Be sure to install the build-essential package. Even though gcc is already installed, the necessary library is in those Debian build package.
Here are some photos I took at the Candle Night. It was supposed to be on the 20th of June, but it rained, so the event was postponed one week later, 27th June (today). There were musical performances during the candle night, slow, jazzy music.
(Sorry, they’re a bit blurry)
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This one is by my tutor, Faizal:
From Wiki:
Candle Night is an international celebration usually held during the summer solstice or winter solstice. Celebrants, turn off their electric lights, light candles and enjoy various activities.
Ctrl + C : terminate process
Ctrl + R : search history of typed commands, very useful to save time
Ctrl + D : exit console
Ctrl + Z : pause process, enter fg to run again in foreground, bg in background
‘&’ at end of command: run the process in background
When compiling C, and an error like:
error: stray ‘\226′ in program
shows up, then check the encoding of the source file (have to be plain text). Also it’s maybe a common case of “copy-pasting” a block of code from a tutorial online, or a PDF file. A simple space or line break can be encoded differently, and even when checked by the local editor/viewer the difference can’t be seen.
I am using Kate, a very nice text editor/programming environment for Linux. It has a nice internal console, but I was surprised there’s no default keyboard shortcut for it. Assign the shortcut by:
Settings -> Configure Shortcuts
I assigned it to Alt+1.
I’m now officially a $latex \LaTeX$ user, and big fan 
You can even enter LaTeX equations in Wordpress posts/comments.
I will update this post with how I got through the steep learning curve of LaTeX. It’s a bit frustrating in the beginning, especially with the programming-compile process (I’ve been coding for the last month). Anyhow, I shouldn’t complain about this, any future scientist/engineer will (or should) face the beauty of LaTeX.
Right now, I’m still on progress writing a report. I’ve been in front of LaTeX these recent days, and I don’t miss the word processor (yet)
After my short home trip, it has been some time since I got out of Oita (City). Me and other IPOU Exchange students had a field trip to Nakatsu City, still inside the Oita Prefecture.
The box is said to have been passed on 7 generations of the Medical Family
Our first visit was to the Historical Museum of the Murakami Medical Family. It’s a (very) small museum, but has long history since 1579. It has significant history about the development of medical science in Japan. Inside the museum there were artifacts: knives, traditional tools, medicine powder, diagrams of human organs, and dictionary of Dutch-Japan (yes, dictionaries are old). It was the Dutch who brought the foundation of medical science to Japan. The scholars did their studies of medical science at the former Oita Daigaku (the name of the university wasn’t this). It was very interesting to know how medical science developed, especially knowing Oita was important for medical science in Japan.
Soy Sauce Traditional Shop, where we bought soy sauce and used it to eat Eel dish
After the museum, we walked to the Muroya Soy Shop. The difference is that the soy sauce is more expensive hand-made using traditional methods and tools. The container used for the fermentation process of the soy beans were made of bamboo, and no machinery was involved. They said the taste was more original and better, but I never know coz I like Indonesian soy sauce. Everybody was already hungry at this time of the day, so we ran head to Yamada Restaurant, famous for its eel dish. I had one bowl. It tasted like fish, with soy sauce, added with pickled, sour strange vegetables. That’s it. Well, not bad.. but not the best.
Daihatsu Kyushu, Main Mechanical Parts of Automobiles
Hooray, time for my main destination, Daihatsu Automobile Factory. The Nakatsu Factory (1&2) is the main factory in Kyushu, assembling around 1000 cars per day. We were first presented a video clip about Daihatsu Kyushu Factory. It was about their so called 3C: Clean, Compact, Comfortable. We weren’t allowed to take photos inside the factory, too bad. The assembly process is very efficient, first the body frame is painted, then some guys plug in cables, install big parts with robots, test, finish. Simple as that. There were 450 robots, we got to see the fireworks welding, cool. Also there’s a hybrid parts section, turns out all delivery vehicles in Japan use hybrid. It was very interesting looking at cars and parts floating around one huge room. Turned out the 3C is for real after all. What’s funny is that for the parking lot, for employees riding a Daihatsu car gets to park closer to the entrance, then the next closest area followed by Toyota, then “others”. So you better buy a Daihatsu if you work at Daihatsu. 
The last destination was Nakatsu Castle. It’s not a really big castle, but interesting enough. The view is normal, we can see a river and the small town. Just like nearly any castle in Japan, there’s kimono, swords, and samurai outfits. It has been a great trip, enough to refresh from the busy start, and surely enough to fill my blog 
We didn’t get to finish Kyoto, so we decided to go there again. On the way, we stopped at “Tower of the Sun”. It was known as the symbol of Expo ‘70 and currently is preserved and located in the Expo Memorial Park in Suita, Osaka, Japan. We wanted to take a picture of it because it was featured in some comic books, such as 20th Century Boys.
We first visited an Inari shrine in Kyoto; Fushimi Inari Taisha is the head shrine of Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines. Merchants and manufacturers worship Inari for wealth. Donated torii lining footpaths are part of the scenic view. (Torii are traditional oftenly seen orange Japanese gates at shrines). Foxes (kitsune), regarded as the messengers, were oftenly seen at Inari shrines.
Sanjusangendo Temple was next on our list; the temple name literally means Hall with thirty three spaces between columns, describing the architecture of the long main hall of the temple. Outside was a pretty garden with sakura and koi fish. Inside surprisingly were some guardian statues with 1000 Kannon statues. It was one of the longest buildings in Japanese traditional history.
We wanted to see something different, so we visited Nara. In Nara Park, there were deers which were friendly with visitors. You can touch them without fear, I got kissed several times (my jacket). Maybe I’m delicious..
At the end of the day we had dinner with our “juniors” who were very kind for letting us disturb their dormitory since we didn’t have the money to stay at hotels Our sincere thanks to Bahar and Alfian.
At Dottonburi, Namba Shopping/Food District, Osaka, there was an all you can eat Indian restaurant. The main menu was Naan and Curry. What a surprise, eating Indian food in Japan!! ^^
We left late at noon because we were tired of yesterday’s trip. We head to Kyoto without a single map, we just looked up the main stations there, and asked for a map at the information centre of a train station. The map was very useful as it had bus routes, and our “3 day Surutto Pass” (Free transportation pass: non-JR trains, bus, even subways and monorails) was used frequently in Kyoto.
Our first destination was Kinkakuji Temple. It is translated literally as Golden Pavilion Temple. The color of the temple is gold, as it is coated in pure real gold. An astonishing view across the Mirror Pond. There were lots of foreign tourists as well.
We wanted to head to other temples, but it was already near 5 p.m so we were worried if we could make it in time. A sudden wake up call in the bus when we heard “Mamonaku, Kyodai…..something2..”. It looked like there was some kind of festival; lots of promotion canvas were showed off. We just got off the bus and turned out it was Kyoto University! The promotions were clubs trying to attract new members, from animation clubs to computer clubs. The campus was very nice, pretty big as well. By the end of the short “educational” visit, it was decided to visit Gion, a shopping/restaurant district.
We spent 2 hours at Gion, just strolling around, didn’t know where we were nor heading for. The architecture was traditional Japanese. Koi fish ponds, wooden houses. By the time it got dark, it is a definite romantic destination. The streets are small, and peaceful. The feeling is like where ever we go, the only thing we know is that we have someone beside us to go with; even though the place we are heading for is unclear. Very romantic. There were cheap snacks, also expensive luxurious restaurants. It was a miracle finding a normal priced restaurant, and we did! We had “Yakimetsi” or Fried Rice. ^^
There were lots of souvenir stores at Gion, and I couldn’t resist buying special items for a special someone. It was a relaxing and fun day, no rush, just enjoy the walk around traditional cultural city; Kyoto.
Well, not everything goes according to plan. Me and Reza did our Friday prayers at Kobe Muslim Mosque. It was a small but clean mosque. We saw some Japanese people coming to know more about Islam. There were a few imported food and halal food stores.
After that, we head to Himeji Castle. It was a long trip by the Sanyo line train. The castle was pretty big, and the inside was preserved compared to the previous Osaka Castle which was reconstructed as a modern museum.
We then head to Kobe for an all you can eat restaurant (our destination was crabs). It was in a shopping complex named Mosaic, there was a ferris wheel, a cruise ship, a “floating in the middle of the sea” hotel, a distant tower and sophisticated building in sight. A very romantic place indeed, definitely a must go destination to Kobe. Kobe turns out to be a quite big city. The name of the restaurant was “Fishermans Market”. It had fish, prawns, spaghetti, pizza, sushi, fruits, drink bar, sushi, dim sum, delicious garlic bread, variety of ice cream, chocolate, crabs; by far one of the best all you can eat I’ve ever had. The road from the JR station to the location was very nice with many little lamps on the trees.
We had two “small exciting incidents”. On the way back I looked at a strange sign that showed my campus initials ITB (it was 1T and a sun kanji to be exact). I wanted to take a picture of it but I couldn’t find my camera. I thought I left my camera at the restaurant; thus we head back to the restaurant. Just before the other station I found out it was in my inner jacket pocket.
Then, we arrived at the North Gate of Osaka University at around 00:04 am.. and the gate was locked up. Woah.. we had to do something otherwise we’re gonna sleep outside in the cold. Turned out we managed to find a very sneaky way in. I feel exhausted right now, I think we should start the trip later tomorrow and enjoy more of the sites.
