World Ocean Conference, Manado, May 11-15, 2009

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I'm a loner dottie...

I (finally) realized myself that I'm actually a loner.

I'm overly self-conscious and believe that people are constantly comment and sizing my attribute (Wikipedia). I have to change this from now. In business, loner is the first point to be unsuccessful. That's why silaturahim is very important to gain relationships between people.

I spend most of my free time in my boarding room, without interact with my neighbors. I'm the youngest in the boarding house and I'm the only person who is majoring in SBM-ITB. So, I have nothing in common in interacting with my neighbors who are all older than me and has different major. Maybe this is the reason why I start to be such a loner in this house.

Searching the lost spirit

After doing Shalat Isya and intense praying, I started to bless Allah SWT for the guidance and the way to reach this recognition of myself. I thank that I actually realize that I'm actually a loner, so I have to change it from now.

Change

I'm commit that I don't want to be a loner anymore. I want to be a good person within the neighbor (home, SBM-ITB, Apres! & all), be tolerance, and have nice relationship with them.

Quote

I got this quote from Saska, as the tutor in Diklat Sound & Amplifier that:

"Sound is not what we're playing, it's about how people listen to it. We're not trying to bring the sound to ourselves, but we're trying to bring the best sound to the audience for them to enjoy."

It could be absorbed and modified to a deep meaning of life:

"We are not what we want to do, but what people need it."

Rockepreneur is not lonely anymore.

Peace, love & respect.

I'm producing

I start producing songs on my laptop and I feel I really need it right now. I hope it would come up someting useful & beautiful. :)

5 wheats & 2 whites left

This is the first time ever, I didn't make to sell all of the sandwich. There is a final result of 5 wheat bread sandwiches & 2 white bread sandwiches left. Thankfully that the result is BEP, so we didn't occur any deficit.

The genesis

Well, this sandwich business has been done for several weeks and almost a month with my friend Yayi, Architecture 2005 also known as the vocalist of band Baby Eats Crackers. She started the idea to start selling sandwich to fulfil her wondered Java Jazz Festival 2009 ticket. Later on, she started to consult and share about the business with the others. One day, she went to APRES and shared her business with me, knowing that I'm an SBM ITB student.

Seeing an opportunity that apparently, SBM ITB students are often have difficulties and laziness to find proper food around the school/faculty, I decided to helped her to distribute her sandwich to SBM ITB, with developed quality and taste.

I have onced have the same mind to create a sandwich business, but apparently, I had no time to do this all by myself. So, this collaboration made more efficient task to both of us. Ai (Yayi's nick name) is making and developing the sandwich every early morning, and I distribute the sandwich to SBM ITB and do the calculation and accounting.

Back to today

Well, in the end, I ate the sandwich by myself, eaten by Ai and her boyfriend and shared it to my boarding house neighbours. Just keep positive in mind! Tomorrow must be better because:

Life is learning and learning is praying.

Cherios!

This is energy!

Subhanallah, walhamdulillah, wa laailaaha ilallah, I trully got an energy to stand up by great memories of my high school. I just look up my photographs of my high school life. :)

I was amazed that my highschool life was trully colorful and focus. It's colourful because here, I could find many different kinds of people from many backgrounds and it combined in every day activities in class. It also focus because, although there are many different kinds of people, our school was not ranked pretty good at that time. So, seems like each elements of the school was be focus to develop the school together to reach better achievement. Thats one big point!

Despite my era of excitement of exploring independent music, I learned a lot how to be focus in every activities in school. When other top highschool students was focused on being celebrities, my highschool was focused on studying in achieving educational target. When other top highschool was preparing for domination, our highschool was teaching their students equally. When other top highschool teachers was being intelectual arrogant (no offends), our highschool teachers were teaching briefly and patiently to make sure every students understand what the subject tells, although some teacher thaught, still not with pretty good quality. That was what popped in my mind that create my motivation to work hard in school.

In the other hand, I was also excited in doing non academic things in high school. I made my first blog, brokenplectrum.blogspot.com who was in "definite hiatus" (which is to much "following the market" and the username & password was gone) which told a lot of stories of my highschool years. I made pretty serious and ambitious blog at that time. No wonder that my uncle who was following my blog, told me that my writting was older than my age. :)

I joined pretty much extracurriculars from KIR (Karya Ilmiah Remaja), Band extracurricullar (which was failed to regenerate at the 2nd year), Rohis (Rohani Islam). I also joined MK (Mitra Kerja) OSIS, and MPK. I volunteraly be school documentation (formaly and informaly). That's why I got pretty much collections of photographs of my highschools activities that be my source of energy too! :)

The most special and precious things in high school was, a community based on classmates named "Onimusha" that was develop in my 1st high school year. This community, later on, be some kind of symbol of unity that grows to various levels of actions and results.

Onimusha Basecamps was developed in almost every houses of everyone in the community. Adit's house (dominantly), Yoga's house, and my house, was used to share knowledges of music, films, or just to hang out and play. This was my first 'discussion group' that explore many kinds of new things.

Onimusha House Production which is placed in my house, was produced masterpieces such as video editing tasks that results gaining more score, recording & mixing, also used to finish tasks and do amateur music recordings, and mp3 and music videos compilation share to gain friendship. :)

Highschool was a very unique experience, and definitely not the same as being a college student. It was more unite and tolerant. No wonder that it was more like being a melting pot of life.

Well, time has reach more than 1 o'clock in the morning. I have to go to sleep to prepare going to Jakarta at 8 o'clock tommorow. I home I won't late.

Bye!

Be Aspirative

Written on April 13th 2007

After doing national election on Wednesday, apparently today is time for the election of President of ITB. TPS (the place to vote) are placed in every faculty in ITB to reach every voters to vote their choosen candidate.

There are three couples of candidates to be choose which are 1st Yunus-Ridwan, 2nd Ucup-Benny, and 3rd Ilham-(I forgot the name...).

I hope that the choosen president of ITB could run what they've promised in campaign and bring better ITB to be more open to everyone. Personally, I hope SBM could be more exist in ITB and APRES could also be supported more by ITB.

Cheers.

I've been blessed

I've been blessed that I actually enters the best company that learns me much important things to develop leadership. I've just finished attending Bang! Company's meeting that discussed about our strategy in achieveing the last 22 days potential profit.

Julian Kamil, CEO of Bang! Company, is really skilled in protecting the flow of the meeting without sacrificing the focus and target of the meeting itself. It also supported by the supportiveness from Bang! members itself in achieving the company's target, which being the best company among other 3 IBE companies.

Here's keynotes (edited and translated) that I can share to you. I hope it could be useful to us:

1. "I want we to unite and have the same mindset."
2. Leader is a decision maker from members' aspiration. In the other hand, the members itself must be commit and supportive.
3. Leaders must have an effort to understand each members and yet, be objective and fair. Eg. "I understand what you say, but ... (straighnen our target)."
4. "I believe, when have our own ability and potential".
5. What we need is target and commitment, not only just a strategy. "
6. "What we achieve is what we are."
7. Staffing and job desk should work well and responsible.