I did it, I joined a race overseas. Well technically my first was Vietnam Mountain Marathon last year (or was it two years ago now?) And this time I joined a race in Warsaw. By accident. After visiting Germany for work, I’m going to be in Warsaw for a week for another work meeting. My colleague who went with me to Germany told me about the race, so after some thoughts and push from other running buddies, I decided to […]
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describing a glimpse of kartika angkawijaya daily activity, some events which intrigue her thinker side trying to find out the answers for them
The greener grass on the other side
This week in my Japanese class we were practicing about asking permission to be absent from work. And one of my classmates was saying how about if we want to request for more days to rest. Our sensei replied that human always wants something which they don’t have. Because you’re so busy now, so you want to have more breaks. But when you have long break, you will be quite likely wanting to go to work. Right? What’s your biggest […]
Nobody’s perfect
One of my classmates was making a sentence about bad habit and she mentioned about her team leader that always call for unnecessary last minute meeting and give unreasonable deadline. I think it’s not uncommon to be in her situation. Do you have similar experience? Back then during my junior days, I usually would just take it by myself, and as a result, I was stress as it’s build up. Then lately I decided to speak up more and discuss […]
Learning through experiencing it or doing it
There are two important lessons I received since last week. My dad always tells us, if you don’t experience it, good way or bad way, you won’t learn or remember it. For example, my brother in his younger days, he didn’t listen that to come down from a motor bike, do it from the left side because there is exhaust on the right and it’s hot. Yet he still came down from the right and as a result he had […]
Beating your personal best
That’s it, yesterday event was my last sport goal for this year. To join a series of TriFactor event. Initially my motivation was to get the puzzle like medal, which you can connect with each other when you completed the all the event by them in a year. However, this year doesn’t seem to have it although this year is their 10th anniversary. Anyway.. again this will be focused on the swimming leg, my weakest among all three sports. I […]
Will you tell the other person directly for something which might hurt their feeling?
Reading the latest chapter of One Piece when Luffy landed in a new land, he made some comments about it and the other character was telling him, he’s too straightforward. But Luffy is being Luffy, he won’t think twice or considerate about other people’s feeling. He is just saying what comes to his mind. Last week, I received some feedbacks from one of my colleagues and at the end of the feedback session he asked me, if he made me […]
Will you go all out?
Sometimes we know that we like something, but we don’t dare to express that we like it. Sometimes we don’t want to do it in front of other people. We are cautious when people are looking at us. Sometimes we protect ourselves at all cost, because we don’t want to be faulted, seen inexperienced or not perfect.But it’s usually just our ego. And there are much more than our ego. This is what I learned this week from my friends. […]
Go for it!
What are the things that scare me? *MANY* Doing exams, going for races, trying a new role. I get butterfly in my stomach, I have cold sweat, and some other symptoms. But, every time I asked myself, will I regret it if I don’t go for it? Most of the times, there is a little voice inside saying, yes. So, it is scary. But most of the times it turns out to be alright. Our mind tends to multiply it. […]