Wednesday, September 27, 2006

BLLAAAHHHH

Kok bisa lupa yah konsep expected utility dari probabilitas, lupanya pas ujian lagi, biasanya inget. Gue kayaknya udah mudah crack under pressure nih.

SIIIAALLL!!!!
(*nggak boleh terlalu banyak ngomong yang tidak senonoh, seperti ngentot, kontol, tai, memek, dan lain sebagainya, karena bisa ditegur nanti)

Well, life goes on...

p.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Word of the Day: Memory (with a long list of definitions)

Memory (OED)

I. Senses relating to the action or process of commemorating, recollecting, or remembering.

1. a. An act of commemoration, esp. of the dead; = COMMEMORATION n. 2b. Now hist.
b. to make memory of: to commemorate; to preserve a record or memorial of; to record, mention. Also without of, in clauses with as. Obs. (arch. in later use).
c. in memory of, to the memory of: so as to keep alive the remembrance of; as a memorial to; as a record of. (to be) in memory: for a memorial (obs.).

2. a. The action of remembering; recollection, remembrance. Now chiefly in from memory (also by memory), in memory.
to draw (also take) into (or to) memory: to recollect, remember. to have memory (of): to recollect (trans. and intr.); also to have (of) (someone) in memory. out of memory: forgotten (but cf. sense 4a).
b. An act or instance of remembrance; a representation in the memory, a recollection.
c. A person or thing held in remembrance.

3. a. The perpetuated knowledge or recollection (of something); that which is remembered of a person, object, or event; (good or bad) posthumous reputation. Also (occas.) in extended use (as in quot. 1917).
b. [After classical and post-classical Latin bonae memoriae (2nd cent. A.D.), post-classical Latin sanctae memoriae (3rd cent.), beatae memoriae (4th cent.), freq. in inscriptions; also Old French, Middle French de bonne memoire (1298).] of blessed (also happy, famous, etc.) memory: used formulaically after the name of a distinguished person with reference to the actions or character which distinguish him or her in recollection; hence also used (often humorously) after other people, events, etc.

4. a. The length of time over which the recollection of a person or a number of persons extends. Chiefly in beyond (also past, out of) (the) memory (of ); similarly within memory, etc. through all memory: for all time (obs.).
within living memory: see LIVING ppl. a. 3.
b. Law. [After Anglo-Norman temps de memoire.] time of (legal) memory: time since 3 September 1189, the beginning of the reign of Richard I of England, fixed by statute of Edward I in 1275 and 1293 as the date before which documentary evidence was deemed unnecessary to prove a claim. Cf. time immemorial, etc., s.v. TIME n. 30.

5. The fact or condition of being remembered. Now somewhat arch.
The phrases given at sense 1c may in fact belong here.

II. Senses relating to the faculty of recalling to mind.

6. a. The faculty by which things are remembered; the capacity for retaining, perpetuating, or reviving the thought of things past.
to commit (or commend) to memory: see COMMIT v., COMMEND v.
b. This faculty personified.
c. Psychol. Modified by a preceding adjective or noun, esp. one designating the faculty or the bodily process with which it is believed to be connected.
d. The capacity of a body or substance for manifesting effects of, or exhibiting behaviour dependent on, its previous state, behaviour, or treatment; such effects; a state manifesting this capacity. Freq. with conscious metaphor.
e. The capacity of a body or substance for returning to a previous state when the cause of the transition from that state is removed.

7. a. The faculty by which things are remembered considered as residing in the awareness or consciousness of a particular individual or group. Freq. with preceding word or other contextual indication of the extent to which the faculty is developed or the field in which it is most active (cf. sense 6c).
b. Law. [After Anglo-Norman de bone (also seine) memoire.] In the language of wills, etc.: of (also in) good (also perfect, safe, sane, sound, whole) memory.
c. [Prob. after Anglo-Norman and Middle French revenir a sa memoire.] to come to (one's) memory (again): to recover from unconsciousness, to regain one's senses. Obs.
d. A device or facility functioning (as part of a computer, etc.) in a manner analogous to that of the human faculty of memory, spec. such that data or program instructions may be stored and then subsequently retrieved when required; (as a mass noun) capacity or facilities for storing data, etc., in this way.

8. art of memory [after post-classical Latin ars memoriae, memoriae ars, frequent in titles of works on mnemonics in the late 15th and early 16th centuries], mnemonics; a system of mnemonic devices.
The title page of Oratoriae Artis Epitomata, a work by Jacobus Publicius printed at Venice in 1482, is app. the first to mention memoriae ars. For an earlier use of ars memorie artificialis in a 14th-cent. Italian source see F. A. Yates Art of Memory (1966) iv. 90.

III. Something that perpetuates remembrance or stimulates the memory.

9. A commemorative account, a memoir; a record of a person or event; a history. Obs.

10. a. Something by which the memory of a person, thing, or event is preserved; a memento, a keepsake; a reminder. Obs.
b. regional (Newfoundland). A memorial wall hanging (see quot.).

11. A memorial tomb, shrine, chapel, or the like; a monument. Obs.

Memory: A Quote from "The Prayer of Owen Meany" by John Irving

"Your memory is a monster; you forget--it doesn't. It simply files things away. it keep things for you, or hides things from you--and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have memory, but it has you"

p.

Friday, September 22, 2006

Salah Jadwal

Di jadwal yang tertera di buku dan di internet tertulis 1.38, tetapi di jadwal yang tertera di halte 1.22. Bis selanjutnya 3.22...

NGENTOOTTTT!!!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

*Kiriman dari Istri

KEINGINAN MELAKUKAN DAN KELAKUAN YANG DIINGINKAN

Ketika kau bertanya “apa yang ‘kan kau lakukan?”
Kau takkan menemukannya …
Ketika kau melakukannya kan timbul tanya
“Mengapa kulakukan?”
Pada saat kau tak melakukannya
Kau sangat menginginkannya
Ketika kau menginginkanya
Tak pernah kau lakukan
Lantas untuk apa kau menginginkannya …
Hanya sekedar menginginkan
Ataukah karena kebutuhan untuk melakukannya …

Manusia tak pernah lepas dari keinginan …
Ingin melakukan bukan berarti melaksanakannya
Dengan menginginkannya manusia terkadang telah puas
Bagaimana dengan dirimu?
Haruskah kau kuinginkan
Haruskah kau lakukan apa yang kuinginkan
Haruskan kuinginkan apa yang kau lakukan …

Kala batas antara keinginan dan kelakuan menjadi samar …
Ada banyak pemikiran …
Sampai pada suatu rentang antar dua noktah
Kau kan melakukannya tanpa kauinginkan …
Kau melakukannya karena diinginkan …
Apakah keinginanmu untuk melakukannya?
Apakah kelakuanmu sesuai dengan yang diinginkan …
Hmmmm … keinginan untuk melakukan …
Apakah sejalan dengan kelakuan yang diinginkan …

Andai kupahami … keinginan dan melakukan …
Jalan hidup ini tak sesukar yang telah kulakukan …
Sadar untuk melakukan merupakan bagian dari keinginan …
Keinginan tanpa dilakukan takkan bermakna
Sampai kapan kan kumenunggu kau melakukannya apa yang kuinginkan …
Takkan pernah terjawab …
Selain keinginanku telah kaulakukan …
Yang kaulakukan memang kuinginkan …

(Perenungan menjelang fajar dalam masa penantian)
September 6, 2006


*Renungan setelah membaca tulisan istri

Kucoba untuk membaca berkali-kali,
mungkin ada makna yang tersurat,
maupun makna yang tersirat,
dari tulisan istriku ini.

Ahhh, tapi maafkan suamimu yang bodoh ini,
ketika mencoba mengerti,
tetap tidak mengerti,
ketika mencoba lebih keras untuk mengerti,
malah takut salah mengerti.

Biarlah suamimu yang dangkal ini,
memakai tulisanmu untuk menyombongkan diri,
memakai kata-katamu untuk berdiri bangga,
sambil berkata "hebat yah istri gue, huahahaha"

Davenport Hall
19 September 2006
Weather Report

Finally, summer will be over soon. Well, I think summer is already over, because now in the midwest (Champaign-Urbana), the temperature drops to 50. Also the wind, gosh, it tortures me with the speed of 15-20 mph.

I've finally passed the summer, one of the hardest summer that I've gone through, because I usually spent my summer time (June-August) with Beby. The result of my work in the summer is also average, I hate average. In addition to that, my father was not in a good health this summer, until now actually. I hope he will be better soon.

On the brighter side, this cold temperature is a sign of winter that will come soon. Because I'm planning to return to my home at the mid of december, this will be a count down to my happiness, yeeeaaahhh baby yeeeaahhh, give me your best, you fucking weather.

Although, there is a lot of thing to do, I look forward to welcome this holiday season, with my wife, my family and my friends in Indonesia. See you soon everybody, Godspeed.

*Weather report brought to you by yahoo weather and me

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Paaarrteeehhhh

Okey, Friday, 15th September 2006 was the first official party at our place, it was a birthday party. I just knew Sandy less than a month (she's Driya's friend), and she already has the audacity to use our place for her 23rd party. That is what I called cool, she rocks...

Thank you for bringing your party to our place,along people, food and drinks (alcohol included). Happy 23rd birthday, have a wonderful life ahead.

Also, thank you for Airin and Erick, who came for the party and stay at our places.


*The Invitation: That is our address


Birthday's Girl (Red)


The Party Continued... at Soma; The MBAs and myroomates (drama, drama, drama, hahahaha)


Birthday's Girl, The Day After (still in red and cry, I think, hehehehe)


*City's Folks in Our Village


*The Guests at Our Place


*One of The Tourist' Spot: The Almamater

PARTY ON DUDES!!!

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

September Ceria

Hari ini ada satu SMS dengan pesan bahwa dia sedang jatuh cinta, terus ada satu lagi yang bilang dia sedang jatuh cinta.
Ah senangnya mereka, pasti berjuta rasanya deh... Kalo gituh kirim2 lagu buat temen2 yang sedang jatuh cinta di bulan September, aahhh...

Vina Panduwinata - September Ceria

di pucuk kemarau panjang
yang gersang dan menyakitkan
kau datang menghantar
berjuta kesejukan

kasih ..
kau beri udara untuk nafasku (*luccmm)
kau beri warna bagi kelabu jiwaku

tatkala butiran hujan
mengusik impian semu
kau hadir di sini
di batas kerinduanku

kasih ..
kau singkap tirai kabut di hatiku
kau isi harapan baru untuk menyongsong
masa depan bersama

september ceria .. september ceria ..
september ceria .. september ceria ..
milik kita bersama

ketika rembulan tersenyum
di antara mega biru
kutangkap sebersit isyarat dimatamu

kasih ..
kau sibak sepi di sanubariku
kau bawa daku berani dalam asmara
yang mendamba bahagia

september ceria .. september ceria ..
september ceria .. september ceria ..
milik kita bersama

Sukses!!!

Monday, September 11, 2006

Percakapan Hampir Dua tahun Lalu

Dari hanya sekedar senior, sampai temen main dan jalan, roomate, disuruh temen Thailandnya untuk jagain Yudis, jagain mobilnya, dan lain sebagainya. Ini adalah percakapan pertama lewat friendster. Sekarang udah ngambil program doktor, kejar terus cita2, tapi jangan lupa sante, huehehehe.

Halo Paksi,

Email gw: yslamet@uiuc.edu; HP gw disini 1-217-
721-XXXX bisa sms ke indo and vice versa kalo
loe sms kenanya gopek per sms.
Kalo mau komunikasi biar gw aja yg telp loe ke
indo, murah bgt bayar $20 bisa dapat 4 jam.
Puaskan dibanding 100rb buat sejam.

Paksi, pada dasarnya hidup di kampung Urbana
ini cukup murah. Public transpornya gratis selama
punya kartu mahasiswa, tgl tunjukkin aja. Kalo
housing utk lebih lengkapnya lihat www.housing.
uiuc.edu. Krn loe mau dtg Jan ini lebih baik
masuk apart orchard downs, harganya cukup
murah dan pantas (cuman beda $20 utk 1 atau 2
bedroom). Gw asumsi loe mau bawa istri loe kan.
Orchard downs itu gampang masuk dan
keluarnya kapan aja, lain dgn apart2 swasta
lainnya yg mesti kontrak setahun. Gw kebetulan di
dorm (Daniels), tapi tempat ini sdh penuh. Kalo
tidak salah di orchard itu harganya sekitar $585
sebulannya belum termasuk gas (heating), telp
dan listrik - ditambah embel2 itu ya sekitar
$685an.

Paksi, kasih tahu aja loe mendarat dimana -
Chicago Ohare atau Champaign (CMI) nanti gw
jemput....... Disini anak Indonya byk juga apalagi
di orchard, kebetulan juga anak2 grad di orchard
pada seumuran loe semua jadi santai aja bawa
istri juga istri loe juga bisa punya teman:)))))

Btw, loe ambil PhD ya???? Congrats ya:)))

Yudis

Paksi wrote:
> Yudis..
>
> Gue mau minta tolong nih, mau nanya2 tentang
> hidup di UIUC nih.
> Gue rencananya mau dateng awal Januari tahun
> depan, kalo bisa mau nanya2 nih, tapi lewat
email
> atau telpon. Jadi gue minta email loe duong,
biar
> komunikasinya cepet, dan nomor telpon loe
> (HP/Rumah)
> Sebagai pembukaan, gue minta info tentang
> housing nih yang murah banget kalo bisa,
maklum
> budget student. Sama apa2 aja yang mesti gue
> siapin ketika nyampe kesana.
> Minta tolong yah bos.
> Terima kasih
>
> Salam
> p


Percakapan ini baru gue liat lagi pas gue mau apusin message2 frenster gue. Awal yang sederhana untuk sebuah persahabatan. Btw, dia ninggalin saudaranya disini biar apartemen gue tetep bersih, seneng deh, ada yang lebih seneng sih kayaknya, huehehehehe, beruntungnya temen saya, huehehehehe :D.


*Yudis dan Saudarinya "Windy"

Stay safe dude...
Here Comes the Pictures (2)
This series is about people who were there in August in Champaign Urbana.

You will recognized most of them, because they were mentioned in my previous post, but still I will put their pictures that are taken with my camera, hueheheheh.


*my new roomate


*me and the lonely street


*my previous roomate and now he's in NC State, GO WOLFPACK


*my ex-student in driving class


*My new roomate, the cleaning lady and my roomate's ..... (fill in the blank)


*my cook and my travel companion


*my ex-junior, and another MBA's friend

Well, there you have it, pictures of Champaign-Urbana people, who often times help each other out, share stories, share food, or just be there when we need them, in this far, far away place.

Keep rocking dudes...
Here Comes the Pictures (1)

By the grace of my wife,and with the help of Yudis, I've got our dearrest red Konica Minolta camera. Thus, I can take pictures without borrowing my friend's camera. It is a good thing, because I like to take pictures.

In order to help your imagination about my activity in August, let's start the journey.

The first series is taken on our last days in my apartment. before Yudis arrived, his cousin already arrived and she decided to sleep at our place. Because she doesn't have anything to do except abusing her Indonesia mobile phone bill, she cleaned our apartment, even our bathroom, eeuuuwwwww (hahahahhaha). She's a nice and a shy person, unless she talks, huehehhehehe. I was lucky to have her as my roomate, aside from the cleaner apartment, I also know what she wants to do in her life, which is already different now, huahahah. Well, people changes. After Yudis arrived, we were cleaning up the apartment good, except for one minor flaw, I broke the closet's lid, huahahahaha.


*My Old Apartment and The Cleaning Crews: It's a Family Business


*Last Sleep in the Old Apartment: Yudis and Ange's Pillow (No wonder he hug the pillow so tight, huahahhaha, gosip)


*The Last Goodbye



*the last goodbye with my beloved sofa, the best sofa in the world for lonely men to this date


*508 E. Clark St. #311: Thank You

Almost all the stuffs, we put it in Ardi's storage. After we left our apartment for the last time, and returned the key, we were so exhausted, and finish our day at the IHOP. I was officially homeless at that time. I spent one night at the office, and the other night at Driya's place (Thank You Dri).

Although, I never consider my old apartment my home, but it had given me a good ride. It was the place for people from afar stay (thank you all, who visited me during my stay in my old apartment). Automatically, it became a place for small party, resting, discussion, general or personnal story telling (people laugh and cry in this apartment, hehehehehe), meeting point, studying, and many more. It was my pleasure to share the joy in Yudis and my apartment with all of you.
Wow

Wow, satu bulan tanpa posting blog, hhmm, record, jadi nanti satu bulan yang kosong.
Yah mungkin gue emang bukan penulis yang produktif. Tapi setelah gue pikir2, 30 puluh hari terkahir adalah salah satu bulan yang paling sibuk, baik fisik dan mental. Gue coba menjabarkan beberapa kesibukan gue disini.

Pertama bulan tersebut banyak orang yang dateng dan pergi, roomate gue Yudis dateng dan pergi, Ardi roomate baru gue dateng, ada dua orang baru Michele dan Windy, terus ditambah orang2 lain yang dateng yang gue lupa namanya, baik yang udah gede atau yang masih muda, grad atau undergrad, jadi yah banyak perkenalan, dua perayaan ISC dan yang udah gede, dan banyak lagi yang harus dibantu. Yah minimal nganterin anak baru untuk jalan2, gue terus terang merasa seneng kalo melakukan ini, karena gue ngerasain waktu awal dateng kesini sendirian, dianterin dan dibantuin abis2an sama Mas Ribut dan Mas Furqon, beserta keluarganya, kalo gue bisa melakukan hal yang sama dengan orang lain baguskan, walaupun orang lainnya sok gengsi, hueheheheh.

Selain itu gue harus pindah2an, dibantu oleh Yudis, mesti bersihin rumah lama dibantu oleh Windy, terus minta mindahin barang dari apt lama ke gudang ke apt baru, wuuiihhh. Terus temen2 yang pindah2an juga harus dibantu dikit2, kalo banyak2 soalnya capek, yah namanya juga gue, males gituh lho. Terus karena disini ada kontrak goblok yang membuat orang biasanya harus nunggu lama sebelum pindah ke apat barunya, jadi pindah2an antara juga nyebelin, sekali lagi untung ada mobil Yudis, terus ada Windy yang walaupun cerewet, tetep menghibur dan sedikit berguna. Selain itu untuk Etta dan Michelle, ada temennya Etta yang mebantu, uuhh senangnya gue dan Etta, hehehe)Nah ini juga makan waktu, tenaga dan uang deh prosesnya, tapi yah gimana lagi. Tapi akhirnya semua terjadi dengan sedikit banyak lancar.

Selain itu saat ini adalah awal semester, jadi banyak yang harus dilakukan, namanya juga mata ajaran baru jadi, jadi banyak pritilannnya. Yah administrasi, kerjaan, dan kuliahnya, btw, gue masih kuliah yah, nggak papa, semoga semester terakhir, semoga dikabulkan Tuhan.

Bulan Juli juga ada beberapa festival yang dilakukan pada saat musim panas, Jazz Festival dan Corn Festival, yang satu di Chicago, satu lagi di Champaign, yah cuman itu sih yang gue datengin. Terus sempet jalan2 ke outlet Amrik, selain itu yah ada acara bareng temen2 gituh, baik temen kantor, maupun temen Indonesia, namanya juga semester baru.

Selain itu di rumah, Bokap masuk ICU, jadi yah terus tetep terus kontak2 gituh deh, sambil berpikir banyak. Untungnya sekarang bokap udah nggak di ICU lagi, baguslah, semoga tambah membaik kesehatannya. Di rumah cuman ada nyokap, istri dan adek Bara, jadi pastinya capeklah mereka, karena keilangan dua tenaga, gue ama adek Lintang.

Ditambah rindu berats ama istri selalu melanda, wah, kayaknya tiap summer mesti pulang nih, eh tiap winter juga kali yah, wah tiap 6 bulan sekali duong, hhmmm, harus dipikirkan.

Kira2 itu dululah, yang menjelaskan bulan Agustus yang agak melelahkan, hal2 kecil dan lucu yang harus diceritakan lebih terperinci, nanti dulu yah, misal tentang roomates gue, eh gue berasa roomate gue dua lho, Ardi dan Windy, huehehhe, stop...


*ini roomates baru gue si sulung Ardi dan si bungsu Windy

Peace Out