My friend map!

For me, AIESEC does really help me in building my network around the world.

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another post which should be posted 2 years ago :D

Sunshine

Woke up this morning

Another brand new start

That' s our life

I jumped with every beat of my heart

When you came over

I could see something was wrong

It really isn't worth that you

just get to keep moving alone

You know that I always be there

I'll be your sunshine after the rain

When the sky is turning grey

You know that I'm never far away

Sunshine after the rain

Together 'til the end

Whenever you're in need of a friend

`cause a shoulder to cry on

someone there to rely on

I'll be your sunshine after the rain

It's the one thing I won't change

We know each other

Since I don't know how long

As long as I remember

You were always there

Singing along

There 've been some good times

And it's even been some sad

But we always somehow managed

To get something good

Out of the bad

Remember I'll always be there

I'll be your sunshine after the rain

When the sky is turning grey

You know that I'm never far away

Sunshine after the rain

Together 'til the end

Whenever you're in need of a friend

`cause a shoulder to cry on

someone there to rely on

I'll be your sunshine after the rain

It's the one thing I won't change

Some say that friends

will come and go

But this thing we have

will always grow

It`s just one of these things you know

Sunshine-good times

I know we`ll be fine

Sunshine- good

I know we'll be fine

the most pathetic song ever!

another random day has came

Bella -my house mate- and me obviously be more random than ever

we just listen to some music and decide that these two song are the most pathetic song ever!!

Number one

Crave You by Flight Facilities

Why can't you want me like the other boys do?
They stare at me while I stare at you
Why can't I keep you safe as my own?
One moment I have you the next you are gone
Rehearsed steps on an empty stage
That boy's got my heart in a silver cage
Why can't you want me like the other boys do?
They stare at me while I crave you

I walked into the room dripping in gold
Yeah dripping in gold
I walked into the room dripping in gold
Dripping in gold
A wave of heads did turn, or so I've been told
Or so I've been told
My heart broke when I saw you kept your gaze controlled
Oh I cannot solve

Why can't you want me like the other boys do?
They stare at me while I stare at you
Why can't I keep you safe as my own?
One moment I have you the next you are gone
Rehearsed steps on an empty stage
That boy's got my heart in a silver cage
Why can't you want me like the other boys do?
They stare at me while I crave you

It's true I crave you
Crave You
It's true I crave you

Let's just stop and think, before I lose face
Surely I can't fall, into a game of chase
Around his little finger, that boy has got me curled
I try to reach out, but he's in his own world
This boy's got my head tied in knots with all his games
I simply want him more because he looks the other way

Why can't you want me like the other boys do?
They stare at me while I stare at you
Why can't I keep you safe as my own?
One moment I have you the next you are gone
Rehearsed steps on an empty stage
That boy's got my heart in a silver cage
Why can't you want me like the other boys do?
They stare at me while I crave you

I am craving you

Number Two

Love It When You Call by The Feeling

I found a switch, you turned it on
I hit the ditch, you carried on
I was so near, now you're so far
Are you quite sure just who you are?

Oh I know you could choose a friend
But you don't seem to have the time
Oh and I, I wonder if you ever get to say what's on your mind
Well, take a little time, come on, take a little time

I love it when you call, I love it when you call
I love it when you call but you never call at all
So what's the complication? It's only conversation
I love it when you call but you never call at all, whoa
He loves it when you call, he loves it when you call, ah!

Remember me? I used to be
Your best time buddy that you couldn't wait to see
We're getting old, it takes a toll
And hearts getting broken leads to people growing cold

Oh I, I'm flipping with a coin that's got a tail on either side
Oh and I, I'm gonna be the one who makes you stop and realize
You could have it all, yeah, we should have it all

I love it when you call, I love it when you call
I love it when you call but you never call at all
So what's the complication? It's only conversation
I love it when you call but you never call at all, whoa
He loves it when you call, he loves it when you call

Yeah, I wonder were you been
Yeah, and I wonder who you've seen
Yeah, I hope you find your dream
When you do I really hope it's all it seems

I love it when you call, I love it when you call
I love it when you call but you never call at all
So what's the complication? It's only conversation
And I love it when you call but you never call at all, woo!

but, I don't know...

I said somehow those two songs are kind a toxic song just like "Heart You" by Smash

goede morgen, Rotterdam

This is Toronto!

This post is made in Toronto, Canada

so happy! my first experience in another continent outside Asia :D
and it's winter! perfect! :D

the most exciting part is I went here for business purpose with business visa.

"yeah, I will spend his weekend in Toronto"
"my valentine's day this year will be in Canada"

hihihi so cute :D

but when I need to say "I will have short meeting in Canada this weekend"
I feel like an old business man with big tummy who is doing his business trip (-_-!)

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 :)

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

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Jakarta tempoe doeloe (Jakarta 70s & 30s)

well, this day I have a meeting in Central Jakarta at Sabang street.

in this street, the area really looks like movie in the year 1970s

seriously, I just don't get why there is a gate in front of the street..

to get there, just need to stop in the Sarinah Bus Stop in front of this building

"you can found Sabang street behind this building then in the intersection you can turn left"

(that's what mas-mas transjakarta told me)

the meeting took place in KOPITIAM OEY, a small coffe shop in Sabang Street

"Kopitiam" comes from words: "ka fe tian", means coffe shop in chinese, then aculturated in hokian dialect, so it's called kopitiam

"Oey" is coming from the owner's name Bondan Winarno.. "winarno" become "oey-narno"

I do really love this place because its so vintage

actually this is a new building but decorated in 1930s era

menu book,

in this menu you can also read the history of Kopitiam Oey

in the golden coin, it's written "kopitiam oey"

the food and beverage is not really expensive for such place like this

around 10.000-40.000 IDR or 1-5 USD

in front of me:

left side of me:

and actually the toilet also so vintage

but I'm not really into taking picture of toilet :D

and this is my order, take cost 11,500 IDR or 1,5 USD

the mbak-mbak said to me that the special one in here is Kopi Tubruk and something I've forgot, both of it named ordinary for me, so I take something that is the favorite one here,

smartly, I've forgot the name of this! :D

(maybe vietnamese indochina coffe :D )

I think this coffe is really strong for me since until this time I don't feel sleepy at all!

(hmm.. I should find out the ingredients)

welcome to jakarta!

on May 12th 2010, I did my first account transition from my predecessor..

well, it's only 2 meetings, but as we know, Jakarta is totally crappy place for transportation..


I can't bear the air, so I used this handkerchief as my anti-pollution-mask, not really help though :D


the first meeting was Indonesia Business Links, the Resource Centre for Corporate Citizenship
in their office at Kartika Chandra Tower, Gatot Subroto Street area
(to get there from our office in Kelapa Gading, I need to walk 500m - take angkot - take transjakarta [change 2x] - take metromini)

what we did?
we were having tough discussion about the articles in our MoU

how's the output?
we will have meeting again on next tuesday, May 19th 2010

after meeting, we had lunch...
and we took our lunch nearby the second meeting place

see my predecessor, Dessy!

second meeting

it was change magazine which has affiliation with Yayasan Jurnal Perempuan

the thing that we love there is we can use the library for waiting room :) :)

and we found a legendary book, a book that used to be only in our history subject when we were in elementary school :D

what we did?

signing the MoU

meeting output:

NEW LEARNING PARTNER!!!!!

then, how did I went back home???

take blue angkot

take red angkot

(seriously I don't know their number, I just ask to people then forget in a sudden after I finished with the angkot)

walk about 700m to transjakarta bus stop

take transjakarta

take red angkot (04) to kelapa gading

then walk for about 700m to the new home, the AIESEC in Indonesia office :D