Sebagai salah satu jenis manusia 'open book' (haha!), saya ingin sharing tentang agenda -alias bucket list, biar keren- yang saya trello-kan. Mungkin bisa jadi referensi temen-temen yang suka buat rencana tapi mudah lupa seperti saya, apalagi tahun baru di depan mata.
Mengingat trello ini merupakan aplikasi yang umumnya dipakai untuk kerja kolaborasi, biasanya trello hanya saya pakai untuk mengerjakan project atau tugas kuliah dengan beberapa anggota tim. Kemudian, suatu hari ketika sedang sering buka tutup halaman trello, tiba-tiba saya berpikir bahwa hidup saya juga butuh manajemen yang terstruktur. Lalu, taraaa! jadilah halaman screenshot di atas. Meski yang saya buat isinya berantakan, suka-suka dan tidak jelas, tapi cukup membantu dan menyenangkan lho.
Sedikit tentang Trello:
Trello adalah sebuah layanan berbasis web yang membantu mengelola project yang kita kembangkan baik itu sendiri atau dalam suatu tim. Trello bisa dianalogikan sebagai papan tulis atau dinding yang kita tempeli post-it berisi ide, to-do list, progress, dsb.(sumber)
This essay was made for my IELTS course's writing task. Honestly, I still have to learn a lot about how to write a good essay to express my opinion, but here you are, enjoy! :)
Topic:
Describe an ideal marriage partner. What qualities do you think are most important for a husband. Use specific reasons and details to explain your choices.
Everybody has his own perspective about qualities which are important for a marriage partner. In my point of view as a lady, there are some characteristics which are essential for a husband. First, I won't be hypocrite about this one, love that grows is very important. It is because spending time for the rest of our lives without love is like food without flavoring, tasteless. Love can grow in many kind of relationships, such as lovers, siblings, best friends, business partners, partners in crime, and parents of our kids in the future. Meanwhile, I think instead of many reasons, love is something that make people should not flirt with others and stay faithful with their partners.
Besides, in my opinion, a marriage partner should be open minded so we will have a great open communication. Just imagine, if there's a blackout and only us two in our house, our gadgets' batteries are empty and all we can do is only chat and chat. Therefore, I think it must be great to spend whole lifetime having good communication with our partners. Then, relationship should be base on open mind to accept and give honor to each other's idea although it's different. It's important to have someone who respects and doesn't judge our opinions or desires, for example when raise our children, give names of them, design our home, comment on an issue, etc.
Moreover, I'd like to discuss about other specific characteristics. I think mature man is an important factor for being a good partner. People with maturity will love her partner right, care more about feeling of his wife, has sense of responsibility and act unselfishly. Then, he also has to make us a better person and maintain a healthy relationship. Our partners also have to fit into our family, because after marrying us, they will also marry our family. As well as vice versa, we have to fit into his family, too. Thus, I always dream to have a lifetime partner who displays intelligence, because smart man will offer insightful advices and help us to make good choices.
Next, let's talk about similarity. I think a man with a similar sense of humor and much laughter will bring us more happiness. Having some mutual interests is also important because it will be great to enjoy things that we love together for the rest of our lives. It's important too to have common vision, ideology, and goal. It will be nice to pursue ours and our partner's mutual dreams together, without forgetting to still pursue our own and respect our partner's. Last, religious agreement is the most important thing of all.
All in one, I think marriage is a beautiful life phase which requires compromises and understanding between partners.
An interview with Muhammad Naufal
Ridha, a young entrepreneur from Yogyakarta,
Indonesia. This interview was made to participate in Global Entrepreneurship Week for Child and Youth Finance International.
*Angkringan is a
street-side food using a cart and a self-service mini restaurant. Angkringan
provides rice and you freely take the complementary, such as satay, fried
chicken, meatball, and so forth. Angkringan’s consumers are mostly students
(with very limited monthly money). That’s why Angkringan is so common around
Yogyakarta, which is known as ‘City of Students’ and has been part of culture.
(left-right) Karina, Naufal, Me
Ø What ignited the spark in you to start a new business venture? Basically, I love gathering and
socializing with people, I’m not kind of person who is comfortable working in
the common office. That’s why, eventually I thought about making a place where
my friends would feel like being home. The place would also be suitable for
people to go hangout and doing nothing but chitchat.
Ø How did the idea for your business come about? I believe it came from heaven.
Initially, Ganis (a friend) and I, then came Susilo and Juan. I was about to go
to beach, when spontaneously the idea came to me. It was time when I was
striving to finish my bachelor thesis, and my friends didn’t gather at campus
anymore, they were busy with their own stuff. I thought it was a good time to
create a Military Angkringan (an Angkringan where people who is in debt have to
leave their identity card). But then, came another idea, about creating Angkringan
Bento, which sells Japanese-fusion fried meals such as chicken roll, shrimp
roll, chicken katsu, and so forth, served with Japanese sauce with absolutely
Indonesian’s favorite source of carbohydrate, rice.
ØHow do you find people to bring into your organization that truly care about what you do? Initially, only me and Ganis.
Tried to decorate cart and joined a lot of entrepreneurship exhibitions and
sold meals by establishing booths in so many event. We went from booth to
booth, subsequently. Then Susilo and Juan contacted and asked to join us. They
said the concept is brilliant, the food is good. Towards their interests, I
said that they have not to be ashamed by selling their own meals, serving by
themselves, to know and feel the process. After that, we got to know each other
very well by growing together alongside our business and know how it was to
start from zero. Feel like having a real family.
ØWhat three pieces of advice would you give to young people who want to become entrepreneurs?
To be in business, was fun yet not easy. Don’t
be trapped by imaginations of huge revenue. Like hiking a mountain, it was fun,
but difficult, there’s process on it.
Have faith in process. If we dream it, someday
we would reach the point that we’ve dreamed it before. And don’t believe in
something instant. The easy and instant process generates instant result too.
Don’t easily label yourself. To start business
with objective to be labeled as entrepreneur would demotivate you.
Bonus point: Don’t expect too much.
ØWhat would you say are the top three skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur?
Skill to befriend with everyone à my business wouldn’t
grow like this without any help from friends of mine, they have been helping me
so much.
Management skill
Skill to dream bigger
ØWhat can I do at my age to become an entrepreneur? You can start at very young age.
When I was at tenth grade, I, without any purpose, sold fire matches for mount
hiker that usually passed my school to conquer Mount Bromo.
Ø If I want to start a business, what do you think I could start with? Don’t be ashamed to start by
zero, even if you have big amount of capital. By starting from zero, you don’t
miss any important process.
ØWhat have been some of your failures, and what have you learned from them? There are a lot of failures I’ve
experienced. It’s all because of lack of management skill. I can’t focus only
on one thing, cause there’s a lot of thing I wanna do. During my college life,
I’ve in and out of various kind of business. I started by making and designing
School’s Year Book, then I went on selling macaroni schotel and pasta. After
getting rid of that, I was trying to make and sell sandwich, only for 6 months.
The past failures also resulted from choosing wrong business partners.
ØHow has being an entrepreneur affected your family life? I am involving my family into
running our business. My Mom helps us on our serving process, meanwhile my Dad
do the business management.
ØWhat motivates you?
I like something that basically
related to creations. I am lucky to have a lot of friends. My motivation is to
create and do something that has a direct impact for people to feel it.
ØHow do you generate new ideas? I generate idea spontaneously. A
lot of, yet unsystematic idea. People say it’s all because of bigger head, my
head is way bigger than normal. I still haven’t found the passion of my life
till now, that’s why I’ve been trying many new things, to find out which the
one I am passionate about.
ØHow do you define success? It’s not something that measured
materially, it’s the atmosphere of real comfort zone, it comes from the heart.
It’s the real comfort zone, when you do something and we don’t get tired of it.
ØWhat is the best way to achieve long-term success? Been inspired by Nickelodeon’s
cartoon: Avatar, The Legend of Aang, we named our carts as Fire Nations Carts
(selling the fried meals). We are dreaming of establishing the three other
carts consist of various elements: Water Tribe Cart (selling boiled and steam
foods), Earth Kingdom Cart (selling vegetarian foods) and Air Nomads Cart
(selling grilled foods). We believe we could gather it in one Angkringan,
someday, just like Avatar gather the four elements in one city, and we would
name the cart after the city he built, The Republic City Cart.
ØWho has been your greatest inspiration? Prophet Muhammad. Music: ACDC. Bon Scott. They
had been the pioneer of their trend, when anybody else was busy with something
in the era, they have created something that would be trend in the future,
beyond what was in present.
Ø How do you go about marketing your business? It is growing by the circle of
friendships, great customer service: we cultivate the culture to our waiters of
being friendly and interactive and warm and home-like atmosphere of our
Angkringan. A funny story, when there was an unknown elementary-school teacher
came to our cart, just ordered a hot tea and sat there all night to have a talk
with our waiters.
ØWhat are some of the biggest mistakes you've made in the adventure of starting your enterprise? It was when we were not sure
enough to pick new business partner without knowing and analyzing them deeply,
but still we gave them responsibility to run the business by themselves with
our brand on it. A few months ago, the branch (that was their responsibility)
was closed, due to high expense and lack of management.
ØHow do you prevent mistakes? Be very careful when analyzing
new business partner.
ØExcluding yours, what company or business do you admire the most? Demajors, the company that
distributes indie music records and popularize them, alongside with Demajors
radio and indie store.
ØWhere you see yourself and your business in 10 years? 20 years? Well-developed Angkringan Bento.
This year, we are going to expand and place our new cart, we have already had
three carts and place them to the corner point of Yogyakarta. I want to realize
our dream of making Republic City Angkringan, where the fried meals meet the
steam and boiled one, grilled and also vegetarian meals. I want to pull Juan,
Ganis and Susilo, whose families disbelieve of our business’ existence and
convince them to focus on pursuing their bachelor degree, back to run our
business together.
Dear the most lovable parents in this whole wide world, Mama & Bapak. Yesterday was your Y-1 silver wedding anniversary. Sorry for the late post, anw. Thank you both for everything. I will also tell my kids one day, that parents' like you don't come everyone's way. I am wishing a happy anniversary for you two. :)
When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now Will you still be sending me a valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out 'til quarter to three, would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm sixty-four? You'll be older too
Ah, and if you say the word, I could stay with you
(When I'm 64 - The Beatles)
Words of Love...
Listen, do you want to know a secret?
Do you promise not to tell, whoa, oh
Closer, let me whisper in your ear
Say the words you long to hear
I'm in love with you, ooo
(Do You Want to Know a Secret - The Beatles)
Oh we danced through the night And we held each other tight And before too long I fell in love with her Now I'll never dance with another Oh, when I saw her standing there
Hai hai! Saya mau bagi-bagi tips lagi dan post
kali ini adalah nazar sejak kepergian saya ke New York Mei lalu. Selamat mencoba, semoga bermanfaat! :)
Photo credit to Tumblr
Di era digital ini, selain membuat paspor secara
langsung di kantor imigrasi setempat di wilayah kabupaten kota, kita diberi
alternatif baru untuk membuat paspor secara online agar lebih efektif dan
efisien. Mengapa demikian? Karena kita tidak perlu antri lebih lama, apalagi
mengurus paspor menggunakan calo yang tentunya memiliki tarif 2x hingga 3x
lipat dari harga normal karena terdesak waktu.
Cara Mendaftar Paspor Online
Sebelum mendaftar secara online, tentunya ada berkas yang
harus kita siapkan, antara lain: 1. Scan e-ktp (file jpeg warna grayscale) 2. Scan kartu keluarga (file jpeg warna grayscale) 3. Scan ijazah / akta kelahiran /
surat nikah (boleh pilih salah satu, file jpeg warna
grayscale) (!) File di atas tidak boleh berwarna (hitam putih)
Setelah berkas files di atas sudah siap, aktifkan koneksi internet dan langsung
lakukan step by step cara membuat paspor online berikut:
2.Publik kemudian Layanan Online kemudian Layanan
Paspor Online.
3. Setelah terbuka halaman baru, pilih Pra
Permohonan Personal.
4.Setelah terbuka halaman formulir, pilih Paspor
Biasa pada tab Jenis Paspor kemudian pilih 48H
perorangan atau pilih 24H perorangan sesuai
kebutuhan. (Paspor ini masa berlakunya adalah lima tahun, jadi
bijak-bijaklah dalam memilih jumlah halaman. Ada yang bilang paspor 24 halaman
hanya diperuntukkan bagi TKI, namun saya memilih 24 halaman dan tidak
disalahkan oleh pegawai kantor)
5. Kemudian isi form yang ada di
bagian kanan sesuai dengan data pada KTP.
6. Setelah mengisi form tersebut, klik Lanjut.
7. Di halaman selanjutnya, kita disuruh untuk
mengupload berkas yang sudah disiapkan tadi. Upload data data tersebut,
jika memang diperlukan data pendukung atau surat pengantar dari desa dll. kita
harus menguploadnya juga. (File dalam bentuk gambar jpeg dengan warna
grayscale ya, tidak boleh berwarna).
8. Setelah mengupload, klik Lanjut.
9. Setelah itu kita akan disuruh untuk memilih
lokasi kantor imigrasi tempat kita berencana membuat paspor. Pilihlah
kantor imigrasi yang terdekat dengan alamat domisili untuk memudahkan kita.
Kantor ini tidak harus sesuai dengan alamat pada KTP.
10. Setelah itu klik Lanjut.
11. Pada saat muncul tab verifikasi, ketikkan angka
dan huruf pada kode verifikasi tersebut. Kemudian klik OK.
12. Setelah itu akan muncul halaman Bukti
Permohonan. Ingat, kita harus mencetak bukti permohonan tersebut untuk
dibawa saat melakukan wawancara di kantor imigrasi yang kita pilih tersebut.
13. Setelah bukti verifikasi tersebut sudah dicetak,
kita bisa datang ke kantor imigrasi sesuai dengan tanggal yang
tercantum dalam Bukti Permohonan untuk Wawancara,
Pembayaran, dan juga Foto.
14. Pada waktu wawancara, kita hanya
melakukan proses mencocokkan data yang telah kita submit
secara online dengan berkas-berkas kita yang asli.
15. Setelah wawancara selesai, kita akan melakan proses
foto untuk paspor.
16.Setelah membayar, kita akan mendapatkan bukti
pembayaran serta kartu untuk mengambil paspor kita. Biasanya paspor akan
selesai dalam waktu 3 hingga 7 hari.
17. Pada tanggal dan hari yang ditentukan untuk
mengambil paspor, silakan kembali ke kantor imigrasi tempat kita mendaftar
untuk mengambil paspor.
18. Apabila paspor tidak diambil hingga jangka waktu
sebulan ke depan, maka paspor akan digunting oleh kantor imigrasi dan kita
harus mengulang proses pembuatan paspor dari awal lagi. (Dalam tahap
ini, pada saat itu saya yang berada di Yogyakarta dan mengurus paspor di
Jakarta sehingga tidak bisa mengambil paspor sendiri diwakilkan ibu saya untuk
mengambil paspor dengan menggunakan surat kuasa bermaterai)
Berdasarkan cara tersebut, sebenarnya cara
membuat paspor baru secara online memang tidak jauh berbeda dengan secara
langsung membuat di kantor imigrasi. Namun hal ini tentunya mempersingkat waktu
kita agar tidak perlu bolak-balik ke kantor imigrasi. Tips Ketika Proses Wawancara Saat Pembuatan
Paspor
Berikut adalah tips ketika melakukan proses
wawancara di kantor imigrasi agar proses pembuatan paspor tidak ada masalah yang
krusial:
1. Siapkan berkas asli milik kita sesuai
dengan yang kita upload di pendaftaran secara online. Copykan juga
masing-masing berkas tersebut sebanyak 2 kali.
2. Saat datang untuk wawancara, hendaknya sampai
di sana lebih pagi. Karena kita tahu sendiri kalau orang Indonesia itu
rajin sekali mengantri. Agar tidak dapat nomor buncit, tentunya kita harus
datang lebih awal. (Ketika itu saya sampai di Kantor Imigrasi Jakarta
Pusat jam 7.45 dan kantor buka jam 8.00 tapi saya dapat nomor urut 40 dan
mengantri berdiri selama satu jam. Ketika itu antrian di atas nomor urut 50
diminta pulang dan kembali lagi keesokan paginya.)
3.Karena ada sesi foto untuk paspor,
usahakan datang ke kantor imigrasi dengan pakaian yang rapi dan sopan. Lebih baik
berkemeja dan tidak boleh menggunakan pakaian berwarna putih.
4. Jangan lupa sebelum datang ke kantor
imigrasi harus sudah membayar uang paspor sebelumnya di BankBNI dan membawa
bukti pembayaran. Biaya paspor 24 halaman Rp150.000; paspor 48 halaman
Rp255.000, e-paspor 24 halaman Rp355.000, e-paspor 48 halaman Rp655.000. (Hal
ini yang membuat saya harus bolak-balik kantor-bank-kantor karena saya keliru
berpikir bisa membayar langsung di loket pembayaran)
Saya mau curhat tentang pengalaman lomba sekaligus memasyarakatkan aplikasi android karya saya dan dua orang teman (junior dan senior di kampus) yang kami beri nama Presidol, dengan tagline andalan kami "Tentukan presiden idolamu!"
Yeah.
Bagaimana sejarah aplikasi ini lahir?
14 Juni kemarin, kami bertiga (saya, Geraldi, dan Mas Panji) diundang untuk mendemokan aplikasi kami di Code for Vote Challenge 2.0 yang diadakan di The Cone fX Sudirman Jakarta. Lomba API Pemilu ini diadakan oleh Perkumpulan untuk Pemilu dan Demokrasi (Perludem) dan Google Developer Group (GDG), serta didukung oleh Google, Asia Foundation dan KPU. Challenge yang merupakan wadah bagi developer untuk membuat sebuah aplikasi Pemilu ini bertujuan untuk membuat masyarakat lebih mengenal capres dan cawapres serta meningkatkan partisipasi pemilih terutama pemilih muda untuk menjadi pemilih kritis dalam Pemilu 2014.
Menang nggak?
Enggaaaaak! Hahaha. Sejujurnya kami menyesal mengerjakan aplikasi ini kurang maksimal dengan waktu yang sangat tergesa-gesa, bisa dihitung pakai hitungan jari, saya lupa persisnya, mungkin 3-4 hari. Fitur apa saja yang disediakan oleh Presidol?
*klik gambar untuk memperbesar poster
Dapat pelajaran apa aja selama di sana?
Dapat banyak. Selain pengalaman kedua mandi di stasiun, kebersamaan dengan teman-teman seperjuangan, dan mengobati kerinduan saya dengan ibu kota, saya belajar banyak dari presentasi aplikasi teman-teman finalis yang keren-keren. Semacam jadi referensi untuk nantinya membuat sesuatu yang lebih baik. Selain itu, sesuai motivasi awal, saya berhasil pulang ke rumah sebelum berganti hari dan mengerjai Bapak saya yang sedang berulang tahun. Oh iya, satu lagi. Saya yang pada awalnya merupakan tipikal orang yang tidak pernah antusias dengan Pemilu dan apapun yang berhubungan dengan isu politik, belum pernah mencoblos apapun dan siapapun karena belum pernah tergerak hatinya untuk memilih, berhasil mengubah mindset tak acuh saya dengan mengantri di KPU Sleman selama delapan jam agar bisa mendapatkan form A5 karena tidak bisa pulang ke Bekasi saat Pemilu besok. Saya menjadi antusias untuk mencari tahu lebih dalam mengenai informasi tentang capres dan cawapres hingga akhirnya yakin pada satu pilihan yang menurut saya adalah yang terbaik. Alhamdulillah berkat lomba ini, saya akhirnya memutuskan untuk berpartisipasi dalam Pemilu 2014. Saya akhirnya punya pilihan. Saya akhirnya punya idola baru, si Bapak calon presiden yang sederhana dan baik hatinya. :)
"Pemilihan umum memang perlu dilihat sebagai upacara merayakan tekad tapi juga kerendahan hati: "sebuah Indonesia yang lebih baik" selamanya akan jadi sebuah janji--tapi yang selamanya layak jadi ikhtiar." - Goenawan Mohamad, Catatan Pinggir 7
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