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>>1153
ko bagus warnanya indah
siapa yang fotoin?

>>1150 [Jurnal gambit] [Hari 3]

Lanjutan >>1152
Kukira akan ada yang menanggapi jurnal ini, ternyata ga ada, ya uda deh, kalo itu
ku tulis demi kenangan *saja* ^^

Abis kumpul di ruang lektur, dapat kartu MIT, perlu kumpul di tempat makan buffet
Brazilian BBQ bernama Midwest Grill. Sebelom sampe sana, kami jalan kaki di bawah
terik matahari yang mengerikan. Untung waktu di ruang lektur uda dibagi penghalang
sinar.

Makan di midwest harusnya bufe, tapi ternyata yang bisa ambil sendiri yang selain daging.
Makanannya enak dan cukup unik, misalnya sayur2 (susah jelasinnya). Dagingnya ayam, domba,
sapi, garlik bred, semuanya hanya datang dibawa pelayannya pake tusuk gede ke meja2
dan ditanya siapa aja yang mau.

Setelah itu entah kenapa ga ikutin jadwal, ada orang super raksasa di depan dan kami
semua ikut di belakang. Ketemu tulisan SALOON yang ditempel2 stiker berubah jadi BABOON.

Tiba di Harvard University. Di depannya ada science centre yang ada air mancurnya,
karena panas bisa muncul pelangi.

Ke t-mobile, bingung pilih prabayar yang mana. Ada 2 yang disarankan di sana.
1. Terima dan telepon 10sen/menit, tapi tiap hari telepon dipake perlu bayar $1.
Telepon ke sesama t-mobile gratis (tapi tetep kena $1 per hari itu)
2. Terima dan telepon beda2 harganya tergantung isi ulangnya berapa. Untuk isi ulang
25$, tarifnya jadi 19sen/menit. Tanpa biaya harian.
Ku pilih ke 2. Biaya kartu 13$ + isi pulsa 25$.

Ada market di mana2 yang namanya CVS. Liat2 di sana. ds kan tukang wushu, jadi mau ke
cambridge common untuk ketemu klub wushu di sana. Jadi ku ke sana sama ds tapi
ga ketemu siapa2. Balik ke t-mobile, cj dan jc dan lilo mau ketemu medo dsb, jadi
ku dan ds tertinggal lagi di t-mobile. Ternyata ada alamat lain dari klub itu, jadi ku dan
ds pergi lagi ke sana, lumayan jauh, pisah sama yang lain. Dekat tempat klub itu,
ketemu 2 orang murid harvard yang ras cina. Kami dapat no hp salah satu petugas klub.

Dengan pulsa hanya 3$ (karena 25$nya ga masuK!) yang hanya berlaku untuk telepon 10 menit,
ku sms ke cj bilang ketemunya di central square aja.

Bersambung. Mau pulang dulu dari lab gambit sini.

>>1156
Tul, asik langit 3 warna. Nanti ku pos lagi foto yang sekitar sana.
Yang foto cj tapi ku sutradaranya (ga mau kalah, heheh)

>>1150 [Jurnal gambit] [Hari 7] 2008-6-14

Hari ini bangun sengaja siang untuk bayar utang bobo. Sebetulnya ku bangun jam 840,
makan pizza sisa kemarin, minum, liat kompu bentar, bobo lagi, dan baru bangun 1208.

Kmaren ku bilang ke ds bangun paling lambat jam 11, maka segera cek komputer dan
ternyata ds baru bangun juga, tanya jadi gimana perginya.

cj masih bobo dengan lelap. Ku keluar kamar, ketemu skot yang akan pergi sama teman
sekolahnya. Ketemu lilo yang bilang mo makan sama "shiril" (yang ternyata "cereal",
gubrak, ga nangkep). Hubungi wihu yang uda sms dan telp berkali2, ternyata dia uda pergi
ke mol Galleria, dan medo uda pergi sama jc (timku) dan lain2 liat parade.

Maka ku balik kamar dan ds berencana cari tempat latihan lagi di boston (barat? ternyata
setelah dicek lagi di timur) setelah itu ke cinaton. Tapi ketika ku kasih tau cj mau ke tempat
latihan itu, cj berkata ke ku "kalo mu pergi ikut ds lagi, lain kali ku ga akan pergi sama mu lagi"
Kusampaikan itu ke ds, ds berkata "aku akan pergi sama mu walau mu ga ikut ku kali ini"
Betapa jawaban yang indah dan melegakan.

Akhirnya setelah banyak tele dan lambat, jam 15, cj lilo yuku pergi menuju cinaton.
Kereta rusak! Jadi di depan stasiun disediain bis gratis. Hore.

Tiba di Park street, dekat Boston commons, sebuah taman yang luas dan banyak orang
berpasangan berpelukan dan berciuman.

cj beli hotdog yang rotinya kaya irisan roti manis. Kukira sekitar 1$. Ga ada daftar harga.
Pas dibeli ternyata 3$. cj menyesal ga akan beli lagi ^^

Sambil jalan, ambil2 foto, ds telp, bilang dia uda beres dari tempat latihan, menuju stasiun
kereta cinaton. Kami menuju sana juga dan ketemu ds. Segera cari makan di daerah sana
tadinya mo ke Apollo grill yang disarankan di Gambit guide. Namun ketemu supermarket
yang isinya produk2 cina jepang korea dan sekitarnya. Ku dan lilo beli berbagai macam
pocky, untuk berbagi.

Tiba di tujuan, ternyata cukup mahal, 9 dolar lebih. Maka batal dan cari tempat lain,
ketemu restoran cina di sebrangnya. Tarif cuma 5$ an untuk nasi + sayur + sup + daging
(ayam, sapi, dsb), sepaket. Kaget pas datang makanannya, porsi tetep raksasa.

Ga ada apa2 lagi di cinaton, coba jalan2 dan hanya ketemu tukang jual kartu, minuman
alkohol, beberapa toko cina, gerbang model cina yang pas dimasukin ga ada perubahan tema
(semua bangunan tetep sama modelnya dengan bangunan biasanya, ga ada khas cinaannya).

Maka kami bermaksud ke Boston common lagi, namun apa daya kebelet. Gagal liat2 dan
di stasiun kereta pun ga ada tempat pipis. Segera pulang, masuk gerbang kereta (uda bayar),
sampe dalam dibilang keretanya rusak untuk arah pulang (tadinya ga rusak, kayanya
relnya yang rusak dan sekarang ganti arah). Jadi naik bis lagi deh dan uangnya ga dibalikin.

Balik ke lab. Main Super smash brothers di Wii sama ds cj lilo 1 jam lebih. Lalu ds pulang
dan ganti jadi Guitar hero. Tapi pake stik ps3 dan main di ps3. Stik ps3 tombol L2 dan R2nya
mendalam (harus tekan dalam2) jadi cukup repot.

Pas ku aduk2 lemari, ketemu Wii sports maka main itu dan coba2.

Besok rencananya sama wihu dan tias mau jalan2 mulai jam 9, jam 15nya ke gereja MRII.
cj dan lilo bilang mo ikut, tapi masi belom tau gimana jadinya, soalnya tadinya ingin sekali2
jalan dengan orang indo untuk istirahat ngomong bahasa inggris.

>>1159
nyoo mu masi ada beberapa teman indo jadi bisa kabur bersama dan istirahat ngomong eigo... bersyukurlah.

>>1160
betul. Hari ini sama medo wihu tias jalan2 dan ngomong bahasa indo.
Tapi gara2 uda 6 hari pake bahasa inggris terus, awal2 tadi ketemu otaknya kaya
uda otomatis mikir bahasa inggris kalimat2 yang mau diucapkan. Lalu tiba2 terpikir oh iya
bisa ngomong indo. Lega deh.

>>1150 [Jurnal gambit] [Hari 8] 2008-6-15 Pertama kali pake opera 9.5 buat pos mlt.

Today is also lilo's birthday.

This is Sunday and I want to go to church. I set up an alarm at 831. I wake up at 820
but I think I can sleep more so I rely on the alarm to wake me up. But I don't know what
happen, when I wake up it is already at 10! I check my mobile and find that the mobile
is hang! cannot turn off and press any button. After restart, the mobile show 3 messages,
from wihu tias medo. All say approximately "i have been waiting downstairs, where are
you, etc".

I feel very surprised and anxious and nervous and try to call tias but not connected so
i call wihu and find that all have gathered at student centre. I don't bathe, brush teeth
only. Then I run to student centre but oh no it is raining. There is a stack of newspapers
in the exit of the dorm so I take one sheet (i hope it's ok) to be used as an umbrella.
I run and jog and walk until I meet them all and say sorry more than 3 times.

I am happy because medo join although he was not confirmed yesterday.

So our indonesian team tour starts. We start by taking photos on the MIT UFO front.
Get some weird photos but it is interesting. Then move to harvard bridge. We discuss about
when usually go with my team we don't take photos with person in foreground, but
for now we can take it like that, more personal. So we take more photos, go to front of
Prudential mall and go inside!

Directly go to game shop. Tias wants to buy PSP. I ask the price and it is 170usd.
I ask about can play downloaded games but I think they know about it but don't dare
to say. I want to buy it too. After converting to sgd it is 242sgd (including tax).
But since don't already know how to mod, left for later.

Go around and see duck tour so expensive so don't take it. See public toilet with 25c
for entrance and max 25 minutes time, will open the door by itself. But (now in the writing
time of this entry i regret it) I didn't check the inside.

Go again towards downtown since wihu suddenly need to cancel going to church and meet
his team instead. I disappointed. We rush and wihu is forward. We take photos
of boston commons with the Squirrels. And also eat Cashews very warm and nice spices.

Suddenly wihu call to state that his meeting is canceled so i am happy.

We go to Burger king just beside the church and eat Smoke something so nice but
make cough easily. Eat hurry and go to Park church which contain MRII Boston.

Inside it I ask if there is indonesian people or something called MRII, they dont know.
I ask them to open google, type mrii boston, click first result. They understand immediately.
^^

It turns out that only 4 people in MRII Boston. So we greet and ask ask each other.
Then service starts. Similar to GRII Singapore. But using vcd for the sermon.

After that all the 4 people invited us to dinner together at Super88 market. They take
us by car. First time ride car in US. So happy and ask about parking fee. About 25c
per 15 or 30 minute but in a parking space can be 10$ per hour due to protection
from snow rain etc.

In super88 there is foodcourt containing chinese, thai, korean etc stalls. I eat korean
beef rib No bone very nice but full.

In the end of the journey we ask to be sent to Boston university after which we
walk across the bridge to Memorial drive and go home.

Take photos again with low shutter speed on front of the dorm.

See fire brigade coming to the neighbor dorm but seems nothing happens.

Laundry for first time. Pay 75c for laundry. 25c for the drier which is still wet. Now i will
sleep. My team mate skot is not going to church today, lucky i didnt make promise
to go with him.

>>1162
setelah beberapa lama di amrik, bagaimana kesan terhadap harga2?
adakah kesan2 menarik lainnya?

>>1150 [Jurnal gambit] [Hari 9] 2008-6-16

Hari pertama kerja. Baru berangkat jam 845 padahal harus sampe jam 9 jadi ku lari
tapi di tengah jalan ketemu ds maka ku jadi jalan.

Rapat pertama dipimpin jos (product owner), ditanya apa yang uda dilakukan, hari ini
ngapain, dan apa yang ngeblok.

>>1150 [Jurnal gambit] [Hari 9] 2008-6-16

>>1164's continuation

Setelah liat2 flex, makan siang, ga liat2 flex lagi tapi mulai cari ide.
Segala macam ide muncul, tiap orang keluarin ide2nya sendiri, tapi yang kusuka adalah
ide demikian (nik dan yuku):

Pemain kontrol 3 karakter (ato kurang di awal2), masing2 punya cacat, misalnya
buta, tuli, botak, lemah, dsb. Pemerintah diskriminasi orang cacat jadi kalo polisi nemu
orang cacat akan dihukum. Nah tim ini mau berjuang mencapai raja palsu yang sedang
berkuasa tanpa ditangkap polisi. Caranya dengan saling membantu, salah satu karakter
juga nantinya raja asli. Pemain bisa ganti karakter kapan aja tapi 1 karakter doang sekali
main. Seperti rpg.

Tapi muncullah jos dan mat, yaitu product owner, dan mereka bikin makin pusing karena
bilang ini boleh itu boleh tapi harusnya begini (ga jelas) atau begitu (ga jelas juga).

Di akhir jam kerja, ide benar2 kacau, ds juga maunya dengar ide dari semua orang
tapi tak bilang mana yang bisa dan mana yang nga, akhirnya hanya berisi kritik2 dan
saran2 tanpa ada tujuan.

Ku sendirian beli sandwich di foodcourt.

Lalu setim disuruh nonton film "Pink floyd the wall" sambil pesan sandwich.

Desek2an kereta di jepang.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BE35onlIySk

Petugas sampe ikut2an teken2.

Ternyata di singa dan us jauh lebih lega.

>>1150 [Jurnal gambit] [Hari 13] 2008-6-20

Today the work day is only until lunch. So we try to combine for the game prototype
the stage play which is done by me and the police eye sight detection code and the
cone drawing done by lok. Near the lunch time we managed it but got some problems
in committing to perforce.

Lunch: go to "au bon pain", they sell pasta too. there are 6 kinds of pasta we can just
take, it will be weighted, 49c per oz. I try all and when i pay it i need to pay 6.5$. weleh
so expensive, but i get to try all pasta, hore.

After lunch there is programmer's specialist meating. Other roles are also meating.
But for the progers, nothing to talk about except a bit sharing from each team what
they are doing. So we leave early, only about 40 mins for the supposedly 2 hours meeting.

Go back and i find some people play play. I say to lilo dont play so much but
make more character art work.

cj complained to me that ds is giving too many unrelevant ideas to the
game design. I talk to ds but to me ds seems like she cannot accept other's feedback
and only consider self is the rightful one.

After that we go to Google's eating room which is colored with red green blue
like Google's ball theme. But unfortunately not for eating but to hear lecture.
But the lecture is from Warren Specter! The slides are thoughtful. I sit at the frontest
but fall asleep during the boring QA session.

I ask medo and wihu if they go somewhere. no. So i tell them i may be going to boston
city hall for bbq party.

In the end yuku cj ds jc medo wihu lilo go to the bbq place

On the way suddenly big rain. I yell "tea ter" for "theater" to ask them run to the
nearby theater to get shelter but i pronounced wrongly nobody understand.

After reaching bbq place, we find so messy, looks expensive to buy meat there and
still need to pay 5$ for entrance. After tough discussion and sungkan and so on, we
dont go there and head to chinatown.

Voting again, vietnamese or malaysian food. Malaysian win 3-2.

The malaysian restaurant waiter is very impatient and rude. We eat there, medo eat
so much rice because he order wrongly (a 5$ big bowl of rice), ds only eat ice cream
(for 4.5$). After finishing, we decide to give less tip only. Total meal cost about 58$,
we give tips only about 3$.

On the exit door of the restaurant we are called.

"Is there any problem with our service?"

I deliberately and happily say "the waiter was impatient" "ask us to choose
the menu quickly" etc with broken english, so jc speak in in chinese. Good
and i am very happy experiencing what happen if we dont give enough tip.

>>1167
iya mestinya tips 15% ^^''
58$ -> 8.7$+
makanan Malaysia tuh apa ya contohnya

>>1168
Kayanya ga gitu malaysia juga sih, mirip chinese. Ga ada nasi lemak (yang harusnya
makanan khas malaysia), malah semuanya hampir sama dengan restoran chinese.

Eh, katanya waiter dapat gajinya dari tips, alias gaji bulanannya sangat kecil kah?
Yang terima tip siapa sih, yang bawain menu ato yang bawain makanan? Karena beda.

>>1150 [Jurnal gambit] [Hari 14] 2008-6-20

Seperti biasa sabtu agak bingung mau ngapain. cj ajak siang2 ke boston, tapi matahari
hari ini (tak seperti biasanya) terik sekali, ku ga mau. Jadi akhirnya sore2 baru ke boston
sama lilo cj dan 1 orang yang tiba2 mau nimbrung bernama jes.

Mau cari pizza buat makan yang uda ditemukan tempatnya di gugu maps, tapi ga diprin
jadi lupa di mana. Ketemu 1 tempat tapi penuh. Pas mo cari California pizza kitchen,
muter2 antara Bolyston street dan Newbury street, ga nemu2 setelah jalan setengah jaman,
tiba2 ku ingat punya peta di hp (Nokia maps ^^) dan pake Keyword search akhirnya ketemu.

Namun setelah jalan balik (kelewat jauh), tempatnya ga ketemu. Di sana ada bangunan
kayu yang belom jadi, kayanya sih itu. Uda punah. Weleh.

Maka ke Prudential center. lilo bilang gurunya bilang ada yang sangat enak di Boston chowda
bernama New england clam chowder. Tapi ga kenyang kalo makan sup doang, jadi pesan
pizza Four cheese tipis pisan dulu baru makan sup yang ditempatkan di mangkok roti.
Enak tapi ga spesial amat ah, lilo aja yang sangat suka.

Udahnya cj berencana ke Niketown tapi pas sampe sana uda tutup. cj kecewa berat.

Ke Borders liat2 dan ke Boston comics (gadapapa).

>>623
nama

>>1150 [Jurnal gambit] Kejadian alarm kebakaran, 2008-6-25 skitar 2230

Suddenly the alarm device in my room sounds very noisy. Then there is a recorded
message approximately "Attention please. Please go down to the nearest exit".
It repeats indefinitely and I think I need to do something.

I still think it is only a drill, so anyway I take the phone, wallet, and key and go outside
the room with the room locked. I met a lot of gambit people from other room and most
of them ask whether it is real. Nobody knows so we go downstairs.

After arriving there, I see police cars coming, then in about 5 minutes
2 fire engines come! But I do not see any fire. I see people taking photos. Bring food.
Record sounds.

Then medo and wihu are talking with the police officer. After I ask, I know that they
cooked food but didn't close the door, so the smoke went outside and activated
the smoke detector.

Wah seru.

Done by lilo using Dragon speech recognition (UK English) ^^

===
Bobby Charlton is retarded

Manchester United sucks big time!

Liverpool football club rocks!

Old Trafford is crap!

I went to school today.  My teacher Mrs Williams, was absolutely disgusting as she had vomited all over my best friend Jeremy !  I'm actually very pleased to be playing counterstrike.  Although its rubbish and stinks of blue cheese.  I'm currently slacking at home, drinking Coke and munching on chips.  I even saw homosexuals on TV.  Kettle chips Rock.  I'm totally addicted to Japanese manga and Marvel comics.  Holy cow!  I just saw a crazy woman screaming like an insane mindless zombie.  I'm going to take my shotgun and blow its head off in five seconds.  Do you know that I'm crazy and I'm actually the most wanted person on earth?  If you are reading this, you are going to die in approximately 1 minute.  So good luck!  I am apparently trying to figure out what the hell doing.  I'm like totally wasting my time.  This is just stupid.  I've no idea why I'm here in the first place.

>>1172

wah bener seru :D

Sembarang tulisan aja. Ku merasa ingin tulis meletus setelah sekian lama hanya kadang2
tulis jurnal gambit. Ku merasa banyak perubahan terjadi sejak ku sampe di us. Dan
perubahan yang paling utama yaitu kerjaan rutin yang kulakukan sudah berubah sangat
banyak.

Misalnya tulis meletus. Dulu pikiranku cukup melayang2 untuk membayangkan bermacam2
ide yang normal dan masuk akal maupun gila dan imajinatif. Namun skarang entah kenapa,
pikiranku jadi terlalu biasa dan ga menemukan ide2 maupun hipotesis2. Akibatnya ku jadi
jarang tulis meletus (ini paragraf deduktif dan induktif).

Mungkin karena ku perlu ngomong bahasa inggris tiap hari di sini. Dulu ketika s1 di ntu,
99% percakapan dalam bahasa indo, sekarang hampir sebaliknya, bisa diperkirakan
sekitar 90% bahasa inggris, 10% bahasa indo ketika ngomong sama orang indo di sini.

Awal2 sampe sini, orang2 indo cukup sepakat jangan pake bahasa indo buat ngomong
supaya ga (sungkan) sama orang lain. Tapi ku merasa kehilangan dan rindu ngomong bahasa
indo, terutama karena banyak ekspresi yang tereduksi ketika ku mengungkapkannya
dalam bahasa inggris. Tampaknya wihu dan tias juga merasa demikian. Untunglah di Boston
ada MRII (gereja) bahasa indo, jadi pas ke sana jadi seperti kembali ke dunia asal.

Sekian dulu dan semoga diteruskan setelah ini.