For those who are going to study abroad

Based on my experience to take care of all of preparation and administration stuff before going study abroad which was completely tiring TOTALLY COMPLICATED (u know how complicated our bureaucracy is, right??), so by this blog, I want to share it to all of you who someday will go abroad for study too. Insya Allah, it is applicable in any home university in our country. And my intention is that you don’t really have to do the same mistakes and stupidness and get many unlucky things that I did before.

If you are accepted to study abroad in any university in foreign countries, and u decide to go and join it in any programme (could be exchange programme, Master programme, Doctoral programme, research programme, etc), these are te things that you have to take care of :

1. Passport. Make it in the imigration office in your hometown usually..

2. Ticket. Book the ticket for your departure. Have it taken care by a travel agent is the most convenient way I guess, because you can ask for the cheapest but convenient airline due to your budget, unless your ticket is already taken care by the university abroad or the scholarship. For me, I have to purchase it by myself first, and when I arrived in Japan,

Look closer our power system interconnection

hello everyone, this is my first contribute to this blogsite.I want to give some information for you to about power system in Indonesia.Maybe this little information give you more comprehension about power system interconnection in indonesia especially in jawa-bali.

PT PLN PERSERO Penyaluran dan pusat pengatur beban (P3B ) Jawa-Bali is our state –owned electrical company and their function is to manage the energy from power plants to distribution system. Their framework is in transmission and load dispatch. P3B jawa – Bali controls energy that flows to 500kV , 150 kV and 70 kV interconnection system.

PT PLN P3B Jawa-Bali covers Java , Madura , and Bali islands and topology of their interconnection can be seen in picture below.

How To Increase Blog Traffic

As a crew of basement brat, I have to contribute to this blog by writing a valuable post. But I was confuse, because no good ideas appeared in my head. I wanted to write about control engineering, my submajor in electrical engineering, but I didn’t have a good quality in it. I wanted to write about global financial crises, but it’s not my speciality, I am a electrical engineering student, not economics student. I wanted to write about policy, but I am not politician. So, as blogger I thougt it would be better if I write about blogging tips, how to increase our blog traffic. So more people will visit our blogs and what we written in the blogs will be read by more visitors. Like what I am doing for my “kampanye damai pemilu indonesia 2009 “blog. Before, forgive me if my english quality is not so good, not as good as older posts. But I hope you can understand reading this post, and this post doesn’t decrease basementbrat’s quality.

I am sure when someone creates a blog or site, he has purpose. Maybe with the blog he’ll appreciate his ideas. Or maybe he wants to monetizing the blog, get money from the site. Or maybe he uses his blog just for writing his activities or just for sharing what he feels. There are so many reasons and purposes in blogging or making sites, and everyone has different reasons. But whatever the purposes, I think people make a blog or site to be read by others. So, if we want our sites have many visitors and readers, we have to do some ways to increase visitors number, or increase the site traffic.

To check our site traffic, we can use site counter, so the visitors number can be known. We can also add live traffic widget like feedjit, so the visitors locations will be known.Or we can analyze in google analytics. If we want to check site traffic rank in the world, there are good site, alexa.com. This site gives ranks to all sites in the world by their traffic, or we can call it alexa rank. Please try to check your site in alexa.com, if your alexa rank still over one million, you have to do something to increase your rank.

How Much the maximum amount of voltage that our body can resist?

Have you ever heard these sentences?

Be careful if u want to connect an electronic device…cause u can taste a

short circuit…

or

“hei…if u wanna repair your electrical installation, dont forget to use your

sandals…”

or maybe

“we will not be electrocuted when we use our sandals…”

In this post i will share my knowledge about these things. A knowledge that i got from my electromagnetic field’s class. The lecturer of this class is “eyang bambang anggoro”, one of the most inspiring lecturer in ITB’s School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics. I hope this post can be useful to us. And can make us more careful when we use electrical devices in our daily live.

Have a nice read!

Another Side of Electrical Student

this is another side of electrical student.. well, no many of us being attracted with financial market.. no wonder why, as our major is electrical.. here is my story of being a trader, focusly in foreign exchange, commodities, and futures.. i’ve been doing this since our first year in itb.. lately we focus our discuss on forex.. please note we are not discuss any legitimate issue (halal-haram), you better search by yourself..

forex stand for foreign exchange a.k.a valuta asing a.k.a jual beli mata uang.. the same as stocks (saham) unless the object we trade is currency.. say we bought US$ today for Rp 9.000, then next week $ strengthen to Rp 12.000, means we gain profit Rp 3.000 for each $ we bought.. that’s it..

mostly lay people consider financial market as limited as stocks and forex.. besides, the financial markets can be divided into different types, as example:

• capital market (stock *saham* and bond *surat berharga*)
• commodity market (gold, oil)
• foreign exchange market (currency)
• derrivatives market (options, futures *frequently seen on newspaper ads*)
• etc.

forex is related to scam ? ya that’s true, you invest your money here, you will lose it, either by your stupid decision buying wrong currency while it’s value is going weaker, or you are being fooled by such investment program which offer you high return if you invest there.. in fact, only 5-10 % of trader could gain money, others are loser.. most of them lose their money in this bussiness, thats why forex is related to scam..

ok, i realize the risk and i want to invest there, then how do we got access to realtime prices and trade them ?