Sunday, December 19, 2021

PERJALANAN KE MADAGASCAR

Halo semua pengunjung blog aku.

Sudah lama aku nggak sempat ngisi blog ini lagi akibat kesibukan yang super duper banyak. Sebenarnya aku punya beberapa waktu luang sebelumnya tapi biasa-lah anak malas pasti lebih milih rebahan dan scroll tiktok sampai berjam-jam. Jadi di postingan ini aku mau cerita ke teman-teman semua tentang pengalaman aku pertama kali sampai di Madagascar.

Sebelum sampai di Madagascar, sebelumnya aku udah research sedikit tentang negara ini. Percaya atau nggak, aku juga sempat cari tahu lokasi McD dan KFC di negara ini. Alhasil, di kota yang aku tuju (Toamasina), KFC dan McD hasilnya nihil. Kosong melompong.

Jadi, perjalanan aku ke tempat aku kerja sebenarnya adalah perjalanan panjang. Bayangin aja aku harus terbang dari Jakarta ke Doha sekitar 8 jam, trus Doha ke Paris sekitar 7 jam dan Paris ke Antananarivo (ibukotanya Madagascar) itu 12 jam. Totalnya aja itu udah 2 jam di pesawat doang, belum termasuk transit. 

Walaupun waktu itu pesawat yang di sediakan dari perusahaan kelas bisnis, tapi baru kali itu aku merasakan muak di dalam pesawat. Karena biasanya penerbangan aku yang paling jauh itu total-totalnya cuma sekitar 16 jam yang terbagi ke dalam 2 penerbangan. 

Pertama kali sampai di Antananarivo aku merasakan kota ini ketinggalan jauh dari Jakarta. Mulai dari bangunan tinggi sampai fasilitas yang ada di kotanya. Entah kenapa aku merasa berada di era 1970-an seperti di dalam foto-foto kota tua Jakarta yang pernah aku lihat.

Perjalanan ke Toamasina itu sekitar 10 jam dari ibukota melewati jalur darat. Karena jalannya yang nggak semulus muka cewek yang suka perawatan, alhasil kalian harus sedia ANTIMO untuk di perjalanan. Karena pas aku pertama naik mobil ke Toamasina dari Antananarivo itu aku merasakan mual yang teramat sangat. Setelah itu, di sepanjang perjalanan aku banyak lihat pasar-pasar tradisional. Sepertinya di negara ini mall itu cuma 1 atau 2 doang. Selebihnya hanya pasar tradisional.

Di kota Toamasina, aku pun cukup takjub karena di sini hanya ada sekitar  supermarket besar (Leader Price, Shoprite dan Score). Aku masih berharap di kota ini ada mall untuk tempat nongki-nongki, tapi ternyata pasar tradisional Bazaar Kelly adalah pusat perbelanjaan terlengkap di kota ini. Lampu kelap kelip di tengah malam pun jangan di tanya. Karena kalau di malam hari, tidak banyak lampu jalan yang akan hidup. 

Pernah suatu ketika, aku dan salah satu rekan kerja Indonesia mau ke restoran tempat Duta Besar Indonesia yang di Madagascar akan datang. Jadi kami di undang oleh Pak Dubes untuk makan malam. Kami pun naik tuk-tuk (kalau di Indonesia ini bentuknya semacam bajaj). Di perjalanan aku lihat rumah-rumah warga lokal Madagascar banyak yang tidak punya lampu. Kalaupun ada, itu hanya satu atau dua. Gelap dan hening sampai aku nyeletuk ke rekan kerja ku tersebut "Pak, nampaknya di negara ini kehidupan itu hanya sebatas makan untuk esok ya. Mereka hidupnya santai". 

Itulah yang aku rasakan di negara ini. Aku juga pernah berkunjung ke salah satu desa tradisional mereka, dan aku benar-benar merasa kalau kehidupan bagi mereka hanya sekadar makan dan berkembang biak saja. Kehidupan yang sangat sederhana dan terkadang aku juga berpikir kalau masyarakat kita seperti yang di kota-kota besar malah tidak menyadari filosofi hidup yang sebenarnya.

Di kota ini, aku merasakan betul kalau kehidupan adalah berjalan bersama dengan orang yang kita sayangi, menghabiskan hari libur bersama, bekerja sekadarnya untuk hidup dan tidak memusingkan hal-hal di masa depan yang juga masih belum pasti terjadi.

Di satu sisi aku senang berada di sini, namun di sisi lain aku juga rindu suasana hiruk pikuk Indonesia yang serba cepat. Bayangkan saja kalau kalian pesan makanan di restauran di sini, kalian bisa menunggu sampai 2 jam hanya untuk makan nasi goreng. Sangat berbeda ceritanya di tempat abang-abang nasi goreng di Indonesia, paling lama 1 menit sudah jadi.

Dari pengalaman ini aku tau semakin banyak kita berjalan dan melihat sisi lain dunia, kita akan melihat sesuatu dari point yang berbeda.

 


Toamasina, 19 December 2021

Di sore hari di musim panas di kota ini. Jam 6 kali ini masih terang.

Wednesday, December 02, 2020

TIPS AND TRICK VISITING SUMATERA, INDONESIA

 Hi everyone who loves travelling.

I believe some of you ever heard about Sumatera Island which located in Indonesia. Sumatera is an island which located in west Indonesia. Sumatera has a very big rainforest area and tropical jungle. In Sumatera you can found so many vegetation and a rare vegetation like the giant flower is exist in this island. I came from Sumatera Island, especially Riau Province. In my province, you can easily find a wild animal if you visiting the jungle/forest nearby. Even in the village farm, several times people found a bear on that area.

If you like to visit Sumatera, the first thing you should do is making friendship with the local. Having local friend is a good thing to avoid you from a scammer and they can guide you to find several hidden gems in this island. Okay, let me explain to you several tips in bullet point.

1. Find a local friend

Find a local friend sometimes being difficult because several people not talk in English. If you have local friend, they will bring you the iconic things in that area. Especially if they comes from villages, they will know the exact place which maybe a hidden gems in your perspective. Why I say about perspective? Because for us, Sumatera people, going to the forest is quite ordinary. Facing the snake nearby home, lizard nearby the river or even crocodile, is common here. In Sumatera, most of the river is a deep river. Believe me or not, in that river, there're million big entities from crocodile, snake or big fish. 

Last time in our village farm, my parents found a big phyton (with upper leg size of fat people). This is common here.

2. Stay in local accomodation

If you have local friend, it's very easy to stay in local accomodation. It's very good to stay in the village area, especially if they have home nearby the ricefield or jungle. The smell of village is very awesome. You'll feel calm. In the village area, usually in the morning time it won't be very difficult to find your breakfast. Usually they will prepare lontong (rice cake with coconut sauce), sate (rice cake, chicken and curry sauce) or pecal (mix rice cake and vegetable with peanut sauce). This kind of breakfast is quite easy to find in Sumatera, especially in the village area.

3. Be kind and humble (not be arrogant)

This is the first point to going well with Indonesian. Don't ever be arrogant. Just giving them smile and simple talk is enough to make them as your friend. We are Indonesian is like to smile even to stranger. It's mean that we are welcoming everyone in our country. Once there's a people who doesn't like to giving smile back, we can consider them as not humble or arrogant person. As simple as that. Even on the train, several people can talk freely to stranger even they never know each other before. I can say that Indonesian people is a friendly person.

4. Prepare your local currency

This is a must. In Sumatera island, only in the big cities you can found money changer. Even in some cities, the money changer is very rare. So you need to prepare your local currency (Rupiah) in advance. But you must be careful to keep it.

5. Took some insect repellant

Sumatera has a tropical climate, so that mosquitos will growth rapidly. You need to prepare insect repellant and be save from mosquitos bites. You also can consume some vegetables like papaya leaves (by boiled it and eat with rice and sambal). Papaya leaves will make our blood bitter and mosquitos hates it. That is what I learn from my father. He was an army in Indonesia and he teach me how to survive in the jungle sometimes.

6. Bring your raincoat and waterproof boot

Due to rainy season, it's a good things to bring your raincoat and waterproof boot. If you have chance to visiting ricefield, then waterproof boot is a good things for you. 

7. Just enjoy the wild life

Just enjoy your travelling in Sumatera. Sometimes it will become wild and sometimes it will be okay. You can visiting the mountain, river and lake if you visiting Sumatera. 

Friday, November 13, 2020

BEFORE YOU COMMENTS, SEE YOURSELF IN MIRROR

Even we are not living in an old time, there's several people who are really care about what others doing in their life.

I saw these kind of people sometimes and make me really feel uncomfort. I am the person who like to avoid such a mess and everything who is not good for my life. That is why I'll choose the place where I stay and work which is very comfortable for me. I intend to avoid all of kind dramas in life and leave peoples who loves them. For me living is simple as that. Life is not for impress the others with what you have. Life for me is more your own comfortable stage. Once you reach that level, I believe some narrow minded people will think that you're weird.

For some people, they intend to living in a calm place, not working and just sitting at home and even not doing anything unless just playing their phone with non-productives activities. The things are when they tried to compare their life by us, by saying that they are a family people who intend to stay close with family, in my mind I am not sure with that.

Maybe they are just simply lazy by doing nothing and sitting at home.

For me actually these kind of things is doesn't matter to me. But, once they try to disturb my life by their comments, at that time I feel pity on them. 

Everyone has their own choice in their life and each people doesn't have any right for judging.

Just take care your own life and try not to be burden to the people you called 'family' is the real love form. Being burden and still said that you love your family?
So, just be silent and be nice to a man-kind existance surrounding yourself.


So, you all my readers, how do you think?

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

OUR HAPPINESS IS OUR HOPE

Did you ever feel that you're not happy enough because of someone else?

Did you ever feel angry and got a very bad temptation to spit a bad words to other just because they are not doing what you used to ask them?

Actually these kind of problem is not the other people's problem. This is your problem in your life. Because you put a high hope and expectation to them and you'll ended up with what they do to you. If you never put a hope or expectation, you'll feel more content with yourself.
These kind of knowledge I got from my entire life. Not coming from the book or classroom. This kind of philosphy comes from the long journey of my life. The happiness, sad, anger and empty feeling teach me that what we feel will depend on how big we put any expectations to others.

Do you know why mother's love is always bigger than anything in this world? Yeah... They never put any expectations to their children. They never expect their children to pay their effort or giving them something. That is why they always can give without asking.
I realize in this big world, many people expecting something from the others. I will not looking for a very huge sample. Just look around yourself and you can see several people going with the others just because of countable things like materialistic things. Sometimes you'll see a girl dating a boy because of something, or vice versa. Many things happen in life and only us know well what we are thinking.

I always have an intention to keep my pride, so that I never do something which will hurt that. For example, I never go dating a people just because their wealth or any physical things. Because if I go with that kind of thinking, it will hurt my pride a lot. I'll do what I like and what I love. That's all. 

But the things I'm difficult in control now is to handle my expectation with the others achievement. For example, I expect somebody will do their job based on our target, then once they failed to do that, I'll feel not happy. Actually, these kind of issue should not be exist in my life. I need to be clear about what I can reach and which I can't. No need to consider anybody achievement even we are in team. Just focus on ourself and see us and ourself only. It will be better for our next improvement as a human being.

Nowadays, I tried to handle these kind of thinking.

If I don't like somebody, then I just leave it. No need argue why like this and why it's like that. No point to arguing and explaining the things which is already fixed on their mind. Just move away and do what we like. That's more precious rather than arguing un-necessary things.

Monday, September 21, 2020

TIME is The Most Important Things in Life

 When people is busy to collecting the money or any materialistic things, they forget that they have the most important things in their life.

Ya, that's Their Time. 

They're busy in working, they're busy in gaining more profit, etc. They lost their time a lot. They are not taking care enough their surrounding, family, friends and their partner. Some people thinks that another's behaviour lied on their hard working attitude and their achievement. They are not see who is the people who can spend their precious time only for them. Sometimes this kind of things looks pathetic in this modern life. But, this is life.

Do you know, that each people in the world can have a very good ability in their life, with or without you?
Life is not just about you and you. But when they put you the first, you should think that these peoples is precious in your life. When you said that these people doesn't have another priority in life, actually they have a lot of things to do rather than your life. Several people can't open their eyes clearly about these things and abandon another's effort.

Okay, let me tell you about nowadays situations.

All people thinks that COVID stop everything. Business, travelling, etc. Being with a person who always spend their time to thinking about you is a precious. You can't ask somebody to spend their precious time for you. Most of people will choose money rather than spend their time to anothers. Several peoples will choose their career rather than spend their time with anothers. 

Hmm...

Life is not just about who's people is better in their talk or better in their career.

You don't even know that several people can looks so fake with their life. Acts so kind, humble, caring, religious, calm, etc. The true only comes when somebody has a feeling towards you. Maybe their reaction will be looks so over or weird. But, that is the true. Why still see the fake ones as a good one?
I don't understand this. ^_^

Hahaha...

Do people also understand that the laugh is not only showed a real laugh.

Several people hide their sad feelings through a hard laugh.

Friday, September 11, 2020

THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING

Hi all of my blog readers...

In this post I would like to share to you about my opinion regarding studying or learning. Especially about learning new language in your life.

Don't you ever hear several people told that learning another's language is not important because they used to follow our local language? If you ever think about this, it's the time for cut off that thinking from your mind.

We are as human have a big brain and capability to learn many things in our life. We can learn anything and all of knowledge is only help us in our daily life. For example if you can speak all of the local language in the world, you can do travelling easier. You just come, pack your bag and just visit all of the countries. No need to bring extra things because you will be able to get that things if you talk to locals.

My family is coming from a small village in Kampar District in Riau Province, Sumatra Island, Indonesia. I've spent my life in several area, cities and villages. I can say that I saw many typical of race in Indonesia and I found all of them do have their own race language. Sometimes in my life I faced difficulty regarding language because I can't speak several language. At that time I feel so curious about what that people talked about. And I also want to know their words and topic what they were into.

Since that time I think it's better if I start studying new language slowly. I lived in Medan area for long time, around 9 years. Most of the people in that area speak in Batak language. Unfortunately I didn't know any Batam language till know. I guess that is my weakness.

After moved to Riau, specifically in Kampar District, I learn Ocu language. That is my parents language and I used to hear they speak in that language at home. So, that language is quite easy for me. After that my life is always moving around. From Kampar, Pekanbaru, Depok, Batam and maybe soon I'll moved to another place.

I believe that learning everything in our life is important. No need to be Japanese to learn their language. No need to be Parisien to learn Francais. No need to be Arabian to learn Arabic. I believe what we learn now will give a big impact in our life soon.

So, from now on I'll try to be more focus in learning several language:

1. Japanese Language

2. Francais Language (I need to re-call it)

3. Arabic Language (I used to learn it while I was in high school)

^_^

Monday, August 10, 2020

BIG NO FOR A HELICOPTER PARENTING

 Did you ever see there's a super protective parents to their children?

In this world maybe you'll see that phenomenon and for me it's a hell. We know that every parents have the good will for their children, but they don't realize that their character makes the children feel annoyed to themselves.

Helicopter parenting is a BIG NO for me and if I have children soon, I'll try to erase that from my mind. I want to give children a freedom and a responsibilities for themselves. I can say that the child who faced a helicopter parenting always feel under control and can't decide what they want to do in her life. At the end, she needs to be someone else and ignore herself. 

Maybe this person will be frustating even she never tell to you. But in fact, helicopter parenting is a hell for children and for adult who have a freak control parents. Not everyone will understand this feeling what the children feel while they are under a parent who dictate their lives. There's no right and there's no personality. You'll feel exhausted to be perfect, exhausted to be someone else. And the nightmares will be double if your parents doesn't have enough money to provide you what you want, you need to be super cute child for your parents and everyone who will treat you good if you do. 

Helicopter parenting will kill the love from the children to parents because they even can't see who is she. Why she should be in this life and for what she is exist. In her mind, she is only a perfect person to build a face of her family. No more. Everything maybe just a mask and nothing special.

So, helicopter parenting is a mess.

Let your children growth and being strong with her own strength.

Just believe in her.


Tuesday, July 28, 2020

COMPARISON BETWEEN QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL

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In this post I would like to share to you 6 comparison between Quality Assurance and Quality Control.

1. QA : a managing tool, QC : a corrective tool
So QA is one of a managing tool for maintain the quality of products. QA is a system built by the company to manage their quality and will be corrected by QC.

2. QA : process-oriented, QC : product-oriented
QA contains of several process to achieve a quality goal. In other hand, QC is more product oriented.

3. QA : proactive strategy, QC : reactive strategy
QA is a proactive strategy for reduce the defects and QC is more alike reactive strategy to detect the defects. So if we apply a good QA, there's a chance we will get less defects.

4. QA : prevention of defects, QC : detection of defects

5. QA : everyone's responsibility, QC : testing team's responsibility
To applied QA, all of stakeholders need to put their own effort. For QC, the result will be depend on how the teasting team doing a test.

6. QA : performed in parallel with a project, QC : performed after the final product is ready
QA will perform from the beginning the project till the project finish. QC is a part of checking the quality of project after the products finish.



Saturday, July 25, 2020

MASKER INI AMPUH ATASI JERAWAT

Hi guys...

Jadi beberapa hari ini aku itu agak sibuk sama kerjaan. Yah, walaupun aku Work From Home, tapi deadline yang padat bikin aku jarang bersihin muka sebelum tidur. Biasanya itu aku langsung ketiduran pas udah capek dan keesokan harinya timbullah jerawat-jerawat di mukaku. Sebenarnya kulit aku nggak terlalu sensitif tapi kalau nggak dibersihin biasanya akan berjerawat.

Kebetulan aku punya masker kunyit dari YuriBou dan aku mulai pakai. Aku merasa masker ini manfaatnya cukup terasa apalagi kalau misalnya aku berjerawat. Biasanya setelah pemakaian pertama, jerawat yang mau meradang biasanya mulai mengering karena unsur kunyit yang ada di dalam masker ini sebagai anti-inflamasi. Selain itu, masker kunyit dari Yuribou a.k.a Maison d'Belle ini sangat bagus manfaatnya karena bahan organik dan bisa digunakan setiap hari.

Kalau masalah harga, masker YuriBou ini teramat sangat affordable karena masker ini produk lokal dan berasal dari bahan organik yang mudah dijumpai di alam. Varian masker ini ada Turmeric/kunyit, Green Tea, Lumpur/Mud, Gold dan Susu. Kalau favorit aku sebagai orang yang berjerawat, masker kunyitnya memang bagus banget. Walaupun tidak sewangi masker-masker yang lain, aku lebih prefer pakai yang organik ini. Jadi maskernya tidak pakai bahan-bahan kimia di kulit seperti parfum, dll.

So bagi kalian yang mau pesan masker ini bisa DM langsung Maison d'Belle di Instagram mereka : @maisondbelle dan @maisondbelle.batam (bagi pembeli yang berdomisili di Batam).

Kemudian, mereka juga punya akun di Shopee : maisondbelle

Ayo kita semakin cantik dengan produk organik... ^_^

Thursday, July 16, 2020

SMART FINANCIALLY TO GET A WELL-BEING LIFE

Hi guys...

This is several times I have different thought from other regarding how to spend money.
I know money is not the real things in our life, but it can caused a big disaster in our life and our mentality.
I have shown several family broke because of financial issues, the children and parents fight each other just for ancestor property, a brother kill his siblings, etc.
Lack in financial side also can hurted the children a lot when they can't fulfill their dreams. Like several parents will be angry while children wanna new pen for her school or just need a computer for writing her dreams.
That is why I have opened my eyes about this issues and always think not to put my children under that circumstances. I don't want my children feel pity of theirselves and also I want them being a person who have pride in their life.

I saw many people living under other people shadow and some of them tear their pride just to get a shade under that person's umbrella. This is a big no no for me because I always think we should have our own competency in this life. So that, we will have our own umbrella. It's okay if that is a small umbrella, at least we are living under our own.

In my life path, I found several people who saw a rich man as a high person and powerful person even their behaviour is a reckless and can't call as human being. I ever saw a woman who raised her sons with gadget only and never talked to her sons heart to heart. I saw they count people based on the money that people have and based on the status.

Sometimes in other side I saw people just come closer to you as an ant comes to sugar. As long as you give them benefits, they will come closer to you. Until now, I really aware of these kinds of person and I feel bad about them. We can't say that they are our friends or whatever. I know some of them and I just be silence watching. Sometimes I thought is not fair to be so cunning to your close peoples. Even they are closed enough to you, you don't have rights to using them. They have their own dream and they tried to reach that. In other side, you just come and destroy their plan and dreams with your ego and laziness. This is can't be tolerate.

I have some suggestions for people who think life is easy because they never face it, don't ever put your burden in other's shoulder. It is not fair for them. Just try to smart financially and never be a lazy person who dreams of popularity without a maximum efforts.