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Sketch Your Emotion!

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 03:06:00 +0000

This time the simple pictures really help me to express my emotion. Well, do you think they are too simple? Check them out!

Enjoy...

Hey there, little girl...

Miss you so bad...

Sad but true....

I am here for you...

Cracked!

Do you want to be with mommy?

You gotta choose!

Yeah!

Lets Cartoonize this world!

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 02:51:00 +0000

Hey there!

It's been a long long time since I wrote something here. Man, I have a new hobby now...well, perhaps it isn't really a hobby actually, but something that I mostly do when I've got something in my mind. Recently I tend to express my ideas and thoughts through pictures, kind of doing the cartoon way. I'm not a cartoonist, but I try to draw pictures that at least speak in the cartoon language. So here are some of my pics....Hope I can improve my skills in drawing cartoons.

Enjoy!

The TransJakarta Passenger

When You get into the Crossroad...

This is my fight!

I want it so bad!

Listen....

Just walk, folks.....

The Lawless Roads

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000

Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, is indeed a very crowded city. If you have ever gone to this metropolis, you would easily find out that it is true.

One thing for sure, Jakarta was notoriously known for its traffic jam. Thousands of cars and motorcycles occupied the city’s roads every day.

The sad thing about it was that all of those people using their vehicles, showed the tendency of traffic rules ignorant. Well, not all of them, but yes, most of them did. So, quickly, the roads were becoming more like the lawless roads.

Here are some photos that depict traffic rule violations, done by motorcyclist. I show these pictures because I’m also a biker and I feel terrible about this phenomena.

Let them be saved!

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:12:00 +0000

>>Biarkanlah Anak-anak itu Selamat…<<

Apakah kita pernah menyadari bahwa kita, baik sebagai orang tua ataupun orang yang sudah lebih dewasa, seringkali melakukan hal-hal yang dapat membahayakan nyawa anak-anak, pada saat kita berada di jalan?

Mungkin hal-hal tersebut kita anggap remeh, tapi sebenarnya mengandung potensi bahaya yang dapat mengancam keselamatan anak-anak kita.

Meskipun peringatan Hari Anak Internasional, yang jatuh pada setiap tanggal 1 Juni masih belum tiba, kali ini saya ingin mengingatkan hal-hal yang sering luput dari perhatian kita, terutama yang ada hubungannya dengan keselamatan di jalan raya.

# Menggandeng anak di posisi yang salah saat berjalan di pinggir jalan

Pernahkah kita memperhatikan cara kita atau orang lain saat berjalan searah dengan arah lalu-lintas bersama anaknya di pinggir jalan raya? Kita semua tahu bahwa negara kita menganut sistem lalu lintas seperti di negara Inggris, yaitu lalu-lintas berada di sebelah kiri. Namun tak jarang kita jumpai, orang tua yang menggandeng anaknya dengan posisi yang tidak tepat. Orang tua justru berada di sisi kiri anaknya, sementara si anak ada di samping kanan orang tua. Kondisi seperti ini sebenarnya riskan, karena dengan anak berada di sisi kanan orang tua, mereka berada dalam posisi yang tidak aman. Dengan mudahnya mereka bisa tersambar kendaraan yang melaju dari arah belakang. Apalagi kalau anak-anak itu masih berusia berusia balita, karena mereka belum memiliki kewaspadaan dan kesadaran akan bahaya-bahaya yang mungkin mengancam di jalan. Bahkan tak jarang mereka melakukan hal-hal yang tak terduga, seperti misalnya melepaskan pegangan dari tangan orang tua dan bahkan sengaja berjalan cenderung ke tengah jalan.
Oleh karena itu, sangatlah penting bagi orang tua untuk selalu waspada dan waspada, ketika berjalan menggandeng anaknya di pinggir jalan. Usahakan agar anak yang digandeng berada dalam posisi yang relatif lebih aman. Perhatikan juga kecenderungan tingkah laku anak, agar orang tua lebih siap mengantisipasi polah mereka yang kadang tak terduga.

# Membiarkan anak-anak bermain sendirian di tepian jalan tanpa pengawasan

Seringkali di daerah pemukiman yang dekat dengan jalan raya, terlihat banyak anak yang bermain dengan bebas. Sayangnya seringkali juga mereka bermain tanpa ada pengawasan sama sekali dari orang yang lebih tua. Anak-anak yang berusia di atas 10 tahun mungkin sudah lebih memiliki pemahaman akan bahayanya bermain di tepi jalan, terutama jalan-jalan utama yang dilalui banyak kendaraan. Namun sekali lagi, anak-anak usia balita belum memiliki kesadaran semacam itu. Bagi mereka, berlari-larian di tepi jalan dan tempat terbuka semacam itu adalah suatu hal yang sangat menyenangkan. Tetapi kenyataannya, hal ini kerap menjadi sumber bahaya baik bagi mereka ataupun buat orang lain. Gerakan tiba-tiba dan respon yang tak dapat diduga dari anak-anak tersebut sangat menyulitkan bagi pengendara kendaraan yang melintas di jalan itu. Bahkan pada saat kecepatan kendaraan tak kencang pun, hal ini tetap dapat memberikan ancaman bagi keselamatan anak-anak itu. Tak jarang pengendara sudah memperlambat kendaraannya, namun ketika ada anak yang tiba-tiba melintasi jalan, tabrakan tak dapat dihindari. Dalam hal ini, sang pengendara kerap kali menjadi kambing hitamnya, padahal kesalahan bukan sepenuhnya dari pihak pengendara. Menghindari anak kecil yang tiba-tiba melintas di jalan bukanlah sesuatu yang mudah untuk dilakukan, karena kita tak bisa menebak reaksi mereka. Untuk hal ini, adalah sangat bijaksana bila orang tua atau orang yang lebih dewasa, tetap waspada dan memberi perhatian selama anak-anak itu bermain di pinggir jalan. Tak salah juga bila orang tua mulai memberikan pemahaman dan melatih anak-anak yang sudah lebih besar, untuk senantiasa berhati-hati bila bermain di pinggir jalan.

# Memboncengkan anak kecil dengan posisi duduk di depan pengendara sepeda motor

Tak dapat dipungkiri, sepeda motor telah menjadi alat transportasi yang murah dan cepat bagi banyak orang, tak terkecuali bagi keluarga-keluarga kelas menengah ke bawah. Sayangnya masih banyak orang yang masih belum paham betul cara penggunaan sepeda motor ini, terutama berkaitan dengan jumlah penumpang yang dapat diangkut. Sepeda motor pada prinsipnya hanya dapat mengangkut 2 orang dewasa. Namun pada kenyataannya, di Indonesia ini sepeda motor sering digunakan untuk mengangkut lebih dari 2 orang, termasuk juga anak kecil. Anak kecil yang diboncengkan di sepeda motor biasanya diposisikan di depan pengendara. Alasannya tentu beragam, ada yang berpendapat, posisi depan lebih menyenangkan bagi anak, karena dapat melihat keadaan sekeliling, ada juga yang merasa sesak jika anak diapit di tengah, antara pengendara dan penumpang yang dibonceng. Apapun itu, sebenarnya posisi seperti itu tidak menguntungkan bagi anak. Posisi duduk di depan pengendara membuat si anak menjadi semacam “tameng” bagi pengendara tersebut. Terpaan angin secara langsung dapat membuat anak kesulitan bernafas, bahkan juga dapat memicu terjadinya penyakit paru-paru basah. Solusinya tentu saja dengan tidak mendudukkan anak di depan pengendara. Posisi yang relatif lebih aman dan disarankan adalah dengan menempatkan si anak di antara pengendara dan pembonceng. Apabila memungkinkan, dudukkan anak dengan posisi menghadap ke belakang, karena dengan posisi ini, sang pembonceng tetap dapat memantau kondisi anak dengan lebih cermat. Posisi menghadap ke depan seringkali membuat anak kesulitan bernafas, karena terpaan angin yang terlampau kencang. Bila memang jumlah anak lebih dari satu, mungkin lebih bijaksana untuk menggunakan alat transportasi lain selain sepeda motor, misalnya dengan menggunakan angkutan umum. Karena bagaimanapun, sebenarnya sepeda motor dirancang hanya untuk 2 penumpang, yaitu pengendara dan pembonceng. Daripada mengorbankan seluruh keluarga, bukankah lebih bijaksana bila kita mengorbankan sedikit uang untuk beralih ke angkutan umum, asalkan anak-anak bisa bepergian dengan lebih nyaman?

# Membiarkan anak berdiri di motor saat berboncengan

Saya yakin pemandangan seperti ini sering kita lihat di jalanan. Sang anak dibiarkan berdiri di antara bapak dan ibunya. Bahkan sang anak tak mengenakan helm, sementara bapak ibunya menggunakan peralatan berkendara yang lengkap. Ada yang beralasan bahwa dengan posisi berdiri, anak-anak lebih mudah untuk melihat-lihat keadaan sekitar, dan inilah yang sangat menyenangkan bagi mereka. Namun apakah memang demikian adanya? Pernahkah Anda sadari bahwa sepeda motor itu adalah sebuah alat transportasi yang sangat tidak stabil, karena hanya ditopang oleh 2 roda, dan itupun bidang kontak antara ban dan jalanan hanya sekian centimeter persegi? Oleh karena itu, gerakan tiba-tiba, ataupun perpindahan titik keseimbangan dapat mempengaruhi gerak sepeda motor tersebut. Dalam kasus ini, anak yang dibiarkan berdiri, tentu akan mengubah pusat keseimbangan keseluruhan antara motor dan pengendara/penumpangnya. Motor akan menjadi sangat tidak stabil, apalagi ketika diajak menikung. Sang anak bisa saja terlempar ketika menikung, atau ketika motor direm mendadak. Pernah saya lihat ada satu keluarga berisi 4 orang, terdiri dari ayah, ibu dan 2 orang anak, yang sedang mengendarai sepeda motor. Anak yang pertama didudukkan di depan ayahnya, sedangkan anak yang ke dua dibiarkan berdiri di antara ayah dan ibunya, tanpa menggunakan helm. Ketika melintasi sebuah gang kecil, ada semacam gawang pintu besi di mulut gang itu. Sang anak hampir saja terantuk gawang , dan celakanya, bahkan sang ayah pun seolah tak paham kalau anaknya bisa terantuk gawang. Untung saja tepat di gawang itu, ada cekungan yang membuat motor menjadi sedikit lebih rendah dari pada gawangnya, dan si anak terhindar dari benturan. Bukankah sebenarnya itu adalah sebuah contoh kecerobohan dan ketidakpedulian terhadap keselamatan di jalan? Untuk kasus seperti ini, caranya hanya ada satu : JANGAN sekali-sekali membiarkan anak berdiri di atas motor! Lebih baik beri pengertian kepada anak, bahwa posisi yang baik ketika membonceng adalah posisi duduk. Jangan lupa juga kenakan peralatan berkendara yang layak bagi anak-anak. Jangan sampai sang ayah dan ibu terlindung dengan berbagai macam perlengkapan, namun si anak justru tidak. Jaket, celana panjang, sepatu , bahkan helm dan masker sebaiknya dikenakan kepada anak. Toh sekarang sudah cukup banyak dijual helm dan masker khusus untuk anak-anak.

Nah, sebenarnya masih banyak perbuatan kita yang lain, yang bisa menempatkan anak dalam posisi bahaya, namun beberapa hal sebelumnya cukuplah menjadi contoh. Ingat, yang sudah berhati-hati di jalanpun bisa menjadi korban. Apalagi yang tidak berhati-hati, ceroboh dan tak waspada. Bukankah kecelakaan dapat terjadi di mana-mana? Jadi, karena Tuhan juga memberikan manusia kemampuan untuk waspada dan berjaga-jaga, alangkah bijaksananya kalau kita menggunakannya untuk senantiasa berhati-hati di jalan, terutama bila kita sedang bersama anak kecil.

Waspadalah….!

I think I should go back!

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:26:00 +0000

Hey.....

It's been a very long time since I post something here....

Hmmm...I guess I will need to re-arrange this blog. Well, just wait and see...:)

Are Rules Made to be Broken?

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:54:00 +0000

Take a good look at these pics. What would you say?

I took those pics at some location in West Jakarta. They show us how rules are made to be broken. In this case, it's the traffic rules. Yep, that's the reality of Jakarta's traffic condition. People often abandoned those rules, and the sad thing is that most of them did that on purpose and didn't feel sorry about it.

Picture #1 : someone was selling things with his car. It's not wrong at all to do that. What went wrong was, he didn't realize that all of his goods covered the car's brake lamp and sign lamp. Think about it! When he stopped his car, anyone behind it would not see the brake-lamp. It's kinda dangerous, right?

Picture #2 & 3 : oops..!! Some people were going to the wrong direction.. guess what?They did that on purpose...!!!

Picture #4 : another "shortcut-action", someone went to the opposite direction of the traffic. Also notice the bus at the end of a fly-over. The bus driver didn't drop passangers off on a bus-shelter, instead, he chose to drop them off right there! It's a kind of hazardous situation for them, right?

Well...those were only some examples of nowadays-reality about Jakarta's traffic condition.
Can anyone give us the best solution to overcome this phenomenon?(sigh.....).

AdSense Makes Sense :p

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:16:00 +0000

Finally, the AdSense is now on my blog. :)
What's AdSense anyway?
Well, AdSense is an advertisement run by Google and is put on our website. In order to get AdSense on our website, we have to "apply" to Google to get AdSense's code. Once our application is approved by Google, it will give us the HTML code of the AdSense, so that we can attach the ad on our website. In other way, we can say that we monetize our website by providing media for Google to put its advertisement.
As far as I know, there are 3 basic product of AdSense, i.e. : AdSense for Content, AdSense for Search and AdSense for feeds, so you can choose which one is suitable for your site. (CMIIW)
It took me twice to send the "proposal" to Google to get AdSense for my blog. And I've learn one thing :
Don't give up on trying to apply to Google for AdSense. While waiting for your application to be approved by Google, try to make as many posts as you can. Try to write something different, so that Google will find that your blog is interesting enough and deserves the AdSense.
So, I guess it's time for me to maximize my blog's performance...Wish me luck!

Multiscan Projector

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:28:00 +0000

Multiscan Projector VPH-1252QM by SONY...

That's it! The 'oldies' SONY video projector back in early 90's. This is the kind of projector I use in my office.

It's a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) Projector, which means, it has 3 small, high-brightness CRTs as the image generating elements. The image is then focused and enlarged onto a screen using a lens kept in front of the CRTs' face. The 3 CRTs are the Red, Green and Blue.The red, green and blue portions of the incoming video signal are processed and sent to the respective CRTs whose images are focused by their lenses to achieve the overall picture on the screen.

Those CRTs have a long service life up to 10,000 hours. Some even says it's up to 20,000 hours. This projector has a superior black level compared to LCD or DLP based projectors, which means, it can produce the blackest blacks of all projector types as well as the full range of color, giving a CRT projector the ability to project the most film-like images of projectors for home use. But CRT Projector is, typically, very large and is not as bright as other types of video projector. So the ability to have a completely dark room is necessary.

Back to this Sony VPH-1252QM, it produces picture with resolution of 1500 x 1200 pixels. It has light output as well as 700 lumen, and On-screen display, which will display adjustment instructions and indications on the screen. This VPH-1252QM also has 4 color systems avalaible i.e. NTSC, PAL, SECAM and NTSC 4.43, which can be selected automatically. In my office, this projector is installed in the opposite direction towards the screen, so a mirror is needed to reflect its light.
I have been operating this projector for 4 years, and I still find it difficult to set up and adjust the projector. It is easier for me to do adjustment with the LCD or DLP based projector. Since the CRT projector houses three projection tubes (red, green, and blue), the tubes need to be aligned so that the projected image does not exhibit color halos and the colors are mixed correctly. Also, if one projection tube fails, all three have to be replaced in order to provide the correct color and brightness balance. In order to set up this projector, I have to do the cross-hair test. This is some sort of test to set up the image produced by this VPH-1252QM. In this adjustment mode, the built-in cross-hair test pattern will be displayed on the screen. If you take a good look at this pattern, there are 3 kind of lines i.e. green line, blue line and red line. All you have to do is to move those lines until they converge to each other and are seen as a white line. If you can't converge those lines, color halos will appear in the picture. It's kinda complicated, you know...because it's hard to see whether the lines are converged or not. Color Halos is like a shadow around the line. It shows up because those 3 colored (RedGreenBlue) lines are not converged perfectly.
FYI, on 2005 we had it changed its 3 CRTs , and one tube cost $600.That means we had to pay $1,800 for the tubes only. Pretty expensive, huh? Sometimes I wonder why it still remains on its service until now. Anyway, we still use this projector to display movies. And when we do this, we need to dim the roomlights. While to display presentation etc., we use an LCD based projector.

Change YouTube Size on your blogpost

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:13:00 +0000

Want to change the size of an embedded-video from YouTube in your blogpost ? Try this one..(hey, I'm still an amateur...so correct me if I'm wrong, okay?)

Open your YouTube video to be inserted in your post. Copy its HTML code (in the red circle)
Create a new post. Add video from YouTube by pasting the embedded HTML code of the video in your create-post box.
Click on "Edit HTML". You will see the HTML code from that YouTube video.
Find the parts that show the width and the height of that video. (see the red arrows).
Change those numbers with the suitable size like you want. Change both, upper and lower parts. Usually YouTube video/object has "425" in width and "344" in height.
Publish post. You can immediately view your blog now.

Hope it works....:)

Ken Lee?

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:06:00 +0000

"Without You" by Mariah Carey.

Have you ever heard of that song? It's a nice song, you know..
But have you ever heard someone sing that song in a very unique way? See this one :

I'm sure you'll laugh at it. But I think we should see that from another point of view.
You see, the girl's name was Valentina Hasan. She followed an audition in Bulgaria. It was an audition for Bulgarian Music Idol, some sort of American Idol, Indonesian Idol, etc. You can see that Valentina was very confident about her performance. Although she didn't understand English, she was determined to sing that song. You can see her expression. She didn't care at all, even when one of the judges laughed. This was something awesome. I call this " a brave action". Not everyone could do this! Infact, Mariah Carey admitted it. Watch this :

And you know what?!? After that "KenLee" surprise, Valentina got another surprise, as the chief of EMI (you know, that famous music-recording company..) contacted the chief of Universal for Bulgaria, in order to find out more about her performance. Pheww..who never know???

Well, at least I can learn one thing : if you are determined to reach something, just follow your heart and don't get bothered with what people think about you. Two thumbs up for Valentina Hasan!

Soto ESTO

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:28:00 +0000

SOTO (often called as sroto, coto, or tauto) is the name of one of many Indonesian food. It's the kind of food that almost every region in Indonesia has, in many different variations. But among those many kinds of soto, they have one thing in common, which is, composed of broth, meat and vegetables. So soto is more like a kind of soup, usually accompanied with rice. There are so many variations of soto, which are commonly differentiated by the meat ingredient in them. For example, soto ayam (chicken soto) and soto daging (beef soto).People in Indonesia also give specific names for many variations of soto, usually based on the location or region where the soto had been made, e.g. Soto Kudus (from Kudus-Central Java), Soto Surabaya (from Surabaya-East Java), Soto Makassar (from Makassar-South Sulawesi), Soto Betawi (from Jakarta), etc.
Soto can have a clear broth, a yellow transparent broth and a coconut-milk broth. The broth is the main part of soto, because it consists some spices like : shallot, garlic, turmeric root, galangal, ginger, coriander, salt and pepper.

This time I want to share about a kind of soto from my hometown, SALATIGA (this is a small town in Central Java, located between cities of Semarang and Solo) .
The name of this famous cuisine from Salatiga is : Soto ESTO. For your information, ESTO is the name of a legendary bus company in Salatiga. ESTO stands for : Eerste Salatigasche Transport Onderneming (it's in Dutch language, I don't know what's that supposed to mean....:p) .So, what's the connection with that bus company anyway?
Well, it is called Soto ESTO because people can buy this soto right in front of ESTO's garage. That's why people of Salatiga used to call it Soto (Garasi) ESTO, or Soto of ESTO's garage.
If you want to buy this soto, don't imagine of a large, comfort & cozy place to eat, cause you will only find a small-size kiosk-like booth. It's only opened from the early morning until 7-8 AM. You have to come early, otherwise, you won't be able to have soto as your breakfast. You won't find this soto in the afternoon nor in the night, because it's only sold in the morning.
This coconut-milk-broth soto is very unique. It's quite spicy and can make you sweat while you're eating it. Together with a glass of hot-tea, this soto will give you such a great sensation of breakfast. You can add some snacks too. There are things that called "kerupuk karak", some sort of crackers made from rice, or "perkedel", that made from potato or something like that (i'm not sure...but still I can assure you how delicious they are..), and many others.
You will feel "hot" when you eat this soto, let alone eating it with chilli..And when the place gets more crowded, that "hot"sensation will increase as you keep on sweating. This food is highly recommended to those who want to have a special-spicy breakfast in the morning.
So, when you visit Salatiga, don't forget to try this delicious cuisine....!!!

PS: it's popular for sure.... here is an example..(thx to adhitsuniverse)

Isabella Search...

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:10:00 +0000

When I browsed YouTube this morning, I accidently found a song called "Isabella". It reminds me of an Asian pop song from early 90's. It was sang by a Malaysian band named the "SEARCH". Amy was the name of the band's vocalist. Don't get wrong..Amy is "him"! Yes, Amy is a man :D
This song was quite popular in Indonesia at that time. In fact, there was an Indonesian movie with the same title based on this song. And if I'm not mistaken, Nia Zulkarnaen, a-well-known beautiful Indonesian actress played as "Isabella" in that movie (boy..Nia was very cute that time....she still is...hehehee...).
But "Isabella" itself was a kinda' soundtrack of a Malaysian film titled "Fenomena" starred by Amy Search and Ramona Rahman.(CMIIW).

The song's tone is a little bit ballad or kinda-slowrock, BUT it's lyric is very mellow and melancolic. Love and heartbreaking are the main story behind that :(
And if you see the band's on-stage performance, you'll easily find that they were strongly influenced by many 80's and 90's Rockbands , like Queen, Guns 'n Roses, Mr. BIG, Firehouse, etc.

Well... despite of it's "contradictive" style, the song did a very good job to the band. As a matter of fact, many Indonesian people loved it. I too, used to sing it, when I took a bath in the bathroom LOL...xixixixixxx....

Samsung E590 Camera

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:12:00 +0000

Samsung SGH E 590

Yup...that's the type of my mobilephone. My wife gave it to me as a birthday present :)..

This mobilephone is quite awesome despite of its simple design. We can find many useful features in this type. One of those is its camera.
The SGH E590 has a 3MP Camera with AutoFocus and 4x DigitalZoom. Combined with 1.79" Colour LCD Screen (TFT 260K), the E590 is very fun to use in making photos.

Its picture-taking ability is great. And what makes it more fun to use is the "Macro" feature in the camera. Shooting an object at a very close distance would be a little bit difficult to do, especially when you use a camera-phone. But with SGH E590, you can easily do that with the "Macro" mode.
Here are some pictures showing the result of SGH E590's camera in "Macro" mode. I took these pics with my own E590.

Installing WAMP in your Computer

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:23:00 +0000

This time I would like to share about how to install WAMP in our computer.
This is based on my experience as a very very beginner, who knows a little about webserver, hosting, database, etc. I just want to share it. Hope its useful though....:)

WAMP is a package of webserver and database that runs on Windows. WAMP contains : a fully operational webserver i.e. Apache, a database i.e. MySQL, and a scripting language i.e. PHP. These are needed when you want to install Joomla in your computer and use WAMP as your localhost. A localhost is a webserver and assiociated database that is set up directly on your computer or that may be on a local network.
(http://downloads.joomlacode.org/docmanfileversion/1/7/4/17471/1.5_Installation_Manual_version_0.5.pdf)

The first thing you have to do is to download that package. You can download it from : http://www.wampserver.com/en/. It contains Apache ver. 2.2.11, My SQL ver. 5.1.30, and PHP ver. 5.2.8.
Then click on "Download Wamp Server 2". It will be stored in your computer, usually in this location : "C:\wamp".
As soon as you download it to your computer, you can install it.To check whether or not it has been installed, you can open your browser and visit : "http://localhost/". If you have been successful, you should see this :
Now, in the folder "C:\wamp", find a folder named "www" (C:\wamp\www). Open that folder and make a new folder in it. Give the folder name : "Joomla15". So next time you download Joomla 1.5, extract all Joomla's file to that folder (C:\wamp\www\joomla15).
To activate the localhost, just simply click on the "WampServer" icon on your desktop. Then visit "http://localhost/", or click on "Localhost" icon in the Wamp toolbar.

Motorbike Touring

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:53:00 +0000

It was the EMC (Eben-Haezer Motorcycle Community) who first invited the J-RiCo (GKJ Joglo Riders Community) to joined their touring to Purwakarta, East Java.
FYI, both of them are motorcycle communities in 2 churches, i.e. : Gereja Kristen Jawa (GKJ) Eben Haezer (located in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta) and Gereja Kristen Jawa (GKJ) Joglo (located in Joglo, West Jakarta).>>Gereja Kristen Jawa = Javanese Christian Church<< style="font-style: italic;">Notice that the car with sirens was NOT the part of our group. It was just the police escorting a goverment- officer's car.

George Younce-Best Male bassvoice I've ever seen...

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:36:00 +0000

George Younce..

He's the member of the prominent Cathedral Quartet, one of the Southern Gospel vocal groups in U.S. He was the group's bass voice.
I like him very much because of the way he sing and his voice quality.
George's voice is very very special. He could sing very deep and low, and CLEAN too...as low as the guitar bass, played by his group mate, Mark Trammell. He often sang as a lead voice too..It's awesome to see the lead vocal in a vocal group is a bass voice..and George did that very well indeed...
Although he was still singing in his old age, but his deep-low voice stayed the same...amazing...
Thats why I like watching his performance...

These are some of his performance :

Cathedral Quartet (2)

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:36:00 +0000

Sekali lagi tentang Cathedral Quartet..alias The Cathedral...

Ada satu personil grup ini yang sangat menarik perhatian saya. Dia adalah George Younce, yang menyanyi di posisi bas. Menurut saya, kualitas suara bas nya sangat menawan. Bersih, bulat dan dalam. Bahkan dalam beberapa lagu, bisa menyaingi suara gitar bas yang dimainkan oleh rekannya, Mark Trammell.
Salah satu contoh aksinya ketika menyanyikan suara bas bisa dilihat di sini.
Ternyata suaranya bisa menembus jauh ke bawah. Lagipula dalam video itu-yaitu ketika diadakan reuni mantan personal The Cathedral yang berganti-ganti (kecuali Glen Payne dan George Younce)- usia mereka rata-rata sudah cukup tua. Tapi kualitas vokal mereka sangat terjaga. Salut buat performa mereka.

Saya saja kalau ikut bernyanyi dalam paduan suara kadang kehabisan nafas.....weleh...weleh...jadi malu..hehehehe....

The Cathedral

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:07:00 +0000

Cathedral Quartet...

Have you ever heard that?

Yes, it was one of many Southern Gospel vocal group in the U.S. The group was famous at that time, and still is, I think :D.

Saya belum lama mengetahui tentang grup ini. Gara-gara mampir ke situs YouTube untuk mencari satu lagu rohani yang berjudul "I Know Who Holds Tommorow". Lantas ada salah satu video yang memperlihatkan kebolehan grup yang juga dikenal dengan nama "The Cathedral" sedang menyanyikan lagu itu.

Selama beberapa hari kemudian saya tertarik dengan penampilan grup ini. Hampir setiap hari setelah itu, saya browse ke YouTube untuk mencari lagu-lagu lain yang dinyanyikan oleh The Cathedral. Group yang terdiri dari empat orang pria, dengan konfigurasi person yang berganti-ganti (meskipun yang selalu berganti hanya dua orang, yaitu posisi tenor dan bariton) ini muncul pada tahun 1964. Pentolan utamanya adalah George Younce dan Glen Payne. Anggota-anggota yang lain ada beberapa dan berganti-ganti. Antara lain : Roy Tremble dan George Amon Webster , Kirk Talley dan Mark Trammell, Danny Funderburk, Ernie Haase dan Scott Fowler. Dalam penampilan di panggung, mereka juga sering diiringi oleh seorang pianis bernama Roger Bennet, yang juga tak kalah ciamik dalam memainkan irama-irama Southern Gospel dengan pianonya.

Yang membuat saya terkagum-kagum adalah kemampuan olah vokal mereka yang sangat cantik, ditambah dengan aransemen lagu-lagu yang ciamik. Belum lagi kemampuan mereka, terutama George Younce, untuk membawakan dialog-dialog penuh humor ketika di atas panggung. Juga kemampuan bermain musik ditunjukkan dengan sangat bagus oleh Mark Trammell, yang bermain gitar bas sambil bernyanyi di posisi bariton (1980-1990).

Salah satu penampilan "jadul" mereka, yang kental dengan nuansa Southern Gospel , bisa dilihat di bawah ini :

Install Joomla

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:21:00 +0000

Piuuuhh.........

Akhirnya hari ini berhasil meng-instal Joomla. Berkat bantuan seorang rekan yang memandu langkah demi langkah via chatting.

Hari ini juga pikiranku mulai terbuka dan dapat menangkap gambaran dari proses instalasi Joomla.
Versi yang saya instal hari ini adalah versi 1.5. Sedangkan untuk server, saya pakai WAMP, yang sudah mengandung satu paket yang terdiri atas :
1. Apache version 2.2.11
2. PHP version 5.2.8
3. MySQL version 5.1.30

Meskipun saya sama sekali buta dengan konsep-konsep webserver, PHP, database, My SQL dan sebagainya, tetapi dengan menggunakan Joomla, saya mulai bisa belajar tentang hal-hal itu. Rupanya benar, untuk menggunakan Joomla, tak harus mempunyai background yang mendalam tentang hal-hal tadi. Cuma, supaya lebih bagus, memang sebaiknya kita juga belajar sedikit-sedikit mengenainya. Hmmm..lumayan susah juga, karena orang awam seperti saya, belum mempunyai konsep mapping yang jelas. Masih sepotong-sepotong, dan mencoba menghubung-hubungkan satu dengan yang lain. But its worth to try...

Langkah selanjutnya adalah mulai mengutak-atik Joomla ini demi menghasilkan suatu website yang menarik, dengan menggunakan template-template yang sudah disediakan. Well, I hope I can do that...sudah tak sabar buat menyelesaikannya. Berikutnya mungkin bisa masuk ke urusan domain dan webhost, yang juga tak kalah membuat saya bingung....lha wong sama sekali belum pernah berurusan sama mas "Domain" dan kang "Webhost" itu tadi...

Kita lihat saja nanti...

Try to figure them out...

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:58:00 +0000

This time i'm trying to learn about several things in the virtual world. Things that are new for me. I'm trying to understand the connection between those things, i.e : domain, hosting, webserver, database, CMS and website.
Perhaps someone could help me?

The First Step

noreply@blogger.com (PapaMonique) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:45:00 +0000

This is the First Step of my Blog. I hope I can learn more, step-by-step. Can't wait for the AdSense too...Hope it will come true...