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Juggling your day

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:15:38 +0000

Lesson of the day: when you know your destination but you don’t know how or where to start, it’s time for you to grab a paper, get a pen and start drawing or breaking the task down. I’m sure that on certain point of our work life, there is some period where the pile of [...]

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Popularity revisited

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:18:15 +0000

(continuing my previous post) Lesson learnt: People want to be popular, but once they are popular, they will long for their quiet life, sooner or later. (Or maybe not) In the last post, I was talking about the trend of people are (desperately) want to be popular in virtual world. Especially with the growth of [...]

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To be popular

Kartika Angkawijaya — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:00:54 +0000

If you’re following my tweet, some time last week you may find article about recent narcissism trend caused by facebook. You can find the article from mashable.com (click here to read it). It is a very interesting study, I say. Based on that article, definition of narcism is “a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and [...]

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Win, lose or draw

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:22:53 +0000

Recent lesson: there is no winning (or losing) in relationship (with friends, someone you close with, or your partner) I have a friend whom tends to be late. She’s late to show for meet up, she’s going to work late (though she’s justify it by finishing work later, even it means to work overtime), she’s [...]

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Getting our feet back on the ground

Kartika Angkawijaya — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:27:43 +0000

Lesson of the week: it’s hard to make a new habit, but it’s harder to get it back. This post is still related to my recent trip which I mentioned in previous post. The trip summary, we had a trip because of public holiday fell on Monday, so it was a long weekend trip. On [...]

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Writing a memoir

Kartika Angkawijaya — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:20:59 +0000

mem·oir /ˈmɛm wɑr, -wɔr/ from dictionary.com a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation. a biography or biographical sketch. Usually, memoirs. an account of one’s personal life and experiences;autobiography. the published record of the proceedings of a group or organization, as of a learned society. I read in the newspaper somewhere around last week, Justin Bieber, a teen pop singer from Canada is writing his memoir and I remembered one of my friend comment when I told her about this, isn’t he too young to write memoir? What [...]

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A room for improvement

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:18:00 +0000

On a casual talk with my friend, he mentioned about how our life repeating some patterns; for example, when we’re going to school, studying, having exams, making mistakes, being graded, given feedback, learned something and tried to be better. We always have learning pattern and of course making mistakes is part of it. And I [...]

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Let’s find 5 things to be grateful at each day

Kartika Angkawijaya — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:15:26 +0000

Reflection of the day: What would you do every morning after you wake up? Do you often feels that the burden on our shoulder is heavy? Do you worried about your future? Thinking that you might not get what you want? Do you feel lazy to go to work? Or go to school? Do you [...]

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Boxing our thought

Kartika Angkawijaya — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:23:11 +0000

Recently I somehow has impulse to re-read one of my book collection, Personality Plus. The book has been my companion since I bought it in 2004; I did the quiz many times, and I had different results and learning from it too. This book is one of my favorite too, thanks to a friend who [...]

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33 Questions

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:00:58 +0000

Two days ago I saw a post on my twitter list about interviewing ourselves. I read her post and I found out that she and I are following the same blogger (Dragos Roua). If you like inspiring stories or motivational stories, I highly recommend you to follow his blog too. I like the idea to [...]

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