Nepotism ain't a joke

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Gaes, today I would post my second article ..... Sorry not sorry but now would be about  my perspective in political environment.

The  thing is, these kind of habits might already be rooted on us, and we didn't realize this at all.

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Yey!

Recently I went to my family's house ..... Guess what? I was called Ahoker and Jokower tbh. But since it's told as a Joke ...... Let's take it as a joke ya.

Yups, like always, in every "family's conversation" there would always be that person who ..... quite "dominant", and what I mean is "ceplas-ceplos". This person would take any information directly, choose what they liked, and told everyone proudly about their perspectives. It's funny tho since what I was doing is ..... observing and follow the flow.

Yups, after taking several minutes, I conclude I am not the only Jokower in that surrounding. But the different between me and them are .... I support central government -which is refer to Jokowi as President- because his nicely done Jobs to provide any infrastructures for not only Java centric, but also in the eastest part of Indonesia. Despite our debt keep increasing, but I guess in the near future we would take the advantages of this investment, right?

The other part of Jokower, supporting Jokowi because ..... Jokowi's already being "besan" or law of Nasution ...... Simple. This kind of reason somehow unacceptable because its what you called Nepotism, right? I mean, besides seeing this person as relatives, why don't we see someone based on their capability, suitability, ideas, and other factors lah. One thing I supposed, what makes Medan or North Sumatera moved further and beyond are ..... These "toxic" habits!

As one of the most rich culture provinces, having 8 main tribe, and hundred of clans, these habits often leads to huge nepotism tho. Whenever 1 clan had more power, the organization structure would be full with this clan or .... any relatives clan. These habits ain't a joke and can't be tolerated in the future. Reminder, if one person being a "Big" and have more "Power", perhaps it's all because his/her dedication for one job, not because He/she was born as your clan. No, not at all.

Things I learned from Naruto, even if you're literally love and proud for your clan, in terms of urgency, Country most likely the most important ones, even though you should sacrifice your clan's existence. And it's cool af, right? Agreed !


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Day 1 in Medan would be about HER

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Merliana Jasri Sipayung

One of my besties so far, been being best friend with her for 8 years from now. We have this one group called Genk-Gong, whenever we have this "Geng" period during the time.

As I also knew, those "friendship" that has been through for more than 7 years, most likely would last forever. And looking forward to do that!

Our quality time begun with ..... creating our e-KTP together. Haha. Just like me, she hasn't recorded her biological identity for e-KTP at all. In fact, quite confusing since she's only 1km away from Camat office. Oh yeah, she even recorded this, just because her old KTP been lost. Period.

Yups, during this time, we used to create a quality conversation. Mostly about our current life, also about why she could lose her iphone, also what kind of activities she used to have so far. Well well, when I was junior high school, merli was one of top 3 students loh. I mean, she's extremely ambitious to change her family's life, economically. Go girl! Show your "Boru Panggoaran" power !!!! She's one of several person that shaped the best of me also. And makes me have different "way of thinking" compared with my siblings tbh. I changed, I am more grateful than ever before, since I was being friend with her. We're not only talking about "Strong" girl loh, but also talking this "full-empathize" girl to her surroundings. She used to have several personal mission for changing North Sumatera in the future, especially changing the way of thinking youth, for not being corrupt, colluse, and nepotism - which one of main North Sumatera's problem-.

Well, after recording our e-KTP. Guess what? My ID Card can be taken on MARCH 2018! THAT'S 3 MONTH FROM NOW LOH. Goddamn it government, the reason always about Blanko !

So basically I need another way kan .... which is having some kind of resi or "proof" that's currently my ID Card in the middle of process. You know what ..... I need to go to Pakam (about > 10 km from here) to get the fucking proof.

Or, get some help from the "birocrazy", pay them several tenth K, and keep my hands clean
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Me, asked my parent about it, and it's something "OK" for him tho. And take the option since I have limited time :"( My integrity somehow had lost hiks

Then, Merli, with her intuition, didn't want to do it at all because her "Heart" feeling "it's not right". What a pure and lovely girl bgt ga si </3. Although, she's literally need this because she needs the old number from her Iphone ..... She keep her integrity, and get her hands dirty :") Just go girl !

Time passed.

I forgot my phone, but we keep going. We have a lunch in KFC. Get some chicken, and eat. She ordered "Choco Chick" which I literally don't recommend to you at all.

We continue our conversation about Economy, Management, Finance, etc (What the hell ga si), but this is something cool to share since her background in Economy is extremely ok, while me still learning Business Strategy and MBA from cheap online course in Udemy. It's legit as fuck.

And then .... We're also talking about our family, which talking about our little brothers that's hard to control, egois, ego-centric, no clear vision through their life, even didn't want to study unless been seeing or told cqcqcqcq

"Kok it's easier to be someone's mentored yah rather than our family. I mean, my mentee sometimes called me for 2 hours and talk about anything to get some life's hack or solution. But for our brothers? Cqcqcq can't say anything at all lah"

"OMG RT AF Mer. Literally feel the same lah, I used to be mentee for several of my junior, and could maintain their academic record even being one of most outstanding also in our faculty sih. But it's really hard to encourage our brother yaps"

Huft, conversation's quality keep increased, and it's 4 hours already loh ! Time and space should tear us apart, she should go to Pakam for getting her ID Card's resi, and me ..... need to achieve several things before returning to Jakarta.

D1 is rock! Can't wait to D2 -which is probably would be my me time exploring Medan- and D3 which is probably about little reunion to my friends from HOMPIMPA!

Hiks, unfortunately I didn't get any moment to be captured lah, since I forgot to bring my phone back then. But thanks to that, we could bring quality conversation to the table, right?

Ganbatte !

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Cloudiness of Jakarta - Cloud in Perspective, Cloud at its best

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Cloud
/Kloud/
1, a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.

2. a state or cause of gloom, suspicion, trouble, or worry.

Speaking to the devil, the second definition ain't got no right tho. Cloud simply a metamorphosis of water vapor, to liquid or icy. Bouyant tendency as a starter, but thanks to the characteristic of water itself, makes one moist adiabatic system, which created the 'Capitalist' system to get the support from its environment
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Krik krik krik.

Oke, as a Meteorologist, we saw atmosphere in a unique way.

If you saw Clouds and feel the Wind, then you saw and feel those, right?. But not for my brain ..... Automatically, it leads me to ask "How much energy on that cloud? Where's the wind coming from? Where's the wind going to? If there's a wind, there's a pressure differences, right? Where is it going? There must be low pressure area! What happened there? What makes it? What trigerred that? Is it going to rain, soon?" And the list keep asked!

H Stands for High Pressure Area, L stands for Low Pressure Area
This kind of point of view has trained my thought to be more curious, asking "Why", and find the answered by myself. Just like this Article I wrote about : Analisis Mekanisme Hujan di Kota Bandung or Kupas Tuntas Alasan JLNT Tidak Boleh Dilewati Pengendara Bermotor or What Makes Bandung So Windy etc. Sorry for writing it in Bahasa tho, since what I want to do is touching readers as much as possible.

Oke focus. Perhaps it is me being overthinking, but sometimes, I will have this quite moment, to enjoy things I should grateful for. Even for seeing these kind of landscape, where you could see much of cloud formed, affect sunset and this "Hot, Humid" seasons. I captured several of them, post it to my Insta story, some can't be saved due to I forgot saving it. But these worth it also kok, and quite astounding.










Hope you enjoy it guys!!!!

Good night and have a good day :*

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A Weak Heart (?) - Hopefully Not - A Misunderstood

23:58 rafi 0 Comments


Hallo guys!

Things been mixed up recently. Seeing so much youth, being C level, already being 30 Under 30 Forbes, etc. Been asking myself too about "Is it my best? Can I do something better? You may better than this". Yups, currently I'm kinda overthinking lots of things tbh. I start listing my goals again, and reading lots of articles about "C-level" daily routines. Basically what they're talking about is "Successful person" and stuff, not closed with C-level something person.

But it's ok, reading might give me some knowledge, and most likely, perspective. Facing the world would be easier with lots of perspective.

Things been oke, I already wrote my daily schedule, inspired with Benjamin Franklin's daily routines, that perhaps would be used this Sunday onward. After that, I read news (to update my personal interest -which is politics-), and seeing this interesting articles about Jakarta's new governor. Actually made me sad and angry, seems these persons were below my expectations lah. Far far away like Avenged's songs (krik krik krik)

Skipped.

While reading news, I found news about Jokowi, which is recently coming to North Sumatera for having his daughter's marriage. What makes me interested actually not about this marriage, but mostly about how perfect this family is. I mean, they're kind of simple family, that's just want to enjoy themselves, like the rest of us. The news were about how Jokowi enjoy eating Ucok's durian with his mother and grandson, also .... How he's enjoy medan's malls with his family and stuff. It might be simple, but seeing how happy this family is, somehow made me happy and also sad at the same time.

Happy because how modest my president can be, I even put myself in his mother's shoes, I mean she must be the proudest mom in the world, right? Having a successful son not only in business but also running a ****ing country that has quarter billion humans loh.

Eummmm, what about sad? Well, I am sad because ..... If only I still had my mother, I would do anything to make her proud and happy. Also, I am sad because ..... This kind of family trip, almost impossible happened at my family. Since everyone just mind their own business, formerly, my brothers was prefer playing with thy friends. I don't even remember when was the last time our family had dinner together. It's so sad right? We don't really have that tight bond as family tbh :")

Shit. What a weak heart I have.

Oke, in the news, Jokowi was recording for his vlog. Since his vlogs are interesting enough for me. I directly checked her facebook's fanpages loh (se-intent itu). And then, I saw this:


Yups, this video literally moved me on so many level. I mean, I was told since child, "Don't be a Farmer" and stuff. But this ! This prove me wrong! Farmer is definitely a cool job, and thanks to government can make them lives better ! I agree with the content, farmer is a real hero, for providing food to our plates. #SwasembadaPangan is aint dream. Thanks pak.

Believe it or not, I almost cried by the video. And this is the reason why I wrote topics about this. Am I having a weak heart? Or just having more empathy? I hope it is the second one tbh :") Since empathy is a part of feeling, to understand more about humanity, and of course, humanize humans! This has been proved to make human open minded, and lives happier. Huhuhuhu

Baiklah, I guess this is the end, and hopefully you can learn something from this light topics.

Good nicht, guys!


Oke, this is too much, haha


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The least I learned from Shokugeki no Souma

00:46 rafi 2 Comments

Gaes,

Tonight I would share things I have learned from Shokugeki no souma.

Well, if you guys loved Anime/ Manga, this one should be on your bucket list of course! To be honest, I was watching the movie first than the manga. And then, since I am not that patient waiting for this, I decided for reading the manga 100 Chapters on 3 days. Haha

As you've probably know. Souma is one of that "Ecchi" manga, which is quite vulgar at the first glance. You may see "foodgasm" which is literally orgasm because eating "delicious" food. Even if it's the disgusting one, yups, they'll have that gasm though.

Despite its "Harem" theme, the plot is extremely enjoyable. Why? Every chapter would lead you to read it more and more. To be honest, lots of thing you could learn through this, such as:

1. Leadership & Strategy

Some are natural leaders, some are trained their leadership skill through their professional experiences. Yups, in this movie, you'll learn Leadership especially Strategy.

FYI, Tootsuki (the school name of this series), have extremely tight values. From thousands of students, only top 1% would be graduated as alumni. Which means, the rest 99% would be expelled through the years.

Despite these extreme values, they have "Shokugeki" event, which is leading to "Food wars" between several Chef. Within their extreme skills, each other should have strategies for cooking their own foods. Even they would rehearse for several days to trials and errors.

During day by day, they even compete and implement all of strategies they have learnt during school. For example, If you watch the anime, on episode 16 and 17, Souma, who's living on Business District to open "Yukihira's Dinner". Feeling something wrong with his surrounding. He saw how quiet his district had been, because of the infrastructure changing. Compounded by his local competitor, Mozuya Kaarage, that's been literally dominated their culinary demand for the locals.

Yups, he wanted to change something. But ..... what he'll do first is analyzing the condition, feeling & trying Karaage Mozuya directly (I called it Customer Experience survey), and analyzed what they could do to compete them.

Souma's reaction to Mozuya Kaarage (Yups, delicious af 😮)
Some might think "How to create better Kaarage" and stuff ..... At first they tried sih, but they can't manage compete that, since their competitor has been researched best recipe year by year. Yups, experienced wins!

And then, they tried to research more, starting with the best ingredient but cheap af, thinking about packaging (for better CE), and last but not least, thinking "How could the customer remember their products". Simple but creative sih in Business environment. Till they concerned about how to improved their products further and beyond!

In the end, they found the answer and ..... Started to do the marketing! Yups, everything should be executed as soon as possible, or they lose the MOMENTUM! And voila, thanks to souma, Business district became crowded anymore, and once again, this proof one thing, monopolized company didn't always win in competitive market IF they didn't focus on their business value, also .... less innovative than the others.

Souma wins! It's not impossible to build your market with GOOD strategies

2. Profit is not always your primary Goal

What I used to read on linkedin about Gojek, they have this shared vision to the employees, more or less it said like this, "Everything you contributed to the company, are always for thousands of drivers". To be honest I inspired them so much, since what they're doing is extremely impactful to the societies. Me myself and I even can't move on from Gojek loh everyday.

Oke next.

What souma did, moreover is same lah. He used to serve hundreds of plates every single day, for 12 years. He always told "Customer first" than how much money they had everyday. And it works! Everyday, everyone would come to their diner, having some food, and yes, being a Loyal Customers. Revenue would be generated like machine lah if you have got these loyalists. This, could assure you one thing, they would come regardless any discount or not at all.

Despite learning from souma, the next character would be Tadokoro Megumi, which is one of good protagonist in the series. And no one could fight her "Customer" awareness except herself. And it helped her to attain "Top" chair, without being backstabbing bitch like other used to. Haha.

Empathy. Empathy. Empathy. Learn empathy at its finest here.





The list could go on .... But I rather continue this in the next article I guess. Hope you learn something too ya :)))

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How is it feel to be Feminist? - A 'Love' Story (?)

23:22 rafi 2 Comments



Yups, things getting cliche day by day.

Sometimes you'll feel lonely, need a partner, even asking what your truly life goals are. Perhaps it's the beginning for my quarter life crisis, right? Or ..... is it too soon? I don't know the answer yet.

I have never been in any serious relationship before. If you asked me. Well, perhaps I closed with lots of women. Some being my besties, some just being my friends, some have been my crush, but never end up well. Since I am never telling her anything at all about my feeling, till her getting new partner and gone gone far away. 

In my society, normally, men should tell his feeling first, men should A, men should B, while women ..... perhaps just wait and see.

These, always never work for me.

To be honest, I thought these kind of "rules" are just created, not absolutely right. I mean, why bother men should A, while women should C, what's about we, as a human, could do what the fuck we want?

Yups, that's absolutely me.

Perhaps this is me being coward, or .... me being feminist? Do not know, but I do feminist, and thought everyone's equal no matter what gender they have. As long as someone didn't take my right and bother me/ someone's else ..... Practically it's none of my business :)

Me, never surpass that phase, to tell what I feel, in terms of this fucking thing, called love. Perhaps I would get this courage one day .... or someone would tell me their feeling, who knows? The result would always be the same, I would give it a try. Huhuhuhu.

Good Night, Champs!

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Listening & Observing

22:30 rafi 5 Comments





Hallo guys,

Tonight I would write about these two things: Listening & Observing.

Listening & Observing might be the greatest tool for learning something thoroughly, it could literally make you understand how something works, how exactly something presented, how exactly something discussed with colleagues. Yups, yesterday, I learned the most precious skills for Fresh Graduates. Effective communication, and process to give information from the technical perspective to the business person -that's probably not give any f with the technical - and concerned with results instead. I even learned about how cool the discussion process in Management level perspective, which I believe, the opportunity that can't be bought except you present at the moment.

The point is, I just observed and listened the sharing session about what our team's done for Fashion & Beauty customer segmentation. Fortunately, the customer segmentation were processed by Advance Analytics team -thanks to mas Imam-, and I was taking part in the descriptive data part, since I am in Data Analytics team.

Yups, all of the data has been prepared for 5 days. And ppt has been created by three of us. And here comes the sharing sessions, when my GM presented it to the sales team. Yups, once again I just observed and listened, and of course prepared if someone asked further. Slide by slide, I saw my GM presented it so cool, like lecturer that have 1000 hours fly hours wkwk. Since this is for the business person, all of matter should be presented as clear as possible, and he should prevent any technical terms that perhaps would make these people confused. I enjoyed this process so much, which I've learned this presentation skills from the best one.

And then ..... in the middle of presentation, I kept observing these three GMs from MD3 (Fashion & Beauty sales department), along with Merchandising GM discussed about future strategy of elevenia. I admired how cool they are, they look so flawless and smart af, I mean what they are talking about purely combining between theory and years of experiences in ecommerce business. Enjoyed how effective their discussion are.

Last but not least, everyone's motivated. I know this segmentation would come up with more load of work. Not only for us, but also for sales, design, and even the platform ones. Yups, the goals is to segmenting the customers, and approach them differently based on their behaviors and what product they liked, right? But the perks of having this is ..... the company could generate more revenue even faster, and of course, could cut up lots of cost, also, since the customer love the campaign, and it hits to the target perfectly and stuff, perhaps they buy it anyway, right? And .... at last the insight we generated, because of this collaboration end-to-end in data management, the data could be provided and give lots of insightful recommendation in the future. And once again, this leads me happy since you feel appreciated by giving this impact. Yuhuuuu




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#7DaysProductiveChallenge starts, now!

23:10 rafi 0 Comments


<<<<< Currently being envy with young, successful, C level, which makes me wonder, how they spend their time daily. I even searched about it, curious with Daily life of Elon Musk, and looking some books about it. I just found out, that we should -at least- read 500 pages something to get specific knowledge which I wonder whether I could achieve it or not. I guess I am going to begin with organizing everything more beautifully, and need to figure out how I should spend my weekend eventually.

Yups.

Something need to be changed. I should move forward, faster, and live productive and effectively. If you have something in mind, please assure to share with me directly ya. Current goals might be:
1. How to be well-organized person
2. How to be face-paced person
3. How to be detail oriented person
4. How to live productively, even living in the weekend, and keep being happy at the same time.

Must.Change. Currently feeling I am not at my best, and moving forward but not as fast as I could, and not-so focused with the career path I took.

Wish me luck!

#ThanksGodItsFriday #Self-Reminder #Tanjong's Journey

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Moving to Quora

00:11 rafi 0 Comments








Hola gaes!

As you knew, it's been a week or more I haven't posted anything at my blog, right? Well, currently I'm writing on Quora.com, to answer anything I could based on my experiences, also ..... it's quite interesting to see answers from many questions in here. This opened my mind that every person has its own obstacle, right? They have their own stories, which sometimes it's sad, or happy, or confusing, or inspiring, anything. Some have ever been in hard situation, while things get better whenever they evaluate themselves to be a better person.

So gaes, I suggest you guys to check it here: https://www.quora.com/answer. And to see my profile, kindly just check it here: https://www.quora.com/profile/Muhammad-Rafi-AlHariri-Nasution. I've been answering several questions about Life, Meteorology, etc.

Do not forget to follow and upvote my answer yaps

Calm down, fans! I would keep updating this blog but not so often la

PS.

This is example of my answer, that's already viewed 1.8K times


Do not judge me as revenge seeker ya, but I guess calling a person stupid is extremely rude and can't be tolerated, more over if you're a fucking teacher :") So ..... Bye! Boom, could prove it to you, sist!

Ok .... Bye!

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Let's stop judging someone, guys!

00:15 rafi 2 Comments



Hello!

So tonight I would share my thought about Judging someone.

Well, as a human, Judging someone has been part of our life. Every time we saw someone did something, whether it makes us Happy or not, we tend to judge him by what they have done. The worst thing is, sometimes we judge people just because their appearance. And I have felt how it feels, even I have judged someone also loh!

What would be my point is ..... Let's start minimizing this kind of things. Just stop judging someone already. Whatever it is, it'll never be that simple. It'll never be as simple as we thought.

Let me give you some example. Whenever someone plain stupid, I mean, somehow it's hard for them to understand things or accepting what have been thought in class. Well, it's not always they're not trying harder, or not learning at all, because as you know, everyone has their own IQ, which is relating with someone's logic. Perhaps, he/she's not really into with mathematical term, but extraordinary with the art.

Whenever you judge someone, if it's bad, you'll have less respect with them, right? And somehow, it could affect your relationship with them. So, instead of judging them that they're not working enough, why don't we try to help them instead? Be a teacher, both of you would have the advantages. She/he could understand what they confused, and you, could learn your communication skills, even learning the matter twice, which would assure you remember that in the future. Win win solution, right?

Next. Since judging someone could affect your respect level toward each other, somehow it could affect you about the value of a person. Let say, because of this person "Gay", you won't believe anything that come from his/her mouth. That's it, it's just done for you. Although, the matters had nothing to do with sexual orientation or gender. What we don't know and might miss, some valuable ideas in the future, which is probably brilliant if we could follow this up.

Next. Have you ever judged someone that you didn't know? Just heard the rumors, or even seeing based on their appearance? I have. And it sucks! I remembered one video that could change your perspective about a "Gift". This commercial were about the passenger, that bought some Donuts. Sitting in waiting room. While he's sitting, he saw this man, that look like homeless person. This person took some Donuts from the plastic, that this man were thinking it's his! And then, they keep eating, till the end, after the announcement, this "homeless" look alike man ready to go, and took last donuts. Instead of taking last donuts, this man slice it half, and give it to the man.

Ok

And then, he get called from the announcement about his flight, take his Jacket, and his donuts right over there! Yups, this man was literally eating that man's donuts, and the "homeless" man taught him a lesson, about gift.

I obviously moved with that, and once again, judging someone isn't really a good thing in the first place.

The list keep going down. Judging someone based on their race, religion belief, etc, won't make you "more" human instead of him, or would lift your value higher than him. This concept could be danger, and would separate us in the future. And believe it's happening not only in Indonesia, but also in every country. Regionally, Nationally, or even Internationally. If only someone stop judging each other that "I am right instead of them" etc, I believe this world would be a better place to live in. Period.

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Be Brave (Note to myself)

00:03 rafi 0 Comments

For a moment, I was thinking about my article with "That moment you should overcome" title.

And then, something out of my mind, I thought about one thing that's currently haven't done through my life.

That moment, when I am falling in love, having crush with this girl, but always end up with no clear result, since I have no courage to tell her.

This is something I haven't overcome yet.

My soul afraid, that it would change our relationship, from friend to be the awkward one.

But then, all of my close friend told me to say it, and I need to be a man for accepting whatever results might come up. Surely I haven't ready, surely I am scared.

Yups, love could make someone the strongest man on earth. And it could make the weakest person in the world, what a mysterious energy we have! With no courage, perhaps it would be like this, and always be like this. I need power, I need strength, I need courage, to say what I feel, to tell her everything.

Charlie, charlie, charlie, give me your bravery, to overcome this one, something we called as love.

Be a man and brave, raf!


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The art of not giving a fuck

00:05 rafi 2 Comments



Ah,
Since long time ago, I want to post something about this.

Things, that I used to hold up, for enjoying myself more, instead of thinking what people think about me. The art of not giving a fuck, has been learned since I used to kid. My sister, as my role model, that's been smart ass, having high IQ, but have critical thinking, always got teacher's attention, in a positive way.

People would call her tomboy, because her friends always be boys, walking around without sandals, screaming out loud to getting people's attention, yups, for selling more of our products. At first, I felt embarrassed, "What people would think about her? Don't she feel ashamed? People definitely would judge her", etc.

But no, she didn't give any fuck with that. She always does. Time keep running, I begun learnt something through her. She might not care about herself being ashamed, what she cared was getting customers, and could help my fathers more. Enough to be said, I am the one who should be ashamed tho.

In studying perspective, she had her own reasons.
"It's now or never"
Yups, she always had so many questions through her study. She asked a lot, like literally a lot, whenever teachers asked "Any question?" She's the one who would ask, and begging for answer as clear as possible. Yups, what she did was confirming, whether it's right or not, or somehow, people tend to tell she's asking stupid questions. But no, it's just a little bit complex.

Yups, since I was taking same Junior High School, no teacher didn't know her. Every time I met new teachers, they would ask me "Oh, Rina's brother ya, why aren't you active like her?" etc. Once again, she left the burden to me, I was not ready yet, and mostly observed instead of being active. And I regret it till 8th Grade. I tried to be more open, to be more active, try not giving a fuck with my friends thought
"Meh, faggot"
"Meh, sok-sok belajar"
"Meh, are you seeking attention or something?"
"Meh, anak rumah banget ya? (Meh, always playing just around your home ya?)"
etc
No no no, I'm just trying to be me, enjoying myself, "It's now or never" to learn anything from my teachers.

You know what changed? I got 2nd place in term of grade loh. And ...... Since I'm studying more, once again, I love studying! I got this feeling that I had to be success, for not being burden to my parentx, and helping my father in the future.

This art, has been thought and passed through me. Since then, I don't care what others think about me. I don't care if they tried bullying me, or telling me whatever they want. I don't care if someone had Motorcycle while me still using public transport, I don't care if my phone still polyphonic ones, whether my friends already had the smart ones. Yups, I only focused with what I HAVE instead of what I don't have. And it makes me happy tho.

It focused me through my study, I have less distraction compared with my friends. And ..... I managed to get scholarship during my High school and college terms.

So guys, let's stop giving a fuck with negative things! It's not being apathy or something, but just mind your own business and focused with it loh. I mean, they have their own problems, and we have ours also, right? Hohoho. I hope this article could inspire you and change your mind about what others think loh. It's not going to impact you a dime, if you didn't care about it.

Ganbatte!


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Possible ways to seek a passion

00:00 rafi 1 Comments


Should we try to seek our Passion?

The answer is yes and no.

Yes, you could found your passion through several trials and errors doing several things.
No, because, this is something you could build by yourself, and could become your passion in the future.

Myself has been tried to do both of them. But I guess the easiest way are building your passion alone, by yourself. Why? When I was looking my passion, I tried active in several organization directly. I managed to be Entrepreneur, being CEO of Tropical Laundry, taking charge one start up to support my dormitory economically. And then, I took my part as student, which is being lecturer and severa sl practicums assistant. I also took my part as HMME Head of Research Division, doing several work with it.

I failed, I couldn't focus to do my roles, and I can't be my best to do it. Every work program were done so so, although it could be better if I could focus on. Yups, besides my bad time management, I am the one who should be blamed, not even my staff or intern at that time. I managed to answer my deep question
"Which one is better? Focus on one organization but we could do something cool with it or ..... Active in several organization, but the result is so so?"

The answer is the first one I guess.

Well, in my very last year as student, when I only focused on my dormitory as MPA or People's Consultative Assembly, managed one work program (getting pensions money for our employees), also as guardian of value. I'm just being one practicum assistant, and taking only several credits. My point is, my activity is not that much lah. Since I am feeling that it's not myself, I create one social project called DCME, which is educating local societies in Pulosari, and create route map IF disaster happened back then. Yups, thanks to my team, we managed do it successfully, achieved and exceed our main target. On that phase, I learned that the art of "Giving" isn't always about matters or money, but as simple as sharing your knowledge to others, and being useful by implementing what you learned is truly a gift. I was moved and thought it's probably "Ore no nindo da" (read: It's my ninja way) haha :p

After that, I was chosen as Regional Ambassador of Tunza, doing several social project, and wrote report about it. Yups, once again I learned, writing is truly cool. I found lots of dedicating persons, that's already doing something really big to their societies, and managed to INSPIRE others within their articles. I always try my best to share what I knew and what I've done so far. And I love it. In this term, I found that writing might be my greatest strength to inspire and encourage people. Even I could highlight my campaign through an article, right?

During my Ambassador terms, I also created YFCA, as my very first organization. Yups, once again, we managed to do 4 social projects, in which, keep focusing on our goals to increase awareness about environment, especially Climate Change. I learned about myself so much, that I should be more optimistic leader instead of the pessimist one, keep focusing and move straight to reach goals, do not hesitate to take charge in decision making. Moreover, if it could change the whole planned at the first place. I thought it would be better if we stepped back from the plan, and I wrong, thanks to kurtiks that keep reminding about these stuffs. And once I again, I learned,
"it's always seems impossible until it's done"


Yups, to summarize this article, I suggest you guys to focus on one or two roles, instead of taking all charges. Determined which one should be your priority, and in line with your current goals. Passion could be found in several ways, but building your own is the most effective one for sure, since you already knew what you're doing, and how to enhance it.

Once again, thanks for reading it and hope it could inspire you guys!

Love always,
Rafi

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That phase you need to overcome

23:01 rafi 3 Comments


No matter who you are, Introvert or Extrovert, constraint, haven't had any courage at all. There is a time when you need to stand up, stop justifying yourself, as you used to be. I know its hard to introduce yourself in front of people, I know it's hard to speak in front of awesome persons. You scared they would look down to you, and you're not worthy enough to stand up right over there.

But no,

It's just you overthinking, it's just you justifying yourself that can't do it, and you know what, unfortunately, you know how something works until it's done. This is how our world works, honey :)

I remembered, as an Introvert, Charlie hard to find any friends, if there's any, it's only one, and ...... his friend shot himself :") But then, there's a time, when he tried to fit in, try to introduce himself to Patrick, forget and leave his shy character behind, and ..... you know what happened? He found best friends for the rest of his life.

The result is unexpected, he's not only get Patrick, but also Sam, and got accepted as Wallflower.

The concept is pretty simple, no matter how fucked up your life, no matter how shy you are right now, and no matter how confidence your friends, that's already exchanged abroad, already being speakers nationally even Internationally, etc. Yups, formerly, they been like you, they been shy, they been discouraged because they think they can't. And they prove it wrong, they just took one step forward, leave everything behind, and TRY.

What next? Believe me, you won't never be the same anymore, because one of phase has been passed, and you take granted from it.

Hope it helped and good luck trying it, guys!

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Chasing a dream

23:56 rafi 8 Comments


There is a time,
When I was sleeping,
Dreaming how cool I am to be,
I could be a doctor
I could be an Astronaut,
I could be a Meteorologist,
I could be whatever I want

It happened so fast,
I woke up,
Charging up my energy,
And then face with reality

I study
I play
I work
I do whatever it takes to be the best of me
Reality is much harder
Time is running so slow,
Process takes time,
And the best thing to do is enjoy it

I remembered,
When I used to dream,
Everything goes easily,
But no, it never goes that way,
I gave my time,
I gave my energy,
Solving things haven't been unsolved,
Perfect what could be perfected,
Chased what could be chased

This how things done,
Pursuing my dreams aren't never about the result,
It's all about the process,
How could I manage doing things,
How could I keep focusing chase my dream,
How could I make it real,
This is my turn,
Dream, Believe, and Make it Happens


--

Written by full time dreamers, with full time pursuers.
Soon to be Data Scientist, solving things effectively and beautifully
Cheers!


8 comments:

Months to years without Instagram

22:16 rafi 6 Comments


Have you ever deactivated your social media or Instagram account?

I had.

I remembered, when I was 2nd to 3rd year student. I deactivated my Instagram account, and live without giving exposure to the world, who I am to be. If you saw my Instagram, there's a gap from 2013 to 2014, and jump directly to 2016. I haven't posted a single post in these gap. What happened? Why? As a Millennials, exposure is quite important, how amazing your life can be, right?

Haha. Not for me.

There's a time, where I want to be alone, to enjoy myself, without posting how amazing what I viewed in these world. Simple thing I enjoy so far, I was feeling the wind without my phone, I was breathing how fresh Bandung could be, without posting how fresh these could be. I probably had tons of trips back then, I saw what my friends posted, how amazing that could be, till forget how cool the process to get there.

Things that could be advantages are:

1. Low quota budget. What I need simply 100 mb a month, that only cost 20k a month for these package

2. Focused. When I woke up, I don't have any thought to check my phone, and post how lazy I am in that morning. What I need is breathing the fresh air in my dormitory, take a bath directly, focused on what I could achieve today, without telling anyone what I have accomplished.

3. Saving time. Believe it or not, scrolling your phone, and how amazing your friends life could be might take 1 hr at least, if you accumulated it. That would takes tons of quota, and of course, your time that could be used to watch a movie, or simply enjoy yourself back then

4. Live your life. I know how amazing my friends life, but come on guys, no need exactly to be like them, because your life is already beautiful and amazing so far, if you re-thinking and be grateful for what you had right now.

5. Effective. There's a time when you want to post what you're doing, especially when you want everyone knows what you're learning currently and how hard/easy these could be, right? Hmmmmm. To be honest gaes, beware! Whenever you focused on what you want to learn, and you got distracted 5 - 10 minutes, you could lose what you've learned loh. Yet, it will take at least 5 minutes posing and taking the picture, another 5 minutes, to write what you want to posted, etc. By deleting your Instagram's account, you could be more effective and achieve more in the future. Believe me :)

And the list could go down infinitely.

Months to years without Instagram is extremely worthy. I challenge you to do #7dayswithoutInstagram challenge, and give me the result in these post ya. Comment below!

Thanks guysss! Hope you are doing well !


6 comments:

Fresh Graduates Starter Kits

23:05 rafi 6 Comments


Hello guys!

First of all, I would like to congrats all of my friends that just graduated from ITB this October. I would definitely say "Welcome to the real world!" because, it is! You're no longer having that "Student" title, which means, it's you with your knowledge, skills, and goals that decided what kind of career you would pursue.

Graduation Photo (Personal Documentation)
As a fresh graduate, in which, I just graduated on April 2017, I have gone through on your stage, where as, I am so confused which career I should take. Since I am Meteorologist, my dilemma is not only "Work or take master degree?", but mostly about "Professional, Entrepreneur, NGO, or .... take master degree?"

Why'd bother overthinking that?

First of all, I was born from Entrepreneur family, my father, grand father, and grand-grand father are Businessman. As a businessman, they lead and worked for not only themselves, but also for their employees. I ever considered to take my father's role, to continue our business further ..... I knew everything, from how much he got, how big its potential tho. But my footstep stopped because my father didn't want me to. He wants me to work at BUMN such as Pertamina, in which, he considered as the best job that guarantee my life prosperous.

I took that choice, by considering several things, from my father's advice, also from my family's condition, that I couldn't tell you further

Second of all, master degree. As you already knew, I am obviously love with Meteorology. I love seeing skies, feel the wind, even breaking down equation for approaching real condition of phenomenon. I am feeling that "I could be Scientist" tho. And then, the reality faced me up, I realized my father has been 64 years old, I still have 2 brothers, one of them would take bachelor degree, while one of them still in Junior High School. Since my big brothers can't even help themselves, my sister been married, and my father is old, yups ..... I should help him now, at least, take some of his burden for sure. And I decided, this master degree won't go anywhere, it could wait me for the next few years lah.

I took another shoot, leaving it behind, facing down reality, and let's take professional career!


Oke.

Third of all, to be professional workers. Which path I should take? I am creating plan A, B, and C for sure. Plan A, starting my intern @ Pertamina, and pursuing my career in this field further. I applied internship in HSE Pertamina. It took 3 month for the process to be honest, and while waiting for this role. I set my plan B and C. Plan B is getting another Job, I prefer took any Business or Data Analyst role, since I have experienced in Business, and I interested with analyzing data to get the best insights and actionable recommendation. I kept applying and getting called from several companies, which I believed, they're quite interest with my CV and experienced at the same time.

Plan C? Well, I opened with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) role actually. I used to work with local society, teach them, empower them, making them smarter from several Project I have taken. Since being Disaster Creative Mapping and Education (DCME) project leader, also Youth for Climate Agent (YFCA) co-founder, I found my eternal peace, whenever I served myself to the others. Saving the earth while empowering society, what's the biggest achievement you could give back then? SO YEAH, I'm oke with pursuing career in here. Even if started salary won't be so big.

So, what next? Here's the thing. In these void phase, what you're doing is really important! Somehow, it could determine which career you're going to get. And here I listed what I'm doing, such as:

1. Prepare several kind of CV

You might know I have much working and organization experiences. Everything might valuable, but there's no point to write all of them for sure. While applying Pertamina, mostly I mixed up my professional, academic, and organization experience. Basically, I want they knew what I'm capable of. I want to give exposure that I'm professionally and academically capable, while balancing my activity with extra curricular activities. I'm not talking about being a member or staff ya, but most likely talked about achievements of my organization whenever I lead specific roles.

And then, for Data or Business Analyst, I am definitely highlight my working experiences as Data Analyst in ESDM, followed by my experienced as Assistant Lecturer of Weather and Climate Data Analysis also Numerical Weather Forecast, to assure that I'm interested enough with Data, and told them it's not so different with what I was doing back then.

Last but not least, for CSR, I prepare my CV to highlighted my experiences in working with Local Communities. Any related experiences would be written down, followed by my achievements in doing social projects etc. I do apply lots of CSR jobs, unfortunately, there's no NGO that accepted my capabilities tho. Idk why, but there's nothing to lose lah haha

2. Don't let your time, wasted !

For f sake, don't ever waste your time a dime loh! I literally took any opportunities for being Intern in ESDM as soon as I graduated from ITB (Unofficially). Yups, unofficially, I already  get my bachelor degree since December 2017. After that, I told myself, there's no time to celebrate and waste of my money and time, because I knew I'm officially jobless now. I called my friend, to introduce me with ESDM scientist, and being part-time data analyst with them. I managed to get 2 projects done, in which, so valuable enriching my CV. Being Intern is not really taking my focus to get the real job, since I just give 2 - 3 hours a day for doing my Job. What next? I have 16 hours a day, 3 hours for Intern, and then? Yups, every morning, I saw linkedin, read articles about Data Analysis, Leadership, Management, Business, anything. I could spend 1 hour reading them. I want to make myself informed well with what's happening in this world. Since the development is extremely fast.

And ..... Don't forget, I used to apply for 6 jobs minimum.

What next? I learned German, French, and Dutch. Getting 50 exp a day for each of them. Haha, I know it sounds BS, but, I have dreamed job working on United Nations, and knowing lots of Language especially French would be an advantages tho. It's interesting loh how these language, somehow influence bahasa also. Yups, not only Dutch, but also German, and French, some of Bahasa's word came from these.

Oke, what next? I used to write in my blog, Tunza Eco Generation, and etc. Writing my ideas to solving earth's problem, isn't it interesting? Haha. I took FREE online training/workshop, which could get me certificate. I learned from UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research), to enrich my knowledge about Climate Change and how the diplomatic's work. It's a piece of cake for sure, since I have taken Climate Policy course in ITB. I took Datacamp, codecademy, etc to learn SQL, Python, and R languages.


Watching movie is oke, but just not too often ya, to relax your day mah oke.

3. Rehearse, It's your future Job for f sake

Hmmmmm, I guess it's the most important thing to do. No matter how easy this job for you, do not forget to rehearse! Yups, for any jobs, I would prepare anything. From psychology test, till interview, anything should be prepared well. I remembered, when I was applying on 08 AM morning, I got called on 10 AM and interviewed on 18 PM. What the hell, if I'm pessimistic person, I might give it a  go without rehearsing myself, but no, I'm taking a chance, and rehearse for my Interview.

What I did is pretty simple, I checked the Job description, try to understand what's the role could be, and learn it. If it mention about Business Process, then I would googling everything about Business Process, if the title about Data Management, I would googling everything regarding Data Management END to END. Yups, somehow, it helped me a lot during FGD, and Interview, because you already prepare it so well. If the output didn't come as you expected, then evaluated, "Have you prepared this enough?" "What do I miss?" "What's wrong with me?" etc.

This is your future job, by defining what you're going to do, it'll help go through any test loh. Trust me, it works :)

In the end, what happened then? While I'm waiting for Pertamina, I got offered from Elevenia to be apprentice. I took it, since it's "Take it or leave it" situation. And no regret till now, learning new things from zero, and Alhamdulillah been promoted as permanent employee in here.


And last, here comes the end of this article, once again, I congratulate all of new fresh graduate, my advice, do not forget to plan your future job ya, you'll have this title for the next 2 years, so make sure you choose the right career path,  sist! For the next 2 years, you may change your job, till you find the right one. How come it's right? Probably I'm going to share it in the next article haha

PS. If you have any comment or thought or questions, do not hesitate to write it on comment section ya, I used to check my blog gradually, so I hope I could answer all of these questions or comments in the future!

Thanks in advance and see you gaes :))

6 comments:

What I learned from the last 3 month

22:33 rafi 4 Comments


Hello everyone!

It's been a while since my last article. Currently I have huge load of work tho. But that's ok, I am obviously enjoy this one, since I love what I do in the first place.

So tonight what I want to share is .... what I've been through for the last 2 - 3 month.

Well, just a couple month ago, I've been in this dilemmatic situation, where I got offering from another start up. The role I could take is Business Intelligence Analyst, from my point of view, the role is so challenging! It's like joining several job desc from Data Architect, BI Support, and also Customer Analytics at the same time! From my last interview, the users are so face-paced, and expat, which is ..... from Sweden. I am seeing this as opportunity to sharpen not only my technical skills, but also my language, and of course, opportunity to live under pressure in face-paced environment.

I was exciting back then, but extremely  dilemma at the first place. Why? Yups, back then, I'm still being Apprentice, while the company itself not really in its best performance. The worst part? I still have penalty, and the number is quite big tho.

Well, since I have my mentor, which refers to my General Manager and also Team Leader, I shared everything to them. I am new in this world, I gave them the number, I gave them the reason, the job description, even approximate salary IF I took that. I asked them anything, since my TL have been through as BI and Data Architect in his previous and current company. He even asked me, to do my research about this company, since it's really important to know the stability and sustainability of this company.

I felt mentored really well, and I own them one since then. I didn't take this offer, and keep doing my best and maintain my performance in this current role. and I did.

In the middle of these, I was called by one company, asking me whether I interested with their vacant. I told them so and begin my logic and first interview Test. I managed to continue on the second phase Interview, but I decided to leave, because my target been achieved. Yups, hired as permanent employee as Pricing and Customer Analytics Manager.

Happy? Of course! For the last 2 month, I just knew what actually happened with my Analysis. I learnt pricing, segmented valuable vs non-valuable customer, even taking roles as Promotion Analyst! Actually, it's same with roles I would take if I passed the last interview.

Things have got better and better, I felt someone has designed this life beautifully. I mean, I reject the offer, and got HIRED after that. I didn't continue my Interview as Promotion Analyst, and my current roles is doing that! Last but not least, what I'm happy is .... whenever your analysis used and presented in top level management. I know that  I'm not really created the crazy recommendation, since that what my GM and my VP were doing, but ..... giving them these insight, which is digging lots of Customer Behavior, top products, payment, and why these customers cancelled in the first place. I love and enjoy these processes and still believe, these might the right career I should take.

Lesson learned! Millennials like me, should be patient with our life, enjoy the process, and the result might not betray your effort! What's the point of having high salary, if you even can't enjoy what you've taken in the first place? Learn, Grateful, and Patient!

PS. Special thanks to my GM and TL that used to be friend instead of boss back then. Truly love you guys!


4 comments:

A poem of survivors

23:15 rafi 6 Comments

I used to ask myself
Why am I easily crying?
In my life, everything is not easy
Have I called stupid by a teacher? Yes!
Have I called queer/gay by my friends? Yes!
Was I angry? No!
Was I sad? Yes!
Was I crying? In the silence!

Things getting hard if you got this entitled,
People would judge you based on what they hear
They didn't even know me that much
They didn't even try approaching me
They didn't even ask, what they want to ask
Confirm, what need to be  confirmed
Fix, what need to be fixed
"Is that even bad?" myself asking
How could we say it's right or wrong,
Since world fueled by fuzzy numbers.
There's always values between 1 and 0
Period

Things I knew
Hurting someone's hurt is wrong
Breaking apart someone's soul is wrong
Leaving grudge in someone's live is wrong

Things I realized
God designed everything so well
He created me to be more open minded
He wanted me to be not so judgmental person
He guided me to be that person, who could accept the others, just the way they are
Not what they used to be entitled
He taught me to be stronger
He showed me the way looking at people
He steered me to straight path, for living my life, in a loving and caring situation
Oh, almighty God
"Then which of the favours of your lord will ye deny?"

6 comments:

Tentang Pilihan (Part 1)

23:44 rafi 10 Comments


Halo gaes,

Jadi hari ini gue mau share beberapa hal dan pengalaman, yang harapannya bisa menginspirasi anak-anak muda khususnya Mahasiswa.

Well, karena saya udah lulus juga, tapi karena jiwanya masih muda mah, masih oke lah ya ngomongin kemahasiswaan :p Moreover, umur dan angkatan kita juga ga beda-beda amat kok, culture-nya mungkin ga terlalu beda lah ya, walaupun angkatan gue itu penutup Gen Y (millenials) sih. Haha

So ..... Ada beberapa pilihan yang sampai sekarang selalu aku syukuri loh, rasa-rasanya kalau di-list bisa ga habis-habis. Namun, akan aku ringkas ke beberapa hal pastinya.

1. Memilih ke Asrama daripada Nge-Kost

Nah, ini pilihan pertama yang aku buat waktu menjejalkan kaki di kampus. Tinggal di Asrama, tepatnya Asrama Bumi Ganesha.

Nah, karena di Asrama ini juga ada seleksinya, mungkin beberapa pewawancara udah mikir kalau gue tuh cuman normatif alasannya. "Untuk beraktualisasi diri, menjadi mandiri, dsb". Padahal tidak, di kelas 3 SMA, hal besar yang gue udah pikirkan matang-matang adalah merantau. Apapun caranya, dimanapun tempatnya, gue ga boleh lagi tinggal di tempat saudara ataupun ayah. Titik. Gue udah sadar, kalau tingkat ke-mandirian gue itu sangatlah dibawah rata-rata. Yaps, terbiasa dibantu sama pembantu, waktu kecil dicebokin, makan disuapin, ga pernah cuci piring, ga pernah nyapu rumah (kecuali lebaran), untunglah gue masih ada rasa iba buat ngebantu ayah jaga kasir dan toko sih waktu dulu. Kalau tidak? Hmmmm, fixed hasilnya kayak abang-abang gue, yang sampe sekarang ga bisa lepas dari ayah gue.

Lantas, kan udah merantau tuh, terus kenapa milih asrama? Bukannya lebih enak hidup sendiri di kosan yah? Ga ada yang ngelarang aku ngapain, ga ada kewajiban ngerjain tugas asrama yang bahkan ngalahin tugas kuliah, dan se-abrek target yang harus dicapai. Hmmmmm, simple, tinggal di Asrama itu, positifnya banyak banget sih:

- Multi-disciplinary students, dari FITB, FMIPA, FTTM, sampe STEI, semua ada.
Nah FYI aja, kalau di ITB, di tingkat 1 itu kita ngejalanin TPB (Tahap Persiapan Bersama) bareng, semua fakultas kecuali manajemen, bakal belajar semua dari awal lagi, jadi titik start-nya sama. Yaps, belajar Kalkulus, Fisika, Kimia, dsb. Nah alhamdulillah, waktu tinggal di Asrama, kalau w ga ngerti sesuatu, tinggal approach anak-anak saja, berdiskusi dan bertukar fikiran sampe akhirnya ngerti konsep secara keseluruhan

- Tidak sendiri.
Jadi, waktu wawancara kami dikasih tahu tuh kalau tingkat 1 dan 2 itu kita ga tidur sendiri. Yaps, sekamar berdua. Walaupun awalnya agak gimana gitu yah, tapi demi uang biaya hidup lebih hemat dan alasan diatas, di tingkat 2 gue juga tahu kalau memang anak-anak tingkat 1 tuh mostly perlu diawasi. Kalau dilepas gitu aja, bisa jadi kuliah mereka terbengkalai loh. Contohnya? Hmmmmm, pasti ada, biasanya tiap angkatan ada contohnya koks. Dan sebisa mungkin itu harus dikontrol.

Lagi-lagi, gue bisa milih dong ya. Dilihat dari kecenderungan gue yang emang lebih suka hidup sendiri, mungkin kostan pilihan menggiurkan, tapi ...... "Mau sampe kapan gue stay di zona nyaman gue?".

- Softskills
Well, walaupun ini bisa diperoleh di organisasi manapun, asrama tuh punya tempat yang spesial loh :p. Jadi kalo kalian tanya gimana gue waktu awal-awal kuliah, ngomong tuh susah kali. Malu-malu, ngomong belepotan, dsb. Thanks to asrama, everyone can speak up their mind, ke-aktifan adalah suatu keharusan, tapi tetep gaboleh ego sama ide yang disampaikan. Belum lagi, kita diberi tanggung jawab dari yang perintilan-perintilan yang terlihat ga penting, hingga bikin kepanitiaan untuk acara minimal se-kota Bandung raya, sampailah dimandati sebagai Kepala Operasional bisnis baru yang emang udah dipropose sama pengurus sebelumnya.

Walaupun hasilnya sangat tidak memuaskan, tapi gue belajar banget lah seberapa penting roles/peran gue dalam menanggungjawabi suatu biro di departemen penting untuk menyongsong murahnya sewa asrama.

I do have a choice to give up in the middle of my first year, or second, or anytime, but I chose not to

Credit by Sandy (Sida Luhur 2012)

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2. Stay pada Prodi Pilihan

Nah, kalian tahu kan yah kalo gue itu sangat mem-promote prodi Meteorologi banget, sampe bikin testimoni segala lagi :")

Well, jujur aja ya, waktu di tingkat 1, gue emang sempat melirik prodi ter-favorit (sebut saja Geologi). Nah, masalahnya gue udah terlanjur kontrak sama ITB lewat jalur perminatan. Gue ga akan bisa pilih prodi apapun itu, pokoknya gitu gue lulus TPB, BOOM, masuklah aku di Mete.

Pernahkah terfikir pindah prodi? Yes, obviously! Gue pernah dengar cara-cara lo pindah prodi, it's rather you're freaking Genius (punya IPK > 3.5) atau nilai lo suddenly jatuh (let say IP < 1). Nah, kabarnya, lo bisa pindah tuh milih prodi mana yg lo suka. IPK bisa memperlihatkan kalo lu capable enough di prodi lain, atau ..... Lo sangat tidak cocok di prodi itu.

Oke, gue langsung mikir cara pertama, gue mau buktiin di semester 4 IPK gue harus > 3.5 ! Caranya? setelah gue hitung-hitung, IP tiap semester gue harus > 3.8 dengan tambahan 42 sks. Mampus lah gue kan ..... "Gimana cara dapatin angka segitu? Fisika gue jelek, kalkulus juga biasa aja, untunglah ga belajar kimia banget". Gue pun memilih untuk belajar dengan sungguh-sungguh, gue aktif di kelas, gue lengkapi seluruh catatan gue, ga pernah absen (unless gue mager banget atau sakit), belajar H-7 UTS atau UAS adalah the least thing I should do. In the middle and the end, eh gue malah senang di Mete :") IPK gue? Tenang, IPK gue udah melebihi target kok.

Which is, I have a choice to change my prodi, but I chose not to.

Antari, Meteorologi 2012


3. Bukannya Liburan, malah ga pulang, eh belajar Bahasa Inggris pula

Well, thanks to Amel dan Oji banget ini sumpah.

Seumur-umur, gue gapernah se-envy itu ke teman baik gue sendiri. Yaps, mereka exchange abroad, oji ke Russia, amel ke Mesir (she had gone to several countries tho). Gue udah sempat ngomong langsung ke orangnya, eh gue nya ditantangin ngomong bahasa inggris kan .... Ciut lah

Yaps, gegara ini, di liburan semester 5, one of hectic semester, gue memutuskan untuk tidak pulang. Gue malah belajar bahasa inggris, gue baca novel bukan terjemahan, gue ucapkan tiap kalimat dengan lantang, gue catat setiap vocab yang gue ga tau arti dan pronouncationnya. Sampailah kelar 2 novel dan bacaan tersebut. In the end, I tried speaking english by standing in front of a Mirror, try to translate all of my presentation into english, and once again, presented it -as if- I speak it in front of lots of Bule/foreigner.

Did it work? YA! Tanpa planning apapun, tau-tau gue kepilih jadi kandidat mapres, presentasi di depan ka-prodi ka-prodi dan Dekan, dan kepilih mewakili Fakultas di salah satu ajang bergengsi itu. Walaupun ga menang, at least gue ngelihat contoh nyata "Diatas langit masih ada langit", yang pastinya ..... "Remember, there's always someone who can do better than you"

The point is .... I have a choice to enjoy my holiday, but I chose not to


4. Udah tahu banyak tugas, malah nyempetin bikin makalah

Nah ... Ini waktu proses pemilihan mapres ya. FYI, semester 6 itu, semester paling ta* di Mete. Gue udah stress banget karena semua tugas adalah tugas kelompok, unfortunately, I didn't get a good/cooperative team. Kerjaan yang harusnya dikerjain 5 orang, biasanya cuman dikerjan 2 - 3 orang, hingga akhirnya kelabakan deh. Frekuensi nangis bertambah, frekuensi nelfon ayah bertambah (2 - 3 kali perminggu).

Don't get me wrong, for me, it's ok for a man to cry, because it's natural! This is our first emotion while we're born to the world, right?

Oke, skip. Jadi, sampailah ke pengumuman bahwa gue salah satu kandidat mapres. Kita dipilih sebagai top 6 persons that had the highest GPA. Nah, karena IPK bukan satu-satunya patokan, yasudah kita diminta berkompetisi lebih lanjut. Kita diminta buat Makalah dalam bahasa Indonesia, tapi abstrak dalam bahasa inggris, dan presentasi juga harus dalam bahasa inggris.

Ditengah kesibukan, dari 6 orang kandidat, 4 orang memilih mundur dengan tidak mengerjakan makalah sama sekali. Sedangkan gue? Ditengah badai semester 6, malah menyempatkan bikin hal demikian. Ada yang perlu dikorbankan memang, waktu. Waktu bermain jadi sangat minim, waktu tidur aku kurangi jadi hanya 4 jam perhari (Biasanya 5 - 6 jam doang).

Yaps, bahkan gue ga expect apapun saat itu. Jadi intinya, gue cuman ikut ngumpulin, coba presentasi walaupun hasilnya jelek parah (dimaki sama kaprodi in a good way), dan ...... "Yang penting ngumpulin, lumayan bisa dikasih sertifikat runner up mapres prodi"

Hahahaha ..... gataunya ngewakilin fakultas sampe final di Ganeca Prize.

Selanjutnya ga perlu gue ceritain, karena kalo dibandingkan sama mapres lain, prestasi gue kalah telak lah pokoknya. Mapres lain udah ke negara nun jauh dimato, gue masih seputaran pulau Jawa :") Thanks to them, gue malah lebih berprestasi setelah ini haha :p

The point is ..... I have a choice to focus only in my academic or using my free time to take a rest, but I chose not to 

Publikasi pengumuman Mapres di HMME (Credit by Kevin)
NB. Sorry, didn't have any documentation for the selection, LoL

-- Monolog

Well,
Dalam kehidupan, setiap manusia pasti punya pilihan
Kalau dilihat, waktu setiap manusia itu sama
Iya, sama-sama 24 Jam, sama-sama 1440 menit, sama-sama 86400 detik
Tapi .....
Pemanfaatannya itu loh yang beda
Ayo berfikir! Coba aja 1 episode Anime mu diganti jadi hal bermanfaat yang lain? Let say, belajar bahasa inggris atau baca buku referensi tiap mapel? Mana yang lebih bermanfaat? You choose!
Ayo berfikir! Coba aja 2 jam main mobile-legend mu, diganti jadi hal yang lain? Let say, ikut kegiatan organisasi positif, dipakai berfikir untuk menyelasaikan masalah, dipakai berpendapat dalam menyampaikan solusi? Mana yang lebih bermanfaat? You choose!
Dan masih banyak lagi .....

Ingat dek, hidup itu pilihan. Setiap pilihan, secara ga sadar, langsung maupun tidak langsung, akan membawa dirimu ke suatu jalur, yang bisa jadi, hasilnya akan benar-benar beda. Bisa baik, bisa buruk, ataupun bisa biasa-biasa aja.

For me, I chose not to be ordinary person, I have things I should handle and focus on. Listing my goals and go towards it and beyond. Quite impossible to be achieved, if I only doing ordinary stuff.

"If you do the work, the rest will follow" - Angelo 'Gyp' DeCarlo (Jersey Boys, 2014) 
Dibuat tanpa niat menggurui ataupun pamer prestasi, melainkan menginspirasi.

Semoga membantu gaes!

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Best Regards,
Rafi

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