tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7773712324538413052024-03-19T14:19:55.471+07:00lamida.netExperience Sharing and Daily life as Software DeveloperJonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-38623310318122636002020-02-14T15:48:00.000+07:002020-02-14T15:49:02.895+07:00The Blog has MovedI just realized that I have never put any update or link for my new blog. Then here you go.<br />
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My Blog has moved to this new address: <a href="http://blog.lamida.org/">blog.lamida.org</a>. I will see you there.Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-47180413111970395582016-02-14T22:02:00.000+07:002016-02-14T22:03:08.473+07:00A Late Resolution Note of 2016<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I wanted to write this end/new year note since last November. Even as the new year had passed and now is not end year anymore, the note still has not completed. Let me write it now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">As always, end of year to new year is a good place to make evaluation for the past time and planning for the future. Thankfully I and wifey was born at the end of year. We got married also in December. Then making a resolution at this time will be very logical step. Even with slight late execution should be forgivable, late is better than never, isn't it?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Different with my notes from previous year, I would like to elaborate this year note by describing what have done well, what could be improved and what the next plan. For whom join toastmaster, usually speech evaluator will said those words, "what have done well" and "what could be improve".</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Following are notes from my previous years. Actually I can feel quite proud by always having some kind of resolution note every year for the past 5 years.</span></span><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">29 years old <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2014/12/end-of-twenties-note-evaluate-backward.html" target="_blank">personal note</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">28 years old <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2013/12/another-self-reflection-of-age-increment.html" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">personal note</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">27 years old <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2012/12/a-short-reflection-of-age-increment.html" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">personal note</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">26 years old <a href="http://lamida.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/age26/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">personal note</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">25 years old <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2010/12/age.html" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">personal note</a></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>Happy romantic fulfilling marriage</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Most of the time everything are awesome. But still as human being, there were some friction happening sometime. But I have to admit that most of small problem is caused by myself. I don’t know why, somehow I realise that I have a bad temperament that can be easily triggered for even a nonsense things. In this regard I have to appreciate a lot my wife whose always be patient in facing her sometime-childish-husband.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>Move to an awesome company</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I join Redmart last year. The first time I work with many awesome people. The work are fantastic and challenging. I learn a lot even in quite short time compare to previous time.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b>Campervanning in Australia</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I and my wife went to Australia last November to do trip style we had not done before. We hire a campervan. To whom not familiar with campervan, it as big car, with most household facility such as bathroom, toilet, kitchen with gas stove and sink, a lot of cabinets and flat bed for sleeping included. We drove from Sydney to Melbourne and return to Sydney again with total distance more than 3000 km. We camped in many places and stop by in many cities. I would like to write the trip detail in other post, but in summary, that trip is really awesome.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">When reflecting the goals from my previous year resolutions note, I have to admit that most are too vague. So the major improvement that I have to do on this year is to make more measurable and reasonable goal.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Improve communication skills</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Have IELTS minimum 7</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Take a GRE test</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Be a more family man</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Participate in marathon</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Lost weight 15 Kg (yes I am overweight)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Read minimum a book per 2 months and make a review on it</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Learn a new sport (tennis or billiard)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Use scala to create something</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Going Umrah</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Write a book</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Speak in a technical conference</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Learn to cook</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Learn and start investing</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Completing two Advance Manual of Toastmaster</span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Actually there are some entries that is not shown above because it is more personal. I and my wife have a trello boards that contain cards with detail step plan to achieve those goals.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Happy belated new year. There is never too late to setup goals. As long as we would like to accomplish it.</span></span>Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-1044784711078177202015-06-26T20:51:00.001+07:002015-06-26T20:51:13.121+07:00Smove.sg Car Sharing ReviewSo it is started when I and my wife were boring on last Saturday morning. Initially we didn't have any plan yet. Suddenly my wife was suggesting why don't we try Smove and just drive around Singapore? I rarely writing review about startup services. But since Smove is quite innovative, I think write a short review will helpful for whom who would like to try the service but want to know some experience from another customer that have tried it.<br />
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Smove is identifying them-self as Car Sharing platform instead of just car rental. I am trying to understand that the main focus of car sharing is on short term usage with car can be picked up in several pickup point collection and returned to any other drop off collection. So the car is shared by some users. While the focus of conventional car rental period is renting car at least a day or could be monthly or even yearly.<br />
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I signed up with Smove last week. The main trigger because I think their marketing team successfully hook me with the ads that they put on Facebook. Another trigger point is since Smove based at same building with my current office so that I encounter their brand quite often. Like when seeing some of their staff wearing the company t shirt and several of their electric car that is parked in parking lot.<br />
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The process of signed up is straight forward. After giving some personal data like name and address, we also have send our driving license scan to their email address and submitting our Ezlink card number. User is expected to have minimum 2 years driving experience to use their service. Maybe they need this for insurance purpose. Since I only converted my Singapore driving license last year, the Smove staff replied me an email asking another proof. I then sent my Indonesian driving license that has been issued for some years and immediately after that my account is activated by them.<br />
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Earlier, I mentioned that we need to submit our Ezlink card number. The reason is, Smove try to make car pickup up and drop off as convenience as possible with key-less entry system. So that we don't need to collect the car key when need to use the car. This can be happen by utilizing Ezlink card to unlock and lock the car. This is a feature that I would say really innovative.<br />
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Moving forward after signing up, on last Saturday we decide to try the Smove service. After my account is activated we can start to book the car. The step is just logon to their website and go to new booking menu. First we have to select booking start time and booking end time. Later they will have the list of pickup points. As the time I write this post, there are about 26 pickup locations that have between 1 to 3 cars per location or zero car if full book. After selecting a pickup location then we can select where we will drop off the car at the end. Then we will got confirmation email and our booking process is done.<br />
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I booked a car in pickup location near to Farrer Road MRT. 15 minutes before our booking time, Smove will send us the car plate number and the exact parking slot location of the car. From that information we can find the car. There are nobody waiting us in the car park. We just need to tap our Ezlink card to the reader in front window near driver seat and the car is unlocked. Then we get in to the car, put the ez link card inside cash card machine for paying parking and ERP charge. Car can be started by pressing to power button and all is set.<br />
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I haven't talk about the car yet. Smove using Toyota Prius C for all of their fleets. I would say Prius is quite premium car. I believe the reason why Smove is using this car is because since Prius is hybrid car then the gasoline consumption rate is freakingly low. Fuel rate will be important because the service fee is including fuel. Smove pay the fuel for us. Since It was the first time I drive Prius, I would say it was a pleasant experience. The car transmission is automatic like most car in Singapore and I also don't think there are manual transmission type of Prius. The car is five seater so that if you need to bring more people, then Smove is not an option for now. The car have built in GPS so that we don't need to bring one.<br />
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We rent the car from 1pm to 11pm that day. The biggest agenda was we went to Ikea in Tampines since for sometime my wife keep asking to buy a dining table set. Since we have car that day it will be easier to bring the item without need to hire a van. The dining table dimension is 125 times 75 cm. We also bought 4 set of chairs for the table. All of them perfectly fit inside the car, of course after folding second row seat. After that we planned to visit east coast park but fail to do so, since it was really crowded and we don't get a spot to park the car. Then we decide just to visit a friend place. As night came we drive home to drop off our Ikea's stuff. Then we drive back the car to our drop off location. After park the car and lock it the next step to do is to send SMS to Smove citing our return location. That SMS will be use as acknowledgment that we have returned the car and Smove should stop charging us for the car usage.<br />
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Overall I would say that it was really a pleasant experience. The only caveat is as of now, all of their pickup location is in southern area. At the time Smove have more coverage then the convenience of car sharing concept only can kick in. The main point of car sharing is when user can pickup and drop off the car conveniently. The most important aspect of pickup location is the one near to home. If picking up the car will need one hour traveling and another one hour after returning the car then it will too much inconvenient.<br />
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The second thing, it will great if the rental cost could be reduced little bit. I am not saying the cost is expensive. It is generally about the same rate like most rental company in Singapore. Moreover Smove taking care car refueling. Even Smove offer the possibility to use the car in really short start from 15 minutes only which is not possible in conservative rental service. But lower price should attract more customer. With the current price I don't think will use Smove quite often because actually the need of car in Singapore is not so that paramount since it has excellent public transport system. In conclusion, I really enjoyed the experience and will recommend for anybody to try the service. I will appreciate if you can use this <a href="http://smove.sg/invite/jonkartagolamida13238" target="_blank">link</a> if decide to sign up.Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com54tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-54177437706275384532014-12-14T10:34:00.002+07:002015-01-13T15:08:31.618+07:00End of Twenties Note: Evaluate Backward and Dream ForwardNovember and December are special months when many special occasions held. I got married on November. My wife birthday, my most special person, is also in November. And December is my birth month.<br />
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Yesterday was time when my age clock tick to another year and it remind me that I have stayed in this earth for another extra year. This year is my last twenties and next year my age second will be incremented too, that make me join thirties group. Before get too old and too lazy, like usual, this event is always a best time to do some reflections and evaluations. I want to move back a while with my imaginary time travel machine.<br />
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<b>The Magical Time Travel Machine</b><br />
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I often feel that time flies. Sometime I still remember several old fragments, when first time I have memory that I can recall from my childhood. One of that I still can retain is, when one day I was play outside near my home. Then my dad fetched me to go home. I was around 4 years because I remember that my mom was expecting her second child, my first younger sister. I couldn't recall any memory older before that time.<br />
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We moved to different city shortly after my mom delivering my first younger sister. I was entering primary school when I was around 5 years old. I couldn't remember most part of those times. Like I don't remember any name of my friends. I only can recall some of memory snapshots. I was schooled there only for one year because then we moved back again to another city again.<br />
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On second year of primary school I was staying with my uncle. I was with his family for 3 years from 2nd grade until 4th grade. I couldn't remember much thing around that time. However my memory was better because at least I can remember several of my friend name. Even I can found out them again in Facebook, some years later.<br />
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On 5th grade I return to stay with my own family. Then 2 years later, I entered junior high school. I can recall more and more. Sometime I wonder about how magical human memory is. It getting better and better when age increase and one time will decay again when we reach older time. 3 years in junior high school with important achievement of getting to know how to fall in love with girl, then I entered high school. Fast forward 3 years I entered university. More freedom, found more diverse people.<br />
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Four and half years in university is like a blink, then I graduated. Got a job luckily 3 months only after graduation day. Somehow destiny guided me suddenly to work as a programmer. I work in Jakarta for 3 and half years then destiny flew me to nearby country and has worked here in Singapore for another 3 years. So what I have achieved? Anything I can proud of?<br />
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Nope, I haven't help to resolve world hunger issue yet nor in near future could have capacity to win a noble prize. I am not so that impactful yet as an individual, although hope to be so sometime later. More or less I feel that I still about same with 4 years old of me. Except that I little bit taller and much more fatty. However, inside I still have the same soul with that little boy and hoping could be a better and better person as the time moving forward. <br />
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Getting older is a gift that not all people can attain. People life and dies every time. Be grateful if we still breath at this exact second, which mean we still have chance to make world a better place, said no startup founder ever in their pitch. I am serious in this point, as I believe there is no impossible thing to achieve and any damage that couldn't be recovered in this world as long as we still live and have strong commitment to do so. Making world as a better place could be started just to make our self a better person. Hence I still disappointed to myself is I feel that I still haven't make any significant movement to make myself as a better person yet.<br />
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I always state my personal motto as "Life is to precious if just to be ordinary". Hence I feel that most of the time I still too much ordinary. No sin to be ordinary but most magnificent achievement in this world is done by extra ordinary person. To have just a standard life maybe we could just be ordinary. However to have a good life, a proper house, a nice vehicle, frequent travel to beautiful destination to enrich our soul, to have best health and education for our family then we have to be extra ordinary.<br />
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Best result comes from best effort. And I feel that I haven't presented best effort in my life yet. This is important thing that I remind in this event and I have to serious to start doing best for everything I do from now on. Let see following example: doing best job in my work, be a best husband for my wife, be a best father for my future children, be a best son for my parents, write a best software., write a best book, use every day time as its best, and so on. Hoping that by executing those best input to get best output. Let we say that best output as a thing called success. Everybody want to succeed, aren't they?<br />
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Success is something too abstract. To make it easier, let's define success as achieving <b>something that we want</b>. So from that we could list following steps to succeed:<br />
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<li>It started by knowing and define exactly <b>what we want</b>. </li>
<li>Prescribe the step to get <b>what we want</b> and break down it as specific as we could. </li>
<li>While have not succeed, do every step that will help we getting closer to <b>what we want</b>. </li>
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It might be funny, but sometime people don't know what they want, which indicating that most people satisfy to be just ordinary. Some people know what they want, but they don't have exact step to get what they want. Whom that even not doing number 1 has messed up them self . Whom that execute only step 1 to 2 is a dreamer. Whom that execute all of those three will only be the person that could succeed. Ironically I rarely doing 3. Sometime I do step 1, sometime I do step 1 and 2. Less often do the whole steps 1,2 and 3. This have to be changed.<br />
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This is standard bucket list that I often wrote. Hoping this year can put more full commitment to achieve these.<br />
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<li>have a better personality so that I could be a best friend, near perfect husband, a superdad, a nice son for my parent</li>
<li>make more friends because the best source of life learning is from other humans</li>
<li>have children</li>
<li>have a house</li>
<li>have a car</li>
<li>have a sporty motorbike again</li>
<li>have best expertise in my professional field</li>
<li>work in awesome company to gather experience so that</li>
<li>I can build awesome company too</li>
<li>study post graduate </li>
<li>improve my English</li>
<li>learn another foreign language (maybe start with German, wie gehts?)</li>
<li>have better skill in public speaking because</li>
<li>to speak in a software conference </li>
<li>travel to awesome place</li>
<li>Learn to fly an airplane</li>
<li>and so on</li>
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<b>How To Reach There</b><br />
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This morning my wife re-shared my Facebook status from few month back, that even I forgot from where I have it. But understand this steps will help a lot to achieve our "what we want list"<br />
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<li>No more zero days - do something towards whatever goal or want. (e.g. make time to study/research/learn/design/develop/create/build/launch)</li>
<li>Be grateful to the 3 You's - The Past You, The Present You, and the Future You.</li>
<li>Exercise - when you exercise, you are doing your future self a huge favor.</li>
<li>Read Daily - almost everything we've ever thought of, or gone through, or wanted, or wanted to know how to do or whatever has been already figured out by someone else. Reading will help you better understand.</li>
<li>Have faith and follow through with action.</li>
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Special thanks to my wife that like always never stop giving me sweet surprise including giving some of <a href="http://instagram.com/p/wgu2ZsuR8K/?modal=true" target="_blank">my dream lego set</a> in my birthday. Luckily some of my friends also came and spent an awesome night to talk about life.<br />
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I just found out that for the last 4 years, every year I have tried to write my personal statement for my birthday that could be important reference for myself:<br />
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<li>28 years old <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2013/12/another-self-reflection-of-age-increment.html" target="_blank">personal note</a></li>
<li>27 years old <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2012/12/a-short-reflection-of-age-increment.html" target="_blank">personal note</a></li>
<li>26 years old <a href="http://lamida.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/age26/" target="_blank">personal note</a></li>
<li>25 years old <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2010/12/age.html" target="_blank">personal note</a></li>
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Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-19789772110345745392014-07-27T07:26:00.000+07:002014-07-27T07:33:00.069+07:00How to Stay Competitive: A Self Reminder<div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.9999942779541px;">In this note, I would like to elaborate my own view of how to be stay on the edge. The first step is to go outside our mundane life. I realized that sometime human trapped in a comfort zone when everything is just feel fit perfectly and the routine is just nice. However the comfort zone bring the stagnancy that will make we less competitive. When we arrived in such situation we should push the throttle hard so that wouldn't stuck too long.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.9999942779541px;">The example of pushing the throttle act are as follow. Read a good book. With all of sophisticated invention in modern life, still book is one of most effective way to transfer information and knowledge that can stand against time and place. Book will bring a new information that we can learn and also good story that can inspire. Sometime I read a few books in one month but another time I even don't read any book in several months. As a rule of thumb, at least read one book every month should give us a great advantage in long run and will keep us ahead most of people.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.9999942779541px;">Second important way of how to keep competitive is by make friend and meet awesome people. There will no more factual inspiration rather than actual story from the person itself. People can give inspiration and share useful experience. Which at the end could make us feel "envy" and motivate us to do better in life. Making friend with such good people also will bring so much benefit. Old idiom said bird of same feathers flock together. Making friend with awesome people definitely will help us to learn and adapt to be such awesome as them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.9999942779541px;">The next important step that we need to do is patiently doing something to make us always on top. One day we might find an insight to improve our life by doing this or that. However, most of time motivation is fluctuate and easy to go up and down. One of the factor when sometime motivation is going down when we chase something is impatient. It is a nature that human often want instant result.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.9999942779541px;">As an example, we cannot be rich just in short time except winning a lottery which is usually will not give long lasting result. Chasing a wealth need a hard effort and sometime a long process. We need to earn coin by coin, sometime push our self from wasting money unnecessary by not buying something that we don't need although we might want it so hard.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.9999942779541px;">Another example is the effort of mastering something. There is no shortcut. There is maybe a crash course that will give us general knowledge about something that we would like to learn. But still mastering skill and knowledge will need long time and much patient. Malcolm Gladwell discussing this in his famous 10.000 hours rule. He said that the key to success in any field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours. Patient hold major role here. Without patient we can easily lost motivation. Patient is a virtue and impatient is a vice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.9999942779541px;">At the end this note is a reminder for myself so that I will be alarmed to do continuously improvement in daily life. </span></span><br />
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Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-73157872911823157342014-06-21T05:40:00.001+07:002014-06-21T05:40:09.488+07:00Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Review<div style="border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.428571em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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Here are some of opinion after about two weeks I am using the handset. First, the hourse power is excellent. I has quad core processor, 3GB RAM and 32GB internal storage. Second, this the latest android smartphone that include stylus for whom that consider stylus is important such as myself. Third, the screen is quite large but still manageable. Fourth, the battery life is satisfactory. Five, several interesting accessory available. The notable one is Samsung Gear even though I don't have any interest yet to buy one. Beside that I am S View smart cover. With S View cover we can receive call and playing mp3 without opening the cover. Not so that important but the technology have their own use. Six, the phone faster data transfer by USB 3.0 cable although the transfer speed might be limited by storage speed. I respect backward compatibility of USB 2.0 by having new port but still accept old USB 2.0 connector. </div>
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Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-37751598870899634122014-06-13T10:08:00.000+07:002014-06-13T10:08:07.969+07:00After Six MonthsWow it has been six month again after my last post. And I will just jot down again some personal note this time.<br />
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I went to Europe from January until March earlier this year. I took a long leave from my job. I was visiting my wife in Germany, the place where she was taking master degree.<br />
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On end of January, my wife defending her thesis gracefully. The day after we went for awesome whole month euro trip until early March. We visited 12 countries and 15 cities. It was a great journey, hopefully I could share it in another post.<br />
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On end of March we returned to my wife town. It is Ilmenau, very beautiful city in East Germany. We spent the rest of the month enjoying free time. On weekend sometime we went for some short getaway to nearby city. Other time we just invited or friends near by. In the morning sometime I did jogging. In the afternoon, we went to swim. Until we finally realize that end of March has come. We need to go back to Asia.<br />
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We flew back to Asia on last day of March with short 24 hours stop by in Dubai. We drove around for few hours in very hot Dubai. At the end we landed in Jakarta. Going back to the real life. In Indonesia, we visit both of our parents.<br />
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Within one week I left my wife in her parent place while I going back to Singapore again to resume my job. Immediately after arrived in Singapore my main important task was to find apartment. It was not so easy task but luckily everything go so well. Now we are staying in cozy apartment in Northen part of Singapore. For the first time we feel complete as a married couple. After two years earlier spending life in a long distance relationship.<br />
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Now several we have several todos in this life. The first thing first to have baby very soon. Then hoping find more challenging job for both of us. Saving more money, especially to buy a house and a car. Find a scholarship for post graduate study. Find and execute business idea. Write books. And having happily ever after life.Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-42130792705571826532013-12-15T10:06:00.002+07:002013-12-15T10:55:28.407+07:00Another Self Reflection of Age Increment<div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="line-height: 22.84375px;">Birthday is a special reminder. It will make us recall that few years back we had born to this world and one day we also need to depart. We do not live forever. There are two important things we could do for this special occasion. First, to do self reflection and second, to pray for our wish and dream. No wonder that most common birthday greeting is "wish you all the best".</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22.84375px;">Start from reflection, I still not satisfy with myself. I still quite often wasting time instead of doing something useful. I still procrastinate too much. Time management is still the most important skill that I have to improve. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22.84375px;">Regarding wish and dream, like usual I have so many those things in my head and heart. Likely I am blessed to be a super dreamer person. However I won't blabbing it here at the moment. I just would like to restate a personal note that I had written <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2012/12/a-short-reflection-of-age-increment.html">last year</a>. In this age increment, I want "To be more grateful and more humble". There are to many things that need to thank for, like for example this simple but so touching present from my wife. Red tiny MP3 player with my name on it. Maybe wifey have realized how much I addicted to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_music">trance music</a> although she said that she prefer me to listen Quran recitation :).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Droid Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.984375px;">Relate to previous paragraph, since I was studying in high school I always want to be a teacher. Might be not a school teacher but more to be a lecturer or just general speaker. I love to share the things that I know. I have one dream to be a great and inspiring speaker. Maybe one day I could speak in one of TEDex event or some software development conference. Teaching is not only the matter of transferring knowledge but also transferring passion. That's why teacher must be an inspiring person. I am hoping I can make this dream come true. This year is my third year pursuing some scholarship for master study. I have received countless rejection letter. I am hoping can start to study again soon. After that then maybe I could start teaching, inspiring and give positive social impact to my surrounding. For now, let I start by giving this very small contribution by pouring idea through simple writing and push myself to learn how to speak and share better by preparing my next project toastmaster speech for next week.</span></span><br />
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Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com109tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-30060872045026371402013-12-10T22:52:00.002+07:002013-12-11T14:36:33.257+07:00Cascading Dream: How to Find and Adjust Passion<div>
<span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">There are two problems relate to human passion. First, problem of person who cannot find their passion. Second, person who know his passion but restricted to reach it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Passion is the most important thing that drive us in life. It is our fuel that make sure we can keep moving and also our GPS for our direction guidance. According to summary of talk Tim Ferris talk that I took from <a href="http://nowaternomoon.com/post/69281932278/my-boring-list-of-29-writing-tips-and-occasional-life">Arman Sulamanov tumblr</a>, Tim had shared about the way to find our passion. We can find it by ask these two simple questions, what did you do when you were 12 and what would you do event if you weren't paid. </span><br />
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<span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Let me remember what I would like to be when I was 12. I don't remember exactly whether it was at 12 but there is one of my child "want to be" dream. I want to be an astronaut. It was triggered by some astro scince book that I read when I was stay with my uncle during my elementary school time. I read about NASA space shuttle, international space station and US Apollo project, especially Apollo 11. I dream to be the next Neil Armstrong. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">As my age increased, sometime our dream and passion also evolved. Evolved because we find something that we interest more or could be also because constraint around us that make we adjust our passion. One day around my high school time, I went to bank to save my small saving. I had small talk with the bank teller. He asked me what major that I plan to take in university. I answered that I haven't think about that yet. The teller reply me again, be a computer programmer, he said. That job currently in high demand so that much company will offers good income. I immediately imaging going to office with nice laptop in my backpack (at that time laptop is something that still super duper luxurious) and spent whole time coding in front of computer. Not long after that I ended up taking electrical engineering major in university. Interestingly, after finishing my study, instead of being electrical engineer or teacher (my degree has minor in Education) I became programmer.</span><br />
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<span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">It has been 5 years plus I work professionally in that job. Periodically sometime I ask myself, am I drive in correct direction? Every time I answer myself, should be yes. I enjoy most of the time I work. I like to write code even how dizzy is it. I like to play with software development tools, exploring new technology, learning new programming language and dreaming to build my own startups. Even though it will sound naive, but definitely I can state I will happily coding even though I will not get paid. According of previous characteristic description it seems that I already found my passion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Few days back suddenly I found interesting enlightenment. Suddenly I want to be a pilot. Pilot is something that quite related to my childhood astronaut dream. I understand this might be simple twisted thinking that could be not too serious but also could be serious. That willing is triggered by <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/">hackernews</a> link that point me to interesting <a href="http://indopilot.blogspot.sg/">blog</a> of ex programmer that became pilot. Also triggered with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V">GTA V</a> game that I play recently. However this finding arise some interesting discourse. </span></span><br />
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<span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">Some person lucky enough could be anything they want since beginning. They are capable financially to reach their dream. Many people want to be a doctor but only some that could pay the tuition. Many children want to be a pilot but also not all can afford the expenses. Regarding those facts, I found the answer about adjusting passion.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">It is never late to chase your dream. Few years back I was listening radio talk in Jakarta that invite interesting guy name <a href="https://twitter.com/alex_lay">Alexander Lay</a>. He had worked in oil and gas company for few years with very descent income. He said that time, his savings will suffice him with very descent life for 7-10 years without working. We could imagine how large his income. However he found that his job is not his passion. He actually interest with law. Then at one point of time he decide to stop from his job and take law under graduate study for some years and became a lawyer. If you cannot afford to be something in past time, chase your passion at the time you can afford it. Like I have written about <a href="http://indopilot.blogspot.sg/">Matt Dearden</a>, he was programmer but realize that his passion in flying. After have sufficient saving, he stop work and take flying course for few years and start career as commercial pilot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">After having some experience in finding our passion in life we should inherit this experience to the others. The closest one could be our children. I haven't had any children yet, but not long from now I want to give one luxury that I don't have when I was child: guidance to find a passion. I want to be a consultant of my children for chasing their dream. I also really want to be supporter of their passion chasing, either financially or motivationally. They will be free to chase any of their dream as long as always maintain good deeds in their life. I called this action as cascading the dream. Next generation must be better than current one.</span></div>
Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-75383389278623194562013-11-29T10:09:00.002+07:002013-11-29T10:56:23.235+07:00Birthday Love Letter to My Wife<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mJAg1us4YG-hjhK4ahu90jC7glHbkiFj9aHMqKqSWmpSJTWqdd2qHQfR8D84p8YjcBVZ2d1s4nPQRAPyGEkhaNyBR9zcy2-Gy86KxKnHXWB8vRzjXwOVey9x6Du_iKVaLaB66_s927IV/s1600/facebook_-1079104357.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mJAg1us4YG-hjhK4ahu90jC7glHbkiFj9aHMqKqSWmpSJTWqdd2qHQfR8D84p8YjcBVZ2d1s4nPQRAPyGEkhaNyBR9zcy2-Gy86KxKnHXWB8vRzjXwOVey9x6Du_iKVaLaB66_s927IV/s320/facebook_-1079104357.jpg" width="240" /></a>Dear Wifey,<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Happy birthday, may Allah always bless you, have all your dreams come true and happiness always be with you forever eternal from now until here after.</span><br />
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We know that we live only temporary. So let we live life at the fullest<br />
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Be someone significant. Or at least don't be a burden on this earth. There are already plenty of bad people out there. Don't add more by being one of them. Always try to make world a better place, even if have to by most insignificant way. Don't litters, drive wisely and respectful, always be honest, never cheat in any forms, always be a helpful person to other and if all of those look difficult, at least try to smile because smile is free.<br />
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Be a good agent to any attributes that's attached to us. Be a good Indonesian, although how worse political drama that always going on in the country, although so many annoying authority that always thirsty of money and although economy that still crawl slowly. Be a good model by having great achievement academically or professionally. Invent awesome things, make useful research or build a useful platform or business. Be a good Muslim although much people still having bad perspective about Islam. Try to be a good sample and make them reconsider their view. Religion is a medium. When someone bad it doesn't mean by mistake of religion but most likely because something wrong from the person them self.<br />
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Develop powerful and competitive generation. Being good by ourself is not enough. Because like I have said world has become more and more unfriendly. Where corruption is common, where people accept bribe shamelessly and event asking it in obvious way, where crime rate somehow always climb, where taking people right is generally happen. Let's build better generation. Be a good mother and let me be a good father. Not just as parent but be their friend as well and most important be a good role model so at the time our children growth up and somebody ask to them "Hi kid, what you want to be in this life?" and proudly they will respond "I want to be like mom and dad." Let growth children and teach about good self awareness, be a respectful person, be a hard and smart worker, have a high dream, achieve many great things and most important always honest in all aspect of their life. Hopefully this approach will sequentially inherited to our grand children education as well in similar good way. At the end hopefully if world could not be better instantly, let some years to be the cost, and need some generations to be go through.<br />
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Happy birthday my lovely wifey and let's always try to make world to be a better place. If it seems hard, at least make ourself to be a better person.<br />
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PS: I love you<br />
<br />Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-10103981262001916952013-11-27T09:59:00.000+07:002013-11-27T14:11:31.185+07:00Two Years in Singapore: A Short Self ReflectionDear day, today is exactly two years I live in Singapore. Two years ago, only few days after my wedding, I flew to Singapore for work. I still remember the moment when I hug my wife in airport at that day and leaving Jakarta the city where I study and work in total of 7 years. My wife actually join me later in Singapore for few weeks, but the sad feeling at that day was there because after beside just Jakarta - Singapore distance, later on we have to face further distance, Asia - Europe when my wife study has started. However, it was hard but finally there will be only a couple of months left before we reunite again after wifey finishing her study and for this time should be no more long distance between us again.<br />
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Like I often said, I moved to Singapore totally in unexpected way. I have the wish to go here since long time ago but it was some kind of shallow wish. I always like to travel and explore. Hence since child, staying abroad is one of my dream. When I was in University I wrote "Work in Singapore" in one of my wish list in my journal. The country just came in my mind. Close to Indonesia, good standard of life and very safe country. Lesson learned from this wish is universe tends to follow what wish we have even how small the wish is. Never stop to dream because like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_(film)">Turbo</a> said, there is dream to big and no dreamer to small.<br />
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Interested to have job in Singapore? Hopefully some of my experiences can give some insights. Anyway, the unexpected way that I said is not totally unexpected too. In this internet era job recruitment can be done easily because most of the people will online profile and resume. At that time a recruiter from Singapore company got my contact from linkedin and looking a requirement that match with my profile. Fast forward, I got phone interview and some administrative check and then some salary negotiation and I got a job offer. Lesson learned from this experience is enhance our online branding if we are looking some new opportunities. In this time we can still use <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/lamida">linkedin</a>, nice personal website and blog and also some online portfolio website for example like <a href="http://github.com/lamida">github</a>. Of course all those stuffs have to be balanced by our truly technical and personal skills too.<br />
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By using internet for advertising ourself we have kill location limit and can open unlimited possibilities. I am not campaigning for everyone to go to Singapore or go to abroad for work. Living abroad for sometime let say 3 - 5 years will bring so much advantages for us. For example we will get new experiences, new perspectives and new exposures in life. It will be pathetic to have life in same city, same country for the rest of our life. World is big, so many nice things and indeed some dangerous things outside. Why don't have a nice journey in this short life? Work and collaborate with people from different culture. Work in the place which has 4 seasons. <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2013/04/amsterdam-here-i-come.html">Going to Amsterdam</a> for job interview. Have a <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2013/01/first-phone-interview-for-software.html">phone interview</a> with amazon.com. At the end, if we really nationalist we can go back to our country after that 3 - 5 years and make any contributions that we could. Anyway, foreign worker actually contribute to national income. We work abroad but we spent most in our country.<br />
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In this two years actually there are not to much weird thing happen. All the things mostly in order. Going to work from Monday to Friday 9 am to 6 pm. Hang out with friends on weekend. Go to mall or watch movie in cinema occasionally. Etc. I had work in two different companies since moving here. Basically most of the things quite same like in Jakarta. Except in here we will face truly multicultural environment. Our colleagues can come from many different countries. Not only Asia even could be Europe or other continents. The job pressure is depend on the project and timeline. When we reach a deadline soon, of course the pressure will be higher. In other time the pressure will be less if all the things has been finished.<br />
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Outside of work and come to daily life. Singapore is one of the safest country in the world. There are never any worries when we travel in public transport and going home late night. However the police here a have tagline that very good to keep us aware. "Less crime doesn't mean no crime". Second, Singapore also has one of the best public transport system in the world. Since I moved here I always want to purchase a motorbike. However since public transport is so good, having our own vehicle actually bring more burden than advantage. The public transport is punctuate. Train access almost all the part of islands end to end and keep growing. The bus is very reliable and also punctuate. We even can see the bus timing from the smartphone. Taxi also easy to get (outside peak hour of course) and what I like here the driver will give the chance even to the smallest cents. The mentality that I rarely face from Jakarta taxi driver. Pedestrian is designed properly. In here pedestrian walkers have highest right on the road. Overall the infrastructure here is almost perfect. Beside public transport, Singapore has public library in almost every region with very up to date collections. There are so many sport centre with swimming pool also in almost every region. There are many jogging tracks and nice parks. Mosque is not located in every blocks but still very accessible. In total there are 69 mosques around the island. One of my favourite rule in here is people cannot smoke anywhere. Very contrast compared to Jakarta. D<br />
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However there are also some disadvantages to consider. Singapore is very expensive. Income will be much higher but the expense also very big. Without proper financial management we can work for nothing in here. Second, the country is very small. We can feel excited in the first 1 or 2 months live here. But after that most of the thing feel boring. Same routine and not too much thing we can do. Anyway this second problem is not too relate about the country itself. If we feel so that bored we can just fly back to exotic tourism area in Indonesia or we could just cross using boat to Batam or also possible to fly to Thailand or Vietnam.<br />
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In conclusion even though life goes up and down sometime excited and sometime flat but I enjoy most of the time here. Not sure until when I will be in this country. My another pending wish list is to move to Europe and stay there for 3 - 5 years, grown my children and have some world trip. The experience must be much different from the current one.Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-45860887964826172072013-11-20T13:06:00.004+07:002013-11-20T13:06:56.826+07:00How to Have an Awesome Life<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.984375px; text-align: center;">Human live in this earth only in limited</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.984375px; text-align: center;"> time. In this era, average life expectancy in Indonesia is around 70 years. We could have some bonuses for some extra years or on the other side we could also have less years. Nobody will know when exactly died will approach. The most important thing we only have one life. There is no green mushroom like in Super Mario Bros that give us extra life after we died. So let spent it wisely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.984375px;">There are not a sin to life just usual. However, I catch one nice quote about few years back. I don't exactly remember from where I got that. Perhaps even I was the one who originally created it. The quote sounds "Life is too precious if just to be ordinary." We have only one life with limited time span then why don't we spend it in awesome way?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.984375px;">Second is going the extra miles. I got this quote from Negeri 5 Menara (Country of 5 towers) novel wrote by A. Fuadi. Very nice three sequels of novel to boost our motivation in life. The point of this quote is do our best in every aspects of our life and let God decide what is the best outcome for every particular current situation. Wifey always advice me one of greatest suggestion I ever received. "Always try immediately every potential opportunity and challenge that in-line with your interest and vision. Let decide what should we do later after getting the outcome." Example, I have applied so many scholarships in this 3 years and indeed still no one succeed yet. Who cares about the failure? It might hurt you at beginning. <b>Whatever that doesn't kill you will make you stronger</b>. In Mario Bros term again, whatever doesn't kill you will make you smaller. Do self evaluation, analyse what improvement that can be done and then retry again. We might be still fail again but at least we will learn so much. Just do the first step and let decide the next step after getting the first outcome. If succeed later we decide what to do and if not succeed we can check what kind of strategy adjustment we can do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.984375px;">I want to continue elaborate further about <b>"do our best and going the extra miles"</b>. If other people fail one times and give up, don't be like that. Don't bother to fail hundreds time and keep going extra with every strategy adjustment that we need. If other people study for 2 hours per night let make it 3 hours for us. If other people can finish work assignment in 4 hours find a way so we can finish earlier. Not only for such example, other sample is if other people spent his time from growth up until die in one place then we should go to explore the world. There are too many beautiful place that we should missed it on earth. Go to Europe, America, Middle East to any place that we can. Travel always bring positive insight in our life. Luckily it was rooted in one of my passion. Be different, be original, be as best you can and be yourself. Because once more, life is too precious if just to be ordinary.</span>Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-24379355363831359882013-11-19T23:12:00.000+07:002013-11-19T23:17:44.826+07:00A Retrospective of Second Wedding Anniversary: Marriage Advice that I Will Do Properly<blockquote class="tr_bq">
In the end, marriage isn't about Happily ever after. It's about work. And a commitment to grow together and a willingness to continually invest in creating something that can endure eternity. Through that work, the happiness will come. -- Gerald Rogers </blockquote>
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I like to reflect and to retrospect. I do a self retrospection again like I did <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2012/11/a-retrospective-of-first-wedding.html">last year</a>. To reflect can be defined as think deeply or carefully about something relate to our self. To retrospect can be define as survey or review of a past course of events or period of time.The main aim of either reflect and retrospect are to do self evaluation so that if there are something that can be improved we can do so. To reflect is like seeing our self in mirror. We will never realize how we looks until seeing our self. Perhaps somebody can remind us but most of the time we are tend not believe until can see the proof by standing in front of mirror. Are we looking good? Are we can tidying our self to be better? To retrospect is like to turn around our head to see what we have passed behind. Today I would like to retrospect and to reflect about my marriage in its second year.<br />
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In Islamic believe, there are three things that decided absolutely by God. Birth, dead and who will be our spouse. First, we can not decide when we will got birth and who will be our parents. Second, we also never know when we will died. The obvious thing is died will definitely come but the time is indefinite, could be soon or later. Third, whom will be our spouse also cannot be choose exactly. She or he could be some of our friends, or maybe our neighbor, or perhaps our work colleague or could be someone who just come to our life suddenly. The last one is our case.<br />
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Like quite often I shared, how I met my wife at first time was very unusual. I first met her in scholarship selection. Before that actually I was introduced indirectly by one of my fried that at the same time also friend of my wife. Within 5 months from that meeting we got married. It felt like just yesterday but actually we have been fast-forwarded for two years.<br />
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Like her usual hoby, wifey (the way I call my wife) sent me a present yesterday after a few weeks ago she sent me beautiful letter. Wifey also sent me beautiful marriage advice from Gerald Rogers that went viral earlier this year. The original title of his advice was Marriage Advice I Wish I Would Have Had. Gerald advice is an irony, because he has divorced, and the advice is his self reflection and self retrospect that we can learn from. Since his website is detected has some mallware by my google chrome, I will just rewrite points of those advice here:<br />
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<li>Never stop courting. Never stop dating. NEVER EVER take that woman for granted.</li>
<li>PROTECT YOUR OWN HEART.</li>
<li>FALL IN LOVE OVER and OVER and OVER again.</li>
<li>ALWAYS SEE THE BEST in her.</li>
<li>IT’S NOT YOUR JOB TO CHANGE OR FIX HER… your job is to love her as she is with no expectation of her ever changing.</li>
<li>TAKE FULL ACCOUNTABILITY for your own emotions: It’s not your wife’s job to make you happy, and she CAN’T make you sad.</li>
<li>NEVER BLAME your wife If YOU get frustrated or angry at her, it is only because it is triggering something inside of YOU.</li>
<li>Allow your woman to JUST BE.</li>
<li>BE SILLY… don’t take yourself so damn seriously. Laugh. And make her laugh. Laughter makes everything else easier.</li>
<li>FILL HER SOUL EVERYDAY… learn her love languages and the specific ways that she feels important and validated and CHERISHED.</li>
<li>BE PRESENT.</li>
<li>BE WILLING TO TAKE HER SEXUALLY, to carry her away in the power of your masculine presence, to consume her and devour her with your strength, and to penetrate her to the deepest levels of her soul.</li>
<li>DON’T BE AN IDIOT.</li>
<li>GIVE HER SPACE.</li>
<li>BE VULNERABLE.</li>
<li>BE FULLY TRANSPARENT.</li>
<li>NEVER STOP GROWING TOGETHER.</li>
<li>DON’T WORRY ABOUT MONEY.</li>
<li>FORGIVE IMMEDIATELY and focus on the future rather than carrying weight from the past.</li>
<li>ALWAYS CHOOSE LOVE. ALWAYS CHOOSE LOVE. ALWAYS CHOOSE LOVE.</li>
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Of course, absolutely I won't follow Gerald Rogers trail but most of his advice is very make sense.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our First Honeymoon in Malang, East Java</td></tr>
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In return of wifey's gift and love letter, I sent a love email to her this morning. I just would like to share it here hopefully can give remind us later in future about our own reflection and retrospection. Where was we, where will go and how to go there.<br />
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Dear Wifey,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Second Honeymoon, ready to fly from Bali to Lombok</td></tr>
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It has been two years isn't it? Also, Like I often said Time flies isn't it? I remember almost all details since the first time we met, to the time we felt click, to the time we got married, to the time we were mostly separated, to the time we could live together like common couple for a while, to the time of today when I write this letter.<br />
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It was still quite clear in my mind, the first day we met, when unluckily you sit beside me :p. The destiny will be totally different if you were sitting at different spot. We were talking so much in the middle of test. I didn't wanted to waste a chance, I found a way to got your phone number before leaving that day. The destiny might be different if I didn't successfully got your phone number. And then you also remember the story after that, don't you? Watch movie, some dinners and dates, hanging out to mall, etc.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Short Trip to Melaka</td></tr>
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Birth, died and mate are God area. He decide all those stuffs. I was wonder at beginning, how God can find a match of one man to another woman. Does he use some kind of transcendent algorithm? The way we met and then live together and hopefully forever, always make me wonder. How lucky I am to have you at the end.<br />
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You are almost perfect from all side, that can complement so many deficiencies that I have. Joy, comfort, sense fulfillment are all the feelings that I have since we are together. If sometime I behave strange, like so easy to get emotional, those are not because something wrong from your side but totally more to my own mistake that could not be more patient and could not be more gentle to treat you. However, I am always learning to be a better person.<br />
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So let's talk about some mission statement. Firstly I want we can partner together to build our dream marriage. With a joy, laugh and comfort that never last forever. I don't want to learn that by going through bad way such your story below. How hard the challenges that might come in front of us, I always wanted to stay beside you and hold your hand firmly. Second, I want we can be together to build a strong generation in very nice family. To have smart and wise children that love the learn, full of care and have big dreams. Third, I want we to be more settled. To have a nice home anywhere or some houses in some beautiful places with some of our dreams vehicles inside garages. A wise man said, don't put <i>dunia</i> (material world) in your heart but grab it in your hands. Fourth, always have a great adventures ahead. Fifth, please help me to add.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Our Way to Bukittinggi, West Sumatera</td></tr>
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Dear wifey thank you to be with me for this 2 years. I hope you don't mind to spent the rest of our life together. Thank you for continuesly giving surprises and presents. Those are important but still, you are the most important one.<br />
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Happy 2 years anniversary. I always love you.<br />
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PS: I love you<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Marriage is a moment when there is no one wearing mask and present truly them self. Two years is even still not enough to really know and to really understand each other. However she always better than me, knowing and understanding me much more even than myself, caring me so much like make sure I am not hungry even when she is hungry, make sure I sleep well even when she not sleep well, often give me a surprise and gift even when I rarely did the same. Happy 2nd wedding anniversary to my lovely wifey</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">. Thank you very much for limitless love, joy and comfort that you bring since I pledged to be your forever love partner. PS: I love you -- Jon Kartago Lamida</span></blockquote>
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Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-89568388395252778162013-11-10T22:24:00.001+07:002013-11-10T22:28:15.084+07:00Several Good Movies Shot in EuropeEurope has many beautiful countries. This continent always being one of place that I want to spent some of years of my life, either by studying or working for 3 to 5 years maybe. Unfortunately both of that willing haven't come true yet. Europe always unique in my opinion, first because various countries with their own cultures and languages. Second, most of the countries there are advance country. Third, they have many beautiful architectures and buildings. Fourth, as a tropical country man, I always wonder how 4 season climate feels like. Fifth, most of European countries linked with good quality of transportation system. Let say comprehensive European rail line. Sixth, etc.<br />
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There are some movies that took those setting into scene. Some are quite good movies.<br />
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<b>Run Lola Run (1998)</b><br />
This is Germany movie. Starred by Franka Potente that also play as Bourne lover in first and second Bourne movie. The story of this movie is very unique. Of course I wouldn't tell the twist. The movie was shot in Germany.<br />
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<b>Bourne Trilogy (2002, 2004 and 2007)</b><br />
This movie franchise is one of my favorite. The movie is about Jason Bourne, a former CIA that suffers loss of his memory and being chased by other CIA agent in one big conspiracy. The movies were shot in all over Europe like France, Prague, Italy, Spain, UK, etc. We can see car chasing, airport, train station, cross country drive in this movie. There are a spinoff series that released on 2012 but the main role is not Matt Dammon anymore and the shot mostly in Philipine.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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<b>Vollgas - Gebremst wird später (2005)</b><br />
Another Germany movie. The story is about a woman and driver that is trapped in a car that has been planted a bomb. The driver has to follow the guide of one person who put the bomb or else they will be blown up. The shooting location is in Germany. They are using VW Golf for the movie.<br />
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<b>The Tourist (2010)</b><br />
I just saw the movie today. Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp play the main role. The tagline is the perfect trip, the perfect trap. Johnny Depp is an American tourist who visit Europe and suddenly chosen to be a decoy by Jolie when they meet in train to Venice. The movies set were in France and spent most of the hour in Venice, Italy. So there will some chase action but instead of car they use boat.<br />
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<b>Zindegi Na Milegi Dobara (2011)</b><br />
Indeed this is Indian movie. Recently more and more Indian movies is shot abroad. However, still some dancing will shown along the show. The main story of this movie is about friendship of 3 best friends. Since of them will get married very soon, they deside reunite by travelling to Europe together. The movie is quite good. The most of the movie set was in Spain.<br />
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<b>Habiebie Ainun (2012)</b><br />
The story about one former of Indonesian President and also very respectful Indonesian Technologies BJ Habiebie and his wife Ainun. The movie take the story from the biography book writen by BJ Habiebie itself. The set of the movie were in Indonesia and also some sets in Germany. Some sets that I can remember is when Habiebie sit with Ainun in the park to feed the Pigeons.<br />
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TBD<br />
There might be some movies I forgot to include, I will add them later.Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-39130172762548227762013-11-06T23:10:00.000+07:002013-11-07T16:55:51.913+07:00Hackerx Singapore 2013: Bring Developers and Founders in One PlaceI just attended <a href="http://www.hackerx.org/">Hackerx</a>, an interesting event this evening. The event try to arrange a meeting between startup founder with a hackerx or we can said as an awesome potential recruitment. Hackerx is based in USA and likely this is their first event in Singapore or maybe Asia.<br />
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Overall, the event is nice. Anyway, I found one link that have <a href="http://blog.geeksphere.net/2013/10/27/if-someone-else-is-paying-you-are-the-product/">opposite perspective</a>. The concept is hackerx organizer will invite about 50 software developer and around 10 to 20 startups. The developer likely is picked by browsing and selection through online resume. Perhaps Linkedin. The invited developer can come free of charge. However the employer have to pay some amount of money to attend. The main content of hackerx is speed dating between startups and prospective employees. The startups founder will sit in some of chair and desk provided inside the venue. The invited developer will queue for 5 minutes interview with startups owner. The interview more or less will consist about tell me about yourself and I will tell you about myself. There will be impossible to do some kind of coding challenge or deep architectural design discussion within 5 minutes only. The event is limited for about only 2 hours. Startups list is announced exactly at the event day, so that we don't have much time to research and getting know about the startups. Actually, in this current event most employer looks for front end developer. I was accidentally invited perhaps because some wording in my Linkedin profile mentioning some "front end" words.<br />
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There are about 18 company that come to this current event.<br />
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<li>LifeTech</li>
<li><a href="http://www.2c2p.com/">2c2p</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mobikontech.com/">MobikonTech</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.zopim.com/">Zopim</a></li>
<li><a href="http://redmart.com/">Redmart</a></li>
<li>Influr</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dimest.com/">Dimest</a></li>
<li>Playbasis</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lotaris.com/">Lotaris</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bellabox.sg/">BellaBox</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wego.com.sg/">Wego</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.haystakt.com/">Haystakt</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ruckuswireless.com/">RuckusWireless</a></li>
<li><a href="http://maxusglobal.sg/">Maxus</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.signbox.tv/">Signbox.tv</a></li>
<li><a href="https://honeyhive.com/">HoneyHive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.appbackr.com/">Appbackr</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.docdoc.sg/#back">DocDoc</a></li>
<li>Crayon</li>
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Unfortunately, because limited time I just have chance to talk with some.<br />
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Hackerx is more to networking rather than recruitment because it will be little bit difficult to get to know each other only withing 5 minutes. Job opportunities is a great thing to get. However at least I can meet some new people there, with so many ideas that they bring. At the end it could got force as well for me to cultivating some ideas then writing prototype and launching my own startup. Of course there will need much times and extra effort to do the later one.<br />
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<br />Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-69196755389696121782013-05-25T11:16:00.001+07:002013-05-25T11:20:49.060+07:00Booking.com Job Interview Experience<br />
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Last month I had an opportunities to <a href="http://www.lamida.net/2013/04/amsterdam-here-i-come.html" target="_blank">visit Amsterdam</a> for the first time. I went there to attend onsite interview in Booking.com. Booking.com provide very great facility during recruitment process.<br />
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That experience was started when I see and booking.com Perl developer vacancy in stackoverflow career website. Actually the position is for Perl developer. Honestly I don't have professional experience in Perl yet. But the job post didn't ask such requirement. Although I spent most of my professional career use Java, but I am language agnostic person that always happy to try and learn new thing.<br />
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Back to the interview story. After submitting my resume, I didn't receive any immediate reply. Couple of weeks from that suddenly I received a missed call from strange number. The country code is +31. I asked to my wife which country code is that. Then she goggled it and reply her finding, "Netherlands". I didn't know exactly who probably try to call me that night.<br />
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Few days later another phone call was coming in at the time I go home from office. Same country code, but not sure whether it was the same number. I picked up the called and the girl was on the phone. She greeted me and introduced as a recruiter from Booking.com. Since my phone was low battery I asked her to call me back in couple of minutes so that I could reach my room and plug the charger.<br />
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Couple of minutes later I was standby in my room. Looking my phone waiting the recruiter to call me back. The phone was ringing again and I picked up. Fast forward, we were talking about HR thing. Her main question was about my interesting to do a technical phone interview about the job that I applied. Of course I said I interest. Later she asked several information about my profile. Time availability, the reason to change job, salary expectation, etc. At the end of phone called she said will arrange phone interview schedule At the next day I got the schedule about two weeks forward from that day.<br />
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Then within 2 weeks I did some preparation. I went to library and lend several books, specially Perl and algorithm book. Read the book and did coding practice. Finally the phone interview schedule was coming. I did the interview at 10 PM Singapore time which is around 4 PM Amsterdam time. There was two interviewer. I spent about 45 minutes for the interview. The questions include algorithm, database and one business process. The interviewer are so nice. Like usual at the end they let me ask question regarding the company or the job. They said I will got the result withing 2 days.<br />
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The day after I was on the bus from office to go home. Another Netherlands number was calling. She introduced as another recruiter in booking.com and immediately congratulate me for passing phone interview phase so that I was invited to go to Amsterdam for onsite interview. Wow it was an awesome call. For the first time in my life I will go to Europe for free. She gave me 6 weeks time preparation so that I can apply visa while she would prepare another things for my travel preparation. In the same time that 6 weeks also very useful for me to do technical preparation as well by more reading and coding practice.<br />
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I applied my visa through Netherlands embassy in Singapore. The process was very straightforward First we need to make appointment through the website. The visa requirement are application form, photo, invitation letter, travel insurance, recommendation letter from our current company, last 3 months bank account statement and visa fee. The current fee for Schengen visa is 60 Euro which is equivalent to 97.10 SGD at my application time. After all requirement was complete, I went to the embassy according to my appointment time. I submit the whole document and the staff will check it immediately. I pay fee and the visa can be collected withing few days (I forgot how many days). At scheduled collection date I called the embassy and they said the visa is ready. While waiting my departure time at the end of April, I spent the time for reading and coding practice again.<br />
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Finally the departure time was coming. I took 3 days leave for this purpose. I went on April 17 Wednesday, just after midnight. I arrived the same day around 7 AM in the morning. But the whole flight was about 14 hours direct! The longest flight I've ever experienced. I spent the time on plane by sleeping and staring flight tracking screen seeing the plane icon moving slowly from Singapore to Amsterdam. The first feeling after landing was cold weather. Actually it was already spring, but the temperature still below 10 Celsius.<br />
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From the plane I move fast through Schiphol airport, pass the immigration and then collect my baggage Later I went outside baggage collection area and found a stall selling phone sim card. I bought Lebara sim card with some data plan. After that I move a while see airport surrounding. Later I bought the train ticket to Amsterdam central from the machine. It cost about 4 Euros something from Schiphol to Amsterdam central. The train station located exactly below the airport. Europe has very complex railway system. In schiphol station itself there are several train platforms. We have to go to correct platform when going to particular destination. The very coplete informartion bords are everywhere but we still need sometime to grasp all the things. Within few minutes the train was coming and jumped in then try to find empty seat. I was asking one passenger just to make sure that I ride the correct train. The train was moving out the station and rise to the street level. Slowly I amazed to have that experience. I am in Europe! I saw the cars at the street, the vehicle is moving at the right lane. I saw many exotic and well maintained building. I saw so many people ride bike.<br />
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About half hour later I arrived at Amsterdam Central station. I alighted from the train and directly went down from platform to the station. After observing from internet, I should ride tram to my hotel. But I have to purchase OV chipkaart first. OV chipkaart is a smart card that we can use to pay public transport in Netherlands. For someone who live in Singapore, OV chipkaart more or less is similar with Singapore EZlink card. But OV chipkaart just implemented recently. We can purchase the card from the machine. After purchasing the card I go out and find tram stop with so many trams standby ready to serve passenger to various destination. Exactly after going out from station I was hitted by cold weather. Actually I have used thick jacket and sweater.<br />
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Every tram number has their own rail and stop. In every stop there will be a board showing tram destination and the whole stops it will passed. I directly hoped to one of the tram and not forget to tap my OV chipkaart to the ready near the entrance. Tram usually consist two or three cars. The crew are one driver at the front and one assistant in the middle who sit inside one ticket counter. We can pay cash here if we don't have OV chipkaart.<br />
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It was about 4 stops from Amsterdam central to my hotel. I alight and walk some minutes to the hotel. I was staying in The Bridge hotel, during my visit to Amsterdam. The hotel located exactly beside the canal. Oh yeah, I forgot to share, Amsterdam is canal city. Canals are everywhere. Boat are everywhere. Bikes also everywhere. I went in to the hotel, checked in, and entered the room. All expenses has been taken care by booking.com.<br />
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When entering the room I was amazed, I got the room with canal view. The room was so large. A queen bed, work table, a heater near window and large bathroom. That evening for the first time I can feel how is jet lag. I fall sleep at 5 PM and suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, fresh! My body still think that I am still in South East Asia.<br />
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Btw I have shared too many unnecessary detail. Let's fast forward to interview date. My schedule was on Friday 19 April, two days after my departure. Booking.com office located 5 minutes walk from my hotel. So at the d day, I walked 15 minutes before the schedule. I register at the front office, wait some minutes and finally welcomed by another recruiter. The onsite interview was scheduled for 3 hours. 1 hour HR interview plus 2 times 1 hour technical interview.<br />
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The HR interview stage actually more to presentation than interview. Because at this opportunities one HR staff will describe a lot of benefits that we will receive if got the offer. The interviewer also again will ask about the reason why we want to move etc.<br />
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The first technical interview was coming. There are two developer. Immediately they ask one algorithm about string permutation. I have to admit that I was little bit stuck in this question. But I tried to be cool and keep comminicate with them properly elaborating my thinking process. At the end I can solve their question after they simplify and simplify again the problem. Anyway, likely they are not too satisfy with result.<br />
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The second technical interview, another two developers were coming. At this stage I asked little bit more database question and business process. At this stage I was more confidence with all of my answers. Finally 3 hours interview has ended.<br />
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That afternoon I was planning to go to Keukenhof. But it was too late for that day, so that I went there the day after. Anyway let just fast forward again to one week later after I go back to Singapore. Finally on Thursday 25 April I receive email from booking.com HR. I just watched Iron Man 3 in cinema with my wife. The email consist of rejection. Honestly I feel so sad that time. I was thinking, if I can got the offer, I can move to Amsterdam, and can stay closer to my wife which is currently studying post graduate in Germany. I just feel so often failed. But this time it is easier for me to try to be positive. Most likely that positive feeling was coming after so many encouragement from my wife. Something is happening and not happening with reason. Event for the worst failure there will be always sweet lesson that we can gain.<br />
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Now it has been more than one month since that awesome experience. I will be always looking forward, continuously enhance myself, trying with my best for any opportunities. Destiny is not lie on water surface that is impossible to write. Destiny is written in hard stone. We still need a hard effort but always possible to write any story that we want.Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-74035527593094313602013-04-16T22:00:00.001+07:002013-04-16T22:01:59.933+07:00Amsterdam Here I ComeThere's no rejected pray. When pray seems not granted immediately, it could mean 3 things:<br />
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<li>Our pray is suspended to more appropriate time</li>
<li>Our pray is replaced with something we need more</li>
<li>Our pray is granted at the hereafter with something bigger</li>
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About some years ago, I put a simple facebook status. I forgot its detail, but more or less it said something like "Amsterdam here I come!!!". At that time honestly I just babbling. Babbling from the heart.<br />
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Since I was child, I always hope can live abroad. At that time, the way that I think could be the path to that dream is through post graduate study. That's why, there was a time when I'd tried to apply several sholarship. Speaking Europe, I was inspired by Edensor novel by Andrea Hirata. Europe is one of my dream land. Anyway, I failed in many sholarships appication about 3 years in the row. Little bit frustrated, but somehow I realize that there are so many lessons from those experiences. I learn to be more persistent, to be more grateful, to be more excellent.<br />
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This month I received interesting surprise. I will fly to Amsterdam for one ocassion. Exactly the old dream that come true. For some people flying to Europe is a simple thing. Maybe it just the matter of purchasing the ticket. But for me it was special experience. Unfortunately I cannot see the snow at this time since now has been spring in western Europe. At least perhaps I can see beautiful tulip blomming in a wide garden.<br />
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This experience is one simple proof for the prior statement I've mentioned. There is no rejected pray. Never lost your patience, your enthusiasm and at the same time always put your best effort in anything you want to achieve.<br />
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Life is short. Life is too precious to be ordinary. World is too beautiful to left it unseen.<br />
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Amsterdam, here I come!<br />
<br />Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-65485528399090537262013-01-11T16:52:00.003+07:002013-01-11T16:55:51.864+07:00Legoland Malaysia ReviewThis post was half way written since September last year. I just can finish it right now, because my laziness.<br />
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This post will share about my first visit to the large newest theme park in South East Asia. It is exactly located in Malaysia. I will talk about Legoland.<br />
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Legoland Malaysia is the first Legoland park in Asia. At first time I was little bit reluctant when prepared plan to visit this place. From some review on internet, some of people said that Legoland is child oriented theme park that probably not suitable for adult. This consideration is really matter, because I plan to visit there with my wife. Two adults visits child theme park seems not sound good. But later I decide just to visit there while my wife still here in her summer holiday.<br />
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The adult ticket for Legoland is 140 MYR. In Singapore dollar it will be around 56 SGD. It is quite expensive and have small differences with more well known theme park, Universal Studio Singapore at about 68 SGD. But still we just decide to buy and try. After browsing Groupon, we found a nice offer. By paying 52.90 SGD we got one Legoland ticket include return bus coach from and to Singapore. We book departure date on 15 September 2012, exactly at grand opening date of the park.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ticket</td></tr>
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We went from Singapore Flyer as the starting point. My booking confirmation show our departure at 8.30. But later I realized the tour provider made a mistake. We supposed to depart on 9.00 AM. Several minutes before 9.00 I queue for exchanging my booking confirmation sheet with two tickets. Then several minutes after 9.00 the bus departed. Legoland is located in Johor area. It takes less than 90 minutes travel time from Singapore. So we were arriving before 10.30. First impression when we arrived: It was so hot!!<br />
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Actually we were anticipated that in grand opening day there would be a lot people came. Yes they were so many people, but not so many as our expected. In the ticketing counter the queue was so long. Maybe around 100 people were queueing. We were lucky already purchased the ticket so we don't need to queue.<br />
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First thing first was to take foto in the front of Legoland logo. Because it was quite hot we just enter the park after scaning ticket barcode. At the entrace we can take a Legoland map. Legoland is divided into several section. I didn't remember exactly all sections. But it about 8 section with around 40 shows, rides and attractions. All section is located arround circle area with one interesting poin that we cannot find in another theme park. It is Miniland. In Miniland we can find a lot of buildings and landmarks miniature from Malaysia and several countries in South East Asia built in Lego. I think this section is best of the best in Legoland. We can spent plenty of time take a photo in this area. The best time to visit this place will be at afternoon when the sun goes down. Beside Landmark made by Lego, in all over park we will see a lot of interesting figure, animal or structure also made by Lego.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">Me and Wife at front of Legoland Gate</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bali in Miniland</td></tr>
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We don't want to play in rush. So we didn't try too much attractions and rides. Several that we had tried are as follow. First is Legoland express. Simple large train build with structure like Lego that will move slowly around center of Legoland. Second we plan to try Project X. Some kind of 4 seater roller coaster. But we decide to cancel riding after queueing and saw several time that ride was jammed. Third ride we were trying Wave Racer. It was quite interesting ride. We were spinning in the middle of the pool on the ride that we can control to move to or from center. Sometime there will waterbomb that can make us little bit wet. Fourth we were riding a roller coaster. There are two roller coaster in Legoland The Dragon and The Dragon Apprentice(if we count Project X as roller coaster there will be three). The Dragon Apprentice is smaller and less challenged Roller Coaster, that's why we decide to ride it instead of The Dragon. Fifth, we ride some kind of carrosel with name Merlin Challenge. Sixth, we were trying Kids Power Toys. This ride will make some turn and we can pull and release a rope that connected to our sit. Not too special but still quite interesting. We plan to ride viewing tower but it was currently checked for some problem. The viewing tower will move the cabin from bottom to several meters high to the top where we can see suround view of whole Legoland.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lego Einstein</td></tr>
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The next attraction that we try was 4D show. Every hour usually will be played different movie. The show is played for about 10 to 15 minutes. The show is not so uncommon right now. 4D show with 3D movie, wind blow and snow. After watching 4D we ride Dino Island. This is water slider ride. This ride was exciting, although we can find similar ride in other theme park. The next ride is Lost Kingdom. We ride a kind of train with a gun attached there. On the way in we can use that laser gun to shoot a lot of 'evil' object with a censor. Every time we hit the target our score will be incremented on display at front of us.<br />
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The time move so fast. Our bus will pick up us around 9 PM to go back to Singapore. Before going out we alocate last time to ride Lego Boating School. Actually this is the most boring ride that we tried that day. Even we have to queue almost one hour. But since I went with my wife, it was still very enjoyable moment.<br />
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Finally we going out. Buy some KFC for our dinner on the bus otw back home.<br />
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In conclusion, I would like to say with given ticket price and the available ride and experiences that we can get, visiting Legoland is worth to visit.Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-50117949394502545712013-01-05T08:52:00.002+07:002013-01-05T08:52:43.674+07:00First Phone Interview for Software Development Engineer Position in Amazon.com<br />
About few months ago, one of amazon.com recruiter asking my CV through Linkedin and invite me for the recruitment that would be conducted in Singapore. The position is for Software Development Engineer that will be based in Seattle, US. With full of interest I decided to sent the CV and answer several question she asked. Unfortunately only few days before recruitment date, she informed me again that cannot proceed me further. At that time they can only proceed Singaporean or Australian citizen because US visa quota limit consideration for other citizenship including me as Indonesian (H-1B visa if I am not mistake). But she promised that in the beginning of 2013 (when visa limit quota will be reset) there will be another recruitment process.<br />
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Her promise is right. Just about 2 weeks ago another amazon recruiter contact me and offering one phone interview schedule for AWS Software Development Engineer position. With full enthusiasm I send her my available date and time. I also do some of researches for the preparation. According to the information I have gathered from internet, amazon.com interview will be very technical and involve writing code. Until job offer, candidate have to pass up to 3 phone interview and whole day onsite interview. I read many books about coding interview, other books about algorithm and some books about cloud computing. I also practiced a lot solving some coding problems.<br />
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Finally the interview has been conducted this Saturday morning 6.00 AM GMT+8 (Friday 2.00PM Seattle time). The interview who called me is very nice. He speak very clearly and we discussed a lot while I try to solve some coding problem. At the beginning he introduce himself then start asked some of my background, my project, what I did, etc. Next he asked some basic question about java keyword. Then finally we arrived at the coding challenge.<br />
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The first problem is: "Given binary search tree, write a method that will return the next node from given node!". Actually I have been anticipating such questions. But since I have to write in interview nuance, it make me little bit nervous and under pressure. I wrote the code in one online coding collaboration website, so both of us can see what I have written in real-time After struggling some minutes finally I can finish the solution. I am not sure whether he satisfied or not.<br />
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The second problem he just asked me to get element with second most highest occurrences from and array of object.<br />
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example:<br />
someArrays = {"xx", "yy", "xx", "yy", "zz", "xx"}<br />
xx shown up 3 times<br />
yy shown up 2 times <-- this is the second most occurances<br />
zz shown up 1 times<br />
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Actually this is also not should be too difficult. First, iterate onel time the array and push every object occurrences into a hashtable. Second, iterate hashtable and return the second most occured. But I was struggling how to get the key of most occurred object. I will write the solution in here, later.<br />
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Last, finally he asked me if I have any question. I just asked about what he do in Amazon. I also asked how many person inside one team. In conclusion I feel not satisfied with my interview. I supposed to perform better. But I should not be regret. I can use this experience as a trigger to learn more so can be more prepared if face same experience again. Not sure whether I can have next interview or not, but it is enjoying experience.<br />
Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-47281731621313430542013-01-02T10:57:00.001+07:002013-01-15T13:51:27.502+07:00Fibonacci Sequence With and Without Recursion<br />
Fibonacci sequence is sequence with subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. See snapshot below from wikipedia.<br />
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We can implement this algorithm either using recursion or without. Let see both.Before the implementation let see how is the sequence defined for every F(n).<br />
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F(0) = 1 or F(0) = 0 in some definition<br />
F(1) = 1<br />
F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2)<br />
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Now these are implementation using Java<br />
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With Recursion
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<pre class="brush: java; html-script: true">int fibo(int in){
if(n <= 1){
return n
}else{
return fibo(n-1) + fibo(n-2);
}
}
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<pre class="brush: java; html-script: true">int fibo(int n){
if(n <= 1){
return n;
}
int fibo = 1;
int fiboPrev = 1;
for(int i = 2; i < n; ++i){
int temp = fibo;
fibo += fiboPrev;
fiboPrev = temp;
}
return fibo;
}
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Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-32181029494871410432012-12-16T00:51:00.002+07:002012-12-16T01:03:31.197+07:00Update Twitter Using Python Tweepy<link href="http://alexgorbatchev.com/pub/sh/current/styles/shThemeDefault.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
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I just spending sometime to play with tweepy. This post will show how to use that lib to access Twitter API.<br />
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First, install python (obviously). Second, install (if not installed yet) easy_install a tool to install python package easily. Refer to this <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools</a><br />
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Go to console and check if easy_install instalation.<br />
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Now install tweepy module if not available yet.<br />
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Next create application in twitter so we can access the API. Go to this URL: <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/apps">https://dev.twitter.com/apps</a> and create new application<br />
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Please note in there is a configuration to set application type.<br />
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After application has been created, we need some special authorization to access API. Twitter use OAuth. There are 4 important values that we have to note:<br />
OAuth Consumer Key<br />
OAuth Consumer Secret<br />
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Access Token<br />
Access Token Secret<br />
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The last two are the token which is granted by our application user later.<br />
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Enough for configuration, now go to python console (I am using iPython) evaluate following code:<br />
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import tweepy<br />
# provide all the keys and secrets<br />
CONSUMER_KEY = 'the_key'<br />
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'the_secret'<br />
ACCESS_TOKEN = 'the_token'<br />
ACCESS_SECRET = 'the_token_secret'<br />
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)<br />
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN,ACCESS_SECRET)<br />
api = tweepy.API(auth)<br />
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# do anything you want now<br />
api.friends()<br />
api.update_status('Hello world from Tweepy')
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<br /></div>Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-41295990952960827952012-12-13T19:03:00.001+07:002012-12-16T00:55:56.954+07:00A Short Reflection of Age Increment<br />
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Age is nothing rather than just a number increment. However the increment of age should be a great moment to do self evaluation. More mature a person should made him more wise and not the opposite, older but become more childish. Hopefully I can became the first type.<br />
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Like several years before, this writing will try to reflect what I feel and what I want to be afterwards. Indirectly it will be a kind of evaluation and resolution.<br />
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Start from evaluation. I get married now for more than full year. Although I am having long distance marriage but still, more or less I have to try and be more mature compared at the time I was single. But I think I have to be more expressive to show my love to my wife because at the other side my wife also always give many gifts and surprises. Including this wonderful video for my birthday.<br />
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And also an awesome cake surprise<br />
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Second I already work in Singapore for more than full year as well. There many things I have learnt for that range time. More demanding job and multicultural environment for instance. All of those things are shaping and improving me more.<br />
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Next is about what I want to achieve. I want to make it simple and less material oriented. "I want to be always grateful and humble in life". To do some tangible elaboration, I want to be an expert in my field but at the same time can give significant positive impact to society, perhaps by being a speaker, writer, teacher or just a good programmer which can make some positive contribution (hopefully not become too cliche) for a better world. More specific, I want to be a good father this year (hopefully Allah can trust me). I want to have some shelter for my family soon. I want to write a book to leave trace that I've never exist in this world. Want to have some more wonderful job and activity.<br />
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So different with previous year post I don't want to make too long bullshit explanation bit instead just make small thing become true. "To be more grateful and more humble".<br />
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For the closing I just want to make same quote by myself for reminder to myself. "Life is beautiful. Be grateful for everything you have but keep fighting to achieve every of your dreams".<br />
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Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-1768325014297009092012-11-30T22:49:00.001+07:002012-11-30T22:51:28.288+07:00A Retrospective of First Wedding Anniversary: Why Your wife must be the most important person in universe?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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This month is special month. In November I celebrate my anniversary of marriage and my wife birthday. I get married on 19 November 2011. So, I have been married for 1 year. Time flies. Everything feels just like yesterday. I can remember almost all scenery on last year. How we (me and my wife) were preparing all the wedding things in very short time. I don't wanna re-share again about all those express preparation. I already blabbed somewhere else. I just want to make a retrospective for this one year marriage.</div>
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Most of the people will get marriage one time. Some of unlucky couple will decided to divorce. Decision to get married is the most difficult thing to decide for most people. Even more, for religious person, marriage is a commitment to God.<br />
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Marriage is often symbolized as a ship with a husband as the captain and the wife as a navigator. Both of them have important role. Captain cannot drive alone and navigator cannot take over the ship. Harmony between husband and wife will determine whether the ship will sail smoothly to the right direction or at the worst case there is possibility the ship will sink when conflict is escalated become so big.<br />
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Regarding that ship analogy, there is one value that always emphasized by my parent in laws since the first time I propose my wife. Usually person will choose a spouse based on similarity. Same hobby, same style, same behavior same education level, same interest, same common attitude, etc. Human love someone who similar with them. This is important because what is the point of married with totally different people. But we have to realize as well that, there is no identical human. Even twin sibling will have considerable differences. More and more for the case man and woman which are fundamentally different. The key is the leverage the differences for the good thing. For example complementing each other. If wife is an expert of speaking and husband is a good writer maybe they can share their knowledge that will make both of them expert of writing and speaking. Of course this is only very shallow example.<br />
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After one year, although most of time me and my wife are in long distance, I can conclude several things about marriage. Marriage is sweet at one side but also challenging at the other side. But undoubtedly marriage will make us fell more peaceful and Because we will arrive at the position where we have somebody to rely on. There are several challenges as well. Some significant examples are conflict and egoism. It is almost impossible for two human that spent most time together, day and night, summer to summer for don't have any conflict at all. Conflict is a spices in a marriage said some wise person. But too many spices will not the food taste good even can make it throw to the rubbish bin as a garbage.<br />
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At the end of this post I want to share a story.<br />
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One day in one philosophy lecture in one of good university, professor ask a question to the class. "Who are 10 most important person in your life which you will spent most of your life with them? Write in on paper" said the professor.<br />
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The student start writing some names. Logically most of them will write closest family like parents, children, spouse, best friends, etc until the list fill up to ten person.<br />
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"Now remove 5 of them!" Ask the professor.<br />
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In confussion student try to follow the order. Most of them again will remove the so not close person in their life. The will stroke so not best friend. So the 5 person in the list will consist only very important person for them.<br />
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"Now remove 4 of them. Leave only one trully most important person for you."<br />
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Confussion getting higher. Now the student start to think very hard who have to be removed and leaving only one person. Until sometime the professor ask the class to stop their activity. Then he ask one of his most brilian student to reveal the aswer.<br />
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"If I could only choose one, she must be my wife. My wife is the most important person in this world." Said the student.<br />
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"Why?" Ask the professor.<br />
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"Parents are important, children are important. But in this life we cannot choose who are our parent and who are our children. God decide for us. In other side I choose my wife when the same time she choose me. So if I can select one as the most important person in this world, I will only select my wife"Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-10853676869457614192012-10-30T06:44:00.002+07:002012-10-30T06:46:46.643+07:00Dreamer vs Visionary<br />
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I always love to talk about future dream. I like to imagine. I like to aim the target. I love the challenge. Speaking about future dream, actually there are two types of people based on how they react to their dream. First is a dreamer. Obvious. The second one the most important is a visionary. Similar but not same (remember the clause in bahasa: serupa tapi tak sama :p).<br />
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A dreamer is a person who just live in his dream. His mind flying here and there like a junkies. He have many things to achieve in his list. Hist mind full of imagination about how is when the dream come true. But this type of person is lack of effort. Most of time, his dream is just a dream. Like a cloud in the sky. Visible but not tangible. Dreamer is a person who look forward but just looking without moving. Who just aim but never shot and the target fly away.<br />
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The second type is the best. Visionary is a person who look forward and start to move immediately. He have list of things to do and just do it. Visionary is never wait the perfect moment, he fetch the moment. When he want something he will start then talk. Not talking too much but never start. Aim accurately and shot. He dedicated more effort and any effort to achieve his dream.<br />
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By the way, this distinction is based my own analysis, so most likely you will not find elsewhere. This concept also most likely will be not too valid :). By the way again, I share this concept just to make sure to be not too often to be a dreamer but move on more to be a visionary.Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-777371232453841305.post-73176739738251787202012-10-21T11:59:00.000+07:002012-10-21T12:32:54.236+07:00Sentimental Rain<br />
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I don't have interest yet to meteorology or climatology. But climate (one of theme researched in those mentioned sciences), is always affecting our daily life. One informal signal of season change in tropical country Indonesia can be derived by it's naming. When the naming of the month is end with "ber" like September, October and November, rain season has come.<br />
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Rain often brings sentimental feeling. Asphalt is wet, the air is humid and the temperature is cold. Singapore has been poured by rain again almost everyday since last week. But at least in here there will be not too much negative side effect of rain. As far as now, there is no flood or even puddle and without any significant reason usually no traffic jam.<br />
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Sometime my memory is thrown back to previous one year in my life. That was when I was still in Jakarta. When I was working, rush hour comes to office and going home from office will be literally rush and hectic. In normal condition, all the vehicle will be stuck in that rush hour. For the driver it will stressful. For the public transport passenger, it will be boring time to home. The situation will be worst when the rain come. Even for very short rain, congestion will be increased significantly. Travel time can be doubled. When I was in university, I remember a moment when some of my friend spent 5 hours to home, because of the rush hour after rain.<br />
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Without elaborating too much, on of the main reason of the traffic congestion is overload road capacity. When rain come the congestion become so significant higher because there will be a lot of bottleneck happen on the road. First bottleneck is careless motorist who take shelter in the middle of the road (usually below flyover or bridge) and disturb traffic flow. Second, because vehicle have to queue for passing some small to large puddle.<br />
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But that was a memory. Rain or not rain in Singapore the road traffic will be usually same. I just often enjoy sentimental moment in the bus ride to home. Rain is sweet and scary. Sweet because the cold that it brings can make us calm and scary because heavy rain usually brings black cloud with a lot of thunder. In Singapore we just need to wait for the last month with "ber" ending passed to leave this sentimental season. Hopefully can meet another rain season in next year.Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07227923197745561620noreply@blogger.com0