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… and so it all started on Friday, 8pm. I had been looking for an issue in the code that I worked on. Turned out it was some kind of eisenbug, or perhaps a group of bugs collectively from my code and the libraries I was using. But I made it. A fully working web service, with database support, servlet, and GWT-based client. All in just three days of work. OK maybe more than three, strictly speaking, with 1 day being 8 hours of work. I know it may not be a big deal for the more senior developers, but I:

• never programmed a web service before, even though I know its architecture in theory
• never used GlassFish in my entire life before
• never programmed an Access database service before, even though I’ve done Oracle and MySQL
• never programmed JSP in my entire life
• so many more “never done it before”’s.

So yeah in the past three days I learnt quite a few things. Not bad, a few more things under my little black hat, perhaps soon there won’t be any part of this hat (read: hair) left

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… and then that performance with the all-acoustic band on Saturday afternoon. We came up with a weird name “YobamaH” – members’ names put together. We practiced once… they scheduled more practice, but I could not attend because of clash with other scheduled regular events. But after the performance on Saturday, I feel that I should spend more time with this band. We probably won’t go further than the walls of Mitrais, but who cares. This isn’t about fame. It’s about being able to enjoy music for what it is. It’s a chance to grow and nurture this one particular talent God has given me… well, even though I kinda dislike the fact that the other three members of the band smoke regularly.

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Then the discussion in the youth group of GII regarding post-modernism. Granted it was a far-and-wide topic, but the session made me curious and confused. So many elements in my life are somewhat already influenced by this “post-mo” movement; cleaning up is probably hard, if not impossible…… (but one has to stay optimistic, for he is led by God!)

I had to lead the pack for the teens’ camp, but I was already exhausted from the gruelling day (and I had no time to stop and rest). I crashed in my bed at 11pm, and did not wake up until 7:20am on Sunday.

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I had promised to go to the church on Sunday to help out preparing for the teens’ fundraising program. At exactly 7:30am, after a very quick shower, I took off on the Vario to the church. The ride was 15 minutes long, and I carried my Yamaha keyboard with me, as it was my turn to play at the teens’ worship service.

The worship finished at 11, but immediately I was invited into the church council meeting, to present the latest in the preparation for the three-state teens’ camp (Surabaya-Bali-Makassar; yeah it is quite a massive undertaking, never done before in our Bali church with limited human resources…). So the whole ordeal ended at around 2:30pm. I slept through the rest of Sunday, after two-and-a-half days of non-stop activities.

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… and some of you were still asking why I don’t blog much, or spend more than an hour on Facebook?