My self-summary
username: Hamachi. That's been my name online since May 1987...
only now it's gradually changing to Hamachisn't.
If you happen to be new here (on OKc), before bothering with my
profile, I highly recommend you
click here to learn how to use this site well.
DCMerlin has also written a guide that I've only begun to check out
but I'll give you a
link to it anyway:
There is a bug on the site that will sometimes lose part of your
essays or journal. I recommend to everyone here: keep a copy of
your profile in case they lose some of it!
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OkCupid: Now in Indonesian!
Saya lama lama coba belajar bahasa
Indonesia dari IRC dan kamus, tetapi
ma'af kalau ada salah kata. (Kalau ada, tolong kasih tahu yang kata
betul)
Dulu Hamachi mendengerkan musik (
gamelan Bali), jadi suka-suka... Setelah waktu itu
Hamachi mendengerkan musik Sunda, dan lagi saya suka-suka. Jadi
Hamachi mau tau banyak tentang Indonesia. Baca buku tentang
negaranya, belajar banyak! (Kenapa mereka ngga ngajar itu dlm
sekolah di sini? Indonesia besar sekali.... ada tiga wilayah
waktu!!!)
Mulai main IRC di cenel Indonesia dan liat bahasa ini... Owwwwww,
itu seperti bahasa Melayu! (Saya sudah punya kamus Melayu yang
kecil...)
Jadi Hamachi mulai belajar bahasa Indonesia/Melayu --> jadi cari
kamus Indonesia -> cari satu lagi, satu lagi -> -> ->
coba liat http://www.angelfire.com/space/hamachi/images/kamus.jpg
:) (I tried putting a link to that photo here but Angelfire refuses
to show it if you click on that. Must enter the address directly;
it won't work if you just click)
Yang kamus Melayu itu kecil yang di paling kanan.
Saya pingin kunjung ke Indonesia dan merekam musiknya. Suka suka
musiknya tradisi dan juga pop. Mungkin mau ke Bali, Java, dan
Flores. Boleh jadi pulau lagi... tapi mesti tunggu sampai boleh
liburan 3 minggu... boleh jadi setelah 5 tahun.
What I'm doing with my life
loving it. The best thing someone CAN do with their life.
And more recently: Bringing my career back to where it belongs.
On my off hours, I'm trying to help out jjatag (yeah, he's on OKc too) with the
computer business we started in early 06.
Sometimes to relax, I attend drumming circles. J has taken to
drumming too, so we go together.
At work, they hired a new manager (in the beginning of October) to
be my direct supervisor (well, for me and maybe a dozen others).
He's really awesome, and he & I have been getting along great.
He's my newest friend. Well, he and his wife also drum! :) So the
four of us have all been drumming together at various events. It's
great!
UPDATE: ...and he just joined OKc! Hiya Ben! :)
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lagi kerja setelah lama coba kerjaan yg baik. (programer komputer
nih).
I'm really good at
music, art/craft, logic, math. NOT necessarily in that order. Then
again, if you're an artist (or musician) for real, you'd think I'm
pretty weak at art (or music). Let's say, better than the average
layman.
I'm also starting to think I'm not a bad cook, considering I'm
pretty new to the field. Not terribly experienced, but I have a
good sense for what would go together well. For example, cranberry
sauce and coffee. Who'd'a thunk they would work well together? Yet
they do. (Note: this was cranberry sauce that I made myself,
without sugar or any sweetener)
Then again, now that I work by day, I come home and cooking is
again the last thing I wanna do. That was bound to happen, but ya
know? I don't mind. It's good to work again. :)
OkCupid: Now in Indonesian!
program komp di bahasa assembly (bagaimana katakan "assembly
language" dalam bhs Indonesia?)
Juga ok main musik pake banyak aaaaa..... (mau katakan
"instruments")
Kurang baik kalau bicara bahasa Indonesia; bisa ketik dan baca
saja. Mau bisa bicara juga, tetapi bagaimana belajar dalam New
Jersey?
The first thing(s) people usually notice about me
Not that people would particularly notice my eyes, but they're not
your average run-of-the-mill eyes. Yeah, they're brown, but not the
usual dark brown. Sort of a medium brown with a dark ring around
the outer iris edge. Whatever; they're EYES. They see, and that's
why I love them.
Back when I had my tail, that was definitely the thing to write
about here. But now that I'm detailed, the choice is not so
obvious. The black eye is gone now, so what to write here? Hey
Ben... you met me not that long ago. Any ideas?
I didn't think it would be the eyes... everyone says eyes
in here. Maybe the teeth that broke when they had just started
growing in.
OkCupid: Now in Indonesian!
Weleh! Sudah ngga ada ekor rambut gue..... jadi ngga tau.
(Bisa melihat ekor di
http://www.angelfire.com/space/hamachi/images/hamachindo.jpg)
Hehehehehehe, harus bikin poto lagi yg ada ekor tapi tanpa gua
:)
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
Books: Fiction: The
Lathe of Heaven (Ursula K
Leguin)
- Nonfiction:
Ring of Fire (Laurence Blair with
Lorne Blair)
Movies: Ikiru.
It's one of my favorite movies. Akira Kurosawa was (in my opinion) great! I
like all his films that I've seen so far. I also love "The Lathe of
Heaven" (not to be confused with the crummy remake, called "Lathe
of Heaven" (without the "The"). It's the movie that made me go out
and get the book, and look what happened there...^
Music: nearly any kind of music. It's easier to tell what music
I don't like than what I do like.
I once discovered http://musicovery.com, and have every genre
selected except metal, latino, vocal pop, and pop. Back then, I had
the mood selector all the way to the left and about 2/3 of the way
to the bottom from the middle... and the music was suiting me
nicely. Guess that was my mood right then. But that didn't last
long. I'm back to browsing either without music, or with a CD or
some song picked out to play many times.
Foods: Duck, Mango, Avocado. Should I add naan to this list? Oh,
probably not. Same goes for bread pudding. (sigh)
Cuisines: French or anything Asian, particularly Japanese or Thai
or Indonesian or Indian. Yumby!
I have a sweet tooth which I need to eliminate... but I've been
being reasonably good about keeping the carbohydrates down, and I
feel a lot better as a result. I got my brain back!
Oh, but I discovered a while back that I really love pancakes
too! Brownies and pancakes, those are what I crave these days. And
French toast, acorn & butternut squash. Alas, I can only eat
that stuff once a month, and generally only after I'm full from a
low-carb, high-protein and high-fiber meal. But one time I ate
pancakes that were so good it brought tears to my eyes! Woo! I'll
have to get 'em again at that place; they were reallllllly good
pancakes.
Sigh... even the monthly-binge rule has gone all to hell, as I
proceed to eat carbs whenever I want to, as long as I don't have
too much.
So how was Pierre's? You gonna be mourning their imminent closure
alongside me? (sigh) I'm glad you got to eat there once, at
least.
OkCupid: Now in Indonesian!
buku: kalau cerita saja, "The Lathe of Heaven" yg ditulis Ursula K.
LeGuin. Kalau bener, "Ring of Fire" yg ditulis Lawrence Blair
(dengan Lorne Blair).
pilm: ada dua: "The Lathe of Heaven" (BUKAN "Lathe of Heaven"
saja!) dan "Ikiru" yang pilm Jepang.
musik: hampir semua musik! Kurang bisa pikir satu yang paling di
suka.
makanan: mangga, bebek, alpukat (ngga manis)
masakan: nyammmmmi! Suka masakan Perancis dan Asia... Indonesia,
Jepang, Thailand.....
The six things I could never do without
"The SIX things I could never do without:", thank you very
much! (Note to those new to OKc: there was a time when this
question would sometimes change to "what I think about while
masturbating", but they kept the same answers that we'd given to
the six things we could never do without. I haven't seen that other
question appear for a while now, but that doesn't mean it won't
ever show again.)
figuratively: music, art, culture. Friends. Animals.
literally: Food, air, water, warmth
What else? Friends, intellectual and emotional stimulation...
and uh... yes I can count! But I can also go outside the border, if
said border is too confining.
Something that I could but don't
want to live without, is
music. Music to hear, instruments to play. And a good warm cuddle
at times. J's really good for that :)
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Yang betul: makanan, air, angin, panasan.
Yang saya mau, tapi bisa hidup kalau tidak punya: musik, sastra,
kultur. Teman. Binatang. "Musik" itu, artinya untuk dimendengerkan,
juga instrumen untuk main. :)
Yang mana lagi? Yang bikin pikiran saya..... dan saya TAHU katakan
mereka enam, tetapi saya bisa kasih lagi kalau mau.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
These days? I try and juggle schedules to do everything I want to
do in what little time I have these days. Weekends fill up awfully
quickly, so I try and do things in the evenings (but that requires
keeping it down to around 2 hours a night, so I can get to bed on
time).
At work, I think about fire alarm systems and how they work and
how I can make them better. And how to test them without causing
real fires ;)
The Game was just an idea of having some fun in private in
public. (huh?) Well, the players would know what's going on and
everyone else would read but shrug it off in a confused way. Very
few people on here have any idea who the other player is. If he
decides to play at all. If not, that's cool too; we've got other
means of communication.
Incidentally, what good is your USB stick (one of the 6 things you
could never do without), without a machine to read/write that same
stick?
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Mau paling tiduran |) Juga saya mau bikin banyak tetapi kapan
bisa?
Dikantor saya pikir tentang sistem alarm api, bagaimana mereka
melakukan tugasnya, dan bagaimana saya bisa membuat perbaikan
mereka.
On a typical Friday night I am
"chatting on IRC... sometimes in English, sometimes in
Indonesian." --- well,
that was the OLD old answer. Then there's the not-quite-as-old
answer: "But these days, Fridays are as different as any other day.
Life is great.
Hmmmmm, you know, I'm not really sure I
have a routine these
days.
Last Friday night I spent time on here, played some stupid computer
games like solitaire, minesweeper, ingenious... and I went out to
do a little shopping. Picked up some exmas lights to light up the
living room for parties (we have a couple of friends who keep exmas
lights in their living room all year round and it makes for such a
nice cozy atmosphere!) Also picked up most of the ingredients to
make some REAL eggnog, quite unlike the stuff they pass of as gnog
in the cardboard cartons in the store. No, the real stuff is great,
and J just found a recipe recently that looks fantastic! I'm really
looking forward to making some & trying it. (Using much less
sugar than the recipe calls for... but then again, even the recipe
with full sugar doesn't really have that much carbage to it. I'll
have to try it with full sugar and 1/3 sugar, and see which one's
better.)
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Apa yang biasa? Belum ada yang biasa; masih kerjaan saya
baru.
Boleh jadi yang biasa begini: main dengan komputer, baca
The most private thing I'm willing to admit here
I'm very open one-on-one, but aside from our little
computer-service business I have nothing to advertise to the world.
I'll answer just about any personal question you want to ask,
though.
Oh, here! This is something I can add here:
I don't want to hear about anyone named God. If you feel a need
to talk about your God, then please don't talk to me. Far too many
people confuse the words "spiritual" and "religious". I am not and
have never been Christian, and I don't care to start now either. If
you absolutely MUST talk about your god, please find someone else
to talk with; leave me out of it.
Fair warning! I will terminate our chat or ignore your message
if I see that three-letter word in it. The word "Jesus" counts, as
well. And if I see it in your profile because it's so important
that you include it in everything that you do, I probably won't
want to talk with you either.
(Stepping down off the soapbox)
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Saya sudah lihat kamus, cari kata "alarm" (sama gendan bahasa
Inggeris) dan "melakukan tugas" dan "membuat perbaikan".
Masih kurang bisa bahasa Indonesia.
You should message me if
...you think we'd be compatible... especially if you like
math/science, art/music... It's also preferable if your IQ has 3
digits.
...you like drum circles and either live in this area or are
willing to come out this way some time to drum.
Then again, you should
not message me if you don't have a
profile set up on here yet, or if you haven't answered at least
some 100 or 200 questions. Here it is, some incentive for OKc
newbies to make this site work for them! Good luck.
And don't bother writing if you can't be bothered to read my
profile first. Then again, if you didn't read my profile, you
didn't read this either. Um... well ignorance is no excuse; that
suggestion still stands. But it's a bad idea to say you read my
profile if you haven't. MY PHOTOS ARE NOT MY PROFILE! They
are only a minor part of my profile. Believe me, if you haven't
read it, it shows.
One good way to show that you have read the profile (mine or
anyone's) would be to mention something that you saw in it. Don't
just say "I liked your profile", or "I read all of your favorite
books and loved them". Say which one of them you liked best, or
something like that. But you should know that already; you
shouldn't need me to tell you that.
...And if you do feel so moved as to write to me, please
don't call me "dear" or "darling" or "honey" or any bullshit like
that if you don't know me really well. Or rather, if I don't know
you really well. It's so, um, condescending! I'll also ignore your
message if you call me something like that.
It also helps if you know English... as in, spelling, grammar,
punctuation. Now, I admit that I sometimes deliberately misspell a
word or three in jest. For example, I wrote "Iota" instead of "I
ought to" up above... But at least I know the correct spelling!
(Note: people from other countries, to whom English is a foreign
language, are excused from this, for the most part. I don't expect
them to use perfect grammar or spelling.)
Juga: minta kirim imel kalau bisa mengerti ini. Saya mau belajar
bahasa ini lebih baik.
OkCupid: Now in Indonesian!
...mau bantu mengajar bahasa Indonesia dan saya bantu Inggerisnya.
Mau?
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