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CMM Assessment Result, Rudi’s Birthday, Masakan Padang and Bugils Cafe

What a day! A lot of things happen yesterday. First Fred Wimar and Jef Jacob announce the CMM Assessment results. QnAp Asia has been assessed this week, several guys and girls from QnAp Asia have been interviewed by Fred and Jef to know about the way of working in QnAp Asia.

Although QnAp Asia didn’t get the CMM level 2 - Not yet! - But the results were very impressive for a one year old company, said Jef. I think that will give optimism to all QnAp Asia members

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Pirates of Caribbean

Last night I went to the cinema with several boys and girls from QnAp Asia. We leaving the office around 18.00 and arrived at Taman Anggrek mall around 18:15.

Because several boys and girls didn’t have a dinner yet so We go to a Japanese restourant inside Taman Anggrek mall. I already had dinner so I went out to watch peoples playing ice skating on the ice rink. It’s quite few people that play ice skating at first, I think there is some ice skating class going as the students are dancing with music.

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Meeting and Tour de Central Java

As QnAp opening a new branch in Purwokerto Central Java, Ki Lynn, Adi Rakhman and Me must go there to check out the progress of office preparation.

The office location in Purwokerto is quite strategic I think, as it’s in a small office area. The office also near with a gym, billiard cafe, indoor tennis, swimming pool and night club. No worries for entertainment

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Picking Up Meneer Johan from QnAp iT

Yesterday evening at 16:45 I went to the Sukarno-Hatta airport together with Liza to pick up Johan Notenboom that come from the Netherland. At first We thought that He will need some time to do the paper work on imigration, baggage claim, etc. so We went to the airport on the same time with the flight departure time so We don’t need to wait Johan We predict it will need about 1 hour, but We was wrong..

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Silence Please!!

It start to giving Me a headache.. that damn sounds, musics, vocals.. etc. I really need silence so I can work peacefuly.

It begin when all people at second floor of QnAp office - except Me - watch the Fast and the Furious movie, They like it very much and then search for it’s OST on bittorrent. They found it! and next they play it. The music mainly a trance / house music which I didn’t really like it. Well if only play it for once or two times it’s OK for Me because some of the music is quite good, but one person play it again and again and again and if he/she stopped the other person play another music which make the room always full of music and so ‘noisy’.

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Jazzy Moments

It has been two days I stay longer than usual days before, just to enjoy Jazz music It’s a Jazzy moment!

Two days ago I pick up an unused active speaker in the training room of QnAp Asia office and put it right below My desk now I have a more better speaker then My notebook’s speaker, so listening music are more enjoyable.

I turn on Winamp MP3 player which also has capability to receive Internet Radio Streaming which on Winamp it’s called Shoutcast Radio, I select “Jazz” on the selection menu and Winamp will list all Internet Radio that currently broadcast Jazz music.

Why I stay longer in the office? there is two main reasons:

1. The Internet connection in the office is slow if I use the internet in working hours, as the connection are shared with other software engineers. So when everybody already return to Their home I can use all the bandwidth and the streaming radio is not lagging
2. The only person in QnAp Asia that like Jazz is only Me and the Big Boss so I only can enjoy Jazz with the active speaker only when everybody has return to Their home, so I didn’t disturb Them with music They dislike.

Despite that I’m alone in the office, but I very enjoying the Jazzy moment, it’s so quiet and peacefull.. It’s only Me and the Jazz music.. that’s why I call it ‘Jazzy moment’

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Review MSI M630 Notebook

After a couple days using new notebook from QnAp office, I can give some comments on this new MSI M630 notebook.

First impression this notebook looks good, it has Wireless LAN, 15″ Widescreen and a DVD Writer! but not for long those features doesn’t compared with it’s ugly keyboard interface and the air cooler output position.

Here is the bad things with this notebook that You should not buy it:

1. It have a bad keyboard, You need to type like You are using old typing machines! press it softly, then no character come out in the screen.
2. The ‘Fn’ key position are in the most bottom left, which I consider as a stupid design because on normal keyboard ‘Ctrl’ key are in the most bottom left which make most of computer user get use to it - including Me.
3. The left ‘Shift’ key are not in “normal” size because MSI add some unused key ‘\’ next to it, another stupidity in keyboard design.
4. The air cooller output is on the right side just next to Your hand when You using Your mouse - if You are a right handed. I consider this as very stupid, because most people are right handed and using mouse when They using Their notebook. If You using the notebook for a long time, You’ll start feeling hot on Your hand.

Personally, I don’t like this notebook, but I need the widescreen because it’s more comfortable when I writing code using MS Visual Studio.

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Lunch Break and Meeting With Client

Today not much work I done, I just continuing installing softwares on the new notebooks as I’m not finished yet yesterday. Then on the afternoon Big Boss Ki take all the software engineer to Plaza Senayan, We had lunch there with collegues from another company, it seem They are Ki’s friends.

After lunch Ki ask Me and Budi to go to Jakarta Covention Center to meet with a prospected client just to know each other and give Them a proposal. We stay on the JCC for about 2 hours and then go back to the office after We give the proposal.

When We are heading to the office, We almost forgot that there is ‘Three in One’ rules on the street We want to go. Because We are only two person in the car so We decide to take other way.

We arrived in the office at 17.30 so We just packup and go home

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