There is a new Indonesian song that I like, called “Dawai”
(which means "strings" in Indonesian), originally performed by Fadhilah Intan, and composed by Hendro Djasmoro and Albert Juwono, which has been making its rounds in social media -- not only in Indonesia but also in neighbouring countries, especially Malaysia. This song is being used as the original soundtrack for an Indonesian movie called “Air Mata di Ujung Sajadah” (or “Tears at the Edge of the Praying
Mat”).
This song is very popular in Malaysia and has been covered
by many Malaysian singers, leading to people thinking that this is a Malaysian
song. In fact, this is an Indonesian song, if you notice, the lyrics are
Indonesian and not Malay. Many of our Malaysian friends got confused with the lyrics:
“Dawai yang telah lama kupetik” – how wires (“dawai” in Malay) can be plucked
(dipetik). Dawai in Indonesian means “strings”, which usually refer to the
guitar strings, that can be plucked (or strummed) when the guitar is being
played.
Below are the full lyrics of the “Dawai” song – in Indonesian,
and its English translation.
Dawai (“Air Mata Di Ujung Sajadah” OST)
Tujuh tahun sudah, kau buatku percaya Dengan keyakinan yang semu membiru Tenggelamku dalam sebuah kepalsuan Yang kau rajut untuk membalut malu
Reff:
Dawai yang telah lama kupetik Sumbang dan terus lirih berpekik Doa yang pernah ku ucap Surga tak menjawab Betapa sungguh tega oh hatimu Mencuri yang digariskan untukku Hati yang dulu terluka Dirundung dilema
Mencoba 'tuk paham, namun sulit maafkan Iman yang kugenggam kini pun tenggelam Di palung lautan kini t'lah kutemukan Secercah harapan yang lama t'lah hilang
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English translation:
Strings (“Tears at the Edge of the Praying Mat” OST)
It's been seven years, you made me believe With confidence, that is fake and turning blue I am sinking deep into a fakeness The one you knit to cover your shame
Chorus:
The strings I have been plucking for a long time Out of tune and continued to scream softly The prayer I once said Heaven does not answer So heartless, oh your heart Stealing what was destined for me A heart that used to be hurt Plagued by dilemma
Trying to understand, but it's hard to forgive The faith I hold is now sinking In an ocean trench, now I have found A glimmer of hope, the old one is gone
The smart country girl from ‘Pachinko’ returned as a genius girl in ‘The Kidnapping Day’. 12-year-old child actress Yuna is already an experienced actress in her 7th year of acting. In the ENA Wednesday-Thursday drama 'The Kidnapping Day', she vividly played the role of Ro-hee, a girl who became a genius after undergoing a brain experiment but lost her memory.
'The Kidnapping Day' is a drama centered on the chemistry between Ro-hee and the clumsy kidnapper Myeong-jun (played by Yoon Kye-sang) who kidnapped her. The story revolves around the relationship and narrative between the two people. Usually, child actors portray the protagonist's childhood as supporting roles, but in this drama, Yuna took on the challenge of acting as the female lead role throughout the whole drama. As a result, she naturally developed a '(fake)-father-daughter' chemistry with adult actor Yoon Kye-sang, and was reborn as a true hit star.
Although she is still young, acting is already a part of Yuna's life. She has never had any other dreams other than being an actress, and has faithfully followed her single path. Is that the reason why (her acting is amazing)? Yuna played the difficult character of a genius girl who looks 'cocky' (arrogant/bratty) on the outside but is lonely in the inside, and she did it 'cleverly' (brilliantly), as the public said. This was an achievement because she did not limit herself to the limitations of being a child actress.
The following is a Q&A written interview with Yuna.
Q: You became known by playing the role of a young Sunja in the Apple TV+ series ‘Pachinko.’ I think you have established yourself as a child actor who can be completely trusted through this ‘The Kidnapping Day.’
A: I am truly grateful. I like it because I wanted to express Rohee well. While reading the script, I cried a lot because of Rohee. This is my first time acting in such a large part, and I was nervous and felt a lot of responsibility. It was fun.
Q: It must have been difficult because there wasn't much difference in appearance or amount of lines (for your role as Ro-hee) compared to adult actors, but there were a lot of good reviews. I'm curious as to whether you expected this to happen and what thoughts you had as you watched the reactions. Is there a memorable compliment?
A: I didn't expect it (the compliments and good reviews) at all. I just worked hard and had fun, and I hoped that many people would love this work. Thank you very much. I had friends who asked me for spoilers because they thought it was so fun, and what I remember most is when someone asked me for an autograph, saying that he liked me. It was more fun than difficult. I tend to try to have fun doing everything, and I think this is the secret.
Q: Rohee is a genius girl character who has lost her memory, and the setting is fantasy-like. Nevertheless, it doesn't seem to be awkward (for you) at all, and you acted in a way that blended well into the character, so I think that (awkward) barrier disappeared. How did you do it?
A: Rohee is an 11-year-old girl. However, due to the greed of adults, she was trapped in the fence of experimentation. In order to be able to express these characteristics, I tried to express Ro-hee, who has a cold and rude way of speaking, but gradually changes as she receives sincere care when she meets a good adult like Myeong-jun, and despite of the fear inside her, Ro-hee eventually opens up her heart to Myeong-jun.
Q: How was your relationship on set with actor Yoon Kye-sang, who plays Myeong-jun, the ‘good kidnapper and fake-dad’? If you have any memorable episodes, please tell us.
A: He (Yoon Kye-sang) gave me a lot of advice on acting. I feel very fortunate and lucky to have been with actor Yoon Kye-sang when I was performing such a large role for the first time. It was really nice that he was considerate so that I could act comfortably. He's the best uncle. Even as I speak, I miss my uncle (Yoon Kye-sang) now. We still keep in touch these days, and I was touched that he came to see my first performance in the (Sea Village Diary) theatre play.
Q: From the beginning, the character was like a 'cheeky child' and spoke informally (in banmal or casual) to actor Yoon Kye-sang. Were there any concerns that he might come across as 'obnoxious' (distateful)? Even though he was a character with a strong personality, I think that balance was struck well.
A: There were no good adults for Rohee. So in the beginning, she is a little strange, like a cold, spoiled, socially-inept child. But that changes when she meets Myeongjun, a good adult. I understood this character as ‘Rohee is a warm child, but the environment in which she grew up was not.’ So I wanted to express that part well. Although it looks cold and spoiled, I wanted to express the pure and warm heart of a child, not in a strange way.
Q: I know you debuted at the age of 5, and you have already been an actress for 7 years. It must be quite difficult to handle both your studies and acting. Is there a reason why you want to continue acting? I'm also curious about what kind of work you'd like to do if you weren't acting.
A: I think the appeal of acting is that we can live in many characters. That’s why acting is fun. I’ve never thought of any other jobs other than acting! If I don't act... I really don't know (what would I do). I really like acting.
Q: Both young Sunja (in Pachinko) and Ro-hee (in The Kidnapping Day) seem to play many characters with complex emotions and narratives as adults. As an actor, what kind of charm do you want to show in the future?
A: I found those characters interesting, so I had a desire to express them well through acting. I still want to try many different things! I hope people will always be curious about my acting and look out for the next projects I will appear in. I also want to become an actress who can have a positive influence on other people.
A kidnapper, a detective, and a kidnapped child. Their combination is by no means unusual. This kidnapper, Kim Myeong-jun (Yoon Kye-sang), goes to great lengths to protect the young girl he kidnapped, Choi Ro-hee (Yuna). Even though he has no choice but to engage in a continuous chase with detective Park Sang-yoon (Park Seong-hoon), who has been chasing them, he heartily says, “I’m sorry.” Detective Park Sang-yoon, who pursues them, eventually understands the kidnapper, Kim Myeong-jun, even as he tries to arrest him. The detective, who tries to look into the actual truth of the case, sees that their relationship is not simply that of a kidnapper and a kidnapped child, even when everyone else assumes that Kim Myeong-jun is a dangerous kidnapper.
The same goes for Ro-hee, the kidnapped child. Ro-hee, who is a genius and is excellent at understanding and responding to situations, actually controls Kim Myeong-jun, who kidnaps her. At the same time, she realizes that Kim Myeong-jun is the only adult who can protect her, resulting in her relying on him for protection and care. This is why the sight of them gathering in one place and collaborating cannot be ordinary. This scene contains a message full of satire that the ENA Wednesday-Thursday Korean drama throws through this special combination. That is a sharp criticism of a world without true adults.
‘The Kidnapping Day’ is based on the story of heartless adults who have sacrificed children for a secret research called the 'Genius Child Project'. Ro-hee was a child who was being used as an experimental subject by her father for the research, and she is a successful “product” of the research. However, Ro-hee's parents were murdered, and Ro-hee, who escaped from the house with no memory, was kidnapped by Kim Myeong-jun, a clumsy kidnapper who was trying to kidnap her. But in reality, he saved her.
The drama traces who murdered Ro-hee's parents and what happened to Ro-hee, showing that some force behind this project supports it. They include people like Jayden (Gam Young-seok), an overseas investment manager who wants to make a lot of money, and Dr. Mo Eun-seon (Seo Jae-hee), who supported this research for her developmentally delayed daughter. They try to kidnap Ro-hee, the successful “product” of the research, as well as find her father’s research report so they can make more genius children like Ro-hee. As a result, Kim Myeong-jun and Ro-hee, who have gradually become closer and form a paternal bond just like father and daughter, run away from their pursuit.
And finally, the true identity of Kim Myeong-jun's wife, Seo Hye-eun (Kim Shin-rok), who was hidden behind all these incidents, is revealed. She grew up in the same orphanage as Kim Myeong-jun and was adopted in place of Kim Myeong-jun by the family that was conducting research for the 'Genius Child Project'. Kim Myeong-jun was originally intended to be adopted, but Hye-eun hid in the car’s trunk to follow him. She managed to get adopted by changing the IQ test paper. However, Hye-eun was eventually dismissed because she failed to achieve results, and decided to manipulate this incident for her revenge.
This points out the difference between a crime that occurs outside the law, such as kidnapping, and a crime that takes place through a legal procedure called adoption but is terminated because it does not serve a specific purpose. In the end, doesn't either side view the child as a purpose rather than as a child? The irony of Kim Myeong-jun, a clumsy kidnapper who just wants Ro-hee, an 11-year-old girl, to be happy like an ordinary child of her age, becomes the opposite of them and becomes the child's only protector, and this critical and satirical point of view is reflected in it.
To put it conversely, this also indirectly shows what kind of situation a person who only wants a child to be happy is pushed into in this calculating, self-interested world without true adults. Kim Myeong-jun ends up being chased by the actual kidnappers. The same goes for an impartial detective like Park Sang-yoon, who tries to understand the truth of the case and protect the child until the end. Despite pressure from his superiors not to investigate further, he continued the investigation and ended up being suspended.
Kim Myeong-jun just happens to become a kidnapper, and Park Sang-yoon is a detective who is no longer able to use his power because he’s suspended. The sight of them working together and fighting to protect a young girl named Rohee makes the drama viewers cheer because they seem like the only real adults left. However, the fact that they are paying a heavy price to protect such innocence is, on the one hand, bittersweet. What a society that can't make even one child happy. Metaphorically speaking, isn't it a distorted self-portrait of our society that pushes people into ruthless competition to make them elite from a young age?
Note: You may watch “The Kidnapping Day” on Amazon Prime. At the time of writing, it has aired 10 out of 12 episodes on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. Singapore time, with the last episode scheduled to be aired next week.
I would recommend you to watch this drama. It’s a combination of multiple genres: drama, light comedy, suspense, mystery, family values, emotion and moral values mixed into one. The chemistry between the kidnapper and the kidnapped girl is particularly sweet, with great performances from both actor Yoon Kye-sang and the very talented child actress Yuna.
According to an advice from a cPanel engineer, the best way to move MySQL data folder to a different folder (e.g. on a different partition with more available disk space) on a cPanel / CentOS environment is to create symbolic link rather than modifying the my.cnf file.
Presuming that the original MySQL data folder is located on /var/lib/mysql and the partition with more available disk space is mounted as /home, these are the steps on how to move the MySQL data folder from /var/lib/mysql to /home/var_mysql/mysql.
1. Backup the whole MySQL database, just in case.
mkdir /home/backup (if it doesn't exist yet) mysqldump --all-databases | gzip > /home/backup/alldatabases.sql.gz
2. Stop MySQL service and verify that it's stopped.
/etc/init.d/mysql stop /etc/init.d/mysql status
3. Create destination folder, move the folder and all the files and subfolders from existing to new destination folder, change permission settings and create symbolic link.
I upgraded Ceph from the old Dumpling version to the latest Jewel version. In addition to the OSDs not able to start up due to some permission settings on /var/lib/ceph (we need to change the permission settings recursively to ceph:ceph), I am also having this HEALTH_WARN messages:
indra@sc-test-nfs-01:~$ ceph status cluster d3dc01a3-c38d-4a85-b040-3015455246e6 health HEALTH_WARN too many PGs per OSD (512 > max 300) crush map has legacy tunables (require bobtail, min is firefly) crush map has straw_calc_version=0 monmap e3: 3 mons at {sc-test-ceph-01=192.168.3.3:6789/0,sc-test-ceph-02=192.168.3.4:6789/0,sc-test-nfs-01=192.168.3.2:6789/0} election epoch 50, quorum 0,1,2 sc-test-nfs-01,sc-test-ceph-01,sc-test-ceph-02 osdmap e100: 3 osds: 3 up, 3 in pgmap v965721: 704 pgs, 6 pools, 188 MB data, 59 objects 61475 MB used, 1221 GB / 1350 GB avail 704 active+clean
To resolve the problem is very simple, use below command:
Today (25 July 2014) is System Administrator Appreciation Day, which is an event to show appreciation for the work of system administrators (or sysadmins) and other IT workers. It is celebrated on the last Friday of July every year, since the year 2000.
As a hardened, 15-year veteran system and network administrator, I
know first hand about the many tasks a system administrator needs to do,
the skill sets and knowledge he needs to learn, and with the daunting
tasks and long hours he has to keep. Yet sometimes, normal users would
not know their system administrators as well as the system
administrators know their users. And that is why System Administrator
Day is an awesome day that everyone should celebrate.
Treat your system administrator today, because 25 July is World System Administrator Appreciation Day
What do system administrators do, and why do we need to appreciate their work? According to Wikipedia‘s
definition, a system administrator is a person who is responsible for
the upkeep, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems;
especially multi-user computers, such as servers.
In layman’s terms, system administrators manage all the servers,
network equipment and any other IT infrastructure for an organisation.
In many companies, those system administrators are part of the
organisation’s IT team or department. They are the one who setup the
network within the organisation, installing mail servers, file servers
and many other servers required by the organisation, installing all the
required applications to support the organisation’s business, applying
operating system updates, patches and configuration changes, among
others. They are responsible to ensure that all the services are
running.
For example, system administrators are responsible to ensure that
Internet connection in the office is working, the mail server is running
and processing emails tht are sent and received by all staff within the
organisation. Without these basic operations, you will not be able to
do anything which requires Internet connection, such as surfing the web
or checking your emails. And even if your Internet connection is
working, you won’t be able to send/receive emails if your organisation’s
mail server is down.
Sysadmins make managers look good, but managers often misunderstand them (Source: Dilbert.com)
There are different types of system administrators based on their
roles and responsibilities. A bigger company might have different system
administrators having different roles, but for smaller company, most of
the different roles might be shared by just a few system
administrators, or even one single person. Some of the different types
of system administrators are:
Server administrator – maintains the operating system of the
servers, and to some extent, the applications as well, such as the mail
services, the web services, etc. He is also in-charge of troubleshooting
any hardware, operating system or application related problems.
Network administrator – maintains the network infrastructure, such
as the routers and switches, and troubleshoot network-related problems.
Database administrator (DBA) – maintains the database system used by
organisation. In bigger organisation which uses bigger and more complex
databases, there is a DBA which specifically responsible for this role.
In smaller organisation, this role would normally be shared by the
server administrator.
Unlike many other professions like pilots, medical doctors, etc,
there is no single path of training to become a system administrator.
While most system administrators have a degree in computer science,
information technology or any other similar fields, anyone can actually
become a system administrator by self learning and, in most cases,
on-the-job training. There are some training and certifications intended
to specific IT fields such as Microsoft training and certification for
Microsoft-based systems and applications such as Microsoft Windows and
SQL, Cisco training and certification for Cisco network, etc.
Most system administrators are always on-call, since they have system
and network infrastructure which needs to run 24×7. That said, a system
administrator can get paged or called at 3am in the morning when a mail
server goes down, or when the Internet connection suddenly stops
working. But the most important thing is that they are the one who
ensure that all servers are functioning, the network is running and
healthy, all the time.
That’s why good system administrators are often overworked and very
much in demand, and, nowadays, crucial to the success of Internet app,
web application and cloud-based companies.
“It’s not magic, it’s talent and sweat.”
That’s why, way back in the year 2000, a system administrator named
Ted Kekatos suggested a yearly day event when everyone can appreciate
the work of system administrators by – for example – giving them cake
and ice cream and throwing a small party or celebration. This has become
an annual event, celebrated every year on the last Friday of July.
Today marks the 14th year we are celebrating System Administrator
Appreciation Day.
Good system administrators never stop learning, and combine multiple
skillsets to perform many different and unending tasks. I wish all
system administrators everywhere a very happy System Administrator’s
Day.