About Arie

Call me “Rie” in short, yes, “Ri”, in English, it sounds like “ree”, but if I didn’t hear you might want to call me “Arie”. I’m a Ruby Hobbyist.

I speak:

1. Bahasa Indonesia (mother tounge)
2. English (well, just near good I guess, I’m still learning how to think quickly in English, speak English reflexly and all full packed with full expressions),
3. French (not bad, meaning a good friend of mine who is a French will say that, but if a French native speaker speaks to me I don’t think I can follow smoothly, I must get lost, I still need to practice my French more often, otherwise I’ll loose my foreign language reflex)
4. Japanese (not bad, meaning I once only remembered 500 Kanji words then decreased because I didn’t use it, because I don’t really use it, I forgot many kotoba / japanese words). I started learning Japanese by myself since I was a 2nd grade student at Senior High School. Do not learn Japanese from anime, that’s not the right way to do it. Learn from books, video (dorama), cassette, go to Japan, learning by doing, practice it.
5. Javanese (not bad err just say bad, because I can understand Javanese, but I just don’t feel like speaking javanese because my lips are not that “heavy” to say “DEE BEE”).
6. Banjarese (bad, I was born in Samarinda / Capital City in East Kalimantan or Borneo island in Indonesia, Samarindanese people don’t use Banjarese as pure as people in South Kalimantan, we use Bahasa Indonesia intuitively mixed a bit with local accent, but since I often moved to other islands then my Bahasa Indonesia accent’s got twisted). Remember there are more than 350,000 tribes in Indonesia, that’s why we need Bahasa Indonesia to understand each other, Bahasa Indonesia is our second language.
7. Kutainese (bad, I can hardly understand my families speaking in Kutainese).
8. Bahasa Malaysia / Melayu (bad, I can only guess and 60% understand it, It’s hard to mimic malay because I don’t want to actually, so just use English because it’s used everywhere).
9. Russian (super basic, I’m still learning, just for fun)
10. German (super basic, I’m still learning, just for fun, fun fun fun)

Here is my frequency (often got updated depends on my mood):

The best way to contact me is via email. My primary email is ariekusumaatmaja aht googlemail dawt com.

I usually use my second email for mailing list and forum activities (ariekusumaatmaja2 aht googlemail dawt com).

I want to meet all nice people around the world, I feel like travelling around the world.

Here is my Facebook public address. If you’re nice then be my friend.

My LinkedIn. I guess this is the place where I update and share my online activities. Well right now I still keep my resume private though. I only share it when it’s needed by specific person and specific reasons. In general, I like working with people I love and especially that can treat me as a human.

My Friend Feed.

My Twitter.

My Naymz Profile.

My Expat Pool Profile.

My WWW Profile.

ArieKeren @ Tumblr.Com.

We Love ArieKeren @ Tumblr.Com (Why?)

Friendster? Well, let’s not connect via Friendster because Friendster sucks. I’ve never opened it anymore. I won’t read messages from there. The ads blow and definitely hurt my eyes and feelings. The only reasons why I don’t delete my Friendster account is because I don’t want my friends who only know Friendster and still learn internet since yesterday got confused of what’s going on.

IM? My first IM is Skype, my Skype ID is rubyninja. Always Invisible.

My second IM is YM, my ID is riyari3. Seldom online, if I’m online I’m invisible and I’m usually not there, meaning I fall asleep with my laptop that’s still on or simply away.

My recommendation? Hm. Let’s just say it’s difficult for me to recommend. I even seldom talk (even in my mother tounge language : Bahasa Indonesia). I’m usually just honest to say everything specifically if I recommend anyone that I know for jobs (for free). From all aspects, technically, non technical, attitude, etc.

Favourite cities? The cleaner the better :-) I read from somewhere that Calgary is the cleanest city in the world. Well, my friend who’s been in Melbourne told me that Melb people are friendly and nice.

Communities? Well, generally I like nice communities, no bullshit, no intimidating, no “fuck you”, I like hanging out coding/hacking together with friends. As long as it’s fun. I used to like going with _all_ guys, but then I realised that I just can’t hang out with lamers.

If I’m in Indonesia, I like meeting open minded techie guys with broad knowledge with business instinct.

Oh, I almost forgot, my mobile! Well just don’t call me, because I usually forgot where I put my mobile, I forgot to top up, I forgot to charge it, and I even don’t remember my current number because I don’t want to. Because it’s annoying, it can ruin my Zen Heaven Concentration while having fun with computers. Just email me if you really want to talk with me, then we’ll set an appointment when we can talk, so that I’ll activate my mobile only on that appoinment time range. Otherwise, I’m used to focus on what I’m facing right now. [Yep, having fun with computers]