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I was a bit drowsy this morning in the office. So I quickly went to the pantry and took a cup of coffee from the vending machine. No coins are needed for this vending machine, thank you very much

After a few sips, I felt much better and started to think what does Wikipedia says about Caffeine. It is an interesting article really. Few things that I noted:

1. Smoking and drinking coffee IS NOT a good combination. Smoking will shorten the duration of the caffeine effect. So if you drank too much coffee and want to sleep, start puffing!! Bad news for those night watchers which I believe most of them drinking coffee and smoking during the night.
2. It took at most 45 minutes for the body to completely absorb and distribute the caffeine throughout your body
3. The caffeine will be active in your body for around 4 hours. It might be longer depends on the age, gender and weight. It is also noted that the effect last much longer for children and pregnant women
4. There has been success effort to purify caffeine and make them in powder form
5. Taking too much caffeine might kill you. Estimated around 100 cups of coffee needed. And you must drink this 100s cups in very short time (i.e. the hundredth cup should be drunken when the first cup is still in effect). Of course this is slightly impossible, unless of course, when you snort the powder mentioned before! Announced as the first person who presumed dead because of caffeine is not an achievement you know!

Hardono Arifanto :: Jul.24.2007 :: Life :: 4 Comments »

Watched the movie last night at The Cathay with throng of friends (Yasrof and his wife Dhea, Hendra Gani, Buddie, Hafiz, Pak Cik Adi and Bro Hamonangan).

Despite the disappointment of few of my colleagues who have watched the movie earlier, claiming that the movie is a really good lullaby material, I was really sure that the movie wouldn’t be a disappointing one. I mean, come on, the original story is so good. It would be really difficult to make the movie become bad.

In the end, I did enjoy the movie very much, thank you. So maybe in a way it follows that “Garbage in, Garbage out” postulate. If you already have a really good material, it would need a really major screw ups to make the output bad.

On our way out of the theatre, Hafiz shared to us his experience Harry Potter books. Bro Hamonangan also disclosed that he was discouraged by the thickness of the recent books. Then I am throwing my 2 cents, “Well.. I consider myself lazy. I would rather spent 2 hours to watch the movie than spending countless of hours reading the books.”

SPOILER ALERT
Lord Voldemort is actually Harry Potter’s alter ego!!!! Oh NO!!!

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You know that I am just kidding with you right?

Hardono Arifanto :: Jul.17.2007 :: Life, Movie :: No Comments »

Whoa.. I’ve been neglecting this blog for a month.

The main reason would the recent GST (Gross ServiceGoods and Services Tax) hike from 5% to 7% which required some works need to be done on the system. The work totally absorbed all my life energy and my will to live (haha.. you know I’m exaggerating :)).

We also have moved into the new HDB flat. The proper term would be shifting, since we moved to the unit in the same block, same floor, but the opposite corner. Hopefully the new space will inspire me better in blogging (which is not happen yet).

Lastly, thanks to all RSS subscribers and readers which still frequently patronize this blog although no updates, not even replies to the comments. I do feel bad for not replying the comments.

Hardono Arifanto :: Jul.10.2007 :: Life :: No Comments »

I was tagged by Pieter Marbun yesterday.

The Rules:

* Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
* Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
* Players should tag eight other people and notify them that they have been tagged.

Eight random facts about me:

1. Born in a village called Mojowarno. Mojowarno is a combination of two words, Mojo = is a kind of unedible fruit. Warno=Colour. The naming might be related to Mojopahit, a historical kingdom which was located relatively near to my village.
2. Frequently mistaken as Filipino (^_^) In reality, I am a pure breed Indonesian Javanese (Well I can’t really say I’m pure breed since I never test my DNSA. Although I know exactly my lineage up to my great grandparents. All of them are Java programmer nese. (^_^)/ )
3. Loves spicy foods
4. Wanted to become a pirate. But turned off by Pirates of Malacca Straits. These pirates are neither cool nor savvy. They are just purely violent criminals.
5. Lamb Chop with Black pepper sauce is probably the most frequent food I ordered in any food court
6. The eldest of 4 brothers. That movie very unlikely to be inspired by me and my brothers
7. Believes in afterlife. Although I am in constant fight between good and evil (T_T)
8. Procrastinates frequently =P

I shall continue to pass the tags to:

1. Made Adi
2. Gede Artha
3. Adhi Wibowo
4. Haqi
5. Brett Mckay
6. Culture Shiok!
7. Lisa
8. Karen

Keep it going …..

Hardono Arifanto :: Jun.03.2007 :: Life, Blogging :: No Comments »

I was going to write about the upcoming Spam Control Bill which will be enforced effective on June 2007. But when I went to http://parliament.gov.sg, it’s a dead end (>.<).

So my request is, please modify the .htaccess file to redirect http://parliament.gov.sg to http://www.parliament.gov.sg

Or, since according to netcraft it runs on Apache, please use mod_rewrite module.

Hardono Arifanto :: May.01.2007 :: Life, Internet :: 2 Comments »