Posted by indra on December 10th, 2009 — Posted in Kejadian Terbaru, Blogging, Informasi
Mohon maaf atas keterlambatan saya meneruskan informasi ini.
Beberapa hari yang lalu, saya menerima e-mail dari Yuniman Farid, redaksi Indonesia di Deutsche Welle yang menginformasikan bahwa The BOBs, kompetisi blog internasional, kembali diselenggarakan oleh broadcaster terbesar di Jerman itu. Untuk penjurian dalam bahasa Indonesia, The BOBs akan kembali diwakili oleh Budi Putra, rekan blogger dan pendiri Asia Blogging Network yang sekarang bekerja sebagai country editor Yahoo! Indonesia.
Berikut cuplikan informasi dari mas Yuniman:
Jadwal penyelenggaraan The BOBs kali ini:
- 07.12.2009 - 14.02.2010 Tahap pendaftaran dan pengusulan blog dalam kompetisi.
- 15.03.2010 - 14.04.2010 Online voting Blog nominasi
- 15.04.2010 Pengumuman pemenang pada acara re:publica di Berlin
- 22.06.2010 Penyerahan penghargaan bagi pemenang pilihan juri pada acara Global Media Forum di Bonn.
Artikel singkat mengenai pembukaan The BOBs bisa dibuka di: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4971261,00.html
Dan penjelasan lainnya mengenai kompetisi blog ini bisa dibuka di: http://www.thebobs.com/
Dari jadwal diatas, pendaftaran dan pengusulan blog untuk diikutkan dalam kompetisi sudah dibuka sejak tanggal 7 Desember 2009 yang lalu, dan masih akan dibuka hingga tanggal 14 Februari 2010. Jadi masih cukup banyak waktu untuk rekan-rekan blogger menata kembali blog-nya dan mengikutkan blog-nya dalam kompetisi tersebut.
Sekedar informasi, pemenang The BOBs kategori bahasa Indonesia tahun lalu adalah blog Media Ide, milik Pitra Satvika aka @anakcerdas.
Selamat mendaftarkan blog-nya di ajang kompetisi The BOBs! 
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Posted by IndraPr on November 6th, 2009 — Posted in travel, europe, france, louvre
This article is part of our Europe Trip series:
1. From Singapore to Paris via Dubai
2. Châtenay-Malabry, Eiffel Tower, Seine River Tour
On Tuesday morning, 2 June 2009, a Kide dropped us off at the nearest RER station around Châtenay-Malabry, Robinson (pronounced: ro-bang-song). Our first destination for the day is the centre of the Paris: the Île de la Cité island and its most famous attraction: Notre-Dame cathedral. Since we enter the Robinson station from the side entrance, we had to use the automated machine to buy the tickets for the RER train, using Euro coins since the machine doesn’t accept notes. Luckily, we had enough coins. Only couple of later then we found out that at the main entrance, there’s a ticket counter where we can buy tickets using notes. :P
RER trains charge by zones, so we had to check on which zones the starting and destination station are located, to ensure that we purchase the correct tickets according to the number of zones travelled. We can either buy single-trip (one-way) tickets, return tickets or a carnet of 10 tickets (with discounted price) which can be shared by different passengers. If you’re not sure, you can just go to the ticket counter and inform the staff your destination station, and the staff will advise you on the price.
The Robinson station is on a branch’s end of RER line B, so we took the train towards the city and we alighted at St. Michel – Notre Dame station, the RER station closest to the Île de la Cité island. It was the first time we used public transportation in Paris, and we enjoyed it very much. The RER trains are similar to Kuala Lumpur's KTM Komuter trains, slightly bigger than Singapore’s MRT trains and it’s quite convenient, provided it’s not too crowded.
From St. Michel – Notre Dame station, we crossed the bridge across Seine river to Île de la Cité and walked towards Notre Dame cathedral. We took our time taking pictures in front of the cathedral, near the statue of Charlemagne and at Point Zero, the “real” centre of Paris where distances to other locations in Paris (and perhaps France?) is measured. From there, we proceeded with our walking tour around the island, covering Pont d’Arcole and Hotel de Ville across the Seine river, Hotel Dieu, Pont Notre Dame overlooking the Tribunal de Commerce building, Place du Chatelet and the gloomy Conciergerie building, before reaching the Palais de Justice and Sainte Chapelle buildings.
After taking some rest in front of Palais de Justice building, we then left the island by crossing the Pont St Michel bridge, and walked along the Seine river towards Pont Neuf. After taking some pictures and having another rest in front of Institut de France building, we then crossed the Pont des Arts bridge and walked towards Louvre. We bought some ice creams at the end of the Pont des Arts bridge before entering the Louvre via its Sully wing. Since it was a Tuesday, the Louvre museum was closed for the day, so there’s not much people traffic there, allowing us to enjoy taking the photographs near the Louvre pyramid and the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.
We then met mbak Enik near Louvre, and we proceeded to have lunch at McDonald's which is located along Rue de Rivoli, one of the most famous roads in Paris, not far from Louvre. After lunch, my wife, my mother and mbak Enik then visited a duty free shop around the area, while I took Irza and Inka for sightseeing around the area. We walked past Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel monument towards the Jardin du Carrousel garden behind it. After taking pictures in front of the Joan of Arc statue at Places des Pyramides, we then walked north towards Avenue de l'Opera.
Our next walking destination was the Palais Royal and the garden, Jardin du Palais Royal. Passing through the garden until the end, we exited Palais Royal complex through its back entrance and walked along Rue de Petit Champs, located around Paris' 1st arrondissement to go towards Avenue de l'Opera again. Our next destination was the famous Opera National de Paris Garnier building. By that time, we have walked several kilometers and myself and the kids were also very tired, so we decided to take the public bus back to Rue de Rivoli to meet my wife and my mother.
That was the first time we took public bus in Paris. :) Since we haven't purchased our carnet of t+ tickets yet (will share about the advantage of buying the carnet of t+ tickets later), we purchased the tickets on board of the bus from the bus driver, and pay in cash. The ticket purchased from the bus driver can only be used on the bus itself and doesn't allow transfer to other mode of transportation (e.g. the metro train).
More pictures can be found here and here.
(To be continued)
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Posted by IndraPr on November 3rd, 2009 — Posted in opinion, gadget, happening, thoughts
Photo: My Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
After almost a year using my Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 mobile phone, I have come to a conclusion that its sliding keyboard is a design flaw. If you really a heavy user of the keyboard, I would not recommend the phone at all. On the other hand, people normally choose Xperia X1 because of the keyboard, otherwise they would opt for other cheaper phones such as HTC Diamond or Samsung Omnia. Therefore, it’s not worth spending your money for that expensive phone. For Xperia X1 wanna-be user, I would suggest you buy another phone instead.
Lousy Phone
I bought the phone on November last year, and after becoming a happy user of the phone for just several weeks, I have started to experience the problem on its sliding keyboard some time on late February or early March 2009, which was just several months after it was bought. I will not go into details on the problem, you can just click the above-mentioned hyperlinks for more info about the problem. In short, the problem was fixed after I sent the phone for repair some time on July 2009. Basically, they changed the keyboard with a new one to fix the problem, although since they confirmed that it was a hardware issue, I had concerns that the new keyboard would eventually have the same problem when the time comes.
And… guess what? My concerns came true. Since last month, again I started to experience similar problem with the keyboard. And yes, it *is* the new keyboard which is having the same problem. And I am not alone, many other Xperia X1 users experience the same problem after several weeks or months using the phone. With even new keyboard experiencing the same problem, I conclude that the problem is due to a design flaw which will cause the keyboard to have the problem after several weeks or month of usage, depends on how often the user uses the sliding keyboard.
Lousy Service
I brought the phone to the Sony Ericsson Service Centre at Wisma Atria again last Sunday (1/11). Since the warranty period is nearing the end, the customer service officer said that the service will be chargeable, even though I brought the warranty card, because I was unable to provide her with the receipt as proof of purchase. She said that she was not able to determine the exact date of purchase because it was not on Sony Ericsson’s database.
She advised that I can try calling SingTel Mobile’s customer service and get them to fax the copy of my mobile contract to Sony Ericsson. When I called them, they said that they can provide the service, however it would take 5-7 working days and it costs me $30. The SingTel’s service officer advised that I might be able to get the copy of the mobile contract from the shop I purchased the Xperia X1 from. Sigh, I ditched the idea and decided to search for the contract on my pile of files at home on Sunday night. Alhamdulillah, thank God, I found it after almost two hours combing my files, and I have faxed it over to Sony Ericsson earlier this morning to ensure that I don’t get charged for this service.
No More Sony Ericsson Phones For Me
With such an experience with a lousy phone with a lousy service from the service centre, I have promised myself that I will never buy another Sony Ericsson phone. Well, some might said that since Xperia X1 was built by HTC for Sony Ericsson, that means the design flaw might be HTC’s fault, but I have friends who have HTC Touch Pro and the newer HTC Touch Pro 2, and they are happy users of the phones. My friend Arga suggested me to upgrade to the upcoming Xperia X2 phone which will be released this month, or even the future Android-based Xperia X3, but how can I ensure that similar design flaw will not apply to the newer phones as well?
Photo: HTC Touch Pro 2 (courtesy of gsmarena.com)
Photo: Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO (courtesy of gsmarena.com)
Photo: Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 (courtesy of gsmarena.com)
Photo: Nokia N97 (courtesy of gsmarena.com)
Yes, I intend to replace my Xperia X1 soon, if the problem still happens again after this second round of servicing. But I’m still not too sure which phone I should buy. It has to has a sliding keyboard, and it cannot be another Sony Ericsson phone. :P So, Xperia X2 is definitely out of question. I was considering Nokia N97 before my friends advised me that it’s not really a good phone, since it hangs quite frequently. I am currently considering either HTC Touch Pro 2 or the new Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO (the sliding keyboard type-one, not the Blackberry-alike OmniaPRO B7320). Do you have any other phones I should consider? :)
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Posted by indra on October 28th, 2009 — Posted in Blogging
Menurut Ndoro Kakung:
Jadi benarkah blog itu hanya trend sesaat?
Bagi para pionir itu mungkin iya. Tapi jangan lupa: selalu ada orang baru, generasi penerus, yang tergoda oleh blog dan tertarik mencobanya. Mati satu, tumbuh seribu ….
Komentar Pitra di artikel yang sama:
jadi ingat riset IndoPac Edelman + Blogfam, di mana usia blog umumnya sekitar 2 tahun, lalu setelah itu mengalami penurunan kualitas dan kuantitas posting. Sebabnya beragam, dari menikah sampai urusan pekerjaan.
Kalau melihat yg senior memang sudah banyak yang bertumbangan. Mereka mencoba “tantangan” media baru. Yang junior pasti akan selalu bermunculan.
Yang kurang adalah, bagaimana yang junior ini bisa lebih dekat dengan senior. Supaya tongkat estafet pun bisa dilakukan. (kok kayak alih kepemimpininan ya?) Intinya sih, supaya yang junior pun tahu bagaimana awal muawal blogging di Indonesia, dan bagaimana mereka menentukan visi blog mereka di masa datang.
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Posted by indra on October 27th, 2009 — Posted in Blogging
Dalam rangka Hari Blogger Nasional yang dirayakan oleh seluruh blogger Indonesia pada hari ini, Pitra “Media Ide” mengadakan sesi tanya jawab seputar blogging melalui media microblogging Twitter. Undangan sesi tanya jawab tersebut tentu saja mendapatkan respon positif para tweeps yang sempat membuat Pitra kewalahan, walaupun akhirnya beliau menjawab semua pertanyaan yang diajukan dan menulis rangkumannya disini. Mas Nukman Luthfie bahkan mendukung Pitra untuk menjadi ketua panitia (chairman) Pesta Blogger 2010.
Dalam kesempatan sesi tanya jawab tersebut itu, saya menanyakan soal Hari Blogger Nasional, yang dirayakan setiap tanggal 27 Oktober, apakah masih relevan mengingat Pesta Blogger, yang diadakan setiap tahun, tidak tepat diadakan pada hari tersebut? Hanya Pesta Blogger yang pertama diadakan pada tanggal 27 Oktober 2007, untuk tahun-tahun selanjutnya diadakan pada tanggal yang berbeda. Pitra menjelaskan bahwa Pesta Blogger selalu diadakan pada hari Sabtu, supaya banyak orang yang bisa datang. Kalau diadakan di hari tertentu lainnya (apalagi hari kerja), takutnya banyak yang tidak bisa datang.
Supaya Hari Blogger Nasional bisa dirayakan oleh blogger Indonesia tepat pada waktu Pesta Blogger diselenggarakan, saya mengusulkan agar Hari Blogger Nasional jangan dipatok ke tanggal tertentu (27 Oktober) seperti sekarang, tapi dibuat “floating” mengikuti tanggal Pesta Blogger diadakan untuk tahun tersebut. Mirip lah seperti Hari Raya Idul Fitri atau Idul Adha yang tanggal-nya juga floating setiap tahunnya, mengikuti kalender Hijriyah.
Ada beberapa pertanyaan lain seputar blogging yang cukup menarik, diantaranya adalah pertanyaan dari Rhesya, yang menanyakan kapan gerakan blogger aktif pertama marak di Indonesia. Pitra menjawab kalau Enda Nasution udah mulai nge-blog sejak tahun 2005, yang kemudian dikoreksi oleh Enda sendiri yang mengklarifikasi kalau beliau sudah nge-blog sejak tahun 2001. Saya sendiri menambahkan kalau blog di Indonesia sudah ada sejak tahun 2000, sambil memberikan tautan ke artikel lama saya mengenai sedikit sejarah blogger Indonesia di tahun 2000 yang saya ketahui, dimana pada waktu itu para blogger yang saya kenal adalah alumni BemoNet. Aulia juga menambahkan kalau Boy Avianto juga sudah mulai blogging sejak 2000, yang kemudian bales bilang kalau Thalia aka @turniptopia, yang kebetulan tetangga saya di Singapura, pertama ngeblog di tahun 1999 dan MASIH AKTIF sampai sekarang!
Rangkuman dari seluruh pertanyaan dan jawaban dari sesi tanya jawab seputar blogging tersebut bisa dilihat disini. Terima kasih, Pitra.
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Posted by IndraPr on October 20th, 2009 — Posted in happening, singapore, thoughts
I was attending a friend's wedding event at An-Nahdhah Mosque, Bishan on Sunday, 11 October 2009 and when I went back, I inadvertently and carelessly left my bag, containing my HP Mini netbook, at the basement carpark, before I went into my car. It seems that I might have left the bag when I needed to put on my shoes, and I only realised it after I reached my home at Bukit Batok.
I immediately called the mosque's management after getting the number from SingTel's directory service (100). While driving back from Bukit Batok to Bishan (which seemed like forever), I had Mr. Jamal on the other line, who patiently listened to my panic voice explaining that I had left my bag in the basement carpark. I even wrongly informed him that it was a blue bag, while it is actually a purple backpack. Mr. Jamal said he would check and advised me to call him back in 15 minutes.
Fifteen minutes later, I was already exiting PIE onto Lornie Road when I tried to call the mosque again, and was nervous when nobody picked up the call. I kept on calling using my handsfree but unable to reach anyone in the mosque, until I reached the mosque itself and went into the basement carpark. I was even more nervous when I couldn't find the bag at the place where I might have left it, and immediately took the lift upstairs to the first floor to go to the management office.
I met the mosque's staff at the office (I'm not too sure whether he's Mr. Jamal or another staff) and, alhamdulillah, thank God, the bag was there and he gave it to me. He mentioned that upon receiving my call, he immediately went to the basement carpark and found the bag near the carpark's lobby entrance. There were some other people around when he found the bag so he asked them whether the bag belongs to them, and they said no, so he brought the bag to the management office and kept it there. Thank God!
I also met some of my friends from the wedding event there, and shared my experience with them. Because of that, I didn't manage to thank the mosque staff properly. Thank you, Mr. Jamal and An-Nahdhah mosque's staff, for helping me to locate and keep the bag for me.
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Posted by IndraPr on October 18th, 2009 — Posted in indonesia, travel
This article is originally posted on ABN's Asia Travel Blog here.
Pangandaran is a famous tourist attraction, located at the south-east end of West Java province, Indonesia. Its beaches are reputably the best and finest in Java island, and also offer excellent surfing. Other than its fine beaches, Pangandaran also offer a beautiful national park and its own version of green canyon.
However, its location at the southern regency of Ciamis in West Java makes Pangandaran not really appealing to Jakarta and Bandung tourists, let alone foreign tourists. By road, it takes around 5-6 hours to reach Pangandaran from Bandung, the capital city of West Java province, and it takes around 7-8 hours to reach Pangandaran from Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia, by road.
Fortunately, there is now a faster alternative to reach Pangandaran, which is via air. Susi Air, an airline previously specialised in chartered services, has started scheduled services from Jakarta and Bandung to Pangandaran. This will cut down the travel time between Jakarta and Pangandaran to only one hour. It will operate a Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft with a capacity of 12 passengers to service the Jakarta-Pangandaran route twice a day, one direct flight and another one with a stopover in Bandung.
The flight from Jakarta will depart from Halim Perdanakusuma airport, located east of the city and closer to the city centre compared to Soekarno-Hatta International airport.
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Posted by IndraPr on October 17th, 2009 — Posted in happening, singapore, travel
On Friday (16/10) morning, I received both SMS and e-mail from AirAsia, to inform me that my and my family’s upcoming Indonesia AirAsia’s QZ 7785 flights (same flight on different dates) from Singapore to Jakarta on December 2009 are being rescheduled from 12:40pm to 5:45pm. There seems to be a re-timing exercise affecting this specific flight number and all QZ 7785 flights after 25 October 2009 are affected.
I immediately logged in to AirAsia’s website and tried to change my itinerary to an earlier flight for the day using its “Manage my Booking” function, however I would have to pay S$40 “change fee”. Luckily, there were some other Indonesians in Singapore who had also purchased tickets for some future QZ 7785 flights and were affected by the same problem, and they were kindly enough to share their experience in Indo-Sing mailing list. They mentioned that if we call their call centre to request for a change to an earlier flight due to this re-timing, they will process it without charging the $40 change fee.
That’s good news! The only problem is that it was very difficult to call AirAsia’s call centre number in Singapore on that day. I tried calling the number (630 77688) since 10:30am in the morning and I kept on getting busy tones. I eventually managed to get in touch with them at around 3pm in the afternoon, and I immediately lodged my complaint about the change of schedule and requested for a change to an earlier flight, free of charge. He requested for the booking codes and I gave him.
The call centre staff then gave me a Service Request Number (SRN) and was transferred to their support staff. They put me on hold for quite some time (I think close to 5 minutes) before a support staff then took my call and request for the SRN. After I gave him the SRN, he then processed the flight change (for both myself and my family, who are on the same flight but different date) and informed me that I will receive an e-mail containing the new itinerary within 15 minutes. Yay! :)
Less than 5 minutes, I received the email with the new itineraries, and immediately print them. Just to make sure, I went back into the “Manage my Booking” function on AirAsia’s website to check the booking, and it’s confirmed that the flight has been changed to an earlier flight (10:30am) for the day, for both booking. I am a very happy AirAsia customer now.
Thank you, AirAsia. :)
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Posted by indra on October 15th, 2009 — Posted in Kejadian Terbaru, Komunitas Singapura, Pengalaman
Beberapa minggu yang lalu, seorang rekan blogger asal Bandung yang sudah saya kenal sejak lama tapi belum pernah ketemu, kang Indra "Odonk" K.H., mengirim pesan di Facebook, mengabarkan kalau beliau dan pak Budi Rahardjo akan berkunjung ke Singapura tanggal 9-11 Oktober 2009. Hari Sabtu (10/10) kemarin, Pak Budi menulis komentar di blog saya ngajak ketemuan, sekalian aja sama pak Budi Putra, katanya. Kebetulan memang pak Budi Putra sekarang lagi di Singapura, setelah beliau ditunjuk oleh Yahoo! sebagai Country Editor untuk Yahoo! Indonesia. Saya sendiri sempat bertemu dan ngobrol dengan pak Budi Putra seminggu sebelumnya, di Starbucks Suntec City Mall.
Kita janjian untuk ketemuan di Lucky Plaza, Orchard Road, untuk makan malam di restoran Lucky Prata, yang terletak di lantai satu pusat perbelanjaan tersebut, tepat di sebelah restoran Ayam Penyet Ria. Setelah membangunkan Irza yang ketiduran di mobil, saya ketemu dengan pak Budi Putra di depan Lucky Plaza dan langsung menuju restoran Lucky Prata. Pak BR sudah menunggu disana bersama dengan kang Indra KH, kang Rully dan putri pak BR yang sekolah di Singapura.
Dari kiri ke kanan: saya, pak Budi Putra, kang Indra KH, kang Rully dan pak Budi Rahardjo
Obrolan pun mulai mengalir dengan lancarnya, mulai dari misi kedatangan Pak BR dan team ke Singapura yang katanya dalam rangka "studi banding", sampai ke "terdamparnya" Pak Budi Putra di Singapura. Sebagai salah satu blogger Asia Blogging Network (ABN), kang Indra sempat menanyakan "nasib" ABN setelah Pak Budi Putra bergabung dengan Yahoo!, dan alhamdulillah Pak BP menegaskan bahwa ABN is his "baby" dan akan jalan terus, tidak akan ditinggalkan begitu saja. Jadi, untuk rekan-rekan blogger ABN, jangan khawatir.
Tanpa terasa, obrolan yang diselingi foto-foto terus berjalan dan karena Lucky Prata tidak buka sampai malam, kita pun pindah ke kafe The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf yang terletak di Paragon, tidak jauh dari Lucky Plaza. Obrolan pun terus berlanjut dengan asyiknya, sampai pada akhirnya kita pun harus bubar karena harus mengejar batas jam malam yang diterapkan oleh asrama tempat putri pak BR tinggal.
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Posted by IndraPr on October 7th, 2009 — Posted in travel, europe, france, seine, eiffel
On Monday, 1 June 2009, which was our first full-day in Paris, still recovering from jet-lag, we took our time in the morning to walk through A Kide's residence at Châtenay-Malabry.
Late morning, we had A Kide's driver, om Join, to take us to the most popular tourist attraction in Paris: the Eiffel tower. We needed to queue for about 1.5 hours to buy the tickets before we can climb the tower. We bought the tickets which can bring us up to the top floor. The price is €13 for adult, and €7.50 for child.
Note that they only sell tickets to walk-in customers, and the tickets can only be used on the same day they are purchased. I checked their website that found out that they are planning to provide online reservation services for all visitors, but that would only be available end of this year.
We took the lift directly to the second floor, skipping the first floor. We immediately circling the area and take pictures to all the different directions. One of our favourite directions for viewing from the Eiffel tower is the north-west view, towards Pont d'Iena bridge and Palais de Chaillot at Trocadero, with the tall buildings of Paris' business district, La Defense (pronounced "la difong") in the background.
Another of our favourite direction is the south-east, which will give the view towards the Champ-de-Mars park and Ecole Militaire building, with the ugly Montparnasse Tower in the background. South-west direction will give the view towards the Seine river, with RER train tracks crossing across the river, while north-east direction will give the view towards the north area of Paris, with the Taj-Mahal-alike building of Basilica Sacre-Couer visible on top of the Montmartre hill.
We then took the lift up to the top (third) floor, and the view is even more amazing from higher level. It's also a bit windy up there, so we decided not to spend too much time there and went back to second floor. After had some snacks on the second floor, we descended back to the ground floor, in time to see some kind of procession parade passing through the road just in front of the tower.
We then further descended to the riverside under the Pont d'Iena bridge, for us to take the Bateaux Parisiens boat cruise tour along the Seine river. This includes automated commentary through headsets which are available on each seat. The price is quite cheap, €11 for adult and €5 for child.
We purchased the tickets and boarded the boat from pier number 3 along the number of piers just in front of Eiffel tower. The boat took us to the east direction from Eiffel tower all the way to the islands of Ile de la Cite and Ile Saint-Louis and back, passing under many bridges along the way: Pont de l'Alma, Pont Alexandre III and Pont Neuf, among others.
Unfortunately, the boat is not air-conditioned and with most of the boat's structure made of glass, it was becoming so hot in the afternoon. When we disembarked from the boat, we felt very tired, and with the jet-lag still taking effect (it was already night time in Singapore at that time even though it was still evening local Paris time), we decided to end our adventure for the day, and went back home to a Kide's residence.
More pictures can be found here.
(To be continued)
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