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For every one who celebrated: Happy Chinese New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai

And for couple: Happy Valentine Days

You can also see this art and comment it on my Deviant Art account.

Finally I have some time to relaxed a bit so I ended up reading some manga. The choice is romantic manga… I read I”s and Ichigo 100%, both was very good and definitely one of the best manga ever made (both is a bit ecchi though). As usual, I do drawing the character I like from the series I finished reading, and now it goes to Ichigo 100%’s Nishino Tsukasa. I do love I”s though, but I didn’t kinda like the art, so I ended up with Nishino Tsukasa from Ichigo 100%.

In this series, it is a harem story between 3 main girls who love the same man, although the story is progressed more to two girls, Toujo Aya and Nishino Tsukasa. I like them both, but sorry for Aya fans, I do like Tsukasa better.

Here is the final result

Well, I think this is currently the best one I ever draw. I spend few hours on drawing the lineart, and another few hours for coloring. Not sure how much time I took, but it is likely about 12 hours. I do twice on coloring since I’m not satisfied with the first. It really takes time since I’m such a noob. lol

Sorry for Tsukasa fans who might dislike this art…I tried my best though… Well then, that is for now…

Now, 2009 has ended and welcome to 2010! Happy new year for everyone.

For me, 2009 is a turnaround year. This is the first year I experienced working as a freelancer and as the result, it was a very good beginning. Now 2010 has come, I will try to do better this year.

Unfortunately, we have a sad news just before new year. That is the dead of Indonesia former president, KH. Abdurrahman Wahid or also known as Gus Dur. He was one of the best president ever and the one that gave us a change in our life, by not differentiate everyone, whatever the race and religion. I feel deeply sorry for him and his family, also a deep thanks to him.

Wohoo, finally I got a Motorola ZN5. The best 5 megapixels camera phone. I got it from secondhand, but it is still like new, not even a single scratch in there. Now my E2 will be the secondary phone which I will rarely use, not to mention that the modding for it is already too outdated and stuck there without any new things anymore.

The ZN5 is different, it is not a new phone, but the modding is still hot right now. Everything on ZN5 is completely on the higher level than E2. The camera was nice. Love it.

The second day after I got it, it is now flashed to Symbiosis IV, the new MP that pack all the modification and new feature. At first sight, I found that the flashed phone appear to be slower than stock, but after using it for a while, the speed recover by itself. I’m not sure whether the problem is on the overwhelming autorun process or simply because the ZN5 keep caching to improve the performance.

Now I installed Rockbox and few MGX application. It’s awesome. I’m hoping I can contributing too, but sooner or later.

This makes the last granted wish in 2009.

Linux geeks must be know about the new OS from Google for quite a time. Since it was announced back in July, it began to attract attention from many people, including me. Finally, Google show how the OS is operating. I could said it is basically a Chrome browser that is made into an OS, instead a full usable OS for everyday work. Let’s take a look on the video.

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Well, this is the third and hopefully the last day for me to upgrade my Xubuntu install to 9.10, or also widely known as Karmic Koala. It is painful..! lol But this experience is worth it, except that it really kills my time which I suppose to do my work… I don’t know why, or probably because of the lack experience of me, I got into the series of failure while upgrading from Xubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. Actually, my first install was Ubuntu 9.04 but I later change to Xubuntu by installing the xubuntu-desktop, probably that’s the culprit of why the auto upgrade fails.

The first day – upgrading the current Xubuntu

So at the start, I have a well working Xubuntu 9.04. Updates for 9.10 came in October 29, but I do upgrade on the next day. My internet was running slowly -it probably just my connection to Ubuntu server, since I got a great download speed on others- to download all of the updates (which surpassed 800MB), that takes more than 12 hours to complete. Well, during that time, I can do everything in my PC until, the upgrading process which takes another hour to complete, at this time it loads heavily and almost impossible to do anything. It seems everything run smoothly and it asks me to reboot.

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One of the feature I missed while migrating to Ubuntu Linux is the fully functional Wacom tablet. Good things is with Ubuntu 9.04, it has pre-installed Wacom driver, so it works out of the box for my Wacom Bamboo. However, not all features we have on Windows (and Mac) are available on Linux, the only one I missed is the stylus scrolling (by default, in Windows, when we hold the stylus button and drag, the scroll event occur). Since I do browsing all the time, sometime it is hard to allocate the scrollbar, especially in a looong page, that is painful. Up until now, I use the keyboard to scrolling that looong page but it is not efficient, and finally I found the solution by using Mouse Gesture add-ons on Firefox to emulate it. I love Chrome better though, but the only solution I found is with Firefox.

So this is how I do it. First install the add-ons called Mouse Gestures Redox on Firefox. Next we setting it up.

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Aptana Studio is a powerful IDE for web development. It supports HTML, CSS, Javascript and the server side script such as PHP, Ruby and Python. Even more, it support a wide variety of Javascript library. It based on Eclipse and available as a standalone application or as a plugin for Eclipse. Aptana Studio is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. And the best of all is, Aptana Studio is free. Here I will post how I install the recent version of standalone Aptana Studio, 1.5, on 32 bit Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.

First of all, download the Aptana Studio on http://www.aptana.org, choose the Linux and 32 bit version, or change it accordingly to suit your machine. Before we start installing the Aptana Studio, we need to ensure we have installed the sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-plugin. To do that, simply type this in terminal

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The above picture is the oDesk Prepaid Debit MasterCard that is powered by Payoneer. As you might know already, Payoneer offered a prepaid debit card for every member of its partner company. I got mine from oDesk. Here is my personal experience for using this card and also there is some comparison with Paypal regarding the fees.

Yesterday, I finally received my oDesk Debit MasterCard. It takes approximately 3 weeks from approval into arrival. FYI, I got my card approved in 4 days after registration and it sended through regular mail. Once it is arrived, I activate the card immediately and withdraw my remaining oDesk balance into the card. I was withdrawing $50 into the card.

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Well, I will bring an unusual topic today. Even though I love anime, but I never post a single post in this topic, but this interesting series makes me want to post one. This anime -which is quite underrated- is surprisingly turn out very well. For some people, it might be boring, but for me, it is interesting since the characters emotion was made real, as well as the earthquake.

The first episode introduce the main character, Mirai and her little brother, Yuuki. Mirai was a pessimistic middle school student, while Yuuki is strong and always give courage to her sister. The story started with Mirai, from school, back to home, and then with Yuuki, both without their parent going together to robot exhibition. The first episode ended when the earthquake happened and Yuuki was still traped inside the exhibition building.

It is not recommended for you to hit the read more, if you haven’t watched the series.

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