enoshima trip

Being informed by my friend, Ridwan Fahri, that a popular dorama Taiyou no Uta took place once in Enoshima island, this day I decided to visit there. I couldn’t get the feel though because I didn’t watch the dorama when it was popular (and guess if I see it now, it will be too obsolote). But it is okay. It’s not a matter of one place is good or not, especially if you’re given the opportunity to visit another country.

Nah, I couldn’t really talk much about the places, but I think pictures speak more.

Welcome to Enoshima island. This sign appeared just before the tunnel to cross the street to Enoshima bridge. You can see the Torii gate (red gate) will welcome us in the island.

Along the way uphill, there was this shop named “Alami”. At first, I was anxious, whether this shop had relationship with Indonesia or not. I entered the shop, my friend Saiko asked to the shopkeeper, and he said yes, the name of the shop came from Indonesian words. Actually, the shopkeeper once visited Bali to surf. I was surprised that he knew one words, “Tahu? Anda tahu?”.

There were many statues in Enoshima, most of them were Buddhist one. But, this statue interested me most because of the “old lady look”. Look at the band around his (or her) head, combined with the traditional Japanese fan, and the common Japanese way of sitting. Seems so mysterious.

Earthquake is equal to tsunami. In mathematics, that arrow beside the tsunami kanji can be interpreted as “if there is tsunami, there will be refug(ee?)”. I don’t really know if this equation is mathematically true or not, no matter. It’s just that in Japan, there are so many strange and mysterious signs like this.

There were so many shells in the coral reef. It was sticked there, so tourists couldn’t bring one to their home (they can buy them though in some of the shops).

There were so many people. Most of them were parents with their kids, newlyweds, boys with their girls, girls with their boys, old people, everyone. If you’re curious about what some of the people saw, they were waiting for the wave to come. Look at the next picture.

Yes. It was a small tidal wave. Dangerous for your shoes (mine was all wet because I couldn’t properly avoid the water).

As I said before, there were various kinds of people coming to Enoshima beach. For some people, beach is a perfect place to relax your minds, especially because of the no-scenery-but-water view. If you want to empty your minds, watching through the horizon of the sea, seeing nothing except water makes it easier to do some little refreshing from everything. Like him.

Or, of course, you can just enjoy the view of the water with your girls. This couple (maybe) were watching a chopper about one or two kilometres away.

If you like fishing, it’s not recommended to do fishing in the beach right? But, that rule didn’t apply for this old man. With a pair of long boot to prevent water from coming in, equipped with a long fishing rod, he was ready to wait for forever to get one fish. Actually, this man succeeded to grab one garbage as long as I saw. Hope that you get better, Ojichan (grandfather)!

…or you also could paint in the beach. Not a common things to do though, but this man did. Well, maybe the smell of the salt inspired him more to do a little creative imagination to paint.

Some Japanese young couples wrote their name in those locks. Look, you can see the names of the couple (in Kanji) and the date it was written (and locked to the trees). Even the Snoopy was sticked to the branches. I don’t really catch the meaning of it. There must be some philosophy I supposed. At least, nature will always be the witness of their love.

It’s a view from the top of observation tower in Enoshima island.

Sunflower. The good of spring in Japan is you can always find flowers everywhere. Beautiful. Tulips, sunflower, and many other flowers that I don’t know their names, will always fullfill everyone hearts in Spring. Romantic?

Well, stop saying that Japan is a perfect clean country. This scene proves that Japan is a normal country, it can be dirty (although we have to admit that most of the times, Japan is extremely clean everywhere). There were many cans left in the edge of the beach. Not in the main beach though, but in a small corner just after the Alami shop that I said before (we have to enter a narrow road). And, what makes it funnier is….

What did the world-famous Winnie the Pooh do in the beach?

Properti waktu dalam sistem FreeBSD (1)

Konon, ada 4 jenis properti waktu yang dipunyai oleh sebuah file dalam sistem FreeBSD. Sebelum membahas lebih lanjut, perlu diketahui bahwa struktur file dalam sistem FreeBSD melibatkan apa yang disebut inode. Artikel teknis bisa dibaca di sini. Sebuah file terbentuk atas inode yang mempunyai pointer ke arah data.

1. Access time
Access time memberikan keterangan kapan terakhir kalinya sebuah file diakses (baca dan tulis).

2. Modified time
Modified time memberikan informasi tentang kapan terakhir kalinya sebuah file dimodify.

3. Changed creation time
Sering disebut sebagai ctime. Ctime bukan merupakan kependekan dari creation time, melainkan changed time. Apa bedanya changed dan modify? ctime menangkap perubahan bukan hanya dari sisi data, melainkan juga perubahan yang dilakukan pada parameter-parameter inode, seperti ownership, permission, dsb. Jadi, ketika sebuah file kita ubah, misal kita menambahkan sebaris teks pada file kita, changed time dan modified time juga berubah. Namun, apabila kita hanya melakukan operasi seperti chmod atau chown, artinya, melakukan perubahan bukan pada data, melainkan pada parameter ownership dan permission pada inode, changed time akan berubah, namun modified time tidak.

4. Birth time
Sering disingkat btime. Btime memberikan informasi yang bersifat statik, tentang waktu “kelahiran” sebuah file di sistem operasi kita. Btime tidak akan berubah, dan akan terus sama. Apabila kita ingin melihat kapankah sebuah file muncul untuk pertama kalinya, dengan mudah kita bisa melihat parameter btime yang ada dalam file kita.

Untuk contoh gimana cara mengetahui dan penggunaan keempat parameter waktu tersebut, akan dibahas pada artikel berikutnya (ketika saya ada akses ke console ). Mohon maaf kalau ada yang salah. CMIIW…

NetBSD Based Robot

This is a video about NetBSD-based robot presented at asiabsdcon 2008. For those of you who can’t see this video, I will tell you what it’s about. It’s basically a white robot, complete with its head, legs, and hands. What it can do is actually laughing. Yes, this robot starts to laugh everytime somebody turns on the switch. It laughs, moves its hand accordingly, somewhat similar with what Kamen Rider does. And after getting satisfied by laughing for like 10-15 seconds, it starts to fall down, and laughs again. Several seconds later, it does a somewhat strange movement (imagine yourself sleeps on bed, lift up your foot to make a ninety degree angle with your bed), and then, finally, try to get up. But ups, there is some mistake, the robot can’t get up properly.

For you who can see the video, enjoy it

Kansai in Pictures

Ini adalah jejak kaki yang banyak uangnya. Dipotret di patung Kannon @ Gion, Kyoto.

Menyeramkan sekali melihat pohon ini. Kering. Tandus. Apalagi sewaktu malam, lihat di bawahnya itu ada lampu-lampu yang bisa menyala dan menyoroti si pohon.

Ini adalah foto mobil merah kecil @ Arashiyama, daerah pegunungan di Kyoto.

Beginilah cara Kyodai (Kyoto University) dalam menggelar acara OHU (Open House Unit). Mereka meletakkan baliho2 besar di sepanjang jalan depan kampus untuk menarik minat mahasiswa baru yang ingin masuk circles/unit tertentu.

Bagi yang udah tamat baca 20th Century Boys, pasti tidak asing dengan gambar ini. Saya kaget sekali melihat patung Sun Tower ini pertama kalinya. Ternyata memang benar-benar ada, di Osaka Expo Memorial Garden.

Lagi-lagi, pohon kering. Kali ini, background-nya adalah Sanjusangendo Temple. Mirip dengan rumah joglo di Jogja bukan?

Saling toleh-menoleh

Sedikit saja kusentuh bajunya, dia menoleh dan memandangiku heran. Padahal saya tak sengaja lho, lagipula bukan sentuhan langsung juga, melainkan sentuhan antar lengan baju kami. Sekian menit kemudian, lha kok kaki saya ini tiba-tiba gatel, ya otomatis tho aku gerakkan satu kaki di atas kaki yang lain (maksud hati menggaruk, apa daya sepatu masih terpakai, jadi gak puas garukannya). Eh pas kaki kanan kembali ke tempat, lagi-lagi aku menyentuh dirinya, kali ini sepatunya. Hiks, ditoleh lagi deh.

Sudahlah, lebih baik diam di tempat. Saya pun mengeluarkan iPod dari tas, mendengarkan lagu rock terbaru dari Dream Theater. Lagi suka sama album Systematic Chaos, mengingatkan saya atas album masterpiece dari DT (bukan Daarut Tauhid) yang lain, Scenes from a Memory. Eh, lha ya kok udah berusaha diem si orang itu tetep noleh. Mungkin karena volume iPod saya terlalu keras (padahal menurut saya sih tidak). Saya curiga pergerakan tangan dan badan saya dalam memasang dan mengambil iPod terlalu banyak. Oke lah, saya kecilkan sekarang. Ambil aman.

Nampaknya suasana sudah mulai tenang. Si orang itu tidak menoleh-noleh ke saya lagi. Malahan dia sekarang keliatan tidur sambil berdiri. Dalam hati saya heran, kok bisa ya. Tiba-tiba, hape saya di dalam tas bergetar. Terpaksa saya harus mengeceknya, tentu saja dengan membuka tas terlebih dahulu. Maklum, ini bukan tas mahal yang dibeli di depato-depato yang ada di Ginza, jadi ritsletingnya bersuara dengan nyaring ketika saya gerakkan. Dan bisa ditebak kan, si orang ini tiba-tiba bangun dan OMG, lagi-lagi menoleh ke saya. Sudah kebanyakan merasa ngganggu dia, keluarlah kata sakti itu, “Sumimasen“, yang artinya “maaf”.

Di stasiun Saginuma, orang yang duduk di depan saya berdiri dan keluar dari kereta. Tentu saja ini kesempatan emas bagi saya, untuk duduk dan tentu saja, tidur. Dan duduklah saya. Duduk pun susah. Terkadang space begitu sempit sehingga susah bagi kita untuk duduk. Dan melihat pengalaman pada paragraf pertama, saya harus menghindari menyentuh selembar benang pun dari pakaian orang-orang yang ada di sekitar saya. Apalagi beberapa dari mereka tidur.

Dan… Itu susah. Spacenya begitu sempit, mau tak mau saya harus menyenggol lagi-lagi lengan baju seseorang. Orangnya pun bangun, dan, itulah baiknya orang yang udah tidur dan kecapekan, mereka tidak menoleh, melainkan melanjutkan tidur kembali. Aman. Duduk udah tenang, tas di pangkuan, kantuk pun datang menghadang. Dan tidurlah saya. Eh, sebelum saya tidur, saya sempat menoleh ke orang yang dari tadi nolehin saya itu. Dia tetep aja ngeliatin saya. Ah, mungkin dia iri saya bisa tidur sambil duduk, sementara dia harus tidur sambil berdiri.

Yah, begitulah hidup di kereta