::RemembrancE::

After
having a series of a quite bad day, Last Saturday I cheered up myself by buying
a gift for myself. lol.. But somehow, that Saturday was my lucky day anyway.
After almost a week desperately searching for a key holder I lost, the key
holder was found in the morning of that day.

Well, that morning, it’s settled that I would buy a new cell phone to replace
my old siemens s35 which already accompanied me for more than 5 years (if I’m
not mistaken, it was given by my sister on May  2001). What I would buy is
something unexpected actually, SE W900
(also known as Sakura), An old fashioned phone which was released by sony
ericsson almost 2 years ago, and now hardly found.. and it’s very fat. Even
compared to SE P990
directly, I can see, this phone is thicker.

In the afternoon, my friend and I went to roxy searching for that phone. After
asking some stores and SE counter, we stopped at a store which seems giving a
good aura to visit lol.. So I asked about the phone I was looking for. The
owner said yes they had, the price is 3,6million (I tried to bargain but useless).
They asked me what color I’d like to buy and I said anything will do but I’d
prefer white. After waiting quite long time (they were having hard time looking
for available stock from other store I guess), they said there is a black one
but with no bonus of MSD. I said it’s ok, then I wait again.., at last they
said there’s no stock left, but there’s a package of white one bundled with MSD
with price’s 3,7million. It was the last stock they got, no other choice. Well,
at last, it’s a deal. I got the phone with price 3,73million (including the
screen protector).

SE at that time was having a promotion time, I got a chance to play a throwing ball
to get a stuff like a bag, wallet, pouch, t-shirt, etc. After trying my luck, I
got two choices: wallet or a small pouch for hand phone. Well, I think better
to get the pouch so I don’t need to buy by myself. So I took the pouch, but
unfortunately, my new phone is so big that it can’t even put in there.-_-a Oh
my… a ’slim’ guy with a fat phone.. ^^’

However, according to some people, I was lucky to get the white colored sakura
bundled with the 512MB MSD.

But
for now, I start thinking again, why I bought that phone? it has price the same
as the latest music phone of SE, and so big, so expensive with only common
features (nothing impressive anyway).. hmmm……. dunno…  lol..

Usually, whenever we register to certain services or install a software, there’s a term of agreement, or end user license agreement (EULA), or other similar thing that we have to give a tick as a sign of accepting the terms of service. But mostly, especially me, I’ll just agree without concerning the contents of the agreement, even don’t care if the content perhaps can cause trouble or might be ther’s a door prize in it lol..

I remember about 1 or 2 years ago, there’s a software having EULA saying it will give 1,000 USD for whoever read the EULA and sending email to the written email address within the EULA. And after four months and about 3000 downloads of the software, only one person wrote the email (can be read more in slashdot and here ).

For this week, at work, unexpectedly my job switched to a translator for term of service. It was me and a friend at the office were asked to translate a quite thick document of term of service from English to Indonesian, which in the end it will be translated to Japanese (surely for this one is not done by us lol). We encountered so many difficulties in translating such agreement with so many IT, law, and economic jargons, to find the similar words in Indonesian. However, doesn’t it require a kinda lawyer for writing term of service? -_-a

I suddenly remember the advice of my English teacher when I was still Senior High. When learning English, instead of using bilingual dictionary (English-Indonesian), it’s recommended to use English-English dictionary. But somehow, in my current situation, I think I really need English-Indonesian dictionary. There are many words, which are understandable, but I hardly found the similar word in Bahasa Indonesia. Dunno whether it’s because my vocabulary/understanding is very bad… >_< I just feel funny when reading my own translation. Even seems after translated into Indonesian, it’s harder to be understood. lol.. don’t care lah.. lol..

For yahoo instant messenger client, I prefer to use gaim rather than using native client of YM, or other multi instant messenger. With gaim, I’m still able to see the original emoticon theme of YM, and I don’t need to bother with advertisement that usually appears on the original instant client of YM. Other reason using gaim? Nothing.. I just like it.. lol.. ^^’

Several days ago, I downloaded the new version of gaim, which has changed its name to pidgin (ver 2 beta 7). There’s explaination of the name changes in the pidgin site. But seems during I write this blog, the site is still slashdotted. In short, somehow, there was a trademark lawsuit from AOL for the name of ‘GAIM’.

What I like with this new gaim is, there’s some improvement in the UI and seems more responsive, but I really miss the original emoticon. This new version no longer includes the original emoticon theme for each procotol such YM or MSN, but has its own emoticon theme. Actually, it’s quite cute, but I prefer to have the original theme. I hope later on there’s icon theme pack of YM for pidgin. Another cons is, there’s problem with displaying buddy’s avatar. Almost all of my friends’ avatar cannot be displayed, dunno why.

Recently, I’ve just read news from slashdot that the final version of Pidgin 2.0 has released (that’s why pidgin site got slashdot effect lol). But the difference between the latest beta 7 version is only some minor bug fixing, so I decided to download it just later on (may be tomorrow ^^’ ). But however, if there’s still problem for displaying buddies’ avatar in this final release, I think I’ll be back installing previous gaim (ver 2 beta 6).

btw, here can be found a quite detail review of Pidgin 2.0.0 (I haven’t read it anyway.. lol)