2007:archived

Like last year, here goes the highlight of 2007:

popping thoughts

So uh, I started tumblelogging on animadesign with my own theme. Been posting some snapshots and short thoughts there lately. Hopefully I will be able to start articles about Wordpress there when time permits.

On 2007, I made a lot of friends online, I never expected that the blogosphere could be something like this. Several times I met fellow bloggers offline and it was fun with you guys, looking forward for the meetings to come.

This year has also been a blossoming year for my relationship with girlfriend. I really do cherish every moment with her so now we know each other better. Today is our first anniversary of many to come. Thanks for holding on, dear.

Expo on Daryna Mint

On more geeky section, this year I managed to get a hold on a Powerbook G4 and got (a little) familiar with Tiger. I also bought a new HP notebook and installed different operating systems on it, finally I came to realization that I still can’t get off of Windows XP and I’m now using Linux Mint as alternative OS.

And I have finished some clients’ website using Wordpress, Dental was right, Wordpress is the solution for small to mid scale website development on many purposes. Yes, I do take freelance jobs to develop websites even though our homepage is still not completed yet (that one goes into the todo list)

At this point, I start to consider a freer path than sitting here nine to five working with a PMA. But nah, I’ll get to it later. Still not ready now.

my old house

And oh, I moved house on 25th, still reorganizing stuffs at the new place now. This year-end sure is the most thrilling one so far thanks to the moving. I had to do a lot of things on really limited time but I think I handle it pretty well.

Well that sums up everything that happened to me this year. Overall, I’m happy with my achievement and I do sincerely (and naively) hope that when 2008 hits the calendar there’s a lot of good things God have in store for all of us.

Cheers and see ya on 2008!

December 31st, 2007. Interesting, life log, neighborhood. 8 Comments

Year-end’s Rainhard

It’s been raining the past four days here, Bali is wet finally.

I must say I’m not a big fan of rain from a long time ago. So when I get that phone call early morning saying that my house is flooded knee high, you can say I’m trying too hard not to swear to it. I swore silently, in vain.

120 minutes riding in heavy rain and flooded Kuta road almost made me snap out. If you guys have been to Kuta, imagine the roads are filled with water almost knee high. I’m not exaggerating, it was literally knee high. Pick any normal Indonesian knee and measure it if you want to be precise.

a road flooded in Kuta
This picture is yesterday, not as bad as it was on 25th

When I got home everything was wet. Water got in every single room, leaving trails on the wall of how high it was. We tried to lift everything up as high as we could, but alas, a lot of things was soaked in water. Thankfully all electronic and household appliances are saved.

We had to move.

December 27th, 2007. life log. 7 Comments

Dear Dad,
Ever since I’m a little boy, I have known that we were going to have to leave. Doesn’t matter when or to where, we have to.

Was my home

I just did not expect it to be now. Do you think I’m ready?

Your son who miss you now more than ever.

December 26th, 2007. Short, Snapshots, life log. 3 Comments