What will be "What's New?"

What will be "What's New?" here

1:55 30 March '09

There will be plenty to come, I have plenty of things in my hand.

First, I am going to clean-up all ancients code inside this home and upgrade them to the latest .Net 3.5. It means that you may have the chance to see my newbie Silverlight application displaying photo slideshow in the album section. I will get rid the expired navigation menu and write one similar myself. Once I have finished that, the code will be available for you to use freely as long as you keep my name. It is not easy for my parent to think of my name, you see! Show a bit of appreciation :)

I am going to add auto complete when you search recipe in my kitchen. Therefore if think ofmie goreng, and I have mi goreng, then you will find it anyway. I might add a small application that allows you to add note on specific recipe that will be displayed when you choose to login. Or maybe some kind of hall of fame, top 10 popular recipes searched today, or something alike. Having said that, yes, yes, I will add more recipes in it. First, I will add popular recipes like fish and chip, etc. I promise >:)

Although I'm no longer a cat slave, I have two new human models instead, since a friend brought his wife here and another friend just had a baby :) I will put their pictures. Since I have visited British Museum a lot, I might upload some of mummies picture here.

And a lot, a lot, a lot.. zzzzZzzZZzzzzzZzzzzz....

20:57 15 June '08

It takes 10 months until I finally write again on this What's New page. No, you read it right, What will be What's New page. Because they are actually plan TODO. Not actually done, and probably will never.

Before you start cursing, let me depend myself, Your Honour...

I've been busy, so busy. I just finished my course-works to get my Master degree. Till now until the next 9 months (at most) I'll be working with my dissertation. It's just mad in April when in a night I have to finish 3 courses at the same time, while normal work during the day. There were as well, many excitment, many sad stories, many things that stopped me for a while.

My Grandma passed away earlier last year, January 2007. I have her picture and video at this website in the Family album. I haven't met her for almost 4 years then she just passed away without me ever seeing her again. She did look like me, she laughed a lot, she as any other mother and grandmother loved to cook, and used to tell me bedtime story till I fell aslept. Arghhhh, 2007, and just now I wrote about her?

So, yeah, I keep this website for all nice things to remember. It's still a website that contains nothing but me, I, je, gua, aku, moi. I will update this, as soon as I have finished a secret business by next 2² July. Don't expect too much of update tho'. It scares me whenever I open and edit one of the page using Miscrosoft Visual Studio since at average the page will contain 50 errors on XHTML validation.

On the other hand, some page will be static as it is, and you do know where they are going to be, as below:

About Me - No, nothing change. Still some ordinary person, fond of many things, think of friendship as something to cherish. Love music, badminton, football, coding, photography, movies, home, etc, etc.
Curriculum Vitae - The only change that might happen is I add my Master degree, if I ever gain one. Wish me luck.
Recipes - Yes, definitely will. I found my old Kartini recipe collection that I collected during my junior high school and senior high school. I can't really cling on one kind of food for long, need variation.
Album - There are many. I do mean many. First thing I will do is uploading some from Delft where I met my theathre friends back from ITB, last Idul Fitri when I met Panji and his wife at Singapore, and more. I really miss my friends now. Oh, yeah, I do love my job, I can code for hours non-stop, yet I am paid to do something I love. But I don't say exactly the same for the office. Not given a bunch of Tong Kosong Nyaring Bunyinya. What a pity.
Navigator: I will write the code. The vendor is so unbelievable, they won't get anything. Throwing things as free but then broke the agreement on the middle.
Music: Oh, yeah, I need to rewrite my song collection. I read the score again, and I have a small digital piano here. I think it does MIDI as well, wait till I read the manual.
Guestbook: There are some entries I need to clean. Please, do not write I love you there, no promotion as well please. This homepage is just a personal one, which hopefully will share a bit of usefulness to others. No business around here. That Paypal icon I have set for almost 2 years, no one ever drop a coin there, yaich. Must be because of the World oil-price crisis, I presume.

Nevertheless, thanks for coming and visiting me.

22:29 16 Aug '07

I know, it is kind of silly, isn't it? I don't really have time to update this website.

I am a master student at a UK online university (yes, yes, it's accredited). I have a full time job that I loves so much. I have so many things at my hands (do understand that I'm an extrovert). I do many things, have interests in many things, and plan many things in my head. Sadly, updating this website is not really one of them.

1) Every single page is going to be a valid xhtml document ==> Oh, yeah, dream on

2) Every recipe page is now going to be automatically generated from database. Prev-Next navigation will not be hard coded any more. It will be from query

select top 1 * from recipe WHERE id > $code order by id
select top 1 * from recipe WHERE id < $code order by id desc

3) Everything will be in neat CSS. Div with float rather than table. And will look the same in 5 browsers ( MSIE, Safari, Netscape, Firefox, Opera) ==> L-A-Z-Y-L-A-Z-Y-L-A-Z (sing that with the same tune as in M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E)

4) Fix all javascript error and incompatibility between DOM model at MSIE versus those developed by Netscape, by utilising Firebug ==> What error? Huh? Huh? My MSIE says nothing wrong

5) New page to note down my recently acquired knowledge about home-design, home utils, specifically on soft-furnishing ==> Well, tell me about that. I wish I can force my lazy bone to sew again

Enough wishes! How could you wish without seeing a falling star? Hehehe.

Don't worry (if you ever do), I will try to keep anything I promised before. And that will be all. I have been staying idle here since I have sore throat and headache. But enough about that, time to go to bed, and ready to have fun tomorrow celebrating the 62 years of Indonesian Independence day!

Oh, btw, I think I have been making lots of progress in my joke. Here some I just invented, do tell me what you think!
- "OK, you are the boss! WYSIWYG = What You Say Is What You Get"
- If you haven't seen your boss for days: ""Oh, we thought we have lost you! We've been interviewing several candidates to be your replacement to be honest!"
- Cat nowadays, does not sit on the lap, but on laptop instead. Mati aja gua dulu tiap kali mangku laptop si Miu duduk di laptop sambil menekan tombol Power.
- "39 is not old, is it?" "How old?" "39?" "No, not at all. But you can't buy BBC PROM ticket at half price anymore. Worse, you can't travel by tube for free anymore. The good news is, when you buy a knife at the supermarket, they will not ask for your age any more." I am soooooooooo mean.

8 Oct '06

From time to time, balancing between my laziness and my "look at me, look at me, look ma, no hands" desire, I try to update this homepage. As of today, 8 of Oct '06, in the future, you can expect the following things (if you are a member of EFC*):

Photo upload from Italy last summer at album page. Yes, I have uploaded 4 of them: Venice, Milan, Positano, and Verona. But still in stock are photos from Grotto Azzura at Capri, destroyed city of Pompeii near Naples, funny police vehicle, the hot Rome, plus a bit of Como.
Photo uploads from Pyrenees, France, last autumn at album page. How does it feel to have pictures that make you sing, "Memandang alam dari atas bukit. Sejauh pandang kulepaskan" ? Only, that bukit is 1 km above the ground.
Photo uploads of "Smile and the World will Smile with You" as I only have 2 photos only, while Cheshire cat is nowhere to be found. Right, stop that wrinkle face, go smile!
At least 40 recipes will be added at recipe section. Finished scanning images, texts are waiting to be compared and written. And then database, and then content.html. Italian food recipes are also in my list, soon after I have finished translating them from Italian ;-) Those 3 Italian food magazines must wait until I have finished reading my new photography magazine. That photography magazine must wait until I have finished my text book on blablabla, and demon circle is already here.
New midi and song lyric at music page. Recently found some from Cat Stevens and some Indonesian songs. ==> done in Jan'07
Version of homepage in Windows Mobile device application run on smartphone and PDA. In fact, I already have written the web service version to search my recipe page. If boss later insists me working with Symbian, this homepage will appear in Symbian as well. Currenly only WAP version with 3 pages is available.
Guestbook where any new entry will be sent to my email, so I don't have to go online checking if there is any new entry or new spam. The algorithm is already in my mind, I just have a lazy bone. ==> done 10 Mar '07
Fixing some missing European Latin characters, successfully eaten by my web hosting's internal editor that can accept 27 alphabets only.
Posting letter regarding experience getting HSMP (in Indonesian only, not going to translate it). If I'm too lazy, I'll just post the link to the site. ==> Rules changed, no need to put here
Photos of porcelain dolls and soft toys. Alberon, Ashton Drake, Knightsbridge, and some others. How to get the gorgeous them by cheap is an art. ==> done Dec '07
Joke page. I made this page on in 1999 but then I discarded that. Silly joke like the following:
1) "I don't know why spammers are busy offering junk to get a free $1000. In reality it is very easy to get $1000." "Oh yeah? Prove it!" "Go to money changer, bring Rp 9,000,000.00 or so, and in exchange you'll get $1000."
2) At a student fair day: "Twenty thousand rupiahs for a box of diskette? That's too dear! If I come back later in the afternoon, how much will you sell it?" "Ten thousand rupiahs." "See?" "But you can only get a half content of the box."
3) At work, "He said that this is the priority." "No, it is not. This one is." "Are you sure?" "Well, marilah kita bekerja menurut kepercayaan masing-masing."
4) "I don't want to see you again!" "Alright, alright, I'll wear a mask."
5) Presenting nice memory to speed up the recovery period or even cure a patient is a new health therapy. Nice memory can be brought up by songs, in the hope that by listening to a song will bring back the happy moment patient had when she used to have that song. Self esteem, positive energy for the future, fight energy, etc.
This is good, as long as the song is not: "Aku masih seperti yang dulu. Menunggumu sampai akhir hidupku."

The page was abandoned because sometimes the joke I invented is just too slow to absorb. Beside, there are lots of joker in the world :-) Example, from a TV programme:
Event was Queen's birthday where all Royal family were coming to greet her. TV commentator: "Isn't it Pope funeral?" TV showed Charles and Camilla walking. TV commentator: "He looks healthy!"
Nothing. The same homepage, no update at all, as eventually I am too lazy to make things mentioned above.

* EFC = Evi Fans Club, not Evi Football Club, silly! Membership is free, but once you register, there will be a small fee for cancelling your membership. Isn't it a good marketing technique? :-)