Another Luck

A few months later, god send me a luck when I hired by PPSI UI as a part time smart card programmer. Oh, I don’t know what I must said to Adin as the person who give the idea that PPSI must hired an undergraduate student to smart card team. Firstly, I feel that I’m the one who is ‘paling cupu’ (Cupu banget deh ). I didn’t know how to use SVN as one of main part of building a large system. I didn’t know how to made an extraction of fingerprint, how to write and read a smart card, and so many other thing. I learn a lot of think there with Jan Peter (JP), and with my previous one (hopefully ), Fajran (Iang).

Then when Adin feels that I’m not ‘cupu’ again, I was given the responsibility of made Biometric System for Graduate Students Registration. After that system has gain a very good respond, then I was given second responsibility of made Biometric System for UI Staff. It uses a method that called Fingerprint Verification. One person who has registered as UI Staff doesn’t have availability to register again as another staff, despite of using different name.

This system will be implemented to student soon, so student just have chance to register to one faculty. It means that there won’t be another me in this campus (you should know what I mean ). Now I am doing a system in UI Parking which will be implemented in Gerbatama. But because this system is in development, I can’t tell too many here.

And my luck still doesn’t end until there. One month after I deploy the Biometric System, Bu Betty and Pak Adhi recognize a potential partnership with a company. If you have heard Oberthure, this is their battle

I knew this company since I entered my high school. It was really a good company where many persons with good capability of RFID smart card, chip, and computer security skills have made many improvements there. If you have heard about Retina Eye, a company which has made well-known security software, firstly I think that they were in a same business area. But when I heard that there were 8 bachelors from Informatics ITB who joined this company, I open their website, and found that their core business is in smart card area.

Again, luck is still being mine. The partnership was continued, until now..

Now is 7.40 o’clock, and I am in Sentra Mulia Building, which placed in front of the Pasar Festival. This is 15th floor, so I can see so many building in Kuningan here. Ngapain sih gw disini? I’m here to attend a MCPOS (Smart Card Application) Certificate Training. I have never expected that I will here with so many smart ‘smart card’ developers. I see many sophisticated technology here. I remember the first time I come to PPSI room, I feel that ‘gw belom ada apa-apanya ternyata’. Here, I feel that feeling again. But bigger

I see my name is listed in the attendance list:

(..) Jan Peter Alexander
………………… (sorry I didn’t read it )
(..) Deni Lukmanul Hakim
Junior Smart Card Programmer who has successfully made a Biometric System for University System.

Hope all will be fine.

Courses

This semester was one of the hardest terms of my study. I took 25 credits this semester. For those who are not a geeky human, or maybe just doesn’t want to know, please skip this part

The courses are: (I don’t mention from the hardest one, lho Just Alphabetic)
Advanced Programming, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Computer Network, Database, Differential Equation, General Game Playing, and Probability.

I feel that all courses I’ve taken were technical one. Why I said so? If I arrange it into a building block, I guarantee that I can make a fulfill system. I can design a good algorithm from the Algorithm Design and Analysis Course that I take. Maybe it will implement a very well-known algorithm like Dynamic Programming, or Huffman Encoding. If I want to take a little risk, I can design a new algorithm, but never successfully proved as a correct algorithm

I can design a very well network side and component with Advanced Programming and Computer Network courses. And for sure it has a good design and the best data structure.

Wait, I never mention: Differential Equation, General Game Playing, and Probability. The last 3 from the alphabet

OK, you can make your conclusion by yourself

Balai Kartini

Do you know where Balai Kartini was? If you don’t know, first I will tell you that as my life, I go to Balai Kartini just for attend the wedding party. I have never drove myself because I always accompanied by my parents when go to that place. So, if you ask this question to me a few weeks ago, I will have the same answer with you. It is because of my bad habit which always sleep in the car, when I was not drive the car myself. So sad.

When I must work as UI Stand Guide at UI Expo, it was the first time when I go to that very beautiful building alone. That was the first time when I go to there by drove myself, exactly. Someone tells me that Balai Kartini placed in the middle of Plaza Semanggi and Kuningan. My mind told that the bulding is near from Planet Hollywood. That was pure 100% my prediction.

At that day, the first day when I visit Balai Kartini alone , I felt little confused when arrived at Perempatan Kuningan, I decided to take left way. As my prediction before, that Balai Kartini was placed in the middle of Plaza Semanggi and Kuningan. I drove my car slowly, because of the traffic jam. Just a few second after I decided to take left, I saw to the right, there was a building named..Balai Kartini! OMG..

And I must have my turn at Semanggi…