by Eko Prasetyo @ 3:46 AM Contrary to popular belief, neurons continue to grow and change in older brains. The apocryphal tale that you can't grow new brain cells just isn't true. Neurons continue to grow and change beyond the first years of development and well into adulthood, according to a new study. The finding challenges the traditional belief that adult brain cells, or neurons, are largely static and unable to change their structures in response to new experiences. The study, performed in adult mice, found that the branch-like projections on some neurons, called "dendrites," were still physically malleable. Dendrites conduct electrical signals received from other neurons to the parent neuron's cell body. The changes occurred both incrementally and in short bursts, and involved both growth and shrinkage. Read more here tags: Neuron Science | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review Round Ups: Robosapien V2 and Swivel superzoom

by Eko Prasetyo @ 3:37 AM eview: Robosapien Grows Up WowWee's second attempt at the Robosapien is a pricey one, at $250. Still, the Robosapien V2 is nearly double the size of its predecessor and is capable of head turns, arm and shoulder bends, grasping with large robotic fingers, and bending at the waist. By entering program mode via the remote, you can program him to move in any position you like. He can also hear, see, feel, and interact. But if there's one thing that he doesn't excel at, it's bowling. Find out why in the review. Read more here Review Roundup: Watch As You Go Portable video recorders aren't as popular as Apple's video iPod, but they do offer a lot more functionality. Just connect them to your PC or TV and record anything from My Name is Earl and Airline to Invasion and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. And that's not all: PVRs also let you store MP3s, photos, and more. Ring in the new year with one of these three PVRs tested: the Archos AV 500, Cowon A2, and the Datexx Pavio PVR30T. Read more here Chances are that if you received a new PC for the holidays, you'll need a printer to go with it. Luckily, PC Magazine have rolled out top-rated choices, along with the ones you were most interested in reading about in 2005. Find out what they are here Maybe your New Year's resolution is to travel more? If so, bring along one of these stellar laptops, from the best business laptop to a killer gaming system and more. Or maybe it's to own a better music player for bopping to the beat? Try one of these MP3 players on for size. Laptops: here MP3 players: here Review Roundup: Add Ringtones to Your Cell Phone Phone companies sometimes charge an arm and a leg for ringtones. Instead, why not try a ringtone-maker program and pay just once? There are five to choose from in the roundup. Read more here Review: A Superzoom That Swivels: Nikon's Coolpix S4 The Coolpix S4 is Nikon's latest superzoom digital camera. It's designed to swivel so that the lens and the body can rotate independently of each other. Although the S4 is packed with great features, such as In-Camera Red-Eye Fix, D-Lighting, and a 2.5-inch LCD, its shooting quality falls short. The performance results in the review tags: IT review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review: Sony VAIO VGN-TX650P portable PC

by Eko Prasetyo @ 10:46 AM Asustek is to jump on the LED display bandwagon with a new widescreen 12.1" notebook. Laptop Logic recently reviewed the Sony VAIO VGN-TX650P which also features an LED display. LED backlighting allows the LCD screen to be extremely light while also saving on battery power. Everlight, the company producing the... read more here tags: laptop review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Moral Politics

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:26 PM Try this tags: Moral Politics | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Reason to Stay

by Eko Prasetyo @ 5:44 PM A top Iraqi official says his country cannot take control of prisons from the US, after an apparent escape bid. Read more And after several months, I'm finally insulting Dubya's toys again! What A RELIEF !! tags: dubya Iraq | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Reviews: of Kids and G5

by Eko Prasetyo @ 5:12 AM Review Roundup: Help Your Kids Phone Home Adults aren't the only ones who need cell phones to keep in touch. We've got five cell phones designed exclusively for your kids, with features such as parental controls, speed-dial buttons for Mom and Dad, and built-in educational games. Read our reviews of the Cingular Firefly, the Enfora TicTalk, the LG Migo VX1000, the LG VI-125, and the Nokia 3220. Read morehere Review: PowerPC's Last Hurrah? Apple's new Power Mac G5 Quad is the Hummer of desktops, with quad processors and 1 terabyte of hard drive space. It will give graphics professionals the power they need to produce large-scale output on increasingly short deadlines--if you don't mind paying a bundle for it. Check out our review and slide show. Read more here tags: IT reviews | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Bundle of Review: GTOs and stufss

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:41 PM Today, we're looking at 4 different X800 GTOs from 3 different manufacturers. Each of these cards is different, but all are good solutions. Read more here Intel is flaming away with its new Pentium Extreme Edition 955 processor and the accompanying 975X Express chipset. The dual core 955 runs at a speedy 3.46GHz and a total of 4MB L2 cache (2MB per core). Here are the latest reviews from around the web: VIPERLAIR Legit Reviews Sudhian Hexus bit-tech.net ... Read morehere tags: IT Reviews | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review: Kodak EasysShare P850 digital camera

by Eko Prasetyo @ 3:27 AM The EasyShare P850, which has an image-stabilized 12x zoom Schneider-Kreuznach, is a direct competitor to the likes of Canon's S2 IS, Sony's H1 and Panasonic's FZ20 and is the first in a new class of 'advanced digital cameras', which Kodak hopes will provide an alternative to entry-level DSLRs. Read more here | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review Bundle: What's on PC Magazinw

by Eko Prasetyo @ 8:00 PM Review Roundup: Gifts for the Road Warrior Traveling for business can be stressful enough without having to worry about technical problems, so we've compiled a list of items that can help those on the go deal with problems of organization, data storage, and equipment transport when shuffling among cities. Read our article and you'll discover the right gift to ease the troubles of the road warrior in your life. Read more here Review: A Wearable MP3 Player Wearable MP3 players are nothing new. You're most likely familiar with the Oakley Thump and Thump 2. These players sound decent, but they're expensive and not always practical. While searching for an alternative, we came across the Xtatix Freefone: headphones with a built-in 1GB MP3 player. Although this wearable MP3 player won't be your first choice if you're a music nut, it may just be the perfect fit if you just want to load a couple of music albums before heading out to the gym or store,. Find out how well the player works in our review. Read more here Review: A Sturdy, Impressive System If you're a business professional who doesn't need to travel frequently, then you may be interested in Lenovo's titanium-covered ThinkPad Z60M laptop. This hefty system (it weighs in at 7.1 pounds) comes with a 15.4-inch antiglare widescreen, a fingerprint reader, and Lenovo's TPM (Trusted Platform Module). View a slide show of the system and read our review. Read more here Review: The Cutest Slider Phone If you're the fashionable type, you'll appreciate the Samsung SGH-e635 slider phone. This tiny 3-ounce phone that fits comfortably in the hand has a bright, sharp screen, impressive battery life, an instant-messaging client, and two preloaded games. It's cute as a button, but we have one major complaint. Find out what it is in our review. Read more here Plus: A Quirky Messaging Phone The Samsung SGH-D307 is the first double-fold phone to make it to the U.S. market. Yahoo!, AOL, and Hotmail addicts will enjoy its features, provided they can get past the difficult user interface. Read more here tags: IT Reviews | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Bundle of Reviews: Compact Flash derby and of the slim things

by Eko Prasetyo @ 3:03 PM The Gateway FPD2185W's excellent image quality, adjustability, extra features, and decent price make it tough to beat. read morehere While the Philips PET1000 isn't exactly svelte or inexpensive, it is one of the sleekest and best performing portable DVD players. Read more here Due to its small form factor, the LaCie Slim DVD /-RW with LightScribe burner is a good choice for those who need a burner while traveling; however, its audience is limited to Windows users. Read more here Sony has quite the looker on their hands with the new VAIO VGN-TX650P. This 2.8 pound (!!!) laptop featues an LED backlit 11.1" widescreen LCD display, a 1.2GHz Ultra Low Voltage Pentium-M processor and a dual-layer DVD burner. As you may have already guessed, the unit comes with a whopper of a price ringing in at... Read more here With digital photography, personal audio, and personal digital assistants in full force these days, we look at one type of flash media to accompany these devices for added storage. Take a look at how our selected CompactFlash media performs. Read more here tags: IT Review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

'Psychology' clue to Chechen ill

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:27 AM A mystery mass illness in Russia's conflict-torn republic of Chechnya could have been caused by psychological factors, officials have said. More than 70 people - most of them girls - have now suffered breathing problems, headaches, irrational fear and panic attacks. Read more here Psyche problems? Perhaps. When the nerves are on overload, surely all other systems will go inefficient, causing overall downfall in biological system. It's the chakra and the yin and yang, dudes and dudettes. Or perhaps it's simply a Russian propaganda to stop Chenchen rebels. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Japan is Shrinking

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:21 AM Japan's population is to drop this year for the first time since records began, official data shows. Read more here Why is this shrinking happening? I believe that's because modernity has caused young people to forfeit family making and therefore causing less and less birth rate. And I believe that's because, deep inside us, nature is working secretly on balancing the population of the world. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Google is Terrorists Spy?

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:01 PM A Russian security analyst says Google Earth is essentially working for terrorists by offering detailed pictures that compromise security. Read more here Anyway, the dude seems to forget that Google's most high-tech service is a "neutral" tool. It can be used by all terrorists in the world, caucasoid (err..both european and arabic are caucasoid) or not, moslems or not. tags: tags: Google terrorists | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Bundle of Reviews

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:41 AM Most 17-inch monitors can't match the NEC MultiSync LCD1770VX's clean appearance and ease of use; however, so-so image quality limits the NEC's appeal. Read more here Real-time traffic updates, highly detailed maps, and a beautiful 5-inch color touch screen give the Cobra NavOne 4500 bragging rights as one of the hottest vehicle-navigation systems around. Read morehere The HP Compaq Presario SR1620NX makes a good impression for a $500 PC, thanks to welcome extras such as an x16 PCIe slot and a nine-in-one media-card reader. Read morehere With a superb 17-inch display and an integrated TV tuner, the Sony VAIO VGN-AX570G is among the most self-contained multimedia laptops and undercuts many of them by several hundred dollars. Read morehere Review The five-megapixel, 3x optical zoom Exilim EX-Z500's silmline design - it's just 8.9 x 5.7 x 2.1cm - and 2.7in LCD are the first things you'll notice when you take a closer look at this digital camera. The bright crisp screen is noticeably bigger than the one on most digital cameras available at the moment, save the Sony T range, and the extra 0.2in means it's even bigger than the latest iPod or Creative Zen Vision:M. If you've got one of these, you won't need to worry about viewing your images on anything else. Read more here | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Melting

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:01 AM The ices are melting, the ocean level is rising, and the balance of the elements will be shifted. Thesea are two indicators : 1. Emissions are 16 percent higher than in 1990, for an average annual increase of 1.1 percent 2. Melting permafrost leaves sinkholes, twisted roads and leaning trees. Expect it to get worse. And all of those melting and heating up is caused by excessive usage of earth-born fuels, fossil fuels. I believe it's time for us to think out-of-tradition more. To force alternatives into becoming mainstream. Solarpower, Fuelcell, and Tidalpower is the future. The future that has been waiting, the future that has been put on hold, and the future that has been struggling in vain, mostly because fossil fuel industries have grown so big and so fat. So big and so fat, if it's going down, many sectors of economy will be going down with it. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Reviews: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 & Samsung Pro815 Digital Cameras

by Eko Prasetyo @ 11:31 AM Digital Photography Review have made reviews of Sony's unique Cyber-shot DSC-R1 with its APS-C size CMOS sensor and 24-120 mm 'Carl Zeiss' lens. They also posted review of the adventurous fifteen times optical zoom, eight megapixel Samsung Pro815, a camera which promises a great deal but does it deliver? Read more of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-R1 review, here and of Samsung Pro815 review, here tags: tags: Digital camera review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Infant Masturbation: Harmless

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:09 AM Masturbation "doesn't portend any sexual deviancy later in life," Mink said. "It's such a common and normal behavior that it's nothing to worry about. It's not appropriate to punish children for it. They associate it with comfort, like thumb-sucking." Read more here tags: infant masturbation | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review: Gateway DX200X PC

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:01 AM The Gateway DX200X occupies an awkward middle ground: it's too expensive for value shoppers and lacks the features found on slightly pricier midrange PCs. Read more here tags: tags: PC review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review: Gigabyte CB91 BTX SFF PC

by Eko Prasetyo @ 2:00 PM As OEMs grapple with the advantages that the BTX PC form factor affords, Gigabyte has come up with its own flavor of the design. A case that lifts up like a convertible car roof and quietly-efficient airflow are but two of this barebones PC's standout features. Read more here tags: tags: SFF PC Review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review: Fuji Finepix 5600 Zoom digital still camera

by Eko Prasetyo @ 10:28 AM The 5600 is around 30g heavier than its predecessor, weight that's in no way a burden but arises from the larger - but still small by today's standards - 1.8in colour screen. It's bright and crisp though, so is a cinch to use and it even comes with a fast, 'LCD brighten' button for fast switching if you suddenly find yourself in the spotlight - or in bright sunshine.… Read more here | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

HLS is 10 YEARS BEHIND

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:32 PM Every americans should shiver in fear when they hear that the guardian of their homeland is equipped with none other than WINDOWS 95 !! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Mass Review: Dual Graphic Platforms

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:44 AM There is a lot more to dual card graphics than the extra frame rates ATI and NVIDIA's respective Crossfire and SLI platforms offer. Besides their overclocking potential, Tom's Hardware look at the storage interface performance of ATI Crossfire and the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 platforms. THey've also included VIA's new K8T900 dual graphics chipset in their lineup. Read more here tags: tags: platform review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review: Kodak EasyShare Z700 digital still camera

by Eko Prasetyo @ 10:10 AM A 5X zoom lens, aperture- and shutter-priority modes, and plenty of automatic features give the economical 4-megapixel Kodak EasyShare Z700 appeal for budding shutterbugs. Read more here | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review: LG P7200 cellphone

by Eko Prasetyo @ 10:08 AM While it is obvious that LG's designers have taken liberty with the RAZR V3's looks and style, the LG P7200 does pack a Motorola-beating camera and cool music functions. Sam brings us this review of LG's holiday stunner. Read more here tags: tags: cellphone review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review: ATI's Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition graphics card

by Eko Prasetyo @ 7:01 AM If you're longing to see a $1200 Radeon graphics subsystem under the Christmas three this year, you will need a Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition graphics card. This magical device will allow you to sync up with a regular Radeon X1800 XT or XL graphics card for nearly double the rendering power of a single card. This new CrossFire card also sweeps away some of the limitations of the first-generation CrossFire hardware introduced just a couple of months ago, allowing mega-high-res gaming, among other things. Read more here tags: tags: graphic card review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Mass Review

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:53 AM Today, we're looking at three GeForce 7800 GTs. Let’s see ASUS’, XFX’s, and EVGA's take on this quality graphics solution from NVIDIA. Our performance tests have shown that each of these three 7800 GT's do very well in handling the graphical demands of a variety of games. It can be a difficult thing to sort out where different graphics cards fall performance-wise when looking for an upgrade. It makes it even harder when you have differences in clock speeds between different manufacturer versions of cards of the same type. Many times, a card that is billed as "faster" because of a factory overclock isn't really that much faster as what the manufacturer of the card would have you believe. This is especially true for NVIDIA's 7800 series, given the confusion surrounding the clock scaling frequencies that we've seen in the past. Read more here tags: tags: graphic card review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Mass Review: TV Tuners

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:50 AM Ever thought of using your PC as a Home Theater device? Anandtech have some advice along with several of the more interesting TV Tuners, and they have put them through their paces and gives you their insights. Overall, none of the cards reviewed today are perfect. There are three options covered here: great analog with no digital; great digital with no analog recording unless you have a dual-core system; or decent analog and great digital with a slightly less friendly user interface. What we really want now is to have ATI, PowerColor, or someone else equal the analog quality of the Theater 550 and add in DTV support - and personally the QAM support is required, as OTA just doesn't work for my needs. Even though dealing with the numerous sub-channels on digital cable can be irritating, it's better than not to have the ability to receive those channels at all. read more here tags: tags: TV tuner review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Mass Review: Half Terrabyte Harddisks

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:45 AM Anandtech promised a 3-way comparison between Hitachi’s 500GB 7K500, Western Digital’s 400GB WD4000YR, and Seagate’s 7200.9 500GB drive and they keep to their promises. Take a look at how these highest capacity drives compare. Beginning with the IPEAK runs, the WD4000YR took the lead performing 769 IO operations per second under the Business Winstone 2004 test and 505 IO operations per second in the Content Creation Winstone 2004 part of the test. Seagate's 500GB 7200.9 came nowhere close to these numbers, but rather took a few steps back. The WD4000YR also performed the best out of the three in the application load time tests with applications starting at around half a second faster consistently, which is a big deal. With this test, we were not only testing the specified application load times, but also general access times and service times. All of the physical specifications of the WD4000YR tell us that it won't perform as well as the two 500GB models, but our benchmark results say otherwise. Those of us who are familiar with hard drive technology know that the higher transfer rates that the 3.0Gb/sec models have to offer can only be achieved when multiple disks are striped, but we never thought that a 1.5Gb/sec unit could out-do those with double the theoretical transfer rates. read more here tags: tags: hard disk review review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Mass Review: US$ 600 Notebokk

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:23 AM Looking for a cheap notebook this holiday season? Look no further than this roundup. Anandtech took 5 of the most affordable notebooks and put them through their paces. Find out which one is worth your hard earned money. While the Dell offered the best all-out performance, the Gateway NX200S actually offered the best overall package. Delivering significantly longer battery life and competitive performance all in a more compact and portable package than the Compaq and Dell solutions, it's hard to find fault with what Gateway has delivered. Our only complaint? Ours didn't come with wireless by default, but it looks like the unit now does come with integrated wireless while still selling for less than $600 after mail-in rebate. read more here tags: tags: notebook review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review: Polk Audio SurroundBar

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:19 AM A single-speaker surround system, the Polk Audio SurroundBar works best as a home-theater solution for small rooms. The good: Sleek single-speaker surround system; five speakers in one; extruded-aluminum cabinet; flexible setup options; nonreflective virtual-surround effect works regardless of room design and layout; wall-mount bracket and table stand included. The bad: Somewhat expensive; hardly an ideal choice for music lovers; you still need to invest in a subwoofer. read more here tags: tags: monitor review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Review: Double Sight DS-1900 Twin Monitors

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:17 AM The DS-1900 is a novelty display for people who want two monitors on the same stand. Many other 19-inch monitors can provide better performance, and buying two would cost much less than the DS-1900. Read more here tags: tags: monitor review | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Tough Mother

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:29 AM Talking about tough mothers: a squid species carry around the burden of her thousands children within the safety of her tentacles. Read more here | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Human Brained Mice

by Eko Prasetyo @ 5:29 AM Watched Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy? I bet those mice will be annoyed when they found out that they have brothers and sisters who were born with human brain cells. Read this | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Shell

by Eko Prasetyo @ 5:10 PM I feel bored today, bored and empty. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Racial Hatched Reemerged?

by Eko Prasetyo @ 5:57 AM Okay, first Paris, and now Sidney. Racial riot seems to be in trend in the recent years. And in the core of that, is the clash between subjugated colored moslems and their white christians. I pick a scent of someone is trying to force "Clash of Civilization" further, after they have successfully implanted "terrorists = moslems" inside our head. Just for a reminder: IRA has been a terrorist. Al-Qaeda together with Jamaah Islamiyah are NON-EXISTENT !! They are just Zionist made fictions formed to give a "presence" to a "threat". Threat that can be squashed instantly if we choose not to be ignorant about a group of minority oppressing a herded majority. I don't demand total equality, I demand JUSTICE !! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Kurau Field Trip V - Departure

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:20 AM It's day 15, and I'M HOME AGAIN !!! YIPEEEEE !!! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Kurau Field Trip - Day 13 and 14

by Eko Prasetyo @ 3:18 PM I AM GOING HOME TOMORROW !!! Anyway...13 and 14 feels the same: data hunting and sending....bored... | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Kurau Field Trip V - Day 12

by Eko Prasetyo @ 10:03 PM Wow..day 12 already. Day 12 found me running and making a call a lot collecting data regarding the new exploration well MSEG-01. Hunted almost every hour, I decided to stay put at the lab and took over the lab head PC so that I could mail data to the main office. Boy, chasing data around is not an easy job, I told ya ! | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Kurau Field Trip V - Day 10 and 11

by Eko Prasetyo @ 4:14 PM Day 10 and 11 found me confused and stressed over collegial and authority problems. I was about to bring back online a stimulated well and unloaded 100 barrel of fluid into atmospheric tanks, and started up that well I just perforated. Turned out that in one day, administrative, authoritative, and collegial problems all stacked up and really makes me confused and to a degree, went emotional. Drilling division was hogging up all trailers and cranes for their own purposes. That made me and my pal confused on how to transport a tank that was plotted necessary for the new well start up process. After walking around finding solutions, finally the wellservice group told us that we can use their tanks still left at the well's site area, because their mobilization to an offshore platform was cancelled and they'll be working on a well close there. That's one problem solved. Another problem arose when I was about to start up a well that has been put into dormant stimulation phase. I got paniced when there is a rumor that the wellservice division has began moving from the well and carry all of their equipments out of there. I still need the tanks (yes, both wells problems were revolving around tanks) to unload the fluid. So I went to the wellsite, and found the tanks were still there. Without anymore delays, I told the wellservice crew left there to prepare everything. I also told the production and ESP technicians to get ready to start up the well's pump. 8 p.m, after all problems solved, I got a call saying that the well's start up was to be cancelled. I asked the wellservice top guy who cancelled that, he said he won't accept if I do the start up that night. Another call to the production top guy confirmed that the well's start up was to be cancelled. So I cancelled the start up, and began it in the morning. The start up went well in the end, with the desired amount of fluid unloaded reached perfectly. After that, I told the well to be stopped so that they can divert its flow to the production line. The production and ESP technicians tried to start up the well after 30 minutes, but the well's Electric Submersible Pumps behave strangely. That was not my problems though. Next problem was the start up of the new well. I was called, while getting ready to unload the stimulated well, that the new well's connection lines were ready and start up could be commenced. I told them that since me and my pal was getting ready to start up the stimulated well, the well's start up could wait for the morning. The safety could also be increased if the start up was held at morning. Well, after the start up of one well was cancelled, we decided that the start up of the other well could be commenced that night. He would go to the new well's site, and I would observe the start up of the stimulated well. Well, things went crazy after this. The wellservice guy in charge of completing the new well said that the well must be started in the morning so that the well's possible gas problem potencies could be minimized. My pal got an SMS from top guy of Production to start up the well. He confirmed that with the guy about the wellservice guy's opinion. the top guy confirmed the wellservice guy. The well started up in the morning. So, basically, both wells were started up in the morning. My pal went there, started up the well, and took the samples needed to confirm the well's oil potency. He confirmed that the well produced oil, albeit in small amount. That news confirmed that both of our jobs here ended in a degree of positive success. Can't wait to go home. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Kurau Field Trip V - Day 8 and 9

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:19 PM Can you imagine ? THAT'S ONE EXPERIENCE I'LL NEVER FORGET !! Rain drops hitting me like freezing needles, which were sharp in the skin and salty in the lips. The sun was set, the sky was dark, and the air was filled with blinding haze. The air was eerily cold, and the wind was merciless, howling endlessly while the engine of the boat roared. The boatsman was at helm, driving with instinct and helped only by compass. The visibility range was 3 feet far. The only light available was the rotating yellow upper roof light, and the flashing of the lightning. And my clothes are wet, As I struggled to protect my digicam, my mp3 player, and the group's ancient but only laptop. As the air is getting colder and colder, And as hunger strikes in, My mind goes hazy, As migrain attacked. And as soon as the haze lifted, the rain slowed down, and the visibility was returned, the boat was back on course, my heart and guts went calm. And as I landed on the Jetty, and walked back to my room where I cleaned and bathed, and dried myself, I thanked God for still making me survived the storm, One storm I'll bever forget. ANYWAAAYY.. What was I doing before the storm? I was coming home after checking a well site which was waiting to be perforated. Since night time perforation was not allowed, the perforation crew went back to the main camp riding a boat. That's when the storm hit us. After that stormy night, I returned to the well site before dawn broke, and commencing three perforation sequences on the said well. The perforations went on smoothly, with no imminent failures came during the sequences. But the well site, which was an exploration well (a well which must produced oil to confirm the potency of the reservoir), was still not giving out oil, apparent from the absence of oil in the 3 perforation guns pulled out of the well bore. I will be doing production testing tomorrow, to confirm the well's ability to produce oil. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |

Kurau Field Trip V - Day 6 and 7

by Eko Prasetyo @ 6:49 PM Well, 20 hours out in the field doing things to a well is not a picnic, I can say that much. I went to the a well last night, a well that has been overtaken by a massive metal structure called Hydraulic Workover Unit, which's function is to do many things to the inside of a well. Things like what I have commandereed last night and today. Things like putting well completion out of the hole, killing the well, and putting a stimulation string inside complete with isolation packer. That stimulation string was used for injecting the previously mentioned surfactant into the formation, with the packer acted as effiencer for the fluid usage. Without the packer, the amount of fluid used will be abundant, because pressures are needed to push the stimulation fluid into the formation, and without the packer, pressures will be provided by the fluid's volume. So, in short, a single, 5 foot packer replaces tons of fluid. Well, anyway, the stimulation fluid injection itself went on smoothly, but the prerequisite processes before it were infected with problems. That HWU donated most of the problems, being an old unit and being forced to work overtime. Ah well, whatever. I am currently waiting for the results of the stimulation. Most of the previous stimulations didn't turned out as expected: they reduce oil productions. | My Alter Ego | Blogroll Me! | 0 blogger comments | | |