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January 1, 2011

Done with processing Bali trip photos

Filed under: Family, Travel — Tags: — hendrikch @ 8:46 pm

There were close to 600 photos both from my iPhone and Canon 450D, and after spending a few hours today, I selected 175 photos to keep, and thrashed the rest.

There were many burst shots that I took when both of my nieces are in the frame, and it’s never easy to get children to pose nicely for your camera, so the only choice I had was to burst-shot and hope for the best that at least one good shot came out of it.

I will refrain from duplicating myself in sharing the photos in both my blog and Facebook, so photos and short explanation and story for them goes into Facebook, and my blog will most likely simply link to that album in Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=275400&id=697623837&l=82dcc9493a

Any better idea on keeping this blog alive while maintaing communities in Facebook?

In the mean time, here are some footages from the wonderful beaches in Bali.

For editing videos, I created a custom sequence preset in Adobe Premiere Pro to match iPhone 4 file setting.

They are:

  • 1280 x 720 with square pixel (1.0) aspect ratio.
  • 30.00 fps
  • 44100 Hz audio

iPhone 4 Premiere Sequence

October 20, 2009

Room for Rent at Jurong West Central

Filed under: Family, Miscellaneous, Singapore — hendrikch @ 11:02 pm

Friends who would like to stay in Jurong West area, for Masters/PhD in NTU, or who prefers to stay in Jurong West, I have ONE Master Bedroom available from 01 November 2009.

The unit is located at Block 683A, the HDB area which is much more modern than the rest around them.

Amenities around:
- 10 minutes walking distance to the huge Jurong Point shopping mall, which have virtually everything you need.
- Next to Jurong Point are Boonlay MRT and Bus Interchange.
- Express bus 502 located below the block goes straight to Orchard, City Hall, Esplanade, etc.

The Master Room is complete with aircon, attached bathroom, wardrobe, dressing table.
The unit itself has a big living room, you can cook in the house. You’ll be staying with other Indonesian female professionals.

Price: only $800 (neg.) for up to two persons; Utility bills to be shared with everyone staying in the house.

Contact Hendrik @ 9856 5589 for viewing/details.

October 15, 2009

Wednesday in Jakarta

Filed under: Dining, Family — hendrikch @ 11:30 am

I spent whole of my Wednesday literally taking photos. This time, I was taking product photos for Photoworks Indonesia, a photo lab with very nice print-outs on albums, boxes, frames, etc. for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and many other events.

Photoworks Indonesia in Biak

Photoworks Indonesia in Biak

Collection of photo albums

Collection of photo albums

If you’d like to know more about Photoworks Indonesia, keep an eye on http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=252072090065. I took over 100 photos of different items in that whole day, it tells you how many items and customizations that they can handle and provide you, it worth checking when you have the need for a photo album.

Photo album

Photo album

Customized boxes are available too

Customized boxes are available too

I had lunch at Hoka-hoka Bento, *finally*, and it tasted great as usual. For drink, it was Teh Botol, what else right?

True to my IT background, after seeing the PCs there without proper backups, shared terminals were given Administrator rights, etc., I couldn’t help myself NOT to fix all of them. At least, I didn’t spot any viruses around this time :-)

Dinner time

Dinner time

Dinner time, few family members gathered at Ikan Cianjur at Batu Tulis. Their signature dish is Ikan Fesmol. I don’t know what Fesmol is, I only know Fesbuk :p

My two nieces, however, are not interested with the food on the table. They preferred chocolates bread and avocado juice instead.

Eldest niece with avocado juice

Eldest niece with avocado juice

And this is when you give a 1.5 year old kid a chocolate bread

And this is when you give a 1.5 year old a chocolate bread

October 13, 2009

Weekend in Jakarta

Filed under: Christianity, Dining, Family, Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 11:30 pm

I reached Jakarta for one-week holiday on Friday evening, 9th October with Valuair for a planned-fully-packed vacation. I started Saturday by visiting my grandma, then upgrading my mom’s laptop to Windows 7 Home Premium. The upgrade took a full two hours, and after upgrade, everything works perfectly fine. In the afternoon, I assisted my mom to calculate and manage employee’s salary, which surprisingly took me almost two hours to go through everything. My brother and I slept in our sister’s apartment that evening. I spent the night there editing photos that I’ve taken that day.

Sunday was even a longer day. I woke up at 6 AM, reached GRII church at Kemayoran for 7 AM Sunday service. After the service, I went to Bakmi GM for breakfast with Evie‘s family. The breakfast was soon followed by me and Evie visiting my grandma and my parents for mango dessert and Hokkien Mee lunch. After lunch, we quickly dashed to Vivien’s holy matrimony in a church in Sunter. With me having no clue on where the church was, I drove around Sunter area with Evie’s holding my phone with GPS on. We got lost for a while before we finally found the church half hour later.

Evie and Me

Evie and Me

After the holy matrimony, we drove back to Mall Kelapa Gading to meet my high school friends for a mini-reunion between 3-5 PM. We walked around the mall for an hour, then we went to Mangga Dua Square for Vivien’s wedding dinner. After Evie went home, I drove home, getting lost in Kemayoran area, but found my way back home safely.

Me, Evie, Tung2, Meli, Wylma, and Sara

Me, Evie, Tung2, Meli, Wylma, and Sara

With a draining Sunday, no wonder I only woke up at 12 PM on Monday, a novelty, haha… I went to optical shop to buy a new glasses for myself. This one I wear is more than 6 years old now. The good thing is, the power of my right eye has reduced though the power of my left eye has increased a bit. The cylinder power in both eyes have magically disappear, so after 6 years, it seems like my eyes have actually gotten better. Me and family went for dinner at Duck King, and ended the day at bowling’s alley. I took 431 photos that day, and spent the night editing photos *again*.

Me at bowling alley

Me at bowling alley

My youngest niece

My youngest niece

Tuesday was not much different. I went to my dad’s office, helped to digitize handwritten notes I found there, and finished up a product brochure’s design. After dinner, I browsed the net for images for my next product’s brochure’s design.

No doubt, tomorrow will be a long day again, I’ll update again in a few days :-)

April 7, 2008

Skype multi party conference call

Filed under: Family, Technology — Tags: , — hendrikch @ 9:37 pm

From top to bottom: Me in Singapore at home, my brother in Melbourne, my mom in Jakarta, my sister in Singapore at her home.

Superb way to conference the whole big family in a one big chat. All calls are free except the one to Jakarta land line phone.

March 1, 2008

Leap Year Baby

Filed under: Family — hendrikch @ 10:52 pm

After I was sick and took MC for Thursday, I already felt better, and would be going to office on Friday. Unknown to me, at 1.15 AM in the morning, my sis woke me up, telling me that she’s on her way to the hospital as she felt pain in her stomach. My dad accompanying her also sms-ed me to rush to the hospital to help him as he can’t take care my first niece, Kylie, and my sister all by himself. So, I quickly changed and rushed to Mt. Alvernia Hospital. As my brother-in-law was only planning to reach Singapore in the evening, my dad and myself are the only ones my sis had to help her.

1.45 AM: When I reached the hospital, my sis was already admitted to the delivery suite for check-up, my mom and my brother-in-law clearly nervous back in Jakarta, we had to sms and call them for any minute details update on my sis.

2.00 AM: The nurse told us that it’s time for delivery and they’ll be bringing my sister for operation now. The initial estimate for delivery that we have known for weeks were between 3-6 March, but this one was early.

2.10 AM: My sister was brought out from delivery suite into operating theatre, and we followed them. We, however, could only wait outside, as only the husband are allowed into the operating theatre.

My dad was visibly concerned and my niece not knowing what were happening. Poor girl that we had to wake her up 1 AM in the morning and brought her here.smile_sad

2.30 AM: A nurse came out, asked me, “Are you the husband?“. “No“, I said. “Where’s the husband, he can go in.”. I replied, “He’s not here.

29 February 2008 02.50 AM: This cute little baby girl pops out, well and healthy.heart
 

3.00 AM: As her father were not around, the nurse asked me, together with her, to check the baby. It was something that I have never seen nor experienced, so I just stood there, nodding on every statement as the nurse took her measurements 3.020 kg weight, 32 cm head circumference, and 50 cm length. Two eyes, one nose, one mouth, two ears, two hands and two legs, with five fingers in each. Well, at least now I know that they checked all these, I totally looked silly.smile_embaressed Hey!! Don’t laugh, I was a total n00b when it came to checking baby. But now I can safely say I got the experience haha….smile_wink I now know what need to be done when I’ll be a daddy one day haha…smile_tongue

4.30 AM: My sis was done with her operation, ushered into the room, and the baby was wrapped in blanket and slept quietly. I was just sitting there, waiting, using my Nokia N95 with Mt. Alvernia free wireless LAN to send the leap-year baby pictures to my brother-in-law back in Jakarta, who undoubtedly were very anxious.

5.00 AM: As we were not allowed to stay, we went back home, and had a short sleep. The main reason was that Kylie couldn’t sleep at all in the hospital, so we had to bring her back home for a much-needed sleep.

10.00 AM: We reached hospital again, and Kylie was very eager to see her younger sister now.
 

My brother-in-law and my grandma reached Singapore 8 PM in the evening and rushed to the hospital with all their luggage, can’t wait to see the new born babysmile_teeth

As for me, my flu got worse as I didn’t have enough sleep and was tired with all these, and I didn’t dare to get close to the baby without me holding my breath. Only after I went down to the Pharmacy and got myself some Panadol Cold that I got better, but the ecstasy of having a special leap-year baby in the family will make you forget that you’re sicksmile_shades

Oh yeah, for the name, it’ll likely be Valerie.thumbs_up

February 20, 2008

Roy Weston Kelapa Gading: Dari IBM ke bisnis properti

Filed under: Family — hendrikch @ 12:10 am

My brother-in-law was recently interviewed by Rumah123, Indonesia’s Largest Property Website for his property agent franchise, Roy Weston Kelapa Gading. Only in its third year, it is now the second best Roy Weston office in 2007, and the future is certainly bright.


So, if you happen to need to buy/sell/rent house in Kelapa Gading area, and around, in fact, anywhere in and around Jakarta, do contact Roy Weston Kelapa Gading office at (021) 452 8993 or my brother-in-law mobile directly at +62-815-907 3139.

[Read the Q&A interview]

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