It's been a month since I started using Nokia Lumia 800. I have to admit, the promoting efforts of my sister on WP7 to me and the rest of my family has come to great success. I bought the pink one and dad bought the black one.  After she teached me how to use it at that time, me and my father instantly ordered 2 sets straight from Singapore, because it hasn't launched in Indonesia yet. Maybe most of you who haven't seen a lumia 800 before can look at this hands on video (which also happens to be of the same pink model that I use):

Before I used lumia, I have an iPhone 3G and a Blackberry Onyx. Simply put, both of them were a pain in the ass. I installed a God-knows-what version of the OS that didn't match with the hardware, hence it always tests my patience every time I use it. My BB is no different matter as well. From those two phone, my BB is only used for BBM and other social network services like twitter, foursquare , and koprol, and my iPhone was used for push email, music, read documents and some simple games; therefore I'll probably compare my Lumia with my 2 previous devices.

I first knew about Lumia from Aulia's tweets that had frequently reviewed N9 (https://plus.google.com/104291780690152384968/posts/NeEFbMEZ4p2). For no apparent reason, I was not interested in the OS it used. However, I immediately fell in love with Lumia 800 when I watched this video 

I'm a Batman fangirl, and what serendipity Nokia released a limited edition Batman-themed Lumia. The Batman logo at the back was just too awesome for me. Don't even get me started with the themes and skin it was really brilliant. Unfortunately all my hopes are let down when I found out that they're only going to produce forty of them and I found unit number 38 in another YouTube video. Injustice.

After I saw the pink model, the wanting feeling to own the phone impulsed. I'm crazy for pink. Almost all of the things I own are in pink, even my electronic devices. However, to find a phone that has a pink model that is not cheap-looking, or a pink-colored casing or body, is a challenge in itself. What I love about lumia is that the pink color is very vibrant, very pretty to use, and I bet most girls and even guys would think the same as well. I'm currently using a plastic bumper case from the box, which also happens to be pink, in fear that my phone gets smeared. My sister always says that since it is a polycarbonate casing, even though it's scratched, the color will not fade and instead stay pink. That's what I've been bragging about to my friends even though I know it's pointless to do so. But that just goes to show how great and pretty the color is, not shocking pink but also not baby pink as well. I also have to be careful because the phone can easily slip under my hands if I'm not careful, and that also why I use the bumper.

The interface of WP7, dubbed the metro UI, is, in my opinion, a very radical interface. It's an outstanding innovation, the direct opposite of any blackberry OS. Although it takes a few seconds to understand that the menu is navigated by swiping to the sides (maybe you guys can check out http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/20/introduction-designing-windows-phone-7-metro/ to get what I mean), the color combination used in metro UI is much simpler compared to other OS. Typography is naively plain on a plain canvas, very simple icons, clickable text gives the impression of a very neat, clutter-free interface. Even though not all apps can multi-task, the tiles on top of the wallpaper can give live updates about the apps which are placed in the tiles. For example, in foursquare, the tile displays what rank we've achieved so far. We can also customize which apps to put in which tiles.

I think 'ME' is very useful for me who has several email accounts as well as social media accounts. ME consists of 'profile', 'notification' and 'what's new'. ME combines all notification as well as updates from various social media apps into one (I combined windows live, facebook, linkedin, and twitter), even though the update process tends to be pretty slow. It's still a useful app for me nevertheless.

The contacts migration from my iPhone and BB to my Nokia is also very easy. Very different to BB, I only need to transfer via Bluetooth and the whole process takes just under 2 minutes; all the data from my old contacts from my two phones are immediately copied to my Lumia. In addition, since I use full names in my contacts, Lumia automatically integrates all of my Facebook contacts with my phone contacts. Hence, my friend's data is pretty much complete, including avatar, email, social media account, phone number, etc. This contacts migration process is very different from the one that I had to do with my BB.

It goes without saying that Microsoft Office for WP7 really helped my productivity life. This suite includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint and also OneNote. File transfer can't be done via Windows connector for Mac; rather, they use SkyDrive to integrate data on my laptop with data on my Lumia. Other alternatives such as office 365 and sharepoint can also be used.

WP7 also has a personal assistant. Microsoft Tellme is, to be honest, limited to a few commands such as 'text', 'call', 'find', 'open', 'start' etc. Even though is nowhere near as cool as Siri, it suffices my basic needs to call, text messages, and do some Google searches.

The coolest application in this Lumia 800 is definitely the Nokia Drive. Nokia Drive is used as a navigations system that provides real-time GPS tracking. I have used to to find routes with a car and this application succeeds in helping me with no trouble whatsoever. Personally, this cool value matches that of Siri's navigation capabilities. You can watch the preview video at:

Marketplace in windows phone provides many interesting and various applications, which is very different with the BB App World. Even though I can't use marketplace for Indonesian addresses, I used my Singaporean address to register myself. The apps are just as varied as in Apple's App Store; there's even the Accurate Tuner to tune my cello and an Agile Metronome to help me practice. 

Camera quality is really satisfactory. The 8MP camera includes settings for scenes, white balance, exposure value, ISO, metering mode, effects, contrast, saturation, focus mode, resolution, as well as flicker reduction. I think that with buying Lumia, I also save myself from buying a pocket camera. Now when I hang out with my friends, we always use my Lumia for taking pictures. Many photo processing apps are also available on the market place.

One thing that has stood out to be a major disadvantage in my Lumia, though, is its battery life. I realize that applications like Facebook or Twitter really consumes my battery. In a day, if I use it to only listen to music and reading manga (another plus in Lumia, a manga reader!) , it doesn't last more than 5 hours. If I continually check my Twitter timeline, then it doesn't last more than 3 hours. However this is not much of a problem for me anyway, because I always bring my charger everywhere and I even have a car charger. I really hope the next OS update will offer improvements to repair for this battery problem.

All in all, I am absolutely satisfied with my Lumia 800. I don't know if my BB was just that horrible or if Lumia was just too awesome.Rumor is that Lumia will launch in Jakarta around February or March. 780 SGD is really worth the price with all the experience I felt. Lumia 800 can also be bundled with Monster headsets. I think it's an added value for you guys because the quality is pretty good and the models are also really fancy. Lucky for me I got the pink-colored headsets.

Here's the preview for Nokia Purity HD, the stereo headset by Monster: 

And if you guys are mesmerized by Siri, I suggest you guys try out Nokia Drive first. Personally, due to Siri being overrated, knowing that internet connection here is pretty much limited and our pronunciations aren't as good as expats, Nokia instead really helps you to find routes, including small roads and shortcuts in Jakarta to help you on the road.

If you guys generally have no problems with the battery life, I really suggest that you purchase this phone if you really are looking for one. Buying a BB phone is a waste of money only for BBM's sake. There are tons of other viable solutions to replace BBM, such as Whatsapp, emal, Twitter DM, Facebook message, or even just sms and calls. Rather than buying a new BB, I suggest that you keep your old BB (if you absolutely need it), and use a Lumia 800 as your main phone, so you can use your BB like a CDMA phone and your Lumia as a GSM phone.

Nokia Lumia live feat. Deadmau5 lights up London with amazing 4D projection. 

PS: Thanks a lot to @yogadwitya for helping me writing this blogpost! :D 

* A UX designer wannabe that is currently depressed due to choosing the wrong major at the Faculty of Computer Science at Universitas Indonesia.
* An Information System undergrad in the process of making a thesis in order to graduate in 3.5 years.
* A chronic procrastinator who by dumb luck has worked as a design intern in Yahoo! Indonesia. 
* An amateur photographer who is more interested in collecting Lomos rather than refining her photography skills which is virtually nonexistent.
* A lady who claims to be happy being single yet frequently tweets about being lonely.
* The daughter of an agent selling military weapons from France to the Indonesian military, and a pigeon breeder.
* A heavy tea drinker and also a compulsive over-eater who vehemently denies that fat has successfully dominated her body.
* A person who is very interested in technology and relates academic subjects to real world outside of academic studies.
* A female Major League Gaming gamer who rarely follows the latest news due to being too occupied with studying and working.
* A Perfume fan who always dances along with them in their video clips unconsciously.
* An Evangelion and Ghost in The Shell fangirl who still shivers in awe every time she watches its movies for the umpteenth time.

Hello again. This is me, the future you. I think we don't need any introductions since you must've known me too well. My voice is already starting to run out because of the me that always shouts at you when you say 'sure, I'll lend a hand' or 'It should be done by a week' or 'wow I'd like to participate in that contest' or 'Nah, one more subject to take shouldn't be that hard' etc. Even though I know I always fail at convincing you to purge the lust for more workloads, adding projects, but I'll keep trying anyway. This letter is one of my efforts for me to remind you to prepare for the life ahead of you. The following semester will be one of the hardest in your life. I know you have intentionally make yourself overloaded with work to avert yourself from your painful love life. I completely agree with that, I know you can nail it all eventually with good results.

I know that you're in your lowest point of your life right now. I know that you really want to disappear from this earth and escape from all those troubles. But one thing for sure is that no matter where you run, whatever you try to distract your mind, the pain stays there and it won't go anywhere. What becomes a problem is not what you must do in order to get rid of the pain, but how you can persevere through all this. I think that continuously increasing your workload is not the best option. In fact no one knows the best way to do it, but I'm pretty sure that it's one of the best ones you have right now. Besides you also have to face the fact that love problems will not be one of the major problems in your entire life. You already have many other problems that have more priority to be dealt with.

Taking 22 credits this semester with only 7 of them that you love to do, 2 big competitions, 1 intern contract, 2 huge freelance projects, research for thesis, IELTS preparation, and the list keeps going on. You won't have time to have fun, hang out, or any other forms of social activity. You will sleep late and wake up early, your caffeine and nicotine intake will increase, and you will gradually ignore your medical condition. With the new library at your campus, you'll frequently stay there until it closes down; which is good because when you're at home chances are you'll have fun and sleep more often which in turn will make you regret not doing your work more often. You'll be continually cranky and short-tempered; you're still lucky you have good friends who understand your condition and will always support you when you need them. But even so they can only hear you rant and be there when you cry, that's all. Every work you do is your own responsibility. Your life is your life and only you can live it.

You still have a couple of days to rest. Use it as best as you can. Play your heart out. Wake up as late as you can. Sleep as late as you can. Finish all the anime and tv series you haven't finished. Finish the games that you didn't have time to finish. Don't forget to go to the salon to pamper you hair and do all those other treatments you didn't get to do previously. Work out while you can. Catch up with old friends that you haven't kept in touch with, because when college starts again, that is when playtime is over, that is when you go back to reality, and that is the time that you have to sacrifice many things for sheer productivity.

I know you have faith in you that you can do all of this eventually. I know that you think that being a student in Fasilkom UI, ones that experiences the darkest and toughest times compared to other UI students, who think that a messed up sleep schedule is not a problem, and which when compared to people the same age are outliers at the ability to tolerate stress. I know you can, I know deep inside that you can. But you really don't know that what you're about to go through is unlike anything you've experienced before. You will slowly crave and depress over wanting to rest and have fun; but isn't that exactly what you're looking for to avert the depression you feel now?

Because you've already stumped with this overloaded workload, and I know you can't stop the urge to continue to pile it up, I can only say that you HAVE to get it all done, you have to sacrifice yourself to do it all, because you're the one that started this in the first place; you're the one who has to take responsibility for your actions and your work. You have to stay professional, you can't make 'I have so much work to do' as a reason to not finish work to its fullest. You can never be tired at encouraging yourself to finish all of this. I know you can, and I mean it, because I have a basis to make that statement. Just trust me on this. I believe you, but you really have to get ready for the shitstorm that's about to come.

Yesterday marked the last day I worked as a design intern in Yahoo!-Koprol. Nine weeks have passed, along with all the exciting activities I have experienced while working here; from Yahoo! team building,

Kopfest,

the ball war in office,

Tekken and Street Fighter ladder,

Yes, I've also contributed by giving them someone to bully. ¬_¬

I'm gonna miss you, cubicle 8214 :(

Thank you to all of my friends who spread my news like wildfire. Thank you to all of them who also support me by way of emails, Facebook messages, and Twitter mentions. Forgive me if I haven't replied them individually. Well, even though some of them asked me "so, any updates so far?" and I was wondering if they're supporting me or are simply curious… Nah, just kidding.

So it was on Friday, August 12th, around 3.47 PM, that I received an unknown phone call. It turned out to be Rahma Diana who got my number from my email signature embedded on the reply I gave to her previously. She called me to apologize to me and give her the reasons why she has done the things she did as I have explained on my previous blog post. I have tried to record our phone conversation, but it seems that the quality of the sound on her side was quite vague and fuzzy.

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(later then she texted me that she was out of credit) Anyway thanks to kak @wiqzz for lending me her iphone to record the conversation. xD

But what I do get from the conversation is that she has done all this out of obsession, as per her apology letter sent to me afterwards.

After Rahma Diana apologized to me, I concluded that this is not really an identity theft; she is just a person who may have a unique obsession which turned out to be quite creepy. I feel very lucky that she didn't used information about me to do more unpleasant things than this or for things that can cost me financially, or perhaps even to slander me, but even then those things could've happened to anyone.

I know many of my friends' responses have been numerous. Most of them have judged her as freak, creepy, sick, and other unpleasant adjectives to indicate and describe that she is a stalker, which is what I also felt, due to being afraid because there is someone passionately following me, angry because most of my content has been reproduced without consent, and confused whether why it had to be me. However, I guess that the issue has been resolved, and enough is enough. Rahma Diana has apologized to me, and has given me a clear explanation why she did those things. I hope my friends would also come to acknowledge this and put an end to badmouthing and judging her.

I hope my previous blog post have taught a lesson to her and also to the people who intend to do similar things like she has done, and as well for my friends to be cautious about what they expose in the world of social media. As we all know, there are plenty of social media sites, web-based email browsers and domain extensions as well as blog portals. The web gathers vast amounts of personal information that we willfully share online. Anyone tracking this information not only knows what we say, but where, and to whom. Lo and behold, listing something as simple as your birthday on social media sites could spell trouble, because identity theft is one of the fastest growing cyber crimes in this world.

Hello, I'm Naning Utoyo. Currently I'm working in Yahoo! Indonesia as a Koprol Design Intern. As I've already stated, I'M ONLY AN INTERN, which means I'm only an underling (and it means I don't have any subordinates if the prior words couldn't come clearly to you). For your information, Yahoo extended my employment to August 20th, which previously it should be ended at August 13th, because there's a project that exists under my responsibility that I believe I couldn't make it on time. Before the extension was decided, I had already shared about the matter on twitter, tweeting that I still have heavy workload and time was a wasting luxury. Besides being an intern, I'm also working as freelancer in Yahoo! ID with my friends (you may ask @justcecile @winahyuanggoro @harikedua @ditoblue if you don't trust what I've just said). Because I have sleeping problem which happens almost every night, I have difficulties on waking up early and that's why I need my caffeine shots every morning from the coffemaker in the office's pantry. I'm also an OCD, if you couldn't believe it, just ask my colleagues and my college friends. If it helps to persuade you, my sister @ndari also has OCD, even though it's slightly different. Yes, I do procrastinate A LOT, which sometimes leave me exhausted to get my work completely finished on the deadline. I'm not a star nor a celebtwit. I'm no one, I'm just a regular person. I admit that I like to share my stories on the twitter when I'm fed up with things, and not for a very long time, I shared on twitter that there's someone that I don't even know grumbling over me sharing about my problems on Twitter. That's why I tweeted, "if you hate me that much then why do you care to read my tweets?" But that's not the point that I want to make. There's another reason why I share this story.

Because I've been an Identity theft victim on twitter, I assume that this person's name is Rahma Diana, her Twitter is at @RAHMADIANAA, her Yahoo! Koprol is at @rhmdiana, and her Facebook is Rahma Diana. I know nothing about her other than her messages to me on Facebook or sending emails to me about campus life at Fasilkom and has replied to a number of my tweets. She hastried to add me on FB but I always ignore her request because I don't approve random people. 

But what I've found (I've posted some evidence here as well) is that she's been copy-pasting my Twitter bio.

and has claimed to have worked at Yahoo, even to her Facebook. This is my Facebook profile.

and this is hers. Take a look at her job and her favorite quotations.

She's also been copy-pasting my tweets, like this one.

And this one.

This one as well.

Also this tweet that I'm 100% sure was mine, but I just cannot find it after tracing my timeline. 

She's been claiming that I'm her boss in the office (unless it's another naning that she's talking about).

She's been checking in to Yahoo Indonesia's past office at Pacific Place using her Foursquare and Koprol.

She's been uploading photos of my office to her lockerz.

She even used a photo of Yahoo! Indonesia Agile training (was held on July 12-14th) from our trainer's Flickr account, Guilherme Chapiewski from Yahoo! Mim. 

She also posted a photo to her Lockerz's account that I believe was taken from @wiqzz's Instagram.

And what's perplexing is that her photos have a similar style to mine (I don't know if it's just me, but take a look for yourself below). Now, what do you think?

I'm a bit curious what she's been talking to people around her. In short, I've been a victim of impersonation, as proved by the previous statements above. 

To Rahma, Diana, or whoever it is you're called by, I don't know what you intend or mean to do, but I dislike what you're doing without my consent. Even if you did got my permission, what for? Do you think with not following your twitter or ignoring your FB requests, I wouldn't be conscious about it?

Thank you for all my friends who've helped me, as well as those who've reported it as spam.

If there are other ways to report this on other social media accounts, please inform me as well. Thank you for all the people who've helped me.