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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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Finding my carrot [revisited]

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 25 May 2011 02:16:36 +0000

In relation with my post earlier.. After sometime since I was asking question about what are the things that motivates us, I have the answer for myself. I have my “carrot” and I have my “stick”. I use myself as example, my carrot is to produce a piece that will amuse people, a website in particular. [...]

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What motivates you?

Kartika Angkawijaya — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:43:17 +0000

Do you ever have some days where you just don’t want to do anything? I’m sure we do. On some point of time in our life, we have days when we are totally unmotivated. Regardless it’s about doing something that we are really like, for example in my case, blogging or taking pictures, or developing [...]

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Is blogging useless?

Kartika Angkawijaya — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:50:13 +0000

One day one of my friend asked me during lunch time, what would I think about blogging. Well I have a blog and I like to blog. The reason is I can share my thought and with hope to inspire others. How did I start to blog? It started when I was on my final [...]

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Meet my first student

Kartika Angkawijaya — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:25:30 +0000

I just reading “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. In this book, it mostly about how Randy live his life, his approaches to solve problem, his view, his adventure and his mentors. He shared to the audience, us, how he learned a lot from his football coach, how he met his wife and most of [...]

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Blogger apprentice

Kartika Angkawijaya — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:34:49 +0000

On one afternoon, my friend sent me a personal message through messenger. He noticed that I update my blog on daily basis recently. He compliment me for being able to write regularly and told me that he is struggling with finding ideas for his personal blog. This friend actually has another blog, about JavaScript programming. [...]

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The day when I didn’t get what I want

Kartika Angkawijaya — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:18:03 +0000

On many occasions in my life, I didn’t get what I want. Below are some of the big lost in my life (and some big found too). I hope you bare with me, since it’s going to be a bit long than usual and I hope that you can find these stories helpful. The story [...]

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5 self asking question which help to motivate ourselves

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:30:37 +0000

In my previous post, I listed how to tackle bad mood. One of them is recognizing the cause of it (writing my thought down). So, below is a short list of questions which help me to find out the cause. 1. Do I expect too much? 2. Do I enjoy what I’m doing? 3. Do [...]

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5 possible reasons for you to start blogging

Kartika Angkawijaya — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:19:25 +0000

If you ever consider to own a blog and you put it aside afterward then you might like this. The reasons I like to blog are: 1. I like to take notes. I found that taking note helps me to remember the lessons I just learn. Before blogging platforms were popular (or even before the [...]

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