When I Need An Excuse.....

I was not able to blog for the last couple months. I was busy with my project, report and got no energy to sit and write something in this blog. So, that's my excuse for being off from this blog. From now, I will blog regularly at least until end of March 2008. After that? I don't know... wakaranai... haven't decided it yet... mada kimetenai...

I went back to Jakarta last Christmas, spent couple days in Bandung with my family. It was great and a lot of fun. Great food, shopping freak times and I gained few kilos...
Back to Tokyo on 1st January was the stupid thing that I'd ever done - no fun, wrong time and alone.

I wrote few articles about global crash in equity market, not here, in my other blog when the internet filled with the story of crisis, recession and market crash in US last days of January. Some of my friends told me to send it to newspaper in Jakarta so more people can read it and I did sent it to some newspapers but no response. Hmm, maybe it is not a good article or I sent it to wrong email address...

So, here I am, let's write something.... Cheers....

Globally Local - Locally Global

A few weeks ago, I wrote a comment in one of Indonesian blog about posting article in English and Bahasa. He wrote that writing in Bahasa is much easier but he wants to reach more readers for particular stories. So I commented to try writing in both languages. Bahasa for something that simple, merely Indonesian and too local. At the end I said be globally local and locally global. GLLG is a common term in internet and portal world. This four words actually represent a global vision, bringing something global to local people and bringing something local to global people.

Think about McDonald and Kentucky Fried Chicken, is it a GL or LG? In my case, GLLG!
When I am in Jakarta, it is GL and it is LG when I am in Tokyo. I guess I am hungry! Anyone wants to eat?

Buddies and Guanxi

One of the most important words in the Chinese business lexicon is guanxi. It means relationships(guan means "gate" and xi means "links") and the significance of it is that to succeed in business it is necessary to build up the right relationships with the right people.

This has remind me of what I have with my old buddies. Who are they anyway? well, for sure all of them are executives of big cos, people called them banker, consultant, expert or whatever...
First time I met them it was in Jogja long long time ago, and..... it would be a ten pages story if I tell you the stories of our madness...
So, here we are being a guanxi to each other... I hope it last forever :)




If life begin at forty then we just being a member of this life ( not all actually, couple of them had started it earlier :))
Twenty years..... hmmm... f**king twenty years...
Let's take another picture next twenty years... see whether you still there... :))