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Jatiluhur Valley & Resort
One sign of getting old is to prefer staying at home rather than going out. This fact seemed to apply to me, in which this Christmas I found more happiness at home. However, I was obliged to take my family out (because it was school holiday!), and one night stay out of town sounded nice…
YouTube video and DivX format for Car Media Player
Some cars, like mine, have a video player that can only play specific DivX videos (a.k.a. old format). It doesn’t play YouTube videos. Of course it is illegal to easily download YouTube videos using yt-dlp, you need to pay premium and watch in their proprietary app or website. Even when you download it, what you…
DNArtworks Trip to Kuala Lumpur
It was almost Indonesia’s 2024 Independence celebration day when the DNArtworks team went for company outing to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Bandung team took the earliest Whoosh trip to Halim, followed by taxi ride to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. At the airport, we had a light breakfast, then joined the rest of the team. We had…
Public Transit Trip with The Kids
With my status as an employee as well as running a family business, I don’t that much of holiday. Especially after COVID-19 pandemic, December is the time for my mostly Christian employees to take leave, hence I have to back them up. However, I had a few days before 2024 to go with the kids…
Coffee, Bento, Running and Wedding
You may have known from my previous post Visiting The Dead that I have a relatively big extended family. This time one of them got married in Kelapa Gading area, Jakarta. I was happy because it’s also served as an excuse to leave the kids with their Popo (grandmother) and have me and my wife…
Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh, Yes
When the high-speed train started operating, many Indonesians were excited to try. That includes me and my parents. Therefore, I asked my parents in Jakarta to come and visit us in Bandung. On Saturday morning, my family drove me to Tegalluar station, located at the eastern side of Bandung. We took the toll road, passed…
DNArtworks Trip to Ho Chi Minh City
Aside from teaching, I also partner with my brother in running a business. The DNArtworks provides many solutions from graphic design, videography, social media, as well as websites and applications. As for the latter, I help him on software development side, bringing Informatika Unpar graduates and lead them in making high quality websites and apps.…
All Boys Trip
I am a proud alumnus of SMA Kanisius, a boys-only high school. Every year the alumni association held a reunion. I rarely participated in such event, but this year somehow I had a chance to do that. The idea was to bring my son D with me, also as a chance to introduce him to…
Visiting The Dead
In 2020, COVID-19 hit the world. It was deadly mostly to people with comorbidity or senior citizens, including my grandfather of 100 years old. Due to safety reasons, he was quickly cremated and his remain was kept in a columbarium. Fast forward to 2023, COVID-19 was largely under control and there was plan to take…
The system cheated me, so I cheated the system
Background People invent technologies to help other people. However, it sometimes happen that it puts people into a rat race. Computer programmers create automations, others invented CAPTCHA to prevent automation. Photoshop can manipulate photos, while there are technologies invented to detect manipulated images. OpenAI created ChatGPT, while some people created a program to detect ChatGPT-made…