Good bye, Suci

I told you on my previous blog that me and my batch in university taught childern in the slum area of Jakarta. I taught a smart little girl named Suci in Duren Tiga but what I heard in the next meeting was she has passed away because of drifted in Mampang River.

The first time popped up when I leave my home to Duren Tiga was I want to teach Suci so bad because she is so smart and friendly, but the fact really hurts, not just for me but also for the entire family and friends; She left us too early. I hope her family can be strong to face the truth and I know everything happens for a better reason.

Good bye, Suci, be good there... :'(

Merry Christmas :)

Hi there!
Been long time not blogging. I had been preparing Youth Christmas Celebration as pianist at my church and we invited Ibeth idol and Matthew Sayersz as guest star to enliven the celebration. The preacher sent message to us to live holy and do sincere for everything we face and it is also what my bf told me. I have to learn to live sincerely for EVERYTHING. Yea, everything, though it's not easy but I believe I can do that.

Anyway, I hope it's not too late but I want to say Merry Christmas to you all and have a wonderful new year with lots of joy and blessings ahead.
Greetings from my family. Cheers :)

Life lately

Just simple things I captured.

Reminder

Blessed

I feel so blessed, no matter what happen in mylife, I can always see the bright side of everything. 

I already told you on my previous blog that my batch in university held an event called Community Awareness to teach social-economical backward children in the slums of Jakarta. This event held every once a week in 5 weeks in a row. Anyway, I taught two little beautiful girls,aged 7 and 4, named Suci and Pipi. We learned about Bahasa, Math and drew and colored mountain and so on. After that, we took them home. 

They were very good and smart children but the situation forces them to live that life like that. When I see all my problems, they are nothing compared to them and I realize how blessed I am. 

Always appreciate what you have. There is always someone out there who wishes that had what you have.    

Great Morning Routines for Students

I got this article from here to make our daily routines become fresher. Here are their advices:

Morning Routines for Students – Exercise
Another hallmark of a great routine is exercise. Exercise releases endorphins that help you feel better physically and mentally. You’ll also look great, which leads to an increase in confidence and happiness. A poll of the most successful Fortune 500 CEOs found that the majority of them spent between 30-60 minutes 3-5 days a week exercising.

Morning Routines for Students – Prioritizing and Planning
No great morning routine would be complete without organizing your thoughts and plans for the day ahead. You’ll want to utilize a planner to write down what you want to get done that day. The first step is to make a to-do list of 3-5 things you want to accomplish in addition to writing down any important meetings and activities you may have during the day. Research has shown that unorganized students experience higher levels of mental and physical fatigue due to being unorganized.

Morning Routines for Students – Prep the Night Before
Great morning routines often start the night before. That may mean preparing food, setting the coffee pot, and setting out your clothes for the day. It’s these menial tasks that save time and allow you to spend more time either sleeping or doing more important tasks such as planning, thinking, meditating or exercising.

Morning Routines for Students – Meditation
The morning should be reserved for thinking, strategizing and reflection instead of hurrying about trying to rush out the door. Great ideas and moments of clarity come during times of quiet reflection and meditation. We often get too busy to think about life’s deeper questions. Take 20-30 minutes each morning and find a quiet place to relax and reflect.

Implement these steps into your morning routine and you’ll find yourself feeling more balanced, content and successful :)

Change management

Change management is one interesting subject that I got in my master management study. I learn cases from well-known companies why and how they finally changed. In the same time, they are 8 exchange students from BEM Bordeaux Management School, French join summer class in my university. It is very interesting to know what European thought about some cases, how they mingle with people from different country and background. Moreover, the change management subject becomes international class afterwards, the lecturers deliver and communicate in English and all assignments and quizes must be written in English.

However, in change management class, we learn about 8 stages of Kotter change model. Every failure in change is due to an incompetent or inefficient management. That’s why change management has to be taken as a real and long process. Many stages have to be completed and respected so that the change last in the time. The 8 Kotter’s stages wall reflect the hardness of the process; create a sense of urgency, recruit powerful change leaders, build a vision and effectively communicate it, remove obstacles, create quick wins, and build on your momentum. If you do these things, you can help make the change part of yourself or organizational culture and finally declare a true victory..


"Change is the only constant."
– Heraclitus, Greek philosopher

Stumbling

"If you stumble, make it part of the dance"

Life has been complicated lately. I've been struggling, not only for my study but also in my social life. But, I try not to give up or sue The Almighty with the things happened to me. 

I have been learning to be a long-term oriented, visionary, hard worker and whatsoever you name it. Maybe it seems a bit ambitious or scary for my surroundings and in the process of achieving those things, I did wrong approach. Frankly, I paid half of my master tuition fee with my previous working salary so for me every penny really matters. The money came from tears and hardworking-sweat, thus I won't make it vain. 

But I did one mistake, I forced people to understand my position; to see what I see, to feel what I feel, to do what I do. To be honest, I can't stand to see lazy or not-visionary people meanwhile I have to struggle for the sake of my group's goodness. And if they didn't want to understand, I easily got high tension.

In the end, I realize these was my big mistake.

They start mocked, quipped, ignored and did things that hurt me. But, I try not to escape from the truth, I apologized to those whom I hurt and I really learn to face this with open-hearted and I ask God to give me faith, strength and wisdom so that I can think clearly, cold-headed,  and not doing wrong things anymore. Pain is inevitable but I know it is used to mold me to be a better person. Yes, this is stumbling me but I will make it a part of my dance.

Education and Children in Indonesia - Help them to get a better future!

"Sisters and brothers, please give us some money. We need it so much, we don't have money to go to school or even to buy some food. Giving Rp500 to us will not make you poor...."

It is very heartbreaking when I see children buskers and beggars, aged between 5-14, begging for money at public transportation or places. If you come to Indonesia, it is very common to see them, with their shabby clothes and unappropriate attitude, force everyone to pay attention toward them and with a little bit miserable words, they ask for money. Regardless of their location, the children buskers and beggars face hardships and exploitation. Street children are generally deprived of their right to education and have little or no access to the formal education system. The majority of them are illiterate and have either never been enrolled, or have dropped out of the formal education system. Only one in five (20%) of children below the ages of 6 years old receives preschool education in Indonesia; and those that are lucky enough to have received, it are likely to have been brought up amongst the middle or upper classes.

In fact, their protection and education are frequently neglected by governments, but it is also our responsibility to take care  the socio-economic backward to help them to get a better future. Therefore, we, one of the business schools in Jakarta, PPM School of Management - batch 67, would like to make community awareness for our young generation so that they can reach their dreams with education. We would share knowledge and experinces to socio-economic backward community in Depok and Jakarta, such as Masjid Terminal (Terminal Mosque) in Depok, Gereja Kristen Indonesia (Indonesian Christian Church) in Bilangan Panglima Polim-South Jakarta, Bimbel Senen in Central Jakarta and the last, Untitled Foundation which unorganized yet and has less instructor in Duren Tiga - South Jakarta.

It is our time to act!

to care, to share, and to learn!!

More info, please visit here

Graduation day

Well, if you read the title of my post, maybe you think that I'm the one who graduated. Unfortunately, I just being asked by the university to be representative from master student being 'among tamu' to welcome every graduate students and give the graduation placards to the dean to be given to the graduate students when the ceremony held. Fyi, I wore traditional uniform from Southeast Nusa Tenggara.

Here are some pictures of me and my friends.

Strategic Management

I had strategic management oral examination for final test last Monday. I felt literally nervous because me and my team should answer cooperatively all the questions asked by the lecturers about the concepts and implementation of strategic management in banking area that we have made, especially in Bank Mandiri, our paper case, as the biggest bank in Indonesia.

We learn how to analyze visions and missions, external and internal factors of the company, strength, weakness, opportunity and threat, to select the strategies, QSPM, strategic map and balanced scorecard..and I apply what I've been learning in my real life though. Frankly, It is not an easy subject, but we've been struggling very hard to finish the paper assignment. And seriously, it does help me in making decision n strategies in my real life. Try it if you don't believe me :D

Marketing day

One of marketing subject assignment in my master program is to make marketing day at university and the theme of this year is culinary.
We made 7p's for the set-up plan (product, price, physical evidence, place, people, promotion and process), STP (segmenting, targeting and positioning) and many set-up plans so we can achieve the target market and get profit. We executed the plans, we sold 'nasi bakar Bali' and 'nasi campur'(mixed rice from Bali), fruits ice, siomay, snacks and got profit frm it..hahaha. So excited!

Kepulauan Seribu

I went to kepulauan seribu few weeks ago. These are some pictures I captured

Master of Ceremony

Hi there! I've been so busy lately because I have been doing strategic management assignment which makes my body and soul tortured. Sigh.

In my busy days, my university gives me an opportunity to be a master of ceremony (MC) in the international event in the 3rd PPM regional business case competition welcoming ceremony at Putri Duyung cottage, Taman Impian Jaya Ancol. At first, I wanted to be chaperone for international finalists but they need MC who can speak english immediately.
Well, It was my first time being a master of ceremony in the international and big event. I made my own script and practiced just once with my lecturer! I was nervous like crazy.haha, but thank god I can conquered my anxiousness.

Next week, my university wants me to be 'among tamu' in university graduation day at Departemen Keuangan,Jakarta. It is like welcoming graduated students to the graduation room with wearing costume from East Nusa Tenggara, one of Indonesian province. Well, it is such a tired but fun moment in the same time..

lesson learned

what I learned lately about life.

You can not expect somebody else to do what you can do.

You have to be brave to embrace your dreams.

You have to speak out to be listened.

You must control your attitude to manage people.

The more you learn, the more you know.

The more you complain, the heavier your burden.

Life is not easy unless you strive to achieve what you want.

and the the last but not least, still, the deadliest disease is a simple thing called.. MONEY

Bali

Holidayyyy. Yeayyy :D

 

potato head in the midnight

breakfast :D

while waiting at airport

Padang-padang Beach

watching paddy terrace

Dreamland beach

New family :)

Remember my blog that I told u about my new study group at university?
At first I thought that they will not perform at group discussion or assignments, but I'm wrong. Today, we held group performance evaluation to share heart to heart what we've been through for a month and to prepare for months ahead. Behind the jokes, laughs, chats that seem not serious, they really responsive and responsible to their tasks. On the other hand, most of my friends told me that I'm easily to panic that our assignments will not finish on time. I explained to them why I feel so rush every time I see our group schedule. It's all because my mindset that I can't rely on them, that they will ignore the tasks, etc. I realized now that I'm totally wrong. The more I'm worry, the worst my mindset will be.

In fact, I have a new family that I can be just the way I am. Thank God for my friends, bless us in our struggle in achieving our master degree.
I believe, we can conquer every obstacle we face in the future!!

Opportunity fund

Hi there. Been long rime I'm not blogging. Err, assignments and exams are my best friends lately. Anyway, on last thursday and saturday, I took GMAT and TOEFL IBT because I get the opportunity fund from American Indonesian Exchange Foundation (AMINEF), Jakarta to fulfill the requirement to continue my study abroad. I applied from last December 2011 but I just got the announcement 2 months ago.
Anyway, the GMAT was really hard to do. hahha. Since I'm not good in counting so it was hard for me to solve the problems but for TOEFL IBT wasn't bad. I had been practicing for months about the variety of TOEFL IBT problems.
It's such a great experience to take those international tests and get the test practice books for free. Whatever happens in the future, nothing to lose for me. I do my best and let God do the rest.
Big thanks to AMINEF to help me reaching my dreams..

ASSIGNMENTS, Y U NO STOP??

Hi there.. I have been so busy lately because all my lecturers are giving us mountain of assignments. I write this blog at my friend's house, doing group discussion and assignment(s) here.
Sometimes I feel like.. I can't stand anymore with nonstop assignments day by day because some of my friends in my group don't do well so I have to recheck like doing their part from the beginning. It's like having multiple parts beside mine. Err.. Tired but this is the art of real education. I can feel the scent of success if I always patient and don't give up to always develop, not only my self but others as well.

KEEP FIGHTING!!!! :)

Leader?

Well, I don't knot know whether I have to disappointed or no.
It's related to my master study.

There are some people in my class that have no passion for grow and I really avoid to be in the same group study with these kind of people, though they really good in socialize with others and I enjoy to be friends with them. But, please noted, not in the study group.

Starting this month, we begin to take core subjects, such as human resource, finance, marketing and operational management, to lead us taking the elective subject in the end of the semester. As discussed with all the students, we agreed to rearrange the study group members from foundation group as we made in the beginning of the semester to the new group members. Mostly the members in my ex group are ambitious person because they are scholarship granted with dominant character. I confess that we always get great score and performance though the rest members don't have any chance to speak out our opinion and point of view.
So, my new group members are the ones that I really avoid at the first time but we close in friend zone.
I and Adisty, my ex group friend, felt disappointed with the decision because there is intervention to consider about some friends that will join exchange students to Poland and they have no study group when they arrive in Indonesia. Instead, we should sacrifice our great asset in my group member to cover and join with them eventually.

Huff, I try to think in the positive sides. I don't want to underestimate anyone because God has give us talents. Maybe this is the time for me and my friends to perform, to be a good leader and follower. I believe we can conquer all the subjects, presentation and group discussion battle if we trust and believe each other and also give our best efforts for the sake of the group!

WM 67- New Kids on The Block

As new students of master study at PPM school of management, I and my classmates should make an event named "new kids on the block (nkotb)" to introduce our self to all management level, staffs, security even to janitor of the university. So, on June 28th, we held NKOTB with the theme "Retrolympics". The name comes from Retro and Olympic event. We wore vintage sport uniform, ran around the university and spread the pamphlet of our event, played many games, band, watched movie and medical checkup. All the things we've made dedicated to all members of the university.

Tired but we had so much fun :)

preparation

briefing

the day, wore vintage sport uniform

Unforgettable moment

My master university where I study, PPM School of Management, really concern about the soft skills that should be owned for the next future leaders, especially for their promising students. Then, the university held many evens related to gain our leadership skill, one of them cooperates with Outward Bound Indonesia, a world class training institution for character building. The event held from June 21st to June 23rd in Jatiluhur Reservoir, Purwakarta. I was wondering what will we do during the outbound because there were no explanation at all. They just told us to prepare our physical and mental to face the challenges.

The first day was good. I should paddling a canoe together with a partner on the 2 kilometers-reservoir. But, the sun so damn scorching hot, sore hands, added with unclear instruction of how to paddle perfectly, then my canoe left behind quite far from the others. We panic but try to calm and strengthen each other. Suddenly we saw our instructor's boat then they pulled our canoe to the edge. In the evening, I should cooked boiled vegetables with pecel, fried tahu and salted eggs together with Reza and Indah for my 12 members-team with traditional stove with no gas in the jungle while the others built tents for us to take a rest. After that, we played ferry merry games that need full concentration. At 11.30pm, we slept in a tent. No bath, no toilet, what we can see surroundings were only trees and reservoir.

The next day we woke up at 6 and did morning gymnastic because we should go hiking, walking around the mountains for four hours and we should carried our 25kilograms carrier . It's not easy, we went through the rice field, jungle with damage road everywhere. After arrived in the pointed place, we played high ropes, walking on the thin ropes tied up above 5 meters height. I'm a bit afraid because there were a rope that stuck in my safety belt. Thank God with the encouragements from all my friends, I can finish those 6 challenges and closed the game with flying fox. Arrghhh..
After got dinner, we should sleep separated in the rice field. The game named solo night, that we should build our own tent with the branches and ropes, sleep on a mattress, surroundings with stones, accompanied with a candle light and the cicada voices. It was 11pm and we should woke up at 4am to evaluate that day performance. It is such a great experience though it's hard to do.

The last day, we should make a boat from drums, ropes and bamboo so we can cross the reservoir. Our team has great cooperation day by day so it's not difficult to make and finally paddle the boat to the base camp.
When we arrived, we washed all the equipments in the carrier then we took a bath and went to toilet after 3 days challenges.

It was fun, challenging and unforgettable experience I ever had. I learn to struggle and not to give up, to serve and not to selfish. I learn to be a leader of my self, to give my best in every single step I make, to gratitude for all I have.. I will never ever forget this experience.
Ever!

Besties :D

I'm so happy to meet my friends on Sunday evening. Rex, Adrian, Katherine, Richard, Shirley, Lina are my best friends ever! I can be just the way I am when I'm with them. Yeah, for sure!

Thank God for my precious friends.. I'm so blessed :)

Good leader

Being a leader is not easy; you have to be a good servant and effective leader in the same time. Don't let ur affection ruin your performance.
You have to save your self first along with the company before u save ur surroundings without forgetting how to be a good person.

Both task and relationship oriented should be owned by the leaders. Standing firmly, strong and having guts to say 'NO' is basic terms when you're a leader! And being Charismatic leader doesn't mean you have no affection at all.
But, it is become your fault when your employees tend to work ineffectively. It simply defines that you're not good enough to be a leader.

In fact, ages don't reflect your maturitiy. The more u grow older the better ur self should be is just old rotten phrase. This pathetic leader that you're being now will gradually kill your self if you don't try to stop ineffective leading that you've been thru.

Be smart, firm, and (still) be you!

Dignity meets priority

If you don't love and respect yourself, then who will??

But I still don't know....

Why I let you ruin my life with your bad deeds and habits and I only can stare without making revenge?
Should I standing still like nothing happen while you hurting me over and over again??

I get down on my knees and pray. I hope to The Almighty that you will understand someday..

Friends of mine

Oh noo.. Cultures!

Fyi, Indonesia has many tribes and different cultures, mine is Karonese. In Karo tribe, cultures and manners are really important to define your family level. The core value of Karonese cultures are family and how you serve others.

If you meet karonese wherever you go, it feels like home. Not try to overrated, but that's the fact. They will treat you like you are their close family; even out of sudden, you find the fact that your boss is karonese, you can easily promoted, especially when you perform.
That's a good thing though but sometimes that conventional ways are totally bored when you live in modern life.

Here I give you one of shocking cultures that I never had before in my previous experience with Karonese people.
This become my habit to wash my own plate, spoon and fork whenever I finish my dishes at my friends' house though I see many plates remained on the sink. The awkward moment was the parents of my karonese friend taught me that I'm lack of manner because I'm not washing all the plates. Err, I'm speechless. But, that's the fact. If you Karonese, you even should serve the owner of the house, especially to the older. You're not considered as a guest anymore, yet a child of them. You should serve them as well as you serve your own family.

Because I grew up in modern life, it's become awkward for me but I try to learn the cultures as well. Yeah, for sure, for my goodness sake.

Happy birthday sister!

To my beloved sister, Cynthia Eveline Sinulingga

Happy birthday to you..
You are God's beautiful gift sent to me.
You are not only my sister, but also my best friend and guardian angel.
You always there when I feel all alone.
You never neglect me when our parent did.
You give me not only advices, but also life's lessons.
Every single word that come up from your mouth is heaven's whispers.
You really know what I feel, there's no one can do the same like you do.

I thank God, for He sent you to our family. May The Lord always bless you in every single step you make. Because You were created by the hand of God on purpose, and He has a wonderful plan for your life.

You are the best, sis!

I love you..

Saturday nite

Today was really fun. After finished teaching, I met my besties; Katherine, Rex, Adrian and Richard, at Bellanova to watch The Avengers. Though a bit trouble happened during the movie, we still enjoy the story of how heroes (again) can save our world from the ugly and devil creatures.
However, the most important is our togetherness. We went to Burger King to chit chat, dinner and I literally had some fun when I am with them.

Thank you God for precious friends. I love them very much.. Bless my friends with your grace and let your peace fulfills their heart..<3

Problem solving and decision making

As written above, it is one of my interesting subjects I learn in my master education. I love how it teaches me step by step to distinguish the differences between concerns and problems, to analyze the priority problem with the facts inside, to identify the details, the probability of how it can happen, to verify and to do decision making with the comprehensive informations. I like the discussion in class so the students have critical thinking and I love the way of my lecturer teaches. It's totally one perfect package.

I hope problem solving and decision making subject is not merely as a subject I learn at university, but I can apply it in the real life as well.

Watch out your tongue!

Since I accepted in master education, I made many new friends with different background and education. Beside knowledge, it means I can expand my networking in variety fields and I have to socialize with different age, personality and character.

It's been 3 weeks since my first lesson at university and I already know what kind of person my friends are. Yea, though we can not judge book by its cover but at least I know how they behave reflect their thoughts and personality. Tongue is the cruelest devil among us! Seriously, I'm a bit afraid of this circumstance. I'm not grouping my self with certain people but I socialize with all the people in the class and yet, the more I chat with one group, the more they talk about the others.
I have to zip my mouth. Totally.
Note this, watch out your mouth cause it can be the worst knife and slowly stab your self!

My prayer for you...

Togetherness

I was so happy and excited to meet my besties on last Saturday nite at Paulaner, Grand Indonesia. It was our first meeting in 2012. We had so much fun; laughing like crazy -like there is no one exist in this world-, chatting, arranging our next trip to abroad, eating delicious food, and doing fun stuffs. When I am with them, I can be just the way I am, without hiding anything. Simply me, simply us..

Reni, Shirley, Fica and Bella, they are incredibly awesome. I really love them with all of my heart, with all of my soul.
Thank you God for this togetherness, thank you for precious friends, thank you for everything..

New journey begins

Fyi, I write this blog on the train on my way to my new campus. Thank God, I passed the test to enter master education of management and I believe it will be so challenging to strive for the years ahead.

Sometimes what you hope so much is not what you get eventually. God has bigger plans for you and you can't even understand what His thoughts about. I faced it for the past four months when I didn't know where to go, yet I have faith that as long as I do what's good, I will get the best. And yeah, miracles happen.

Never underestimate yourself. But, the most important is never underestimate your God! He is bigger than Your problems and He knows what you really need.
Have faith :)

Philippians 4:6
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God..

Praise The Lord!

Thank you God for all your blessings to me. My prayer answered in the right time and I feel so happy with the the result.
It's all about you, Jesus.
You are so wonderful :)


I love to dwell upon the thought
That Jesus cares for me,
It matters not what life may bring-
He loves me tenderly ~ Adams

Forever, God is faithful ❤

Trinity College London

Last Tuesday, me and all the classical piano teachers from Purwacaraka Bogor went to Purwacaraka Music Studio, Tangerang to attend piano syllabus seminar for International examination. Purwacaraka successfully cooperates with Trinity College London after 2 years effort and they finally trust us as their partner in Indonesia. I was very excited to hear the explanation from Mr. Peter Wild and his piano playing while explained the performance examination.

I hope my students can join this International examination so that they can be certified and qualified as they should be.