Wednesday, December 29, 2010
















It's already 11 days to go to apply for Member Committee AIESEC Indonesia 11/12.

I believe most of you have already downloaded the booklet and start to fill it..

However, i bet most of you have curious thought what's MC life is
gonna be? is it hard or easy? Is it a really worth experience?

Don't worry guys, you're gonna find the answer soon! Because we're gonna have :

*Get to know more MC life with The Sunshine team!*

We're gonna have LIVE CHAT on SKYPE on Thursday, 30th December 2010 start from 19.00 until 21.00 GMT+7

How to join this conference chat?

just add skype id: nimade.dayinta or nadya.aulika
with subject message : join The Sunshine conference chat.
and we will invite you directly to the conference

This is the opportunity for you to answer all your doubtful. That
means don't waste this opportunity ;)


ABOUT MC AIESEC INDONESIA 2011-2012

Download the application booklet:
http://www.myaiesec.net/content/viewfile.do?contentid=10154396

The MC 11-12 applications are due by 23:59 on January 7th, 2011

If you have questions please ask Nadya Aulika at nadya.aulika@aiesec.net
or Ni Made Dayinta at nimade.dayinta@aiesec.net


Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Authors@Google: Daniel Goleman

Last night, I have a sort of deep talk with one of my friends. He such an inspiring guy for me. Kenyan who studied and worked in Uganda, and now works in Singapore for a not-for-profit organization. Then, in the middle of our talk, he recommend me to watch this video. A quite long video though, but it is really worth it to learn on. So, here I share you this video.. hope we can discuss something based on this :)

Sunday, December 26, 2010

my truth of happiness

One day, I talked with one of my best friend about my personal plan, whether it’s a way to achieve my passion or it is a comfort zone. Because somehow I think that if we only play in the same field, it sounds like we are not that brave enough to take other challenge.

Then my friend told me that actually it’s more about “do I want it or not?”. In addition he gave me a question to ponder “will you happy with it or not?”. So I take that question back home, and contemplate with it…

A few thoughts later, I found that actually what makes me happy is:

"When I can make peace with The God. Thanks to Him for everything that He gave for me.Accept everything as something that He has planned for my best"

Sounds as simple as it is, but somehow I’m still put effort on it. Well I can say that, this is my truth of happiness. So, what does happiness mean for you?

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Be a Better Manager: Live Abroad (Harvard Business Review) --- Reason why you have to have Leadership and Exchange Experience

Be a Better Manager: Live Abroad

by William W. Maddux, Adam D. Galinsky, and Carmit T. Tadmor

Travel and living abroad have long been seen as good for the soul. What’s perhaps less well-known is that they’re also good for the company. People who have international experience or identify with more than one nationality are better problem solvers and display more creativity, our research suggests. What’s more, we found that people with this international experience are more likely to create new businesses and products and to be promoted.

For example, we ran an experiment in which 220 MBA students from Northwestern’s Kellogg School were asked to solve the famous Duncker candle problem. In this behavioral test, individuals are presented with three objects on a table: a candle, a pack of matches, and a box of tacks. They’re asked to attach the candle to a cardboard wall—using only the objects on the table—so that the candle burns properly and does not drip wax on the floor.

The correct solution demands the ability to think creatively: Empty the box of tacks and use it as a candleholder. The solution is considered a measure of “insight creativity” because it involves making the “aha!” discovery that the box is not just a repository for your tools but a tool itself.

We found that the longer students had spent living abroad, the more likely they were to use the box as a candleholder. In fact, 60% of students who had previously lived abroad solved the problem compared with 42% of students who hadn’t lived abroad. Interestingly, time spent traveling abroad had no effect on creativity.

In another study, we asked undergraduates at the Sorbonne to complete a creativity test called the Remote Associates Task (RAT). Participants were shown three words and asked to come up with a word that is associated with all of them. (For example, for “manners,” “round,” and “tennis,” they’d need to come up with “table”: table manners, round table, table tennis.) The students who recalled and wrote about an experience living abroad just before doing the RAT answered more questions correctly than those who recalled and wrote about other experiences.

This creativity effect was even more pronounced in students who had made an effort to adapt to their host countries. In a study of 133 Insead students from 40 countries (15 of whom held dual citizenships), we found that creative enhancement was significantly higher for students who said they had adapted to the foreign countries while they lived there than for students who said they had not.

A subsequent study reinforced the finding. Israeli managers working in Silicon Valley who had incorporated both Israeli and American cultures into their personal identities (such people are called biculturals) had better professional reputations and got promoted faster than managers who identified themselves with only one culture or the other (monoculturals). When we measured the ability of these managers to see and integrate multiple perspectives on different issues—what psychologists call “integrative complexity”—we found that bicultural managers scored higher, and it was this enhanced integrative complexity that led to better job performance. In another study, we found that biculturals were more likely than monoculturals to create new products.

Expatriate programs are good for developing better managers, our research suggests. We believe that companies could make them even better by ensuring that expats are not cocooned from the local culture during their stints abroad. The more expats interact with locals and local institutions, the more creative and entrepreneurial they’ll become.



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My note:

Living abroad, the meaning is not just living in another country. So there is no point if you go abroad but just for holiday in nice hotels, visit nice place, eat in nice restaurants. Or even for school, when you have nice dormitory and nice cafetaria, and making friends only with students from your country.

When you live abroad, then really live it. Live as the people from that country, live the culture, experience their lives!

How long you live there isn't the main determinant. Four weeks, two months, six months, a year, all are the same. It's how fast you can adapt that matter and will determine the learning that you will get.

And how you can adapt if there is no change? :)

I didn't say that we must do extreme things,no. But when you want to go abroad, don't let the thought about your security occupied all of your mind and being your obstacle.

"How if I can't sleep?"

"How if I don't like the food?"

"How if I can't bear the weather?"

"How if the people there aren't nice?"

"How if I run out of money?"

Hey! we are HUMAN, we already survive for centuries!so proof that you are a true generation of mankind :D

Since I was in Senior High I always dream to go abroad. In my dream I will go to cool countries such as USA or Europe. I will study or work in best University/ big companies there. I will live in a nice flat, eat yummy food. (mimpi sejuta umat kali ye ini)

But right now, my mind up for something completely different. Yes, I still want to go abroad. But instead of going to fancy countries I want to go to some ASEAN countries. Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippine. And I want to do social project. About all international issue that's happening now : global warming, environment, children, HIV/AIDS, woman empowerment, entrepreneurship.

Why?

Think, if you can't survive in ASEAN how you can even survive in other part of the globe?

If you want to be a big people, the world class leader, how you can lead if you don't even know your society?

I want to be an internal auditor for multinational company, maybe you wondering what's the correlation between doing social project and career as internal auditor, how it can help my career?

as an internal auditor I will be responsible for the compliance of the company's activities with the legal matter, governance, and also help the company to improve their operations.

and a multinational company, in how many countries they're exist?

what if their performance isn't align with the law, how many customers/clients/institutions/communities,etc that will bear the loss?

what if the company performance can't improve and even get worse,how many unemployment there gonna be?

the family at home, their health, the environment,the local economic, all will suffering too.

So,can you see?it's a domino effect,what you are doing matter for others, and I feel like I have this "personal social responsibility"

That's why I want to go for exchange, I want to give impact for society. So later when I become a big leader, I can give bigger impact too :)

Milla Hanifan Saniy*

Vice President Finance and Talent Management

AIESEC Local Committee in Surabaya 2010-2010


*my former junior executive when I was being Senior Executive of Finance in AIESEC Surabaya



Wednesday, October 20, 2010

AIESEC Indonesia Expansion Team Application :)

Hi guys :)
do you have any interest in joining AIESEC but no AIESEC representative in your university?
Be AIESEC Expansion Team :)
Join AIESEC Indonesia Youth Leadership Conference in Bandung 18-21 November 2010.

Deadline application 26 October 2010.

Please send to harmein.armia@gmail.com cc to widy.dinarti@aiesec.net :
1. Application form filled
2. Recommendation letter from your university
3. Letter that stated you as university student (signed by the university)
4. Copy student ID

well? feel free to comment here ya :)

Friday, August 20, 2010

empty brain


I don't know why, but seriously I feel that I have full-of-nothing brain in recent..

I just feel that in this past months even years, I never do something that really makes my brain work in serious way...and this really makes me not satisfied with my self, with my work, and my performance :(

I feel that I don't work hard enough recently. I guess the last time I do really put on my work is when I was joining business plan competition held by Junior Achievement in my city and it was about 5 years back.

well maybe I need to be more discipline with my life, especially with my religious stuffs. I need to be more punctual in doing my 5 times-a-day pray. I've heard that if you do your pray in a punctual time, you will feel more relieve with your life. I guess it works, well at least I will have feeling satisfied of my self because I can do it on time.

Then other stuff that I do work on it now is about put my priority. Yes, I'm kind of person who is super greedy with every opportunity that I see. So, I'm trying to focus on my job and only do something related with it.

Another stuff is I'm trying to become more active-learner person. An empty brain feeling is a post-college syndrome. Once you've graduated and stop visiting the campus, really makes you feel know of nothing. Then I tried to subscribe more journals (mostly about management, leadership, public relations, and world issues stuffs) and really read and have more of thingking about the content.

Well, Bismillahirrahmanirrahim!

p.s. I took the picture from sketched out blog, super cool blog I guess :)

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

AIESEC Indonesia Conference Opportunities (Chair, Facilitator, Delegates)

Hi AIESEC!

Come to Indonesia
Feel the diverse culture of the country,
Contribute and learn from the global no. 8 Country (up to Q2 2010)
2nd place winner of NBBB Award 2009

Book your schedule for
AIESEC Indonesia National Conference


Grab opportunities to be:
Chair, International Facilitator, International Delegate



Management Board Conference
Place: Semarang
Host by LC UD - the best growth LC in Indonesia
date: 1-4 October 2010

National Leadership Development Seminar
Place: Bandung
Host by LC Bandung - global no.13 LC up tp Q2 2010
Date: 19-23 November 2010

National Election Conference
Place: Malang
Host by LC UB - Number 1 LC in Indonesia in 2008-2009
Date: 22-26 January 2011

National Planning Conference
Place: Jakarta (tentative)
Date: 1-5 May 2011


for more information, contact:
Widy Dinarti
MCVP Communication & ER Non Corporate Sectors
widy.dinarti@aiesec.net
skype: widy.dinarti

Thursday, July 1, 2010

this is my life

have just found this song of Edward Maya "This is MY Life", introduced by one of my friend



I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming out loud
I'm searching the missing part of my heart
Uuuuu uuuu uuuu, you catch me every time I fall
When I look into your eyes
I just know you tell me lies

This, this is my life I'm looking for you searching love in your eyes

This, this my life I'm chasing a dream that fades away in the night

Can you get to my soul,

I'll make you lose the control,
I'll be your sun in the night

Just come here inside

I'm playing with you
I'm falling for you

When I look into your eyes
I just know you tell me lies

This, this is my life I'm looking for you searching love in your eyes

This, this my life I'm chasing a dream that fades away in the night

I can't follow dreams forever

Just to see them fall apart
We can change the world if we are together
Cuz I know I won't let it go
When I look into your eyes
I just know you tell me lies

This, this is my life I'm looking for you searching love in your eyes

This, this my life I'm chasing a dream that fades away in the night

I start to miss your smile, your voice is all I hear

I'm chasing hollow eyes, show me I'm wrong tonight

This, this is my life I'm looking for you searching love in your eyes

This, this my life I'm chasing a dream that fades away in the night

Saturday, June 5, 2010

thanks GOD, I got this experience

I don't know why, today I wake up in the morning, and realize that start from today, everything will not be the same with yesterday. even it hurts, I thanks to God, He give me this experience since I know that tomorrow I will face something harder than this and He prepares me for that

well, I know what I'm doing and I know this will be the consequences
and I do really thanks GOD, I got this experience even before ...

something that I learn the most:
1. a long the journey of you life, you will really know who is your truly friend (only your truly friend who understand you the most and can accept you whoever you are)
2. you can not expect all people will like you
3. being honest and tell the truth in communication is super important

and let me ask you something, what will you do if:
1. here, you don't know anything and people who you asked always said that everything is alright
2. suddenly you know that it is not alright in a very last minutes
3. you want to increase the capacity of the people who you loved
4. you know that the world to face is level 10, meanwhile the things that being done there is level 7, and other competitor doing level 8.5 - 9

then what you done is tell the truth and give the truth

and you got a resistance even a rejection from people who you think will understand you the most

later in final, something that you feel is
"well, they just not that immature enough to face this, and yeah I did mistake, I supposed not to push them in something that is not their level"

and then, you start questioning again

what should I do to increase their capacity so that they can face something that inevitable will face in the future?

I don't blame to any people, and I feel ok with every respond that you give to me

I just want you to know that the reason I did this only because I love you and I want you to be better so you can have more value added compare to your competitor



*hmm.. now I know why it is so not easy to be parent :D *

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

hujan bulan juni

it's not june yet..

but this poem does really sweet for me..
well, I am not that kind of poem person, but I don't know why..
this phrase of poem really touch me

aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana;
dengan kata yang tak sempat diucapkan
kayu kepada api yang menjadikannya abu
aku ingin mencintaimu dengan sederhana;
dengan isyarat yang tak sempat disampaikan
awan kepada hujan yang menjadikannya tiada

and I found the writer's masterpiece, hujan bulan juni

tak ada yang lebih tabah
dari hujan bulan juni

dirahasiakannya rintik rindunya

kepada pohon berbunga itu


tak ada yang lebih bijak

dari hujan bulan juni

dihapusnya jejak-jejak kakinya

yang ragu-ragu di jalan itu


tak ada yang lebih arif

dari hujan bulan juni

dibiarkannya yang tak terucapkan

diserap akar pohon bunga itu



do really want to read the book and meet the writer!



Monday, May 24, 2010

I moved to tears...

Some weeks ago, I did something that has already been my routine activities in AIESEC,
communicate AIESEC news to the network.

I emailed people about Entrepreneurship & Youth - a Learning Network (EYLN 2010) held by AIESEC in UKM, Malaysia.
One of the people is a (super proactive) student from Universitas Ciputra (Alvin Livano)


Something that came up in my mind is only I know that
Alvin and his friends are bunch of youth who has interest in entrepreneurship and this EYLN 2010 event will be such a good thing for them to improve their personal and professional development.

Dude! They are bunch of 18 years super proactive & active learner kids!
how come you don't want to support them!


Amazingly, it returned to positive respond, Alvin start to asked about the program in detail, how to get visa, and how to deal with the Indonesian-going-aboard-tax (read: NPWP thingy)

days turns to weeks

I've got message from Alvin
"Sis, we won the competition in Malaysia"


OMG!!!

OMG!!!

and here is the news from Universitas Ciputra website:

http://www.ciputra.ac.id/news/184-mahasiswa-ibm-berjaya-di-eyln-2010.html


Look at their innocent face in AIESEC activities :) :)
so peaceful :>


They won the 3rd prize for Business Idea Competition and 1st winner for Simulation Business Competition.



today, I've got email from Alvin, and he give testimonial about AIESEC voluntarily (I even did not ask him to write this :D )

Selama di Malaysia, kita bener-bener dianggep temen deket sama temen-temen aiesec Malaysia...
mskipun kita bukan aiesecer...tapi kita bener-bener dianggep kayak temen deket sama mereka...
Disana kita jadi peserta termuda...dan mereka kaget kalo di Indonesia umur 18 th udah kuliah bahkan ada kerja...mereka banyak nasehatin kita en kita dapet banyak peluang bisnis, bahkan reseller dari malaysia dan NIGERIA...
Luar Biasa AIESEC ini...
bisa ketemu sama temen2 di dunia...

aku yakin kita di Indo bisa buat yang mirip bahkan lebih baik..
Kompetisi nya sangat berbobot en kita bisa menang disana...
kami bangga skali...
Bisa menang di Internasional, bertemu teman di seluruh dunia, bahkan dapet nasehat en berbagi ilmu sama temen2 internasional
Kita pengen banget join AIESEC...
skali lagi..Thanks buat AIESEC yang udah kasi kesempatan ke kita....


(I try to translate it in English)


During in Malaysia, AIESECers really taking care of us as we are their very best friend. Even we are not AIESECers, they really super friendly to us.
AIESEC is super amazing!
From this AIESEC event, we get a lot of international network, we get friends from all over the world. We discussed and shared a lot of idea for our business with firneds from over the world, we even get reseller for our product from Malaysia and Nigeria.

Thank you AIESEC who has gived us this amazing opportunities.

for sure, we want to apply for AIESECers.
and I believe we can also make such event in Indonesia.

Once again, Thank you AIESEC!



*this is super a medicine of such a broken heart feeling :D

Thursday, May 20, 2010

I just want you to know who I am..


And I'd give up forever to touch you
Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
Cause sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything seems like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know your alive

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am


I just want you to know who I am



*Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

when the transition has finished...


May 18th 2010 is the last day of team to team transition AIESEC in Indonesia National Team

look at our happy face


to celebrate it, we decided to have an economically-better-but-we-still-afford-it food,
and it goes to..
KFC!

even most of us took the 15,000 IDR package that has already contained black pepper chicken, coke, rice, and dessert/appetizer such as pudding, cream soup, etc. :D

after that, random things started to happend


somebody shouted out about visit Jakarta Fashion & Food Festival in Kelapa Gading Mall

then it goes to...


Kampoeng Tempo Doeloe (super delight festival to try traditional food from 1940s era)

*taken by Andra

*taken by me


hmmm... honestly speaking we didn't try any food there, since we have already had our dinner, and we're so FULL

for the Wine & Cheese festival, (in the advertising, it is said that we can try all wine & cheese for free) but in the fact we need to pay 20,000 IDR for the entrace gate and we see it just looks like global village in international congress and we still have a full bottle of red wine that has not been opened yet, then... we just pass it :D


Sooo.... we're just taking picture in every interesting spot such this Betawi House :D




well, generally comment this festival is tottally full of tasty food...
we should visit here again before it finished


then, we went back home...
BUT, in the middle of the journey
suddenly somebody shouted out about having karaoke this night

then, it goes to 1 hour karaoke in NAV




Cath was singing Indonesian song (Geisha-Jika cinta dia)



finally, we went to our MC house, and ready to work for tomorrow :) :)