[Sabtu pagi kok malah ngomongin kerjaan. Yah, iseng-iseng lah sekalian nunggu nyokap selese ngaji sebelum berangkat lagi ke sinshe lagi siang ini. Batuk akut gue udah berkurang drastis sih, ngga ada malah. Hebat tuh sinshe, ramuan herbalnya manjur gila! Padahal gue udah tiga kali ke dokter, beda semua, tiga-tiganya ngasih resep antibiotik, dan ga ada…
About a month ago, a strange email landed in my inbox. An invitation from a guy named Andi to be a host for the following Thursday Industrie event held at Dragonfly. Hmm… must have known my email address from my business card (yeah, I got this habit of dropping my business cards in the glass…
[For some reason, Astrocenter assessment on my professional aspirations is a bit off. I wonder why (duh).] Early in life, in his social and familial setting, YOGA probably learned the value of being financially independent and self-sufficient. In declaring his financial independence, he may have criticized and challenged his family’s relationship to wealth and material…
Today is a holiday, well, somewhat officially. The actual holidays are tomorrow, the 1st and the 2nd, officially tagged as the Eid holidays. Today is just a “mandatory” leave (together with Friday, the 3rd) instituted by the government for the general public. Mandatory leave (or cuti bersama) in this case means that the leave will…
It’s almost five months since I was promoted to the Equity Research division. The euphoria was long gone, and the fatigue had set in. I didn’t get paid leave and won’t get it until after the first anniversary of my placement as an employee (pegawai tetap). So, this is what happened: I got accepted as…
Wow… a lot of things happened to me this week, my third week (or was it second since there were several days off two weeks ago) as a junior analyst. While last week marked my first email contact with a client as an analyst and my first visit to a shareholders meeting (of a bank),…