When I learned intercultural sensitivity, i realized that we could not compare our habit and bad culture with American, European even Malaysian). We have own culture that impossible to abolish.

I have been written about our culture for my last assignment and I realized that sometimes we  are so foolish. My lecture in Indonesia ever said that Indonesian was neglected! at that time I believed him..but now not anymore..

this is my note research..if there something wrong or unvalid…just forget it..have a nice read..

Analyzing Indonesia culture with Three Theories

Indonesia is the country with a lot of attractive things in the world and nice people. In the beginning, I would like to describing Indonesian basic assumption; because I come from Indonesia.  According Hall’s theories, Indonesian has high context culture. They (not except me) did not spell or talk their feelings directly, sometimes we use nonverbal language to explain our feeling. It looks that we do not want to hurt somebody’s feeling. We do not tell our feelings straight away, but just give some explanation in the beginning, perhaps with said “sorry or pardon me” in the beginning of the conversation or even we talk about our background why we would like to said that. Then, Hall’s also explain about monochronic and polychronic culture. Indonesian is polychronic, we can do different things at the same time. It means that we are not concerned with planning, but we more concerned with people. I can tell something that old people said when I was a child. They always said that if you would like to smart in mathematics, you should put “abbreviation poster” in your toilet. Even when we were in the toilet we can learn mathematics. Nothing wrong with this, we just can do different things at the same time. When I was learning for my study, my mom always interrupting me with asking me to go to the shop for buy something, but I never felt interrupted because I thought that I can continue it later or even tomorrow. Once again, our first concern is not planning but people. Hall’s also tell about private space, Indonesian personal space is smaller. If you go to office in Indonesia, you might see the employee has a close table and we would like to stand closer in the shelter or in the street. If we already know somebody we would like to shake hand and talk closer. And this is related with the other basic assumption, fast information slow. It means that we are live in huge network. For instance, if something happened in one of department in office, people from other department might be know about it. The information flows really fast because we stand and live closer with each other.

What about Florence Kluckhohn’s theories? Based on his/her theories, Indonesian is harmony with nature cultures. We often accept the problems and adapting with them or accept the situation. For example, when I still lived in my old house, the hinge of my room window broke and made an irritating voice when I opened it, but I never try to fixed it, because  as long as the glass not broken it still can be useful. Another theory said that Indonesian is past and present culture. Because we do not concerned about people, we always evaluate plans or problems with historical and tradition side. For example when me and my friends got trouble how to make gathering events for our juniors, we were looked from last generation did with their gathering and we try copying it or made something new. If we want to find something new for the events, we might be looking with the longest generation did. We did not always focused on the past, but we make something new from the past to our present. As long as I saw and find out Indonesian planning, it is really rare or less people have a planning for their future, I mean for long-term. We just make it flow and see what happen next. One thing important from Indonesian culture is we are “work to live”. We motivated by enjoy with our friends, colleagues and partners. For us are not important getting bonuses or vacation from our boss or manager. The important things are we can enjoy our works with colleagues or friends. I think it is related with Kluckhohn’s basic assumption, collectivism. We have higher sense of belonging than individualism person. Since child, our parent always told for us to be responsible with our group (family, friends and environment) and I enjoy that. I think it is really good if I get a welfare life and then I make whole of my family being welfare too. That’s why I am here, on my motivation letter before I got this scholar; I wrote that this scholar and knowledge would be dedicated to whole of my family and being welfare for them. I also think it is really good for me because I learn to care and protecting whole of family not only for welfare and material but also for their feelings. Then last are human nature assumption, X and Y theory. But for Indonesian it is depend on the situation. I ever learned from my father (he was a supervision in his office) when I was in junior high school, he said that we always be positive thinking with all of employee’s work. But when they did something out of procedures then we keep watched on them, if they catch his/her with the same thing out of procedures again then he /she might be fired.

Then we cross to Hofstede’s theory. According to his theory, Indonesian is high power distance culture. What is it mean? I can explain with some example, in Indonesia it is so rude when we argue with out teacher. One of my teacher in my high school ever said that “rule number one is teacher always right, rule number two is student always wrong and rule number three is if teacher was wrong, back to rule number one. I do not know he was joking or not, but he seems serious at that time. But the examples mean that we as the students should accept the teacher superiors. When we would like to ask question, we must raise our right hand and waiting permit from our teacher then we can say, “excuse me sir, may I ask something about…” There are not something wrong with this, it just high power distance. We should show our respect with people whom have power (boss, teacher or even your parents). My parent even said that “put your parent upon your head and heaven is on your mother foot”, it means that I must really respect with my parent. And next basic assumption is collective societies; it is same with Kluckhohn’s theory. We really close with our groups, the simple means that “it is not talk about me, but also for us (family)”. Again my parent always said, “Do not forget with your whole family and your friends because we can not survive if we are alone.” We also can not interrupted or criticize straight away, we must blurring our message to make it soft. The other basic assumption is masculinity or femininity? I think for Indonesian, it is depend on the situation. There some part of our life that we think we should be masculine. For instance if we want to be a first rank in the class we should try hard to achieve it. But there are some people in Indonesia think that he /she just want to live normally and usual. And next is uncertainty avoidance, when I was child, my parent and teacher really teach me what is right and what is wrong and of course the lesson was really structured. Safety and security was a motivator when we are in office. The last basic assumption is long-term oriented, I as Indonesian had been looked that this basic assumption was relative with the person and his/her environment. Some people just only want to know his/ her present day, but there are also people who looking best for his/her future. Even I have a different perception with my young brother, he has assumption that we as human being just only need to follow the fate, but for me it is not like that. The fates of human being are based from them. We can change the fate with our hand. And in my holly Qur’an, it is wrote that God do not want to change the fate of human, if they do not want to change it

i thank you to my friend, Hurry, for giving me this note. i hope you can make another theories and achieve your ambition to get nobel. hahahahha….

ok..anyway..this note made by him and i just translated into English..

have a nice read…

Relationship between economic theories and cow

Communism

You have 2 cows but the state take over all of them and give you 2 milk cans

Fascism

You have 2 cows but the state take over all of them and sell milk to you

Nazi

You have 2 cows but the state take over all of them and shoot (kill) you

Traditional Capitalist

You have 2 female cows then you sell one of them and buy one male cow. You add your cattle and after that the economic develop.

The Andersen’s model

You have 2 cows and then you mince them.

The American corporation

You have 2 cows, then you sell one of them and you force the other one to produce milk.  Then you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow was dead.

The French Corporation

You have 2 cows then you decline through the road, organize a mass, blockade the road because you want to have 3 cows.

The Japanese corporation

You have 2 cows.  Then you redesign them until they can produce milk twelve times higher than before. After that you make cartoon character from your cow and give its name “cowakemon” and sell it to the world.

The Germany corporations

You have 2 cows, you implement them for live more than 100 years, eat once a month and can squeeze each other.

The Italian corporation

You have 2 cows but you do not know where they are. So you decided to take a lunch

The Russian corporation

You have 2 cows. Then you count them and imagine if you have 5 cows. Then you calculate them again and imagine again when you have 42 cows. After that you count it once more and realize that you just have 2 cows. Then you stop counting it and drink vodka.

The Swiss corporation

You have 5000 cows but no one is yours. You charge administrative cost for the owner to keeping them.

The Chinese Corporation

You have 2 cows and you have 300 people to squeeze them. You said that there were no unemployment and the cost of milk production was really high. You catch all of journalist whom reporting the truth evidence.

The British corporation

You have 2 cows and both of them are crazy cows.

The Iraq corporations

Everybody believes that you have a lot of cows but you said that you only have one. However no body believes you, even they bombing your region and invading you. Then you do not have cow anymore, but at least now you are part of democracy.

The Australian corporation

You have 2 cows, you look that your business seems good. Then you close your office and drink beer to celebrate it.

The Indonesian Corporation

You have 2 stolen cows. You sell them and keep the money in account non budgeter for fund your politic party. Then you keep more than half of them to enrich your sibling.

The Malaysian Corporation

You have 2 stolen cows from Indonesia.

ok… let’s start…

hi my blog… againnn.. it’s been a while…

finally i am arrived at Tanjung, my first placement job. Tanjung located at south Borneo. Borneo known as the biggest island in Indonesia. However, it doesn’t have a good mass transportation. Borneo has 4 capital cities, but to go there you have to travel overland so far, more than 8 hours each. There is no train or plane to go to each of them from here. if you want to go by plane, u have to go to Jakarta first, then u can go directly from it.

Tanjung located 5 hours from Banjarmasin, the capital city of south borneo. u can imagine, 5 God damn hours! and then.. my arrival in here was not good. there was miscommunication between HRD in head office at Jakarta and Field manager in here, and made him pissed, and then we (me and my friend, Siska) got rapped so hard. but we’ve already forget it, i just it just my unlucky at the first day, though i just knew what kind of leader he is now, i hope one day, i will not become like him… blaming somebody’s not guilty and spread the bad atmosphere to his subordinates. how bad the situation is, how bad the bureaucracy is, he doesn’t have to do that.

but.. now i will just focus on my job in here, so far so good.. i will working very hard to get a lot f knowledge and get my best career in this company. up to now, i am still getting a job desk as verification of invoice. for me it’s not problem, i am newbie here, no need to rush.

okay blog.. i need to sign off..

see u later then…

 

Hi my blog..

Good to see u again.. it’s been a while,huh?

Okay,, let’s talk directly.. finally my training program at PT Pertamina EP is finished. I am passed, ofcourse no one failed. What we worried are the placement, where we will be placed for the first time.

But i’ll start from after i finished my on the job training program in Cirebon, and then continue it at Head office at Jakarta. The training program in here was different than before, wewere so busy, we have a lot of assignment and on the other hand we should finished our paper also. In Jakarta, we were always went home after 5pm. And Jakarta’s traffic always made it worst.

But finally we able to passed that hard phase. We finally able to finish our paper, then do the presentation in the final day. The presentation itself was not horrifying like we have taught before. It’s like the discussion session, the prober was so great, helpful, and kind. They said, they just want to see we show the best idea that might be able to bring change to company one day.

Then,, we passed… yesterday was our graduation day. They  said, we passed and stated as the employee of PT Pertamina EP. Yeeeeeyyyyy.. finally..

Then the moment came, moment that probably will change our entire life, the announcement of our placement.  And guess what, i gotta go to Tanjung, south borneo, as my first placement. Lol.. God, thanks to put me aside far away from home. I think this is what i want.  I want to be strong again, after I went to Netherlands in 2008, in there i was trying to do everything myself, and got stronger and grown up. After i’m back, the life is changing a lot, i didn’t do anything by myself anymore, in Jakarta, life is so stressfull and unpredictable. And after i knew i’ll be far away from Jakarta, i am so glad.

I keep searching about Tanjung up to now, and what i know it is former of Talisman, the oil company from Canada. I think that information chill me a bit, what i know  the place that former of foreign oil company always have a better place and facilities.

Perhaps i am not the best one in the class during the job training session, perhaps i am not the good one also, but now, i can focus on my carreer without thinking of placement and graduation again. And the most good thing is i don’t need to answer an essay question anymore .

And i promise i will always write you down my blog…

Thanks…

Cheer uppppp…

Hi Blogkuuuu.. gak kerasa yah udah seminggu tak kutulis dirimu dengan tulisan-tulisan gak jelas gw (seperti biasa). Tapi tenang aja, kali ini akan kutulis dirimu.. ok?

First, lets talk about my job training at Cirebon. Cirebon itu panas banget! Sumpah, panas, panas, dan panas banget! Meskipun taraf panasnya masih belom ngalahin Tegal, tapi tetep aja, yang namanya panas, ya tetep aja panas. Siang2 itu panasnya bisa mencapai 35° Celcius *sotoy , tp gw udh bisa mastiin, binatang-binatang aja dsini itu siang2 pada berteduh nyari tempat yang adem. Untungnya gw ini anak keuangan, jadinya OJTnya di dalem kantor ber-AC.

Mengenai OJT, ini adalah hari2 terakhtir saya OJT di bagian kebendaharaan/ lola dana. I have to tell you, in this function, there is no single challenging job except taxation, the others? BORING. Dsini itu kita bener2 banyak belajar clerical. Dan kita dengan sukses kebingungan saat manajer region memanggil kita untuk mengevaluasi apa yang udah kita pelajari. Jadi gini ceritanya, kemarin, secara mendadak memanggil kami berlima; gw dan 4 tmn gw yang kedapetan OJT di fungsi kebendaharaan; untuk di evaluasi. Alhasil, kita sedikit bingung, untung kita rajin (pada nyatet) J, jadinya kebingungan itu dapat kita minimalisir. Bagus.. bagus.. Good job, i like it. Tapi tetep, karena ada yang kita tidak ketahui, manajer keuangan region sukses mmberikan kami peer, yang sudah dapat kami selesaikan hari ini setelah nanya ke asisten manajer perbendaharaan.

Hingga sekarang, OJT masih berlangsung normal, tidak ada kerjaan yang berarti. Lol. Tp mudah2an minggu depan, saat kita pindah ke fungsi kontroller, kita akan sedikit lebih “bekerja” dari pada sebelumnya.

Mamah tadinya mau kesini, tapi ternyata gak jadi.. mudah2an mereka baik2 aja dsana. Sedangkan dsini gue kena flu, gk enak banget, mw bersin aja susahnya bukan main, hidung mampet bikin mata berair dan kepala pusing, untungnya sekarang udah baikan, jadinya gk terlalu keganggu juga, dan apa juga yg diganggu, wong gk ada kerjaan yang penting juga.

Mengenai hiburan dsini? Gk seperti jakarta tentunya. Tapi masih lebih mendingan dibanding temen2 gw yang dapet OJT di Sumatera. Dsini kita masih bisa pergi2 ke mall tiap sabtu-minggu. Jadinya gak terlalu bosen, meskipun klo ke mall terus juga pasti bosen.

Cwe gw masih kesel sama gw, sebabnya? Masalah yang sama. Tapi tetep gw kasih kabar k dy, at least biar komunikasi gk ilang sama sekali. Dsini emng seringnya gw sibuk sendiri sama kesibukan gw, dan entah kenapa sekarang gk terlalu berat kyk wktu gw k Blanda dulu. Sekarang lebih ringan, dan mungkin karena dsini jga banyak temen2, jadinya rame, gk kesepian.

Temen gw tadi siang curhat lagi, dan ternyata apa yg gw pesennin untuk di waspadai terjadi. Dy dan mantannya (baru putus sebulan, tapi kembali deket), emang admit, pada masih sayang, tapi.. mantannya masih terganjal sm suatu hal (gk bilang) dan gk bisa or blom bisa kembali k status sebelumnya,, sedih lah temen gw ntu, udah seminggu gk terima kabar dari mantannya itu. Emang laki2 yah.. giliran uda kangen, nyariin, bilang kangen, pas uda seibuk dengan dunianya, y udah ditinggal gtu ajah. Lah trus lw kan juga laki Ji, hehehe.. makanya gw tw, karena gw jg kyk gtu.. wakakakaka..

Ok deh blogku..

Nanti kita lanjut lagi yahhh.. gk enak ni sama temen2 gw yang dapet assignment bagian pajak, mreka dikasih kerjaan byk dan bikin muka ntu kyk disiram sama pahit2nya kehidupan.. wakakakakakaka…

Daaaaaaaaaaaahhh….

Hi blog.. how are u doing..*joey tribiani (friends)..

Akan kutulis lagi dirimu dengan cerita hari ini. Tapi.. for the special case, some part of my story will be written in English, Dutch, and Bahasa. Okay.. because some of them are embarassing.

Today, i am doing my 4th day job training, this time i am doing clerical job, u must be know what is it means, yep.. input the data into the computer. Boring!! I swear to God, one of the most boring job that i’ve ever done before. But one thing that underlined me, there is person that doing it by sincere. I salute to that man/woman.

Ok, Nu, de beschamende rol. Vanmiddag, plotseling een van mijn vrienden gaan niet in de buurt bij mij. dan vraag ik me af, maar het blijkt, weet ik van mijn vriendin dat er de foto betrapt me te kijken naar kont van mijn vriendin. Ik was geschokt! Ik hoop dat dit niet overdreven voor de toekomst, want ik werd niet het gevoel te doen.

So, that’s all folks..

baru kali ini gw cb tingkat bahasa belanda gw, yahh.. mayan lahhh.. tetep gk ada yg ngerti kcuali gw dan lw, blogku. kadang boleh juga nih bkin blog pake bahasa belanda, tapi pusing juga yah mikirnya,, pake bahasa indonesia aja kadang suka bingung apa yg mw dtulis, pake bahasa inggris malah jadi mikir, apalagi soal tenses, APA LAGI BAHASA BELANDA?! ade gw aja yg gw minta tologin nranslatin. hehhehe..

oke deh blog ku.. time to go to the bed..

See u next time…

 

walah blog kuuu?? 2 hari kuisi dirimu dan kubuat kau terlihat berbeda sekarang… terima kasih karena dirilu telah menjadi objek kepenatan diriku.. hehehe..

sebelum tidur, ingin sekali ku menulis sejenak..

btw, ada bisul di kaki gweee.. huhuhuhuhu.. dan itu tuh mayan mengganggu bgt… entah kenapa ni bisul bisa nyasar ke kaki gw,, gw pikir ini tuh karena digigit sesuatu, karena 2 hari lalu gw ngerasa ada semacam serangga yang menggigit kaki gw, tp gw gk sempet liat karena waktu ntu gelap banget. Dan setelah itu, gw garuk2. dan ternyata setelah gw tnya temen gw, itu adalah bisullll.. how comeeee??apa mngkin karena kebanyakan makan telor yahh..entahlah

blog, mpe sekarang gw blom nemuin ide nih buat ngerjain kkw gw, sama sekali gk ada ide. bikin kata pengantar dan sejenisnya aja gw gk ada ide. gimana niiiii?? gw kan pgn cpet ntu KKw selese, dan segera di kasihkan ke pembimbing untuk d kaji ulang dan di koreksi. mudah2an mnggu dpan sudah bisa mulai.

OJT dsini berjalan dengan baik, tadi gw baru abis naik tangki minyak bumi, rasanya seperti bernostalgia kyk waktu gw stock opname salah satu perusahaan chemical di Tangerang. bedanya; tangki minyak ntu ada yg luasnya kyk lapangan bola, gede parah!

Cirebon ntu persis bgt kyk Utrecht, kota kecil dsudut. hiburannya? NIHIL! dsini cuma ada satu mall, yaitu GRAGE mall dan ntu mall adalah kebanggaan 4 kabupaten. bygin gk tuh. dan lebih lengkapnya lagi, tinggal di kompleks pusat region ternyata jauh dari bayangan gw, dsini sepiiiiii bgt klo uda lewat jam 6 sore!! gk kbayang glana nanti klo d field pas penempatan.. GOD.. help meeeee… T_T tp gk boleh gni, sejak awal gw ud komit gw akan siap dtempatin dmana aja, dan gw bertekad gw hrs siap.

oke deh blog kuuu… met tdur yaahhh

 

There are a lot of ways to make a girl like you, but too much ways will not guarantee the successfulness. The important thing is we know the concept how to do it, and with a good plan too. So, i will just classify into several ways:

•    Try to make an impression first. Showing intuition is the simplest yet most effective way on how to make a girl like you. Impress your girl by showing your creative side such as singing songs or giving her gifts. Creating an impression will make her comfortable being with you.

•    When a girl flirts with you, reciprocate as much as possible. But if you’re the one who will make the first move of initiate flirting, be in control. Some women tend to notice uncertainties among men who flirt, especially because sexual harassment is rampant these days. Make sure that the girl you’re flirting will also hit back at you as well.

•    Be the romantic type. Showing your romantic side is also an effective way on how to make a girl like you. Set up a dinner date with her or give roses, chocolates and stuffed toys. Make her feel that you are absolutely into her by being sincere and consistent in showing your romantic side. However, not all of girls like romantic type, some are prefer dated with a man whom act as usual.

•    Compliment her looks and attitude. If you really want your girl to like you, the real secret is by making her feel beautiful inside and out. Compliment her for the way she carries herself. Encourage her with the importance of being yourself no matter what others are saying.

•    Be supportive in her endeavors. If your girl is supportive in the things that keeps you going, then you must be supportive to her as well. For example, if she just nailed a job, be happy for her. Give her the reigns to do whatever she wants that will make her fulfilled.

•    Don’t be pretentious to her. Be confident in showing your true self. Don’t pretend to be someone you’re not. Be truthful to your actions and what you’re saying that will turn her on.

 

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November 22, 2010

Somebody has ever said to me that every person in this world, accidentally, has twins. Believe or not, most people believe that. For me, it doesn’t matter, even i also believe that God must have created another earth outside our galaxy, which have same living things. I also believe there is another me on it.

Talking about the other world (out of supra-natural), have you ever watched science fiction movies that told you about other world, such as the most popular one is Avatar or even Transformers? These movies, perhaps, warn us to a bit concern what will gonna happen if at the end we are not only living things that living in this universe. You can imagine if alien is really exist, are they gonna be mate with us?or declare war with human?nobody knows.

There are a lot of myths that tell us about alien, even the American believe that their government hiding so much secrets about alien, though at last they always rebutted this issue.

ok, let’s talk about the others, talking about alien and other world is endless.

by the way, i am so happy that my favorite football team, Real Madrid, won in European Champions League match against AC Milan 2-0 this week. I can say, “that’s the way my madrid plays, hahahaha”. Cristiano Ronaldo and Mesut Ozil became goalscorer. I also hope Jose Mourinho arrivals will bring success to Real, it has been two seasons they didn’t won anything. Last time Real Madrid succeed won The Champions League was in season 2001/2002 when ‘the professor’ Zinedine Zidane arrived and became the most expensive transfer on the earth. His curling first time shoot scored against the german representative Bayer Leverkusin which was through to the final after beat Manchester United in semifinal.
After that time, Real Madrid performance was declining. On the season 2002/2003, Madrid lost again their arch rival, Juventus, in semifinal. Though on this season they have won La Liga, still, their failure in Champions league made the board fired its manager, Vicente Del Bosque, which now is Spain’s manager who brings Spain won world cup 2010 for its first time. After they fired him, they hired Carlos Queiroz and bring in most popular player, David Beckham on team. But Beckham’s arrival turns out meaningless. the Real’s performance was keep declining. They lost by prestige and strength with their eternal rival, Barcelona. Two seasons after were belong to Barcelona, even they also won European Champions League on season 2003/2004 after beat Arsenal in final.

Real’s performance became better after Fabio Capello were in control. Though Real’s board didn’t like his controversial decisions, such as put Real’s star player on the bench, keep aside Real’s beautiful playing style to be more effective and efficient, at last they won La Liga after struggled and fight very hard with Barcelona till the end of season. But still, again, for Real’s board Fabio Capello was not the man on the right place, they fired him and hired Bern Schuster as manager. Schuster inherit Capello’s squad that still have full of discipline and effective playing style. On his first season with Real, Schuster didn’t find any difficulties beside his failure to bring success in Erupean Champions League after defeat against AS Roma in quarter final.

Shuster’s era was end after Madrid lost against Sevilla 3-4 on the next season after they’ve won La Liga in season before. He had replaced by Juande Ramos, but he was only survive till the end of the season, especially after Madrid suffered heavy lost against Barcelona 2-6 in its own venue, Santiago Bernabeu. Madrid became more suffered after their rival, Barcelona, achieved treble winner for its first time in history. After that tough and heavy season, Real tried to fix the problems, to powered up their attacking style, Madrid decided to bring in Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka to team. and as an addition, Madrid hired Manuel Pellegrini as their new manager. But, then Real’s board realize, bring in valuable players without fixing the playing style foundation was meaningless. Madrid, again, failed to compete with Barcelona and were out from European Champions League after defeated by France’s representative, Olympic Lyonnais. Then, Madrid saw the chance after seeing Inter Milan won treble winners for the first time in their history. They were concern about how to build a great attacking but effective playing style and they decided to hire the figure behind Inter’s success that is Jose Mourinho.

Now, it looks like Real playing better and better than before, hope they can reach the success this season.

ehhh… i didn’t realize that i talked about real madrid too much..hahha.. till i forgot about the base idea of why i want to post something in my lovely blog.

actually, i want to write about today’s moment when my juniors realize that i am looking just like their classmate. HOW COMEE?? After i saw him, i didn’t find any similarity between us physically. heeuuhh.. sometimes my junior keep acting so weird..hihihihihi…

ok my blog, see you next time…

bye bye…

Hi my blog, just passing by, it’s been a long time haven’t make a post in you..hihihihi.. you must be missed me so much. ok here i come to fill your willing.

i am still looking for a job up to now, it’s freaking hard. i am feeling like looking a needle in the haystack, i have been applied and submitted my cv to a lot of different field of companies, but still have zero result. but there is still a hope, there will be a best campus student recruitment to apply at Ernst&Young, one of the most prestigious accounting and consultant firms in the world, and beside working at EY (that’s how we called it) is my plan since i decided to choose accountancy as my major study. my name had been recommended by my secretary of department of accounting in my campus, he said that usually after the candidates name is submitted then EY will replied quickly, afterwards the candidate will have training in EY. after candidates got some training, they will work as junior auditor assistant to do audit assignment for several big companies. i hope those plans will realize soon. amen.

i got a story for you my lovely blog. here it is

a week ago, after i got interview session with the secretary department of accounting to become an EY recruitment candidate, he decided to choose 5 applicants, including me. i was so relieved at that time, it means that i just need to be waiting quick response from EY after our campus send our CV and application. my friends who are been recommended also looks happy to hear this good news.

two days after, one of my friend who was got recommendation from the secretary department chatted with me. she said she was confused by his ex’s statement about working at EY. he said that working at there will just wasting her time, because according to her ex’s ‘silly’ view, it’s not worthy to sacrifice bunch of money (my friend has had a working contract with one of private bank in Indonesia, so if she decided to resign before her contract is over she must pay a penalty 33 millions rupiah) to work at EY because he said that working at EY is not guarantee that your career will success. he also said that he has been working at EY for a year then he still not promoted to become a senior.

from my opinion, my friend’s ex statement is just disappointing expression and i said to her to not to enact it as base of making a decision in this case. because her ex just afraid to compete in his office and that kind of expression will just confusing somebody. but yeah, choice is a choice, she decided to not continue his application to EY but rather to stay at her office. and i think it is because of her ex’s silly statement. it is really weird and pity decision.

for all of u guys, if you have a plan and you’re really sure that plan will realize by your hand, do not listen somebody’s frustration feeling as your base of your decision.

Finally, my thesis have approved by my vice supervisor. Perhaps, my lovely blog doesn’t know how this thins happened because my blog knew my supervisor already approved my thesis meaning that I am ready for the defense. However, my supervisor went to Australia one month ago, and she commends her protégé to her friend, Miss X, as our supervisor and responsible to guiding and defends on us on thesis defense.
But this is not over yet, the problem then arise, three weeks ago we (me and the other two my supervisor protégé) came to Miss X office to give our thesis draft, which is approved by my supervisor, to her so that she can read our thesis and knew our topics. After we putted our thesis on her desk, when we came but she was not in her office, on the day after she came out with her disaster, she said to us if we want her to read our thesis, she will do revisions and she said afterwards she has to. Can’t you believe our feeling at that time?! We rather shocked, because the thesis registration days are only matter of time.
Then I decided to mailed my supervisor whom now lived at Sydney, Australia, about this problem and she said that we must let Miss X read our thesis and we must be put a manner and trust her that she will let us passed the defense and graduate. Then we followed her instruction and realize our consideration was just a crash and harsh feeling. I ask apology and I said that I was freaking out because of a time manner. After we decided to make revision, we followed her instructions, then we finished. Now we are waiting for our thesis defense. We are so worried, especially me. God please help us to pass this… this is my last chance..