Yay!! Website Admin

Today I get the real access to the official website of the NGO I work in, Walhi Kalsel. I'm the super admin, as the manager of the website simply gave me his username and password.

From today and on, I'm not only in charge to translate the Bahasa contents into English, but also I'm going to deal with the publishing matter at the English section of the official website.

Add more responsibility for me, but another way for me to learn some other new things...

I'm a full time NGO worker now. As a facilitator for the environmentalist training, resource mobilization staff under the resource department and web translator+administrator :D

Eragon...

I've recently watch this movie, Eragon. One thing I remember as I feel a little odd in the movie is the "e" on Eragon's and Brom's palm. E for Eragon I can understand, but why Brom has the same "e" on his palm?

Never mind my question. Maybe I just need to watch the movie once or twice again..:)

Eragon, as a dragon rider has a mark on his palm. The E. Well, I started thinking to have the E as in Eragon as a logo for our Environmentalist community...E for the environmentalist..

E for the earth day. Which is today. The 37th, if I'm not mistaken. And my earth day is filled with an extraordinary training session with girls from Akademi Keperawatan Gigi (The dentist academy). They are all out today. Making great drawings, and sing a joyful jingle for their presentation of ideal environment in the future.

All training participants are girls. And today quote is "patient". These girls has a mission in disguise as they participate in the training, when we shared expectation as we involved in the training. In addition to their care towards the environment, they're looking for dental patient. Wee..hope I can get free braces from these girls :P

Welcome you girls, the new squad of Enviromentalist..the part of Green Student Movement.

Life-time learning...

In pursue of integrity, life-time learning is a must.

Someday, I feel like I'm quite satisfied with what I'm doing that day. Seems like I'm doing the best I can do. And it sometimes makes me stop, to enjoy 'the view from the top' as I'm reaching the fake summit. In fact, the real summit is a mountain ahead...

Ideally, in seeking accomplishment, the real the best you can do, is to reach a point a little bit beyond your competency. It really makes you proud. The time when you literally able to push yourself beyond your limit.

Stretching zone. It's where the point is. As you able to stretch, you might have to keep on leaving your comfort.

And, the discomfort it cause is worth it. The state when you go out of your comfort zone in order to be able to learn more and later on yield a better result. As Dr. Deborah Serani wrote in her blog :"Instead of withdrawing to the safety of what is familiar when they don't get immediate results, they force themselves to move forward, through awkwardness, discomfort and anxiety until such feelings subside. And when that happens, a new experience is achieved."

Believe...

From Dan Pink's A Whole New Mind...Thanks Om Dani for the book.

Today, the defining skills of the previous era --the 'left brain' capabilities that powered the Information Age-- are necessary but no longer sufficient. And the capabilities we once disdained or thought frivolous-- the 'right brain' qualities if inventiveness, empathy, joyfulness and meaning-- increasingly will determine who flourishes and who flounders.

High concept, high touch...
* Not just function but also Design
* Not just argument but also Story
* Not just focus but also Symphony
* Not just logic but also Empathy
* Not just seriousness but also Play
* Not just accumulation but also Meaning

Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. These six senses increasingly will guide our world and shape our world.

Fear not. This high concept, high touch abilities that now matter most are human attributes.

In addition to what Dan Pink had said in his book, I've translated a birthday wish from my best friend--who is more like an older sister I've never had-- sent to me at the dawn of my birthday. Few seconds after midnight...
'May your colorful life full of blessings and even more beautiful as you fill it with love for all. Follow your path, KEEP GROUNDED AND AT THE SAME TIME SHINE LIKE A STAR ABOVE THE SKY'

Whizzy mailing by setting filters.

Whizzy... I'm using the word again. This time in the context of whizzy e-mailing by setting filter to both of my e-mail accounts. Yahoo mail and GMAIL the Google's free webmail service.

Yahoo is my first e-mail account. Gmail account since 2005, invited by a friend...coz in order to have a gmail account, you need to be invited by somebody. I have Mas Jojo invited me prior to our trip as electoral observer to Afghanistan. It was around August 2007.

So, what's so whizzy about setiing filter to my e-mail? Umm, first I need to make clear that the term whizzy is according to me. A truly really is a non-techie person (was the sentence grammatically correct?). So for most people I'm not really doing a big thing. What I'm doing: SETTING FILTER, PUT LABELS, CREATE MAIL FOLDERS and let the filtered mails skip my inbox. So the e-mails from several mailing lists I joined would go directly to their own folder.

It's just a simple stuff available in the mailing service that I've recently found out as I'm trying to manage my inbox. So many unread mails in my inbox are left unread because they are buried in stacks of mailing lists and newsletters. Some of those left unread are the important ones...Yay, wish I knew this feature earlier... Never mind. Now I know.

One post per day seems hard to be accomplished these days. But I'm trying to keep on writing. Anything. Well, I supposed to practice my reporting writing too...

Not really busy in the office these days. But, as I'm entering another year of my life-cycle thing to be fixed is myself! I'm renewing my yearly vision. Adding stuffs to my longer term life plan and add the office's agenda into my plans.

So far, I love to describe the beat of my life as 'hectic'. In trying to reduce the hectic state I begin to have daily plan for myself. It works. At least in helping me remember things I need to do. What's the priority of the day. And somehow put me in a better time management to pursue my goals. At extreme level, schedules help me to stay in track. Focus.

But I love humor too...and today..let me share stories about AH BENG the Crazy Singaporean sent by Bang Man.

Ah Beng wants to buy a TV set. He goes to a shop.
Ah Beng : 'Do you have color TV ?'
Salesgirl : "Yes !"
Ah Beng : "Give me a green one, please "
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Ah Beng is filling up an application form for a job.
He supplied the information for the columns on Name, Age,
Address etc.
Then he comes to column on "Salary Expected", but he is not sure
of the question.
After much thought, he writes " Yes "
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Ah Beng goes to a store and sees a shiny object.
Ah Beng : "What is that shiny object ?"
Salesgirl : "That is a thermos flask."
Ah Beng : "What does it do ?"
Salesgirl : "It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold"
Ah Beng : "I'll buy it"
The next day, Ah Beng goes to work with his thermo flask
Boss : "What is that shiny object ?"
Ah Beng : "It's a thermos flask."
Boss : "What does it do ?"
Ah Beng : "It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold"
Boss : "What do you have in it !?"
Ah Beng : "Two cups of coffee and one cup of ice cream"
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

After taking photocopies of documents, Ah Beng always compares
it with the original for spelling mistakes.
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Why can't Ah Beng dial 911?
Because he can't find the number 11 (eleven) on the phone.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Ah Beng talk to a long-distance telephone operator.
Ah Beng: "COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME THE TIME DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
Taipei AND LAS VEGAS ?"
Operator: "JUST A MINUTE..."
Ah Beng : "THANK YOU , lah" AND PUTS DOWN THE PHONE.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

After completing a jigsaw puzzle he'd been working on for
quite some time, Ah Beng proudly shows off the finished puzzle to a
friend.
"It took me ONLY 5 MONTHS TO DO IT", Ah Beng brags.
"FIVE MONTHS ? THAT'S TOO LONG", the friend exclaims.
"YOU ARE A FOOL." Ah Beng replies, "SEE THIS BOX, IT IS WRITTEN
FOR 4-7 YRS".
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Another year passed in my journey towards integrity. In fact this year is the year I found the word INTEGRITY and intend to make it part of my identity. Many things to cherish, new friends I made, and unforgettable things have fulfilled my journey...

The life-changing point was when I joined a Training of Trainers for Environmentalist Training in Surabaya, June 2006. I was really inspired by the facilitator. I learned many new things from the training. And finally able to put vision into my life, to be a great person that makes a great facilitator. A person with integrity, whose integrity can vibe the surroundings.

Then, I almost drown into journalism. As I really enjoy writing and really passionate in being able to make great narration and trying to be good at investigative reporting when I was a journalist learner at KBN Antara biro Banjarmasin. Especially after I participate in Mining workshops for Journalist held by Pantau Foundation and Intitute of Policy Dialogue (IPD) in Balikpapan East Kalimantan, September 2006.

No longer as a learning-journalist in KBN Antara coz I choose to focus on my NGO life and the facilitation sessions I have with Walhi Kalsel and its Green Student Movement. But still keeping in touch with my journalism mentors. Love writing, and will keep on writing till...I don't know till when, till death perhaps.

The biggest event I joined this year is Asia Source 2 in Sukabumi, January 2007. I meet more than a hundred great people from different parts of the world, make friends with them and still connected through the camp's mailing list.

The latest, I made another bond to people shares the same interest. Not too many. Only with the participants, the organizers and the facilitators of resource mobilization training and the links caused by the training. Including Ika and her ideas and DJ Cirdec (as Ika invited us to his 'show' at Ruang Rupa), Togi and his designs, and Nia with her loving community.

Meet new friends and make a new connections though never meet on real world -Pak Bondan, Om Adi, Bang Man.. and stay in touch.

The chance I get wouldn't be this real if I don't have the most supportive family on earth!! Mama and Abah who truly believes in me, and the proud eyes of my little brother. Nini, my Granma that keep reminds me to stay on track...sometimes with really annoying tones but true ones.

Last but should have come first, the friends who have been with me through this journey. Almost always..both in good and bad times of my life. All the names I keep mentions under the huge family of Kompas Borneo Unlam, school and college best-friends and Rangga (despite the fact that we never meet since my last day at the facility in Mataram and it was almost three years ago)