Finally…. I have to write this “Five Things” because E-Series.org has tagged me. Btw, who started this “Five Things”? Anyone knows??? It’s interesting to know because Sun Microsystems’ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has even written his “Five Things” too.

Anyway, here is the list of five things that you might or might not know about me.

  1. I am originally from Indonesia. My home town is Magelang, a very small town in the center of Java island. I don’t think anybody here has ever heard of Magelang before… :) The picture below shows a field near my parent’s house.

    My home town, Magelang Indonesia
  2. I decided to move out from Indonesia because of big riots in 1998. Although the riots didn’t happen in my home town, it was targeting ethnic Chinese. That’s why many Chinese-Indonesians left the country after the riots. Btw, I am a Chinese Indonesian…. :)
    Interestingly, my grandfather is originally from Fujian province in China. He moved from China to Indonesia because of economic crisis in the 1930s.
  3. The first programming language that I learnt was BASIC back in 1990. My uncle, William Suryawijaya, taught me how to program in GW-BASIC. His first assignment was displaying a simple mathematic table like the screenshot below.My first program in BASIC
  4. I speak a little bit German. Ja genau… ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch… :) .
  5. My first mobile phone was… surprise… Siemens C25. I bought it in August 1999 and sold it one year later. After that, I have been using Nokia phones until today. Here is the list of Nokia phones that I have used so far: Nokia 3330, Nokia 7650, Nokia 6600, Nokia 7710, Nokia N-Gage QD, Nokia 6680, Nokia N80, Nokia N91 and Nokia N73.Siemens C25

Now, the most interesting part. I would like to tag the following bloggers to continue this “Five Things” effect.

Actually, I would like to tag some other bloggers, e.g. Tommi Vilkamo, Steve Lichtfield and Stefan Constantinescu. Unfortunately, they have been tagged by other bloggers.