Kuliah Perdana
Posted at 01:19 PM

Here are the tips from Mr Vijay Motwani (SAP consulting director) for IT development in Indonesia
1. Increase your national IT graduate and make them able to speak English fluently.
2. Get your companies CMM (Capability Maturity Model) level high, hopefully in the fifth level.
3. Get support from many parties such as government with strong IT regulations and low price books, Telecommunication Company with low cost connections, so on and so forth.

Addition (by me)
4. Get yourself certified

If you can master computer science, why don’t you master English as well?

Temporal staying in Singapore
Posted at 06:33 PM in Jalan Jalan

For Indonesians who have limited budget to stay for less than a week in Singapore may choose Lucky Plaza apartment for temporal staying. The rates are vary from SGD$40 - SGD$100 (SGD $1= IDR 5700 – IDR 5800). Above SGD$80, usually the room is facilitated with the bathroom inside. The rate SGD$40 would have one single bed, SGD $50 one queen bed size, SGD $55 one queen and one single bed. Even if you come with three persons, the SGD $70 room is enough because it has two queen bed sizes. All rooms are equipped with television inside. Lucky Plaza has 30 storey. From the first floor to the 7^th floor is used for shopping center and the rest for apartment (cmiiw).

Lucky plaza Apartment taken from opposite direction

Apartment storey above the shopping center

The important thing is many Indonesians live there. You don’t have to worry even if your English is poor. Just ask them if you’re obscured about the transportation, finding halal food, and so on. Sometimes in the lift, you’ll hear several persons talk in Bahasa Indonesia, and sometimes they accost and smile at you asking “dari mana? “ “ada acara disingapur?”. You’ll find more intense friendly relationship among Indonesian here than in Indonesia.

It’s easy to find Indonesian food in this apartment. You can go down to third floor for ayam bakar ojolali, fourth floor to request ayam penyet in restoran Surabaya, and … sorry I forgot the others. I usually had my lunch and dinner at Ayam Bakar ojolali. Taking Ayam Bakar with tea will cost you SGD $6.5. Compared to Ayam Bakar in Indonesia, Ayam Bakar in Singapore has bigger chest flesh and surely satisfies your starving tummy.

Clear map for travellers placed near in every underway passage

Hey how about the location? I can say it’s very strategic. It takes only five minutes from MRT station and most importantly it’s located at Orchad road, the most well known shopping center road in Singapore. Yeah… it saves your shopping time and very convenient for leisure walk.

Orchard's sidewalk in the morning. Many birds occupied the empty sidewalk.

Orchard's sidewalk in the evening.

During my staying, there was a Lion dance competition in front of Ngee Ann city building. People all together was watching the Lion dancing and jumping from one pair pile to another higher pair pile. The bad point is that the clatter sound which accompanying the lion was too loud and had just trembled my chest when I was stepping closer to the show. Even from 20^th floor of my apartment, the sound was still loud and really disrupted my sleeping time.

The Lion was trying to jump from piles to piles

People crowd watching the lion attraction

The lion competition scene from my 20^th floor of Lucky Plaza Apartment

See my lion dance recording here

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I write some of apartment owners' number. I hope, it might help : lily,Hp:65-900 30863, phone:65-67329876(LT 25&21), Susan Pang Hp:65-92966595, phone:65-683533593 (Lt13)

Ilmu
Posted at 10:55 AM

Orang yang mengetahui ilmu akan kalah oleh orang yang menyenangi ilmu
Orang yang menyenangi ilmu akan kalah oleh orang yang menghayati ilmu

Exhausted
Posted at 05:52 PM in Jalan Jalan

Perhaps exhausted is the right word to reflect what I feel on my first day in Singapore. Yeah tired coz I carried a non-wheeled baggage from airport to apartment and it was really heavy to lift and hold four days clothes, books and other things during walking.

Ok here’s the story…

We arrived at terminal 1 of changi Airport and then we went to terminal 2 using skytrain. Skytrain is a free airport transfer from terminal 2 to terminal 1, vice versa. Changi MRT (Mass Rapid Transfer) train station resides in terminal 2, so you have to use skytrain or walking to terminal 2 if your position is still in terminal 1.

Waiting for skytrain

MRT network is a convenient, quick way of getting around much of the island. If this is your first time using MRT and you don’t have any ezlink card with you, don’t worry, just go to the ticket office and withdraw SGD 15 from your pocket for standard ticket. You’ll have one ezlink card consisting of SGD 3 refundable travel deposit, a SGD 5 refundable card cost and a minimum travel SGD 7.

ezlink card

This card is also valid on bus service operated by the SBS transit and the TIBS. If your ezlink stored value is low (because of your frequent travel), you can add the value (minimum SGD 10) through General Ticketing Machine (GTM) in every MRT station


General Ticketing Machine

How to use the card? Just tap the card to the tapping machine before enter the inner side of station (what is this tapping machine called?).

Tapping machine

There are two types of train station, subway and non subway station. For subway, the platform gap is shielded by firm glass and iron skeleton while for non subway station the gap only ‘shielded’ by strict rules.

Glass shield

What kind of the rules? Just see the picture below

'Rules' board

You’ll be fined SGD 500 for trespassing the yellow line and SGD 5000 for stepping on the track. Not only that, you’re also forbidden smoking and eating at the station. Quite ‘nice’ isn’t? If Indonesia also has such rules, I don’t know how many people, especially singing beggar and peddler, will be caught.

MRT is a handy transportation to visit interesting sites in Singapore. Approximately every 5-6 minutes MRT arrives to take the passenger. During waiting for MRT, you can see a time counter near the signboard which counting down MRT’s arrival in minutes/seconds. Moreover, there is also automatic voice informing you about MRT and others. Ok stop comparing it with KRL Indonesian train… Last days (Saturday, 16:09:2006 15:30) I got to wait KRL for one hour and a half at Bogor station. It’s quite a culture shock…hehehe welcome back to Indonesia’s daily hard life.

It’s truly easy to go around Singapore. Many maps are placed near underpass and MRT station which will give you a hint if you are going astray. Perhaps only little sweats would moisten your shirt from walking around because inside the MRT and all underway passages which connect station to the mall are equipped with air conditioner. There are also fast escalators for passenger transfers from station to other location. From what I saw, MRT doesn’t use energy from electrical cable above its roof cover. No need pillars and complex series cable above the air. I think this kind of way is more secured than using electrical cable through pillars just like KRL Indonesia’s do.

Ok, back to my story…

That time, we didn’t know where to stay. It’s not because we didn’t know the location, but it’s mostly because too many place options to stay in Singapore… yup, we were confused, blurred … etc. After thinking and arguing, we decided to go to lucky plaza apartment which recommended by our mate. Fortunately I brought the apartment owner name card and Rizal brought his PDA installed with Singapore map software. This software is really fascinating. You can search by nearest path to your destination location along with its recommended transportation.

Several times we went astray and then stop to see the PDA again. We walked back and forth, while holding baggage, to find Lucky Plaza. Exhausted, fatigue, starved… etc were all we got until we finally discover the Lucky Plaza building. Thanks god… we found the building and then what… and then accidentally we saw Indonesian brand Ayam Bakar Ojolali signboard from sidewalk …

Insya Allah to be continued

Lagu Semangat
Posted at 03:10 PM

Akhir2 ini saya suka dengerin nasyid donlotan dari anpratomo, gimilham, ahas, dan dpracpt. Lumayan ampuh buat ngusir ngantuk pas siang2 bolong. .dan yang penting bisa bikin tambah semangaaa..at. Sebenarnya nasyid penuh semangat macem gini lebih saya sukai daripada nasyid2 malaysia yang berirama ala westlife. Hehe.. terima kasih untuk para multipliers yang udah nyedian lagu2 semangat


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