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Sunday, January 2, 2011

and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

HOHOHO!!!!

Happy new year everybody!
We spent our new year holidays in Malang city, well actually i was hoping that my father would be home like used to be, but he wasn't...so...what the heck! Still i enjoying my holiday though...

I went on Dec 31st in the morning, i stop by at my house and re-planning what would we do next.
My wife asked me to visit my uncle but i missed my mind, i thought it was Dec 30th and i decided to go to Jatim Park 2.

Wow! the Jatim Park 2 was completely different from Jatim Park 1, they have Pohon Inn, Museum Satwa and The Secret Zoo inside.
JP2 location is in front of Batu Night Spectacular, very big. They have pohon inn which is a hotel but design looked like a huge tree, Museum Satwa and The Secret Zoo.

We enjoyed our trip there, visiting the museum and RAIN came down after lunch time! and we haven't went to the zoo yet!! what a perfect time! *sigh....*
Lucky us that the rain wasn't very long, so we could continue our trip to the zoo. i couldn't expressed how am i feeling that afternoon, the zoo was great! They were huge and enjoyable.....
only their price for food and snack really UNenjoyable!!!
but we have to finished our trip earlier because the rain came again and it was quite heavy...
and that's all for Jatim Park 2 (photos are on other blog)


January 1st,
I woke up in the morning and say to my self; "shit, i missed new year celebration last night because i was sleeping!" :(
Usually i woke up all night to celebrating new year but that night i was really tired.......poor me...
This day, i went to Batu again, visiting my uncle's cow farm also to take Davina there, we want to show her the cow, milk cow.....
once again, i have a not very good luck. On the way back, i was stuck in the traffic jam and took 3 hours from Batu to Malang!!! what a day!!!!!

Oh well, i think my ability to write and speak English decreasing, so i have to stop here and continued some other time. Enjoy my picts on other blog...HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

MERRY X'MAS!!!




Merry Christmas!

This year i celebrating Christmas not in a special way. Actually, we (me and my wive) could not celebrate anything like the way we used to, now we have Davina in our family, and because she is 2 years old and we could not take her all night long so we celebrate Christmas in other way.

Not having duty to sing on choir in the night before Christmas was making other sensation to me. Usually, i have to be prepared hours before the mass but this year i was free! Yeeii.... hahaha!
So i spent the night with my family, went to lenmarc for the 1st time. Hoohoho....what a perfect time, i brought my cam and we were lucky that the management hired models from Excedio, they were wearing pretty costumes and they were there to pleased the guest by taking pictures with them.

Well, you know me, i made my cam standby and taking picture here and there with my little Davina as my model.
hahahahaha.....

On that night, we were not having plan to watch The Sovyet Star Circus, but finally i bought the ticket and watched the circus...

Well, well well...what a wonderful night before Christmas.....
(for your information, i had choir job in the Christmas morning and the next day)

Sunday, October 17, 2010

SEBUAH PERENUNGAN

A. Belajar dari diri sendiri

Mungkin Pernyataan ini kelihatan agak aneh,ya...bagaimana bisa belajar dari diri sendiri?

Hal ini yang aku rasakan saat ini, banyak hal yang masuk di kepala membuat otak ini bekerja lebih kencang (mungkin) ditambah dengan problem di kantor maupun di rumah juga membuat otak semakin kencang bekerja alias pusing hehehe....

Hal yang membuat aku bisa berkata "belajar dari diri sendiri" adalah ketika aku membaca kembali hal-hal yang aku tulis dalam blog ini, membaca tips dan cerita-cerita itu membuat diriku merenung secara cepat (bukan kondisi meditasi diam), hasil dari sebuah penelusuran karakter komunikasi yang menyatakan bahwa tipe "Thinker" adalah orang yang cepat memprediksi/ mengetahui arak komunikasi (dan hasilnya) menarik untuk memperhatikan keseharianku berkomunikasi dengan orang lain (I'll share this after finding the materials). Mungkin orang lain akan berpikir "dukun be'e" hahaha tapi hal ini benar, kita yang memiliki tipe Thinker selalu bisa memprediksi akhir dari komunikasi, suka menganalisa dan cukup mbulet dalam menyampaikan sesuatu hal.
Tapi dalam keseharianku, aku harus menemukan cara yang tepat untuk berkomunikasi dengan orang lain yang beda karakter alias memiliki karakter unik.

Kalau mengingat bahwa kita sebagai magnet akan menarik apa yang sangat kita inginkan, maka hal ini benar terjadi, contoh mudahnya aku memiliki staf dengan karakter sangat unik, cukup berbeda dengan orang-orang yang sering aku temui selama ini, tipenya adalah mudah panik, pengen mandiri tapi belum punya kaki kuat, mau terlibat dalam segala hal tapi pengetahuan masih minim, mau bertindak membantu orang lain meski itu tidak diperlukan, dan harus dijelaskan berulang kali mengenai satu hal. Posisit poin dari anak ini adalah keceriaan, sikap optimis dan semangat yang tinggi dalam segala bidang sebuah kebingungan yang cukup tinggi levelnya untuk diriku, di satu sisi melihat semangat anak ini yang cukup tinggi untuk berjuang namun tingkat penangkapan dalam sebuah omongan/ logika masih harus belajar lebih dan lebih lagi.....
yang kusebut sebagai magnet adalah, ternyata hal ini terjadi di keluargaku sendiri, kami miliki keluarga dengan tipe yang sama seperti ini, agak berat juga memberinya pengertian akan maksud dan tujuan kami.....(capek bener). Fyi, i'm still not finding the right way to make our communication better yet, do you have any ideas? share it with me please...


B. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) sebuah inti dan perenungan

Buku yang sangat disarankan untuk dibaca pertama kali bila ingin membaca karya Paulo Coelho ini sangat mendobrak pikiranku, cerita dari buku ini adalah seorang pemuda yang selama ini memiliki hidup seperti kehidupan orang-orang di desanya mendapatkan mimpi yang sama beberapa kali, dia mencari arti dari mimpi ini dan dari saat itulah dia mengalami petualangan yang cukup menarik.

Dia bertemu dengan seorang Raja yang bernama Melkisedekh (memang si Paulo ini banyak bercerita dari sisi agama kristen) yang memberinya petunjuk pertama kali bagi anak ini tentang hal-hal dalam mimpinya sehingga si anak ini lebih bersemangat, hal ini disebut sebagai "begginer's luck" (hoki bagi orang yang memulai sesuatu hal). Si anak mulai mengarungi perjalanannya menuju tempat tersebut dimana mimpi si anak ini ternyata adalah mendapatkan harta karun di lokasi piramid (Mesir).

Dalam perjalanannya anak ini menemui banyak hal yang seringkali membuatnya patah semangat dalam mencapai impiannya seperti: dirampok 3x, menetap di zona nyaman, tantangan alam (badai pasir), perang, dsb namun akhirnya dia sampai di lokasi piramid ini dan TIDAK menemukan harta karun! dia malah dirampok dan perampok ini berkata bahwa anak ini bodoh untuk menuruti mimpi, perampok ini juga bercerita bahwa dia mendapat mimpi ada harta karun di sebuah tempat yang mengagetkan si anak. Di dekat rumahnya sendiri, di sebuah gereja tua yang sudah roboh, dibawah sebuah pohon.

Mungkin aku agak terlalu malas bercerita tentang hal ini, justru yang sedang menari-nari dalam pikiranku adalah aku mau berbagi tentang beberapa hal:
1. Mimpi si anak: cita-cita/ tujuan hidup kita di dunia ini.
Janganlah takut untuk bermimpi besar dan jagalah mimpi besar ini hingga tercapai, setelah itu.....bermimpilah lebih besar lagi.
2. Saat kita benar-benar ingin mencapai mimpi itu, alam akan bersatu dan memberikan anda jalan namun kita harus:
3. Aware/ Peka dengan tanda-tanda yang diberikan oleh Tuhan/ alam.
4. Seluruh perjalanan yang kita lalui adalah sebuah pelajaran. setelah kita siap maka alam akan menunjukkan jalanNya kepada kita.
5. Ingatlah bahwa Tuhan menuntun kita dengan cara-Nya dan semua berlaku sesuai dengan waktu-Nya. Saat kita berdoa memohon kepada Tuhan, Dia akan mengabulkan sesuai dengan waktu-Nya, menurut kutipan St. Monica, "Pray Until Something Happened" (PUSH).

masih ada sebetulnya, karena aku baru membaca separuh buku Paulo Coelho "Veronica Memutuskan untuk Mati/ Veronica Decided to Die" namun nanti aja di kisah selanjutnya.

Inti dari kisahku hari ini adalah, aku masih diajarkan kembali oleh diriku sendiri saat aku membaca kembali kisah-kisahku (Aku juga belajar sesuatu saat berbagi kepada orang lain, sesuatu yang baru meski hal yang aku bagi adalah sama), hal ini berkaitan dengan buku yang aku baca, pesan moral dan filsafat yang terkandung didalamnya benar-benar mendobrak pikiranku serta kisah hidupku yang lama, masalah-masalah lama yang harus dibereskan dengan menerapkan pelajaran hidup yang baru diberikan Tuhan.
So, please help me by praying to Our God.

thx a lot

Thursday, September 30, 2010

LEARNING FROM THE BEST, BEING ONE OF THEM


HELLO...

Since we are kid, we were sent to school to learn about basic knowledge, advance, hard skill, soft skill, anything! So, i'm not going to discuss about our education system, i only want to share about why are we learning.

I remembered one of our mentor said:" if someone do a communication, there is must be a reason behind". I think that is true! if someone open a chat with you maybe he/ she only want to break silence, or maybe attracted to you (hehehehe) and so many reason behind communication (just aware and you'll realize it).
If we analog those statement with why we are learning, there must be some reason, to graduation (to get the title), to adapt in the new office, new job, etc.

Okay, let us say that we are learning to be the best or personal interest.
You know and i know that we can learn from anything: books, stories, news, our experiences and others experiences; learning from books, stories, etc made us know about something new and i believe that our brain could keep all of the knowledge inside but in my theory (i hope this theory is right hehehe) our AHA! or WOW! experience were getting by our personal contemplation.

I believe that automatically we want to learn from the best. Usually, people with higher knowledge and lots of experience are wiser than others, these people also usually saying or tell their story of life so the audience could learn something from them. Like me, i learn something from my bosses (more than 1 boss hahaha).
Like i said before, my boss (beside his negative of course) tell us about experiences in life or in his job and if we digest his words and if it fits about something in mind the AHA! thing will come very fast!
like example, i was thinking about how to build better system in my office for my staff, i was looking for a way to build better communication for my new marketing, etc, my brain keep that in his 'safe deposit' and will retrieve them anytime i called. In one day, i was given some communication theory from mas errol, my brain digest this theory and connected to my problems in just a 'click' suddenly AHA! i know what's the problem! i was bla blah and bla bla bla...so i couldn't transfer my message to my new staff, i'm in a wrong way!!! i supposed to be gentle, friendly, etc so my message will be easier to get by....; in a meeting, my boss told us about our company, our business, our goals, our achievement, etc...from our sharing we could learn something, we could observed others characters, from them now i know how to build some system to make our job run more efficient and effective.

The final point is: we could learn from the best even from an awful person (he/she is best of being awful hahaha) learn,learn and learn! don't worry about our brain capacity, still lots of them are not used yet. What we learned will be our weapon to face problems and this knowledge will help us, anytime, to solve the problem and make AHA! in mind also don't forget to connect what we learned in a contemplation.

Have a nice AHA!!!

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

New Blog

check out my new blog on http://life-in-picts.blogspot.com/

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Change Your Expressions, Change Your Mood


I have already heard of many motivational techniques, but i have just realized that i ONLY heard and keep them on my mind, i never DO...hehehe... at least did 1-2 times hehehe...

I always share what i have got to all of my friends, discussed it and whatever...from that i learned something new, i learned anything: expressions, AHA!! things, whatever i could learned. It also make me glad if he/she solved the problems or inspired from that technique.

Yesterday, i have a really negative thought in mind. i drove my car and have blank mind (no mind state), suddenly i make up mind and change my expression! I SMILING! and visualized of my own face smiling, i feel that my mood changed, i feel that negative mood is replaced with positive mood....i was amazed!...and want to share it again with you guys...try it!

Monday, May 31, 2010

It has been a while since i wrote my last blog, i did not have much time to do anything beside my work, clean up my house and giving the rest of my time to accompanying my little one.....

Did not have much time to do others than our routines.....what a common excuse we heard (or we said ;p ), but it is really short of times? or there are other things that make 24 hours seems like 'SNAP'??
Yes, yes...i know what's the answer.....
So, why still we always feel that we have only short of time?

So, why still we always feel that we have only short of time? let us see.... our job make us concentrate 200%, but facebook, YM, google talk, BBM always seem interesting; they are soooo temptating, knowing what others feel, what others do, gossip...i know IT IS interesting!!!.....

Some of my friends wrote on their fb status, “there is only 24 hours in a day, let us spend it effectively” YES! It is very inspiring but still it seem like we need more and more of time……

I, myself, feel that I can’t concentrate on 1 work. I have to multitasking on everything. One IMLA (marketing report) cannot be finished in short of time; it took more time because of what? I have to do other things beside my report! Missed of data, my admin asking me this and that, phone ringing, etc, etc…
It is annoying sometimes, they don’t know how urgent this report, they only asking without seeing or read whatever in front of them, “let me took the easiest way, ASK HIM!!!”; “wow, I don’t want to read this stuff, I just ask him and I don’t have even look on this stuff”

GGrrrrrhhhhh!!!! What an annoying things!!!!!

So, how I can manage my time if it happened all the time????