On the Cross Road

This is my fish tank that I just set up as a beginner. The theme as the title depicts is 'On the Cross Road'.

Imagine you were standing beneath the tall tree in front of the cross road. Two stony white roads before you. On the left, looks simple, wide and some big roots, waving from far. The other road is winding, with some tentacles-like roots, and welcome by some red lotus and beautiful leaves.

On your left is a submerged garden inviting you to rest. On the right, at the distance you see the mountain-like tall tress inviting you to conquer them.

For the record, the fishes I keep are flame dwarf gouramis, cardinal tetras, otto, shrimps, coolie loach, german blue ram, albino red fin shark, guppy, corydoras, lots of golden algae eaters, some ramshorn snails.

How to fix set language in Word 2007

It's amazing that how can an annoying product with such mistake in simple matters, still become the de facto standard in the word processing arena.

If you use MS Word for English only, then it's fine. But for many people, like me it is irritating if you are typing Bahasa Indonesia using MS Word. It would undermine your human rights, by capitalizing the word "Cuma", because our dear friend, thinks that Cuma is a name of a day, hence needs to be capitalized. And sometimes to my horror, it would auto correct the word "memberi" to "member".

So, put aside about human rights, I also find the way to fix this problem is horrible. Everytime I set the language to Indonesian, it would just automatically set back to English.

Ok, maybe you said, just change the MS Office Tools Language setting to be Indonesian and remove the English at all. Oh yes, but we are bilingual, and we use both languages quite often, I cannot everytime I want to create a document I go to the control panel!

Here is the solution:
1. Create a brand new template: New -> My templates -> Create New
2. Rename that template as Normal_indo.dotm
3. Change the default set language as "Indonesian" and please uncheck the "Detect Language automatically" and check do not check spelling/grammar. Anyway I don't need Bill to check my Indonesian spelling.
4. Save it

The wonderful Microsoft Word, strange enough, at the bottom bar, would still change to English everytime I press Enter. At least I am not annoyed by the auto correct.

The hassle is we have to open the template, if we want to create a non English document.