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Untitled (Pt. 2)

Kartika Angkawijaya — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:47:34 +0000

continuing from previous post.. I went back to my hometown for celebrating Lunar New Year with my family on 3rd week of Jan and the holiday is going to end soon. I will be back to Singapore tomorrow and will be back to work on Thursday. Mostly I spent my times with my family (of course) [...]

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Untitled (Pt. 1)

Kartika Angkawijaya — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:41:53 +0000

As always, without realization a year passed pretty fast. We are living in 2012 now and it’s near the end of January. In general, people will start to think about their new year resolution since December; some of my friends did it. One of them asked me, have I gave a thought about my new [...]

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How well you know your friend?

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:42:15 +0000

(this conversation happened last night over the dinner between A and B who used to live together and C is A’s partner) A: What did you do on new year eve until made you lack of sleep? B: Yeah.. I slept at 3 in the morning, I tried to finish assemble my model C: What? [...]

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License to be sick

Kartika Angkawijaya — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:10:52 +0000

*cough cough I’m telling myself, Come on my body, show some energy! There are some works to be done. Come on my mind, concentrate a lil more! There are some plans to work on. *cough cough My heart said, Have you give yourself enough rest? Did you put too much stress on yourself? Have you [...]

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Thought on learning language

Kartika Angkawijaya — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:15:57 +0000

Some of my friends told me that I’m too free by learning too many languages at once. I’ve been learning Japanese for about a year plus and recently I’m learning Korean. I simply like the happy face from the person I talk to when I speak in their language. It also easier to connect with [...]

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How to make other people happy

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:01:25 +0000

is by making yourself happy first. A good reading from Paulo Coelho’s blog. When I was a kid, I was taught that I should be selfless and give myself to help out others. The more you give yourself, the more respect you’ll get from others. Most of the times by doing this, we will burn [...]

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Tell your story

Kartika Angkawijaya — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:55:10 +0000

Regardless how awesome you are, share the joy with other about who you are and what you do! You never know that by sharing those, you may inspire someone. For your inspiration this weekend, I’d like to share a TED video by a National Geographic war photographer, James Nachtwey. Copyright © 2009 This feed is [...]

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What photography taught me #2

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:42:11 +0000

Here are some of the take away points for me: Master the basic Understand the rule Know your gear Have a picture in your mind Back to basic What are the basic for photography? Google it and you will find a lot of different answers. But for me, knowing the jargon is a must. At [...]

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Lesson of the week

Kartika Angkawijaya — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:45:07 +0000

One secret of personal growth Find a mentor. Whom you can fight and can be honest with you. Straight jab maybe painful, when people who cares about you doing it, it will be less painful somehow. Learn from them. Let the fights shape you. Copyright © 2009 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. [...]

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To be honest with ourselves

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:32:09 +0000

I remember clearly that on one fine day, while I was working on my website project, one of my flatmate entered my room and asked me, “How can you build a website?” Looking at her while my hands were typing some HTML code, and replied “Why not?” Let me share you my story. I’ve been [...]

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