertainty factor of living and studying in the land they have never been to has encouraged them to do their homeworks: enriching their vocabs, improving the grammar, shaping their style, which in turn help them express their thought to others clearly yet correctly.
Unfortunately, the story goes different as they come back to Indonesia. Being an overseas educated students, they finally find their previously missing comfort on being sorrounded by people peering at them with admiring look. Facing this situation, they might lower the standard, reducing from a highly dynamic, applicable working language to a static, words-per-words translation pattern of language.
Those who lack of motivation to stay consistent in learning will suffer unpleasant consequences. Taking this matter lightly, they might think English proficiency is only a matter of speaking English along with original British/American accent, and writing is as simple as transforming those spoken words into a piece of paper. This way, they have left the important aspect of written languange: understandability. People listening others talk can immediately ask and/or clarify which points they are missing, while in the written English, they do not have such luxury. Therefore, those who are highly motivated to keep learning and shaping their fluency are more likely to be alert to common mistakes in writing, as they are in spoken English to correct spelling and proper intonation.
It is essential for students studying a foreign language take precautionary actions whenever they are not exposed to the target language any longer. I am talking about re-studying and reviewing. Just because you have been graduated from Advanced 4 of a reputable English course in the world or having been going abroad for a few years doesn't mean you become an English language expert. You are still students, and this level you are now standing might degrades slowly but sure unless you are willing to learn more and more. You are still students in the "real" school of language.
Some people do not see my point. They think joining formal grammar reinforcement program (or things like that) will solve the problem; In fact, it will definitely not. Formal education is not the key factor at this stage of learning. You have already had all you need, all the theories and those grammatical stuffs (and even better, you have had the chance to use it in the "battlefield"). Learn informally through the real cases, from any means available. Compare it with what you have got. Not only will you have more experience and fun, you will also be a eye witness of the evolving language, noticing something new added to the language and pondering the old stuffs that removed from it. It is something like "living in the language", and may be one solution among plenty of others.
Well, it's a matter of opinion. The rest is yours. ^___^
It is not that they do not know the cause (the "why"); it is generally believed that the lack of condusive environment plays the major roles. Instead, it is more about the "how", ie. how could it happen whereas at the same time they are still capable, according to a less-than-2-years-old English test score and their previous years of international atmosphere exposure, to communicate their thoughts in the target language?
Presuming there is nothing wrong with the existing English proficiency test they have taken, I guess it is all about motivation, which is of course partially influenced by the environment. Motivation decreases and increases as a function of some factors. At the first time they plan to study abroad, students do their best to pass the selection phases and make reasonable language preparation in order to survive in the crowd of strangers out there. In other words, the uncertainty factor of living and studying in the land they have never been to has encouraged them to do their homeworks: enriching their vocabs, improving the grammar, shaping their style, which in turn help them express their thought to others clearly yet correctly.
Unfortunately, the story goes different as they come back to Indonesia. Being an overseas educated students, they finally find their previously missing comfort on being sorrounded by people peering at them with admiring look. Facing this situation, they might lower the standard, reducing from a highly dynamic, applicable working language to a static, words-per-words translation pattern of language.
Those who lack of motivation to stay consistent in learning will suffer unpleasant consequences. Taking this matter lightly, they might think English proficiency is only a matter of speaking English along with original British/American accent, and writing is as simple as transforming those spoken words into a piece of paper. This way, they have left the important aspect of written languange: understandability. People listening others talk can immediately ask and/or clarify which points they are missing, while in the written English, they do not have such luxury. Therefore, those who are highly motivated to keep learning and shaping their fluency are more likely to be alert to common mistakes in writing, as they are in spoken English to correct spelling and proper intonation.
It is essential for students studying a foreign language take precautionary actions whenever they are not exposed to the target language any longer. I am talking about re-studying and reviewing. Just because you have been graduated from Advanced 4 of a reputable English course in the world or having been going abroad for a few years doesn't mean you become an English language expert. You are still students, and this level you are now standing might degrades slowly but sure unless you are willing to learn more and more. You are still students in the "real" school of language.
Some people do not see my point. They think joining formal grammar reinforcement program (or things like that) will solve the problem; In fact, it will definitely not. Formal education is not the key factor at this stage of learning. You have already had all you need, all the theories and those grammatical stuffs (and even better, you have had the chance to use it in the "battlefield"). Learn informally through the real cases, from any means available. Compare it with what you have got. Not only will you have more experience and fun, you will also be a eye witness of the evolving language, noticing something new added to the language and pondering the old stuffs that removed from it. It is something like "living in the language", and may be one solution among plenty of others.
Well, it's a matter of opinion. The rest is yours. ^___^
Friday, November 26, 2004
Happy Idul Fitri...
Happy idul fitri, everyone!!!
yeah... i know... calm down... It's been 13 days late for saying that, but I think we all agree that 365 days in a year are all-good-days to forgive and forget, to apologize for any mistakes that we have made in the past. Coz "to err is a human", say a proverb and a quote from Quran.
That's what this posting for: to conveniently beg for your forgiving, merciful heart; to apologize my accidental faults since i was present in the bloggerland and my presence in this world (if you happen to know me offline).
I also thank all people who bother themselves saying hi and wishing me happy idul fitri to me in the shoutbox, comment box, as well as leaving offline messages in Y!Messenger and Friendster's bulletin board, and I am really sorry if I've missed any one of you while wishing the same in return, one way or another.
Final words, let's make a hope together that from this beautiful day forward, we could become a better person for everyone we love and everyone we share this world with.
yeah... i know... calm down... It's been 13 days late for saying that, but I think we all agree that 365 days in a year are all-good-days to forgive and forget, to apologize for any mistakes that we have made in the past. Coz "to err is a human", say a proverb and a quote from Quran.
That's what this posting for: to conveniently beg for your forgiving, merciful heart; to apologize my accidental faults since i was present in the bloggerland and my presence in this world (if you happen to know me offline).
I also thank all people who bother themselves saying hi and wishing me happy idul fitri to me in the shoutbox, comment box, as well as leaving offline messages in Y!Messenger and Friendster's bulletin board, and I am really sorry if I've missed any one of you while wishing the same in return, one way or another.
Final words, let's make a hope together that from this beautiful day forward, we could become a better person for everyone we love and everyone we share this world with.
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