Elfira Yolanda S

No, no one is having their 10th birthday today. Tika gave me homework.

The rules

1. Each blogger must post these rules
2. Each blogger starts with ten random facts/habits about themselves
3. Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their ten things and post these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose ten people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged and to read your blog.

Tagged!

Anna, Bawel, Rika, Bayu, Indra, Astri, Denny, Yuan, JJR, Muti

Ten random facts/habits: Mine

n_n ehehehehehe… I have to learn to play this character on Bleach : The Blade of Fate. I have to master it! Uhuhuhuhu…

got it from here.

… could be kind of heavy. Is that true?

Well.. Apparently it’s not (because I myself don’t intend to publish any kind of writing that can’t be easily understood).  Thanks to Gia who pointed it out very well.  It’s more to my failure to deliver what I was trying to say and share. The reason behind it is that I haven’t provided clear background or the whole explanation or the link which can explain the connection between parts that I’m bringing up at my posts. Thanks to those who have kindly asked me questions about what I was writing exactly (hehehehehe..).

Now that I’m fully aware of this and that I’ve told you about this, I welcome any comments or critiques or anything regarding to my posts, especially when you feel lost when reading it (wkwkwkwkwk..). I’ll try my best to keep it clear all the time and your comments would be very helpful.

That’s all for now… Good day, everyone!

Yesterday I found an interesting fiction that tempted me to write one.

After an hour of staring my monitor and trying my best to create a wonderful piece of fiction, I’ve successfully collected some of my favorite lines of songs (what??!!). So, where’s this wonderful piece of fiction that I was trying to make? Nada. I have my writer’s block. (hehe..).

Writer’s block is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to begin or continue writing, usually due to lack of inspiration or creativity.

I’d like to call myself a flexible person (hehehe…).

In case you’re interested, this is the result

… my paradise information retrieval world!

No, I was not welcoming you to a technical post. That is just not something to be expected from me. Hehe..

It has been days since I come to the office and work for about 8 hours. Now, I come to the office and work myself out just to keep me from boredom. It’s simple thing, my friends.. I (, at most of the time,) have nothing to do. Well, I am not like her, with her heavy reading and her being happy over an ANTLR3 article (hehe..) and I am not like him, my cubicle neighbor, who is trying to make a set of gridview code in javascript, but they certainly inspire me to have my own learning.

So.. I downloaded an e-book related with information retrieval, written by C. J. van RIJSBERGEN B.Sc., Dip. NAAC, Ph.D., M.B.C.S., F.I.E.E., C.Eng., F.R.S.E. (what a name..). Look at this definition of information retrieval I found:

Information retrieval is the term conventionally, though somewhat inaccurately, applied to the type of activity discussed in this volume. An information retrieval system does not inform (i.e. change the knowledge of) the user on the subject of his inquiry. It merely informs on the existence (or non-existence) and whereabouts of documents relating to his request.

Well, Mr. C. J. van RIJSBERGEN B.Sc., Dip. NAAC, Ph.D., M.B.C.S., F.I.E.E., C.Eng., F.R.S.E. himself quoted the definition from someone named F. W. Lancester.

The bold parts on the definition is something that I just realized. The products of information retrieval technology don’t actually retrieve information we request.. hear.. hear…! Agree! That’s true, right? I’m amazed.. Huhu…

Well, as you might guess, I end up writing this post (instead of reading the e-book, I haven’t even finished the introduction chapter, wkwkwk..). But, it’s quite a progress, right?

This is a story from one of my English class. The instructor gave an illustration:

A is a boy. He has a girlfriend, B.
They’ve been together for quite some time.
Then, B falls in love with C,
and C loves B so.

So, we had to give suggestion for B, something like whether she should stick with A or leave A for C. Here was my answer: PASS!

Second illustration:

A company, struggling through its financial problems, asked a business consultant for some advices. The consultant gave 2 choices. The first one was to sell some of their assets in order to increase the company cash so that they can operate properly. The second choice was to sell the whole company to an association, which would professionally handle all their problems. Their problems would be gone and so would their ownership. Long story short, the company chose the last choice.

We can say that the company play a safe bet. A safe bet means something that you are certain will happen or someone or something that you are certain will win or succeed [source]. By selling the company to the association, it won’t take as much as responsibilities as before. It still may do the controlling but that’s just it. The real wheel is on the hand of the association.

Funny thing is that I played safe bet during that particular session of English class (well, in a lot of time in my life, I played it safe). I did have answer for the first illustration, my own opinion.

I agree with one of my English classmates, my project simulation chief, I think that B should stick with A. I’m not trying to be radical or inflexible here. I just treasure relationship that much. A bond, a commitment that you’ve made, especially marriage, are not meant to be broken, even in situation like the illustration above. Well, you can say engagement is quite different but for now I don’t see it that way.

How about you? Got a story where you play safe bet?

You know what, my moving to Bali is something I call a safe bet, too. Wkwkwkwk

Well, what can I say?

anata wa watashi no sutooriizu

Anyone can help me find the lyrics at the beginning of this song? (Stories by Hitomi Kuroishi, OST from Code Geass)

Thanks to Fajarn!

(11:40:37) n1xul: n1xul telah mem-buzz anda!
(11:40:53) chenvael: dateng wisudaan ga?
(11:40:56) chenvael: ni lagi siap2
(11:41:01) n1xul: datengggg
(11:41:05) chenvael: klo mo gabung, ketemu di gerbang depan yak??
(11:41:10) n1xul: ok2
(11:41:16) n1xul: di mana posisi2
(11:41:24) chenvael: lagi ngangkot ini
(11:41:34) chenvael: situ di mana?
(11:43:51) n1xul: lagi di atas laut jawa
(11:44:19) chenvael: bagus2.. uda deket kalo gt
(11:44:25) chenvael: gw uda nyampe pantei skrg
(11:44:31) chenvael: mo berenang dulu
(11:44:39) chenvael: klo ga bales berarti lagi on the way to java
(11:45:29) n1xul: ok2.. sip2.. hati2 ikan hiu
(11:45:40) chenvael: yosh!
(14:36:26) chenvael: n1xul2.. uda nyampe mana?
(14:36:34) chenvael: uda di banyuwangi ni..
(14:36:42) chenvael: tinggal jalan aja ke gerbang depan
(14:36:53) n1xul: duh, kelewatan neh… di smudera hindia neh
(14:36:57) n1xul: gmn yah
(14:37:09) n1xul: supir pesawatnya aga2 tolol
(14:37:11) chenvael: aduu.. minta balik.. minta balik
(14:37:11) n1xul: :p
(14:37:23) chenvael: ntar ga kekejar lagi acaranya
(14:37:42) n1xul: habis bahan bakarnya, landing adelaide dulu keknya
(14:37:59) chenvael: yosh2.. ditunggu yak.. bilang ga pake lama
(14:38:07) n1xul: sip2

Thx buat undangan ikut wisudaan-nya, jeng Neni!

Picture is taken from here. Picture above is not the newly-found Baby Boom galaxy. It is Zw II 96.

Zw II 96 and the Baby Boom galaxy are both known as starbursts because they are producing loads of new stars every year. Zw II 96 is the result of multiple galaxies colliding together, triggering the birth of stars.

[source]

The amazing thing about the Baby Boom galaxy is this:

The galaxy belongs to the starburst class of galaxies and has now been crowned the ‘brightest starburst galaxy in the Universe’. Brightness is indicative of a high rate of star formation.

[source]

Now, let’s get into the number. This is how much stars the Baby Boom galaxy is able to produce:

This galaxy, which has now been dubbed the “Baby Boom” galaxy, is giving birth to about 4,000 stars per year. In comparison, our own Milky Way galaxy turns out an average of just 10 stars per year.

[source]

That’s why it’s called Baby Boom. The baby stars just *boom* come out. Now, see the distance:

While Zw II 96 is located about 500 million light-years away, Baby Boom lies 12.3 billion light-years away

[source]

So far, yet so bright… The most amazing thing about this Baby Boom is described so well by Aodhhann’s response here. There, I copy it below:

It reminds us to think about how different things were when the known universe was very young. Stars forming with different composition, lack or nonexistence of many elements etc. How dynamic and large different voids would be; and how they would interact with areas with a great deal of matter.

How marvelous it would be to see this galaxy the way it truly is ‘today’.

I repeat:

How marvelous it would be to see this galaxy the way it truly is ‘today’.

Things about universe have always been amazing to me. It is so huuuuggeeeee that for centuries it remains a mystery. People ask who lives out there, what they look like, etc, etc. As for me, this thought has dwelled in my mind:

It’s great if there’s another creatures existing and living out there. It’s truly a wonder when they come in different shape, different everything, or maybe similarity. We don’t know yet. But.. Wouldn’t it be more wonderful if we are the only existing creature in the whole universe and that HE has created this big, huuugeee whole thing, just for us, to make us see the wonder of HIM

Hope you have a great day, everyone!