johannes, jo, juni

I envy a german friend who’s live in HK about one thing: because he’s always traveling, I mean he does a lot of business trips around the world… every time when he was online on MSN, he always wrote me; “hi jo, I’m in kuala lumpur”, n the other day: “hi Jo, I’m in bangalore”, “hi jo, I’m in seoul”, “hi jo, I’m in bordeaux”, holly crap man, I wish I could do that too… he used to call me “jo” since all friends in konstanz call me “johannes” as my name.

but perhaps if you do such things frequently, you probably won’t be so excited, right? I like berlin but I need also changes, variation or variety from every day’s life. I want to go to japan and china next year, well it’s my next year holiday plan, but it could change also.

five days to go until I step in to the singapore airlines airplane and prove a fact that it’s one of the world best airlines.

have a nice weekend

“the eyes of oracle,

they could only be given and not taken…” like merovingian said. I hear this sentence all the time in my mind and it’s fascinating me. Probably it’s the side effect after watching xx times matrix revolutions. some people interpreted the eyes of oracle like the ability to know or predict the future, some might says it’s the key of life, some might says it’s the beginning and the end, but I would say it’s the (true) love and the sacrifice… love? sounds too utopian perhaps? or too insane? merovingian said again: “… how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity”
just change it: “love, it could only be given and not taken…” haha, well, what do you think? too silly?

just another story to make me feel a bit better: I told a friend that these days, I live from debt^^ well, in the meanwhile it’s true, I can remember how intensely frustrating it was, when I was a freshman in the university, worked hard but not enough money and in the same time kept myself “up to date” with my study… now the situation is much more better and thanks God for that.

well, about things that could only be given and not taken, I hope someday someone will give us what we want and what we need, have a nice weekend

juan…

will leave our company soon, he is a good friend not only a cool work mate, I knew the news that he will leave us since a month ago but just got the feeling today that he’s going to leave us. we know each other since three years ago.

about juan, he is a nice and cool person, he helped me a lot, one thing that I’ll never forget: when my heart was totally fu**ed up due to some silly sentimental feeling, well, it was a matter of girl^^ I asked him if I can stay with him for one night… and he said “yes of course man, anytime!” without any mind. when you in deep sh**, you will need a friend who can support you. back to him, he’s also one of “passionate” software engineer and doing his work well. I will show one of his nice work:

maps layout

see the nice search box, info box and all of the icons placed perfectly

juan looks like:

juan

tomorrow is his farewell party in an italian restaurant in prezlberg

This month is some kind like a farewell month for me, one friend is gone, the other will follow…

“never give up!”

was saying that to a friend who went back for good^^ quite unusual sentence for saying good-bye to someone right? well, I can’t get any other thing to say in my mind last time, probably she heard already many similar or usual “good-bye” or “farewell” sentences from someone else so I think it’s better not to say the same one, since I want to be “different”
I told her to update her blog frequently, I knew that she has a blog recently and I’m glad that she has it.

talking about daily life at work, it will be a stress week ahead starting from tomorrow. I told everybody that I’ll have my vacation in about two weeks or less and one of them told me that he will report to the upper management to postpone or even to cancel the vacation *just joking*

being motivated because of vacation and because everyone said something funny about my stomach, I went to gym today and did a quite hard workout, sometimes you simply have to do something, directly and not to plan it first, my sis was saying “I want to go jogging tomorrow” all the time and I said her that I just want to hear “I went jogging today, it was …”

Do I have many choices? I said to a friend that I have currently only one choice but I don’t know if I’m able to choose it

tired but can’t sleep

one of the most thing that I hate… totally tired, exhausted but can’t sleep, some people may drink something to accelerate the sleep process, some take even drugs. thinking to be “stay clean”, I decided to write this

from last saturday until tuesday me and my sis went to a small town called langenargen (l.a.) in south germany closed to lake bodensee, to visit our cousin, it was my first visit since my cousin and her husband live there since three or four years ago. the decision to visit her was taken because her mother (my aunty) and her sis come also to visit her because my cousin has a new baby, a marvelous handsome boy

we went to different cities there: meersburg, friedrichshafen, dornbirn austria and (of course) one of my “home” city konstanz I fell wonderful each time I come to konstanz, don’t know why exactly but it’s simply a nice feeling to see, hear, taste and feel konstanz again.
why? well, I lived there for about more than six years. so many sweet beautiful memories and to be honest also many sad and bad memories. however, konstanz is still one of my favorite city and “worthy” for me to spend my retirement days someday^^ (I did choose already a nice house with huge garden besides the lake there, hahaha, well you are still free to dream, right?)

wednesday and thursday: maps team event somewhere north from berlin, we did rafting! we built our raft, we were divided into five small rafting teams, was very cool (and also exhausting), I was on the raft, quite hard to control the raft somehow… and the strong rain (+wind) was coming before we reached our destination^^ we were totally wet and freezing like hell after that
at night, like germans, drinking like there’s no tomorrow, biers and homemade snaps (I guess, the schnaps was about 50% or more). I was totally fu**ed up after that. at thursday, mid level headache, malfunction stomach and sored muscles went back to office at afternoon and know what? a team meeting! was hearing with empty eyes and unable to focus the whole subjects…
at night, party at friend’s flat to celebrate her new flat (housewarming party) and also to celebrate a farewell party of our friend who will go back to indonesia for good, two quite different kind of party in one place  actually but who cares? well, was fun but I was too “sick” to enjoy it

and now, after work, taken dinner, sitting in my sofa, watched matrix revolution for xx times, finished, watched tv, nothing special, saw my msn list, all away or busy like usual hearing music and writing this silly blog ;P

I’m tired, I wish I could talk with someone, simply talk… will you talk with me?

have a nice weekend

slowly…

hello world….

let’s start slowly and easy, just like the first day on my c/c++ course ten years ago, how to programming… hmm, better say how to print out “hello world” on screen using c/c++ (crappy and unnecessary way to start c/c++).

I’m at work right now, yes, nothing to do and it nerves me a lot^^ so just try to write something… useful I hope, well, just to spend my time… haha ;P

anyway guys, have you tried the new Nokia Maps 2.0? If yes, select one point of interest on the map and do that “Walk to” on center select menu (the first one on list menu)? it will navigate you and make a phone call to that point of interest (if it has a phone number information) immediately…. ;P haha, yeah that’s my bug! and we used to use that use-case as a joke ;P and you know what? I made some comment on this blog and I realized that I did that mistake… ;P well at least it’s a beta, in beta you can do something funny right?

let’s discuss about something else later

my sis cooked for dinner^^ wow, I feel like something heavy falls down from my neck^^ ;P

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should I

write again???

simple question, quite easy to answer but hard to realize it
convince me then…

I’m 30% Left Brained, 70% Right Brained

The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning.Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others. If you’re left brained, you are likely good at math and logic. Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet.The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility. Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way. If you’re right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art. Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports.

think positive!

yesterday, my sis said to me: “think positive!” according to or probably against some situations which could affect psychological or chemical reaction in negative thinking way similar to following sentences like: “you’re in deep s***, but think positive!”, “you lost, but think positive!”, “you’re fired, but think positive” and as the last more extreme one: “you only have one month to live, but think positive!”…. I remember the movie “letters from iwo jima” when the soldier prepared to kill him self with a shell, did he think to him self “I will be dead, but think positive!”?

I went to fitness club again today, and not on the place that I supposed to be or maybe the right term is want to be. my breast sores a lot, quite painful, I think that I treat it too hard sometimes, specially when I have a lot of things that need to be released.

I don’t know, I’m not in the mood right now, I hope it will disappear and He may help me out and give me the clear and best largest ultra zoom lens:

so I can be able to see better in long long way of the tube

Dear Sir, was I too happy last week so I have to balance/stabilize it now somehow? COME ON MAN! THINK POSITIVE!

ads on maps: more money?

connecting people will become an internet company, starts with re-organizing or re-structuring the whole business-line next year, we probably undersign under Software and Services. It has been discussed a lot within internal affairs and business that we must be well prepared in this new area, the internet, software and services.

there are many big and well capitalized competitors which also well prepared when the time is comming. starting as tired and cable company, now becomes the world’s largest maker of mobile phones or handset manufacture in the world. newly reported the “stronger than expected” second quarter results, and estimated its market share at 38 percent, above analysts’ consensus of 37.7 percent selling in excess of 100 mio handsets in the period, more than its three closest rivals combined (thought it might be helped by difficulties at Motorola these days).

enough with the company situation, I’m just waiting for “the another happy big” bonuses next month

however, I proudly present you our new view on maps application, with an advertisement banner (one of my task which caused me a lot of stress since two weeks ago):

I hope it would give us more money for that in the future, am I money oriented guy? perhaps quite a bit, I’ll go shopping a lot if I’m in stress (well, much better than drink too much or hurt someone else) however I still need some cool stuff, I’m a human and I’m not simply satisfied on some material stuff that I already have, get one want two better more

calm down and keep working/fighting man! keep your tail up!