One Piece: Long Live the Pirate Prince
I believe Ace won’t die and he’ll leave Marinford for sure!
Connect!
You will never know how many connection you can create. One person leads to another, and another person leads to the other. It’s go on and on until it shaped like a big tree.
Turnover
I often read about turnover rates in business magazines, textbooks, or other sources. I looked at the number, skimmed through the case, and understood the general idea why employees resign. I always looked at the matter as the third person. I looked at it as if I were in a helicopter far far away from the ground. Never really understand the situation and the impact, personally. I could only imagine the macro idea of it until these days.
More than 10 employees were resigning since I moved to this new workplace. Two of them are from my division, my team. Although I’ve been here only for 2 months, I feel there’s something missing. Especially one of them are the manager who was in charge when I got this job. I actually am looking forward to work with her, since everyone in my office said that she’s the best manager ever. Oh well, life must goes on. A senior become a new manager, and an assistant become a senior. What needs to be manage when there’s someone else are retiring is only the spirit.
Make sure that no one’s leave without leaving his/her spirit behind to the former colleagues because the spirit could make a different interpretation of the turnover data. It’s more powerful than a scratch in a paper.
Poetry
It takes a blink to have an idea
and a few seconds to talk about it
But it takes forever to put your idea on a paper
and never if you let your imagination comfort you
It’s Good to be home again
Recently, I had a new valuable experience and I wanted to share this with you.
I spent 2 weeks in a small town to work on a Crude Palm Oil extraction refinery and it was new experience for me because that was my first business trip as a consultant. I went there, gathered data from my client, and worked on it. Regardless my job, this trip was also my first trip after my dad passed away. On my first week, I worked like a dog and slept like a bear. During the leisure time, I had my Star Wars novel. Simply put: the time went really really fast. Then one night I could not sleep. My room was dark, no sound other than my ipod playlist – just like usual – but I could not sleep. While I was trying hard to close my eyes, suddenly I remembered everyone in my life and started to miss them. Miss everything that I always do when they were around; my friend, my family, and my dad. I smiled once, and then the burst of old memories I had with him flooding my mind. It was really an unpleasant moment, especially when I thought that I could not meet him when I got back from that trip. Then I started to worry: Will he be there, waiting for me in front of the house, smoking, and rubbing his golf stick? Will he be there, shouting, “Have you checked your car?” or “Why did you come home this late?”, and else. God just please let me sleep and wipe away all these memories.
When I got back home this afternoon, I got no one stayed in front of my house, just like what I expected. Thank God I have learned to manage my expectation. I stood in front of my house, holding my bag, and looked around for awhile. All of sudden, my mother came out from the inside and welcome me home. I just smiled. And I just know that my brother was also inside the house, playing with his computer, just like usual. Thank God there’s nothing changed. Everyone in this house is still missing me when I’m not around. And now I’m rubbing the golf stick.
Good memories live to serve the present. It come and goes to remind us to cherish every moment we have.
The Illusion of Quitting while Continuing
Should I continue or I quit?
The question like that always occur every time we feel something that we’re doing now isn’t giving us any benefits. If I continue this, I am afraid that I’ll only waste my time and disappointed in the end. On the other hand, If I quit this, I am afraid that I’ll missed a good opportunity that will come after waiting for so long.
Giving this situation, maybe some of us will keep thinking of quitting by keep continuing what I do now. Although in the end you are not quitting, sometimes it gives you an easy situation where you get both of the option. You can ‘quit’ while ‘continuing’. You keep thinking of quitting while you are actually continuing.
Don’t ever fall into this trap.
If you are happened to be in this kind of position where you need to pick one, take your time to think of it. Give yourself a time-limit, and just decide! Whatever the decision, don’t ever look back. You already get yourself an achievement to decide your future, so just go the nearest bar and buy yourself -and your friend some beers and celebrate.
Parkour Motion Reel
Recently, my friend at the office told me an interesting sport called parkour. As I browsed parkour on my screen, I found this cool stop-motion video. Please have a look!
Man Power Pooling
I live in a country that have more than 200 millions people with almost half of it is in the productive age. Ironically, the percentage of people who create a job for others – we could say “Enterpreneur” – is only about 1 percent.
So, this is a country with sooo many men power with sooo little things to do. Yeah, it’s a waste, an irony, you name it.
The thing like this kinda make me feels uneasy, and I start to imagine, “If I were the ministry of work force and transmigration (tenaga kerja dan transmigrasi), I would gather all the productive age people and list them all by their expertise.” For example, we could get a list like, there are 400,000 of people who have an expertise in accounting, or 200,000 people who have an expertise in taxation. After I got that, then I would create the industry location mapping and set the man power target for each location. And finally move the right men with right expertise to the city that provide jobs that related.
I call it, “Man Power Pooling Reform Plan”.
Money
Once, The Beatles sang the song “Money can’t buy me love”.
I bet there is someone who counter the song, “Money can’t buy me love, but money can buy me everything to make someone else love me.” Sincere or not, it is not your business.
Money or currency probably is the greatest invention in humankind’s history. It substitutes all the goods, and clearly translates its values into measurable numbers. Most people use money as they see it, don’t give a damn about it. They buy things, sell things, counting money for their future, and few of the them don’t the use the money taken for granted – nothing’s wrong with that though.
Everybody loves money. We care about them so much even we’d kill to get any. But what do we get?
Everything but the love, because you can’t pay someone to love you.
Everything but the pride, because it’s not a real pride if you pay others to respect you.
