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Untuk masakan Jepang, kita tahu bahwa ikan salmon akan lebih enak utk dinikmati jika ikan tsb masih dalam keadaan hidup saat hendak diolah utk disajikan.
Jauh lebih nikmat dibandingkan dgn ikan salmon yg sdh diawetkan dgn es.

Itu sebabnya para nelayan selalu mmasukkan salmon tangkapannya ke suatu kolam buatan agar dlm perjalanan menuju daratan salmon2 tsb tetap hidup.

Meski demikian pada kenyataannya byk salmon yg mati di kolam buatan tsb.

Bagaimana cara mereka menyiasatinya?
Para nelayan itu memasukkan seekor hiu kecil dikolam tsb.
Ajaib !! Hiu kecil tsb “memaksa” salmon2 itu terus bergerak agar jgn sampai dimangsa.
Akibatnya jumlah salmon yg mati justru menjadi sangat sedikit !!

Diam membuat kita mati ! Bergerak membuat kita hidup !
Barangkali kurang lebih itulah pesan moral yg dpt kita tangkap dari gambaran diatas.

Apa yg membuat kita diam?
Saat tdk ada masalah dlm hidup dan saat kita berada dlm zona nyaman.

Situasi seperti ini kerap membuat kita terlena. Begitu terlenanya sehingga kita tdk sadar bahwa kita telah mati.
Ironis, bukan?

Apa yg membuat kita bergerak?
Masalah, Pergumulan dan Tekanan Hidup.
Saat masalah datang secara otomatis naluri kita membuat kita bergerak aktif dan berusaha mengatasi semua pergumulan hidup itu

Disaat saat seperti itu biasanya kita akan ingat Tuhan dan berharap kpd Tuhan. Tdk hanya itu, kita menjadi kreatif, dan potensi diri kitapun menjadi berkembang luar biasa !!

Ingatlah bahwa kita akan bisa belajar byk dlm hidup ini bukan pada saat keadaan nyaman, tapi justru pada saat kita menghadapi badai hidup.

Itu sebabnya syukurilah “hiu kecil” yg terus memaksa kita utk bergerak dan tetap survive !

Masalah hidup adalah baik, karena itulah yg membuat kita terus bergerak…

Be blessed, keep on moving!!!


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This post has been circulating for quite a while on the net.

Emang bener, sebenenernya dari masalah, kita malah bisa belajar lebih banyak dan bisa appreciate more things in our life.
Hence aku mw bersyukur. Kalo dari semua masalah yang pernah aku hadapi, aku boleh diajarkan untuk terus bersyukur dan boleh terus ingat dan boleh terus berpikiran positive. I think this is what have kept me going so far. Kalo aku boleh liat masalah bukan sebagai masalah, tapi sebagai batu loncatan supaya aku boleh diexpose to more new things, boleh belajar lebih banyak lagi. Biarlah pada saat tertentu aku 'sedikit' :P mengeluh. Tapi jangan sampai aku stuck dalam keluhan tersebut. Namun boleh terus maju dan melihat dari perspective yang lain. Coz after all, nothing is as bad as it seems. Karena beban yang kita terima gak akan melebihi kekuatan kita. =)

Semoga boleh terus jadi reminder for the rest of my life too. =)

is stressing out...

Dad.. is ironically cute.

Ahh... I hope everything goes well...

The past few days I've been trying to organize a 5 days trip to Central Java.

The trip was supposed to be with a lot of people. And I wasn't even the one who suggested it in the first place, I'm just going with the flowww... As usual... And then suddenly everyone that are usually my partner in crime in organizing all of my trips bailed out on me, leaving me the only one who can organize it (with the help of friends who aren't even going for the whole trip anyway). And.... The results?

Devastating...

Underestimated budget because didn't think properly bout the long-distance transport - car rentals in particular.
Unclear itinerary still (tho know in general, but nothing can beat a detailed, hourly, complete itinerary, no?)
Saw the wrong price for the flight back which another blow up to the budget.
Am not even sure which hotel is good - still.
No one to consult to because no one's going for the whole trip with me - at least no one that stays in Jakarta anyway. And the other one who are Indonesians too, I don't even know where he went off to...
Having to use own cash/cc for down payment/booking. - Well, i'm not one that trusts net transactions. So... It's been weighing down on me a lot. Like is it safe to do it etc2. So stressful. Esp since there's no one to consult or at least to say that it's ok. If I ask my fam - which I kinda did in a way - they'll gonna say that it's not safe and that I should be careful. But really, how can I be careful with these things? Except not to do any payment to any dodgy websites of course. That much I know!

All in all? I can only say that I'm sad... Ah... Seriously. I don't think planning works for me. Back in China, we only booked flight tix to and from and nothing else. With only our plane tix in our hands, we carry our luggages, without even knowing where we're going to stay. (yeah, we were That crazy. lol.) Even tho we were worried at first but at least we know that everything will work out just fine in the end anyway coz we're gonna be together no matter wad. And we decide everything together, we'll meet up to plan, even if the plan ends up with no plan at all. In a country that is foreign to all of us... But now, I have to decide everything alone for the well-being of another people, in my own country... Granted I'm not that familiar to the places we're going to visit, but at least I'm a citizen of this country. Trying to do my best but my plan in my head's not working well... Hence I'm kinda sad right now. Sigh... I guess planning's not really the issue. It's just I'm used to rely on other people too much I guess. And i don't want my friends to be disappointed with the trip. =( Tho I know that they're the easy going type who doesn't really mind with anything I guess. Or at least every time I asked something, they'll always say: i'm fine with anything. You guys decide. Which is kinda adding to the stress level at some moments instead. Haha.

Well, I'm gonna fix this tom. (Sposed to confirm everything today... But... Well.. Apparently I'm busy today. Haha.)

Hopefully starting tom night, I can sleep well. Besides, I'm running out of time. I guess everything will be just fine if I don't set the budget too low... But I guess the cheap-o spirit won't let go easily... Hahaha. Ah well... Not when I'm with this particular group of people anyway.

On another note...

When can I know for sure what I really want to pursue over here? Sigh.... Self! What do u really want? Dying for some 'guidance'. ...

I guess this time, I'm learning to make my own decisions, to be self-confident of the decisions that I made, and to not regret whatever that happens, even if it turns out that I'm wrong or anything. And to keep on seeing things from the positive sides.

Well, I guess this is it... My journey back in Indo is starting... I'm gonna get stronger! I won't be defeated! Because I'm not alone! Yeah! Not at all.

Learning to be more independent yet not too independent that I cross out the help that others can give. Apparently this is quite hard for me. Coz I tend to be in one extreme or the other. Lol. Ah well... In the end, all of these does comes back to wisdom.

Which reminds me, sometimes I think too roughly and act too fast without really thinking thru the whole thing. Kinda similar to my dad. Hahaha. And my mom just complaint today that he always in a hurry yet nothing gets done (not so true! something did gets done. even if it's not as efficient as it can be. hahahaha.)

Anw, gonna look fwd to another 'version' of me. Maybe after some few years and then I look back to the days when we're young. I'll think 'how stupid i was' or 'what the hell was i thinking?' or 'those were the fun days'. Well, I'm gonna look for that too. And let's keep this entry as a memoir of 'the-old-good-days'. Haha.

Is the first time I've hold a few months old baby with my own two hands... I was wondering, how would it feel. And somehow I was relating it to holding a puppy. I don't know why puppies came to mind. Lol. But then again I've never really held a puppy. So...

Conclusion? It's kind of weird... Holding a baby that is...

Babies... I've concluded that they can make grown ups acting weird and crazy, like retards... All of the grown ups... For just one baby.. Fun!

Your Type is: ISTP
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The nature of Crafters is most clearly seen in their masterful operation of tools, equipment, machines, and instruments of all kinds. Most us use tools in some capacity, of course, but Crafters (as much as ten percent of the population) are the true masters of tool work, with an innate ability to command tools and to become expert at all the crafts requiring tool skills. Even from an early age they are drawn to tools as if to a magnet -- tools fall into their hands demanding use, and they must work with them.

Like all the Artisans, Crafters are people who love action, and who know instinctively that their activities are more enjoyable, and more effective, if done impulsively, spontaneously, subject to no schedules or standards but their own. In a sense, Crafters do not work with their tools, but play with them when the urge strikes them. Crafters also seek fun and games on impulse, looking for any opportunity, and just because they feel like it, to play with their various toys: cars, motorcycles, boats, dune-buggies, hunting rifles, fishing tackle, scuba gear, and on and on. They thrive on excitement, particularly the rush of speed-racing, water-skiing, surfing. And Crafters are fearless in their play, exposing themselves to danger again and again, even despite frequent injury. Of all the types, Crafters are most likely to be risk takers, pitting themselves, or their technique, against chance or odds.

Crafters are hard to get to know. Perhaps this is because they tend to communicate through action, and show little interest in developing language skills. Their lack of expressiveness can isolate them at school and on the job, and even though they hang around with their own kind in play, they let their actions speak for them, and their actual conversation is sparse and brief.

Crafters can be wonderfully generous and loyal to their friends, teammates, and sidekicks, often giving up their evenings or weekends to help with building projects or mechanical repairs-house remodeling, for example, or working on cars or boats. On the other hand, they can be fiercely insubordinate to those in authority, seeing rules and regulations as unnecessarily confining. Crafters will not usually go against regulations openly, but will simply ignore them. More than anything, Crafters want to be free to do their own thing, and they are proud of their ability to do it with an artist's skill.


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I think this is new? I don't remember ever having this results before. Lol.

Wah, I think i really only start posting in here whenever I'm out of China! Lol. They really did a great job blocking me from these sites...

Anw, China has been great - even though I remembered I did complain a lot in the beginning of the first semester. Lol. Second semester has been real fun with more people and friends from all over the world. I'm glad I went. Actually this might be my first time truly being friends with someone outside Indo and hanging out with them often. It has been a blessing and a whole other journey in China. It's a different kind of 'fun' comparing to my life in Sydney, both life help shaped the me now. Yeah... ^^ I'm so blessed... ^^

Ah... Now that I'm back... So, what's been going on so far?

Dad was hospitalized for a day - so I spent a whole day a day after I got back to Jkt at the hospital with dad. Interesting exp. A glimpse of my mom's life before. Can't imagine her feelings spending all those nights with dad at the hospital, with so much worst of a condition. I'm proud of 'em. They are strong people. Even if they can be pessimistic and sarcastic. I guess that's their way of handling life.. Trying to stay close to reality. And I realized now, it is a culture in our family.

Went out with old friends - high school friends and old friends from my home stay to UK. Amazing to see how people change/don't change at all. Hahaha. It's very interesting to see how you feel they change so much yet not at all.

And while in the midst of all that, I got a surprising phone call from Panin Bank. Surprising because I was in the middle of 'reunion' with friends when they called. And because I applied for the job waayyyy back when I was in Beijing. Those days of "well, I kinda already start applying but I gave them my Indo's phone number but I'm still here in Beijing? So I don't know how it'll turn out." Lol. So the call was for a psycho test today at their office at Petojo at 9am.

Results? Hum. I passed the pyschotest (took them 3 hours to complete the whole thing - as in the test). Then I passed the first interview with the HR manager (took them another 50 min to analyze the results of the tests then announcing the results and then another hour for me until I finished being interviewed). So I went there at 9am and get out of there at 3pm (another hour waiting to be picked up by mom n dad).

5pm got back home. 5.30ish pm got another phone call, saying I'm being called for another interview with their chairman of the division next monday 9am on the main branch of Panin Bank.

So I guess everything went well.... Except... I'm still at a dilemma of whether to continue with this job or not. Maybe I will if they raise the pay. Hummm.. I guess that's another consideration left for next week. Meanwhile, let's apply for another job. (And I still want to travel around too! Java, Japan, Europe... Lol. Ah.. I want too much, don't I?)

Anw, I thank God for this opportunity. I thank God I came back to Indo. I thank God for friends who've crossed path with me - some who will be coming soon! I thank God just because there are never ending stuffs to thank for...

New year, new path, new challenges, new knowledge, new experiences, new meetings, everything new... With the same old, never changing, keep renewing God. Awesome!