Everything's covered in all white

Only one day after my autumn posting, yesterday on my trip to Nagoya, something white and small fell and struck the bus window.

Ouw yeahhh..!
Snow had fallen in my town ;)
It was SOOO beautiful..
I guess that was the first time I feel soo happy in Japan..

You can called me "kampungan", ehehehe.
I'm sorry for being too excited :D

Hey autumn!

December is a semi-freezing month. Even though the average temperature is still in positive degree, but its only in one digit :D

Actually, in the middle of December, snow starts to fall on some places in Japan (so I guess that means december is no longer autumn, but winter!)

Well, because snow haven't fall in my town (maybe next week?), here's my autumn pose in Nagoya castle :p (kind of weird pose, as usual)
Hope u like it. Kekekeke..

Chocolate Fondue at home

After visiting Café du Chocolat near Regent, Bandung, I tried to make chocolate fondue at home.
Well as you guess, making fondue is very very simple. You just need to melt a block of chocolate (such as dark cooking chocolate), and tadaaa…
You can dip almost anything, any food, into the melted chocolate.


Somehow my home-made fondue taste a little bit different (than the café's fondue :p).
I dunno why, maybe because I didn’t eat it with special friend beside me.. *heu*

Well at least, I have achieved the main purpose:
To eat chocolate fondue in inexpensive way :D

My suggestion:

1. Eat chocolate fondue while its hot/warm, because it would taste better.. Don't wait until the chocolate becomes cold. It will turns hard as it gets cold.

2. To do the #1, you should find a way to warm the chocolate continuously. At café du Chocolat, they do this by using a fondue pot (putting a candle flame below the chocolate's pot). But I just cant find how to do that at my home.. Well, maybe you can put the chocolate's pot on the electric stove.. Any suggestion?

3. Actually, I'm thinking about a condensed chocolate milk (susu kental manis coklat) to substitute all this melting chocolate. Perhaps a pack of condensed milk would be a more practical way to prepare fondue :D

4. Prepare a various dip-able food to dip into the chocolate. Not only fresh fruits (strawberry, apple, banana, pear, etc), but also you can dip marshmallow, brownies, cookies, ladies finger, regal, astor, anything..!

Happy fondueing! ;D

Yuk_Miskol Application

Miskol is an indonesian pronounciation for the word "missed call". It is also a term for calling (dialing) someone and terminating the call before the receiver takes up the call. 

I made this application, just for fun. Yuk_Miskol is an application to "miskol" a defined phone number periodically. Maybe you will think, it is a kind of simple (and useless? :p) program. But hey.. I enjoy making it! :D

Specification:
- made using Visual Basic 2008
- has a fixed missed calls frequency: 2 calls/minute

You know, Of course I wont give you the binary program nor the source code, because there's a huge possibility that you're gonna use it for something bad (e.g. giving a terror to somebody :D), kekekeke.

So just enjoy the screenshot, ok? 
(Except if you have special offer, we'll talk about it later.. :D Hahahaha..)

Viva Sardines!

I like sardines, but there's a common sense that preserved food is not good for our health.

Well, this is my first sardines with home-made sauce. I guess this is healthier than the original sauce. You just need garlic, onion, (one or two) tomatoes, and salt.

Ow.. and a little water!

Yeah, that easy.. but it taste great :D
Delicious..

Automatic detect COM Port List

This is for you (and for me, as my personal note :D) who are using Visual Basic 2008.

Get in touch with Serial Programming?
Maybe you are wondering how to detect list of communication port so that the user wouldn’t have to type it manually in the text box anymore.

Step 1:
Drag and drop Combo Box from Toolbox.
If you don't see your Toolbox panel, just press Ctrl+Alt+x, or go find it in View-Toolbox.
Go to the properties, and name it, such as "COMPortsBox".

Step 2:
Add these lines to the top of source code.
Imports System
Imports System.IO.Ports
Imports System.Threading.Thread

Step 3:
When load the main form, add these lines
  Private Sub MaxiTester_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
  For Each COMString As String In My.Computer.Ports.SerialPortNames ' Load all available COM ports.
  COMPortsBox.Items.Add(COMString)
  Next
  End Sub

Ps: MaxiTester is the name of main form.

Last step:
Try to run it, and smile :)

Reference: here.

Finding a pair of supported network operators to run CSD in Indonesia

First of all, let me tell you my main mistake in searching information about CSD (Circuit Switched Data). The popular word is not CSD. The network operator (such us XL and Indosat) usually called CSD as a facsimile (fax) data service. Therefore, if you are looking information about CSD from your operator's website, I suggest you to google using the word "layanan data fax", instead of CSD.

You will probably have to activate you CSD service. You can do this by visiting the customer service of your network operator. But then, to really make sure that your SIM card is working on CSD, the only way is that you should try it out, one by one.

As my experience, I activated two cards (XL and Indosat) but unfortunately, they can't dial the ATD (AT Command for data calls). I tried randomly but it just led me to desperate.

After a quite long time in desperation, I succeed in finding the supported card. I'll share it here (hope this will be useful for you):
1. Option #1: a prepaid number of XL (to dial) and a post paid number of XL
2. Option #2: a postpaid number of Halo Telkomsel (to dial) and a post paid number of XL

Fight-oh!