Curhat Colongan

What’s Next???

Chic

I still keep in touch with friends that I made in the previous chapter of my life.

This
morning I chatted with one of them on the phone. About one year ago we
were heading off to different directions – I found a job that
finally suited my lifestyle, while she was due to return to Jogja
not knowing what might happen. Today things have worked out well for
both of us; for myself in particular I carry on doing what I enjoy,
with a much better salary than the previous job while living in a city
with all this stuff I need…

For most people, they’d feel life
just couldn’t be better; for me, however, I’m starting to wonder what
may happen next. Life just seems to have been too easy. "I get what I
want" has become my motto, at least for this year so far.

I
still intend to resume my advocate license. And as luck would have it,
last week while meeting some old friends I got to know an experienced advocate and
we’ve been talking a lot about our advocating experience. He even offered
a couple of lessons for free so that I could hopefully one day achieve
his level of success.

So.. what’s next?  Becoming a full time advocate?  Starting my own law firm?  Finding Mr Right or Quite Right?

Curhat Colongan, Seputar Kedodolan

(not) Lost In Translation

Chic

Baru aja nyelesaian dealing ma orang-orang Jepang, kepala gue udah serasa mau pecah lagi… sia-sia deh keceriaan habis long weekend kemaren di Carita, langsung ilang ga berbekas!!! …hehehehe…

Berawal dari sebuah sms yang masuk pada pukul 17.15 WIB dari Sabtu tanggal 7 April 2007. Bunyi nya singkat aja,.. diharapkan kedatangannya pada meeting di Peacock Cafe The Sultan Hotel jam 19.00 WIB. Hormat saya, Ampuh. SMS yang mampu bikin gue langsung protes… "gue lagi liburaaaaaaaaaaan…" tapi percuma aja karena gue emang sangat diharapkan untuk datang. Jadi lah gue terpaksa mengakhiri liburan gue di Carita hari Minggu pagi dengan terbirit-birit pulang ke Jakarta.

Sampe di Jakarta, langsung heboh telfon sana sini untuk memastikan masalah meeting tersebut. Satu hal yang pasti adalah meeting untuk dealing mengenai Perjanjian Pengikatan Jual Beli tanah proyek Gorontalo dan Pihak Keduanya adalah Japanese. Sampe disini sound interesting karena gue pikir kedatangan gue adalah bukannya hanya karena masalah dealing Perjanjian yang emang udah kerjaan gue sehari-hari, tapi juga lebih ke masalah kendala bahasa… yang pastinya (gue pikirrrrrr…) banyakan ngomong Inggris nya doooong…

Jam 18.30 gue udah sampe di Peacock Cafe, tempat di mana meeting akan dilangsungkan. Ketemu dengan co-worker gue, discuss sebentar masalah project ini sampe akhirnya the Japanese coming straight on 7.00 PM… (huwaaaah Jepang emang selalu tepat waktu!!!).

And…… meeting was about to open…

when suddenly I realize that THEY ARE NOT TALKING IN ENGLISH AT ALL!!!!!! Dan hanya ngerti Bahasa Indonesia sepotong-sepotong!!!
Oh My GOD…….
and the stupid thing is no one told me about the language before!!!!! D**N!!! hellooooo… where’s the translator???!!!!

Jadi lah ini dealing terlama dan terpanjang yang pernah gue lakukan because everything explain in Bahasa… dan harus dilakukan dengan sangat pelaaaaaaaan-pelaaaaaaaan… *d’oh*

Actually sih mereka ngerti kalo gue ngomong in English, tapi mereka ngga bisa ngomong nya (that arogant Japanese that they won’t learn English at all..). So, gue pikir ngapain gue capek-capek ber-Inggris ria, tapi ternyata mereka ga respon juga. Akhirnya yaaaaa… jadi lah dealing seperti yang gue bilang di atas tadi…
*huwaaaaaaah… cuapeeeee deeeeeh*

Tapi yaaaaa untung nya dealing selesai juga barusan. Setelah bikin gue *sakit kepala mode on* seharian ini… kerjaan itu selesai juga. Sampe diprotes sama divisi laen, kita kapan lo urus chiiiiii… Aduuuh maaf kan diriku ya hari ini ga bisa melayani semuanya… wakakakaka… kalo bisa gue cloning diri gue jadi 10, gue lakukan deh pastinya… =P

Satu hal yang pasti gue belajar,… Bahasa itu penting banget biar ga lost in translation kayak gue kemaren. So, sebangga apa pun kita ma bahasa yang kita punya, belajar bahasa lainnya itu penting banget kalo mau punya bisnis berskala internasional!… terutama yaaaa bahasa internasional yang diterima semua umat deeeeh… hehehehehe…

yuuuuuks….
*buru-buru ngacir ke pusat bahasa….. mo belajar bahasa apa lagi yaaa???*

Music

Release Stress For A While

Chic

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Abis nonton Dave Koz performance di Score, Citos…. Sumpah suka banget!!!!!
Apalagi pas You Make Me Smile dimainin, ga tahan untuk ga mencet tombol record di kamera gue… huhuhuhuhu…
Lumayan release stress gue yang menumpuk dua minggu ini…
Hwaaaaaaaah!!!

Thanks ya Iya, buat guestlist nya… hehehehehe…

Hmmm… Long weekend neh besok…
enaknya ngapain yaaa????

Seputar Kedodolan

Quarter-Life Crisis

Chic

According to Wikipedia, the symptoms include "confusion of identity,
insecurity regarding the near future, insecurity regarding present
accomplishments, re-evaluation of close interpersonal relationships,
disappointment with one’s job, nostalgia for college life, tendency to
hold stronger opinions, boredom with social interactions,
financially-rooted stress, and loneliness."

Looking around,
quarter-life crisis seems to have already occurred in those
20-somethings I know – changing career, changing location, even
changing partner. Did something screw up between Gen X and Gen Y that
now we’re experiencing an additional life crisis?

Wikipedia doesn’t tell you the treatment methods; it’s left all of us to find that magic pill that cures it once and for all.

*inspired by FA.. hope u can thru’ that symptom dude, like I do! hahahaha…

Curhat Colongan, Television

Past – Present – Future

Chic

A thought arised from a Carrie Bradshaw quote, “can you get to your future if your past is present?” (helllooooo Sex n The City fans… correct me if I’m wrong…)

In a world moving so quickly that you already start chatting up another person before you even finish with the first one, we have an inclination
to classify people by the bad things they did – liars, cheaters, or whatever – yet we leave it there after we’ve moved on. We come to believe and accept that a past liar will always lie.

Is it fair that people are judged by what they did in the past? More importantly, is it fair if people judge you by your past behaviour?