March 2008 - Posts
Akhirnya...setelah lelah menunggu selama lebih dari setahun sejak kemunculan iPhone, pada hari Jumat, 21 Maret 2008 lalu, gua berkesempatan memegang, meng-explore, bahkan memiliki iPhone :) Penantian lebih dari setahun itu disebabkan oleh constraints dari berbagai hal seperti: ketersediaan di Indonesia, kemampuan akan harga (awal keluar di Indonesia harganya sekitar 10 juta), kemungkinan untuk di-unlock (karena iPhone belum bisa menggunakan GSM provider di Indonesia), dll. Baru sekitar awal tahun ini harga iPhone di Indonesia mulai mendekati harga aslinya (dalam dolar). Karena kebetulan sudah menabung cukup lama, saatnya membeli iPhone supaya bisa dioprek pas long weekend kemaren.
In this posting I'm gonna tell the story about my experience of one day with iPhone, from the moment I buy it, until..... (I'm gonna tell you later :P)
Buying Process
Kesan pertama adalah waktu mencarinya di BEC. Pertama-tama bertanya ke sebuah toko di lantai dasar, harganya Rp6,2 juta. Lumayan cukup murah (cukup murah jika dibandingkan harga awal-awal kehadiran iPhone yg sekitar 10jt)...Terus coba dulu naik ke lantai 3 yang menjual computer-related stuffs. Bertanya ke dua toko ternyata harganya malah Rp7 juta. Kok bisa ya...mungkin disebabkan importir-nya berbeda sehingga harga awalnya beda. Kok bisa beda...ya karena memang iPhone belum resmi masuk Indonesia, jadi authorized dealer belum boleh mengimpor dan menjualnya. So, alternatifnya iPhone diimport oleh importir yang gak resmi...Itu cuman analisis gua :)
Akhirnya kembali ke lantai dua dan mendapatkan iPhone dengan harga yg sama dengan toko di lantai dasar tadi, Rp6,2 juta. Ya sudah...dengan perasaan yg sempat ragu2, akhirnya gua memutuskan untuk membeli.
Kesan kedua adalah waktu memegang kotaknya yg mungil dan membuka isinya. Isinya gak macam-macam, cuman ada:
- iPhone device (obviously)
- Charger with foldable plug (cool...)
- USB cable, untuk menghubungkan iPhone ke komputer atau ke charger
- Desktop dock
- Five page quick start guide dan beberapa petunjuk tentang keselamatan and other craps
- Earphone
- Screen cleaner
- 2 Apple logo sticker...hore akhirnya punya stiker ini :)
Nggak ada CD apapun (yang biasa diperlukan untuk instalasi software di komputer untuk keperluan sinkronisasi), karena all you need is iTunes. iTunes tinggal di-download di apple.com. Dalam CD yang dipaketkan dalam box PDA/phone biasanya ada aplikasi-aplikasi bonus. Di box iPhone gak ada CD semacam itu, sepertinya Apple confident bahwa orang udah puas dengan aplikasi default di IPhone...which I'm not.
Saatnya memasang kartu SIM ke dalam iPhone. Untuk membuka slotnya perlu pakai jarum atau pinset karena harus dicolok dulu ke lubang yang kecil sekali. Setelah memasukkan jarum dan menekan cukup keras, barulah slot SIM card terbuka. Oya, di dalamnya sudah ada SIM Card dari AT&T (siapa juga yang mau pakai SIM card AT&T di Indonesia :P). Setelah SIM card kartu HALO gua dimasukkan, saatnya mengaktifkan iPhone untuk pertama kalinya.
Amazingly, proses booting iPhone cukup cepat, lebih cepat dari Windows Mobile 6 yang ada sekarang. Setelah booting beres, SIM card langsung terdeteksi tanpa masalah dan sinyal GSM langsung didapatkan. Langsung gua coba telepon dan nyambung tanpa masalah. So, unlocking SIM card memang berfungsi tanpa kendala.
Setelah semua ok, saatnya membayar Rp6,2 juta..(Hmm..kayaknya harus berhemat bulan ini). Jangan harap untuk mengisi kartu garansi, karena memang saat ini iPhone di Indonesia TIDAK ADA GARANSI apa-apa. So buy it with your own risk :)
It's time to go home and explore iPhone. It's gonna be a long long night.
Exploration
Before having iPhone, I have used Windows Mobile devices for quite long time, almost 5 years. So, in order to use this completely different device, deep exploration is needed.
When I get home, I jump into my seat in front of my laptop, browsing to apple.com and download iTunes. After installing iTunes, I connect iPhone to my laptop and iTunes detects it successfully. After setting some configs, iTunes synch my contacts & calendar (task not synched) in my Outlook into iPhone. It's fast, even faster than when synching with Windows Mobile device (I don't know why, somebody explain this please). I can also synch video and music based on available playlists. I try to play a song using iPod feature in iPhone, the sound is fantastic. The album cover flow feature is cool. Video playing is really great, smooth & no flicker. Unfortunately, it only plays video in mp4 format, so I have to convert wmv video to mp4 format which is quite time consuming.
It's time to try iPhone camera. By using 2 Mega pixel camera, photo quality is not bad, even in low illuminated environment. When I try to record video, where's the video recording feature? Unfortunately it's not available yet. You need to install additional application to do that. There's an application called ShowTime, but it's not free. You can download it for free but it only can record for 4 minutes. So be it..I don't really need it anyway.
The accelerometer censor is really cool. It allows you to rotate the device in order to rotate the picture or screen without having to rotate it by clicking some buttons manually.
OK, it's time to install some applications. I need an application to explore file system. There's an app called Mobile Finder. After installing and executing it, it shows weird file system that I'm not familiar with. In Windows Mobile, file system is not too different from Windows in PC. It's clear where the system files and folders are, where the user's files and folders. In iPhone, it's not that clear.
Since I mostly use PDA for mobile office, such as: email, browsing, word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation, it's time to check whether iPhone supports those stuffs. Email & browsing features are great. Safari browser that's included in iPhone is a complete web browser. It supports JavaScript, not like IE bundled in Windows Mobile. Portrait to landscape transition can be done by rotating the device. HTML element like Drop Down is rendered uniquely. But when I want to hide pictures in a web page (some time I need that feature in order to fasten page rendering and also to reduce downloaded data in order to reduce GPRS charge), there's no setting that allow me to do that. If I want to block and copy some texts from a web page so I can paste them to anywhere, I can't do that since there's no menu to do that and iPhone doesn't provide context menu and display copy context menu.
Email client is also a true email client. I can directly view recognized attachment file format like image, pdf, and doc file. But every time I open the email client application, it directly connects to server checking new messages and downloads them if any. Sometime I don't want that to happen to avoid GRPS charging (when I connect to the Internet using GRPS connection). And unfortunately, I can't find a setting to disable that behavior. Frustration begins...
OK, it's time to find mobile office applications, like Word, Excel, and Power Point Mobile in Windows Mobile. Frustratingly I can't find those kind of applications. There is some office suite available on the net, but that application suite is a web-based application, so you have to connect to Internet in order to use it, which is an expensive and not convenient option.
After using it quite some time, I need to check the battery status. Unfortunately, I can find no functionality to display the exact percentage of battery energy left. I also can find no application that can give me that functionality. Frustration increases..
After exploring iPhone for quite some time, I find the absence of many features those should be available in that kind of sophisticated device. It makes me frustration. I gonna recap all those cr*ps in following parts.
iPhone cr*ps
I'm gonna tell you how cr*ppy current iPhone is. I don't know where to begin so I gonna write iPhone cr*ps in a list in random order. Please don't make this list as a general judgement. It's only based on my experience and my point of view as an advanced PDA user, a geek, and a gadget freak. This cr*ps list is also based on iPhone OS version 1.1.3. In future versions I believe and hope there're some enhancements and fixing. Here we go...
Software-related
These are some software-related issues those have no solutions yet. I'm sure there will be some enhancements or fixing in the future even though you still use current iPhone device. It's a matter of time before people create some applications or patchs to overcome these issues.
1. Context menu
iPhone has no context menu that can be correlated with right mouse click in PC. Sometime, context menu is really useful when it come to do some actions related to some things we choose, focus, or block.
2. Copy-paste
It's still impossible to select some text or any object, copy it, and paste it to any place. Sometime, I need this feature when my friend asks someone's number that I have in my contact list and asks me to send that number via SMS or email. In bundled contact feature, I find no menu to copy a number or any data of a contact. There's an application called iCopy that provide copy paste functionality but it's only available for Safari. It just copies text data, not image or other object.
3. Battery Status
There's no functionality or application that can display exact percentage of battery energy left. I can't determine it exactly from small battery icon on top bar.
4. Office Applications
After searching for quite some time, I find no applications those can provide me offline office-related functionality such as word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation. There's a rumor that Microsoft will make Office Mobile for iPhone. Currently, there are some online office applications available outhere, such as EditGrid, Google, etc, those are honestly not specific for iPhone :) Off course, using online office application is my last option since it will blow up my GSM bill.
5. Task Manager
It's still impossible to view running processes in iPhone. Maybe it's not useful for regular users, but not for me. I need to know how many processes are currently running and how many memory space left, so I can turn off or kill unused processes.
6. Close button
The great (and also the crappy) thing about iPhone, it only provide one button called home button to close application. In most cases, that eases me to quickly close current application, but I don't know whether the application is really closed or just hidden/minimized and still occupies memory. It's impossible to know running processes since there's no Task Manager feature.
7. Image display in Safari
Some time I need to hide all images within a web page, so downloaded data will be reduced that makes page rendering will be faster and GRPS charge can be reduced. It's still impossible to turn off image display in Safari.
8. Automatic email download
When I open email client application and there's an email account has been set up, it will connect to server and try to download email message automatically. It's still impossible to disable that behavior.
9. GRPS/EDGE connection turning off
It's still impossible to turn off GRPS/EDGE connection. It will be always on, except WIFI connection is active. Looks like iPhone wants to be always connected to Internet. But I don't want this behavior and there's no setting to turn off the GRPS.
The combination of point 7, 8, 9 can blow up your bill. There is a case when a customer in US named Justine Ezarik received 300 page phone bill after using iPhone. Here's the complete story. So, watch out when use your iPhone :)
I myself accidentally spend more than Rp100.000 for browsing a web page using Safari. I wish I could turn off image display, maybe that will not happen :(
10. Searching
If you have billion contacts or messages, it's really helpful if you can search something you want. Contact and message application still don't allow you to search.
Hardware-related
1. 3G
Even not so smart mobile devices have include 3G feature. More over, the first iPhone was released when 3G has been a well known and default feature for smart mobile device. Why Apple don't include 3G in iPhone. Some says that because 3G will drain battery life in iPhone...Who cares?. There're some rumors that 3G will be included within next generation iPhone...hopefully :)
2. GPS and Map Software
I really need it since I'm often lost in Jakarta. Current iPhone doesn't have it. But there're some external device those can be plugged in iPhone to provide GPS functionality for less than $100. Who needs it?
3. Camera
Current iPhone has not so good camera quality. Default camera application doesn't provide any settings those allow you to customize camera capture, such as night mode. You need third party software to do that.
4. Bluetooth
You can't send/receive file from computer or other device to/from iPhone since bundled bluetooth feature in iPhone doesn't implement FTP functionality. I don't know whether this is software/driver issue or hardware issue.
Conclusion
That's it for now. I'll update above list if I remember other things later. Please correct me if anything are not correct or you can write post to encounter this post :)
Like my friend said, iPhone is like super model, beautiful but no brain :) I think it's right. Despite its beauty, it's so damn fool. After exploring iPhone for one day, I can conclude that current iPhone is still not enough for me. I expect more...
That's why after having iPhone for one day, I sell it tomorrow night. Yup, I own iPhone for just one day. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture showing me holding iPhone :) Its beauty and greatness don't matter anymore since all those matter for me cannot be given by iPhone. Maybe iPhone is simply not for me, at least for now. Hopefully iPhone will be better next time and sure I'll buy it when that time comes.
It's time to go back to Windows Mobile device. Windows Mobile device is still the best for me. I choose HTC TyTN II to accompany me in the days ahead.
On Wednesday, March 19, 2008, I delivered a talk about Sharepoint web services at Microsoft Indonesia's Bina ISV | Sharepoint.
If you're interested in the slide, it can be downloaded at this link.
This is a photo taken while I was presenting about WSS & MOSS 2007:
That's it. Enjoy.
I, represented DyCode, had an honor to be interviewed by Washington Post journalist on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 ago, at SENADA office. The Journalist, miss Lorin Kavanaugh-Ulku, came along from USA to interview us, the iMULAi winners, and SENADA related to iMULAi event. Also interviewed, Yugo Goutomo of PT. Sentra Solusi Integrasi and Mr. Farid Maruf of SENADA.
Most of her questions are about "how we feel by winning iMULAi", "what we gonna do with the grant", "how our innovation will help industry", and "how our innovation will be in the future". The interview was held for more less one hour, off course in English. Fortunately, by my poor English, I can answer all of her questions. I record a clip of interview and can be downloaded here.
This is me taking photo with Lorin. What a couple, right? Hehehe...peace :P Unfortunately, she's taller than me :|
Beautiful blue eyes she has :) Can took my eyes off of her eyes during the interview (Unfortunately you can't see her blue eyes in that photo).
Sorry for unpleasant light reflection from the glass.
These are Iman and Dany also taking photo at SENADA office.
(Ngantuk bro...?)
This interview result and iMULAi-related news will be all over the world soon. See, like I said in my previous posting, winning iMULAi is not about money, but recognition is far more important.
In case you haven't know, on Friday, Feb 29, 2007 ago, there's a MSDN Day event entitled Sharepoint and OBA. More details about that, please refer to this posting.
In that event I delivered a talk entitled Creating Outlook 2007 Form Regions using VSTO 3.0. Since some folks have asked, the slide I presented can be downloaded at this link.
These are some collected photos.
Pak Risman's talking about Building Office Business Application with VSTO 3.0
I was explaining about Application class and OutlookItem
I was coding to give demo about creating Outlook Form Region
A speaker from Plasmedia (forget the name) was explaining about Business Data Catalog and Excel Web Services in MOSS 2007
That's it. Enjoy...
On Tuesday, March 4, 2008, Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), held an event claimed as Microsoft's biggest event in Asia Pacific. The event called Server Wave 2008 Grand Launch is a big event intended to formally launch Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008 (is SQL Server 2008 really launched since it hasn't been RTM yet?). That 9AM to 9PM event is visited more than 10 thousand visitors, including some friends I know. One of my friend, Yayang, come from Pekanbaru to watch the event. To light up the event, there is a performance of Dewa 19. I think most of the visitors come to watch Dewa 19 performance :) since many visitors leave the event after Dewa 19 performed.
Not like usual where usually only I and Iman attend this kind of event, six DyCoders (Ogut, Apep, Reki, Rebby, Iman, and me) come to the event this time. Sorry guys, you don't get what you come for, T-Shirt right? Maybe next time, I try to get it for y'all.
One of interesting things introduced in the event is Heroes happen {in Indonesia}.
Many Indonesia's IT heroes photos are displayed as standing banners all over the place. This is me taking photo with some heroes banners.
As you can see, that's me taking photo beside myself :) The both are handsome, I know :P
Below are some pictures taken before and during the event.
The night before the event. Mr. Risman, Iman, and me are preparing the presentation at Sultan Hotel
Me, Fitri (Microsoft), a nice girl (forget the name), Agung Riyadi (BataviaSoft), after get Heroes t-shirt.
Dewa 19 performance. Andra Ramadan
DyCoders and friends (Andri Cine, Reki, Reki's friend, Rebby, Apep, Reza, Yayang, ..., Iman, Ogut)
Talk
DyCode, represented by me, has opportunity to deliver a talk together with Mr. Risman Adnan and Agung Riyadi. The talk is entitled Next Web Generation with Visual Studio 2008, IIS7 & Silverlight. The talk is intended to give intro and demo about the newest features introduced in VS2008. It's a demo only talk and no slide, so I can't attach the slide in this post. This talk is the most attended talk of all developer track in the event.
The demo presents cool stuffs like:
- ASP.NET MVC, by Risman Adnan
- ASP.NET 3.5 newest features, by Andri Yadi
- ASP.NET 3.5 Extension - Dynamic Data, by Andri Yadi
- Silverlight, by Risman Adnan
- ADO.NET Data Services, by Agung Riyadi
These are some pictures taken during the talk.
Mr. Risman opens the talk. Sorry boss, the picture is blur
Me, Andri Yadi, presenting ListView and LinqDataSource controls introduced in ASP.NET 3.5
Still me :) presenting Dynamic Data
I don't know what they're doing :)
Mr. Agung is presenting ADO.NET Data Services. Cool demo bro :)
OK, that's it. Enjoy...
During 2 days, March 5 - 6 2008, I delivered VSTO v3 training, as part of Visual Studio 2008 First Look training. The training is held at Solusi Training Center, Jakarta. The trainees are developers from ISVs located in Jakarta.
Please find the attachment to download the training slides.
Some photos:
I was presenting VSTO overview
The Trainees
Mungkin posting blog ini sudah cukup terlambat untuk menceritakan event yang terjadi tgl 26 Februrari 2008 kemarin di Hotel Crown Plaza Jakarta, sebuah event yang cukup bersejarah bagi saya dan DyCode. Karena kesibukan seminggu kemarin, stay full week di Jakarta & gak bisa akses internet, baru sekarang bisa nge-blog lagi. Inipun nge-blog di sela-sela mempersiapkan pekerjaan seminggu ke depan yang ternyata masih cukup padat, persiapan untuk terlibat di acara Microsoft's Grand Launching Server Wave 2008 dan harus stay di Jakarta seminggu lagi :( So, sorry buat teman-teman yang sudah tahu tentang hal ini dari berbagai media masa. Posting ini bermaksud menceritakan bagaimana pengalaman dan perasaan dari my point of view ketika dinyatakan sebagai pemenang dan menerima penghargaan dari sebuah kompetisi inovasi solusi bisnis yang bergengsi, iMULAi. Jika masih ada yang belum tahu apa itu iMULAi, please refer to this site.
Sejak mengirimkan proposal ke iMULAi tanggal 5 Januari 2008 lalu, perasaan deg2an sering menyertai keseharian saya. Apalagi setelah tahu ternyata peserta yang berpartisipasi sebanyak 106 peserta...wah rasanya semakin kecil aja kemungkinan untuk menang. Saya yakin banyak ide-ide brilian dari ke-106 peserta tersebut dan persaingan akan semakin ketat. Saya yakin juri pasti pusing banget membaca, mempelajari, dan menilai sebegitu banyak proposal.
Perasaan deg2an tsb sempat berkurang ketika suatu hari di akhir bulan Januari 2008 (saya lupa persis tanggalnya), seseorang dari SENADA menelpon saya dan ngasih kabar bahwa proposal yang saya kirim berhasil masuk peringkat 6 besar. Wow..berarti satu langka lagi menuju 3 besar alias sebagai pemenang, as we know akan dipilih 3 pemenang untuk iMULAi. Beliau meminta saya untuk bersiap-siap untuk hadir dan presentasi pada tanggal 14 Februari 2008, kalau-kalau jadi pemenang. Walaupun belum pasti menang, tapi berasa bangga bisa masuk 6 besar dan berhasil mengalahkan 100 peserta lainnya, sorry guys...gak bermaksud arogan...peace :)
Hari-haripun berlalu, perasaan dag dig dug der muncul lagi dan semakin kencang karena tinggal selangkah lagi menjadi pemenang. Segala perasaaan mencapai klimaksnya (hmmm...) ketika pada hari jumat, 7 Februari 2008, pas selesai banget sholat jumat, ada SMS dari seseorang yang bunyinya "You win imulai! Selected by Senada!"...and banggg!!!...my feeling is exploded..Buru2 sujud syukur sambil bersyukur kepada the Greatest Allah. Berita tsb diperkuat ketika ada telepon dari perwakilan SENADA, yang menyatakan bahwa kami memang dipilih sebagai salah satu pemenang iMULAi. Akhirnya perasaan tak menentu itupun hilang, sebuah penantian yang berakhir bahagia :) Until that day, saya blm tahu 2 pemenang yang lain since this information is still classified.
Walaupun belum secara official menang, saya diminta nyiapin kehadiran untuk menerima award pada tanggal 14 Feb dan nyiapin presentasi 10 menit. What? cuman 10 menit, sebentar banget, harus prepare slide yg ok nih supaya banyak yang bisa disampain dan tetap gak terburu2. OK, kesenanganpun perlu di-pending dulu, tiba saatnya untuk mem-prepare segala hal, dimulai dari slide, marketing collateral, sampai outfit yg ok. Persiapannya harus matang since it's not everyday I can attend this kind of event and become one of center of attention, isn't it? :)
Hari-hari kembali berlalu, slide demi slide berhasil dibuat, persiapan demi persiapan terus dilakukan. Sekitar tgl 12 Feb, ada telepon lagi dari perwakilan SENADA, yang ngasih tahu bahwa acara iMULAi Awarding diundur jadi tanggal yg blm bisa ditentukan. Alasannya, mereka mau undang US Ambassador dan Menkominfo. What? US Ambassador? Sebesar itukah event ini sehingga US Ambassador bisa datang? Gila, makin merinding aja gw, ada orang sepenting itu bakal datang dan bakal lihat presentasi gw..Slide dan penampilan harus lebih ok lagi nih :) Berhari-hari menyiapkan slide, sambil nonton dan mempelajari beberapa orang2 ternama melakukan presentasi, termasuk akang Steve Jobs, yang terkenal dgn gaya presentasi yang santai (dengan kaos hitam dan jeans birunya) tapi tetap OK, dan kata-kata "boom!"-nya ketika mendemokan sesuatu yang wah. Melihat juga cara presentasi rajanya presentasi dan entrepreneur terkenal, Seth Godin. Melihat presentasi mereka is very very inspiring dan influence me much.
The D-Day
OK, tibalah saatnya menyongsong hari H, tepatnya 26 Februari 2008. Pada H-1 kami mendapat briefing dari panitia di Hotel Crown Plaza untuk mempersiapkan acara besok. Pada saat itulah akhirnya saya bertemu dengan 2 pemenang lainnya, I'll talk about them later. Kami diberitahukan bahwa Menkominfo gak bisa hadir (hiks..sedih juga, padahal kalo dia hadir, mungkin ide bisnis kami bisa dipertimbangkan untuk diterapkan di Indonesia :P) dan US Ambassador gak bisa hadir terlalu lama. So,we have cut our presentation down into 5 slides and for 5 minutes. This is the photo when we're in briefing.
OK, it's time to tell story about the D-Day.
Acara iMULAi Awarding dimulai dengan speech pembukaan dari Mr. Tony Chen, President Director of PT. Microsoft Indonesia. This is his photo. Sorry agak kabur, photographer-nya masih perlu banyak belajar :P Peace Ki..
Next, the event is continued by the speech from US Ambassador, his excellency, Mr. Cameron R. Hume. It's an honor to have you in the event, sir :) Thanks for coming.
And...it's the time to announce the winners of iMULAi...eng ing eng...the winners are:
1. PT Dycode Cominfotech Development (Dycode), diwakili oleh Andri Yadi, CEO DyCode
2. Laboratorium Logistik dan Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), diwakili oleh Ahmad Rusdiansyah, dosen
3. PT Sentra Solusi Integrasi (Sentra), diwakili oleh Yugo Goutomo, Business Development Manager
Perlu saya klarifikasi bahwa urutan di atas bukanlah urutan pemenang, tapi hanya urutan berdasarkan alphabethical. Beberapa media menganggap bahwa DyCode adalah pemenang pertama, itu tidak benar karena tidak ada peringkat bagi pemenang iMULAi.
Ini foto para perwakilan pemenang, dari kiri ke kanan sesuai urutan di atas. As you can see, that's me at the left :)
My Outfit
Saya perlu cerita sedikit tentang my outfit. kalau Anda lihat, saya berpakaian beda sendiri and I do that intentionally. Karena yakin yang lain pasti pakai jas, dasi, dan other formal stuffs, saya sengaja tampil beda dengan kemeja bergaris hitam dengan lengan digulung, vest, dan celana jeans hitam...koboi banget kan. Tujuannya memperlihatkan karakter yang muda, dinamis, santai, geeky, berani tampil beda, dan supaya eye catching :) Thanks to someone special for recommending this outfit.
Setelah kita bertiga berdiri di depan, saatnya pemberian award. Award pertama diberikan oleh Mr. Walter North, Direktur USAID Mission. Berikut foto saya saat menerima award tsb. Sambil memegang award sambil difoto oleh puluhan wartawan...hmmm...kayak pemenang Oscar aja :)
Award tsb berupa plakat seperti gambar berikut:
Handshaking with US Ambassador, kapan lagi bisa salaman sama big guy kayak gini :)
Gift yang kedua diberikan oleh Mr. Tony Chen, berupa box Visual Studio Team System 2008 secara simbolis. Saya bilang simbolis karena di dalam box tsb belum ada DVD-nya. Belum tahu kapan bakal dikasih DVD-nya, udah nggak sabar mau install VSTS 2008 original. Sedaaaap...VSTS bo!. Kalau beli yang ginian harganya bisa seharga Toyota Yaris :) Pak Satria, kapan DVD-nya dikasihin?
Berfoto bersama setelah semua pemenang menerima hadiah. Saya bilang berfoto, bukan cuman sekali foto, mungkin ada ratusan "jepret" yang diambil oleh puluhan wartawan. Inilah ternyata sensasi menjadi selebritis, difoto2 berkali2 dan harus menahan senyum sekian menit :) Sebuah unforgetable moment of my life.
Dari kiri ke kanan: Walter North (USAID), the handsome guy :), Ahmad Rusdiansyah (LSCM), Yugo Goutomo (PT. SSI), Cameron R. Hume (US Ambassador), Tony Chen (MSI).
OK, cukup bercerita tentang prosesi awarding. Sekarang saatnya presentasi... Karena pengaruh alphabethical order, saya harus presentasi pertama kali. Saat itu, US Ambassador masih ada, so perlu presentasi dalam bahasa Inggris supaya dia gak bengong gw ngomong apa. And eng...ing...eng..saya maju ke pentas.
Saya ingat banget, the first words I said sebelum mulai presentasi "OK, I'm nervous". Actually, I am really nervous. Jadi speaker MSDN day, ExpertGym, training2, atau ngajar di kelas, atau presentasi TA dulu, gak ada bandingannya dengan momen ini. Lu bisa bayangkan, presentasi di depan big boys (org2 penting) dan puluhan wartawan yang siap menyorot dengan kamera dan handicam-nya, dan mencatat dan merekam every single words you say, wow...it's thrilling man... Harus berbahasa Inggris pula...hmmm. Sebenarnya gw udah bilang di awal presentasi bahwa akan menggunakan bahasa Indonesia, tapi gak tahu kenapa tanpa disadari, yang keluar dari mulut ini tetap bahasa Inggris, walaupun beberapa kalimat terpaksa diucapkan dalam bahasa Indonesia karena gak tahu English-nya.
Setelah perkenalan selesai, 1 slide dan 1 menit berlalu, selanjutnya berjalan lancar. Sepertinya agak lebih dari 5 menit, tapi presentasi tsb berakhir dengan tepuk tangan yang meriah. Sebuah perasaan yang luar biasa..
Ini foto gw sedang presentasi dengan berapi-api (apinya mana ?) :)
Selesai saya presentasi, US Ambassador-pun cabut. Jadi bangga bisa presentasi ditonton oleh beliau :)
Ini foto pak Ahmad dan pak Yugo sedang presentasi.
Setelah semua pemenang selesai berpresentasi ria, acara dilanjutkan dengan Pers Conference. Ini saatnya big boys angkat bicara :)
Setelah itu, acarapun secara resmi selesai. Selesai sudah perhelatan akbar ini. Thanks buat panitia, good job.
Tanpa disadari, tiba-tiba para pemenang langsung dikerumuni wartawan. Ada yang minta tukar kartu nama, ada yg taking photo & shoot, ada yang wawancara, dll. Yang pasti gak ada yang minta tanda tangan :) Tapi gak apa2, seumur2 baru kali ini dikerumuni oleh wartawan. Jangan kapok mas dan mbak wartawan ya :)
Sempat berfoto bersama pak Tony Chen. Kapan lagi bisa berfoto sama bos Microsoft Indonesia.
(Iman, ngapain lu ngangkat box DVD segede itu :P Kenapa gak dibawa pulang aja Man, hehehe)
Pak Dani & Iman foto bareng big guy from Senada, sorry forget the name
Wawancara exclusive bersama pak Reinhard dari Kompas dan mbak (siapa namanya ya?) dari majalah People. Turut diwawancarai, pak Farid Maruf, Senior Industry Advisor - ICT, SENADA.
And that's it...selesai sudah keseluruhan acara hari itu. Sebuah hari yang luar biasa dalam hidup saya. Pengalaman tak terlupakan, mudah2an bukan yang terakhir mengalami hal ini.
What I have in mind so far....Winning iMULAi is not only about money and gifts, but the most important things are recognition, experience, and intellectual challenge. You can't buy those things with money, you have to try for yourself. It's challenging, it's fun, it's worthed.
See you all in another competitions.
Slide presentasi dapat di-download di: http://dycode.com/files/folders/imulai/entry104.aspx