Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category.
16th May 2008, 11:00 pm
Dalam perjalanan pulang dari business trip ke Medan… sesaat setelah melewati mesin X-Ray di bandara Polonia… iseng saya bertanya kepada petugas penjaga mesin… Pak… isinya laptop saya apa aja ya…?

Jawabanya sang petugas sungguh diplomatis…
“ada kabelnya…”

15th May 2008, 12:51 pm
Memang beda kalo selama business trip menginap di rumah mertua… apalagi soal makanan yang di sajikan…
hmmm… khas banget!

9th April 2008, 01:03 pm
Pernahkah anda naik pesawat dan penasaran sedang berada dimana??? kecepatannya berapa??? ketingannya berapa??? Saya sering merasa begitu…
Beruntung saya menggunakan PDAPhone HP6965, device ini memiliki built in GPS… Agak lemot sih… Tapi itulah harga yang harus saya tebus jika ingin punya all-in-one device seperti ini… Peta yang saya install antara lain Raster Image dari Peta Gunther Jakarta di OziExplorer dan Peta Jawa GarminQue hasil keroyokan di Navigasi.net…
Hari ini ada business trip ke Surabaya, menggunakan pesawat Garuda Airways… Kebetulan saya mendapat tukaran window seat dengan anak kecil bernama Anissa… Saat pesawat mulai berjalan GPS langsung saya nyalakan, dengan posisi phone tetap pada flight mode… Teoritis hal ini tidak menggangu navigasi pesawat… dan yang sebenarnya dilarang selama penerbangan adalah peralatan yang memancarkan sinyal… Sementara GPS hanya menerima sinyal tanpa ada proses pengiriman… Lha wong pesawatnya juga pakai GPS untuk navigasi koq…
Anyway inilah hasil screenshot saat take off…

Mulai menanjak di atas teluk Jakarta
Berputar kearah Jakarta menuju Surabaya…

Wow… Udah nyampe 836Kph!!!

Harusnya bisa sampe naik ke 900an kph… Tetapi makanan keburu keluar…
Sarapan dulu ah… 
16th December 2007, 04:35 pm
On the way to Bintan from Jakarta one must land in Batam Island…. An Island I once stayed for 2 years in… On the way home to Jakarta, I stayed over to finish some business on this Island also a little bit of nostalgia….
During this trip I stayed over at the Goodway hotel… I have never heard the name of the hotel… but it is a very familiar site…. turned out that it was once the Mandarin Hotel… now that name rang a bell…
First thing after business was to take a stroll in Jodoh…


Shaved at the barber who used to cut my hair six years ago…

Meet up with a good friend… Pengki…

Driving down Muka Kuning…
And Asahi…. Ooops…. Casio Indonesia…

The place my wife used to work in…. also where we would always meet

Silaturahmi with some friends…

Ooo… and the cubicle behind us in the picture is where I first met my wife….
Peeping at the production lines

hmm… business seems to be slow…. turns out they have finally given Aminin the golden hand shake…
At the airport on the way home we met Lawrence from the Netherlands… who is cycling all the way to Sydney from Istanbul… good luck!

Finally home sweet home…. Bagus loves the oleh-oleh…

15th December 2007, 07:06 am
This week we had a chance to stay at the Bintan Lagoon Resort to review 2007’s performance and discussing Qdc’s strategy moving forward….
To get to the resort from Jakarta we had to travel 1 hour by air to Batam… Then a 45 minute Bus ride to the seaport, 1 hour travel by sea and finally another 30 minutes by Bus to the resort where we were greeted by a Traditional Melayu Dance…. all together it took more than half a day, having numerous waiting time in between…

The travel was worth what we got at the resort….

Then during the first session…. the prize specialist struck again…. this time I got a Nokia CDMA mobile phone

Bagus will be happy with this oleh-oleh….
To be honest…. I’m not so pleased having to pay sing dollars for everything in the resort… the same currency even applies in the oleh-oleh market…
Hey this is our country!!!
Also Internet should be a compliment rather than a service we have to pay 35 Sing Dollars for….
18th August 2007, 08:42 am
Oleh2 dari jalan2 ke Pekanbaru… senang banget ada pekerjaan dimana saya bisa mengajak Bagus, Mamanya dan Sekar jalan ke Pekanbaru sekalian ketemu sama keluarga besar di sana…
Sekalian nambah Network OpenVPN menggunakan speedy… sekalian jalan2… Menyenangkan…

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14th June 2007, 08:11 pm
In the past i’ve only passed this town driving to Malang from Jakarta… This town that is famous for the UKSW university… on this trip I took a Garuda flight to Semarang and headed off to Salatiga by taxi…

I am here for 3 days and 2 nights in a task which includes expanding my OpenVPN network to a New Project Office we have out here…
I’m staying over at Le Beringin Hotel

The nice thing about this hotel is that it has free wifi, provided by Indonet Salatiga, only it seems as if IIX and International links are dropped off frequently…
My observation suggests that the Wireless links over the 2,4GHz frequency is very dense and either tends to interfere with one another or someone is pushing a booster over there link…