[Monthly Note] Reformat Everything

This time there arent a lot of things I’d say about what happened in my life, which clearly this time I really want to format my life situation. One of them is my proposal thesis which is rejected [again] but for the alternative; I should work for a raw idea from my lecture advice. And I must finish it before the end of year. First format.

[Photography] Eating Bench

Camera: Nokia E71
Location: Gedung Tarbiyah IAIN, Banjarmasin
Time: 23 Agustus 2010, 10.47 AM
Model: M. Fadhillah Arsyad (My Friend)
Edit: Yes, B & W!

[Thought] Why We Should Buy and Have Wrist Watch.

Many people assume the role of a wrist watch is no longer in need since its replaced with Smartphone. The clock features in smart phone is only aimed to show the time, while the wrist watch has more than that. So why today many people in my opinion and you should have wristwatches?

[Monthly Note] Proposal and Deadline.

To end this September, I proposed a new thesis proposal which is related into a literature, the deadline is about two months to start final hearing for my college study. So, this month I am gonna use it for learning intensively and mastering what I am going to research. The topic I take is Characterization of Warm Bodies novel that I just read half of it. Since I am fan of science-fiction and interested in Zombie stuffs, I think it won’t be a problem for me to do research.

[Photography] Rowing in Lok Baintan Floating Market

Camera: Nokia C3
Dimension: 1200 x 1600
Location: Lok Baintan, Indonesia.
Date: 23 March 2012
Edit: No

Visiting Bekantan in Pulau Kaget with Tina and Jan.

I always visit Floating Market often; could be Kuin Floating Market or Lok Baintan. But, in my current history exploring Banjarmasin, there is one thing that I never do. That is seeing Bekantan directly; an original fauna from South Borneo. Actually there is a Bekantan that you can see in the city Park, but it's just a statue. 

Last august, I've got a couchsurfing couple from Germany to host; Tina and Jan. When I read their request, it seem that they're really understanding about Couchsurfing concept which made me eager to host them.

[Monthly Note] Between August and September

Another month has passed in 2014, and in the next 4 months later I really should finish my thesis before the end of the year as fast as possible, recently my little bro has surpassed me in the college study by getting his first degree through D3 study. What can I say last month, I completed the short course because there was one subject that has not been completed yet. By the way, talking about the thesis, I think I will not write anything about how I get started. The point is, no more delaying nor writing plans on my monthly note, for the next three months i have to finish it, period.

[Photography] Hands Off

Camera : Lenovo A390
Place : Banjarmasin
Resolution : 2560 x 1920
Date : 16 August 2014 03.42 PM\
Edit : No

[Monthly Note] Ied Fitri and My Dream Girl

Recently, I saw a movie called Ruby Sparks, its about a novel writer who writes his dream girl when he is stuck in writing. Apparently, the girl lives and stays with him based on his writing.

[Photography] Barito Bridge in Black and White

Camera : Lenovo A390
Place : Barito Bridge, Banjarmasin
Resolution : 2560 x 1852
Taken : 20 June 2014 04.25 pm
Edit : No

[Gaming] Mortal Kombat Outworld Assasins (PC)

Mortal Kombat games are identified with it’s Fighting genre in first console generation such as SNES and Sega Megadrive, later this franchise develops its spin-off games for next generation console like Mortal Kombat Mythhologies Subzero and MK Special Force , this gaming review tries to cover a lot of ground a fanmade “beat en up” game that must try for every MK fans.

Wasaka Museum; South Kalimantan History Museums

Wasaka Museum is the only museum in the city of Banjarmasin, for those who want to visit this city. Its recently renovated by the Banjarmasin City Government. If you travel only in Banjarmasin, Museum Wasaka can be another option after visiting the Floating Market. It's located right next to the Banua Anyway bridge, Sei Lulut River. Last week i visited this museum and found some interesting lessons for learning a little bit history of Banjarmasin.

[Monthly Note] 23th Birthday in Fasting Month

It’s one year I get the age of 23, this year time goes fast. I remember last year I was celebrating my birthday by inviting my classmates. Moreover, it’s precisely one year I am being a single (actually not a big deal for me…) but i remember this day was the first time I had relationship with kind of a girl, but six days later in 6 th Juli, I decided to break-up because there was no romance chemistry between us. 

[Project] Seventhouses; House Music Album

In the mid-2014's, I re-released the album of electronic music project that already i planned in the end of 2013. This time the genre is House music that I worked on for six months. Although it's House music, the influence of the ten tracks on this album are likely from Ambient and Techno. What makes "Seventhouses" is different from other house music is the theme.

[Photography] Sightseeing Tower's Waterfront Banjarmasin

Camera: Lenovo A390
Resolution: 2560 x 1920
Location: Martapura Waterfront, Banjarmasin
Date: 30 Mei 2014, 17:34 pm
Edit: No

[Gaming] Choujin Sentai Jetman (NES)

Nintendo game with the concept of Power Rangers I used to play is Choujin Sentai Jetman. This game is not likely popular than its television series in 90s. One of the side-scrolling action game that has its own memory for me besides Super Mario Bros and I play this game recently after 15 years  with emulator just after finding my friend post its original background music on Facebook.

KWK (Culinary Area) Kayutangi ; A New Hangout Place in Banjarmasin.

Looking for a place to hang-out to spend time together with family or friends in Banjarmasin town for weekend has so many options to choose. One of them is KWK (Culinary Area) Kayutangi. This place is established in 8 January 2014, KWK is complete place to taste every cheap culinary but hygienic ranging from Banjarese cuisine to foreign cuisine. 

[Blog] The Benefits of Creating a Facebook Page for Blogger

Posting through blog to be read more broadly requires other promotional media such as posting on the forums or submitting the link in blogsphere (blogger community network). Social media is a powerful medium to reach readers and also anonymous online readers that able to follow latest news from blogs which is come from keyword searches on google.

[Monthly Note] Delaying and Future Plans

I passed last May with some important things that happened, first ; my thesis proposal rejection that was criticized by my supervisor lecture as she said my proposed thesis might be accepted 100 % if I attending IT major; because I discuss on my thesis about technical digital audio which I combine with English terms. Meanwhile, the college student thesis trial will start in a few days, so I guess its proper reason to delay the completion of my thesis (although the proposal not yet to be approved). If I finish it soon, later going to be misery because of the rush and deadline.

[Illustration] Justcheapearphonethings; Having Crappy Earphone

I almost a buy new earphone often every month which each weeks or even days later become damaged because of various kinds, whether its squashed, inadvertent cutted , or it's has cheap quality indeed so it does not last long time to wear.

[Photography] One Dead Lamp

Camera: Lenovo A390
Resolution: 2560 x 1920
Location: Pelaihari, Bukit Kayangan
Date: 30 April 2014, 5:57pm
Edit: No

[Gaming] Final Fantasy All The Braves; RPG for Brawl (Android)

Final Fantasy franchise has been quite common known type of RPG game lovers, although many elements of traditional RPG already disappeared in the latest games at high-end consoles. Square Enix is trying to develop another RPG game Final Fantasy; All the Braves for Android and iOS devices.

[File] Banjarmasin Tourism Profile on Mp3 Album

When I was strolling around in Banjarmasin local tourism to ask something, I saw a rack filled with a lot of booklet and leaflet about local tourism and history of Banjarmasin. I asked one of officer are those things for people and can be obtained for free? The officer said yes, I could get it all for free. 

How to Make Watermark Writing on Photos and Images in Photoscape

Writing or logos are often found on the photo or image that is usually characterized by the author as personal file or commercial purpose (eg; for sale). Giving a watermark on the image is common being made to protect the copyright in order not to be manipulated by others.

[Thought] Why I Make my own Music Discography?

Discography is a collection of music catalogue from few mini-album (EP) or full album (LP) which is released to annotate further explanation about the artist details and time when they were released. As a amateur music producer who has been making dozens of tracks , I feel that it is important thing about having a discography . At least if you already have 4-9 songs or so.

[Monthly Note] May-be Finishing my College Final Assignment?

Last month, i have hosted a very brave Russian girl name Susan when I had free time during my field work. My work planning seemed successful and this week, we are going finish the last assignment.

[Photography] Afternoon in Takisung Beach

Camera : Lenovo A390
Place : Takisung Beach, Pelaihari
Resolution : 2560 x 1920
Taken : 6 April 2014 06.17 am
Edit : No

[Gaming] Lsd Emulator; Lucid Dream Weird Simulator (PSX)

One of bizarre games that worth to try wasteing your time may be LSD Emulator, which in this game we will feel the "sensation" of Lucid Dreaming. Those who do not know Lucid dream you can ask what the heck is Lucid Dream? Lucid Dream is the activity where are in conscious of being in our dreams, essentially we can control our dreams and create their own scenarios.

[Monthly Note] Happy Voting New Regional Leaders!

April month has arrived, the legislative candidate euphoria election has taken over  around the country of Indonesia, the democracy party echoes at various media, and I am still working for my last college field work in a remote village. I will join to will help the election process with village officers where I live now.

[Project] HardbreakcOre; Experimental Beatbox meets Breakcore

Before launching for the next tracks compilation called album, I released a single track from one of ny untouched music projects. I found a file named "beatbox" that contains a drumkit beatbox that I recorded by using cheap microphone. Beside of that, there are two weird samples, uncleared growling and random motorcycle engine from my voice.

[Illustration] Living on Video Games

How does it look like if our pictures turn into video games? I edited my pictures with some video games element. I used my old pictures with video games angle and combined by cropped game screenshots by using photoshop. Here are five works I've done.

[Photography] Queuing to Recite the Koran

Camera : Lenovo A390
Place : TPA Baiturahman, Desa Ambungan
Resolution : 2560 x 1920
Taken : 2 April 2014 14.55
Edit : Yes

[Interview] Swanang; Local Banjar Hiphop Movement

Acculturation modern music with traditional art is becoming increasingly common in the era of globalization. Almost arguably, boundaries between traditional culture and the movement for pack it into a more modern done by some people who are struggling in the field, but it is also from the artists who really dedicate themselves to show their local culture with modern elements is little because it is out of line.

[Monthly Note] It's FWE (Field Work Experience) Time!

This month I will live in a village which I must stay for my FWE for my last college task before writing a thesis. The place is called Ambungan, somewhere in Pelaihari city. 50km away from capital city of Banjarmasin . For two months, I will devote ourselves there with 4 students where I will be a leader for the group. 

[Project] The Making of "Departure" Music Video

"Departure" is my first music video I've created for one of my music works. It's recorded with my phone Lenovo A690 and edited with Sony Vegas for six hours editing process. The shooting was sudden and unscripted, located on Kuin River when I've accompanied Wojtek to visit Floating Market. Thanks to him, you deserve a credit :).

[Photography] Capturing Floating Market Moment

Camera : Lenovo A390
Place : Kuin Floating Market, Banjarmasin
Resolution : 1920 x 2560
Taken : 23 Januari 2014 06.17 am
Edit : No

[Gaming] Flappy Bird; What remains of the bird? (Android)

Flappy Bird enthusiasm for the game is already over, but from the mini-game, there are some notes that I took from a simple game that said it is rip-off of the previous Android games. Despite this original game or just pirated. Enthusiastic fans that emerged is the indicator of the success of the game Flappy Bird.

Smart Launcher Pro; The Most Lightest and Quickest Android Theme

Feel bored tweaking your Android visual theme with bunch of launchers that make your handheld system become more heavy and heavier, aside you prefer functionality and efficiency in the using your handheld for quick access into particular applications. Some launchers may very light in first, but not I am sure it will load more process if you keep it for long time due adding more apps and games.

How to make Your Own Image Macro with Photoscape

In Internet there are many generator websites scattered that automatically making Image Macro Meme, And the how to make it inmanual way. Simply we can use Photoscape to make our own image macro meme. An image macro meme is typically consist of basic photo and caption text with two rows of words or sentences.

[Interview] Levi Nawawi @_ElNoise ; West Borneo Experimental Drum and Bass Artist

Bass music sounds unpopular among Indonesian electronic music except what we call it "dubstep" and "drum and bass" which both recently got its popularity in most of big cities. And here in Borneo, there are some producers who produce this kind of music.

[Blog] 5 Considerations in Blog Monetization

Every bloggers have their own intentions in building the their blog, ranging from personal purposes such as storing personal writing or express their opinions or make a blog as money maker.

[Monthly Note] Reblogization on Februari

It's finally over, my college studies is almost over. I am in the end of 8th semester and going to work on my thesis. I know this blog is not really well developed. I have reasons for it, one of them. I took job part-time as cat guardian (haha); nanny for expensive cats.

[Photography] Dancing in Bali Strait

Camera : Lenovo A390
Place : Bali Strait, Banyuwangi
Resolution : 1920 x 2560
Taken : 2 December 2013 04.39 pm
Edit : No

Rotation Locker; Lock Your Android Screen Orientation

Its started when I saw my friend handheld device screen is always locked in landscape mode, I wonder why is it not featured on every Ice Cream Sandwich operating system phone? He said that he was using a simple application to lock the screen orientation permanently.

Most of owners of standard-sized android phone like me, typing long writing (for example blogging) is better using landscape orientation rather than portrait orientation, because portrait mode in my opinion is more convenient to send short messages like texting, e-mail and messenger.

Adding Metadata Info into Image File

In addition to the conventional naming files into image, perhaps not many know that the image files such as pictures can be given any information inside the file with metadata tag. A simple example is, the image file name can be changed by inserting some information, for example as shown below.

[Interview] Batu_berguling; Reviving Chiptune in South Borneo

 Chiptune (8bit) is familiar and related into old-school video game culture especially for kids in late 80s. It has own  segregate fans in music scene, and Indonesia have its movement for a long time since Internet was introduced to spread between local musician and fans. As well as like big cities, South Borneo had one of the pioneer who want to introduce chiptune in this region, we will discuss with Batu_berguling; one of local artist who plays and produces chiptune in South Borneo.

Personal Review Lenovo A390 Android

It has been almost half a year I bought Lenovo A390 hp, my fifth phone after Nokia , BlackBerry , and China phone cell. The price is 1.3 million rupiah included case (130$). After looking around for best Android phone that is good for gaming and office (typing, calculating,and browsing ) with a budget around one millions in local phone stores.

[Monthly Note] Januari Resolution

And finally we arrive at 2014 and passed 2013. In this new year's hype. I'd like to write my personal resolution, looking back last year, my last resolution was about great activities that I would do.