What is your New Year Resolution?

This kind of question is always come and knock my brain and also my heart. The resolution should comply with the deepest heart desire and also brain. I just haven’t think it seriously. So, I will do the contemplation.. to evaluate what I’ve done in 2007 and try to see what is for the next.

To be able to have a SMART* resolution, we have to make a group of point that we want to put a serious attention (and effort) to those things. I hope I can make a little bit detail and a crystal clear resolution. The more detail and clear the resolution, the more easier to achieve.   

Just now, i go to jennie’s blog and find her “new year resolution”. She talks about five things: fitness, finances, writing life, academic, teaching life.

What will be my group of point? hmm.. (*thinking mode “on”)

Jennie, wish you all the best and hope you can achieve those great things. 

* SMART = Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-Framed 

Cheers//Adi Anggarayudha

More “money market” then anything..

I found today’s situation in Jakarta that the money market most likely is the biggest market then any other market. The other market, –ie. cars, motorcycles, property, laptops– are just the tools to sell the money.

I found myself in difficulties to buy on cash a new motorcycle that considered as a very popular type and brand. The problem is that they have a very few number of ready stock for these “hot items” (read: easy to sell) and they give a higher priority for them who wants to buy on credit. They give lower priorities for people like me, who wants to buy on cash and carry.

My Colleague found the same situation when he want to buy a new car. And also with my relative who want to buy a laptop. I am feeling that it is not the stuff market anymore, it is all about the money market. The lend (sell) the money and they will take the interest.

One thing that i want to say is just.. “please let us choose what we want to buy, only the stuff or the combination of stuff and the money.. Don’t push us to buy the money if we don’t want to buy it“. 

In a Confusing Situation//Adi Anggarayudha

Security in searching overseas job opportunity..

As my previous posting, (For you who want to find an Overseas Jobs..) I gave a warning and now I want to give a stressing that you have to learn and explore by yourself about the company, jobs and other things. Here I would like to give links that you can learn about how to do a safe job search. Today so many fraud on the internet, that’s why we need to be more careful.

Below, some links about fraud info targeting the job seeker:

• http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3078533/,  
• http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/labour/more_stories/10101877.html
• http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/  

And here are the information about safe job search on the internet:

• http://help.monster.com/besafe/,
• http://career-advice.monster.com/safe-job-search/Tips-for-Avoiding-Scams/home.aspx
• http://www.careerbuilder.ca/CA/JobSeeker/CareerAdvice/ViewArticle.aspx?sc_extcmp=cbca_931&articleid=31&siteid=cbca_931

Always Cheers//Adi Anggarayudha 

Listening Skills..

What does the listening skills means here in this post? Listening skills here is not refer to the listening skills when you do the TOEFL test or anykind of english tests. What do I mean is the ability to listen to the people around us. No matter if he/she is our superordinate (our bos) or subordinate (people who report to us).

I met a lot of great people, who are great business leader, great managers, great motivator with all the great achievements. I notice that they tend to have a common skills, one of their skill is that they have an Excellent Listening Skills.

They have an outstanding abilities in listening to their investors, subordinates, employees, students, childrens and even whoever they met. They love to listen in order to be able to learn and to know what are the people think. They have assumption, they have the data, they have the information but still they like to learn in order to re-check whether the things they are thinking is right.

The great people, they have ability to listen to their subordinates to be able to know what the grass-root feelings, opinion, so that they know exactly what is hapenning in their organization. Great people never feel a shame and never think that they will looks stupid if they ask their subordinate and listen to them for some issues. Through the listening, people will acquire more data, information or anything.

On the other hand, if we just like to talk, to be heard and  have a poor ability to listen, it will be very dangerous for us. It will be dangerous for our intellectual progress.

I feel sad when I saw managers who have poor ability in listening. They like to talk and being heard but they don’t like to listen. Even they are sometimes to arrogant to ask when they dont know what is actually happened. They think they know everything and have no need to ask the grass root what is the actual situation.  

When we have to choose a leader, I think the listening skills is very important to be one of the criteria to be consider.

“Have a great Listening“

Adi Anggarayudha~Pondok Indah

  

For you who want to find an Overseas Jobs..

For you– who want to find an overseas jobs, you can try to find your search by asking “uncle google” or directly try to some url address below. If you are confident that you are already qualified, you can start preparing your CV and then you can start to search your dream job.

But if you don’t know what the qualification to have, you can also start to find the information about that. You can also find the information of how much the standard compensation rate for your qualification aroud the globe.  

Here is some of the url address that you can go through:

1. http://www.jobserve.us
2. http://jobs.trovit.co.uk 
3. http://www.clickajob.co.uk 
4. http://www.znix.co.za/Sites/znix_consulting.php
5. http://www.connectel.co.uk
6. http://www.glotel.com
7. http://smarthunt.com/
8. http://www.careerbuilder.com/
9. http://jobsearch.monster.com
10. http://www.planetrecruit.com

WARNING!!  

You have to learn first about how to get the overseas jobs securely. You might have a hard time to spend if you’re unconsciously sign with the “wrong contract” (un-wanted terms of contract).  Learn about the reputation of the headhunter first of all.

There are many more, but that’s enough for now. Actually I am interested to write more detail about this but I don’t know whether I will do it or not depends on the importance/request that come to me. Let see..

Cheers//Adi Anggarayudha

The Changing World..

For me, today the world seems to be smaller and smaller. From our place we can easily connected to almost every corner of the world within seconds through the internet. I can easily making friend with somebody in Australia,  Japan, Germany or even Siberia through YM, blogs, mailing-list, etc.

If we have something to be asked, we can simply ask to “Uncle Google” and within seconds (depends on the speed of your internet access) we will got the answers. Not only one answer but so many answers, sometimes too many.

In this recent world, seems a bit difficult to consider special things that we can have only from one place. Let say if you go for a pilgrimage and you want to bring something special for your family and friends as a souvenir, it will be difficult for you since everything you want to buy there is already here in Tanah Abang Jakarta.

The world, the things, the people, seems more to be one unity and all the people are facing the common problems. Previously, people talk about AIDS, drugs, birds flu. Now, everybody talks more about energy crisis and global warming!!   

The world have more common issue then ever. The world is running million times faster then ever. A poor guy can be a very rich guy within a very short period, when he succesfully hit the internet business with the right way on the rigth time. In another case.. a very rich guy can be bankrupt within a short period when he did the wrong action on the stock exchange, miss-calculate the financial risk or due to the natural disaster (like tsunami).  

Oh my god, how can the world be like this. I like the world like when I was in elementary school. There is only one medium size Shopping Mall in the city. There is no carefour, giants, town square, and only small number of high rise building. There are so many big trees, abundance of fresh air, enough electricity, cheap gasoline, slower pace of life and slower car/motorcycle running on the street.

Okay, that’s enough to talk about this things.. (sigh..)

Let’s have a cup of tea that still have the same taste as 20 years ago, hmm… I prefer to see my daughter smile than think about these things..

~adi anggarayudha

Travel in 2007

I want to re-call my memory on the places that I’ve visited this year.  Let’s see what can I re-called :

• Feb, 2007               ~ Yogyakarta
• Feb-march, 2007  ~ Sweden
• March 2007           ~ Amsterdam
• March 2007           ~ Banjarmasin
• April 2007              ~ Surabaya :
• May 2007               ~ Medan
• June 2007              ~ Surabaya
• June 2007              ~ Medan
• August 2007          ~ Makassar
• September 2007   ~ Bali
• Nov 2007               ~ Makassar  

So, what are the special things in that places? Hope I can write about it later. But for sure, going to that places are more fun than bored.  :-)

Cheers//Adi Anggarayudha