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This is my way...

2010-01-06T10:49:00.000+07:00

Akhir-akhir ini saya iseng menjadi observer beberapa hal yang menurut saya menarik. Korban observasi pertama saya adalah para mahasiswa saya, yang punya kewajiban membuat tulisan setelah sekian minggu dibombardir dengan informasi (kalau tidak boleh mengatakan pengetahuan). This is very interesting indeed...given the fact that I was a student myself and I already did what they are doing right now.

Law of Attraction

2009-12-05T11:34:00.000+07:00

Just now I experienced a strange phenomenon of "Law of Attraction" while doing something on the internet. I was busy searching for institutions and SMEs in Salatiga and Boyolali for my next week research expedition with Mbak Iwus, when the Metro TV program suddenly showed a profile of 3 villages in Central Java to become pilot projects for SMEs. One of the villages located in Salatiga! Oh my God.

News from Yahoo.com: 1 in 3 laptops die in first three years

2009-11-24T12:37:00.000+07:00

Really excited to read the news from Yahoo today, comparing laptop brands, which ones die easy and which ones die hard. The results are: > 20.4 percent of failures are due to hardware malfunctions. 10.6 percent are due to drops, spills, or other accidental damage.> Netbooks have a roughly 20 percent higher failure rate due to hardware malfunctions than standard laptops. The more you pay for your

Cicak....Selamat Hari Pahlawan

2009-11-10T10:08:00.000+07:00

TV stations nowadays are very busy with its repetitive programs of disclosing the villain's behavior of corruption in our higher court of laws. "Anggodonesia" instead of Indonesia has been labeled to this country since Anggodo clearly and systematically brought this country into it's lowest level of morality toward clean government, and those in the higher position didn't do anything to this most

Turkiye Trip

2009-11-01T07:52:00.000+07:00

Feels like I haven't written in years, and my brain becomes numb now. So this is a story haven't written anywhere yet...an interesting story between Turkiye and Netherlands. Yes, those are the countries I've been to last month (today is already November, right?). The trip was started on October 9 to Istanbul. Arrived in Istanbul at 5 in the morning Oct 10 when everybody is still in their dreams,

Blessing in Disguise (continued)

2009-09-25T05:31:00.000+07:00

Today is my deadline for the article revision, and I haven't done anything about it yet. Well, they only wanted me to revise the non essential things in my writing, but I'd like my writing to be perfect since this is a second chance, right? And since it will be published worldwide, I cannot embarrass my university by writing a mediocre article (though I don't know very well about a perfect

Blesing in Disguise (again)

2009-09-17T17:12:00.000+07:00

Now it's a story of my blessings in disguise. Just so you know, I am a real procrastinator, and I can't help it. And this is a story of a procrastinator, with a big disclaimer DON'T DO THIS TO YOURSELF. As my research abstract for a congress was accepted, the committee asked a full article of it. Together with the standard for article writing, they sent a letter to the accepted abstract writers

Cicak!!!

2009-09-06T06:09:00.000+07:00

Masih ingat lagu "Cicak-cicak di dinding..."? Akhir-akhir ini aku selalu teringat lagu ini setiap kali melihat cicak di rumahku. Hanya saja kali ini syairnya ganti jadi "cicak-cicak di lantai...diam-diam merayap". Betapa menggelikan...(dalam arti yang sebenarnya).Komunitas cicak di rumahku punya kebiasaan merayap di lantai instead of dinding, entah kenapa. Berkali-kali kakiku menyentuh badan

Happy Birthday, INDONESIA!

2009-08-16T03:58:00.000+07:00

Tomorrow INDONESIA is already 64 years old, pretty old for a young nation (they always consider INDONESIA as a young country by labeling it as DEVELOPING country). For a man, 64 y.o. is considered very mature, already 9 years of retirement for private and public employees, and one more year of service for faculty members. You should be ready not to bother any human being afterwards, find yourself

Noordin M Top and Ibrohim

2009-08-12T14:21:00.000+07:00

Last weekend, while doing a terrorizing work of RKAT at the office (I don't know how secret it was but we were only allowed to do that in office so I spent my precious weekend at the office, sighhhhh), I watched the reality show on TV. I didn't watch it seriously tough, not only because the RKAT needed half of my brain, it's the most boring film I ever had. People were busy watching TV too I

Dengkulku sayang...dengkulku malang....hiks!

2009-04-05T02:33:00.000+07:00

Kemarin, akhirnya terjadi juga...gue terjerembab dengan sukses di tangga jembatan antara gedung H dan gedung C karena tidak memperhatikan anak tangga terakhir (dan ini sudah berkali2 terjadi tapi gue dengan saktinya bisa menjaga keseimbangan...until yesterday). Entah mengapa, gue sepertinya bermusuhan dengan anak tangga terakhir di mana pun...dan selalu hampir jatuh tapi tidak jadi. Nasib berkata

Bath-tub

2009-03-28T01:58:00.000+07:00

Beberapa hari tidak pulang ke "home sweet home" Cimanggis, gue rada kaget melihat ada "bath-tub" di samping garasi. Bath-tub siapakah itu gerangan? Tanya punya tanya...ternyata itu hasil instruksi ibuku yang genius, dan itu bukan bath-tub melainkan kolam ikan! Kolam ikan kok seperti bath-tub??? Ibu yang harusnya datang ke sini hanya melancong saja, tapi kok ya seperti yang punya rumah itu, memang

Selamat Nyepi

2009-03-26T08:11:00.000+07:00

Sms-sms iseng bersliweran antara Depok - Purwokerto dari dua anak manusia yang kesepian di hari raya Nyepi:P (Pwt): Bu kmrn aq krm cnth via mms nyampe ga sih. btw day off kmn nehD (Dpk): Nyampe bu tp aq blm smpt ngapa2in ni. Renc hari ini mo k t4 kakekku bu tapi takut ditanya2 heheP: Gpp aq cm tya aja coz krm jg ke tmnku di riau tp failed trus...kakek drmn bu, nyante aje kl dityain wong Tuhan blm

Just a weekend note

2009-03-22T08:56:00.000+07:00

I'm facing my notebook now....not knowing what to do first. I have my to do list, and starting to hate it bad times. I even like it more to be surprised like they did last week, when I was told that I had to present my research report on a seminar 2 days before the seminar, and organized my presentation a few hours before the seminar. Hhhhh....real procrastinator!! In the middle of writing this

Changing people and changing tax ehehe...

2009-03-13T19:39:00.000+07:00

Today I went to Al Bahar to see the mothers' progresses on paper recycling business we've taught. There were some progress here and there, but many of them are dissapointing. Can we apply some sophisticated theory on a very simple community? We were wrong in the first place. We trained them how to be an achiever, we trained them on technical stuffs. We hoped that they could be on their own, doing

Kampanye oh kampanye...

2009-03-10T06:10:00.000+07:00

Beberapa bulan ini jalan dan gang di seluruh Indonesia dibanjiri foto-foto, testimonial dan janji-janji muluk caleg. Muka yang tersenyum arif, menyeringai, serius, memelas, you name it, semua ada di jalanan, bahkan sejak akhir tahun lalu. Saya jadi ingat bulan Desember tahun lalu berlibur ke kampung halaman ayah saya yang kiri kanan jalanannya kebon kelapa sawit melulu. Namanya kebun kelapa sawit

Happy wedding day Pakde Ibut

2009-03-08T05:34:00.000+07:00

Today is Mas Ibut's big day with Anyi. He finally took a big leap, after some struggles on both parts. Congratulations to Mas Ibut and Anyi, hopefully this would last forever. The wedding invitation is a very cool one, I like it! Forgot to take the picture of it.

Everybody wants to be Italian

2009-03-07T17:46:00.000+07:00

Have you seen the movie? Not that I don't like it, but it constantly hurts my brain from the beginning of why they titled it that way instead of "everybody wants to be needed" or "everybody wants to be in search of soulmate." They are too exaggerating in picturing Italian as the most wanted ethnic in the world (?) I'd rather be spanish because they are the most sexiest people in the world. Hehehe

Wisdom

2009-03-06T17:39:00.000+07:00

My thought of the day:By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest ~ Confucius ~My song of the day:Bridge over troubled water ~ Simon & GarfunkleMy painting of the day:A Balinese dancer worth 650k which I condemned since I've seen a much more larger and beautiful painting for

The darn day...ups...the lovely day....

2009-03-04T18:32:00.000+07:00

Today I considered myself to be unlucky, evil was around me almost all hours from morning to evening. Start from morning hours, I forgot about many ‘to do list’ that were listed in my head (sape suruuuu…) so I was fortunate enough since I remember to pay my debt to the bank (wakakakak…imagine what would happen if I forgot this one). Upon giving more than a quarter of my monthly pay to the bank, I

Mighty Ponari

2009-02-26T16:46:00.000+07:00

Siapa tak kenal Ponari. Dukun cilik nan sakti asal Jombang yang mampu mengalirkan dana milyaran rupiah di sekitar daerah tersebut telah menjadi bahan pembicaraan di mana-mana, bahkan kononnya sudah go internasional. Paham betul dia soal komersialisasi dan profitabilitas kedukunannya. Mungkin dia harus memikirkan untuk memproduksi air plus celupan batu petir/gunturnya secara massal. Air yang

Bravo Slumdog Millionnaire

2009-02-25T09:54:00.000+07:00

Meski gue belum nonton ini movie (makasih ya Iyan...udah nahan2 hak gw!!) gue merasa dia akan mendapat banyak penghargaan (sok tau gak sih?). Terbukti dia mendapatkan 8 oscar untuk 10 nominasi! Phew....that was wonderful meskipun orang Mumbai banyak yang gak setuju soal penggambaran Mumbai yang kumuh (gue gak berani nulis dalam bahasa Inggris karena punya banyak teman India hehehe).Tidak tau

Procrastination theory and practice

2009-02-21T15:34:00.000+07:00

I thought the topic procrastination wasn't really an interesting topic. It's just there...whether you like it or not. It's so natural that you don't know how to fight it. Like...living in Indonesia and it's okay if we're late 15-30 minutes because some other will get there even later. In my colleague's term, it's a condition we cannot change, so we have to find ways to be better with the given

Social norms vs Market Norms

2009-02-12T17:17:00.000+07:00

Today I was fascinated by Dan Ariely. I found a very engaging, original yet simple story of our everyday lives, of our irrational thinking that influence our decision making process. This is too good a writing that I have to share with my Indonesian fellows, so I will write in Indonesian language to be read by my people. Sorry to my non-Indonesian friends. Bayangkan anda pergi ke rumah

Full moon of February

2009-02-09T18:04:00.000+07:00

As I walked along the road on my way back home, I saw a very bright beautiful full moon across the sky, Brightened my Monday night Smiled at me as if it knew what I was thinking at the moment, I remembered nights in February last year, We gathered together at the ICG front yard Drinking and dancing and talking (I drank only coca cola but drunk as well as it was already 1 am) and we’re

AMT is over now...

2009-01-10T16:12:00.000+07:00

As I already wrote before, these couple of months have been a busy time for me. As for the office work, you know how busy it is to be a secretary. This one really sucks up my energy I couldn't do job that I really love: learning with my students. I gave up the teaching stuff for some noble reasons, so help me God. And as always, God loves me very much so He balanced my life. In addition to the

Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T19:01:00.000+07:00

Today's the first day in 2009, and I pushed myself hard to do something worth. So here proudly presenting some of today's productive activities: I started the day with a pray (yippieee...). I prayed all my activities, effort, family, friends, friends' families, to be in our best in 2009. It's a syafaat prayer after all. In the middle I heard the sound of bombings and fireworks outside, that

I miss being a simple person :-(

2008-12-30T18:02:00.000+07:00

This couple of months something really hit me hard inside, I don't know what...but maybe I know why. Just try to grok everything as fast as I could, try to adapt to the situation in a simple and easiest manner, but as someone has said...I might have gotten some inferiority complex I couldn't bear it. I try to deal with everyone as natural as I can, it is soooo hard. Especially when you deal with

I miss being a simple person

2008-12-30T17:44:00.000+07:00

Part one is done :-)

2008-12-18T14:56:00.000+07:00

I have to celebrate this...got a work done at the expense of at least 3 meetings, not getting enough sleep, stacks of paperworks to do, and half of my head gone. It's really adrenaline braindrain, and I have to promise myself not to do this again in the future. At least, I have to count on myself a little bit harder, not counting on others to do everything because usually it won't work out well

That darn booking clerk!

2008-12-11T17:56:00.000+07:00

Yesterday I went to a workshop at UI Salemba. I was wise enough not to take my privilege to use office car, I decided to take the train instead. It's easier, cheaper, more unstressful, etc. The problem was that I didn't know the schedule.So there I was, standing in front of the booking clerk, and asking about the schedule. I knew that there's a written schedule, but I wanted to know specific

Funny incidence from the President-Elect of the USA

2008-12-04T16:19:00.000+07:00

Just read this from Yahoo.com, it's soooo funny everyone gets so paranoid these days, thanks to Palin. Hehehe....-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ros-Lehtinen hangs up on Obama. Twice. Is Ileana

THE-QS World University Ranking

2008-10-15T05:38:00.000+07:00

Got this news from Forum Pembaca Kompas, not bad for UI and some Indonesian universities. I guess I must congratulate our new president university for this? "Congratulation Mr. Goommy..." You see...ranking can be seen as "just a number" but somehow you must see how you perform among others, rite? Though internally you have one BIG QUESTION about your own performance, it's not REALLY bad laahhh...

A reflection from mob wars

2008-10-07T07:55:00.000+07:00

Dua minggu belakangan ini aku sibuk menjadi mobster (salahkan VEMMY HEBAT!!!). Seminggu pertama buka mobwars kalau lagi ingat saja, dan seminggu belakangan buka mob wars sudah menjadi first-order need. Congratulations! Mob wars ini adalah salah satu aplikasi di facebook yang ngajarin kita ngerampok dan berantem. Cooollll....di level awal kita diberikan sedikit modal untuk digunakan wisely, dan

Psychological Capital: Resiliency

2008-09-18T08:28:00.000+07:00

Resiliency adalah faset terakhir dari Psychological Capital (ugh thank God…) yang penting dibahas. Resiliency juga sering dibahas secara terpisah, terutama oleh pelopor gerakan ‘living values’. Di dalam domain psikologi, penelitian dan praktik resiliency sudah cukup lama dikenal dalam bidang psikologi klinis, sebelum gerakan psikologi positif berkembang (waktu itu bidang psikologi masih

Psychological Capital: Optimism

2008-09-17T07:27:00.000+07:00

Di bidang psikologi, optimisme adalah konstruk yang tidak cukup dipahami, meskipun kata “optimis” sering digunakan baik secara akademik maupun non akademik. Dalam pengertian sehari-hari, individu yang optimis adalah individu yang mengharapkan sesuatu yang positif dan diinginkan terjadi di masa depan, sebaliknya individu yang pesimis adalah individu yang memiliki pikiran-pikiran negatif dan yakin

Psychological Capital: HOPE

2008-09-15T05:00:00.000+07:00

Apakah anda termasuk orang yang punya kemauan keras? Apakah anda tahu persis tujuan hidup anda? Apakah anda merasa dapat mengendalikan nasib sendiri? Apakah anda cukup persisten (bersedia mengorbankan waktu anda) untuk menyelesaikan tugas yang telah anda tetapkan sendiri? Sulitkah bagi orang lain untuk membelokkan anda dari tujuan anda? Apakah anda cenderung menetapkan sendiri tujuan anda? Apakah

Psychological Capital

2008-09-13T05:48:00.000+07:00

Psychological Capital (PsyCap) adalah keadaan perkembangan psikologi individu yang positif, yang dicirikan oleh: (1) adanya kepercayaan diri (self-efficacy) melakukan tindakan yang perlu untuk mencapai sukses dalam tugas-tugas yang menantang; (2) atribusi yang positif (optimism) tentang sukses masa sekarang dan yang akan datang; (3) persistensi dalam mencapai tujuan, dengan kemampuan

Large Hadron Collider

2008-09-12T13:13:00.000+07:00

Dua hari yang lalu pict theme-nya Google adalah "Large Hadron Collider". What kind of animal is that? Had no idea, but starting to get the info as I browsed some websites to fill in the blanks in my head. Not so many things come to my senses but I'm not that stupid to know what's happening now. Kiamat sudah dekat? Dari dulu katanya gitu....Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ini adalah proyek CERN (

Understanding the Japanese Innovation Process

2008-09-10T12:49:00.000+07:00

Pada tahun 1960-an perekonomian Jepang masih menitikberatkan pada strategi imitasi dengan cara meniru produk, jasa dan teknologi dari luar negeri dengan sedikit penyesuaian-penyesuaian. Kini Jepang telah bertransformasi menjadi leader dalam penciptaan produk, jasa dan teknologi yang berkategori new-to-the-world. Negara-negara Asia Timur lainnya pun mengikuti jejak “saudara tua”. China, Taiwan (

Gud news from Raja

2008-09-08T14:23:00.000+07:00

Today just got good news from Raja, after some gravely quiet time upon his resigning of being director of ICG. He said he's now in Jakarta, working quite closely with Dr. Surin in ASEAN Secretariat, being his special advisor on community building and outreach. The aim of his position is deepening cooperation and making ASEAN a truly integrated community. Isn't that great? I am very happy to hear

Cipularang KM 68 - 76

2008-09-05T12:11:00.000+07:00

Kemarin salah satu posting di FPK (bukan tandingannya FPI lho!) tentang kejadian-kejadian di Cipularang bikin bulu kuduk sedikit merinding. Betapa tidak...sampai beberapa bulan yang lalu, aku hampir setiap minggu bolak-balik Jakarta-Bandung lewat Cipularang. Cukup sering juga nyetir sendirian, di malam hari pula. Terutama perjalanan ke Bandung. Dari Bandung suka ada yang rela dijadiin supir balik

Boy....

2008-09-02T11:39:00.000+07:00

Gotta get used to high-tense relationships from now on. Gotta get used to stay calm...but HOW??!! Maybe by using some positive psychology concepts? Damn...oh damn me...I've informed somebody years ago about his duty, complete with helpful resources. I just took it for granted that this senior would take the responsibility with his heart. Not only that tough; everytime we met, he was always

Kebiasaan Buruk Orang Indonesia!

2008-08-20T06:10:00.000+07:00

Tadi malam aku nonton "Today's Dialogue" di Metro TV. Menampilkan Pak Amin Rais, Sofyan Djalil Menneg BUMN, Rizal Malarangeng si calon presiden 2009 (arrrgggggghhhh....), dan beberapa lainnya yang "mengeroyok" (atau "dikeroyok") Mutia Hafidz. Topik yang jadi biang keladinya adalah Privatisasi BUMN. Seperti acara dialog-dialog lainnya, acara ini pun jadi ajang "unjuk kebolehan" para tamu dalam

Michael si Manusia Ikan

2008-08-19T14:08:00.000+07:00

Michael Phelps, manusia ikan dari Baltimore, Amerika, ini akhirnya memenuhi ambisinya meraih 8 medali emas dari cabang renang di olimpiade Beijing. He had this goal of 'veni, vini, vici' prior to Beijing, and realized that afterwards. He's so an example of "you can do it if you want it" type of people. Dia mengalahkan rekor tak terkalahkan Mark Spitz sejak tahun 1972 (Mark Spitz mendapatkan 7

The Forgotten Tan Malaka

2008-08-19T05:20:00.000+07:00

Edisi khusus Hari Kemerdekaan Tempo kali ini mengupas tuntas seorang tokoh republik yang terlupakan, Tan Malaka. Seorang yang teguh pendiriannya, cukup radikal tetapi tidak haus kekuasaan. Dia adalah satu di antara segelintir orang yang tidak peduli pada popularitas. Satu-satunya hal yang diinginkannya adalah kemerdekaan Indonesia 100% dengan cara revolusi. Dia juga percaya bahwa revolusi

Asal Nama Indonesia

2008-08-15T08:08:00.000+07:00

Day after tomorrow is our independence day. My Indonesia...is going to be 63 years old. Pretty mature for a nation. It does almost reach it's end of journey as a nation unless we do something to save it. That is another story. Right now is the story of the name "Indonesia"The other day I read a posting in one of the milists, about an elementary school teacher in Kalimantan asking the foreign

Sampah jadi listrik...ini baru berita!!!

2008-08-13T06:33:00.000+07:00

Ada berita bagus dari kompas: http://www.kompas.com/read/xml/2008/08/12/14224314/sampah.jakarta.jadi.listrik.150.mw. Katanya pemprov DKI berniat (oooo baru niat thooooo!!!) mengubah sampahnya yang sehari bisa mencapai 5000 ton menjadi listrik 150 megawatt. Banyak juga sampah orang Jakarta. Ckckckck....Cukup banyak respons dari perusahaan-perusahaan (proyek ini sedang dilelang) yang berniat jadi

Creative Google

2008-08-10T04:19:00.000+07:00

Have you ever noticed Goggle these past 3 days? I have! They constantly changed the appearance of the website according to the events in olympics. The very first day it was a picture of the olympics five rings to mark the opening ceremony, the second day the picture of mountain-biking course, and the third day is this weightlifting pict. Wow...they do know how to celebrate the olympics. I'm a

Speechless

2008-08-09T13:21:00.000+07:00

An ex-student just dropped me a message. Of all her messages, this is the toughest one. She asked me to drop her a line about her classmates (KM Class of 08) to be put in their yearbook. What would I say about them? Powerful mothers loaded with knowledge? :-PActually I'm very proud of them. I can tell the difference between them and those from other classes: the effort, the knowledge, the

08 08 08

2008-08-08T13:09:00.000+07:00

Today's a goodie day....look at the beautiful title. I bet many couples who have not married are happily marrying today, many children are born with or without their consents (HOW exactly would they give their consents :-P), and many people turn their attentions to the Beijing Olympic Games. Hmmmm....olympics....finally you come, today, at this goodie day. How picky you are!!And I remember Li,

I'm no deadfish

2008-07-31T12:16:00.000+07:00

Currently been thinking about "follow the current" and its stuffs concerning my project proposal. I took it that my proposal was an interdisciplinary study, but I wasn't allowed to do some interdisciplinary study unless I'm willing to give up on my career. What else would a lecturer hope to get in the future when she/he trapped her/himself to this kinda profession? A professorship? Right....a

Homecoming UI

2008-07-26T16:26:00.000+07:00

Hari ini dan besok adalah acara Homecoming UI di UI *of course lah...*. Seluruh alumni UI yang "kangen" sama kampus diharapkan datang berkumpul di Kampus UI Depok untuk kangen-kangenan. Untuk angkatan sebelum tahun 87 barangkali bukan kangen-kangenan sama kampusnya, tapi sama teman-teman dan dosen (kalau masih ada). Kenapa tidak kangen sama kampus? Karena (sebagian) UI baru pindah ke Depok pada

Drunken Master

2008-07-16T10:12:00.000+07:00

Phhewwwww....I feel cognitively tired these couples of days, and the headache would not fade away until saturday...I guess. Booohhooooohooooo..... This book is driving me crazy, the interview, the editing, the deadline, the proofread process, everything related to the book is driving me crazy. Help me please....I don't have the capacity to carry this huge burden.