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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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Remember why you are here

Kartika Angkawijaya — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:27:58 +0000

Recently I listened to a design talk, one of the speaker begins her presentation with a slide titled, “Remember why you are here”. And following that title, there is a sentence, “I started this field because I’m passionate about [blanks]“ This brought my memory back to a book I read in the past, a self [...]

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Daily inspiration, find one every day

Kartika Angkawijaya — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:00:52 +0000

Question to self: What is inspiration? What inspires you every day? What are the thing that you find inspiring? Do you think inspiration takes an important place in your life? I found this poster somewhere in the internet two days ago and it made my day. I hope it inspire you too. Happy weekend. Copyright [...]

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Finding inspiration

Kartika Angkawijaya — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:15:30 +0000

Few weeks ago I read a blog post wrote by one famous blogger I followed, he mentioned about what would you do when you are supposedly posting something yet you can’t or you are simply experiencing writers’ block. Some of the tips like ask a guest blogger, dig out your past draft post or revisit [...]

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Taking turns

Kartika Angkawijaya — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:49:54 +0000

Imagine yourself in this scenario (I’m sure it’s not hard to imagine) One morning when you wake up, you have a very foul mood. Feel tired, you want to get back to your sleep but you can’t. You feel that you need to start your routine. On top of that, basically you don’t feel good [...]

by Kartika Angkawijaya
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3 activities to find new inspiration

Kartika Angkawijaya — Thu, 19 May 2011 00:40:35 +0000

Recently, I have a mind block, again. It’s like a cycle, there are times when you are so full of energy that you believe that you are incredibles; and there are times when you are so down until you don’t know what you really want, I call it total desperation. Well, it’s normal. Everyone has [...]

by Kartika Angkawijaya
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Inspiration is..

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:36:33 +0000

To you, what is inspiration? Do you think you are an inspiring people? How do you inspire people? Or maybe inspire yourself? Do you think it’s important to be inspired? Have you ever thought of those questions? I have. I leave some of the questions for you to answer. I’ll start mine on how do you [...]

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Some lessons from Shaolin (the movie)

Kartika Angkawijaya — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:20:12 +0000

Here is the movie details from wiki: Shaolin (film). (warning: it’s a spoiler too) Why I can’t resist to give it 5/5? The reason is simply this 2 hours plus movie shows lots of aspects, I named the main two for me, action and inspiration. It inspires me, and also reminds me about what is [...]

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What I learn from running

Kartika Angkawijaya — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:00:04 +0000

Although I consider myself don’t have special talent for sports or belong to born for sports group, I like to play sports and tried different kinds of them. But among all them, running is my weakest spot. The main reason is, I don’t have much stamina to run fast. When I was a kid, I [...]

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Yeah, I’m getting closer to my dream actually

Kartika Angkawijaya — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:45:16 +0000

On a recent casual talk with one of my best friends, he asked me whether I have achieve my chilhood dreams. I used to have many dreams. My dreams were changing from time to time although some remains the same. I believe that those which stays are those I want it badly. Back to his [...]

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