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Hi! Zillions of thanks for dropping by to 1412 Avenue, the place where dreams and hopes are lifted high up and where sky is the limit to freedom of expression and creativity!! ^__^
Now while I'm fully aware that being "mysterious" could be a sexy thing to do, but I'm just gonna set it straight: my name is Hanif Adinugroho Widyanto A.K.A. Hanif, KiD, Han, Niph, Kakek (translation: wiseman ^_^), Bon, Skill, you-name-it; anything that refers to the coolest guy in planet Earth -- so if you're looking for the official blog of Matthew Fox, lemme be the first to congratulate you coz you've come to the right place!! ^o^ hehee,,
Anyway... *ehem* Please please please do feel free to wander around my blog, find out more about KiD, read my entries about LIFE as I see fit, leave some comments about my AWESOME-NESS, or simply do anything POSITIVE here (no spam, hack, crack, slash, burn, etc. please)... enjoy your stay!! ^____^
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My name is Hanif Adinugroho Widyanto, a final-year undergrad student at President University, Jababeka, majoring in International Business study. I was born at St. Boromeous Hospital, Bandung, on October 23, 1987. In the early years of my life, my father got a scholarship to continue his master's at Curtin University so our family moved and lived at Perth, Australia for about 3 1/2 years. That's when my brother born. I remember that I was just a couple of months away before I celebrated my 5th b'day when we returned to Indonesia. Having spent the year after at my granny's house at Tebet, our family finally settled (until today) at a decent house in Melati Mas Residence, Serpong, Tangerang. My educational background from kindergarten until junior high school was dominated with one name: Al-Azhar BSD. I had such fond memories back then, but it was when I finally got accepted at Taruna Nusantara Senior High School, a semi-military boarding school at Magelang, Central Java, that my life hit its critical u-turn and started to drastically change. I started to realize and identify my 'purpose' as a person in this ever-competitive life, a Moslem in such a changing society, and an Indonesian in a globalized era. Today, I'm currently working on my thesis regarding "Analysis of Major Due Diligence Determinants to Attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) on Toll-Road Public Private Partnerships (PPP) Projects" , which has completely drained my very-limited-capacity-when-it-comes-to-doing-thesis brain, to the extent where I'd rather sleep than working on it (huhuuu,, lousy procrastinator me as always,, I know T_T). On the other hand, I'm also involved with the "International Symposium in Commemoration of 100 Years of National Awakening Day" in Berlin, Germany; an international event which is hosted and organized by my friends at the Indonesian Student Association (PPI) in Germany. This blog is just a snapshot of my life's chronicle, and while "I" am naturally gonna be the dominant 'force' in this blog, but my story could also be about you. About the challenging yet amusing life that I always cherish and adore (and hate sometimes ^^;). About every step that I have to take, decisions that I have to make, options and alternatives that I've got to choose (sometimes at a spur-of-the-moment notice!!). But mostly, it's about life in general and how I put things into perspective. This could easily be my story, but one in which (hopefully) you could relate and share with me and the rest of the readers. "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."Now you've heard my A-B-C, so what you think of me? ^__^ |
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
1:18 PM
The Difference is in the Eye of the Beholder!!
Just now I bumped into a very interesting site for those who feel like “knowledgeable" enough to tell apart between Chinese, Japanese, and Korean; while many consider them to be all the same. In alllooksame.com, you’re challenged to corroborate whether it is prejudice or impartiality that rules. The site offers eight tests in different categories such as “Faces”, “Traditional Architecture”, and “Food”, to mention a few; each with their distinctive multiple-choice questions.
Well, having some Chinese friends from the Mainland in my university and bearing in mind that I’m a moderate fan of J-Dorama (Japanese soap opera) like “Long Vacation”, “Beach Boys”, “GTO”, “One Litre of Tears”, etc., and also K-Drama (the Korean ones), I tried to attest my knack in distinguishing between the three nationalities (i.e. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) through the tests provided in the site. As a result, by and large, I scored 12 out of 18 faces, which is said to be “Pretty Good” that I “may have a talent”!! Well,, the point of having such a talent - if it should ever be true,, I don't know for sure - perhaps yet,, ;P
Btw, the site does have its backbiting and criticisms though, for it is said to be some sort of political arena and that it would promote racism, or that the site itself is racist. However, as clarified by Dyske Suematsu, the webmaster, the bottom-line is that he thought it would be a funny idea to realize this kind of site; yet at the same time celebrating the similarities and differences among Asians. It's debatable though, as always. But as for me, controversies aside, I just enjoy the site despite the “hullabaloos”… ^__^;
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
5:16 PM
Dude, Where’s my Gadgets?!
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not
every man's greed" - Mahatma Gandhi
My life recently has a constant makeup due to internship. From the crack of dawn until the sun sets in the velvet sky, it’s always been the same: a fixed schedule to which I’m ensnared within. That leaves week-end as the only time when I could break the routines and get a life. Luckily, I have with me my two treasured gadgets which unwaveringly assist me to get through the other five restless days of the week; thus keeping me lively for the day.
The first of which would certainly be my 2-years-old Zyrex laptop, which is powered by a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor, 80 GB HDD and 512 MB RAM. It’s an old and obsolete stuff for sure, but it has played an important part in my life since the first time I have it back then. So far it’s still proven to be dependable enough to support my work and all; just couldn’t use it for high-specs gaming software *lol*. Least I can still use it to fool around with Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, Corel Draw, and all those web-and-graphic-oriented software that I fall back on. During my current internship period, I could even bring along my laptop to connect it to the internet – like what I’m doing now,, hehe,, ;D
For many people nowadays, cell phones have become a crucial part of their life that they just simply can’t bear any second without their communication device on their pocket. I’m no exception for this matter. I reckon those moments when I left my cell phones back home. It was so frustrating and I felt like I was lost in the middle of nowhere and that nobody cared about my existence in this world!! *making-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill mode activated* ;) Thus, my second precious thingamabob award goes to my cell phone!! The current phone that I use is Sony Ericsson K800i. I bought it for about US$390. It’s an undeniably pricey stuff for my standard to tell the truth, but thank God, the generosity of my parents, and the release of the 5-million-rupiahs refund money from my university for the full-scholarship holder, I could have my dream phone come true,, ;D I bought it about a couple of month ago at ITC Roxy, one of the cell phone havens in Indonesia. And though it’s not a “smart phone” yet, but it’s clever enough to outsmart me. *hehe* At least James Bond hinged on the phone in the latest installment of his movie, which is rammed with loads of Sony Ericsson phones everywhere.
Well, after all,, I might not be those high-tech freaks who’re always equipped with the latest state-of-the-art gizmos any time. Beats me how those kinds of people can manage to change their avant-garde devices over and over again, but money – a hefty sum of them – must be one of the reasons for sure. As for now, I just enjoy my two gadgets, for them standalone can pretty much enliven my life already at all time.
The first of which would certainly be my 2-years-old Zyrex laptop, which is powered by a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor, 80 GB HDD and 512 MB RAM. It’s an old and obsolete stuff for sure, but it has played an important part in my life since the first time I have it back then. So far it’s still proven to be dependable enough to support my work and all; just couldn’t use it for high-specs gaming software *lol*. Least I can still use it to fool around with Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, Corel Draw, and all those web-and-graphic-oriented software that I fall back on. During my current internship period, I could even bring along my laptop to connect it to the internet – like what I’m doing now,, hehe,, ;D
For many people nowadays, cell phones have become a crucial part of their life that they just simply can’t bear any second without their communication device on their pocket. I’m no exception for this matter. I reckon those moments when I left my cell phones back home. It was so frustrating and I felt like I was lost in the middle of nowhere and that nobody cared about my existence in this world!! *making-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill mode activated* ;) Thus, my second precious thingamabob award goes to my cell phone!! The current phone that I use is Sony Ericsson K800i. I bought it for about US$390. It’s an undeniably pricey stuff for my standard to tell the truth, but thank God, the generosity of my parents, and the release of the 5-million-rupiahs refund money from my university for the full-scholarship holder, I could have my dream phone come true,, ;D I bought it about a couple of month ago at ITC Roxy, one of the cell phone havens in Indonesia. And though it’s not a “smart phone” yet, but it’s clever enough to outsmart me. *hehe* At least James Bond hinged on the phone in the latest installment of his movie, which is rammed with loads of Sony Ericsson phones everywhere.Well, after all,, I might not be those high-tech freaks who’re always equipped with the latest state-of-the-art gizmos any time. Beats me how those kinds of people can manage to change their avant-garde devices over and over again, but money – a hefty sum of them – must be one of the reasons for sure. As for now, I just enjoy my two gadgets, for them standalone can pretty much enliven my life already at all time.
KiD_HaHn!
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10:55 AM
Another Miserable Day of my Internship,,, ;{
[Note: this posting was written yesterday afternoon, but due to unexpected occurrence, I couldn’t post it at the time – thus conceivably explains the magnitude of the hectic day I had yesterday as posted below. So here it is anyway,, ^o^;]
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It’s official now…! Although there’re still ten straight hours to go before today ends, but I can proclaim the day as one of the most exhausting days throughout my internship period. Nevertheless, seemingly tallying to my-already-dismal condition, I’m suffering from fever and diarrhea all together for the first time during my internship!! Huhuu,,
It all started earlier this morning at around 4 AM, when I woke up with faint, dreadful headache. In fact, I’d already suffered from stomachache (presumably diarrhea) since yesterday, but now this appalling nuisance has completely gotten into me. I was even thinking about not going to work back then. It was really hard for me to even get up from my bed to take a shower, iron my clothes, pray Shubuh, and get ready for work. Even so, when I came to think of it, my hesitation winding up to the decision that the show must go on in any case, and I must come to work despite my poor health. Somehow, I had a hunch that today’s the kind of not-to-be-missed day, and it turned out that I wasn’t wrong this time – alas, in a negative way.
If there’s a better expression to describe this day in life other than “totally busy”, then I’ll surely go for it. Somehow, compared to any other moderately “peaceful” days of my internship so far, scores of events came about almost immediately this morning and I had to handle them by myself. This happened because my supervisor had to go to one of the embassies in nearby Kuningan area and my colleague hasn’t come yet. So I had to handle the many clients who came out of nowhere by myself, receiving phone calls, sending e-mail to the marketing department, etc. And I did the whole things with my ailing stomach and fainted head!! But thank God I could pass the day without any problems. Another experience of a lifetime I suppose. Lessons learned!! ^__^ posted by KiD_HaHn! on 10:55 AM | 0-comment(s)
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