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| Ok, so I abandon my xanga for 4 months or so... so let me recap what happened since 10 jun 2005...
SRC 2005 was great! joined 'RF transistor model validation' group with Prof. Tom Lee, and i did pretty well. the biggest difficulty was to find my prof when I needed his help. either he's so busy or he's playing hide and seek with me. seriously, he played hide-and-seek with Seamon, my roommate and research-mate..
had a big big triple L159, great roommates (thx Seamon and Art!) and great friends coming over... boba place almost 3 times a week  , lots of I-chess, C-chess, Big-2, and other card games, football (not the cheap american one of course) every sunday...
random roommate talks, some of them lasted until 5 am, waking up at 1pm, seamon and art's GTA fever, the "ramen place story", this list could continue forever...
our team I-Van rocked the SRC game by finishing first among undergrads (we're 4th overall, losing from some grad student teams)...
great summer, too bad i didn't make it to the SoCo that i had to go back home on the 30th of September...
at home: doing nothing. the most interesting thing was visiting Singapore for 4 days. Great time squatting in my friend's dorm in NTU meeting high-school friends, attending lectures in NTU (wow, i can't understand singlish  ) also attended my high-school-alumni-in-Singapore-gathering barbeque at Marina Bay. played pool with long-lost friend (middle school), they are now in RJC... last day in singapore, play cards till dawn, slept for 1 hr, then flew back to Jakarta...
back in Jakarta: nothing interesting. finally it's time to return to Stanford! Yay!! (i didn't feel like going home at that time, so i was glad i had to return  ) very very bad planning... my flight was on saturday, so I reached SF on saturday; no marguerite, no US phone, no pick-up, so i had to go by taxi...  and i asked stanford storage to deliver my boxes to my dorm on monday, 9/26, but i guess they suck; my boxes were actually delivered on wednesday and the next monday  I also haven't got my dorm key until now, i'm supposed to pick it up at housing service center at flomo but i haven't had time
this quarter is going to be tough... taking some EE classes in advance but i still indeed find time to play WE9... that game is soooooo... addictive!
that's it for today... oh, and here is a quote from one of my favourite book "The Game of Their Lives"
"Soccer is such a difficult game; its goals so precious, its fans so proprietary and passionate, that anybody who propels the ball into the net becomes a conquering hero, taking an ecstatic tour of the field, throwing kisses, leaping into the air, then falling to his knees as if in some ancient tribal ceremony" - George Vecsey, in New York Times | | |
| Ok, new entry after about 6 months.
So many things happened.
Awesome Winter Quarter: enjoying the pretty good result in Putnam, pretty good grades, and some unforgettable activities!
14 February Serra-nade.
This is one of my favourite dates in a year. Especially this year, it was one of the best Serra experiences! I performed some songs, including our big hit 'Unchained Melody', which I chose. Aargh... I didn't know that George Michael's 'Stand By Me' is popular here. I thought US ppls hate every British things. haha :p I should've chosen 'Stand By Me' instead.
Screw Your Roommate
Coincidentally there were three Catholicgroovers in Serra's SYR: Joyce (whom I set my roomie with), Maggie (turned out to be Meiyang's friend), and of course the pianist... me! haha
special thanks to Jelly for being such an awesome date
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| Finally find time to fill this again. I had a problem with my university bill throughout the previous week. I sent a bankdraft with DHL, in the receipt it arrived at January the 3rd, but the financial service officers hadn't received it until yesterday. WTF is going on? Going to claim the late fee... 
Ok, has everyone read The Da Vinci Code? I'm really eager to share some thoughts about it. I just read this book last month, but it attracts my attention a lot. At first I believed that the facts in that book were true... but now I spot some flaws there. I think that book is an argument supported by facts that have been turned around so smoothly that the readers don't realize it at once. Great book, however... It's a great thriller.
My music taste seems unique here. Anyone knows Michael Learns to Rock??? No one in my dorm knows them. They're really popular in Asia, I think. They made some of the most-awesome love ballads I've ever heard. 
My CS106A class this quarter will be really hard. my logic thinking starts to abandon me  | | |
| Just go with the flow.
List of things I've done in 2004
Jan'04: nothing important, Stanford early action diverted
Feb'04: nothing important, still waiting the letter from stanford eagerly. rejected by MIT. accepted by UIUC. rejected by Cornell.
Mar'04: participated in the 2nd phase of intl olympiad training, and qualified as no. 4. Acceptance letter from Stanford! letter from cal never reached my house.
Apr'04: nothing important
May'04: my final - final - final school exam! my grades were really bad actually, but who cares. Having a great trip with my classmates. we were together for two years, in an accelerated class. From this class of 17 ppl: 1 goes to Stanford, 1 to UIUC, 1 to UCSD, 1 to Shoreline College (Seattle) and the others now scatter in some universities in Indonesia, Singapore, and Australia
Jun'04: forget when, but I'm really annoyed by those 20 forms on approaching.stanford.edu. Final training to the international math olympiad.
Jul'04: the olympiad!!! a great 10 days trip to Athens. meet some great friends from some countries. but the result was disappointing to me, although considered really well by my peers. I should've done better.
Aug'04: everyday wandering around my school, since I was asked to assist the school choir for a grand choir competition...
Sept'04: the choir competition! placed 7th among 20 participants. not too good result. this was because the pieces were too hard for the choir. flew to Stanford! attempting to purchase a mobile phone, but the coverage was really bad. I returned it to the provider, and had no time to buy another one.
Oct'04: getting a D+ in my IHUM midterm. That's all. oops, and making my debut as a piano player in Stanford church masses.
Nov'04: lots of work to do. especially during the end of the month.
Dec'04: finals. Doing really well. only 1 final, however. flying back to Indonesia, meeting some friends. they are still really funny. this short stay in Jakarta makes me realize that indonesian girls are simply the best want proofs? come to Indonesia. cross-country relationship is not good for your health, career, and prosperity. | | |
| I went to Semarang in 25th Dec 2005, and returned in the 30th. When I came home, I immediately tried to access my internet, but due to a virus attack, my OS couldn't work. So, I can't access my internet until TODAY. And because there was a massive natural disaster in Indonesia (the earthquake and the big wave), some friends of mine sent me e-mail, asking whether I'm all right... Well... I declare that I'm all right, I'm all right...
However, the people in Aceh are not all right. More than 100,000 died in Indonesia; this number almost accounts 50% of the total casualties in the world (particularly Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, and Maldives) caused by the earthquake.
The donation can't be distributed to the damaged area, due to transportation problems. Boxes of supplies mounted in some major ports, without enough fleet to ship them to Aceh, the most damaged area.
Jakarta (my hometown, the capital city of Indonesia) is still safe now, but weather forecasters have predicted a massive flood attacking Jakarta at the end of January 2005.
I'm flying back to Stanford in 5th January. I will miss the first two days of class. That's because I'm outta tickets. | | |
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