"knowledge always good, and certainly always better than ignorance"
[Sergey Brin]

Short term goal : study abroad!

I've decided to take Dutch language course at Erasmus Taalcentrum. Some of my friends questioning me, "why dutch?", my answer is simple: "I want to take my master there!".

There, I said it. Sometimes when you want to commit to something you have to say it out loud, so people who hear it will be reminder of your commitment. And so I said it.

Until last year, I still don't have any particular plan for my future, short term or long term. I think about it over and over then I come with the decision, yes, I want to take master in technology and innovation management, and yes, I want to take it abroad.

Then, why Dutch? 3 reasons:

1. Dutch is in the list of country that cover in Depkominfo scholarship. I don't have enough money to go on my own, so I have to rely on scholarship, and Depkominfo is my first priority,

2. Netherlands is in Europe, and it will be easier for me to have a euro trip kekekeke... :D

3. I will have access to most of books and documents about VOC and Hindia colonization. Haha... there it is, the history-freak-side of mine :)

The timeline is a year from now, after I finish my 2-years contract with my company, and I want to do a little research for my thesis topic. For now, it still "managing innovation in telecommunication company to face the era of internet domination". Yap, it based on my experience so far in this company. The topic will improve, and I have to do more research on that.

So, my friends... if you have any information or any input for me, I'm open for discussion.. and wish me luck... :)

Trip to Temasek...

Last weekend, I go to Singapore with my friends. This is my first time going to another country and I'm so excited. I've planned this trip for almost 4 months. The initial plan is to visit Singapore all the way to Malacca. But then I realized that Universal Studio is doing soft opening, so I revise my plan and add Universal Studio on my itinerary.

The trip go out well. I visited the place I want to visit, and take a lot of picture of anything that caught my interest. Most of people come to Singapore to shop, but for me, going there just to walk around and take several pictures is enough. The urban planning is amazing. From how they manage to build modern building along side the old one, and how they centralized the citizen activity and the ultimate is they MRT system. The system is so well organized, from the route to the way people buy ticket. From the rules in the platform to the traffic. Everything is well organized and preserved. Actually, I thinking about reside in Singapore just because their MRT system, considering the way I go to work every morning using kopaja, that thought is very tempting.

Here I attach some of the pictures I take, to bad the camera is not that good (people, SonyCybershot pocket is really-really not recommended, buy something else if you want a pocket camera) and my photography skill is almost lower than poor, but at least I take pictures right??? :)

3idiots: the best Rp.50000 I've ever spent

Okay, this is the read-the-title-then-stop-reading-and-go-watch-it kind of movie review. It doesn't makes any different what I write in this blog, the fact is clear: you are an idiot! An idiot movie watcher who can spent million on sucks movie but doesn't watch this one, complete idiot! Even I curse myself why I didn't watch it earlier... Oh yeah I remember, just one studio in one city with a bunch of competitor watcher who can buy the ticket anytime and that hell distributor who just give this country one copy of the roll... Yes, just ONE! That's why I didn't watch it earlier.

3idiots is not just a movie, it's an answer. For a person who spent 4 years of her life studying to be an engineer who didn't do any good at it, graduate with average GPA, with no passion for specific career and have no idea what kind of dream she wants to reach after college, yep, a person like me. Watch the movie just makes me feels like being called 'idiot' by my master-of-all-master-teacher Prof. Jon Sapiie in front of the class but with different circumtances, he's laughing (which is impossible in real life, because if prof jon calls you 'idiot' during class, it means you've crossed the line and got special prize: his anger). The story is about the kind of problem I always encounter this past one year, future and passion. Oh, passion, my eternal mystery.

The punch line is typical: do what you want to do, work at something that you really passionate about, and don't let yourself died in regret. The special thing is the plot. It's still bollywood movie, with corny lyrics song and i-want-to-throw-up-just-because-i-watch-it kind of dance, but the dialogue is made simple, simple and superb hilarious. It makes 3 hours flies easily, at the end you just realize your throat hurt from too much laugh and your lips dry because you forget to take a sip of your pepsi (or worse: you just forget to buy any drink- like me).

The ending is a typical too-good-too-be-true with bollywood style of happy ending, I thought it's a little let down after 3/4 plot full of simple surprise. But over all this is a great movie, as I say in the beginning of this post: you're such an idiot if you still spent time reading this post but didn't watch the movie. Go watch it! If you find it difficult to get ticket, just buy the DVD at ambass or kota kembang or other similar market, or just download it somewhere in the net. It's a must-watch movie, but it's not your fault if the release is limited, so... just find yourself a way to watch it :)
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Aku melihat ke barat dari tempatku duduk. Ke arah matahari yang terbenam diantara beton-beton ibukota. Satu hari lagi terlewat dengan desahan nafas... satu lagi hari yang kusesalkan.

Aku ingat satu pesan dari trainer sebuah pelatihan softskill yang kuikuti dulu...
"ingatlah baik-baik, hidup itu sulit!"

Dan ternyata, baru sekarang aku benar-benar merasakannya:
Hidup memang sulit.

dan sekali lagi aku diingatkan:
sulit bukan berarti mustahil.

yah... mungkin aku harus mengingat kembali pelajaran sejarah yang kusukai itu. Manusia-manusia itu tak akan tercatat namanya dalam sejarah jika mereka tidak berhasil melalui hidupnya dengan bermakna.

Mungkin aku hanya butuh usaha lebih keras... usaha lebih keras...

The winner....

Too bad Avatar didn't win Best Picture...

Too bad James Cameron didn't win Best Director....

VIVA Hurt Locker :)

Best Picture
The Hurt Locker

Directing
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker

Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart

Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side

Actor in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

Actress in a Supporting Role
Mo’Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Animated Feature Film
Up - Pete Docter

Art Direction
Avatar - Art Direction: Rick Carter dan Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair

Cinematography
Avatar - Mauro Fiore

Costume Design
Sandy Powell - The Young Victoria

Film Editing
The Hurt Locker - Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

Foreign Language Film
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)-Argentina

Makeup
Star Trek - Barney Burman, Mindy Hall dan Joel Harlow

Music (Original Score)
Up - Michael Giacchino

Music (Original Song)
The Weary Kind - Crazy Heart

Sound Editing
The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson

Sound Mixing
The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson dan Ray Beckett

Almost Alice

Will watch Alice in the Wonderland 3D today. Can't wait to see Johnny Depp plays Madhatter.

This is the Almost Alice album, not the original soundtrack, but almost the original soundtrack :p

The full list of the album is bellow... just listen it... it's amazing!!!

1.	"Alice"	Avril Lavigne	3:35
2.	"The Poison"	The All-American Rejects	3:53
3.	"The Technicolor Phase"	Owl City	4:27
4.	"Her Name Is Alice"	Shinedown	3:38
5.	"Painting Flowers"	All Time Low	3:25
6.	"Where's My Angel"	Metro Station	3:39
7.	"Strange"	Tokio Hotel and Kerli	3:51
8.	"Follow Me Down"	3OH!3 and Neon Hitch	3:23
9.	"Very Good Advice"	Robert Smith	2:58
10.	"In Transit"	Mark Hoppus and Pete Wentz	4:02
11.	"Welcome to Mystery"	Plain White T's	4:28
12.	"Tea Party"	Kerli	3:29
13.	"The Lobster Quadrille"	Franz Ferdinand	2:08
14.	"Always Running Out of Time"	Motion City Soundtrack	3:00
15.	"Fell Down a Hole"	Wolfmother	5:04
16.	"White Rabbit"	Grace Potter and the Nocturnals	3:21

Poetic picture

Check this out guys... PoeticPicture's Portrait... all I can say is LOVE THIS!!!