Moving To Bali October 21st, 2007

At last I can write this post. This post is about Bali. I am in Bali right now to live. Bali is my dream living place. I always want to live in Bali since third year of my colleague time (the second time I visited Bali). But the desire always been put off by many reasons. One of the reason was I have been framed to think that I must spend my all life in Jakarta because Jakarta has many programming jobs. Most of my family and my friends live in Jakarta. In Bali there is no one. Uhm, there is actually. One of my friends live in Bali. Why do I want to live in Bali? I fell in love from the first time I visited Bali. The beaches, cultures and etc. You name it.

So… There were one thing and another that burned my desire to leave Jakarta. Jakarta was getting crowded from time to time. Beside that I want to live alone without my family. As programmer I need ideal environment to work. My living place in Jakarta was an environment which had many interruptions. I could not stand on it anymore. Jakarta has been not a good place to live. And there were personal reasons too.

I landed my feet in Bali on 18th September 2007. For the first ten days I traveled around Kuta and Legian. Then I accompanied my friend coming from Jakarta to visit many places in Bali. Yeah, fun times. At that time I lived in my friend who lived here. After about ten days I moved to small apartment in Denpasar. Almost 3 weeks, I lived here without internet connection. I must walk about 200 metres to internet cafe in order to use internet connection. All I did at that time was learning programming, reading novels and planning my life in Bali. On 18th October 2007, I got HSDPA USB modem from Jakarta. My sister in Jakarta subscribed 3.5G internet account. So I use internet using her account. It is the only way to use internet here in my apartment without cables. Using internet with cables means asking problems. With 3.5G internet, you don’t need cable. Just plug the modem and you are ready to use internet.

But unfortunately, I got ZTE MF620 modem not Huawei modem. Huawei is supported in Linux but ZTE is not, at least for this time. That means I must use Windows XP to work as programmer. I have to accept this condition. I must be pragmatic. For two days I have setup my Windows XP environment so I can feel comfortable. I installed Thunberbird (replacing Evolution), Notecase, MediaMonkey (replacing the music player in Linux which the name is forgotten by me), TortoiseSVN (subversion), VirtuaWin (virtual desktops on Windows XP), Common Lisp. I upgraded Vim too from 7.0 to 7.1. But there is one thing I can not do in Windows. Developing Wallpapoz. But fortunately there was someone from Mandriva offering help to develop Wallpapoz. The plan is I will give him access to Wallpapoz repository tommorow.

Now I am ready to work as programmer.

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