Singcat Down

Sudah 1 minggu ini website gue yg hosting di singcat.com up and down, terakhir down terus, gue login ke trouble ticket gak bisa, gue coba fungsi lost my password katanya email gue gak ada di daftar, gue coba daftar baru pake email yg sama katanya email gue udah ada, jadi mesti gimana? Akhirnya gue create user baru untuk create trouble ticket, udah dikirim 3 kali gak ada jawaban.........mau telpon males, mahal gitu loh telepon dr malaysia. Ya udah gue mutusin kalau dalam 3 hari ini tidak ada perubahan gue pindahin aja deh semua hosting sama domain name gue dr singcat.com ini.

Invoice aja kalau gak gue tanya mereka lupa. Gue kan sempet nanya kapan mesti bayar lagi bayaran tahunanya, terus kata mereka gue udah telat 1 bulan belon bayar, jadi account gue di lock, ada pengumumannya langsung di website gue bahwa web gue ada masalah administratif, malu-malu in kan? Padahal siapa yg salah? Salah mereka kan kenapa gak ngirim invoice, emangnya gue sebagai konsumen inget apa mesti bayar kapan? Tagihan listrik, koran, air aja biasanya tiap bulan mampir, ini kagak ada tagihan sama sekali? Meneketehe......

Satu lagi yg penting, domain name gue ada di singcat juga, gue takutnya kalau domain gue tiba-tiba raib gimana? Perlakuan kepada clientnya aja kayak begini, gue gak heran kalau deh kalau nanti tiba-tiba domain gue hilang, dan mereka cuma bilang, meneketehe.....Itu juga masih untung kalu dijawab pertanyaan kita. Yah bener, mesti pindahin domain name gue buru-buru ke registrar yg lain. Kalau gak kacrut deh.

Gue nyesel juga pindah dari web hosting gue sebelumnya Indoglobal yg walaupun lebih mahal tapi memperlakukan kita sebagai konsumen lebih humanis dibanding singcat yg memperlakukan kita kayak anak kecil yg gak tau apa-apa. Indoglobal memang lebih mahal dikit, tapi supportnya oke dan downtimenya gak kayak singcat deh. Terima kasih banyak buat Singcat atas perlakuannya yg semena-mena terhadap client nya sendiri, semoga banyak client singcat yg mulai sadar diri dan segera membuat keputusan yg baik...........pindah hosting.

HDR

This is my first attempt to use HDR in my photograph. Just using 1 Raw file and the create 3 different exposure and process them in a Photomatix. I really like this HDR, but do not like over bake, just to get more detail between high contrast image.

This is the picture. I hope you like it. BTW, this is my apartment, a very nice and beautiful place, surrounded by the beautiful trees. Click on the image to see the bigger image.

Nikon 50mm f/1.2 AI on Nikon D70

I just realised that my father nikor lens (50mm f/1.2 AI) can focus on my D70. Not the real AF, but if you try to manual focus the lens, you have to see the green indicator in the viewfinder. If the green indicator is stop blinking then your lens is in focus and you can shoot it right away. Stupid me, I have been using this lens on my D70 for more than 2 years and just realised the secret of the green indicator a couple of days ago. I found the secret on flickr forum site. Please throw me some cake on my face...But I am still dreaming to get the Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4 D. Maybe someday when I've got enough money. This photograph is shot using that old manual focus lens, check out the sharpness and contrast, nice yaah, this is taken with available light, shuter speed 1/30 and f/2.0, photoshop only for cropping.

Malacca

It's been a long time since I wrote my last blog. I almost forgot that this blog was even exist! It was my niece's blog (anna) that reminds me of my blog. OK, I'll tell you about my journey to Malacca last week end.

Last week end we went to Malacca. Of course with all of my family plus my father in law. He has been in KL for almost 1 week now. He said that he really missed his grandchildren, he always thinking about them in Jakarta. Ohh how sweet is he? Well, anyway, his knee was hurt since he fell in Jakarta a year ago. So, he couldn't walk much!

If you like the detail, Malacca is the second smallest state in Malaysia. It is located in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula, on the Straits of Malacca. The state's capital is Malacca Town. From Kuala Lumpur it's about 200km, or 2 hours with a car at speed limit 110 km.

When we get there we had lunch at Pizza Hut. Why Piza Hut??? Why not trying the real Mallacan food? Well, it's because we bring the kids. It's easier for us to feed them at Pizza Hut than to the unknown food, right? If we didn't bring the kids, maybe we would try to get lunch at the local restaurant.

After lunch, we went to the hottest spot of Malacca where you can find a museum, a very old church, antique's store, Budha's temple, and antique hotel. Most of the old church was built in 18 century, and still in good condition, thanks for the malaysian government, they do really care for the historical building in Malacca.

Before I went to Malacca, I kept thinking that the whole Malacca's town is full with antique's building, old church, old bicycle, but actually it wasn't. Only the small region has some antique's building, and that was only the tourist area. Too bad, we did not spent the night there, after all, I like Malacca, if I have a chance and time, I would love to see Malacca again.

Aya's Mom was here!

Well, after 2 months not seeing her grandson, she's back. This was her picture at petaling street, Kuala Lumpur. Not so crowd on Wednesday night. If you try to come in Friday or Saturday nights, you'll get stuck, too many people will be there. I could not find any good merchandise or food in there, nothing extra ordinary, just some cheap fake Rolex or Casio, some pirates DVD, some fake branded clothes, fake branded shoes. All is fake. I could only enjoy the china town atmosphere, that's all.