Bulan Makin Besar?

Ternyata bukan hanya saya sendiri, ada banyak orang yang merasa bahwa akhir-akhir ini bulan terlihat makin besar dari pada biasanya. Apakah memang bulan makin dekat ke bumi ataukah cuma ilusi optik? BBC News menuliskan fenomena ini dalam situsnya.

ech.acarana.com is Closed.

Selain blog ini, saya punya situs pribadi (juga isinya blog) di alamat http://ech.acarana.com. Website ini adalah website utama saya dan dihost di server milik seorang sahabat saya. Sudah beberapa bulan terakhir (sejak akhir maret 2005), situs ini tidak bisa lagi diakses. Saay telah menghubungi sahabat saya itu dan masalahnya adalah ada problem dalam management perusahaannya. Intinya, selama beberapa bulan ini server tersebut akan terus mati sampai waktu yang tidak dapat ditentukan.

Karena terlalu lama mati, akhirnya saya putuskan untuk mengumumkan bahwa situs ech.acarana.com ditutup untuk kurun waktu yang tidak dapat di tentukan. Blog ini akan menjadi website utama saya dan segala update yang terjadi akan segera di umumkan melalui blog ini.

Jika suatu hari nanti ech.acarana.com sudah live kembali, ia akan hadir dengan format baru dan spirit baru, heheh... belum kebayang seperti apa nantinya.

Life must go on. Server mati bukan alasan untuk berhenti. Maju terus ech!

Lights!

Iklan layanan Masyarakat ini di persembahkan oleh ech :)

Aerospace Indonesia Meeting 2005

Walaupun sudah lulus sejak 3 tahun yang lalu, jurusan saya masih menyimpan kontak saya. Hari ini saya mendapat undangan untuk acara AIM 2005 yang akan di selenggarakan di Jurusan Teknik Penerbangan ITB.


Aerospace Indonesia Meeting 2005

Rationale
Without doubt, one may assert that for Indonesian people the 1997 Asian crisis was the beginning of not just a time of sacrifice and hardship, but also an era of challenge in a new course of development towards justice and prosperity. The situation for the aerospace sector was no exception. Now, 8 years later, the momentum seems to be picking up. It is more than timely to revive contacts, exchange diverse experience and ideas, and identify concrete mutual opportunities in the increasingly global character of aerospace business. The meeting is a bottom-up initiative to provide an open platform for demand-and-supply-driven networking accross the country, the region, and the world.

Scope
The meeting is intended for all professionals interested in all aspects during the life-cycle of aerospace systems, vehicles and platforms:
- research, development and marketing,
- manufacturing and production,
- operation and sales,
- maintenance and support, etc.

People from aerospace industries, airlines, airport authorities, MRO companies, universities, engineering bureaus, investment companies, governmental and non-governmental agencies, and research institutes are more than welcome to participate.

Programme
- Invited presentations
- Presentations from participants
- Excursion
- Round-table discussion & wrap-up meeting
(Coffee breaks & lunches are provided. On the evening of July 27, 2005, a dinner together will be arranged. Joining the dinner will be at own cost.)

Guidelines for participation
Participation in the form of 20-minute presentations are welcome. The contents should promote positive cross-disciplinary interaction, exposing concrete opportunities. After the meeting, the presentation files will be made publicly available on the meeting?fs website. A title, contact details (name, job title, affiliation, postal and e-mail address) and an abstract of 150 words, briefly describing the contents, should be submitted to aim2005@ae.itb.ac.id (subject: participation) no later than June 24, 2005. Language: Indonesian or English.

Host, date and venue
ITB?fs Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics,
July 27-28, 2005, Jl.Ganesha 10, Bandung

Registration
Send an e-mail with name, job title, affiliation, postal and e-mail address to aim2005@ae.itb.ac.id (subject: registration). No fee is required, but space is limited.
Deadline: July 1, 2005.
Secretariat Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, ITB,
Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung 40132, Indonesia
Phone/Fax: +62.(0)22.250-4529
e-mail: aim2005@ae.itb.ac.id

Co-chairmen
- Bambang K. Hadi (bkhadi@ae.itb.ac.id)
Head, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Bandung Institute of Technology ITB, Indonesia
- Bambang I. Soemarwoto (soemarwt@nlr.nl)
Senior scientist, Department of Flight Physics & Loads
National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, The Netherlands

Ngeblog di MIT

Punya blog di kampus MIT keren ga seh??? Hari ini seorang teman ngasih tau kalau MIT buka lowongan buat para blogger (maksudnya MIT sekarang punya blog services yang bisa dicoba) maka saya coba sign-up di sana and sukses.

Blog yang di MIT ini saya dedikasikan untuk pelajaran english saya. Kalau selama ini di sini saya selalu posting tulisan dengan bahasa Indonesia, di MIT's Blog saya akan diisi dengan tulisan bahasa inggris. Kayaknya bakal berat, tapi kudu dicoba.

oyah my blog @MIT alamatnya http://blogs.mit.edu/ech
Mampir yaa..

Alone

A dry breeze is blowing
The city is getting cold
I wonder how many seasons have passed
without even a sound?

All of the people coming and going
bear heavy burdens,
searching for tomorrow
within the heat haze
wavering in the distance.

Feelings like sand
falling through my hands...
Back then, the words that pierced my heart
suddenly started to throb with pain, but...

I've searched for pieces of myself,
counting the endless nights all the while.
These feelings are becoming so certain
I almost lose myself.
Now, surely I will walk forward, however far.

I wonder where the birds are flying off to,
as they freely slice through the wind?
One can't return to the same place
as it once was in days gone by.

Even if I give up my dream like this,
I won't suppress my soaring heartbeat.
Someday, I want to reach
as high as the clouds.
I'll spread my heart and journey once again

I will reach it, without fail.