Journal

March 2012

The first half of March is spent on school examination.

  • 9 March: Physics: good, got 2 question answered wrongly only in MCQs
  • 10 March: Indonesian language: not bad, got 4 wrongs in MCQs, I’m worried about the essay test
  • 12 March: Chemistry: one of my favorite subject, unsure in MCQs, got 1 question answered wrongly in essay test (but my score is not deducted too much).
  • 13 March: Civics and English: not bad too, but I’m worried in this 2 subjects.
  • 15 March: Mathematics: good, I solved all the questions in time! I also have enough time to recheck half my work.
  • 17 March: Biology: worth an effort, after spending 2 days focusing on Biology, I just got 2 question answered wrongly in MCQs.

After the exam, I focused on doing my computer project which is an animation of “Angry Birds” game. In this animation, a bird is launched using a slingshot to hit a “king” pig and then the bird sees that there are another 4 “king” pig. The bird shoots out laser and kills the pigs. The bird go up a hill and sees that there are a lot of smaller-sized pigs. The bird shoots out a beam. But the pigs send out a mirror and then the beam got reflected by the mirror. Finally the beam hits the bird and then the animation ends. You can view my computer project here. (p.s. The animation is masked in a box styled like YouTube :) )

On 19 March, we got a “holiday” because the third grade is still having exam, but the first round of JOINTS (Jogja Information Technology Session) PCS (Programming Contest Session) is held on that day. In this contest, our team consists of me, Golfin, and Peter. This round is a “virtual round contest”, a contest which you can start at any time for a time limit and within a certain time (i.e. you can start this round at any time on that day; the round lasts only for 2 hours).

20 March is Leonard’s birthday. After long discussion, there is no decision on which thing to be gifted. So in 20 March, there is absolutely nothing special! In the school, the drama group decided to hold it in Sun Plaza on 23 March because it is much simpler than all the ideas before it.

On 22 March, this is the last time in this semester for Michael Lie, an “assistant” of Johnson, to teach us. He will go back to Japan for his studies there. After school, I started to upgrade my laptop to Windows 7. It finished on the night. Hopefully the upgrade was successful. My first impression is it is much simpler, more responsive, and faster than Windows Vista. But then I realize that Windows Vista is more beautiful than Windows 7. But, who needs a beautiful-but-slow OS? OK, now the new OS need much update. I also need to update something in order to fix my DVD drive which didn’t work after the upgrade.

23 March is a very long day. In the morning, I continue the update. At 10 something, Golfin come to my house and watch me updating my new OS. At 11, near 12, we go to fetch Leonard and go to Sun Plaza. Then we meet with the rest from the drama group (the drama group consists of me, Leonard, Edward, Golfin, Jessica, Vicky, Jensen, Roselyn + Eko) + Robert.  Then we go to eat at Sushitei. At 1, the plan that Vicky forget to bring the birthday cake but actually have hidden it somewhere is successfully carried out. We have some photos together (which is currently not yet uploaded to social media sites). After eating, we actually intend to watch film, but there is no tickets left. Went to Paperclip. Went to Amazon, play many games including air hockey, mini-basketball, dancing video game, and FPS video game. Went to Hypermart to buy drinks. Went to Gramedia to read books (not buying anything). Went to KFC to have some snacks. After that, we went home.

2nd TWoS and Chinese New Year

The 21st January TWoS were attended by more students than the previous one; but less teachers. Our stand (computer) have its gift out-of-stock as there were too many people who can solve the game. This time, our stand (including the others in the room) was closed at 3 pm. Don’t worry, you can play the game any time at http://tinyurl.com/twosX .

It’s Chinese New Year on 23rd January, and I have holiday until 29 January. This Chinese New Year somehow didn’t feel like Chinese New Year; our conditions were not well. My brother got sick, I got flu, etc. The best thing in this Chinese New Year that I continue to develop my website which is an online judge (see http://pc.t15.org/).

In this holiday, I also rewatched some Conan movies; my cousins and me watched an Indonesian film titled “Xia Aimei” at theater. It is a movie about a girl named Xia Ai-mei which came from China and was a human trafficking victim and she was forced to work at nightclub in Indonesia. She ran away, and met some guys which help her return to China; but before she returns, the people at that nightclub found her and sank her to the sea. The police arrested the people from that nightclub and that guy jumped in to the sea to find her. He found her, but she already died. And then “The End”. Ahh, it’s just like that; the introduction was very long, but the climax and anti-climax was too short. The media partner is Yahoo!, but in the film, the uses Google Translate to help the guy and Xia communicate; the guy also uses GMail to check his email. That is what I can say about this film.

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Binus Center, BNPCHS, Wikimedia, and Paradise

November may be the busiest month in the year. As, Wikimedia Foundation Fundraiser 2011 starts on November 7th, final round of “Binus Center ICT School Competition” was held by Binus Center Gajah Mada on November 5th which I attend and along with Charlie, we represent our school and got the first rank. Qualification round of “Bina Nusantara Programming Contest for High School Students” was held on Sunday, November 13th; which me, Charlie, Peter, and Golfin are qualified to the final round on November 20th in Jakarta.

We went to Jakarta with other finalists from Medan and Pematang Siantar. We have a night on Binus Square (place for Binus university students to live) guest room. We compete in Binus University Anggrek Campus.

November 19th

The morning is unusual. After I woke up, I feel very nervous and afraid until I finished taking bath. The school was normal until the 5th lesson. Someone called us (Peter, me, and Golfin; and of course Charlie but separately called) to get home to catch our airplane which are scheduled on 3p.m. (we are told to gather on Binus Center Gajah Mada on 1p.m.)

From the 4 of us, I was the first to come, then Charlie, then Peter. The last was Golfin as his father didn’t know where Binus Center Gajah Mada located. There we met friends from other schools, such as Felix (W.R. Supratman); Andi and M. Faisal Nasution (Sutomo 2); Tendy and David (Kalam Kudus Pematang Siantar)

It was a tiring flight as we sat on the back-most row.

We arrive at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport around 6p.m. and waited for taxi for around half hour. After that we continue the tiring journey in the traffic jammed road of Jakarta to Kebon Jeruk, a district where Binus Square and Binus University Anggrek Campus located.

At Binus Square, we were given 3 rooms: 1 suite and 2 superior. The suite is given to me, Peter, Charlie, Golfin and Felix. One of the superior is for Tendy and David; the rest is for Faisal and Andi.

We ate our dinner at Food 101, a canteen at Binus Square. All of us ate ”soto Betawi”, which is not delicious compared to ”soto Medan”.

We spend our night discussing about the competition, watching TV (but no one watched), and playing games.

We get to bed at around 11:30pm.

November 20th

I recall morning alarm rang at around 5.30 am. I was the first from this room to get up and take bath. The bath has hot-water tap, so it wouldn’t be too cold to have a bath, but after I dried myself, the wind from the holes under the door made me shivering. One by one is getting up and takes bath.

Peter is the only one who is bad at getting up. He only can get up after hearing sounds from Spongebob Squarepants at GlobalTV.

We have breakfast at 7-Eleven, after we searched to many places but they haven’t opened yet.

At 8, we checked out from Binus Square and met a delegation from Binus Head Office who sends us to Binus University Anggrek Campus for the competition.

I’m in the same room with Jessica Handojo, a contestant at IOI 2011. The competition starts well in the first 2 hours. I solved 2 problems. The rest I only watches the scoreboard which Jessica constantly solves the problems. Before the competition, I’ve knew that in this condition, I can only solves 2 problems.

After the competition, the results are: Peter at #12, Charlie at #20, me at #24, Golfin #25, Tendy #34, Felix #37, Andi and Faisal #38.

We met alumni from my school who studies at Binus University: Tiffany Tanoto, who ever joined OSN; and Teddy Budiono Hermawan, who ever joined OSN and BNPCHS. That day, Teddy is one of the judges who judged our submission. Lunch is free of charge and given to every contestants after the competition. Before we leave, we took photos there.

We rushed to the airport and have dinner at A&W. It was a very nice yet tiring experience. We arrived at Medan around 00.00 a.m.

 

Exam and All His Friends plus Mylo Xyloto

From 17 October until 24 October, I had exam on school. Yesterday (29 October), I have just received the results for the multiple choice questions.

  • 17: Chemistry: nice result (got 25/25 correct)
  • 18: Civics: not bad (got 28/30 correct)
  • 18: English: good (got 27/30 correct)
  • 19: no exam
  • 20: Maths: bad (got 22/25 correct). This is bad, I still need 3 out of 5 essay questions correct to pass this subject.
  • 21: Indonesian: not bad (got 29/35 correct)
  • 22: Biology: not bad (got 26/30 correct)
  • 23: Sunday; no exam
  • 24: Physics: good (got 22/25 correct)

17-23 October: “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends” week
24-30 October: “Mylo Xyloto” week

Drama review

My review:

  • The first group theme was a critic and comedy on Sherlock Holmes which was not so good because the actor/actress speaks not clearly
  • The second group acted too funny, their title was “Spartan v.s. 3 idiots”. The story was when 3 Spartans met 3 idiots and they fought; Spartans won and at last they sang and danced together.
  • The third group acted funny, but not too good because in some scene, the spoke softly. It was about 2 naughty students turned into hardworking student. This drama criticize some of the teachers of our school.
  • The fourth group was about a non-magician student get into for magician only school and at last she (actually she is a man) get her love with the one who she loved. Not so good because the ending was too short. The ending was when the one who she loved fall down and she caught her. And then the end.
  • The 5th group is about 3 stupid men and 3 high class women; and a geany. The story idea is funny (but not meaningful) but I may not laugh as we will perform next and our group’s theme is about sadness.
  • The 6th group is our group. See more and watch it here. The only critic from my friends are: I and Jensen have no expression when panic. But guess what, our group, the saddest drama, along with the group which performed the funniest drama got the highest score.
  • The 7th group’s theme was about a class consists of Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Bruno Mars keep on pushing their own ego. Not too funny, and the drama somewhat didn’t have connection with the meaning.

Review from the teacher:

  • The funniest group: 2nd group: “Spartans v.s. 3 idiots”: creative, able to make the same Spartan army sound
    every member got 95
  • The saddest group: 6th group: “To Keep Walking Until the End”: almost make me cry
    every member got 95
  • Best actor/actress: Jonathan from the 4th group: very good, able to acts as woman
    got 97

(X,Y,Z)

This week is a good but tiring week. This week, my group played in the drama which is recorded by Nicholas. You can watch it here.

“Speed of Sound” from the album X&Y dominated the week.

Monday, nothing special except we practice the drama once. Before we can finish the drama practice, we are ask to leave that place.

Tuesday, we practice the drama 3 times. I almost late for tuition, but when I came in, I am the first to come.

Wednesday morning, after watching the performance from the 5th group, we performed the drama! We planned it very carefully as when I plugged in the projector cable to my laptop, it crashed; and in instant I plugged it to Golfin’s laptop and everyone don’t think that we have an issue. As well as the sound system, the other group who bring a bigger and louder speaker permitted us to use that speaker. Well, everyone who perform in this drama thinks that this drama will not be success as when we practice, everyone cannot be serious.

Thursday, watched performance from the 7th group. This day, our class are taught to sing “Ave Maria” and “Caro Mio Ben”.

Friday, chemistry lab session. Not as busy as the previous experiment. But this time we manipulated the data that we gained so that the error percentage could be diminished. We don’t tell others, but from the result we gained, everyone (except the teachers) seems to know it! …

The Drama

Our drama which is recorded using a phone camera by Nicholas is now uploaded to YouTube. Enjoy it!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GejBnCK4QE]

Our drama get the sixth turn to perform. Some of the audience cry when we perform. Even the teacher which is the jury almost cry. Our drama is the saddest because the other group’s drama are all in comedy genre.

Cast
Sarah – Vicky Valeriana
Doctor – Jensen
Rosy (sister) – Roselyn Avrillia
Brother – Leonard
Father – Kenrick
Friend 1 – Golfin Ekatria
Friend 2 – Edward Reginald
“the voice” – Jessica Limantara

Director
Leonard/Jessica Limantara

Scriptwriter
Leonard/Jessica Limantara

Narrator
Jessica Limantara

Music and sound effect
Kenrick