Historical Buildings in Siak Sri Indrapura

I spent my childhood in Siak Sri Indrapura, a small town in Riau, Sumatra Island. You can reach this city by car or ship from Pekanbaru. It takes approximately 3 hours using car and about 2 hours using speedboat. There is something like a very large green preview around the way to Siak. Hehee..Why? because there is almost filled by the palm tree everywhere, in the left and right side.You also can get the additional view when using speedboat. People doing some activities at the edge of the river, like children bathing, woman washing clothes or bathing, and many thing else. In this post, i will tell the historical buildings in Siak.

Siak is also known as "The palace city", because there is a palace that situated in the middle of Siak Sri Indrapura city. This palace is named Asserayah Al Hasyimiah. It is the historical evidence of the Sultanate of Siak. It was built on Sultan Syarif Hasyim Abdul Jalil Syaifudin's governance in 1889 by German architect. The architecture of the palace is the combination among the architecture of Malays, Arab, and Europeans.

Siak Palace (taken from pb.ponriau2012.com)

The palace store collection of properties of the Kingdom. There are kingdom umbrella, Comets, gold plated royal throne, a duplicate royal crown, etc. The original gold crown has been brought to the National Museum in Jakarta. Comets is a large German music player which has a disc contains classic songs from Mozart and Bethoven. There are only two comets in this world, in German and Siak.

Comet (taken from www.riaudailyphoto.com)

There are also variety of desk chairs from woods, crystal, and glass , various form of cupboards and weapon from iron and copper inside the palace. Another interesting thing in this palace is the golden red stair to the second floor.

stair to second floor

Beside that, we may see the Siak Bridge when enter the town. This bridge is named Tengku Agung Sultanah Latifah. This bridge is extended on Siak river, knownly as the deepest river in Indonesia. The unique part of this bridge is on top of this pier there is a restaurant. But, until now, it is not already.

Siak Bridge (taken from www.sungaikuantan.com)

The other building is Balai Kerapatan Tinggi. It is used as a place of high-ranking royal deliberation and as a place to decide the matter of justice that occured in those times. This Balai is situated on the edge of Siak River. There is a former prison that used as the place languished after sentenced prisoners on the ground floor.

Balai Kerapatan Tinggi (taken from www.indonesiabox.com)

There are still many historic places in Siak that we can find here. But, unfortunately, many of them are not maintained by government or other related part. 

Thank You for This Wonderful Internship Experience

Yeah..My internship is finally over!!! Juny and July 2012 has already passed. In one side, i feel a little bit of sadness because maybe i can not meet some of funny and gorgeous peoples along my intern in Mandiri. But, in other side, I'm happy. Why? I don't have to wake up early in the morning anymore and take a bath which my eyes still closed. haha....

I want to say thank you to many peoples in Mandiri. Mr. OC, Mr. Ario, Mr.Endro, Mr.Edison, Mr.Bofan, Mr.Jimmy, Mr.Rozi, and Mr.Yudha, thank you for your guidance and supervision during this internship. Your guidance assisted me in furher development of communication skill and ability to develope project within company. I also want to thank the entire staff of IT DDO, especially Ms.Agustin, Ms.Ika, Ms. Indri, Ms.Sifa, Ms.Ikas, thank you for taking the time to share your happiness like share your food to me. Through that times, i felt i was able to grow in company environment like that.

Next,  i want to say good bye to my cubicle. Thank you for accompany me during this intern.

my cubicle

Good bye B2 canteen.. One of my favorite menu in this canteen  is tourdano grilled chicken. And the amazing fact that i found is there are still a lot of people eat in the canteen in Ramadhan month.

And good bye pantry. I always filled my bottle with the water many times in a day. hihii :D

pantry

and next, here are some photos I have managed to salvage from one of documentation staff.

IT POS Big Day

Taken at the helipad in Mr.Ario's farewell party

Porseni

Yeah,,it's done!

Importance of English in Our Today's Life

Hello reader!! start from now, I will try to write every post in my blog with English. I'm not going to say that i'm good in english or grammatically accurate. (No...not yet!).  But, from my experience and observation, english is very important in today's life. It is necessary in every field. English is the most widely spoken language in the world. We can have a wider field to communicate with others. You can read more books than other people. You can easily understand scientific and technology study. And others benefits more..

Sometimes, it's a little annoying when your friend thought you just being cocky when you speak in english. Not just speak, when it was just a simple sentence in your facebook status, some of friends might be complained and said, "Cinta Indonesia dong", "Jangan sok sok Inggris deh", and many more. Despite of english is one of foreign language, it doesn't mean i don't love my country, INDONESIA. In fact, it has nothing to do with my nationalism. So, why i start using english in this blog? Because, i have a dream, this blog is not read by Indonesian only, but for a lot of people in the world. Maybe sometimes i will write posts about Indonesia, and foreign people will know about Indonesia. I am using english because i want to get used to it. 

I do use ENGLISH, but I LOVE INDONESIA... So, come on guys, stop using the world of "nationalism" to hide your laziness. As long as you educate yourself, there is no end of learning.

Global Software Development

Hello, i will write this post in english.  :)

Global software development is an intensive introduction to developing software on international teams. In this course, we practice about project coordination, manage language and cultural differences. We did two-phased project where ITB students will team with current students in the Computer Science and Engineering program at Texas A&M University, Texas, USA.

In this project, i worked with two partners. They were Alex Schoening and Prothvi Vangal. They were diligent and cooperated friend. We always did our project near the deadline, but it submitted on time. Thank you guys. :)

On the end of this course, i got the opportunity to share my testimony in front of all the participant of closing ceremony. This is my testimony.

This is our photo in closing ceremony.

GSD Closing Ceremony with Mr.Healy (chairman of the Fulbright Board)

Active Session di Facebook

Seringkali kita lupa untuk me-logout akun facebook kita saat online di tempat lain. Takut di-hack? Tenang... Ternyata facebook memiliki fitur untuk mengetahui dimana saja akun kita masih aktif digunakan di tempat lain, dan kita dapat mengakhiri keaktifan dari akun tersebut. Fitur ini dinamakan active sessions. Active sessions berisi informasi mengenai device name, device type, dan lokasi. Device type berupa nama browser yang digunakan.

Adapun caranya adalah sebagai berikut :
- Masuk ke halaman "account setting"
- Pilih "Security"
- Periksa bagian "Active Sessions"
Maka akan muncul halaman dengan contoh sebagai berikut :

Semoga bermanfaat :)

Email Attachment

Disini saya akan menunjukkan batas attachment pada header email dan juga encoding yang digunakan. Adapun langkah-langkah yang dilakukan adalah sebagai berikut :
1. Mengirimkan email dengan 2 attachment kepada diri sendiri.

2. Melihat raw file email dengan memilih pilihan “show original” pada bagian seperti di gambar berikut.

3. Akan muncul file txt yang berisi raw file.

4. Dari raw file diperoleh header sebagai berikut:

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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:49:52 +0700
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Message-ID:
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From: Vivi Lieyanda
To: vivilieyanda@gmail.com
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5. Setelah itu, data attachment nya adalah sebagai berikut, dimana dibatasi oleh boundary tadi.

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Bagian berikut adalah data attachment untuk file Sosif-1.docx


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Ujian kesehatan di minggu UTS

Tanggal 12-16 Maret 2012 merupakan hari-hari UTS mahasiswa ITB. Nah, saya sendiri sebagai mahasiswa ITB tentu harus mengikuti UTS tersebut. Namun, dari minggu pagi ntah kenapa saya mual dan muntah-muntah. Namun karena Seninnya saya ada UTS AI (Artificial Intelligent) saya pun terus berusaha untuk belajar dengan ditemani rasa mual dan diselingi muntah-muntah.

Kronologisnya begini, hari Sabtu siang saya makan sop ayam dan belum mengalami gejala apa-apa. Sabtu sore sekitar jam 5, saya makan empek-empek di samping BEC yang cukup rame, sebelumnya belom pernah coba sih, tapi setiap saya lewat selalu rame. Nah, setelah itu, saya menemani pacar membeli batagor di Kingsley. Lalu jam 7an pacar saya mengantar saya kembali ke kosan dan dia pulang ke Jakarta. Setelah sampai kosan, saya melanjutkan belajar. Namun saya ketiduran hingga pukul 10. Lalu saya merasa perut saya sudah cukup tidak enak, namun karena materi buat UTS Senin belum banyak dipelajari, saya pun melanjutkan belajar dengan posisi telungkup di tempat tidur. Perut yang tidak enak, saya abaikan, dengan merasa mungkin hanya masuk angin. Jam 11an sepertinya saya ketiduran lagi. Minggu paginya, saya pun bangun pagi, sekitar jam 6. Tapi perut saya sangat tidak enak. Saya pun minum tolak angin, biasanya pagi-pagi saya memang suka masuk angin akibat begadang dan dengan minum tolak angin biasanya sudah sembuh.  Saya pun segera memesan nasi goreng di kosan untuk sarapan, saya merasa sakit perut ini karna lapar. Tadi malam kan saya belum makan. Nah saya pun makan nasi gorengnya cuma setengah porsi. Terus saya merasa sangat mual sekali, ingin muntah. Beberapa kali ingin muntah, namun saya coba tahan, karena sayang uda makan. Siangnya saya segera memesan makan siang di kosan lagi, dengan harapan perut saya akan membaik. Namun setelah berusaha menghabiskan makan siang, saya pun sudah tidak sanggup menahan rasa mual ini. Dan akhirnya saya pun muntaaaaaa...SIA-SIA MAKAN SIANG. huhu... Saya pun mencoba tidur dengan harapan setelah saya bangun semua kembali normal. Namun stelah bangun, rasa mual tetap ada, dan kembali muntah-muntah.

Pada malam harinya, pacar saya kembali ke Bandung, dan saya meceritakan semuanya. Saya pun dibawa ke rumah sakir St.Boromeus. Disana, saya pun disuntik obat anti nyeri. Kata dokternya biasanya sekitar setengah jam setelah disuntik, rasa nyeri akan hilang. Namun lebih dari setengah jam, perut saya masih sakit sekali dan saya terus muntah di rumah sakit. Akhirnya takut kenapa-kenapa (salah satunya bisa gejala usus buntu), saya pun diambil darahnya. Hasil lab menyatakan baik-baik saja. Namun saya tetap muntah-muntah. Dokter pun menawarkan untuk rawat inap, namun saya menolak. Karena saya berharap setelah minum obat yang dikasi dokter, esoknya saya bisa sembuh dan dapat mengikuti UTS. 

Stelah mengambil obat di apotek, saya pun segera minum obat dari dokter. Lalu saya dibuatin quaker oleh pacar saya karena malam harinya belum makan apa-apa. Lalu segera tidur. Pagi harinya di saat bangun tidur, rasa mual pun sudah tidak dapat ditahan, muntah super lebai pun terjadi. Pacar saya segera datang, di mobil dengan bekal kantong plastik, saya muntah tak berkesudahan. Akhirnya saya dibawa kembali ke rumah sakit. Tekanan darah saya cukup rendah, lalu saya diinfus. Kemudian darah juga diambil untuk diperiksa leukosit, dll.

Tangan kurus yang sedang diinfus

Ternyata hasil lab cukup bagus, dokter kembali menawarkan rawat inap, karena penyakitnya belum jelas. Namun saya tetap menolak. Senin ini saya pun terpaksa tidak ikut UTS AI karena pada saat itu, saya sedang diinfus. Pacar saya pun juga bolos karena menemani saya. Huhuuu...Thx yaa:..

Stelah diinfus satu botol, saya pun merasa sudah cukup kuat, namun mual-mual masih ada. Tapi saya ingin cepat-cepat pulang saja rasanya. Dokter pun mengiizinkan pulang dan mengatakan, kalau sekali lagi mesti sampai harus ke rumah sakit, sudah tidak ada tawaran, mesti rawat inap. Ya saya pun deal. hhehe...

Sesampai di kos, perut saya langsung tidak enak, dan langsung ke kamar mandi, ternyata saya BAB cair banget gitu, Setelah selesai, tiba-tiba sakit lagi dan BAB lagi. Mungkin ada sampai sekitar 6 kali. Lalu saya merasa sangat lemas, saya memilih untuk tidur. Malamnya saya disuruh minum oralit biar tidak dehidrasi. Ternyata oralit itu enak lho..

Oralit rasanya manis dan asin

Saya ingin mengucapkan terima kasih yang beribu berjuta bertriliyun untuk pacar saya, yang telah merawat saya hingga hari ini blog ini ditulis, dimana saya masih enek dan mencret2. Terima kasih sudah membelikan bubur, mengantar ke RS, mengkhawatirkan kondisi saya, trima kasih..Papamama yang sudah menelpon tiap saat, merawat dari jauh. Dan dedek gw yang sudah masakin buburr.. Terima kasih...

Bubur buatan dede saya