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Since I’ve paced my foot in this company, I knew.. my life would never be the same again…
It is the beginning of another chapter of my life.. From a full facility spoiled girl turned out to be an independent woman who has to stand up on her own foot and try to deal, alone.. in any situation.

I never dreamed to bring bread and butter in this such place. Instead, I used to imagine living in a big, crowded and modern city. One morning, I was getting out from my taxi with my chick ladies uniform, gently waving my long, brown, stylish hair, walking across highway toward my exclusive office. Just like a New York city style, haha… It was just another my silly imagination..

I am not saying that I regretted my decision to work in this company.. but it is ultimately out of my thought. Living far and away from my lovely family and my comfort zone… For your information, due to company assignment, I have to live in a small and quite city, apart by ocean and islands from my hometown. There is no mall, cinema, or any cozy place for hang out. I’m employed by Pertamina EP, assigned in Sumatera Region that takes place in Prabumulih, a very hot and dry city 2 hours from Palembang, the capital city of South Sumatera.

I dont know how long I will stay in this place, maybe a year (hope so..), 2 years (OMG..), 3 years (this is the biggest probability among the other).. So..what can I say..what can I do instead??

Hmm.. maybe I will..

1. Trying to enjoy this city, okay..maybe I tend to put down this city, but as a matter of fact, it is not so bad.. At least, I live in a town even though it is small, it is not a prehistoric village..!!
2. Finding an exciting activity,ex: do sport.. praise the Lord, they offer complete sport facility in the regency.
3. Making friends…
4. Looking for a special relationship… maybe I should try to fall in love again..
5. Be grateful that I live in this city, so I can save some money.. no wonder, where do I can spend much money in this place.. ??

soo.. here I come Prabumulih..!!!

19 December 2007

Hurrayy.. Let us embrace the upcoming Christmas..!!

Somehow thinking ‘bout Christmas always cheers me up.. even though this year will be different from years before. Yeah..due to my new statuses as I mentioned before (single and happy, hehe.. I mean single and graduated).

Lately I have drowned into the bustle of Christmas. I took responsibility as the coordinator of fund raiser division in my church and joined youth choir. Combining with my personal project (about material handling system), those activities have taken almost all of my conscious time on this month. However.. I enjoy it.. yeah.. I do..

Talking about Christmas.. it can’t be separated from the most exciting activity in Christmas, which is shopping!!! (huehehe..). Don’t you know.. every year, Christmas shopping is a must. Especially in this year, when I finally can earn some money by my own, ho..ho..ho…
Let me tell you my first shopping attempt. It was a day before youth Christmas celebration at my church. I got lot of cool stuffs, such as a special price of four colors eye shadow from lorea’l, two pairs of cute underwear from pierre cardine, a flawless mousse foundation from maybeline, and one sweet chick black velvet sack dress. Unfortunately, end year sales hasn’t begun so I didn’t get any discount or special offering, except for the lorea’l eye shadow.

My second shopping attempt, wasn’t really success. I went with my mother (hey..I just realize, lately, every so often I spend my spare time with my mom, luv u mom!!) and sister. We chose BSM as our target shopping, but that wasn’t a good decision I thought… Since I bought an expensive grey simple clutch there, then the next week, in my third shopping attempt, I found the same stuff at Pasar Baru with twice cheaper price… (damn!).

As I mentioned before, my third shopping attempt had theme : Dirty Cheap!!! Again, with my mother I spent one full day struggling to get cheap high quality stuffs in Pasar Baru. Guess what?? We did it.. we bought a lot of stuffs from bag, clutch, accessory, christmas decoration, present for my family, a pair of high heel, an exclusive violet blouse, and so on.. Haah.. I was satisfied, especially my mother she amazed about how many stuffs we got with a low expenditure like that..

So.. those are my story about this Christmas and the shopping time…
Okay..maybe next time, I will write at least the meaning of this Christmas for my own…

Last.. I want to say.. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!

In this boring friday afternoon, I’m sitting after the window on the 4th floor of my temporary office, doing nothing…

Atually I enjoy it, hehe.. since in the last three days we had had overtime until 9 pm, there were so much report to finished in a short time…

I think, it will feel good to see the sunset on the way home…(hmm am I overreacted)…

For 2 months ahead, I am working in this project about material handling system in PT Petrokimia Gresik. In this project, I act as an analyst team. We should calculated how many handling device is needed since PT Petrokimia intent to expand its plant. We also have to analyze and identify the impact of this expanding plan to the traffic and transportation system. The point is, we will come out with the result of optimum number of handling device needed to facilitate the expanding plan.

Okay.. thats about my project. I don’t intent to talk about the detail of it.. hehe.. c u folks..

Recently, I often find that reality is quite different from what I saw and thought. Yeah.. we all have already known, there are nothing perfect in this broken world. But somehow.. I used to think, that statement was only for me, others could reach their perfection.

There are something I want to share. I have a friend that I thought had a perfect life, perfect academic record, perfect body, in fact she/he had a huge problem that I could’nt imagine had happened to the person like him/her. The other friend of mine that is dreadful genious, If only I could have a brain like him/her, unfourtunately has an amoral habbit. I also have a sweet friend with the smile on her face, she always looks happy and likes to laugh, I wish I could laughed freely like her, then I just knew she lives in the broken family. And many other example that made me only could have a sigh.

What I want to share is not about being happy on others suffering, but everybody has their own problem, including me. Even when their face look very happy. So being grateful is a way of life for me.

Thanks God for all I am.

For all the suffer and pain that I have to face, for all the trouble and the failure I got. Those made me stronger, closer to You, and realize Your kindness and how great You are.

Walaaa…

One task had accomplished.. !!!

I spent this day tiding up my bed room.. I also arranged a new decoration, by putting a short wood rack on my old plastic cupboard. Then I filled the wood rack with miscellaneous accessories. I put the accessories on it with a properly arrangement. Suddenly I remembered that I had some cute little pinch doll. Then I pinched the wall of that wood rack with the doll. So it looks cute as when you entered accesories store like “crayon” or “strawberry”.

Look that is my room with the new rack,,hehe

Hello folks.. this is The New Muti!!!

Why?

Because I have two brand new statuses :

1. Single
2. ST

Before that, maybe I should explain, from now on, I’m going to try using english in writing this blog…
Since I’d some job interview in english, I realize how bad my English was.. (my God…). So.. this is an alternative way for improving my english skill. If I make mistake, dont laugh on it, but please feel free to correct it.. okay..

Back again, about my new statuses..

First, being single… (alias jomblo)
After a long journey, finally we got unto this decision. It was hurt, really hurt, and I still can feel that hurt right now… (sorry, maybe we could talk about it later, not in the mood to do it)..

Second, being ST.. (alias sarjana teknik)
Finally I could finish my final project. I’ve got tripple A : A for my paper, A for the seminar, A as the final result..with no revision..hehe..thx God..
This status also means, that right now I’m an unemployeement… I’ve to find a job..

Hmm.. okay.. maybe we can continue later. Since I’m an unemployeement, I’ve so much free time.. hehe,,

bye..

Lagi mikir… Apa sih tujuan hidup saya… Kalau dibilang punya impian untuk masa depan, ada donk.. Tapi apa sih maksud dari semuanya? Apa hidup ini cuma untuk memenuhi ambisi-ambisi saya? Lantas kalau semua udah terpenuhi, lalu apa lagi? Udah lulus, dapet kerjaan bagus, suami mapan, punya anak yang lucu… Trus mau apa lagi? Trus semua berakhir gitu aja, toh pada akhirnya kita semua akan mati..Cuma waktunya aja yang beda.. Serem deh kalo udah bahas yang kayak gini…
Saya pingin hidup saya bermakna, ga kosong, saya ingin memakai waktu saya untuk hal-hal yang gak akan pernah berakhir..
Saya yakin ada sesuatu hal yang menjadi tanggung jawab saya di dunia ini, makanya saya dilahirin, mengalahkan 300 juta sperma lain!!
So now.. I’m going to look for my purpose in life.. and I’m sure, I will get it..

Dua hari yang lalu saya ketemu dua teman saya.. Ternyata dia baru ditilang.. Gini kisahnya..
Kedua orang teman saya boncengan naik motor, pada salah satu perempatan di Bandung tiba-tiba motornya di stop Pak Polisi..
Langsung deh dia diminta STNK.. aman.. diminta SIM.. wajahnya memucat.. Eh ternyata dia gak bawa SIM!!!
Secercah senyum simpul segera menghiasi wajah si Pak Polisi dengan cekatan beliau mengeluarkan surat tilang
” Anda ini bagaimana, masa naik motor tidak bawa SIM, Anda tahu bahayanya? Siap disidang Mas? “..
“Aduh Pak.. jangan sidang donk, ini saya bayar uang denda saja..” ucap temanku yang membawa motor sambil mengeluarkan dompet, yang dibonceng cuma bisa bengong dengan tampang kesal..
” Pak saya cuma punya segini..” seraya mengeluarkan selembar duapuluh ribuan ” liat pak.. dompet saya udah kosong, gak ada lagi isinya! Cuma segini Pak..” temanku memperlihatkan isi dompetnya di depan mata Pak Polisi dengan tampang memelas..
Pak Polisi diam sejenak tampak menimang-nimang, lalu menjawabnya dengan kata-kata yang jauh di luar dugaan saya, apalagi diucapkan oleh seorang polisi yang notabene orang terdidik, berintegritas dan dapat dipercaya..
“Dompet dia kayaknya ga kosong Mas..” seraya menunjuk temanku yang dibonceng..
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Walhasil.. duit sejumlah limapuluh ribu milik kedua temankupun melayang..

Haduh..wahai pak polisiku..

Apes.. ya apes..
Ini kisah tentang teman tugas kelompokku si Ar ..
Tadi siang saya lagi tenang-tenang ngerjain tugas plus nge-net ( tapi suer.. lemot abis) itung-itung sambil menyelam minum air, mumpung jadi asisten magang di LSIK manfaatkan donk itu internet gratis.. “Suit2..suit2..sut..suisuisuit…” bunyi sms masuk kayaknya ini bunyi sudah cepat teridentifikasi sama satu angkatan deh.. lantaran langganan bunyi di kelas, sowrry… , ternyata dari temen sekelompokku, si Ar

“Mut asistensi jam 3, asistensnya XX dia detail banget, ajarin kita dulu donk sekarang..”

Beginilah nasib jadi tumbal di kelompok, bagian paling ribet jadi langganan tiap pembagian tugas.. apa mo dikata, saya bales deh..

“ok.. lu naik ke LSIK aja..”

Sekedar pemberitahuan.. LSIK, lebih tepatnya menara LSIK terletak di lantai 4 lho, butuh betis kuat buat nyampe sini… Ga ada 15 mnt si Ar udah nongol. Ternyata dia bela-belain cabut dari kuliah OR2 (Operational Research—dari namanya aja udah serem kan??), naik 4 lantai ke LSIK buat minta diterangin bahan yang saya kerjain, yang kayaknya susah padahal it’s soo.. simple.

Ternyata saya ga bisa nerangin pake komputer LSIK,karena saya belum nge-save datanya di usb, masih disimpan di laptop dan tuh barang ada di dalam mobil dan tuh mobil parkirnya nun jauh di sana, di daerah sipil. Ibaratnya saya berada di twentyoneBIP dan mobil saya parkir di gerbang taman lalu lintas!jauh kan… Niat saya sih, ga usah nerangin pake computer segala, langsung aja dijelasin lisan, dasar si Ar, ntah ketakutan bgt sama mba XX atau memiliki semangat membara pada asistensi ini, dia bela-belain ngambil laptop gw di sipil!! Mending kalo itu barang ringan, berat kali..

Sambil nunggu Ar saya makan bakso dl di himpunan.. Baru mesen eh.. si Ar udah dateng, buset.. cepet bgt, lari ya mas. Yasud saya harus makan terburu-buru deh, setidaknya turut menghargai perjuangan dia.. Masalah muncul lagi, dimanakah tempat yang enak buat nerangin? Di himpunan penuh, di luar panas, ok deh ke perpustakan TI aja, Cuma naik lagi tiga lantai ko.. “ ayo cepet-cepet bentar lagi nih..” si Ar ngomong sambil tergesa-gesa. Mbok ya sabar Ar.., ada apa denganmu sih?

Finally.. beres juga neranginnya, cuma makan waktu 15 menit.. Sekarang tibalah waktu asistensi, turun lagi 3 lantai ke ruang asisten. Tapi Si Ar malah sibuk ngurusin tas dia yang masih ditinggalin di ruang kuliah OR2. Udah dapet tas tampangnya jadi mesem2 “ Duh, gimana donk tadi OR nerangin bahan PR yang banyak dan beranak cucu cicit ua kakek..” saya jawab, sekedar menghibur “ Gimana lagi, setidaknya lu dah ngerti tugas ini kan..”
Akhirnya kami segera masuk ke ruang asisten mencari mba XX, Ko ga ada ya?..Salah seorang asisen keluar dan ternyata.. Asistensinya GAK JADI!!Diundur 2 hari lagi Hahaha.. Ar..Ar.. apesnya dirimu…

Godong.. Maaf telat ngasih feedback buat MSF..
Yang saya tangkep nih.. MSF tuh.. suatu konsep dalam merancang solusi suatu organisasi untuk mencapai goal tertentu, MSF juga dapat diimplementasikan dalam improvement bisnis yang berbasiskan teknologi, dan berusaha menciptakan kesuksesan proyek - proyek berteknologi.

Prinsip dasar MSF :
Keterbukaan komunikasi
Berjalan dengan mengacu pada visi bersama (vision statement sperti yang udah kita buat kemaren).
Saling mendukung setiap anggota
Akuntabilitas serta pembagian tanggung jawab yang jelas
Focus mennyebarkan nilai bisnis int sendiri, mengapa proyek ini harus berlangsung, apa ukuran dan nilai kesuksessannya.
Waspada dan senantiasa ingin berkembang,
Investasi pada kualitas
Belajar dari smua pengalaman

Model MSF terdiri dari bbrp role yang masing – masing memiliki tanggung jawab, yaitu..
- Program Management
- Product Management
- User Experience
- Release Management
- Test
- Development

Ada juga yang disebut workkstream yang merupakan gabungan dari aktivitas-aktivitas. Aktivitas-aktivitas ini menyusun suatu cyle yang terdiri dari iterasi-iterasi. Sedangkan workkproduct berupa hasil fisik work item seperti database, paper, etc..

Sebenernya saya masih belum nangkep betul apa konsepnya sih… Padahal saya uadh baca mpe dua kali lho..(jujur neh). Mungkin dengan proyek .Lib ini saya bisa tambah ‘ngeh’ sama yang namanya MSF ini. Soalnya biasanya ilmu itu kalo dilakukan langsung prakteknya, baru ngena bgt, kalo sekarang sih.. teorinya masih mengawang – awang dong..