Believe in Cloud

Let’s just say that you’re a VIP at your company. All decision in the company depends on you coz you’re the boss. Then in developing your company, you must negotiate with the other companies so you should leave your building often. To negotiate, you must bring your data with you. But your staff who’s running the office while you’re leaving, needs the data, too. How do you solve this?

Once, hard and flash discs solve the problem. When static discs cannot help storing our plenty bytes, the launching of portable disc seems answer the question. Till then a new problem comes, who’s gonna hold the disk, if it’s not just needed by one staff or two, but even hundreds employees, including even your clients?

This is where cloud computing works to make us perform more efficiently and effectively. The essence is no more need to us to store our data in the office PC, but we keep it in internet in a virtual drive. While we just keep it for certain people that we’ve informed, to open the file. It assumes that the solution is more efficient, coz saving memories in our wares.

Example:
I have data of 100 pregnant women with ovarian cysts. I must capture its sonograph from all sides of view, so I will need plenty images. If each patient’s got four images in big resolution, while I’ve got 100 patients, then how many flash discs should I provide to store the data?

Then if I’m not the only researcher at school, but there are about an hundred other doctor researchers, so how many racks should be provided to keep flash disc filled with our patients’ images?
The question is, if there are a lotta racks in the office, how much should we prepare to keep preventing rats sneak into the office and pee on our discs?

Storing in virtual drive, summary of cloud-based computing, is also intended to make more people use our data. Example, if another doctor wants to analyze my cyst pregnant patients, but it takes too much bill to fly to Surabaya just for crawling in my external hard discs, then he can access my data in virtual drive.

Perhaps even not just colleagues who can use this, but the patients also can. Such as if the cyst patient wanna know her cyst development, is it still physiologic or has already enlarged, but she can’t visit me coz she’s speching on Romania.
So she can ask the doctor in Romania to evaluate her cyst, then she can upload her latest cyst into any application on internet, on an accessable address for me. Then my colleagues and me still can analyze her cyst and the patient can observate her own disease while her daily work still runs in.

You can make your own example.

When my hunk told me this concept, I had another thing on my mind.

Allright, I put some file of mine in somewhere in internet. But what if anybody hack my file and ruin it? If the file is crashed, it will be impossible to me to use it anymore. What a sh*tty if we keep our files on cloud just for saving discs, but it ends with disappearance..

Somebody must explain to me how to keep security in cloud-based computation. So we can still believe in cloud.

And by the way, why should the IT geeks name it cloud computing? Since when did they associate the internet with cloud?

*by staring at rolling cloud on Surabaya sky*
*I think it’s gonna rain*
*Why is it still hot in Surabaya though it’s gonna rain?*
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Greens Around Memoirs of Majapahit

They seem standing quiet and fine, those temples, while the beautiful and careful-handed green garden lie around them. Though lotta local tourist come to watch them all days, but these temples of Mojopahit remain looking clean and sophisticated, no trash spread around and the garden around seem pretty. We find grasses and trees are cut perfectly, some of them are cut forming certain objects such as sofa, stupa, and even helicopters.

Gapura Bajang Ratu. It was trusted that the temple was named because Jayanegara, one of Majapahit king has fallen from the temple and made him disabled. Then the temple was devoted to Jayanegara, which then known as Bajang Ratu (English: disable king). Jayanegara was also buried around here, but his cemetery was destroyed when Mojopahit kingdom was striked. Today there was nothing left from Jayanegara in this place, even his tomb, except the gate where he fell from.

These temples lie in Trowulan, a district in Mojokerto regency, about 90 minutes driving southwest from Surabaya, Indonesia. The district has been a very important site in Indonesian history, coz this is the place where the capital city of Mojopahit kingdom belonged. Mojopahit was noted as one of the biggest kingdom in Asia about 10 centuries ago, where the territory lied from Indonesian territory to a place which today called Cambodia.

Candi Tikus. Actually nobody knows the real name of the temple. The archeological site was buried long time after Mojopahit kingdom fell down, and the area has turned into large farm. Once upon a time rats strike the farm, and the farmers must destroy the farm to eradicate those rodents. When they excavated the farm, instead finding rats nest, they found the ancient architecural site of Majapahit. Then the place is called as Candi Tikus (English: Rats Temple).

There are about a dozen temples of Mojopahit spread in Trowulan, but I just visited three of them. These temples spread in distance of 10 minutes driving, each stand on a garden which is just like two or three soccer fields become one. Each gardens are handled sophisticatedly by tourism board of Mojokerto, make me feel when I visited them like visiting city parks, instead coming into ancient boring statues.

Today was holiday when I got there, but they weren’t very crowded place. The small parks were just visited by about ten small families or couples, including me and my hunk. Each temple was placed board written “Dilarang naik ke candi” (English: Stepping into temple is forbidden).

Candi Brahu. When I walked here, I was a little disappointed coz I watched that the top of the temple was patent, not like cone, like other temples. But then I realized that the form was not patent, but rounded, and that the characteristic form of Buddhism. The Brahu Temple perhaps is the authentic evidence that Majapahit kingdom is an original Buddhism kingdom, a sign that Buddhism has been a top religion in Indonesia exceeding other beliefs.

I notice that the tourists mostly remain Mojokerto inhabitants itself. My hunk was confused to park his car, coz we didn’t find any parking lot though the ticket was written that they charge IDR 3k for each car parking and 5k for bus. The tourism stakeholder Mojokerto does not seem anticipate these temples as tourism object for tourists from outer city.

No charge for tourists walk by into these temple park, but they were expected by local staffs to drop cents on the gate. This is why I was amazed about these temples, coz I wonder how many budget that the Mojokerto stakeholder must spend to maintain the temples and the beautiful gardens around if there is no legal income from tourists.

Walking around these temples feels like walking to city park, made in Mojokerto.

This Place is Swarming

It was almost 10 minutes that we took to get into parking building in a great mall in Surabaya. As usual at Sunday, the mall was swarming and almost the half town piled up there. Lotta visitors, lotta cars, traffic jam on the main entrance. My hunk struggled with the jam, his legs stepped among brake pedal and gas pedal, while his ears tried to keep listening to my chit chat.

I never drive, I always give all of ride things to him. He is the one who takes battle with the jam and the parking, I never care about it. So in the hectic situation as this, I always try to keep his mood well, not down.

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Letter from Grandpa

Because internet is the best place for me to keep documents.

Mom and my sister found this letter when they were housekeeping today. Written in 1998, I was 16 and my sister (Heidy, mentioned in the letter) was 13. Grandpa seemed aware that his handwriting was too sophisticated to read, so he wrote to us by type machine. It was a short letter, he just wanted to thank us coz we had sent him a birthday card a few days before (my parents always taught us to send birthday cards to our grandpas and grandmas annually).

I’ve even got over the letter.

Thank you, Grandpa, to have taught me to write letters as media for expressing my feelings. Thank you to have spent your time for buying stamps and throwing a letter into mailbox just to thank me and my sister.

Beauty Hills, actually is translation for Bukit Indah, a district in Pamulang, border of Tangerang-Jakarta, where my Grandpa lived. Grandpa died in 2003 due to heart disease.

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The Way You Abuse Your Bed

If you wanna sleep tight, put these things away from your bed: – cellphone
- working sheets
- laptop

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12-12-12 is My Lucky Day!

They told us that 121212 is the end of days.

So, considering the probability that it would be the last day for me for shopping, I went to a mall at my town to buy a body butter. Maybe this is the last day that I can buy a butter, so why should I miss the chance?

The truth then, I didn’t just buy a body butter, I also purchase a perfume and a bottle of eau de toilette. Coz they put discount 25 percents

And when I got to the exit door, I found lotta people stand queuing for a small desk. I asked the staff why those people queued. Then she said, they queued for free soft drink. Today is 12-12-12, so the mall gave 3 litres soft drink for free, for first 1.212 shoppers who shopped ever since 12.12 PM and must spend at least IDR 120k.

I looked at my perfume struck, of course I had spent more than IDR 200k!

So I went home from the mall, with new perfume, new body butter, new eau de toilette, and three free bottles of soft drink!

This is 6.30 PM, I haven’t seen any sign of armageddon. But I don’t think 12-12-12 is end of days. 12-12-12 is my lucky day. Yippie!

Being happy is simple.
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The Burnt Out Phenomenon

Happy of being retired.
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It was ambition that brings out lotta girls to be doctor about 30 years ago, but when the ambition was beaten by dissatisfaction of reward, the ambition turns into boredom and carry them into early retirement.

The lecture of a Dutch professor in my class today figures how hard to find old doctors who still have willing to go to office and work. The problem is, 50 percents of them are women, and these female doctors reach dissatisfaction about their reward at age of fifties. This is the age when lots of them feel only will work about three days a week, eight hours a day, and rest of the week is just gonna be spent at home, turn into their traditional role as mothers or even grannies.

Then it turns out to a big question, where has the old ambition gone? Where is the ideology of rescuing people, beating the disease, and curing the sufferers that’s been hanging in their minds years ago? The answer is, the ambition has been beaten by the reality that their works are not paid enough by their boss. Statistic shows that in Holland, there are just about 3-6 doctors in every 1000 m2 area, doctor must work until age of 65, and the pension fund is paid to those retires by share. You can imagine if lotta people retired in your age, then today Holland has been dealing with recession ever since recent 10 years, that means you must share the pension fund with lotta people. If you can consider that your pension share can’t balance your pension budget, then you find out that your job isn’t as fun as it used to be, then the best strategy you can perform is apply your retirement letter earlier. That’s why these ladies wanna retire by age of 50-55, 10 years earlier than the definite retirement age, and coz about 50% female doctors do this nowadays, they call it “burnt-out”.

Most of Dutch doctors still believe that old recall of being a traditional wife is behind this burnt-out phenomenon. But I still consider that feminisation plays a bigger role. These ladies are just dissatisfied of their reward that they have gained.

Actually, it makes an additional issue, coz it will make women are hard to be employed. Not just doctors, but also in other field. Women will be granted as lousy coz they will hide behind the reason of caring their children and hubbies. Women will be accused that they can’t work toughly coz they are susceptible for menopause, menstrual pain, or even just a pregnancy. It will make women hard to get job coz in lotta situations it has been proven that women can’t be faith into their work (read: the trust that given to them).

I believe that girls like us must know the meaning of faith and which way that we will bring our faith to, to our family or to our work. If you have stated yourself to be a full-time mom someday, then never apply yourself to any job vacancies coz you’ll never be able to perform your job excellently. But if you have already had a job and then you raise a family, you have responsibility to solve your job well until the time that you have settled in. Means, early retirement shouldn’t be in your mind. Remember how many other people in the world still suffer from unemployed and dying to have just a small job for earn a money.

Thanking, is supposed to be part of our daily life. And in a big scale, it’s supposed to prevent Holland from the burnt out phenomenon.