Sometimes we should be careful on what we wish for. Yeah, I am now trapping in this situation. Last year, I consulted my counselor and said to him about my interest on out-of-town or overseas project. My assignment always in the Jakarta since joined this company and client near the head-quarter. On the other hand, friends from my batch have opportunity to involve in out-of-town project or be assigned to the client which is far from the head-quarter. Different traffic jam, different allowance.
I am now a SAP-BASIS consultant. If you ask me about my position, whether I like it so I won’t hesitate answering your question “NO”. I never want to be a technical consultant and I know my capability and what I can do. I prefer involve in the project where I can understand the client’s business process and how to make the best decision to improve their production, their performance and reduce the production cost. That the reason why I love so much my last project. It was a strategic-related project. My client wanted to find the potential distributor for their product in Indonesia, distributor who know how to import a short-age product and have experience in its distribution. It was not an easy task but I love it so much although I did not get allowance.
That project also inspired me to pursue my master degree in Industrial Management and I plan to take it next year through Erasmus-Mundus’ program. But I have to prepare all the required documents such as TOEFL and GMAT certificate. And it is the big problem for me now because I just received confirmation from my HR representative that I will be assigned in Kuala Lumpur for 7 months (July 2009 – January 2010).
Arrrgh, this is suck. How can I prepare my TOEFL and GMAT certification if I be there? Maybe you will say, I can prepare myself there but GMAT is something new for me and I plan to take the course before I ready for the certification and I have to take the both certification this year because the application deadline for the reception of application is on January 2010.
What should I do? Should I reject the assignment? Or should I wait 1 more year to apply the master degree. Please show me the way out.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Using Multiple Yahoo Messenger Accounts at the Same Time
If you have several Yahoo Messenger Accounts, and want to use them at the same time on the same machine, you can still use Yahoo Messenger GUI. You do not have to use your account in the YM, and then use the other one in the web-based messenger or Yahoo Messenger substitute like GAIM. The substitute will not allow you use some features like buzz, avatar, audible, and background. Even the Webcam can not be used. The default configuration will not let you to perform this action. But with a little modification, it can happen.
1. Click Start, and select Run. You can also press windows+R
2. Type regedit
3. Select HKEY_CURRENT_USER --> Software --> Yahoo --> pager --> test
4. Right click on the test and create a new DWORD value (32 bit)
5. Rename the value as Plural and set its value to 1
And voila! you can use your accounts on the same machine and at the same time.
1. Click Start, and select Run. You can also press windows+R
2. Type regedit
3. Select HKEY_CURRENT_USER --> Software --> Yahoo --> pager --> test
4. Right click on the test and create a new DWORD value (32 bit)
5. Rename the value as Plural and set its value to 1
And voila! you can use your accounts on the same machine and at the same time.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Nothing Certain Here
February 16, 2009 I back to work again after the vacation I took last week due to my grandmother’s funeral. I open my outlook and there are 3 incoming emails. The first two is from my friend and the other one is from my ex supervisor. Email from my ex supervisor is about helping request. He asked me to help him creating a SOP (standard operation procedure) with regards to access to Production server (both SAP and OS Level).
It’s Ok for me to help him because it’s still related to SAP. Just 5 minutes started my work, another manager come to me asking for a help. What the eff…… I feel like a servant. I think not only me the one in the office who sitting on the bench. There are at least 15 persons and they available to help him. Why does he want my help? I heard his explanation and after he explained it to me, I said to him that I have another job from my ex supervisor. He looked disappointed, but I did not care.
I called my ex supervisor who also my counselor asked him about the task he gave me. After heard his explanation I dare to ask him about my next project. 2 weeks ago my HR representative and him said I will be assigned to A*P project. It’s a SAP Implementation project. Can you guess what did He say to me on the phone? He said maybe I will not be the team member in this project….S*it….. They promise me this project 2 weeks ago and now they said the different thing. Upset fill me up and I have no sprit anymore to complete the task he just gave me…..
I think there is something wrong with this company. They expect us to work maximal, but what feedback they gave to us? They can only give you promises and they never try to fulfill them.
Hmm….maybe this is the fate of being an analyst, the bottom-line position in the organization structure. You have to and must do what the upper-line ask you to do even though you do not want to do it for some reasons.
If you work in this company, you have to learn to maintain your expectation because nothing certain here.
It’s Ok for me to help him because it’s still related to SAP. Just 5 minutes started my work, another manager come to me asking for a help. What the eff…… I feel like a servant. I think not only me the one in the office who sitting on the bench. There are at least 15 persons and they available to help him. Why does he want my help? I heard his explanation and after he explained it to me, I said to him that I have another job from my ex supervisor. He looked disappointed, but I did not care.
I called my ex supervisor who also my counselor asked him about the task he gave me. After heard his explanation I dare to ask him about my next project. 2 weeks ago my HR representative and him said I will be assigned to A*P project. It’s a SAP Implementation project. Can you guess what did He say to me on the phone? He said maybe I will not be the team member in this project….S*it….. They promise me this project 2 weeks ago and now they said the different thing. Upset fill me up and I have no sprit anymore to complete the task he just gave me…..
I think there is something wrong with this company. They expect us to work maximal, but what feedback they gave to us? They can only give you promises and they never try to fulfill them.
Hmm….maybe this is the fate of being an analyst, the bottom-line position in the organization structure. You have to and must do what the upper-line ask you to do even though you do not want to do it for some reasons.
If you work in this company, you have to learn to maintain your expectation because nothing certain here.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
My Sunday
Woke up in the morning on 7 am, I started my day with my habit from high school. Maybe you have a question in your heart what my habit is, but I won't tell you that. Looking for breakfast, I decided to eat 'burjo' or 'bubur kacang ijo' from a food stall near my boarding house. After ate my meal, I went back to my room and realized I just left my cellphone in the stall and suddenly panic mode on. Like Flash I ran as fast as I could....And thanks God my phone was there.
It was Sunday and I had to go to church...I texted 2 of my friend, Timothy and Gadri, and asked them whether they want to go to church this Sunday or not...Timothy texted me back that he could not go with me because he so sleepy, last night he had slept on 3 am. Gadri did not reply my SMS soon and I decided to call him and guess....He just woke up and he woke up because of my calling. He said yes I will go to church.
After took a bath my cool-phone rang, the caller was Gadri and He said that maybe he will be late because his head so dizzy and asked me to go to church alone. So I prepared myself, took my shoes and started my walk to Veteran Building where my church is.
After the Sunday service, I made handshake with the other attendants including David Hermawan, my former small-group leader from college, and Gadri who came lately.
Gadri and I decided to company David to buy a Batik dress for his professor in Taiwan. David is student in an university in Taiwan. He come to Jakarta for vacation and will back there on 28 this month. After found what We looked for, We decided to have a lunch. We will lunch in food court, but before go there We will buy mineral water in Giant supermarket...Why did we do that? Because mineral water is so expensive in the food court...Noodle contain pork and a bottle of mineral water were what I had that noon....
Backed to my boarding house, took a little nap, woke up on 2.20 pm, washed my face, made a little chat with Moty, changed my shirt to t-shirt, put my Zara jacket, locked my room, headed to Grand Indonesia mall, and met my friends who waited me there, bought a pair of trousers, waited other friend were my next activities that day. After She came, all of us: Me, Satria, Lim, and Dian, headed to Cafe au Lait (milk coffee) a cafe at street Cikini Raya for having a little chat.
It was a Lim's treating because he had graduated from my company about 1 month ago. There all of us ordered Espresso au lait bowl. was served with a plate of bread. The drink was so great and that my first time drank coffee from a bowl....
The dusk had fallen and we started the engine to a cafe for a dinner near the Sarinah building. The Hongkong Cafe was our last stopping place that night. We ordered meals and ate all of them. The meals were great and not so much exspensive. After eating we had a little conversation.
The conversation was about our job, what happened in my company, and about a tv program from Agung Sedayu Group that aired in some channel, about my vacation, and Dian's plan to visit Tana Toraja. Had nothing to talk anymore, we back to Lim's car and headed to Karet area to drop me and satria.
It was Sunday and I had to go to church...I texted 2 of my friend, Timothy and Gadri, and asked them whether they want to go to church this Sunday or not...Timothy texted me back that he could not go with me because he so sleepy, last night he had slept on 3 am. Gadri did not reply my SMS soon and I decided to call him and guess....He just woke up and he woke up because of my calling. He said yes I will go to church.
After took a bath my cool-phone rang, the caller was Gadri and He said that maybe he will be late because his head so dizzy and asked me to go to church alone. So I prepared myself, took my shoes and started my walk to Veteran Building where my church is.
After the Sunday service, I made handshake with the other attendants including David Hermawan, my former small-group leader from college, and Gadri who came lately.
Gadri and I decided to company David to buy a Batik dress for his professor in Taiwan. David is student in an university in Taiwan. He come to Jakarta for vacation and will back there on 28 this month. After found what We looked for, We decided to have a lunch. We will lunch in food court, but before go there We will buy mineral water in Giant supermarket...Why did we do that? Because mineral water is so expensive in the food court...Noodle contain pork and a bottle of mineral water were what I had that noon....Backed to my boarding house, took a little nap, woke up on 2.20 pm, washed my face, made a little chat with Moty, changed my shirt to t-shirt, put my Zara jacket, locked my room, headed to Grand Indonesia mall, and met my friends who waited me there, bought a pair of trousers, waited other friend were my next activities that day. After She came, all of us: Me, Satria, Lim, and Dian, headed to Cafe au Lait (milk coffee) a cafe at street Cikini Raya for having a little chat.
It was a Lim's treating because he had graduated from my company about 1 month ago. There all of us ordered Espresso au lait bowl. was served with a plate of bread. The drink was so great and that my first time drank coffee from a bowl....
The dusk had fallen and we started the engine to a cafe for a dinner near the Sarinah building. The Hongkong Cafe was our last stopping place that night. We ordered meals and ate all of them. The meals were great and not so much exspensive. After eating we had a little conversation.
The conversation was about our job, what happened in my company, and about a tv program from Agung Sedayu Group that aired in some channel, about my vacation, and Dian's plan to visit Tana Toraja. Had nothing to talk anymore, we back to Lim's car and headed to Karet area to drop me and satria.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Roll off means....
After took vacation for almost 1 month, I back to my work. Back to my headquarter in Wisma BNI 46. Ye..this me now stuck in 18 floor of the second highest building in this city. I am a consultant and I work based on project. If I do not have any project to be handled, it is mean i am free of work which means nothing to do. But if you come to office and some people in office know that you have rolled off from your project, they will come to you and asked you to help them in making a proposal for next project. This is a boring and sucks job...you work for nothing...so if you do not want to get caught, you have to pretend that you have a work to do by take a chair in the project room. No one will suspicious and no one will dare to ask you for your help.I always do that and look chatting, browsing, streaming, and downloading are my activities nowadays.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
My Last Vacation
Dah lama gak update nich blog, semenjak gua pergi liburan ke kampung halaman gua. Liburan kemaren cukup panjang dan gua seneng banget. Gua brangkat ke Makassar 16 Dec 2008 and balik ke Jakarta 10 Jan 2009. Banyak hal yang terjadi di sana cuman gak bakalan semuanya gua tulis di blog ini.
Kebanyakan kerjaan gua di sana adalah berenang. Maklum selama gua di Jakarta, bisa dihitung jarilah gua berenang. Walhasil, kulit gua menjadi lebih gelap dari biasanya.
Selain berenang, kegiatan wajib yang gua lakuin selama di Makassar adalah wisata kuliner. Makassar terkenal dengan makanan-makanan enaknya, mulai dari yang halal sampai yang haram.
Liburan kemaren pas banget dengan natalan, dan gua senang banget karena gua bisa natalan ama keluarga gua lagi. Semenjak gua kuliah di ITB gua gak pernah ngerayain natal bareng mereka, maklum pas natalan pas juga kita-kita UAS. Bener-bener liburan yang menyenangkan bagi gua dan gua berharap tahun ini gua masih diijinkan ama Tuhan untuk bisa merayakan natal ama mereka.
Moment taon baru gua gak seperti kebanyakan orang. Gak ada kembang api dan terompet. Malahan menurut gua cenderung konvensional banget. Gua ama keluarga gua cuman ngumpul-ngumpul, cerita-cerita mengenai kejadian yang terjadi di tahun 2008, rencana ke depan mau ngapain, makan-makan, udah itu doa deh.....Tapi gua senang banget, karena bisa kumpul lagi ama mereka...Hehehe..
Selain ketemuan ama keluarga gua, gua juga nyempetin ketemuan ama temen-temen lama gua di sana. Bahkan gua bisa ketemu ama temen-temen SD gua yang udah lama banget gua gak ketemu. Gua berharap taon 2009 ini, gua bisa reunian ama temen SD gua. I hope this plan dapat terlaksana, may God bless it.
Sebenarnya masih banyak hal yang terjadi, cuman menurut gua itu rahasia pribadi gua dan biarlah gua doank yang tahu. Dan skarang, gua balik ke Jakarta back to my work. Mudah-mudahan semua yang udah gua rencanain dapat berjalan dengan baik dan semoga gua bisa lebih fokus ama karir gua. Hehehe
Kebanyakan kerjaan gua di sana adalah berenang. Maklum selama gua di Jakarta, bisa dihitung jarilah gua berenang. Walhasil, kulit gua menjadi lebih gelap dari biasanya.
Selain berenang, kegiatan wajib yang gua lakuin selama di Makassar adalah wisata kuliner. Makassar terkenal dengan makanan-makanan enaknya, mulai dari yang halal sampai yang haram.
Liburan kemaren pas banget dengan natalan, dan gua senang banget karena gua bisa natalan ama keluarga gua lagi. Semenjak gua kuliah di ITB gua gak pernah ngerayain natal bareng mereka, maklum pas natalan pas juga kita-kita UAS. Bener-bener liburan yang menyenangkan bagi gua dan gua berharap tahun ini gua masih diijinkan ama Tuhan untuk bisa merayakan natal ama mereka.
Moment taon baru gua gak seperti kebanyakan orang. Gak ada kembang api dan terompet. Malahan menurut gua cenderung konvensional banget. Gua ama keluarga gua cuman ngumpul-ngumpul, cerita-cerita mengenai kejadian yang terjadi di tahun 2008, rencana ke depan mau ngapain, makan-makan, udah itu doa deh.....Tapi gua senang banget, karena bisa kumpul lagi ama mereka...Hehehe..
Selain ketemuan ama keluarga gua, gua juga nyempetin ketemuan ama temen-temen lama gua di sana. Bahkan gua bisa ketemu ama temen-temen SD gua yang udah lama banget gua gak ketemu. Gua berharap taon 2009 ini, gua bisa reunian ama temen SD gua. I hope this plan dapat terlaksana, may God bless it.
Sebenarnya masih banyak hal yang terjadi, cuman menurut gua itu rahasia pribadi gua dan biarlah gua doank yang tahu. Dan skarang, gua balik ke Jakarta back to my work. Mudah-mudahan semua yang udah gua rencanain dapat berjalan dengan baik dan semoga gua bisa lebih fokus ama karir gua. Hehehe
Friday, November 14, 2008
Hotel Bidakara
Mungkin lo2 pada bingung baca judul postingan gua....sebenarnya gak ada yang namaya Hotel Bidakara..yang ada Bidakara Tower....
Gua nulis gitu untuk menggambarkan keadaan gua saat ini dimana gua harus stay in this building till Sunday....
Emang gua lagi ngapain? Apalagi klo bukan kerja...kerja di atas rata-rata jam kerja orang normal, suka masuk pas weekend, susah mengatur WLB (work life balance) adalah keaadan gua saat ini sebagai seorang konsultan...
Mungkin bagi kalian yang masih muda (kaya udah tua aja guanya) alias yang masih kuliah..mendengar kata konsultan mungkin sesuatu yang wah...memang, ada kebanggaan tersendiri bagi lo klo lo disebut sebagai seorang konsultan...cuman klo lo2 pada udah di dalam, jadi seorang konsultan itu sangat berat, susah untuk bagi waktu antara kerjaan dan kehidupan lo yang lain...jadi..klo mau jadi konsultan berpikirlah masak2.
Back to my condition now...gua harus stay in here karena gua harus ngelakuin export dan import database SAP...kerjaannya sebenarnya cuman nungguin sistem..make sure nothing error occurs and fix the problem as sooon as possible.
Gua sendiri berharap gak ada error yang muncul, jadi gua bisa tidur bentar dan bisa mengumpulkan tenaga untuk esok hari....buat temen2 yang lain selamat menikmati malam ini dan week end esok...
Gua nulis gitu untuk menggambarkan keadaan gua saat ini dimana gua harus stay in this building till Sunday....
Emang gua lagi ngapain? Apalagi klo bukan kerja...kerja di atas rata-rata jam kerja orang normal, suka masuk pas weekend, susah mengatur WLB (work life balance) adalah keaadan gua saat ini sebagai seorang konsultan...
Mungkin bagi kalian yang masih muda (kaya udah tua aja guanya) alias yang masih kuliah..mendengar kata konsultan mungkin sesuatu yang wah...memang, ada kebanggaan tersendiri bagi lo klo lo disebut sebagai seorang konsultan...cuman klo lo2 pada udah di dalam, jadi seorang konsultan itu sangat berat, susah untuk bagi waktu antara kerjaan dan kehidupan lo yang lain...jadi..klo mau jadi konsultan berpikirlah masak2.
Back to my condition now...gua harus stay in here karena gua harus ngelakuin export dan import database SAP...kerjaannya sebenarnya cuman nungguin sistem..make sure nothing error occurs and fix the problem as sooon as possible.
Gua sendiri berharap gak ada error yang muncul, jadi gua bisa tidur bentar dan bisa mengumpulkan tenaga untuk esok hari....buat temen2 yang lain selamat menikmati malam ini dan week end esok...
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