Unique stuff regarding myself

Your Mind is Blue

Of all the mind types, yours is the most mellow. You tend to be in a meditative state most of the time. You don't try to think away your troubles. Your thoughts are realistic, fresh, and honest. You truly see things as how they are. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about your friends, your surroundings, and your life.

What Color Is Your Mind?

Your Heart Is Pink

In relationships, you like to play innocent - even though you aren't. Each time you fall in love, it's like falling for the first time. Your flirting style: Coy Your lucky first date: Picnic in the park Your dream lover: Is both caring and dominant What you bring to relationships: Romance

What Color Heart Do You Have?

You Need Some Black in Your Life

Black will make you feel powerful, in control, and not bound to what other people think of you. And with a little black, you will project a aura of mystery, rebellion, and dominance. If you want people to respect you, you've got to get a little black in your life! For extra punch: Combine black with orange or red The downside of black: People won't be able to "read" you - and may perceive you as more aggressive than you actually are The consequences of more black in your life: You'll become a figure of intrigue and speculation You'll be better prepared for life's unknown path You'll rest better and free yourself of expectations

What Color Do You Need?

Your Power Color Is Red-Orange

At Your Highest: You are warm, sensitive, and focused on your personal growth. At Your Lowest: You become defensive and critical if you feel attacked. In Love: You are loyal - but you demand the respect you deserve. How You're Attractive: You are very affectionate and inspire trust. Your Eternal Question: "Am I Respected?"

What's Your Power Color?

Your Aura is Violet

Idealistic and thoughtful, you have the mind and ideas to change the world. And you have the charisma of a great leader, even if you don't always use it! The purpose of your life: saying truths that other people dare not say Famous purples include: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan B. Anthony Careers for you to try: Political Activist, Inventor, Life Coach

What Color Is Your Aura?

You Are Fairly Normal in Love

When it comes to love, you have fairly normal ideas and expectations. Your relationships and ideas may be a bit quirky at times... But you see love the same way as most people do. Why You Are Normal in Love You are normal because you think it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved. You are normal because you don't kiss on the first date. Why You Aren't Normal in Love You are abnormal because you had your first boyfriend or girlfriend after you were 14. You are abnormal because you believe people only have one soulmate.

Are You Normal in Love?

Your Envy Quotient: 24%

You are an occasionally envious person, but jealousy doesn't usually get the better of you. You're wise enough to know that envy feels horrible - and does nothing to improve your life. A little jealousy is normal: so go ahead and let yourself feel it. But don't let it bum you out!

How Much Envy Do You Have?

You Are 60% Weird

You're so weird, you think you're *totally* normal. Right? But you wig out even the biggest of circus freaks!

How Weird Are You?

How You Life Your Life

You tend to deprive yourself of things you crave, for your own good. You say whatever is on your mind. Other people's reactions don't phase you. You're open to new people and friends, which makes you a pretty popular person. You have one big dream in your life, and you never lose sight of it.

How Do You Live Your Life?

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Internet browser preference: Mozilla Firefox is the best!

The blog poll in the right-hand side of this page has been put for quite a time as for today, but there has been only three responses so far and hey, that’s not the way surveys work!

I'm thinking of closing that poll tomorrow.

Anyway, today I’m gonna talk about Firefox and why I love it.

First and foremost, its Ctrl+T (Tabbing) option. Firefox is the pioneer in this matter, and other copycats (such as that notorious IE) does not deserve to be called better than Firefox.

Hey, now that I see it, the initial of Mozilla Firefox (which is MF) may carry a very insulting connotation in English. Lols.

Let me carry on.

The second thing that I love about MF (stop associating that initial to that negative connotation of Mother-F, pls!) is that it can have a lot of extensions and themes in the add-ons section, a stuff which IE lacks.

MF is also more eyecandy than its rivals.

Last yet not least, in MF you can conveniently save the web page you're opening (Ctrl+S) instantly unlike IE where you have to wait for minutes.

Not to forget mention Opera, though.

But hey, Opera’s tabbing option (Ctrl+N) is a hell lot peskier than MF’s, as the distance between the Ctrl key and the N key in our QWERTY keyboard is comparatively further than those between Ctrl and T.

Thus, MF still holds the top spot.

For those of you anime-lovers out there, there is this anime-oriented browser (which goes under Mozilla name-ship) called “lolifox” that carries exactly the same interface, options and functionalities as MF, only with a different logo. You can google for it.

lolifox (mind the small “L”) is cuter than Firefox, which is why I use it more often than its sibling.

For those of you social-networking-lovers out there, there is a social-networking-oriented browser (under the Mozilla name-ship too) that focusses more on heaps of networking stuff like Myspace, Flickr, Photobucket, and Blogs.

And to answer your dying question:

Nope, I haven’t uninstalled IE yet. Not for the time being. I actually hate to admit it, but
at least in terms of who plays Flash (.swf) files the best, IE is still the one.

Thus, I have no plans to uninstall IE. And don't uninstall yours.

Yet.

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Indo-Lesson 2: “Samurai bekerja”

Toshihiko here, and this is the 2nd lesson on the Indonesian language.

Today I’m going to discourse about the usage of the prefix “ber-” and the word “Samurai”.

Let's begin the lesson.

The prefix ber- can be tricky for most learners of Indonesian if they don’t know how to use it.

Why?

It’s because there is no specific rule regarding how to attach it into a specific verb. One may even call it an irregular prefix, just like the irregular verbs that exist in English.

For example, the word kerja, which means “to work”, turns into bekerja when added with ber-.

Why not berkerja instead of bekerja?

That’s just the way it is.

As you see, the reason that I name ber- as an irregular prefix is due to the fact that the ber- still retains its original form when applied to other words that begin with letter k, such as kawan into berkawan, kenal(an) into berkenalan, or kurang into berkurang.

Another irregular usage is when it is attached to the verb ajar, it becomes belajar, not berajar, while other verbs that begins with letter a still transform the prefix into ber-, such as beralasan, berakhlak, and berarti.

Believe me, as Indonesians rarely use any affixes in their conversations, the only way to learn the right way of using EYD (Ejaan Yang Disempurnakan – formal Indonesian) is by writing a lot.

Write, write, and write.

The more you write, the more encouraged you become to open your kamus. You may even want to consider blogging in Bahasa Indonesia once in a while. Indcoup has set up a good example in some of his posts, so does Gene Netto (now that’s 100% Indonesian!).

Samurai, as we all know, is a Japanese-derived term that is used to name Japanese warriors who were members of the feudal military aristocracy, the Japanese equivalent for the English term “Knight”.

Nowadays there no longer exists any Samurai anywhere in the world except —of course— in Indonesia.

In Bahasa Indonesia, the term Samurai is commonly used to name all kinds of swords in general. I can assume that its usage is so widely accepted that even Indonesian linguists accept it as a formal term.

It is funny to see how could the derivation went so far you know, as I’ve traced back the etymology to the root of the Japanese word Samurai into:

“saburau”, which means “to serve”

Thus, the word “Samurai” originally means “a servant”, a definition that’s indeed far-fetched from the Indonesian definition of “a sword”!

That’s all for today’s lesson.

If you want to send me any questions regarding Bahasa Indonesia or the confusion you may find regarding the close affinity between Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu, you can always comment on this blog post or on the shoutbox in the sidebars. You may also send me suggestions on what I could discuss on future lessons.

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Japanese IQ Test

This is a test that Japanese use for hiring employees in the IT sector.

There are 8 people in one river bank in total: A prisoner, a policeman, a father, a mother, 2 daughters, and 2 sons. Your objective is to move all the people to the other side of the river.

Follow these rules:

1. Maximum of two people can go on the float.

2. Father cannot be with any of his daughters without the mother being present.

3. Mother cannot be with any of her sons without the father being present.

4. The prisoner cannot be left unguarded by the police with any member of the family.

5. Only the policeman and parents can drive the float.

An average person should complete it in about 15 minutes
Can you get them all to the other side? It is possible.

Here is the notation for each of individuals:

1. Po = Policeman

2. Pr = Prisoner

3. F = Father

4. M = Mother

5. S1 = Son no.1

6. S2 = Son no.2

7. D1 = Daughter no.1

8. D2 = Daughter no.2

9. >>> = row the boat to the other side

10. <<< = row the boat back to the first side

So, if you want to jot down the first step, it should look like this:

1. Po+Pr>>> (which means that the Policeman takes the Prisoner with him)

2. Po<< (and this means that the Policeman goes back alone)

3. and so on…

Solution:

(pstt… No peeking! Finish the test first. ^_^ )

Here are the steps:

1. Po+Pr >>>

2. Po<<<

3. Po+D1>>>

4. Po+Pr<<<

5. M+D2>>>

6. M<<<

7. M+F>>>

8. F<<<

9. F+S1>>>

10. F+M<<<

11. F+S2>>>

12. F<<<

13. F+M>>>

14. F<<<

15. Po+Pr>>>

16. M<<<

17. F+M>>>

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My nonstop pranks with Harry Potter spoilers (continued)

Warning: Spoilers of the book “Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows” entail. Proceed reading at your own risk.

This is a continuation of my previous post, so basically you should read that post first before reading this one.

Do you know the Indonesian word “iseng”? Don’t bother looking in your Indonesian-English dictionary, it’s not even there.

Iseng is an Indonesian slang that has no exact English equivalent. The closest English equivalent I could find is:

iseng /isəŋ/ adj the characteristic of being puckish, having a penchant to do mischievous yet innocuous acts

That is a dictionary entry I made up myself, so don’t even bother asking which dictionary I’m using.

Well the point I’m gonna discuss today is that, according to most of my friends, I’m one of the most iseng person in the world. How iseng am I?

Let’s continue yesterday’s story with my Harry Potter spoiler.

Having spoiled the Harry Potter-reading of my friends, I decided that the prank I committed wasn’t iseng enough. I should plan a much more iseng act, one so mischievous that people could hardly ever forget it.

I started with my Friendster account by quoting various phrases from the book in my shoutout box. I know that a lot of my friends must’ve been very pissed off reading my Shoutout. But I don’t care.

The next target was the net café I frequent. I made a .jpg picture like this:

and copied them onto a couple of net café’s computers as wallpapers! Ain’t that iseng!

Here’s the English translation of the picture above:

In Book Seven:

1. Harry succeeded in murdering Voldemort

2. Harry and Ginny Weasley got married

3. Ron and Hermione got married

4. THE ONES MURDERED were Snape, Dobby, Hedwig, Fred Weasley, Lupin and Tonks

5. It will be let known that Snape murdered Dumbledore at Dumbledore’s own request

6. George Weasley was permanently handicapped

7. Harry died temporarily when he was killed by Voldemort

My next target was then: Gramedia.

On my next visit to Gramedia, I waited in front of the Harry Potter section in Gramedia until there are enough people to spoil the story to.

After there were at least two families (two couple of parents with their kids) browsing thru the book, I then decided it’s time to act.

I “accidentally” passed behind them while shouting various key plot spoilers.

I couldn’t imagine how miffed they became, as I didn’t even dare to glance at their faces to see their expression.

By now you must be thinking what a weirdo I am.

I’d like to disagree, but hey, there is truth in that statement. And I should be proud of it, shouldn’t I?

Anyway, how iseng do you think I am now?

It’s just too bad that April Fools’ doesn’t occur once a month…

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