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Archive for September, 2008

Dan seorang perempuan yang menggendong bayi dalam dakapan dadanya berkata
Bicaralah pada kami perihal Anak.

Dan dia berkata
Anak-anakmu bukanlah anak-anakmu
Mereka adalah anak-anak kehidupan yang rindu akan dirinya sendiri
Mereka dilahirkan melalui engkau tapi bukan darimu
Meskipun mereka ada bersamamu tapi mereka bukan milikmu

Pada mereka engkau dapat memberikan cintamu, tapi bukan pikiranmu
Karena mereka memiliki pikiran mereka sendiri

Engkau bisa merumahkan tubuh-tubuh mereka, tapi bukan jiwa mereka
Karena jiwa-jiwa itu tinggal di rumah hari esok,
yang tak pernah dapat engkau kunjungi meskipun dalam mimpi

Engkau bisa menjadi seperti mereka,
tapi jangan coba menjadikan mereka sepertimu
Karena hidup tidak berjalan mundur dan tidak pula berada di masa lalu

Engkau adalah busur-busur
tempat anakmu menjadi anak-anak panah yang hidup diluncurkan
Sang pemanah telah membidik arah keabadian,
dan ia merenggangkanmu dengan kekuatannya,
sehingga anak-anak panah itu dapat meluncur dengan cepat dan jauh.
Jadikanlah tarikan tangan sang pemanah itu sebagai kegembiraan
Sebab ketika ia mencintai anak-anak panah yang terbang,
maka ia juga mencintai busur teguh yang telah meluncurkannya dengan sepenuh kekuatan.

(Dari ‘Cinta, Keindahan, Kesunyian’)

Come and join, IEC youth fellowship, this Sat. See the poster below.

In an age when human beings have learned the code of human life and can transmit their knowledge in seconds from one continent to another, no mother in the world can understand why her child should be left to die of malnutrition or preventable disease. Never before have the leaders of so many nations come together in a single assembly. This is a unique opportunity and therefore, a unique responsibility. No one can understand why the soil their parents tilled has turned to desert and their family is left hungry. We need to decide our priorities so that that in the future those priorities are reflected in clear and prompt decisions leading to real change in people’s lives. They expect you to work together as governments, and they expect you to work together with other institutions profit and non-profit, public and private where human beings join hands to promote their ideas and their interests. People know that these challenges cannot be met by one country alone. That is why we are here. They look to you to protect them from the great dangers of our time. That, my friends, is what the peoples expect of us. Let us not disappoint them.

Former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan

Haha… Is he my grandfather? Is he my father? Or maybe just someone who had similar face with me? Haha…

Can not stop laughing on myself… Yes, YearbookYourself is the troublemaker, haha… (click on the image to see more oldies faces of mine generated by that funny site, stored in my gallery). If you’re interested, just try for yourself and laugh on yourself, haha…

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Here is a photo taken from “meet and greet” TOKI 2008. It was in Sakae Sushi at Changi Airport, just after TOKI 2008 grabbed 1 gold and 3 bronzes from IOI on Egypt. There were 4 students (Irvan, Adhit, Risan, Gogo), 7 coaches (me, Prima, Bram, Felix, Mr.Adi, Mr.Julio, Mr.Suryana). It was a nice experience, although I have to travel for almost 3,5 hours (round-trip) to go there from my campus.

(from left to right : Brian Marshal, Mr. Adi Mulyanto, Mr. Julio Adi S, Risan, Prima Chairunnanda, Mr. Suryana Setiawan) 

(from left to right : Bramandia Ramadhana, Listiarso Wastuargo, Felix Halim, Irvan Jahja, Reinardus Surya P) 

Finally, I’ve decided my topic for URECA. It is “Bee Colony Optimization : Travelling Salesman and Jobshop Scheduling” under Asst Prof Yoke Hean Low, Malcolm.

Mainly, I will studying some meta-heuristics algorithm for some operational-research problems. Specifically, I will do some investigation on bee colony optimization (which just popularized this year) for solving some benchmark problem in operational-research (i.e. Travelling Salesman and Jobshop Scheduling, as the title state).

I hope I can get some extra-ordinary experiences, knowledges, and adventures doing this one-year-project.