It has been decided

After 1 week subject shopping this second semester (which is hopefully my last)... i've decided the subjects that i'm going to take.

1. Machine Learning

Yup.. i take it again. This is the second time i take Machine Learning. The first one was in my undergrad. Looks like this machine learning (taught by Tim Baldwin) is more to data mining. Hey, but i've taken Data Mining as well in your postgrad in Indo. So, what are you doing Ridho?
Well, i heard that Google is hiring people with Machine Learning skill. So.. Hahaha.... Good luck with the mathematics anyway.

2. Network and Parallel Processing

Prepare to be slaughtered by algorithms, complexity and mathematics... It's not just about creating programs that use more than one computer to do a processing. Well, at least it's cool to be able to do that.

3. Mobile Computing

One of the subjects that i've been willing to take. At least by taking this subject i will be forced to learn J2ME and creating cool mobile apps.

4. Engineering for Internet Application

My goal here is to learn more about creating web apps with todays technology. I hope i can get it here.

I think this semester is going to be hard.

Trips to 2 Mountains

Hi hi...

The new semester has come. It means more classes to attend and more assignments to do. Yaikkss...

Anyway, in this posting i just want to share some pictures of my trips last holiday. Since it was winter, so my trips were about going to mountains. Hiking? no no... Skiing? no no... just toboganing..

The first trip was to Mt. Buffallo. I went there with some of my friends. Mas Wawan with his wife Bonnie, Mas Ade with his wife Mbak Desi.. It means that i was the single one. Hahaha...
Mt. Buffallo wasn't big, but it sure gave me the first great experience on snowing.

What the hell?! Those fats doesn't only go to my belly?

In front of ski equipments renting shop

Mt. Buffallo.. Most of

Looking at the mountain

Tobogan !!

The second trip was to Mt. Buller. This mountain is a lot bigger more kind a resort type. It also has more facilities than Mt. Buffallo.. I went there with other 200 UMAC people.

Near the parking lot

With mas Adi and mas Didik on the tobogan field

Another pose

Have just fell from the tobogan

Snow...all snow !!

Free At Last

Hai All...

After finishing 10 assignments and 4 exams.. i am free !!!! My first semester in Melbourne Uni is over. Fiuhh, that was more works than what i imagined. At least more than works that i have done when i attended my Informatics Master Degree in ITB.

Anyway, i spent my first day of freedom (which is last Thursday) by lazying all day long. Wake up late, youtubing, eat, sleep again (ow please..), wake up again, and nearly forgot that i haven't taken bath all day (whups...).

However, after that day, i followed an interesting activity. I became a drummer in Indomelb band. Hahaha, a drummer? Can i actually play a drum? Well, not really.. drum is even the last instrument that i could think of playing if i joined a band. I usually play bass guitar, sometimes a rhytm guitar if i must, but not a drum. Nope.. never play the drum for a band even once.

Despite of never been a drummer, i actually remember took a drum lesson while i was in Bandung a few years back. It was a really short course, around 2 months only, and the only song that i've ever studied was Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. I was really proud that i could play that song's drum at that time, but that was all. I don't even remember how to play that song's drum anymore.

Okey, back to become a drummer for Indomelb band. The indomelb band decided to play some songs in UMAC party. It was some kind of welcoming and farewell party for AusAid scholarship awardess (maybe.. not sure though). We played some Indonesian tradisional songs medley as well as other songs like Like a Stone and Last Kiss, and i have to admit that playing drum is really great !! Why didn't i try to learn it in the first place. Having said that, while i'm here, i think i'll stick to this instrument for a while..

And they are all out !!

Continuing my previous post...

I did ask what next, didn't i ?

So here we go guys...

1. Grid Technology Paper Review

2. Grid Technology Project

3. Agent Programming Technique Paper

4. Peer to Peer Chatting Application

Including the XSLT Project and Web Technology Paper, it looks like i still have 6 assignments to finish this semester.. yes.. 6 ! S-I-X !

Relax..relax...

It's not as bad as you think Ridho.. relax.. relax..

They are all interesting in different ways.. so, by working on them should gain you new knowledge.. so be happy (err.. i'm talking to myself).

Perhaps sometimes i should write something that explains some of my assignment projects. It could be useful for me, and perhaps to you too..

Anyway, i should probably do that later after i've finished them all..

Cheers..

What Next ??

Agent Modelling ?

MPI Programming ?

Java RMI ?

XSLT ?

Paper Review on XML Technology ?

What Next ????

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Once you called it a bad day, it will be a bad day

Have you ever experienced a bad day ? Of course you do, nobody hasn't. Maybe if you don't think about it too much, you wouldn't considered it a bad day. But i always think that once you had an unluckiness or something, more unluckiness will come to you and that's a bad day.

I experienced a bad day yesterday, and it turned out to be at my work in Vic Mart. Yesterday was the first day when Mas Solihin didn't help me (much). So first off all, i was late. I didn't expect to be late, but Najiba, the shop owner had come before me. And then, during the shop opening, i broke so so so many cloth hangers. See, that's one unluckiness...

In the afternoon, when i did the shop closing, i unexperiencely store the clothes in a wrong way. And do you know what happened? After piling so many clothes they were all collapsed !! Oh no... i felt if i had the ability to freeze time like Hiro Nakamura in Heroes, i would do that and fixed everything back.. Oh i felt so bad.. bad bad day... Eventually, Najiba and her son had to help me to do the closing and all the clothes weren't in correct order.

However, despite of my bad job, Najiba still kindly payed me full, but the consequence is i had to come early this morning to fix all that mess..

Now you see.. once a bad day, it's always a bad day.. I hope i wouldn't experience it again.