A Perfect Weekend

My definition of perfect weekend:

Church - being able to worship and praise GOD, refreshed with something from HIM

after that

Bonding time with close friends (lunch, shopping, chit-chat)

after that

Go home, take a bath, and sleep.

What a perfect weekend :p

LOVE.

Happy valentine's day, people! well, i know im late but i just want to say it anyway. hehe...

2 days ago, i read a passage in the bible. It is my most favorite bible passage, 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7.

^"4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

After i read it, i think about a statement that i spoke out maybe abt a month ago. That time, i was really pissed off about something and i said, "Love is totally foolish." That time, i thought that what is the point of doing something that is impossible? See the definition of love? That's a flawless and impossible thing to do. but as i read it again 2 days ago, i realize that we will never feel that we have live our life to the fullest when we do not do our best to love. Yes, it is foolish, yes, it is impossible, but i realize that we are human being, we are not GOD, we are full of imperfections and we will have to learn everyday until we die in order to reduce the imperfections. It also applies to LOVE. As i read it again, i feel warmth in my heart, i feel that i have to learn to love, eventhough it is hard.

At last, i still think that love is foolish, but that just the way it is. It is what most people think about it. However, it is worthed to be done. :)

Right Brain. Left Brain. Which of yours do you think is stronger?

The text for the left brain reads:

“I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate equations and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.”

And for the right brain:

“I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feat. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on an empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.”

taken from http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=342318025803135&set=a.223764074325198.63513.223382727696666&type=1&ref=nf

"High compensation or salary may be your enemy in achieving your life's calling, or your dream, or your life's goal," said my friend.

"High compensation or salary may be your enemy in achieving your life's calling, or your dream, or your life's goal," said my friend.

That's what i got from a conversation me and my friends had in the car when we were going home from a discipleship meeting.

I think, that statement is indeed true.

Just want to share this thought to my friends who are maybe in the same position as i am right now (in the intersection of life after being graduated from university), may it open your mind and give you some bright ideas about what you should do in life.

Once again, good night. :)

Time is a Very Valuable Resource

Today, my thesis advisor invited all students who were under his guidance in thesis for lunch. He's a Korean, so it is not surprising that he brought us to a korean resto. There, he ordered dolsot bibimbab (it's like a Korean rice menu consists of rice, vegetables, egg, a little meat, and spicy sauce mixed together) However, that's not what is important in the lunch meeting.

There, after he ordered, he told us that he would like to hear from each of us the answers of his 2 questions:

1. What suggestion can we give to the department?

2. What are our specific plans in 10 to 20 years time?

Then, my friends and I started to speak up about what we want, both in our department and in our future. The most common answer about the 10-20 years plan is getting married and having children, or having own businesses.

After all of us finished answering the questions, he told us something. Something that gave me some other insight about our lives.

Here is what he told us, "I may seem old to all of you, but trust me, i felt like it was yesterday that i finished my bachelor degree. Trust me that time, it flies so fast, especially when we do our routines everyday. Routines may trapped us in a condition where we pass 10 years and we feel like we have just passed only 1 year. Routines keep us busy in this life and sometimes make us forget that time, is a very limited source that we have to utilize the best. That is why i asked all of you what you want to achieve in 10 to 20 years specifically, because i do not want you to go through life like me. I regret what I did years ago, i feel like i can actually use time more wisely in order to achieve what i really want to achieve in this life. Thus, if you are going to do some things now, think about what it will bring you in the future. If it is going to give you positive value in the future, then do it."

His message really hit me hard. I must admit that these days i am really confused about what i should do right now, which choice i must take, and where should i go.

However, this insight helped me to understand what i should do next.

Thank you, Dr. Kim Sung Suk, my thesis advisor who has shared this point with me.

Thank you for giving me the best guidance that you can for me in finishing my thesis despite of your busy schedule and tight workload.

Thank you for being not only a good lecturer, but also a very good role model and inspiration.

I cannot return back what you have invested in my life directly to you, but i hope what i am going to achieve in the future will also make you proud of me, and your investment too :p, i am sure that God will bless you and your family for what you have given us, our students.

All in all, the important message i get today is "time is a very valuable resource."

Good nite, universe. :)

The New Face of Marketing

Today, there's a talkshow held by MSS-FEUI (mss-feui.com) as a part of their MIST 2012 roadshow in my campus. MIST is actually a conference which talk about marketing and will be held on March 5th and 6th this year (2012).

The title of the talkshow was "Undressing the Social Media: "What is Happening with Our Consumers?".

To be honest, i am not interested to the title, but anyway, i attended the talkshow.

The talkshow presented Andy Sjarif, the CEO of SITTI, an Indonesian start-up online advertising company. As I listen to him, I found that the talkshow was very useful, it gave me new insight about the NEW marketing concept that we should apply as we try to sell or to market everything.

A very powerful message behind all his talk i think is that, "4P is dead. The old marketing is dead. The one-direction concept of marketing is dead. What matters now is about two-direction marketing, it's all about listening to people, it's all about using the social media to its fullest power to do marketing."

He also said that "In the marketing world right now, it is not about the millions-budgeted tv commercial, but its about knowing the group of people that will be the perfect target of what we try to market or sell, and penetrate into those group of people via social media."

What an interesting concept. I think it is indeed, very true.

In the end, I want to say "Thank you very much to MSS-FEUI. Thank you for coming to our campus and thank you for sharing your valuable knowledge with us. It's an honor to participate in your program guys." :)

Clara C

Wonder who is Clara C?

She is one of YouTube artist that i just found in YouTube few days ago for her collaboration video with Joseph Vincent, entitled "Shy That Way (Cover of Jason Mraz and Tristan Freeman)" and "Rhythm of Love (Cover of Plain White Ts) Here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJvczSokKfc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iem96ITbfY

And here is another video of her collaboration with Sam Ock, entitled "Little Light"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oujkpugIc6o

I think her voice is very unique and somehow "soothing".

All in all, i just wanna share. Hope her music will soothe you too. :)

A Point in Life

Two days ago, was the day when i feel really bored about my life.

Recently graduated (but the commencement ceremony has not taken place yet), still being the leader of my department's student council, trying to complete all the application necessities for master scholarship in several institutions asap, and trying to look for something to do in order to stay "passionately alive".

The definition above is surely not the definition that i expect of my current point in life.

I feel, lost. I do not know what the future will bring. That is the thought that appears most frequently in my head lately.

However, when i lie on my bed and let my brain wander to where it want to, suddenly a force inside me told me to give thanks. To count my blessings. To see things around me, things in me, and things that i have, and for one moment, give gratitude for them.

And at that point in my life, i started to say "I am thankful for......"

I fill in the blank with a lot of things,

here they are as what i can still remember from the previous 2 days:

a complete family (mom, dad, lil bro), finishing my thesis on time despite of the problems i faced during the time of writing, being able to eat and dress properly as well as sleep in a really comfy bed, my friends who support me in good and bad times, all my talents, all that ive been through in this life, and the list go on... (i cant remember more)

And at that point in my life, the boredom went away completely, and it was replaced with a joy, a joy that give me faith to keep on going in this life and of course, to be more thankful for things around me.

Good night. :)

Cheers!

A Start

I decide to call this blog "Life Lessons of Mine" because i just want to share life lessons that i got in any form. Hope they can help u by giving better explanation of ur doubt, by answering ur questions, or maybe just by making u smile after reading the posts.

Cheers! :)