Archive for March, 2008

Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

Religion, Controversy, and Music

It’s classic story about controversy between religion and music. This post doesn’t intended to be a justification, just give you some idea of what several musics have ever convey. This review quoted from MarloByDesign’s writing on HubPages.
Madonna - “Like A Prayer”
In 1989, Madonna released her fourth album, Like a Prayer. The video for […]

Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

OSK 1 2008 Bandung Result

(click the image for the detail list)
Another birthday gift for me. Congratulations to Reinhart, Verlin, Virgie, Danny, and Adhie who have passed the 1st selection of informatics olympiad (OSK). Actually, from their report soon after the contest (Thursday, 27) I have predicted that they will passed this one and they really did! Not only passed, […]

Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  2 Comments »

Thanks…

Happy birthday… Happy birthday… Happy birthday to me…
Hehe… Thanks a lot to all of you who remember this-maybe-special-day. Most of all, thanks to someone who have an international phone at zero hours. I was surprised, I thought you’ll just send me a message, hehe… Thanks to Belva, Dilla, Nia as well who have accompanied me […]

Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  7 Comments »

Uberman Sleep Schedule

 (my “HW001 English Proficiency” oral test preparation)
Good afternoon everyone. Today, I’m going to talk about a unique sleeping schedule named Uberman sleep schedule. It’s a  kind of polyphasic sleep. Polyphasic sleep is a practice of sleeping multiple times in a 24-hour-period. Usually more than two, on contrast to normal biphasic sleep that we usually do. […]

Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  1 Comment »

Congratz : Aldrian Obaja Muis

Congratulations to SMAK 1 BPK PENABUR Bandung who have another great “headline” this year for Aldrian’s success.
This morning, Aldrian was chosen to be 1 of 6 students from Indonesia who will compete in the annually International Mathematics Olympiad in Madrid, July 2008. Moreover, Aldrian placed at the 1st rank among those 6 students. We’re looking […]

Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

Woman in Engineer Perspective…

Funny derivation from engineer about woman, hehe… No offense, for myself this is not true, hehe…

Posted on March 10th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

NTU Triple Room Conversion

This is terrible, they will convert 30% of all rooms into triple rooms. I think my room now is not big enough to accommodate 3 people. Hopefully I still get the double room next semester.

Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  1 Comment »

Where is Selamat Kastari?

An Indonesian-Singaporean terrorist escaped from jail. Please contact the police if you see him! (maybe police will give you a big amount of money)

(just wonder, if you want to make your biography on wikipedia, being a good man is not the only way, check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mas_Selamat_Kastari)  

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  No Comments »

Do cell phones make our lives better?

1Cell phones have made our lives worse, not better. 2Remember when you could eat in a restaurant without hearing the obnoxious ring of someone’s cell phone? 3From restaurants to movie theaters, cell phones violate peace and quiet. 4And not only do they disturb others, but they also distract the people using them. […]

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Brian Marshal  |  1 Comment »

Do You Know?

Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server — thus, the name Apache
Apple Computers - favourite fruit of […]