Wednesday, December 1, 2010

performance appraisal

akhir tahun bagi sebagian orang sangat dinanti, sebagian karena natal atau liburan, sebagian karena ulang tahun, sebagian karena gebyar sales program dan sebagian lainnya karena performance appraisal serta bonus akhir tahun.

begitu pula di kantor saya... seharusnya. Sayangnya, antusiasme penilaian tidak berlaku di sini, entah sejak kapan. Secara sistematis, perusahaan besar ini berhasil secara gilang gemilang melakukan demotivasi kepada sebagian besar karyawannya.

Mungkin, mereka berharap... Jika hal ini dilakukan secara konsisten selama belasan tahun, maka orang akan lupa. Dan di kemudian hari akan tercipta kultur baru. Bahagia tanpa nilai. tokh hasil akhirnya sama saja.

Doh! *tepokjidat

Sunday, September 5, 2010

(no title yet)

Lebaran, seperti layaknya sebuah hari raya, selalu disambut dengan suka cita... bahkan air mata yang menetes pun seolah menjadi hujan di padang gersang, memberikan kesegaran. Bagi saya, lebaran kali ini, seperti tahun lalu, dirindu sepenuh hati dan disambut dengan rasa deg-deg-an.

Satu hal yang nyaris persis sama adalah bahwa setelah lebaran saya melakukan perjalanan ke tempat yang asing sebelumnya. Saya tidak akan bercerita tentang tempat itu atau apa yang saya lakukan tetapi perasaan saya.

Gembira adalah kata-kata yang kurang pantas maka saya memilih kata bahagia. Seperti menabung sekian lama dan akhirnya bisa membeli barang yang kita damba. Seperti seorang anak yang berjumpa kembali orang tuanya setelah sekian lama berpisah. Kira-kira begitulah analoginya.

Jujur saja, setelah berlalu beberapa saat, sama seperti tahun lalu bahagia tersebut tidak berkurang namun berubah bentuk... dan saya kurang beruntung dalam hal tersebut: manajemen kebahagiaan.

Tidak, jangan salah, saya bahagia. Atas apa yang terjadi saat itu maupun sesudahnya. Hanya saja, rasanya tahun depan saya harus mencari tempat lain lagi untuk bepergian setelah lebaran.

:)

Friday, June 18, 2010

Macet di PUNCAK

Seperti sudah menjadi konsensus, macet di Puncak saat weekend atau saat liburan sekolah adalah sesuatu yang dapat dimaklumi... ribuan kendaraan mengantri, menanjak, memboroskan kanvas kopling dan berujung dengan gerutu-gerutu bisu serta sekujur tubuh linu... maklum atau tidak peduli?

saya kesal bukan karena harus sejam terjebak di tengah kemacetan dan ratusan kali harus menggunakan rem tangan... saya kesal bukan karena berkali-kali Karru belum bisa nanjak meskipun sudah hampir 4000 rpm... saya kesal karena kondisi ini sudah berlangsung belasan tahun dan rasanya belum ada perubahan signifikan atas kondisi tersebut...

contohnya adalah tempat-tempat wisata yang tidak memiliki tempat parkir yang layak sehingga mengganggu lalu lintas yang memang sudah padat merayap... haloooo, where are you government?

Sunday, May 23, 2010

stranger by the day

bagaimana yah negara-negara, bangsa, komunitas, kelompok, suku, golongan dan bahkan pribadi yang sebelumnya harmonis bisa berubah menjadi... bermusuhan atau setidaknya tidak harmonis lagi dalam waktu sekejap? jawabannya sederhana, yaitu: prasangka.

prasangka membawa kita menjauh dari akal sehat dan menjerumuskan kita kepada sikap yang kerdil... prasangka juga yang memancing kita untuk bertindak secara emosional... dan setelah tersadar, kita berada sangat jauuuuuh dari apa yang bisa kita bayangkan, asing...

saya pribadi tidak terlepas dari kekurangan tersebut dan saat ini terus berusaha untuk menekan sifat yang menyesatkan itu... bahkan ketika saya menjadi korban dari sifat negatif tersebut.

Yaa Rabb, kuatkan hati hamba...

...jadi teringet lagu ini:

By the time I reach your door - I can't take anymore
I just happened to be in your neighborhood
I'm the one who gets surprised - I don't believe my eyes
Your alibi's no good

Whatever happened to the world
Whatever happened to the girl I thought I knew
It just can't be true - I guess I'm losing

Stranger by the day... Stranger by the day

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Plus Minus: Solomon Kane & Robin Hood


SOLOMON KANE

+ beberapa efek pertempuran cukup menghibur walaupun seharusnya bisa dieksploitasi lebih menarik, slow motion ala matrix misalnya. Cukup banyak darah untuk yang terhibur dengan hal-hal seperti itu.


- secara cerita, film ini sangat mainstream. beberapa bagian cerita malah terkesan hambar... oiyah, jangan berharap ending yang lua biasa yaaah, hehe...




ROBIN HOOD

+ plot ceritanya istimewa, keluar dari pakem robin hood sebelumnya yang selalu disisipi adegan memanah apel di atas kepala orang. selain itu, bagian awalnya sangat menarik... penyerbuan ke kastil perancis terasa hidup walaupun masih kurang kolosal...

- ekspektasi saya film ini akan lebih kolosal tapi ternyata, hmmm... keindahan alam justru meniadakan kesan kolosal tersebut. entah cara pengambilan gambarnya atau jumlah orangnya yang harus diubah... moso kerajaan inggis dan perancis cuman segitu ajah orangnya...

Sunday, May 9, 2010

a happy ending


do you believe in happy ending? i do...

at the beginning it feels like too far and not realistic but by doing excellent day by day, impossible become nothing.

win the last match by 8-0 and raise the EPL trophy amazingly in the stamford bridge is great... but winning the FA cup also without spectacular transfers is superb. A happy ending.

life always offers us choices and some of them lead us to misery. In the other way, choosing good path lead us to a happy ending.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Bacpacker

remember my re-orientation? at that time, i planned to buy a new laptop. Since that time i try to gather more financial resources but many things happen so i lost my saving... =p

when i begin to expect nothing, the office gave me a new laptop. Black fujitsu Lifebook A sereies with Intel Core i3 inside, 15' wide screen and 1.86 Gb of RAM. Woow... that was my expression. Even this laptop below than my original dream, it's more than enough. I can use photoshop and watching dvds again. the only problem is the fact that this laptop is blocked by the admins so i can't install my Telkomsel Flash, hiks hiks...

The time i received the laptop, i learned, again, that Allah SWT works with a mysterious way so never give up is the best attitude for a dreamer...

btw from this time i use my backpack again... just like my ITB tv and MBa period. a lovely excercise for my shoulder.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

My May

setelah melalui 4 bulan, rasanya banyak sekali yang harus dievaluasi... dan diperbaiki, lets begin with May.

Setelah mendapatkan laptop dengan spec oke banget dari kantor, rasanya saya tidak perlu laptop lagi. Meskipun demikian saya harus segera menemukan cara untuk melakukan instalasi beberapa software ke dalam laptop ini, hmmmm... klo laptop ndak perlu apalagi jam tangan, dasi atau sabuk baru... pada sisi itu rasanya semuanya sudah cukup. Kebetulan Mei adalah bulan bayar tagihan jadi lebih bijak klo tidak fokus kepada "have".... ^^

Ada beberapa buku yang ingin saya baca bulan ini... semoga ada yang selesai terbaca di akhir bulan.



Ada beberapa target pribadi di kantor yang pengen aku capai... juga segera punya SIM... dan beres-beres kamar serta rumah di kopo sesuai motto baru saya: Less is More!

... dan yang terakhir merampungkan rencana liburan panjang tengah tahun, hmmm... any idea friends?

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The Book of Eli

this is not about a last bible on the world...

this is not a missionarism also.

this is about a believe that make us strong

this about hope for a very wild world.

this is very entertaining, not too deep and enough bloody action.



and like it said in the poster... Believe in Hope

Saturday, April 3, 2010

a great win

i gotta feeling... tonite gonna be a good nite...

will.i.am voice keep singing in my head and i went to the city with a good spirit... and great expectation also. This match is not only a regular match. It could be title decider and moreover, facing MU always a big match and attractive.

That nite mates wasn't regular also. We had Egon, whom escaped from his S'pore routinity, adding Ulie and Vizska as regular mate. We watched the match at Roneo-Bridge, a food corner which transformed to be a basecamp for chelsea indonesia supporter club (cisc) chapter bandung... 200 more chelsea lovers gathered at that nite and i feel very homey :)

Malouda shows his body balance and keep the ball at left wing, superb run and good crossing to joe cole. Joey touch beautifully... 1-0


Anelka and Deco wasn't perform well, Drogba and Kalou came as substitute... Our game become more better and better... Kalou movement at right wing destroy the defense and Droba escaped from offside trap, Van Der Sar cant do anything, thunderous kick form Drogba... 2-0


Nani and Macheda came... The match became balanced again... a good run from Nani, a good crossing, skirmish at Cech's goal and finished by Macheda's hand (wooow)... 2-1

The score remain the same untill final whistle blowed off.

let's paint the town
we'll shut it down
let's burn the roof
and then we'll do it again

source photos: detiksport.com

Thursday, March 25, 2010

HANYA ADA 3 HARI DALAM HIDUP INI


Yang Pertama
HARI KEMARIN

Kamu tak bisa mengubah apa pun yang telah terjadi.

Kamu tak bisa menarik perkataan yang telah terucapkan.

Kamu tak mungkin lagi menghapus kesalahan;

dan mengulangi kegembiraan yang kamu rasakan kemarin.

Biarkan hari kemarin lewat;

Lepaskan saja...



Yang kedua:
HARI ESOK

Hingga mentari esok hari terbit,

Kamu tak tahu apa yang akan terjadi.

Kamu tak bisa melakukan apa-apa esok hari.

Kamu tak mungkin sedih atau ceria di esok hari.

Esok hari belum tiba;

Biarkan saja...



Yang tersisa kini hanyalah :
HARI INI

Pintu masa lalu telah tertutup.

Pintu masa depan pun belum tiba.

Pusatkan saja diri kamu untuk hari ini.

Kamu dapat mengerjakan lebih banyak hal hari ini

Bila kamu mampu memaafkan hari kemarin

Dan melepaskan ketakutan akan esok hari.



Hiduplah hari ini.
Karena, masa lalu dan masa depan hanyalah permainan pikiran yang rumit.

Hiduplah apa adanya.
Karena yang ada hanyalah hari ini...

Perlakukan setiap orang dengan kebaikan hati dan rasa hormat,
Meski mereka berlaku buruk pada kamu

Cintailah seseorang sepenuh hati hari ini,
karena mungkin besok cerita sudah berganti.

Ingatlah bahwa kamu menunjukkan penghargaan pada
orang lain bukan karena siapa mereka, tetapi karena siapakah diri kamu sendiri

Jadi teman, jangan biarkan masa lalu mengekangmu
Atau masa depan membuatmu bingung

Lakukan yang terbaik HARI INI !
Dan lakukan SEKARANG juga !


nb. these is not my words, i just quote it from a bestfriend email

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

SATOO

Placed in Level 1 Shangrila Hotel - Sudirman, Satoo is a exclusive buffet restaurant.

The plus point of Satoo is its 8 kitchen station. They have Asian station (incl. Indonesian food such as nasi kuning, fried rice, chicken soup; China: Dim Sum; Japanese: Sushi), Indian Station, Western Station, Cold Station, Noodles Station, Grill Station, Dessert Station and Juice Station (incl. Jamu).

The sushi is above average, dont put too much wasabi. They has a very strong ones.
The Indians and Grill station quite complete also.



The service is very excellent, equal to the price. So I suggest to bring someone who would treat you for all of these delicious things, hehe...


Saturday, March 20, 2010

Suzuki Splash

Guys, have u ever heard Suzuki Splah? hmmm... i bet that most of you never hear that name but in Indonesian 4w automotive industry this is one of the most anticipated car at 2010. Since been introduced at Paris Motor Show 2006, Suzuki Splash has attracted many people. It began launch at Frankfurt 2007 and followed with all Europe and Japan (2008) then West Asia (2009).

Carrying Swift platform, the Splash is surprisingly fun to drive and the spacious cabin defies its small size. The 1.2 L DOHC engine combine with Mac pherson strut - coil spring suspension system are powerful and reliable enough to takes you both in the city crowd and rural road. The interior is shockingly very fresh and sporty lookslike, a breakthrough for Suzuki whom very loyal to simplicity concept for a very long time.


In my opinion, it more a modern mini MPV than a city car. The features confirming that statement: child proof door lock, roomy cabin, etc. It also equipped with smart features like: reflector at rear bumper, rear frog lamp (wooow), fog lamp (as a standard), alarm & immobilizer, head lamp levelling adjuster and hi-grade audio system with direct usb and ipod connection.


Splash also has low insurance, servicing, fuel consumption and tax. This is why people buy new mini-cars isn't it? The Splash delivers on all counts.

Monday, March 15, 2010

comprehensive


as adjective, "comprehensive" meaning are:
  • of large scope; covering or involving much; inclusive

  • comprehending mentally; having an extensive mental range or grasp.
...and i fully understanding it last night when i stucked in 5 km traffic jam at Cikampek Highway and climbing at Cawang traffic jam.

...my heart beat too hard and i'm very grateful.

Friday, March 5, 2010

great entertainment at garuda airplanes

a few days ago, i flied with garuda indonesia. They board on schedule, as always. but when i enter the cabin, i feel something different. It was a brand new airplane. The luxurious chocolate's brown seat cover is very soft to my eyes and convenient... these sophisticated airplanes are equipped with personal inflight entertainment system on every seat, offering hundred of games, music audio and exclusive movie video on demand (Audio Video on Demand -AVOD).

unfortunately, i forgot to take any picture... i spent my 58 minutes flight from Solo to Jakarta with "Janji Joni" :)
but i find some pictures for you, please enjoy...


photos taken from: indogamers.com

from many sources i found that Garuda Indonesia planned to bring more sophisticated airplanes like this... and they it as QUANTUM LEAP... Go Garuda... Go Indonesia...

btw, i still waiting for my GFF Silver's Card... or is it Gold already? :)

Sunday, February 28, 2010

best buying of the week

a few days ago, me and ponpon bought some stuff at nearest carrefour. actually, we did it regularly but last couple months we skip it... i forget why. that night, i made a list at my cellphone and hoped that it will kept me on the track...


unfortunately, it's not succesful, hihihi...


otherwise, we was very grateful for has buyed few things that we declared as our best buying of the week (or month??):


looks like a regular glass?

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then look at the size, hahaha...

Friday, February 26, 2010

Every man's 1st criteria

entah karena apa, as soon as being single (again), banyak temen berlomba-lomba menjadi mak comblang. Mungkin karena kasihan yah? damn, i'm not that pathetic, am i? hahaha... Saking ramainya yang menawarkan jasa mulia ini, saya jadi pusing dan malah kehilangan semangat.. atau mungkin juga karena belum siap...

Sayangnya, respon negatif ini membuat beberapa sahabat mempertanyakan kembali, "emang lo maunya yang kayak gimana?". A retorical question which will be answered by every man with a long utopian list...

And in a moment when my life stop, laying tiredly and staring our office's mushola's ceiling, i get elightenment. A simple truth that... the 1st and the most important criteria for every man in the world is... kami mendambakan wanita yang bisa menyejukan hati.

that's all and everything else will be oke...

Saturday, February 20, 2010

The Wolfman


datang dengan ekspektasi tinggi, ternyata joe johnston, sang sutradara, hanya menyajikan gambar-gambar indah daratan Inggris masa lalu dan manusia serigala yang membabi-buta melakukan teror dimana-mana. Plotnya sendiri sebenernya dimulai dengan apik tapi kemudian di pertengahan mulai berlari kesana-kemari... yang anehnya justru sangat mudah ditebak.

Untuk hiburan bersama pasangan, rasanya film ini cocok. Anda akan lupa mengunyah pop corn caramel Anda karena tempo yang disuguhkan seperti alunan musik rock yang sudah berdentam keras semenjak awal. Akting Anthony Hopkins memang bagus dan berhasil diimbangi Benicio Del Toro dan Emily Blunt dengan baik... oiyah, adegan kekerasan di dalamnya sangat tidak direkomendasikan untuk anak-anak... tapi film ini bebas dari adegan seks murahan walopun sebenarnya ada sisi romantisme yang bisa digali dengan lebih baik...

good movie but dont expect too much.

thriller: thewolfmanmovie.com

Monday, February 15, 2010

re-orientation

amazingly, when i loose her love, i wasnt only lose a smart and beautiful girl whom smile very brightly into my life... i also lose my orientation. Put her as my center of galaxy asking me a huge consequences, out of orbit... and in a very quick times, i fly... no, i floating without direction, even i smile alot.

i'm 29 and i'm not succesful yet... i'm responsible for my family... and i have so many dreams. i stop floating and decide to landing, a painful one. it's make me hurt but also wake up... then i wrote a plan.

it's not a new sun, it's a journey to comeback... somehow, it's looks like a diversion.

* i need to start my own business immediately and it begin with learn more.

* i will scheduling my sport activity... and commit to that plan.

* i choose to be busy with anything positive... and hopely those things can make me very sleepy when night comes. i was an ammateur photographer, i played hockey and futsal, i read books etc

* i choose to make a new blog... which less romantic personal experience and bulshit

convincingly, all of that plan lead me to buy a new laptop. At least, the spec has to core 2 duo, because i need it for my photoshop and premiere workshop... it should be compatible with my ipod (nike-ipod also), it should be compact and it has to a newest generation therefore i shouldnt need to wory that it will be obsolete in a few years ahead...

and after a short hunting, the candidates shrink to these 3 laptops:
- sony vaio, VPC CW 25FG, core i3, 3Gb DDR3, 14" wide, windows 7 home
- toshiba, L510 P4017B, core i3, 2Gb DDR3, 14" wide, windows 7 home
- mac book pro, Core2 Duo, 2Gb DDR3, 13.3" wide,

hmmmm..... i need to wait until March or April for one of these :)