Story 1 - Hubbub

August 17th 2011 is my beloved country, Indonesia, 66th independence day anniversary. But this year celebration is not as glorious as the previous years' (at least at my residence). Or maybe it is just me that feel this way? Maybe..

I can say that maybe it is because I and most of my faculty friends are too busy too think about our on-line registration. Before I go further, let me tell you how scary and adrenalin pump the on-line registration (regol) is. I must tell you that REGOL IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE way to significantly increase your heart's beatings. It is because your one semester is really determine by 1 minute of regol. About approximately 1200 students enter the university's registration web at one time (you can imagine how scary it is). Only in a few seconds, you can see that your target classes have already occupied by some students; or maybe if your internet connection is quite slow then you are late only 1 or 2 minute/s, you'll see that the classes quotas are full and you have to be in waiting lists. To be in the waiting lists, of course, is undesirable because when you are in the lists, it means you have to check the web every day every hour to ensure that you will get the classes you want.

So, that is how scary the regol is...

Back to the story,

The schedule for my faculty to hold the regol was actually on Tuesday, August 16th 2011. Yet, because something, the regol committee decided to postpone it until August 17th 2011 at 9 A.M. So, we, the students, were anticipating about the regol's time. But then from the regol committee's Twitter, they announced that they postponed the regol again until August 18th at 12 A.M (midnight)!!!

Three times changing the regol time, I think this time would be the TRUE D-Day.. So I tried not to sleep until 12 A.M.

I started to turn on my laptop and connected to the internet at 11P.M. First, I checked my Facebook and (as usual) my Facebook's chat list was full of on-line friends. Hahaa.. Seemed like everyone were ready for regol!
Funny facts about 1 hour before regol:

1. Your Facebook's chat is full of on-line friends..
2. Your Facebook's home is full of friend's status about regol..
3. Your Twitter timeline is also full about people discussing about regol
4. Your cell phone is frequently ringing for text message or phone call
5. If you have BB, then you must be busy with the BBM

And........ at 12 A.M, the air pressure was increasing, hearth beatings was increasing, my palm became wet, my fingers were busy with the mouse.. IT WAS THE TIME! So I logged in into the web and..
JDEEERRRR
"THIS WEB IS TAKING TOO LONG TIME" appeared on my laptop screen.. I thought my hearth were jumping out of the ribcage at that time. I tried to reload reload reload and reload, and finally I could logged in. After that I clicked the "Fill IRS", and after waiting for some seconds...
JDEEEERRR
"You can't fill your IRS at this time because is not the period to" appeared on my screen.. "Hey, don't make joke like this! It is not FUNNY", I said..
Then, I logged out, logged in, and press "Fill IRS" button again, the result was: the same. I tried three times..
So I became desperate. I went to Facebook and asked my friends whether they encountered the same problem. They said YES...
Time: five minutes had already left..
We still couldn't regol.. We are desperate.. I mean: HEY WHAT'S WRONG? We have already waited for this time all night and the result is this "JOKE"??? And, no further announcement from the regol committee.. You have to imagine how angry we are.. But the anger became funny things as I saw at my Twitter timeline due to this error.. These are some of them:

1. Positive correlation between hubbub and regol RT @xxx: Maaf @regolcommittee there is a third party between us.
2. Demand for regol is high, supply for regol is 0 . Muahaha scarcity, the real problem of economy.
3. Hopefully your deeds @regolcommittee are received by God.
4. Perhaps... this is Death Eaters' tantrum that kidnapped regol server operator. Where is he now?
5. Announcement from @regolcommittee "Because the error of the server, for those who regol at internet shop, we will pay the cost." #fakenews
6. Then, @regolcomittee "We will also send letters to companies to give holiday for the students who are in internship." #fakenews
7. Tweet from 1994 born students »» RT @xxx: Mr. @regolcommittee pity me, I am not allowed to sleep late, growing period Sir.
8. Wow, Mr. operator don't know that my boss is ferosious.My salary will be deducted if I am late Sir.. #whocares
9. LOL! RT @xxx: perhaps there will be a picture of an regol committee official wears beach hat from skype  #nazaruddinedition
10. @regolcommittee: "Because the server error, we will add each students' GPA by 0,1." #fakenews 

    @regolcommittee: "Besides, we will also give 20% discount for this semester's tuition fee." #fakenews 

    
    source: my twitter timeline, translated

    And many more...

    At 1.30 A.M, FINALLY there were an announcement: "Regol is postponed until 9 A.M"

    ZOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGG