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Warren Buffet, investor-miliuner terkemuka pernah bilang, “… about learning from your mistakes, best thing to learn from other guys mistakes. Patton used to say, it’s an honor to die for your country, make sure the other guy gets the honor.”.

Ketika saya masih magang dulu di Microsoft Indonesia, salah satu cabang perusahaan multinasional ternama yang bergerak di bidang perangkat lunak, saya memiliki salah satu mentor yang selalu menekankan mengenai kerangka kerja atau framework.

It is interesting realizing that time moving so fast and what often happens is we didn’t notice, but we suddenly realize that we already pass months or years, not to mention time we spent unwisely. Yeah, December is coming! You realize?

When I was in college, I know that I’m not dumb, but I’m not among the star when it comes to academic score. It is because I love trying new things, from joining student council, learn how robotic systems works, doing meaningful academic research, teach myself to teach high school and elementary school student and many others. I end up asking myself, If I’m not dumb, why I am not getting a very good academic score?

Finally, I can write something in my blog after months of inactivity. The last few months is the craziest months I ever pass up until now, there’s a lot of ups and downs for me personally and also in some teams I work with. I think it is a little bit similar to how my body weight behave. Around February this year, I think is the best time I ever had my body weight increased up to 67 kgs (it is a good number for 170 cm guys like me, I was only 53 kgs guys when I was in high school). I’m starting to reach 67 kgs again after months loosing my weight.

I like competition, but the competition I like more is a competition where the game is infinite, meaning it is not the one who win that matters, but the one who will last that matters. For that matters, I learn about how to be able to adapt and able to zoom in and out the scope of my thinking easily in any problem (whether it is engineering or daily life problem). Today I want to discuss something related to myself, so if you don’t like a selfish article, feel free to leave this page now, but I try to make this article as much as useful as my other article. So, if you like my other article, maybe you also like this one.

Happy Holy Ramadan for all Moslem in the world. Yeah, this month the second half of May and first half of June is a Holy month of Ramadan. And like all the Moslem I do fasting. You might be wondering why all the Moslem do fasting in a full one month. I want to share something I learn from the first half of the Ramadan about fasting, so you might found the answer here.

Today, I ride a motorcycle taxi (or in Bahasa Indonesia called Ojek) via a ride-hailing application, a service open by my employer (I still pay tho), Go-Jek. I ride it on my way to the office. Unlike usual, I am not feeling good about it. The Ojek driver wears a very dirty Go-Jek driver jacket, seems not washed since months ago, the motorcycle and the helmet are also dirty. Yes, I know what I can expect from a cheap ride-hailing service like this. However what I want to point out is that this situation contrasted with another driver I go with several days ago. While an average driver is usually not wearing a very clean and shiny green driver jacket, this one is always using a clean and shiny one every time I go with this driver, the motorcycle is not a new model, but it is well maintained and clean enough.

A few days ago is my birthday, it’s been a very enjoying week having my birthday and my friends support me. However, as living beings, we need to accept that we eventually die. At Friday, May 11, I got a news from a friend that my academic adviser and final project adviser when I was in college passed away. It is a very shocking news knows that my favorite professor in college passed away not so long after I graduated.

In this special post, I just want to reflect what I’ve done to my environment, friends, and family.

Saya menulis tulisan ini ketika dalam perjalanan menuju Semarang menggunakan kereta. Ini merupakan perjalanan menarik karena dari rombongan 5 orang yang berangkat ada beberapa yang tertinggal karena datang terlambat ke stasiun, tapi bukan ini yang saya akan bahas, mungkin di blog berikutnya. Saya akan bahas pengalaman saya 4 hari yang lalu ketika saya pulang pagi hari dari kampung halaman saya di Indramayu ke Jakarta.

I am a super introvert person, sometime can’t articulate my feeling, opinion or worry to people around me properly. Sometimes I so nervous an my mouth can’t function properly to speak. Unfortunately, mu writing is not good either, just little better than my speaking.

I never learn philosophy and ethics formally in the University, but ethical questions always annoy me and often I explore books, surf in the internet or any other activities to finish my quest to answer that questions. This post will somewhat related to my unfinished post about Go-Jek and Grab and also my little project about learning stoicism. Recently, I annoyed by a question about what kind of relationship between ride-hailing company, driver and customers should be in context of Indonesia where we have not only car but also motorcycle as the kind of vehicle shared? And what kind of regulation the government should create in order to make the relationship balance. My inquiry still not finished, it is just snapshot about how I connect the letter one and two in Tao of Seneca to this problem.

Recently after I enrolled the Top Performer Course. I was being annoyed with the idea of we need to invest on learning to right skills in order to gain the right result in our future life including career, our health, and many other aspects in life. The idea of investing our time, energy and money to the right kind of personal development seems obvious but it is kinda hard because when I try to break down my dream, the lifestyle I want to have in life and the kind of work I want to do, it seems I have so many dream and I only have limited time. This question disturb me for several days then today when I on sick leave I somewhat having the answers. It is about questioning ourself and actually do the stuffs to see whats works.

The place where God’s plan anything else. Today I go home early from work to directly catch buss to go to place hundreds kilometers away from Jakarta with my friend, Purwokerto city. We promise to meet at the train station nearby our office (we work in different company), the Sudirman Station. The schedule of the buss is 5 PM. I plan to go 3.40 and expected to arrive at train station at 4 PM to ride electric train to go to the buss pool in the nearest station. We met in the station, but it turned out that the train arrived at 4.30 PM and we have only 30 minutes to arrive at the nearest station then go to the buss pool 1km away from our target station. It turned out that we arrive at 5.00 PM at the target station and have only small window before the buss will go. We arrive at 5.10 at the buss pool riding a taxi from nearest station. However there is no buss there. Fortunately and unfortunately, the buss is late. And it is expected to arrive at 5.30 based on realtime GPS due to traffic jam. One good thing, we can catch the buss. But there is another good thing.

This is the reflection about how small things can effect bigger things.

This post is my reflection after spending time working in the industry as a professional and my experience active in several student organization when I was in college.

I work in Software industry especially in software development field. Here, I don’t know why the term “best practice”, “pattern vs. anti-pattern” seems filling many books, articles, conference talk, even in your hiring interview. Those words seems overrated. I prefer to call the so-called “best practice” as “good practice”, why? It is because when I say good practice, I want to bring context to whom I talk. I want to say that this is good in this context, even if its work good in almost any cases, I can’t say this as best practice because in some particular context there should be any better solution/approach/practice to solve the problem.

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I am aspire to continue my study oversea either in Europe or North America. I don’t know why I am so aspire to study there actually (first confession), but the more I know that so many great books, brilliant mind come from that continent intrigue me to come there and study. You know, I feel like University where I was studied is nothing compare to University there even when University I attend was at the top at amongst other university 1 2. However, I do believe that the competence of student here in Indonesia is as good as there. Often time we just lack of information and the right mindset. I do believe that great minds not always comes from the west.

Just come back from a very busy day as a software developer. I just finished a course in Coursera called Learning How to Learn. It is a very good online course and helps us to understand a very fundamental skills to become a good learner. It is about how to learn. The instructor brings many experts in various recorded interview sessions in which we can watch. One of them is about writing. After 20 minutes an interview about writing, I inspired to open my Vim editor and start writing again.

Today is the 179th day after my college graduation. To be honest I am graduate from college late. I suppose to graduate at August 2016, but one and two reasons which very complicated to tell I graduate in May 2017. I am very happy. After blood tears I experienced during my college years, finally I graduated. I didn’t get cumlaude honor, but I am very happy that I can finish my own challenge. The college life is one of my best episodes in life.

Finally, I able to go back to chill on my bed with my laptop on and write blog or reading book or surf the internet freely. It is actually a draft created yesterday, and I forget to finish because I unintentionally sleep for waiting my wifi to turn on again after some network problem.

Finally, I can stick my hand in my keyboard not for doing code, but for some reflective time with writing some of my thoughts. This time I want to talk about my simple experience. It is actually just happen some hours before I write this article.

Just come back from busy days for the last couple month and this is my new blog. Yeah! As a starter for my blog. I want to write about queue. Yesterday I bought a electricity plug terminal in one of the well known convenient store in Indonesia. The queue was not that long, I only wait for 3-4 people as I remember, but the service was very slow.

Hari ini saya iseng lihat blog yang pernah saya tulis. Sebenarnya, sudah tinggal sedikit yang beredar di internet karena saya sudah banyak menghapus tulisan lama yang saya anggap jelek, tapi ada satu yang masih ada sejak tahun 2010. Ini tulisan saya waktu akan lulus dari SMP ke SMA tahun 2010. Menarik menurut saya. Berikut tulisannya.