Fortunately, I realized that my writing is not that good. Every time I checked on my past writings, there are always moments that "Do I really wrote this bad?". This happens at almost every post I read on this very blog. One of the main purpose that I created this blog at the first time is to hone my writing skills. I do not think that until this time, my writing quality is come up to my expectations. Every time I read books, online articles, news site, and any other writings, I had a hope that one day I could write that well. Flawless grammar, witty phrases, concise presentation, and good choice of words are my targets.
So, I will modify the way of my writings. In the past, I always wrote almost every word that came up from my mind. Think, then, write. It is as simple as that. I do not think that method is bad or wrong, but I will iterate those steps for a few times. It means that the process will be think, write, think, write, think, write, and so on. I will repeat the process at least three times in order to write better.
One of my teacher said that a good writer need to have a good paraphrasing skills. Find a good sentence or phrase on anywhere, paraphrase it and use it. That's why we need to read a lot to cope up with our writing skill. We could learn very much from other people writings. From it's concept until the way of their writings.
So I want to keep focusing on honing my skill for me and every readers. I hope my writing can give you plenty of new things. Good day.
Minggu, 29 Desember 2013
Jumat, 27 Desember 2013
What I Learn From 2013
Alright, time for a recap of what I have learn from this year. 2013 has been a great year for me. I experienced a lot of new things. Good or bad memories, I believe I could learn something from every moment. Let's go to the first lesson.
From my dearest God, thank you for always telling me the three things that will always the most important in my life. It is hope, love, and vision.
From my final project lecturer, I thank you for teaching me about masterpiece. Since that time, I believe every people need to know that their final project is their masterpiece of their college life. It does not to be something big or hard, it just need your passion then, it would made impact.
From beloved Intermedia, I learnt that preparing a better successor than yourself is very hard and crucial. It needs great patience, time, and sweat, while it was one of the most important thing to do as a leader. I'm sorry that I failed. I hope that in the next chance, I would prepare better.
From 37signals, thank you for encouraging me that building a new business is not that hard and every people has the very chance to make a new one.
From Ci Hani, thank you for getting in touch with your former student. Your teachings that has beyond academic value will never be forgotten.
From Bang Richard, thank you for always becoming a role model for always striving in every things we do.
From Kak Sirius, thank you for showing me how to lead an engineering team. I believe your way to lead the team was great and exceptional.
From Pope Francis, thank you for showing the great value of humbleness. It was undeniably inspiring.
From Malala Yousafzai, thank you for showing the true meaning of courage. Your bravery is second to none. Even though the event was on 2012, I knew it at 2013.
From my DoTA friends, I thank you for teaching me happiness. It does not mean that before playing with you guys I never experienced happiness, but you guys taught me that the real happiness is to be shared. It is fun to laugh, but it is even funnier if I laugh with friends.
From my broken headphone, thank you for reminding me the value of things. I surely will handle electronics more gently.
There are still a lot of things I've learnt from every people I met or interacted. I hope you guys learn so much this year. Prepare the best for next year!!! :D
From my dearest God, thank you for always telling me the three things that will always the most important in my life. It is hope, love, and vision.
From my final project lecturer, I thank you for teaching me about masterpiece. Since that time, I believe every people need to know that their final project is their masterpiece of their college life. It does not to be something big or hard, it just need your passion then, it would made impact.
From beloved Intermedia, I learnt that preparing a better successor than yourself is very hard and crucial. It needs great patience, time, and sweat, while it was one of the most important thing to do as a leader. I'm sorry that I failed. I hope that in the next chance, I would prepare better.
From 37signals, thank you for encouraging me that building a new business is not that hard and every people has the very chance to make a new one.
From Ci Hani, thank you for getting in touch with your former student. Your teachings that has beyond academic value will never be forgotten.
From Bang Richard, thank you for always becoming a role model for always striving in every things we do.
From Kak Sirius, thank you for showing me how to lead an engineering team. I believe your way to lead the team was great and exceptional.
From Pope Francis, thank you for showing the great value of humbleness. It was undeniably inspiring.
From Malala Yousafzai, thank you for showing the true meaning of courage. Your bravery is second to none. Even though the event was on 2012, I knew it at 2013.
From my DoTA friends, I thank you for teaching me happiness. It does not mean that before playing with you guys I never experienced happiness, but you guys taught me that the real happiness is to be shared. It is fun to laugh, but it is even funnier if I laugh with friends.
From my broken headphone, thank you for reminding me the value of things. I surely will handle electronics more gently.
There are still a lot of things I've learnt from every people I met or interacted. I hope you guys learn so much this year. Prepare the best for next year!!! :D
Selasa, 17 Desember 2013
Resolution Evaluation
Hi, everyone! It's been a while since the last post. It is not that do not have the time to write, but I'm trying to give the best writing I can give it to you. I value quality more than quantity.
It is been the last month of this year. I'm pretty sure this year has a lot of meaning to every people. Maybe this year is their turning point in their life. Maybe this year their life is broke down. Maybe this year is their happiest year in their entire life. Whatever we had achieved, passed, ended, started, or turned in this year, let's be grateful that we make it until today. :D. Let's give yourself a little time to remember all things that happened this year, every little things. Do I becoming a better person than last year? Do I achieve what I want last year? Do I give the best this year?
For everyone of you that have personal yearly resolution, now is the perfect time to evaluate it. Reflect to yourself. It is futile to make any perfect or good resolution without any evaluation or control.
In my experience, since a few years ago, my resolution is simple and general. I want to be better in character and personality in the next year. I'm still remembering it until now. I, myself, is quite difficult when I tried to evaluated myself. With only thinking about myself, I cannot decide whether I'm becoming better or not. Honestly, I realized that I've never become so confident previously. Now, I can do a lot of things without any hesitant. I know that I understand myself better than last year.
So, I think, it is time for me to change this resolution. I believe that every improvement we got, needs a meaning. It is time to give a chance to myself to do things that matters, a lot. It is simple. I want to finish my education application is finished and can be used by a lot of people. If your resolution is to becoming better that last year, think again. Until what year you want to keep becoming better? I believe you can build something meaningful whoever you are in the next couple years. Just do not forget to give you and yourself a little time to think about it. Happy last month. :D.
It is been the last month of this year. I'm pretty sure this year has a lot of meaning to every people. Maybe this year is their turning point in their life. Maybe this year their life is broke down. Maybe this year is their happiest year in their entire life. Whatever we had achieved, passed, ended, started, or turned in this year, let's be grateful that we make it until today. :D. Let's give yourself a little time to remember all things that happened this year, every little things. Do I becoming a better person than last year? Do I achieve what I want last year? Do I give the best this year?
For everyone of you that have personal yearly resolution, now is the perfect time to evaluate it. Reflect to yourself. It is futile to make any perfect or good resolution without any evaluation or control.
In my experience, since a few years ago, my resolution is simple and general. I want to be better in character and personality in the next year. I'm still remembering it until now. I, myself, is quite difficult when I tried to evaluated myself. With only thinking about myself, I cannot decide whether I'm becoming better or not. Honestly, I realized that I've never become so confident previously. Now, I can do a lot of things without any hesitant. I know that I understand myself better than last year.
So, I think, it is time for me to change this resolution. I believe that every improvement we got, needs a meaning. It is time to give a chance to myself to do things that matters, a lot. It is simple. I want to finish my education application is finished and can be used by a lot of people. If your resolution is to becoming better that last year, think again. Until what year you want to keep becoming better? I believe you can build something meaningful whoever you are in the next couple years. Just do not forget to give you and yourself a little time to think about it. Happy last month. :D.
Sabtu, 16 November 2013
Food For Thought #1
Hi everyone! I have decided to share everything I learnt throughout my life. It is all based on my experience. From small things, into a bigger concept of life and every aspect of human being. I hope you do enjoy and learn something from this. Enough chit-chat and let's go to the first story.
Death
Done! I think, three stories is enough. I hope you can learn new things from my perspective. This is only the beginning. In this first episode, I want to lay some basic foundation of life concept. In the next one, I will explain more specific things. Thank you. Have a good day. :D.
Curiosity
No doubt, this is the first and golden rule of food for thought. Human mind has the instinct to feel hungry if their stomach is empty. Unfortunately, the instinct would not work the same for human mind itself. It works backwards. The bigger the human mind, the more their hunger for knowledge. Most people called this curiosity. If you want to be better at anything, the first step is to gain your curiosity. I allows you to keep searching and searching about new things. It let's you break the wall that prohibits you from getting better. I believe that every method I used in my life, there are better methods and I tried to find it. When I code, I believe that there are better method to code that I'm using right now and I tried to find and find it everyday to make my application better. This is the thing that keeps me moving forward. Do no satisfied with the current situation.
Practice
"Judge each day by the seeds you plant, not the harvest you reap."Simple, there are no secret way. There are no short path. Keep practicing and you will become better. While most people are in their comfort zone, you must get out from your comfort zone. I have seen enough people that only learn when the situation force them to do so. You need to become better. Not only because it makes you more competitive, it allows you to be ready for an improvement. This world is rapidly changing or maybe will you will the one that makes the change. If you are not ready, then you will out of the game soon enough. Every single achievement do not makes you better. You can win a lot of contest, competition, and match, but the real improvement comes from practice.
Death
"The time that you stop contributing is the time of your death"Have you thought about your meaning of life? Are people who breath, eat, and sleep considered living? Yes it is literary alive, but do does it made impact? The only different thing with living people that only act when there are actions that given to them with a rock is that the living people breath. When there are actions, there are reactions. We, humans, are designed for something. There are plans for us and we need to give actions to make out life a real living one. Even a small contribution like saying "Hi" to people is a great action. Contributing is the only thing we can to to let other people feel that our life is alive.
Done! I think, three stories is enough. I hope you can learn new things from my perspective. This is only the beginning. In this first episode, I want to lay some basic foundation of life concept. In the next one, I will explain more specific things. Thank you. Have a good day. :D.
Senin, 11 November 2013
My Linux Terminal
Hi everyone! For several days, I've been tweaking my terminal so that it could made me more productive and stylish. It is true that it was not that easy to tweak a terminal if one do not used to play with terminal. I, myself, indeed face some difficulties while installing all of this. Nevertheless, the result is very rewarding. So, I would like to share the steps to made a good terminal. This is the example image of my terminal. It made the default Ubuntu style for terminal lame.
This tutorial is built to work on Ubuntu. It should work with other linux distro with proper package installer. In order to made this terminal, we need 3 main tools.
Git is essential because almost all the tools are hosted using git. Now, let us install ZSH.
Then, proceed to install oh-my-zsh
Next, make ZSH as your default terminal.
Easy. Now, restart your terminal and you'll have your terminal enhanced. ZSH have some features that would ease your development like auto completion of command, directory, and shortcuts. You can see it at here. The functional enhancement is done, now, let's tackle the style part. It is indeed stylish terminal makes me likes using terminal as it's color is very neat and compelling. :D.
Fortunately, oh-my-zsh has abundant amount of built-in style. You can choose one from here. I use agnoster as my style. To pick your theme, edit the .zshrc file at your user home directory and sent the ZSH_THEME into the one you choose. :)
For the color pallet, there are a lot of color pallet on the web, but I choose Solarized. It is very neat and well designed. To use this, run this command.
Remember that Ubuntu use gnome for it's desktop graphic. For, other linux distro, you need to use the other one like the KDE version. After that, put this line into .zshrc file.
There are two types for solarized. It is light and dark. You can use set_light.sh for a bright style, but I prefer dark because it gives me more contrast color. The last step is to restart your terminal! Done! It should give you a cool new looking good terminal. :D. Let me know if you face some difficulties. I would be happy to help. :)
This tutorial is built to work on Ubuntu. It should work with other linux distro with proper package installer. In order to made this terminal, we need 3 main tools.
- ZSH, a powerful scripting language that designed for interactive use
- oh-my-zsh, a zsh framework to manage ZSH configuration
- Solarized, a cool color pallete for terminal
If you used to use bash as your default terminal, you will feel very convenient while using ZSH. The first step to customize your terminal is installing git.
sudo apt-get install git-core
Git is essential because almost all the tools are hosted using git. Now, let us install ZSH.
sudo apt-get install zsh
Then, proceed to install oh-my-zsh
wget –no-check-certificate https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O – | sh
Next, make ZSH as your default terminal.
chsh -s /bin/zsh
Easy. Now, restart your terminal and you'll have your terminal enhanced. ZSH have some features that would ease your development like auto completion of command, directory, and shortcuts. You can see it at here. The functional enhancement is done, now, let's tackle the style part. It is indeed stylish terminal makes me likes using terminal as it's color is very neat and compelling. :D.
Fortunately, oh-my-zsh has abundant amount of built-in style. You can choose one from here. I use agnoster as my style. To pick your theme, edit the .zshrc file at your user home directory and sent the ZSH_THEME into the one you choose. :)
For the color pallet, there are a lot of color pallet on the web, but I choose Solarized. It is very neat and well designed. To use this, run this command.
git clone https://github.com/sigurdga/gnome-terminal-colors-solarized.git
Remember that Ubuntu use gnome for it's desktop graphic. For, other linux distro, you need to use the other one like the KDE version. After that, put this line into .zshrc file.
source <PATH_TO_gnome-terminal-colors-solarized>/set_dark.sh
There are two types for solarized. It is light and dark. You can use set_light.sh for a bright style, but I prefer dark because it gives me more contrast color. The last step is to restart your terminal! Done! It should give you a cool new looking good terminal. :D. Let me know if you face some difficulties. I would be happy to help. :)
Kamis, 31 Oktober 2013
Weekly Log #3
Hi, welcome to my weekly log the third. It's time for a life update. :D. Let's get to the first one.
The most important thing happened to me recently is that I successfully became a speaker in Indonesian Python community. I'm talking about MongoDB and I hope that my presentation would give them many benefits. Also, the meetup is held by my company, Suitmedia. :D. It is so exciting. There 3 more spreakers besides me and their presentation was great. I learnt very much prior the presentation. The meetup ended well. I'm looking forward for the next meetup. :3. Prior to the presentation, I think I have build up quite a good amount of confidence to make my next step of my life.
The second one is about media team at my church. It was quite a difficult situation. The juvenile here is very used to go to the mall and getting a lot of entertainment. It is very hard to attract a lot of people to the team. Nevertheless, I got 4 people to help me out with the team. I think, it is more than enough. I prefer small team with passionate people rather than a lot of people while most of them are lack of passion. The team still very new and it is undergoing one of the most difficult phase. To make the team as one. Pray for me. :D. I need to do a lot of things.
The third one is that recently, I asked high school students that will taste the college life next year and it give me quite a bit of shock. Apparently, most of them would like to choose accountancy major. With all respect to accountancy major, I think that people who choose that major is people who just want to play safe within their life. They do not want to choose "hard" major like engineering or something like that. I have no problem for those of you that choose accountancy because you like it. The problem is that do you choose accountancy because it is your way of life? Are you designed by your creator to choose accountancy or there are another reason? It is indeed a boat will be safe at the harbor, but it is not the reason that the boat is built. A lot of people still do not know what they want to do is spite of their old age. I, myself, have a passion in education field. I hope, in the future, I could educate all children so that they would know what they want since teenager. :D.
That's all of my important update for my life in these weeks. I will make sure that tomorrow and beyond will definitely way better than today. Thank you. XD
The most important thing happened to me recently is that I successfully became a speaker in Indonesian Python community. I'm talking about MongoDB and I hope that my presentation would give them many benefits. Also, the meetup is held by my company, Suitmedia. :D. It is so exciting. There 3 more spreakers besides me and their presentation was great. I learnt very much prior the presentation. The meetup ended well. I'm looking forward for the next meetup. :3. Prior to the presentation, I think I have build up quite a good amount of confidence to make my next step of my life.
The second one is about media team at my church. It was quite a difficult situation. The juvenile here is very used to go to the mall and getting a lot of entertainment. It is very hard to attract a lot of people to the team. Nevertheless, I got 4 people to help me out with the team. I think, it is more than enough. I prefer small team with passionate people rather than a lot of people while most of them are lack of passion. The team still very new and it is undergoing one of the most difficult phase. To make the team as one. Pray for me. :D. I need to do a lot of things.
The third one is that recently, I asked high school students that will taste the college life next year and it give me quite a bit of shock. Apparently, most of them would like to choose accountancy major. With all respect to accountancy major, I think that people who choose that major is people who just want to play safe within their life. They do not want to choose "hard" major like engineering or something like that. I have no problem for those of you that choose accountancy because you like it. The problem is that do you choose accountancy because it is your way of life? Are you designed by your creator to choose accountancy or there are another reason? It is indeed a boat will be safe at the harbor, but it is not the reason that the boat is built. A lot of people still do not know what they want to do is spite of their old age. I, myself, have a passion in education field. I hope, in the future, I could educate all children so that they would know what they want since teenager. :D.
That's all of my important update for my life in these weeks. I will make sure that tomorrow and beyond will definitely way better than today. Thank you. XD
Minggu, 20 Oktober 2013
Leaving Social Media
So, several days ago, I've just deactivate my Facebook account. Followed by another social media like path and Twitter. It means, my only social media account that still active is only Quora. It was a quite challenging decision because I need to fight my ego and my thirst of information. Now, I cannot stalk anyone. I cannot saw their post and photo.
Recently, I realized that social media like Facebook or Twitter is not very beneficial for me. Even though I lived in the academic and professional social circle, there are still a lot of people that post unimportant message or post. It is like they need some kind of attention or something. And then, a lot of people boast a lot on Facebook. Their achievement, acceptance at some university, or many more. It is not that I'm not happy for their win, but for me, it is best to not share things like that. Every time I open my Facebook, the news feed are filled with food photos, melancholic status updates, or something that leads to hatred. For me, the type of post that can be really shared is only funny, informative, and argumentative. Sadly, this kind of post is very rare is those social media. Let's take a look into Quora. This Social Media is designed to shared something funny or argumentativeand they really do great about that. A lot of poeple shared their thought and we can learn together from it. Every time I opened Quora, I learn about new things. Not specifically about my job, but I learn law, nuclear technology, and many more. You should try it sometimes.
Second, Facebook takes a lot of my time. Facebook makes me want to update a lot of things about my surroundings. Their newest photo or maybe stories. It's like, I have known about my friends situation without asking them. It makes me thirsty for more information and more. Every time I get new updates, I could stick into Facebook for a long time waiting for a new update. While I'm trying to satisfy my thirst of information, I realized that I need to care about my friends. Facebook give me updates about my friends, but not making me closer to them. I want to communicate well with my friends. I want to discuss a lot of thing with my friends. I want to hear their stories instead of looking at their picture. While Facebook, let my ego of attention grows, my friends are abandoned.
So, I've made a huge decision this week. I would allocate my time on Facebook into somethings tha really matter to my surroundings. I really hope that this time, I could use my time more wisely for my friends and family. There are still a lot of people need care and love. I want to help them. Pray for me. :D
Recently, I realized that social media like Facebook or Twitter is not very beneficial for me. Even though I lived in the academic and professional social circle, there are still a lot of people that post unimportant message or post. It is like they need some kind of attention or something. And then, a lot of people boast a lot on Facebook. Their achievement, acceptance at some university, or many more. It is not that I'm not happy for their win, but for me, it is best to not share things like that. Every time I open my Facebook, the news feed are filled with food photos, melancholic status updates, or something that leads to hatred. For me, the type of post that can be really shared is only funny, informative, and argumentative. Sadly, this kind of post is very rare is those social media. Let's take a look into Quora. This Social Media is designed to shared something funny or argumentativeand they really do great about that. A lot of poeple shared their thought and we can learn together from it. Every time I opened Quora, I learn about new things. Not specifically about my job, but I learn law, nuclear technology, and many more. You should try it sometimes.
Second, Facebook takes a lot of my time. Facebook makes me want to update a lot of things about my surroundings. Their newest photo or maybe stories. It's like, I have known about my friends situation without asking them. It makes me thirsty for more information and more. Every time I get new updates, I could stick into Facebook for a long time waiting for a new update. While I'm trying to satisfy my thirst of information, I realized that I need to care about my friends. Facebook give me updates about my friends, but not making me closer to them. I want to communicate well with my friends. I want to discuss a lot of thing with my friends. I want to hear their stories instead of looking at their picture. While Facebook, let my ego of attention grows, my friends are abandoned.
So, I've made a huge decision this week. I would allocate my time on Facebook into somethings tha really matter to my surroundings. I really hope that this time, I could use my time more wisely for my friends and family. There are still a lot of people need care and love. I want to help them. Pray for me. :D
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