Dreamz `n Reality

Sick at the end of 2010

2011-01-21T03:37:00.000+11:00

December 2010 was probably the worst month for me in 2010. It probably started with this wound I got in both of my leg... about 20 cm below the knee. If they were normal wound than it wouldn't matter that much. Problem was, it won't heal. It had stayed for about a month, so I decided to see a doctor.

Several days before seeing the doctor, somehow there were red dots on my thigh, and they were so itchy they woke me up at night. Not sure how they started to appear though... But I ended up mentioning this to the doctor... and that's when it all begins..

Forget about the wound that won't heal... because about 2 days after putting fatty ointment that this doctor gave me, it healed nicely. About those red dots, after taking a good look at them, (he even used a magnifying glass) he diagnosed it as wart. So he prescribed me with an ointment to kill wart, and I immediately put it after I got home.

The day after consulting with him, I went fishing with my uncle, and got a pretty bad sunburn. Well what do you expect, I've never went to the beach and do this sunbathe thing, so I guess I was doing it wrong. That afternoon I started to feel pain in my skin that got burnt... The area that got burnt badly was half of my thigh (I wore shorts), and below the knee.

The next day I couldn't get up from bed. Whenever I move my leg, it felt like the flesh was stretched badly. But yeah, gotta do what you gotta do everyday... moving from one room to another doing things... eating, taking shower, etc. I put sorbolene cream that supposedly moisturizes your skin. I was also still applying that wart killing ointment to the red dots... however I started to notice that they got reddened and bigger than before.

From what I've read on the information thingy, that wart ointment should make the skin somewhat more tender? so that the ointment can enter and kill the wart. So I thought... it'll be okay in maximum a week time. Thankfully the sunburn got much better after several days. No more stinging feeling whenever I stand/move my leg. However, the dots on my thigh were getting worse.

After a week, those red dots have transformed into rash, the itchiness was not decreasing, and the rash was getting wet... clear yellow liquid were coming out of it. So I thought it's time to see another doctor.

The trip to the doctor's place was not a pleasant one. Why? Because even wearing shorts make the rash burst, all those liquids stained in my shorts, and it was so painful. It felt like you got a wound, and you scratched it repeatedly with a cloth.

I like this doctor though, he was caring and seems to be more knowledgeable. He's still relatively young. Anyway, he thought that it was not wart, but skin infection on the hair follicle. So he gave me antibiotics to kill the bacteria, and he told me to get Telfast to relieve the itch and Solugel to keep the wound/rash clean.

So I went home, feeling a little bit happy and hopeful, even though the trip back home was as painful. I dropped by a chemist and bought the medicines on the way home. I remembered the doctor said that I can repeat the antibiotics once, if the rash hasn't cleared yet after 5 days.

So those days went by, without any sign of recovery. The rash transformed into what the doctor later called as crusty(?)... so the skin appeared like dry wound on the outside, but inside it's wet. It looked so disgusting, and it covered most of my thigh. The itchiness getting worse every night, every shower was so painful. I've never felt like this before.

5 days had gone by, and I decided to get another antibiotics, still hoping that I can get even a little better. However, my mom told me that I used to be resistant to some antibiotics when I was a child... which I think is a misconception now. It's the bacteria that got resistant, not my body. Anyway, I decided to visit the doctor again, telling him about my supposedly antibiotics resistant body, hoping that he changed the antibiotics to the one I can take.

It was a week since my last visit. It was Wednesday. I think the doctor was there only every Wed? Not sure... Anyway the doctor gave me the antibiotics that I asked for, it was flucloxacillin. He took a sample of the liquid coming out of the rash too, to check what bacteria was there, so that he can target the medication better.

So I went home again, feeling hopeful that this time it will go away. The bacteria was called Staph. You can Google it, the full name was too complicated to remember. After what seemed to be forever (6 days), I finished the antibiotics. No sign of recovery. I noticed the rash got warm at times, and new dots appeared after I took this new antibiotics. Itchiness got worse, pain increasing, my patience got tested? Everything was just so dark and gloom.

I made mom and dad worried back home, I think they can feel my pain. I wasn't able to sleep every night, because of the itch. The liquid coming out of it started to smell bad, even those liquids coming out of my face and scalp too. My bed cover was stained with those liquids and some blood. It was just awful and disgusting. I was just so sad and frustrated, wondering what went wrong that I ended up feeling this unpleasant thing.

I started considering going back home to Indo, so that my mom and dad can take care of me and help me recover. However at that time, there was still hope, because I haven't checked what's the lab result. So the next Wednesday I see the doctor once again, complaining that things weren't going well and everything was so painful. The doctor immediately booked me an appointment with a dermatologist (at last!). The lab result ended up with no bacteria found. Only dead white blood cell. The dermatologist was available on that Friday, so I still need to wait for 2 more days.

Thursday night, me and my parents decided to send me back home on the next available flight. Thanks to my cousin in law, she booked me a flight on Saturday, direct to Jakarta. I can still see the doctor on Friday, and thanks to my friend Yusac, he took me to the dermatologist that day.

The dermatologist was a bit quiet, but he knew what he's doing. I wasn't so sure about him, until I feel my body's getting better. He said I got allergic reaction plus secondary bacterial infection. He gave me betamethasone cream, prednisolone (oral), and some antibiotics. He told me to soak off those yellowish liquid that came out of every rash every 2-3 hours, than put the ointment three times a day.

As soon as I got home, I soaked off those crusty thingy, and put the cream. Those yellowish liquid just oozed off my skin, like it was squeezed from my skin. It was scary, I didn't expect to see this. I was afraid that somehow I'm allergic to it or something... but I ended up soaking off every 2 hours for three times. It was not a nice experience, the liquid smelled really bad, it was sticky, but I endured it all and got a pretty good night sleep.

The next day I was going back to Indo, and I need to be ready at 7.30am. My skin already felt better, I can wear skirt without much pain. I enjoyed the airport and the flight. It was expensive, so I thought I'll enjoy it the best I can. Haha..

Well the conclusion is that the dermatologist gave me the right medicines, and I've consulted with the dermatologist in Indo too. My skin got much better, it is dry now and the itch has decreased to the minimum. I just need to wait for the red areas of the skin to heal, which I don't really mind because it's nothing compared to what it was a week ago.

Global Test Market

2010-11-28T21:57:00.002+11:00

Exams over yeayyy ;) Last exam was on Thursday the 25th. Results gonna be out on 11th Dec. Can't wait to see how it all turned out.

Now I'm not sure about what to do for this holiday, aside from working...

Well anyway, since I was here (Australia), I started doing surveys from this one website when I got the time. It is a paid online survey website. So whenever you finish a survey, you'll get some points. Once you collect 1000 points, you can cash it out for USD 50. Nice, eh?

Here's the website btw, GlobalTestMarket.

However, you can get screened out at a survey. Probably because you didn't match the survey's targeted audience. But every time you screened out, you'll get sweepstakes points. Then you can participate in the daily, monthly, or quarterly sweepstakes. I haven't collected 1000 points though, but luckily I won the daily sweepstakes xD

Well at first I'm not sure if I got scammed or not, because as you've probably known already, the Internet's full of scamming site. But I can assure you that this one website is not a scam. I've just got my cheque mailed this week, yay ;)

It's not bad thing if you like doing surveys at your spare time. You can get paid and participate in the sweepstakes too! Not sure if any country can participate though, you can try it out yourself if you're interested :p

Btw I'm still playing MapleStory, my main character just hit level 100!
For you that doesn't know what MapleStory is, it's a MMORPG 2D, cute characters ;)
Here's MapleStory's Website if you're interested.
There's a big patch coming, they call it the "Big Bang". They're gonna change a whole lots of things, including the maps, game resolution, monster levels, and many more! Looking forward to it!

That's all I think. I guess I'll cya all later at my next post then! ;)

2 Exams Done, 1 To Go :p

2010-11-18T23:19:00.000+11:00

So... apparently I didn't put any other post after that first mind maps haha... Well actually I finished studying that subject, and I can say that I'm pretty confident that I'll get an okay result, or more :p

Second exam went not as successful as the first one. Probably because the time for studying was not as much as the first exam. I got 3 days to study, and there were work commitment for each of those days. Even though only 3 hours each day, but I need to spend 1 hour for going there and back, and about 1/2 hour of preparing to go there (bath, etc.). But yeah, I can say that I definitely pass (if my calculation is correct), but not sure about the score... haha...

Now I got more time for preparing the last exam. More than a week. But to be honest I haven't started anything yet. I kinda already studied before for the MCQ test though... so it shouldn't be as hard as the second exam. Better start studying though Dx

Well at my last post I wrote about Aussie exams vs what I've experienced back home... I can say that the format of exam is different. Here I got MCQ, short answer and long answer questions. Back home, it really depends on the lecturer. I might get long answer questions only, or a mix of them. The difficulty was pretty much the same. But here I'm not as lazy as I was... so I can say that I understand things better here. At Indo, you would always find yourself too lazy to study. Probably because of the environment really supports that :( Your friends are as lazy as you, more or less. Actually if you want advice, it is better to befriend those that are not as lazy as you, so you can get a little motivation from them.

Well I guess that's all for today. All the best for your exams/your other problems to those who read this! ^^

Web Programming Chapter 1!

2010-11-08T03:12:00.000+11:00

Introduction!

So, instead of making a summary of things, here I went making my first mind maps! Well apparently you can't really read it since the texts are too small -_-" Probably my next ones are more readable.

Actually when I submitted the picture to this blogger thing, I can't preview it because there's some error regarding the tags that they created automatically. Well luckily I'm taking this Web Programming and Web Development classes, so that I can quite easily notice what's wrong, and fix it. Yay! And there goes my pictures!

So what is it all about? Well I'm gonna write according to the slides that I got from the lecture.

First, it talked about the history of web itself, the World Wide Web (WWW), that was created by a dude named Tim Berners-Lee (1990-1991), at an institute named CERN (French abbreviation for 'European Lab for Particle Physics'). What was it for? To provide easy access to some cross referenced documents on the CERN's computer network. How did he do this? By making a hypertext link, that linked one documents to another.

This dude successfully created the first web server, and wrote the first web browser. And apparently, he also founded the W3C, which now becomes the organization that oversees the development of web.

Hmm... there'st still so much to explain here, but dunno if I got the time... :( Gotta start on chapter 2 you know... Well maybe later if I have the time I'll complete it (very unlikely tho haha)

Cyaz then

Exams Coming!

2010-11-05T01:59:00.000+11:00

Heyaaa

Can't believe the semester's gonna end, and exams coming next week.
This'll be the first aussie exam that I'm gonna take, not sure if there's any difference with indo's exams... :(

Got exactly 1 week to study, and the first subject is web programming. A lot of php syntax to memorize and understand... Second exam would be web development. And last one is ETA.

Well most of the lecturers said that the best way to study is to summarize every chapter. I'm actually planning on doing that, and perhaps if I have the time I'll post them in this blog. Why? So that I can post things more often here haha... Well to help me memorize things too. Although the first I'm going to do is write them in paper... maybe... :p

At this moment all is good, hopefully till the end of this month everything's still as good, or even better ^^

Later then~

Good People and Bad People

2010-09-30T00:36:00.000+10:00

Have you watched the movie called "My Name is Khan"? It's a good movie, and it teaches you with many moral things. Well actually I was kind of not sure whether this movie is a good one before I watched it, since my girl friends apparently cried so bad when they watched, and at that time I didn't want to watch sad movies. My other friend said it was not that sad though, and I think he was right. One thing that I learnt from this movie was that, in this world, there's only 2 kinds of people, good people that do good deeds, and bad people that do bad things. Doesn't matter his/her belief, race, culture, etc.

Well it's been around 3 months since I came here. And I found that sometimes I'm amazed at the people here. I'm talking about not only the local people, but all the mixed race here. You can find people from all around the world here, matter of fact, my group mates come from different countries.

Some people can be surprisingly kind and willing to help, even when I don't ask for a help. It doesn't apply only to me though, once I saw a guy at the uni. He looked confused and undecided about something, almost felt like he would need some kind of help or something. I didn't offer any help to him, but surprisingly, the lady that walked in front of me stopped, turned back, and asked him whether he needed any help. He said he was ok though, but yeah, people can be surprisingly good and sincere to a total stranger.

Things that I found to be surprisingly disappointing was some people would sometimes come to you, and ask whether you got some spare dollars to give them. This happened to me twice, both in the train station, but it was a different station though. Problem is, they usually ask for a dollar or two to spare, but once you take out your wallet and give them a dollar or two, they'll wait and kinda force you to give more. Once, this girl was like, "cmon, I can see there's some more in there". I was so pissed of at her, and I was so disappointed helping her. Like, I believe that it's irresponsible to stop random people at train station and begging/asking/forcing for money. And why act so rude to someone that tries to help you, please be thankful at least!
I'm starting to think of not helping random people that ask for money at the train station -_-"

So yeah, apparently everywhere in this world, there's this good and bad people. Doesn't matter their race, sex, age, etc. And being a good guy can sometimes be exploited by the bad guys... Gotta choose wisely on your actions.

Hi Again!

2010-09-03T17:15:00.004+10:00

It's been a while since last time ;P

I remembered I wrote the last post around 2008, when I struggled with my thesis :(
Well now I'm doing masters, and soon there'll be many projects, assignments, and possibly some rant will appear around here... haha...

Lately I've listened to LP's The Catalyst, and looking forward for the album (thousand suns is it?) to be released! It's the end of September I think.

I also found se7en's comeback when browsing around YouTube yesterday lol...
He's getting hot haha... I love "Digital Bounce" and "Better Together" <3

digital bounce... digital sound... digital X!!
welcome to digital world
D - I G - I T A L, welcome to the digital world!

LAZY

2008-11-15T04:14:00.001+11:00

ZOMG I'm so lazy to update this blog... D:

LOL (ignore meh pl0x Dx)

My Sixth Sense.

2008-07-22T23:58:00.002+10:00

I've finished my thesis, at long last. Well, I've still got some revising thingy to do though.
Anyway, now I'll share you a story about the day before my thesis' presentation.

My presentation should be held on Thursday, July 17th 2008, 5pm. On Monday night, I still hadn't prepared anything. I thought, there's still some time to do the preparation. But on Tuesday morning, I woke up with some bad feelings. I can't stop wondering why. I told myself, 'Easy, there's still tomorrow... Easy... easy...'. Then I tried to sleep some more. But I couldn't sleep again. Well if I remember correctly it's almost lunch time. I ordered some food. Then I waited for the delivery guy.
The delivery dude didn't come for some time... then suddenly my friend texted me, 'Hey, did you know that you presentation day was moved to Wednesday at 5pm?' Reading that, I froze a bit. 'Isn't tomorrow is Wednesday?', I thought. Well, I kinda panicked, but then I thought, 'That's why I got this bad feeling since morning.' Suddenly I thought that this was a sixth sense I'm having. Is this the sixth sense everyone was talking about? I wasn't sure myself either. That maybe just a coincidence. So then the delivery guy come, I ate my lunch, then started to worry about tomorrow's presentation.
The evening came, and I just couldn't focus in my study. I surfed the net and chatted. Till some time, around 11pm, I saw the clock on my laptop. It was... 11:xxpm, I forgot. Suddenly, I got a bad feeling. I told myself, 'I better start studying now. What if there's a black out some time later? I can't study in the dark. And I obviously can't make the presentation in my laptop, since the battery leaked.' I hurriedly close my browser, and start looking for my papers.
As soon as I get up from my seat to collect the papers, I heard this sound *pfftt!*. Then suddenly it was pitch black. I was like... 'ZOMG! What on earth is wrong with me today?' (Was referring to my sixth sense). Instead of panicking because I couldn't make my presentation, I felt so excited ^_^. Well, then I looked for my emergency lamp, turned it on, then start reading my papers, and the good mood's with me.
About an hour later, the power's back. Well I wasn't as excited as before. I just promised myself to make a blog about this, and here we are.

Laziness Mastery

2008-05-05T07:05:00.002+10:00

Hey... long time no post!

I've been depressed lately... coz of my thesis.

Well... I've got one thing to share this time. It's... my mastery on laziness.
It's so easy to be lazy. Does any of you actually can't get lazy? I don't think so.

First of all, I can always find other things to do than actually do the things that I should do.
Assignments? Well... half an hour of browsing won't hurt. Chatting for a while won't hurt. Watching my favorite series on TV won't hurt. Taking a good nap wont hurt... until I found out that I woke up in the morning... and late for class. Laziness indeed!

Secondly, it's always so hard to wake up in the morning. The alarm was ringing on 6AM, well... 1 more hour of sleep won't hurt. And I forgot to turn the alarm on again... You can imagine how surprised I was when I woke up and see the clock was showing 10AM!!! OMG the class was on 10AM!!! Nooooo!!!
......Well.......
........ might as well just continue my sleep :) Laziness indeed!
I usually found myself waking up at 1PM...

There are more evidence of my mastery on laziness... but now I'm just to lazy to write them all. I gotta do something else guys!

Hehehe...

Laters!

Afternoon Walk

2008-03-25T04:48:00.005+11:00

Anyone watch anime "Sketchbook: fullcolor" ?
There, the little girl (main character) loved to take an afternoon walk, she brings along her sketchbook, so that she can draw some nice and lovely things like cats, sunsets, flowers, even she draws her friend.
I can see the setting in the anime is so peaceful.
That made me wanted to take a little walk this afternoon. Actually, I prefer bicycling, but the bicycle was broken, so that I ended up walking with my friend.
I brought my cellphone, with 2megapixel camera. I know it's not good, but it's good enough just for taking pictures :)

We talked about life, our friends, the good memories and the bads.
We enjoyed the scenery too, it was sunset. It's about 5-6pm.
We met some people we knew, and they're all seems to be in a good mood :)
Some people was playing badminton, some was bicycling with their dog.
Some kids are playing in the playground.

So these are the pictures I took.

Some random flowers in a tree.

Another random flowers.

This kitten was relaxing, and I didn't dare to get any closer as it may leave the spot :(

Mixed Up

2008-03-24T04:23:00.003+11:00

Emotions...
Uncontrollable

Thought that someone would understand
Turned out that someone didn't understand
Told to other friend... a disappointment indeed

Good
Perceptions from two
However,
Secret is not a secret anymore
Trust... is on the edge

Didn't understand all the point of view
Said something about the past
Hurting
Used against oneself
Not the main point
Didn't understand even from back then
Now it's unrevealing
A disappointment indeed

Said that it's usual
It's unusual
Uncomfortable
A person is mad
Someone told an opinion

The thoughts within
Hard to tell
Difficult to express
Yet pure and innocent
Yet someone didn't understand
Yet didn't try to understand
Judgment
Is hurting

Moving on...
With life
With a deep scar
It'll be alright

An Old Comic Book Titled 'Wild Cats' 2

2008-03-19T03:21:00.002+11:00

So the little boy's name is Ryuichi. The first time he met Caesar, he decided to raise her (Caesar is a female, by the way). He wanted Caesar to be great and strong like a lion.

Caesar grew up with a determination to be a great and strong cat. She tried hard to be a cat. She yawned like a cat, she got excited and raised her fur whenever a cockroach passes by.

One day, she tried to catch a butterfly, and jumped from roof to a tree. Unfortunately, her body was too big for the branch, so the branch broke as she touched it. Birds were flying from the tree and they got angry with Caesar for he broke their nests. Other stray cats saw this, and they gossiped about Caesar, how she couldn't catch a single mouse, when her foster cat-mother had already raised about 20 great cats under her care. They talked about Caesar's lack of confidence and her lack of courage.
Then Caesar got scolded by her foster mother, she felt disappointed with her. Caesar's mother was afraid that Caesar's gonna make troubles for her master with her discouragement. Caesar felt terribly bad about that.

The next day, Caesar went to her neighbor, and she met the dog there, named Ichiro. They talked much. Ichiro told her a story. It was 3 years ago.
Ichiro was eating his meal, and several bones got out from his plate. He didn't care about that, and he ate the meal vigorously. But suddenly, he saw a hand reaching for his bone. Reflexly, he got angry and bit the hand. It turned out that the hand was his master's hand, trying to put the bone back in the plate so that Ichiro can eat easier. Ichiro felt so bad about this. He thought he should be able to press his wild instinct against his master. Ichiro decided to punish himself to feel better, by fasting for a week.
Caesar was amazed with Ichiro's determination. Ichiro still felt sorry for the sin that he made, and he couldn't forgive himself. So Ichiro got so loyal now. He even guard the house still when it was raining or snowing. He tried to make his master happy :)
Hearing the story, Caesar wished that she can be a good use for her master too :)

When Caesar was in the middle of her thought, suddenly, Caesar's mom rushed and shouted at him 'Caesar, what are you doing here? Your master is in fight with his friends!!' Caesar shocked, and she ran as fast as she could to rescue her master.

~to be continued

P.S. The title should be 'Wild Cats', by Reiko Shimizu.
Credits goes to Reiko Shimizu for making the wonderful story :D

An Old Comic Book Titled 'Wild Cat'

2008-03-11T02:42:00.000+11:00

First of all, Imma retell a story... it'll be a long one lol.

So I was going to the supermarket with my lovely daddy, to buy some oranges. As soon as I entered the supermarket, I saw a pile of comic books, with a big price tag "Rp. 3000,-" (about $0.3). Without any further doubt, I asked my daddy to wait for me while I searched for some nice comics. Those books were very old, and I kinda lost my interest that time. But fortunately, I saw a book with the title 'Wild Cat'. The cover was not very promising, but the word 'cat' got my attention. Yea, I love cats, meow! Anyway, I ended up buying that book. After I got home, I opened the plastic covering it, then I hurriedly read the book. So here it all begins...

One day, a little boy was walking home with his mother. It was raining. Suddenly, the little boy saw a box with some moving objects there. The box was dumped by an unknown person. He went nearer, then he saw some kittens there. The kittens looked so tired and hungry, and they sounded 'meow meow...'. Oh, the poor kittens... The boy was excited, and he felt like raising one of the kittens, the biggest one. The biggest kitten was almost double the size of a kitten, and it kinda looked like a baby lion (the boy didn't notice it by the way... lol). So he picked up the box and ran to his mother, he said, 'Mom, can we raise them?' His mom answered with doubt, 'We can't raise them. They're puppies right?' The little boy's eyes were shining with hope as he said, 'No mom, they're kittens. Look...' The mom looked at the inside of the box and she was sure that they're kittens. But because one of them was so different, she casted a little doubt, and she asked her little boy, 'Are you sure this is a kitten?'. The boy and the mom glanced at the special kitten, waiting for the kitten to prove itself as a kitten, till finally it meowed with a sweat over its forehead. (lol, the kitten was so cute at the comic...). The boy joyed and said, 'See? It is a kitten.' He picked it up and talked to the kitten, 'Caesar, from now on we'll be together.'

-to be continued
~I'll continue later coz it's getting late... gotta do other work sigh

Screwed up my thesis.

2008-03-04T07:09:00.000+11:00

Heya. Tis been kinda long since I posted a blog. Well, kinda busy @the moment... staring out @nothing, sleeping, shopping... most are just things that's not important @all.
Sigh.

Well, I should've taken care the problem regarding my thesis proposal more seriously. I gave it to Mr. B (the one in charge) on time. He said, as long as I've given the proposal to him on time, it will reach Mr. L (Dean of my department). But guess what, I got no follow up till about a month and a half. Finally, after the long wait, I met with Mr.L who, of course, didn't hear a thing about my proposal. So I got him signed my proposal, and he gave me my 2nd instructor's name. It was Mr.M (Mr.2). By the way my 1st instructor is the one that I chose, Mr.S (Mr.1).

Now the problem is that Mr.1 said okay to my proposal. But when I met Mr.2, he said that my topic was too wide... he was afraid that I can't finished my thesis on time. He suggested that I got a new topic that's not as wide. I should narrow it down. It's my fault that I didn't see him earlier. Now, almost half the time is over. I shouldn't get pessimistic, but could I?
I'm kinda upset because Mr.1 didn't say a thing about my topic being too wide. Well perhaps everyone has got their own opinion... But, yeah, I'm upset. I kinda regret having him as my instructor.

This problem is kinda complicated for me. Beside that thing I mentioned above, I also don't really know what to research. Suppose that I narrowed down the topic, I still got so much doubts. Is this topic good enough for a bachelor degree, can I implement my thesis on the system, should I make a simulation or real application, etc. Too many questions in my head. But usually, when the instructor's there to help me, those questions sometimes are well hidden in my head. Or sometimes, when the instructor's answered, I'm kinda confused with his solution... the jargons he use are too hard to understand, the theory he says is just too complicated that I can't imagine it in the head. Just a few things that I can get.

So? What to do??

Should I make my own topic? But what if the instructors didn't approve it? Should I always come and consult to them? Sometimes even the instructors are making their own argument with each other. It's kinda driving me crazy.

But I know I shouldn't give up.

MapleStory: A Rant... False Accusation of My Brother

2008-01-14T19:52:00.000+11:00

We're all anti hackers, aren't we? Well me and my brother too. Ever since we played Maple. But sadly my brother is accused of hacking. Why? Because some high-levels said that they saw him hacking. Well, in fact we don't know how to hack, and we don't want to, because it's illegal and it'll ruin the reputation in Maple (fyi, my bro is a level 11x sniper).
I don't know when did this start. But lately my bro has been telling me that he's been accused of hacking and he's mad about it. I think he's said this before, like several months ago. But recently he brought it up again. Why? Because more people are believing that false accusation. Why did people start believing it? Because it's those high levels in my server who said that he hacks. Who wouldn't believe them? Meh.
Well I'll tell you this one story. Once, he's at the ship to Ellinia from Orbis. Rogs didn't come. So he stayed outside and jumping around with his Pumpkin Basket. My bro's in his good mood that time. Suddenly someone come out of the ship and saw him. He said something terrible that ruin the mood, even offensive. He said, "Have you turned on your godmode?" ..... How would you feel if after that much time you've spent on grinding legally (about 2 years fyi), suddenly someone came up to you and said that. Well, that person could only be joking, but I don't think so. My brother is now well known at some Maple forum that he's a hacker. He's not in the list of 50 legit archers (when the fact that he's 100% legit). And surely he will find a HARD time on finding a zhelm, since most of the guild that do z-runs need their member to be legit. And those forum is full of the people/guild that held z-runs. This false accusation has ruined his reputation, definitely. Good news is, his buddies and guild
mates believe in him.
How can I be sure that he's not hacking? Well, we live under one roof. I know that he can't hack, because he and I never search for it on the Internet, and thus we have no knowledge of hacking. He hates hackers, so why become one of them? I know he chooses to play legally.
I am so disappointed to those who accused him. They said they saw him hacking. Yet there is no other proof other than words. I tried to clear up my bro's name by trying to discuss it nicely with those who accused him. But it seems that they don't really want to discuss it. They said that they saw him hacking. End of story. Out off the legit list. What I was hoping is that they would tell me more information like what did they saw until they can say that he was hacking, because that way I can make an argument to clear up the name.
Well in fact, perhaps they might see him 'hacking-like', since our Internet connection is so bad. We live in Indonesia, which is so far from the server in US. Besides, the Internet speed in here is not to be compared of those in US, Canada or Europe. What I'm trying to say is that we LAG a LOT. And that lag can look like hacking. For example, you see someone hitting the monsters and suddenly lags(freezes) in your screen and he/she doesn't take any damage. Suddenly he/she pops into another platform of the map, and starts hitting the monsters again. This is not hacking. This is happened because the lagger's screen is not in synchrony with your screen. When the data has been transfered to your screen, what's happening is the lagger will looks like teleporting illegally. I say that if anyone saw him 'hacking', it must be the cause of lag.
I'll tell you another sad story... One day my bro got a whisper from a guy, said that his friend saw him hacking the day before. My bro's laughing at this (even though it's so painful in the heart hearing someone said that you hacked)... because he's not playing on that day. He said that he didn't play on that day to the guy, then the guy passed the info to his friend. The friend responded, than the guy passed the message, and said, "Oh sorry, perhaps that was another sniper hacking."............ Please! So you saw a sniper hacking, then what's on your mind is "OMG *ign of my bro* IS HACKING!!11", then hurriedly cc. Shouldn't you take a closer look at his/her ign? Won't you see his/her ign clearly if you're reporting him/her? Unfortunately, it doesn't stop here. He/she will pass this false accusation to his/her buddies, guild mates, and perhaps random people on the street. What a great disaster. Then if he/she found out that the info was false, will he/she give a damn to pass the rightful info? I don't think so. Well, I wonder if they care though. Gossiping is fun, but don't falsely accuse someone and make a gossip of that, please.
I do hope I can help my brother to clear up his name. But I don't know how. And it ends up me here ranting about it.
Too bad my first blog is about my rant lol.