hahaha udah lebih dari setaun saya gak posting apa2 di multiply.. apakah karena tersihir oleh facebook?? (dan skrg pun facebook sudah tidak semenarik itu lagi).. apalagi sekarang ditambah plurk.. tapi tetep, kayaknya klo mo curhat panjang lebar enakan di sini ya.. notes di facebook terlalu banyak yang baca, belum komen2 dari orang ga dikenal yang ganggu bgt..

mari kita aktifkan lagi multiply ini..

.. tapi, curhat apa ya?? :D

taaa daaa!!! be back in a while

In a post of 2008's new year *well in fact, it's still in this page, see how unproductive blogger I am on the whole of 2008 and this first half of 2009!!^_^*..., I wrote ....

"the alteration of the year usually become the time when we wrap what we already had at that time,

Start to open a new wrapping sheet, Design what kinda gift we would want to wrap up in the end of the next termine, the next new year"

I kinda did it. I opened a wrapping sheet in gold bright motives I really liked. Wide enuff as to contain my box of dream that year. That golden box, had been there for quite some time. I wanted it. badly. If my heart could scream, it would have. Loud it would have been.

And then.... the wrapping began...I put the box on top the wrapping sheet, composed it carefully..., plied the wrapping sheet and in each ply, cellotaped it with prayings day and nite and sheer faith that God would hear me pray. Of course. He's so giving. And I, too got the answer. It was what I'd wanted. that golden box was a new chaptre of a book, scribbled already, but it was a new chaptre!! Like a kiddo being told a new fairy tales, I was gleefully starting to read it, out loud--page by page.

But that kiddo was crying as the end of the fairy tales was a horrifying end. sparing nightmares. Hei.., but luckily I took notice...this fairy tales book is different. It gives several storylines. You remember illustrated book when you were a kid, you're the actor and there'd be options below the pages, on which act you'd choose to pursue according to what your heart tells you, following to different pages and hence different endings? This is likewise. A multistoryline fairy tales book. No matter how hard you try to pick which action you'd pick in every bottom of the page, you still cannot expect what awaits you in the following page. But as all fairy tales with God as the director, whatever story it is, it is exciting--and indeed, life is :). And we're mere actors huney, we're supposed to just read thru the script and play along.

I wanted that bright coloured sheet and that golden box. I wanted it badly. And at the end of the year I turned out having a gift wrapped in a black sheet. As the wrapping may look un-enticing, and the dope black sheet was not really pleasant to the eyes-though it was nicely plied..., I carefully opened it, peered inside and I was .....I was ...awed by glittering rainbow coloured box inside, a box I've never seen in any window I'd run thru in my past life....and all the while, I say T h a n k Y o u --I smiled...despite it's non golden state. ---n ssshh...Ah, and in fact, I truly love its magenta! *maw* ;p

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pWhen Bill Buxton kicked MIX 09 off with User Experience theme, I can’t stop thinking about how UX is so obvious but easily forgotten by developers. One thing that came into my mind lately was my online banking experience./p pAs a background information, I have used several online banking applications, sadly, none provide strongthe ultimate experience/strong. When I talk about experience, I’m talking about ease of use and peace of mind when using it./p pFor this writing, I’m focusing on how each system treats users when interacting with it, focusing on authentication./p h5Bank Niaga/h5 pBank Niaga is an Indonesian local bank. I opened an account with the bank for my first job salary credit. The company refused to use another bank, thus so it went./p pThey don’t offer free account but comes with free online banking. If I remember correctly, they only provide one factor authentication, username-password. I have used it once or twice to check whether my salary is properly credited, but after a while, I forgot all information regarding my account even though it is still active./p pMoreover, they have been constantly sending notification e-mails regarding URL address changes (I received three or so this month) due to vendor switch I presume. That was really confusing. Can’t they buy a proper domain and redirect from there (if anything change)?/p pstrongVerdict/strong: simple but useful when you use it often, but people can forget username-password combination./p h5Bank Central Asia/h5 pBCA is another Indonesian local bank. This is by far the biggest consumer bank, and the best network in Indonesia, so no reason not to have an account with them./p pThey don’t offer free account but comes with free online banking. You also need to pay the token for multifactor authentication. They use two factor authentication; username-PIN and token. They have a dedicated domain name for the application. Currently, I forgot my username-password combination and the account is probably locked out./p pThe most annoying part of the experience is that you always need to have your token ready for almost all transaction you’re making. Usability of the token is appalling, because it tries to be smart without being helpful (i.e. does not adhere to KISS principle)./p pstrongVerdict/strong: almost downright useless but the sense of security is everywhere because all transaction needs to be authenticated./p h5DBS Singapore/h5 pDBS is a Singapore bank with branches in several countries, I’m using the Singapore branch online banking application. It has the best network in Singapore./p pThey offered free account, free online banking, and free token. They use two factor authentication; username-PIN and token. The token is only used during authentication./p pThe annoying part of the experience is that the authentication uses a Java applet. If you don’t have Java installed or for some (unknown) reason it doesn’t run, you can’t use the application./p pstrongVerdict/strong: more usable than two Indonesian banks, if and only if all the support components work./p h5Citibank Singapore/h5 pCitibank is a US bank with branches in several countries, this section is for Singapore branch application./p pThey offered free account, free online banking, and free token. They use two factor authentication; user ID-PIN and token. The application has two good usability points:/p ul liInstead of username, it uses your card number as your ID. You can’t lose your card number./li liThe token is used the first time you want to see details such as transaction history or do transfers, but not if you just want to see your account balances on the home page. /li /ul pBut, there are also two annoying points:/p ul liIt uses on screen keyboard to key in PIN, nice if you have tablet, but painful if you’re using a mouse./li liThe authentication uses a Java applet. If you don’t have Java installed or for some reason it messed up, you can’t use the application./li /ul pstrongVerdict/strong: better than DBS most of the time, but with additional annoyances./p h5HSBC UK/h5 pIt’s hard to say which country HSBC is from, so I’ll just call it international bank, like how they want to be known as./p pThey don’t offer free account for foreigners but it comes with free online banking. They are using one factor authentication: a combination of user ID with birth date and PIN. They are not using any applet to authenticate it./p pThe user ID is randomly generated, thus quite safe to write on the card (by being not related to anything I own/know). I do have a negative feedback; the system doesn’t require you to enter your whole PIN number (for security purposes), instead only requiring three out of six. The problem is, they address the numbers to enter by using text ordinals like “first”, “second last”, etc. It would be helpful for me to also have graphical representation of which number enter./p pstrongVerdict/strong: the most usable of all so far./p h5Citibank UK/h5 pCitibank is an American bank with branches in several other countries, this section is for UK branch application./p pThey offered free account with online banking. They use username-password and additional personal information. They also uses an on screen keyboard for the password, now full keyboard instead of number pads (like the one from Singapore) because the password is a string not just PIN./p pstrongVerdict/strong: less usable than HSBC, because of the additional annoyances./p h4The Ultimate Experience/h4 pWell, learning from all the systems, I would like the banks to build an authentication system that is perfectly usable without being insecure or annoying./p ol liI would use a username / user ID that I will never forget. Citibank Singapore made a big win on this point by using your card number instead of some random string. You will always have access to your card, it doesn’t have any personal info, it’s just always available./li liI would use birth date and personal information as “password”. You will never forget your birth date or your primary school town name or your mother’s maiden name, for instance./li liFor multi factor authentication, I would use a simple One Time Password token with additional alternative mechanism such as OTP via SMS or e-mail./li liDon’t annoy user by keep requiring them to enter codes after the first one, instead implement short timeout. I would prefer be punished because of my slowness (that causes a timeout) instead of my impatience./li liDon’t use Java or on screen keyboard whatsoever, it is plain PITA and doesn’t really help security. 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I can't believe that it'd been more that 1 YEAR (o n e y e a r!!) that I left my blog untouched...Oh poor blog. but what does this indicate? I used to blog when I was bored or having nothing better off doing...br /br /but.. This one last year had been a blast. It was so overwhelming (in any sense perceived by the little me).., that I have no spare energy to jot anything down here... IT was full of joy, happiness, sadness, ups, and downs, bitter and sweet, and I am like a dog seeing snow for the first time--sniffing on the fluffy white, wiggling my tail, out of excitement. HAaha, don't take it litterally. It was not my first snow and I didn't wag my tail. But...It was like that. so so.br /br /:Dbr /br /I'll be soon back to you....br /anyway. br /This is MY FIRST SPRING EVER IN MY LIFE !br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqtK2AghrDo/SfAzsMc3CpI/AAAAAAAADmY/aH-zVc_gnwM/s1600-h/spring.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZqtK2AghrDo/SfAzsMc3CpI/AAAAAAAADmY/aH-zVc_gnwM/s400/spring.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327815193528830610" //adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/12914685-410140815324492712?l=scttrd-brain.blogspot.com'//div

div align="justify"span style="font-family:arial;"Setiap tahun tanggal 21 April pasti banyak orang teringat dengan a href="http://3an.blogspot.com/2007/05/kartini.html"Kartini/a, sosok pejuang yang dikenalkan sebagai pejuang emansipasi perempuan indonesia (sekalipun beberapa buku tentang kartini menjelaskan kaca mata lain). Saat dimana slogan emansipasi didengungkan di tengah keseharian banyak perempuan yang sudah aktif berada di tempat kerja dan kondisi hampir semua perempuan mempunyai kesempatan pendidikan setara.br /br /Artinya cita-cita Kartini untuk mewujudkan pendidikan atau lebih umumnya peran perempuan menurut saya sudah terwujud. Jika sebagian aktivis perempuan masih mengatakan emansipasi belum terwujud atau hak perempuan masih terbelenggu, kondisi tersebut hanya kondisi khusus (di tempat tertentu) yang bisa diselesaikan tanpa membuat generalisasi masalah.br /br /Bahwasannya dalam ranah wacana ‘belenggu’ terhadap perempuan sudah sirna, namun dalam praktek keseharian sekat-sekat pembatas budaya antara laki-laki dan perempuan masih nyata adanya. Pembatas tersebut tidak muncul dalam pendidikan, melainkan berpeluang makin menjadi dalam institusi rumah tangga, tempat dimana wacana Kartini tentang perempuan terdidik dan berperan sosial mendapat tantangan.br /br /Tugas perempuan dalam rumah seperti ‘sudah ditentukan’, pekerjaan domestik mulai dari menyapu, mengepel, mencuci, a href="http://3an.blogspot.com/2008/02/memasak-itu-seperti-membaca.html"memasak/a sampai mengurus anak. Jika semua tugas domestik harus dibebankan pada perempuan, niscaya perempuan tidak akan mempunyai waktu untuk melanjutkan jenjang pendidikannya dalam bentuk pastisipasi dalam masyarakat.br /br /Padahal a href="http://3an.blogspot.com/2007/04/perempuan-dalam-profesi.html"perempuan yang sudah berpendidikan/a (bahkan sampai tinggi) adalah ‘produk investasi’ yang seharusnya kompetensi diaktualisasikan di masyarakat sehingga lebih bermanfaat, disamping sebagai pendidik pertama bagi generasi masa depan. Sehingga peran-peran perempuan (istri) di rumah dan masyarakat pun harus seimbang, sebanding dengan peran suami di tempat kerja dan rumah.br /br /Sekalipun wacana keseimbangan peran domestik dan publik terkesan mudah dan bisa diterapkan siapa saja, dalam prakteknya ternyata tidak semudah yang dituliskan. Misalnya dalam hal tanggung jawab suami sebagai pencari nafkah tunggal dimana istri tidak/belum bekerja, secara praktis (emosi, psikologi atau ego) suami akan menyandarkan urusan domestik sepenuhnya pada istri. Lalu jika keduanya bekerja pun, urusan domestik belum tentu lepas dari tanggung jawab perempuan. Ditambah lagi menyangkut anak, mulai dari masa kehamilan hingga tahun-tahun pertama lahir.br /br /Para pengamat bisa saja dengan mudah mengatakan bahwa itu hanyalah bagian dari komunikasi yang harus di bangun, tapi faktanya tidak sesederhana itu. Seperti yang disampaikan diatas, bahwa sudah seperti semacam ‘turunan’ jika perempuan adalah domestik, sekalipun dia bekerja atau beraktivitas di luar rumah. Fakta ini sulit dihindari, apalagi didukung budaya timur dan norma agama yang tidak mewajibkan perempuan untuk mencari nafkah. Bahkan seorang a href="http://3an.blogspot.com/2006/07/apakah-anda-seorang-feminis.html"laki-laki feminis/a pun, secara nurani masih akan menginginkan istri nya lebih banyak waktu di rumah mengurus keluarga daripada emfull/em aktivitas di luar.br /br /Lalu apa yang bisa dilakukan oleh perempuan? Pertama yang bisa dilakukan adalah melakukan pilihan atas hidupnya. Pilihan yang dimulai dari a href="http://3an.blogspot.com/2008/04/perempuan-dalam-cinta.html"kebebasan memilih jodohnya/a (dalam konteks usaha), yang diwujudkan dalam kesepahaman antara (calon) suami istri. Pilihan ketika sudah berumah tangga dimana sekalipun sudah disepakati pra-nikah tentang aktivitas istri, namun kondisi perempuan sendiri masih akan berbenturan dengan ‘ kodrat’ perempuan sebagai ‘ insan domestik’ (yang sedikit banyak dipengaruhi oleh ‘ dominasi laki-laki).br /br /Hal lain yang bisa dilakukan tentunya dari pihak laki-laki, sebagai partner perempuan selama lebih dari setengah kehidupan dunia. Jujur tidak mudah bagi laki-laki secara sepenuhnya ikhlas melepas istri nya beraktivitas di luar, kerja emfull time/em, apalagi dalam kondisi hamil atau anak-anak di masa pertumbuhan awal. Orang modern bisa saja mencari pembantu untuk merawat anaknya, tapi hati seorang orang tua tetap tidak bisa berbohong jika disuruh memilih antara pembantu atau sendiri.br /br /Jadi laki-laki lah yang justru menjadi kunci dari keseimbangan peran domestik dan publik bagi perempuan. Mulai tingkat kesadaran hingga dalam praktek keseharian yang menjadikan perempuan sebagai partner. Pembagian tugas domestik dengan skala prioritas, hingga transparansi dalam pengelolaan pendapatan bersama serta perencanaan masa depan.br /br /Memang tidak mudah bagi laki-laki untuk konsisten menjaga keseimbangan peran tersebut. Sebuah bagian konsekuensi bagi laki-laki saat mengambil amanah seorang perempuan bukan hanya dari orang tua nya, melainkan dari bangsa yang sudah memberinya pendidikan untuk diamalkan.br /br /Sebuah tantangan bagi laki-laki./span/divdiv align="justify" /divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/13631114-1917750716175997523?l=3an.blogspot.com'//div