YKFS V is Over

International Service Learning - YKFS V is finally over after the HK team depart to Jakarta and then followed to Hong Kong at around midnight. It's been a great work for the past 3 weeks in Banjaroya Village and the strong bond between both students will be reminded even though they are separated.

We have prepared this program for some time along with the HK coordinator and staffs via email. There has been a lot of changes since last year, but we hope that the changes are for the best interest for both parties and it seems the changes i proposed does work as intended and gives us more advantages rather than disadvantages.

I must admit that it wasn't the best service we can do, but i have done my best to make sure they are enjoying the trip in the village and also having the best farewell party in the end of this program.

Thank you to all HK staffs and students for this year's YKFS. Hopefully we can meet again next year in the next YKFS or we can visit HK someday in the future :)

Community Service Learning Program

Tomorrow the students will start their community service learning program in Banjaroya, Kulon Progo for one month. This year, the service learning program in UKDW are split into two areas: Kulon Progo and Tobelo, Halmahera, North Sulawesi. The ANU students will go  to Tobelo, while the HK students will go to Kulon Progo.

I wish the best for them and hopefully everything works as intended and the students can learn something from the local people about local wisdoms.

I became the coordinator for this year's YKFS V (Yogyakarta Kampung Field School) program as the last year coordinator is now become the coordinator in Tobelo. This gives me a chance to get more experience managing a lot of people together to complete this program by next month.

Marking Done

I have finally completed marking all the exams and i will submit the final grades tomorrow and my job is finished for this semester. It's another exciting semester, except for one course in which one student of mine was found cheating during the final exam and i had to gave him an "E" which is Failed.

My focus right now is planning and coordinating the work for service learning which will start next month along with Hongkong Polytechnic University.

G7 Reunion

It has been several months since our last reunion, but we finally managed to meet after Andre came back from US for the next two weeks in Indonesia and we had a long holiday this week. We were planning to stay in Kaliurang for two nights, but i can only join them partially since i have a baby to be taken care of.

Last night, we decided to join the party and we had a short BBQ party, but the party didn't last long since she was crying so loud and didn't stop for some time, so i guess she is not ready for that kind of party. We had to take her home and left the party earlier.

Sorry guys for not being able to join the party longer, but i do have higher priorities on the baby first.

H@dfex Conference

Last Saturday, i attended H@dfex conference in Royal Ambarrukmo after i got a free pass for the conference from the commitee. They even gave 5 discount voucher for students who would like to participate on this conference.

There i met several colleagues which was invited as a speaker and we had some discussions about security and also other things. Chances like this doesn't happened so often, so that's why i forced myself to attend this event even though i also have other activities on Saturday which is supervising the KKN program, but my schedule is for next week.

Thank you UII commitee for the free pass :)

Interviewing For YKFS V

Tomorrow i will be interviewing students who would like to join the YKFS V. It's Yogyakarta Kampoeng Field School and this year, we had a collaboration with Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Last year, we had collaboration with PolyU and also ANU from Australia.

It's an honor for me to be selected as the coordinator for this year's YKFS program as i had just joined this program last year. Hopefully all goes well during preparations and also executions which will commence on this June-July.

New Pope Elected

After two days, finally new pope which will lead 1.2 billion Catholics around the world has been elected. The new pope is a cardinal from Argentina: Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He will be the 266th pope and replacing Pope Benediktus XVI whom resigned due to health problem. For his name, he will be known as Pope Francis.

Congratulations for him and for Catholics around the world

Happy Chinese Lunar New Year

Gong xi fa cai, wan shi ru yi

Best wishes from me, and my family 

Welcome to the year of Snake 

Newly Wed

Congratulations to Mark and Yochebed for becoming a newly wed couple as of today. The holy matrimony was held in Wongsodirjan Church and the party was held few hours later.

Unfortunately, not all of our group member can attend this event. Andre is now in US, while Yohan is in Germany and Andi is in Jakarta. So, only me, Jongky, and Joko attended this event. But that doesn't matter as they have their own reason for not attending this event.

Happy New Year

I know it's a bit late about new year thing, but i just got a change to post it just now since since late December, i was busy with my new baby and i just got home last night. It was simply a new experience for me to become a father of a cute baby girl, whom we named Alysia Selena Tan. She was born at December 2012 at 7:27 AM in Panti Rapih hospital with caesar operation.

Since then, i spend all of my time to her, and didn't do anything else besides taking care of her and her mother. I read emails sometimes via my cellphone, since there wasn't any WiFI connection around the room. I had to go to first floor, but i prefer to stay in the room. Well, practically i'm out of date in terms of IT, Open Source, or any Linux news out there.

Last night was our first day staying at home along with our baby and it was amazing, even though we couldn't sleep. We still have long way to go, but this is a good start.

So i just want to say HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013 for all of my blog readers....

Best wishes

Willy and Family