NYE 2009 @ Sydney

Here are some pictures that were taken during NYE 2009 event in Sydney. Gosh, it was very long queue, from 11 afternoon for the peak ceremony at midnight. But I really appreciate for the orderly queue. No one tried to break up (maybe because police were everywhere).

Happy New Year 2009

Just wanna say

Happy New Year 2009. Hopefully we can achieve the best (in many ways)

Do you have plan or resolution for this year?

Grammar Issues in Academic Paper

Students from university usually do lots of writing which can be notes, critical thinking, essay, lab report, or even thesis and dissertation. Usually grammar is a big issue for students who come from country which their first language is not English.

There are 15 frequently occurring grammatical mistakes:

1. Subject-verb agreement
2. Tense or verb form
3. Singular/plural agreement
4. Word form
5. Unclear pronouns
6. Articles
7. Prepositions
8. Superfluous commas
9. Omitted commas
10. Apostrophes
11. Word use
12. Sentence fragments
13. Run on sentences
14. Parallelism
15. Modifiers

Hope can find materials to discuss each of these.

Reference : http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au

An Hour As A Bonus

Today I wake up and realize that AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) has ended. It means that time is set for an hour backward. This will be for a six month period until end of October. Australian Government has given a schedule for Implementation Daylight Time within Australia, which you can find it here.

What lesson that you can take? Well, for me, I have an hour bonus for my life of course. But it doesn’t mean that you stop doing productively. So let’s start working now. It is Sunday guys

Suffer From Temperature

The latest two days Sydney are cold and windy running around 19 degrees, whether Thursday was so hot, approximately at 30 degrees. Very high amplitude, isn't it. It is a problem to me since I came from a country with tropical climate with low temperature amplitude along the year. To overcome this changing, I'd prefer to stay at home.

But staying at home can give additional benefits, I can learn much more with googling. It must have to be a productive times during easter holiday

Who's been googling Miyabi?

I got an email yesterday which attached an article about survey on internet user who sought for Miyabi, a famous Japanese porn actress. Basically I could not find the original article, but only found this address.

On that article it is said that Indonesia dominates the result, and based on city, Jogjakarta is the number one town who has Miyabi's searcher. Woooow...what the hell. Jogjakarta is my hometown :( But in my opinion, let's not blame Indonesian internet user. Let us think deeply how to give deeper understanding for everyone that internet is not only means pornography. There are much more benefits that we can get from internet, especially for educational purposes, which I've been studying now.

Welcome to a new life

Alhamdulillah..today, i have arrived in australia for 2 weeks. Just a strange guy, away from my home and my family, just try to adapt with new environtment, expecially learning environtment where I must develop my critical thingking and also will to study again after so long time graduated. But I love this, I like the way I can meet another people, another situation, and I think they are helpful.

But, I still try to increase and maintain spirit to study. alhamdulillah first step has been passed : find a permanent accomodation.