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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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A thing called compromise

Kartika Angkawijaya — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:18:02 +0000

Do you feel your stomach churn before your exam? Or before you have your big gig? Well, I do. Thanks to a friend of mine; talking to him yesterday made me re-think the whole big picture, or should I say, my big picture. Let’s go back to the nerveousness, most of the time before I [...]

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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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10 things to lift your mood up

Kartika Angkawijaya — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:18:46 +0000

We surely have our ups and downs. We feel that we can conquer the world when we’re in a good mood. But, when we’re out of it, we felt that how unfair the world to us, we become grumpy, we do nasty things, we fight with other, or you just name it. So, I’d like [...]

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50 important things I achieved in 2009

Kartika Angkawijaya — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:21:29 +0000

Inspired by some blogs I read that said one of many ways to feel good is appreciating what we have completed. Therefore, I’m going to list 50 things I achieved within last year which can be categorized into different groups: On setting new adventure: 1. Quitting my job I made a bold decision on late [...]

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12 Common Qualities in Positive Thinkers

Kartika Angkawijaya — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:16:14 +0000

12 Common Qualities in Positive Thinkers taken from Think Positive Thoughts

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On shortening words

Kartika Angkawijaya — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:05:15 +0000

In my personal experience, writing in nice proper form also helps me to sort things out from my head. Like a brief pause. A pause to question myself. Do I really need to type this to my friend? Will the information be useful for them? Or we can say also a way to evaluate our thinking. Because when we’re such in a hurry, or maybe when some emotions are involved, we may say unnecessary things too..

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my (most) favorite quote

Kartika Angkawijaya — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:09:34 +0000

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life – by Steve Jobs. I’ve been using that quote as my email signature for quite sometimes since I know about it few years back. The rest of the sentences following those quotes are: Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with [...]

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Grasshopper’s Jump

Kartika Angkawijaya — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:09:14 +0000

I read this story from a mailing list, it’s a very nice post and very inspiring. It originally posted in Indonesian, so I decided to translate this into English so that more people can read and more people can gain the benefit. And I hope that my translation will be good enough hehe :p [...]

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Just a little..

Kartika Angkawijaya — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:41:27 +0000

Well, let’s wait for the next one, that’s what I thought when I saw the elevator door is going to close soon. But, a pair of eyes inside looked at me, quickly pressed the button and the door brought to open again. I saw it, fasten my steps towards the elevator, yeah, I managed to [...]

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