Anshar Blog

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In February i went to Malang city for long vacation. I don’t know why this city called Malang but i saw Malang city is a beautiful and cold town. in past there are some big kingdom at there like Singosari and Majapahit.

In Malang i live at Ngantang city. This is a very cool place. The people of Ngantang works as farmer and breeder. Durian Ngantang is one of the best fruit from Indonesia. Addition, they have fresh milk cow. Woww their milk is very delicious.

I have take some photos there and upload it at Flickr. You can see my photos at there.

This is my second experience deactivate my facebook account by myself. Facebook as we know is a popular and the best social web in this world. Many funny conversation make us laughing out loud and some other make us sad when we hear something bad from our friends.

This night I will deactivate it for several weeks because i want to concentrate at some offline activity that needs my full attention.

These are some tips from me if you want to deactivate your facebook like as me. First, make an announch at your status, tell your friends that you will make your account unavailable for searching or your friends can’t find you if try to open your profile. If not, your friends think you delete them and make they feel angry. Then the next step, send message to some special friends if you have, tell them your situation and be sure no miss communication.

Now how to deactivate your account? you can use setting menu at right top of your facebook page. Click setting then you will enter to the privacy account settings. In that page, at bottom of the page just click deactivate link. Then you will be redirect to a confirm page to ask you if you are sure want to deactivate your account. Choose what is your reason why you want to stop using facebook. I choose “just temporary and will be back”. Oke .. after that, click deactivate account and holaah you are deactivate now and your profile will be unavailable for everyone.

Reactive your account and back to your facebook as same as when you leave it is easy. Just login usually, enter your email and password then you will be active automatically. I plan reactivate my account after 2-3 weeks. It’s mean i am free man now

Update :
I got an email from facebook team tell me that I have deactivated my account successfully

Hi Anshar,You have deactivated your Facebook account. You can reactivate your account at any time by logging into Facebook using your old login email and password. You will be able to use the site like you used to.

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

Since two days ago i always surf at microsoft store website and spend much time at this web. At other chance i will move to other web to find spesific information. So, what did make me interest to this expensive software company? The answer is Windows 7.

Windows 7 is newest operating system from microsoft that will be released on October 2009. At their web, Microsoft promises windows 7 can makes our PC simpler and easier to use and it will be better than the previous software (Windows XP and Vista).

The other interest thing i was looking for at Microsoft site was about free upgrade program to windows 7. If we bought a new computer with vista pre-installed by the computer manufacture before june 26, 2009, we will get free license to upgrade our system to windows 7.

The price of windows 7 is expensive, for home premium version the price is $199.99 and the higher version must be more cost. So it is a good news for everyone who have OEM vista pre installed at their computer, just contact your computer manufacture to claim your windows 7.

Ok, that is a good news. And the bad news come from windows vista home basic user. This user group is not available for the free upgrade. Why? because just user of Vista premium, business and ultimate get the opportunity to upgrade their operating system for free. One of the unlucky man of this user group is me.

I bought my laptop on June 2009 but the operating system that was installed to it was just vista home basic. So I can’t upgrade it to windows 7 for free.

Oke.. No problem. It isn’t pass my desire to have windows 7. The good news, there is a preorder sell at microsoft store. And windows vista and xp users get big discount if we order it before October 22. This system is called upgrade version. The price of upgrade version is $119.99 for windows 7 home basic and more cost for higher class. I interest to home basic because my laptop is just for personal using not for business.

So.. here i am, at the microsoft store billing form, a page that makes me cry this night.. They don’t accept payment outside USA.. huuhuuhuuuuu.. After days of the days i search information about it and ready to pay the pre-order price, i know i can’t buy this discount price.

I emailed Microsoft support to tell them about it. Maybe I was at the wrong billing page. Ok.. I wait their reply now.

Update: I just got reply from Microsoft :

Unfortunately Microsoft Store is not available in your location at this time. I do apologize for this inconvenience. Additionally, the release date of Windows 7 in Indonesia is not yet known.

We appreciate your interest in Microsoft Store and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.  You can see the locations Microsoft Store is available in by clicking the country selection menu at the top of the Microsoft Store main page, next to the Sign in/Sign out option.

Thank you for using the Microsoft Store,

Bencong!!

In my this thirty age I have no growth at my spiritual life. What I know today is what I knew 20 years ago since I was child.

I prayed this night with just three surah of alquran that I remember. They are al ikhlas, an-nash and al-kautsar (the smallest surah of al quran).

I am bad moeslem. I learn many knowledge and read many news everyday but never spend more time to read al quran and al hadist.

I am shy with myself when a while ago I sholat but just know three surah of alquran. I repeat them everytime I go pray.

I hope in this romadhan month I can increase my spiritual life. This is good moment to make some evaluation for better life quality.

Insya Allah. Amin.