One Month (JATIM Edition)

If you had a month 

1. ning JATIM Park 1-2....sampe’ mblenger!!
2. Ning Coban Rondo
3. Ning Selorejo
4. Ning Pantai Ngliyep n Pulau Sempu....sa’umur2 rung tau blas mrono
5. Ning Kebun Teh Wonosari
6. Munggah Gunung Bromo
7. Dolan ning Ranu Kumbolo
8. Munggah Gunung Semeru (moga2 kuat ya Allah :D )
9. Ning KBS....lewat tau....mlebu rung blas
10. Mampir SBY sub branch.....pengen ngerti rupone yo’po seh
11. Mancing ning tambak’e kluarga jemirahan....trus bakar hasil tangkepan....maknyussss :)
12. Piknik nang kebun raya purwosari
13. Ndelok hewan2 ning TSI Pandaan.

One Month (Jakarta Edition)

If you had a month off from work....what would you do....?

1. Hmm...Njajal semua koridor busway yang belum pernah dicoba
2. Njajal semua jalur KRL Jabodetabek...dan jalan2 dalam radius 1 km dari stasiun akhir
3. Jalan kaki kliling lingkungan perumahan (both delman dan kalibata) dengan radius 3 km
4. Tanya2in pengurusan e-KTP
5. Nge-print buku tabungan
6. Coba main ke toko-nya ANTAM di pulogadung
7. Jalan2 naik mobil ke daerah Cinere...Serpong...Alam Sutera
8. Olahraga tiap hari....masing2 selama sejam
9. Nonton pilem tiap hari....sehari 1 ajah :D
10. Nyoba CFD tiap ahad...sampe sikil gempor :p
11. Dolan ning museum2....akeh dadakno ning DKI iki
12. Ndekor apaato kalibata
13. Dolan ning dulur2 di Bogor dan sekitarnya
14. Nyoba cafe2 di Jakarta yang lom pernah didatangi

Plu...Flu...Vlu

That’s how you say flu the Sundanese way :D (coz F, P and V are interchangeable there). Its the change of the rain to dry season here, and if your caught off guard (regardless of the season)....you’ll probably end up with a common cold a.K.a flu.

Flu itself to me is such an obnoxious sickness. Lets your stamina down...but really down enough often to let you stay at bed. Even you can go about and do something...the sensation isn’t pleasant to your body....letting you feel tired and sleepy.

There’s a saying the average human catches a flu from 3-4 times a year. Without a known medicine for it....the only best thing to do is to keep yourself healthy before it strikes you and when it really does strike....better of take a rest.

For me personally....flu is quite the pandemic. Over the past year...I reckon I’ve been hit like 5 times already, 3 of them forcing me to take an uncertified  sick leave. I think this is a personal record as. I obviously think it ain’t got nothing to do with my married status. But looking deeper...I think it goes back to my lifestyle lately.

To be frank....I have to admit not committing myself properly to a set routine of physical exercise. Added with a lack of guard on the food side....it’ll be a matter of time till I’l be hit.

Therefore....please stay healthy :)

Psychedelic Jakarta

2 tahun jalan . . . 7 tahun jalan kalau ditotal jumlah lamanya tahun aku tinggal di ibukota ini. Sungguh tiap2 masa merupakan tantangan tersendiri tinggal di kota ini. Masih teringat jelas betapa tersiksa dan menantangnya harus mengarungi hari2 akhir SD, masa SMP dan tahun pertama SMA ku disini. Ya perkara sosialisasi, gaya hidup dan terutama . . .  transportasi.

2 hal pertama diatas, masih aja sama. Hidup disini sungguh harus pinter2 ngatur akal dan diri, agar tidak terjebak dalam arus hedonisme, konsumerisme dan isme2 lainnya yang menjadi bagian dari kecarut marutan kota ini. Tambahin deh, keimanan dan ketabahan yang luar biasa agar bisa terjaga agar bisa mempertahankan prinsip hidup dalam hal ini. Rasanya emang hal ini akan menjadi suatu perjuangan sendiri di setiap kota besar, ngga’ Cuma milik jakarta aja.

Tapi transportasi . . .  d’oh !! Beneran deh, yang ini mau iman setinggi langit, rasanya ngga’ da habisnya masalah ini. Sejak jaman gw SD, masalah ini sudah jadi momok tersendiri. Rasanya hidup bukan lagi terfokus untuk hal yang jadi tugas utama kita, ex: kerja, belajar dll. Tapi sudah gimana caranya menikmati proses perjalanan dengan aman, nyaman dan syukur2...cepat!

Gw pikir balik ke malang selama 7 tahun dah cukup tuk membuat gw kembali ke jakarta dan menikmati kemajuan transportasinya...ternyata....NOOTT!! Emang berkembang....tapi kemacetannya juga ngga’ kalah GILAA @.@

Rasanya ngga’ cukup tuk melukiskan bagaimana kemacetan di jakarta bisa menggoncangkan kewarasan seseorang. Kalao boleh kutambahin....butuh suatu keteguhan hati yang mantap dalam mengarungi kemacetan jalan2 dsini. Keteguhan akan apa yang menjadi niat dan tujuan utama, sehingga kita bisa tetap waras ditengah kegilaan jalan2 dsini.

Pernah kuhitung2....kalau kupertahankan pola pergi pulangku yang sekarang sampai umur penisun (55 tahun), aku sudah menhabiskan hampir 1 tahun hanya di jalan saja ! Bayangkan mereka2 yang menghabiskan berjam2 di jalan demi memenuhi ongkos hidup mereka disini.

Sungguh mahal suatu karir....sungguh mahal suatu kerja....sunggu mahal kesehatan yang terbakar asap2 CO . . . . Sungguh mahal waktu yang ilang di jalan . . . Sungguh keterlaluan . . . T.T

Oleh karena itu  . . . sungguh doaku suatu saat kelak....saya bisa hengkang ke suatu tempat yang agak tenang. Tempat dimana saya bisa mewaraskan diri saya dari kegilaan dan carut marutnya kota ini. 

Lebih baik . . . . dari pada hidup ngga’ tenang .....

Urus sana . . . Urus Sini . . .

Masuk bulan kesembilan dalam tahun ini, rasanya kaya baru kemarin aja masuk 2012, and all of a sudden I’m here, all with my changes here and there. Selain urusan nikah dan kerjaan, sebetulnya ada 1 hal lain yang sudah lumayan bikin pikiran senep, yakni masalah pengurusan dokumen2 administratif terkait idup gw. Name it....SIM...KTP...STNK....dan Buku Nikah. 

Keruwetan pertama terjadi ketika ngurus KTP. Sebetulnya andai mulai dari ini ngga’ ruwet, yang lain juga ngga’ bakalan ikutan ruwet. KTP yng awalnya tercatat di Malang, kupindah ke Jakarta. Padahal, aku nantinya akan melangsungkan pernikahan di Malang. 

Jadilah keruwetan itu bermula, dari ngurus perpindahan KTP di Jakarta sampai selesai pencatatannya di KK. Baru aja itu selesai, langsung disambung dengan pengurusan berkas2 pernikahan dari kantor kelurahan dan KUA sini sampai ke instansi yang sana di Lawang sana. 

Bukan masalah gerutu ku untuk mengurus hal2 itu. Tetapi lebih pada kelalaianku untuk memikirkan segala sesuatunya lebih matang sehingga aku harus mengurusnya (hampir) sendirian. Belum lagi teringat harus bolak balik karena masalah pengetikan yang salah di beberapa dokumen. Hal2 ini lumayan bikin sport jantung dan hati ngga’ tenang dibuatnya. 

In the end, selesai juga pengurusan 2 hal itu. Namun 2 left masih nunggu. Oh well....belajar dari 2 dokumen penting itu, aku bertekad harus lebih hati2 dan mempersiapkan diri lebih awal. Namun fakta bahwa dokumen2 tersebut tercatat di luar Jakarta membuat proses memperpanjangnya juga menjadi agak lebih panjang. Walhasil, dana yang harus dipersiapkan juga lebih banyak. End result, finally got things done . . . for the while at least. 

Ah ya....kalo diinget2...aku juga sempet berurusan dengan pengadilan perihal SIM ku disita karena pelanggaran lalu lintas hahahaha....So...jadilah aku bayar denda dan ambil SIM ku di pengadilan. Time and money lost (again). Sungguh....banyak pelajaran yang kudapatkan dari pengurusan segala sesuatunya dalam beberapa bulan terakhir. Ngga’ cuma dana dan waktu yang perlu dipersiapkan, tetapi juga kehati2an dalam melakukan segala sesuatu. 

Selanjutnya, masih ada 1 hal yang perlu diurus, yaitu membuat KK sendiri. Ini karena aku sudah menikah dan agar resmi tercatat sebagai suami istri di KTP, maka perlu ada KK terpisah. But anyway, berhubung ngga’ terlalu mendesak banget, I guess I’ll take my time and enjoy life while learning the tib dits to prepare doing it later on. 

Overall...its not that I hate taking care of my administrative things as a good citizen. Its just that the process is damn tedious....paperworks here and there. Not to mention that it takes quite a while and involves quite some money...fiuuuhhh.....

Part of the Line

RAD staff now I am officially. I have to be glad I’m back in this department after a short detour in MMU early last year. Though I’m in a different unit, but hey, that’s what I wanted, and I got it ! So, for just this, I can only say....Alhamdulillah ;-)

So goes on the journey. Turns out that I still have to be rotated for at least the start of the new semester in May later on. Boss says its to see in which part I would be needed and seen to be excelling at. I don’t mind personally, as I do have to understand such actions since I have never been deployed so in the unit.

In other words, its kinda like a OJT, but you won;t be going anywhere after it ends. So I guess that what I really need to do from this point onwards is to build up a strong enthusiasm and rapport on any kind of assignments given. I don’t have any TRP companions on my back now so my condition is a do or die stance.

For this month and May later, being a credit reviewer would be my daily work. Being the next line after a credit analyst, I have to say it brings back some headache that I purposely wanted to avoid. The good thing is that, you won’t be having t make up the analysis from scratch. The bad part, you need to be knowledgeable enough to criticize and amend any mistakes in the works of an analyst. And for me who’s work as an analyst back then was sort of wishy washy, I guess I need to gear up my learning curve in order to keep up with the pace.

There’s a part which I do have to consider myself lucky, which is the condition of my peers which seems to be very supportive (my perspective so far). Until my first two days, I have been continuously engaging in constructive discussions on how to do a proper credit review. By dong so, I have to admit, the job is certainly challenging. Not only it involves the point as mentioned in the previous paragraph, it also is a mixture of seeing things from another perspective of things.

So from now, I’ve gotta get myself engaged in more work to sharpen up my abilities. Though it may lead up to more cuts and bruises, I guess its a necessity if I were to succeed in this field, ganbarimashou !!!!!

Permanent

Errr.... dua bulan kah?bisa jadi begitu sih, again life rolls around like a dice in a game. Ngga’ bakalan tau kemana nasib berputar. Yang hanya bisa diusahain hanyalah kecepatan dan arah lemparan. Tapi jatuhnya itu dadu dimana, hanya Tuhan lah yang Maha Mengetahui.

Ok, kali ini gw ngga akan akan lagi permasalahan yang ada di beberapa post gw sebelumnya. Akan ada lanjutan posting2 tersebut. Yang ingin kutuangkan dalam posting kali ini adalah bagaimana keadaan berjalan di kantor, kelanjutan OJT, dan pandangan2ku akan hal2 itu.

Sampai hari ini, sudah 4 bulan lebih gw di CBD1. Honestly, in terms of total experience, banyak amat hal yang kudapatkan disini. Kalo mau disingkat, tempat ini adalah semacam all in one place to learn everything from A to Z. Dari bagaimana meng-approach customer sampai pemeliharaan secara dokumentasi dan transaksi hari2, bisa kita dapatkan disini. Hal ini membuat proses pembelajaraan dan praktek jadi lebih menyeluruh.

Hal ini kurang bisa terjadi di departemen2 sebelumnya. Itu karena, departmen2 lain lebih merupakan 1 departemen terspesialisasi pada 1 bidang. Memang, jadinya kita lebih fokus pada 1 pekerjaan tetap. Tapi dalam jangka panjang, hal itu akan membuat kita kehilangan fokus akan garis besar dari perkerjaan di kantor ini. Yang dalam hal ini, gambar besar itu bisa kuraih kembali di departemen ini.

And gw harus bersyukur. Masa rolling di departmen ini di extend untuk 1 bulan sampe Maret. Ini karena pengumuman permanent placement sudah diberikan. Yep....the bloody announcement was made finally. After waiting almost 3 months the agony was finished. Me?? Alhamdulillah I got what I wanted, which was to be placed as a credit risk officer. Others?? Most where accepted with mixed feelings. While some did go to place where they wanted, the sense of awkwardness was evident. Maybe some emotios were still lingering with the place of designation. Others even were placed into departments completely foreign to them, and obviously this was viewed with an even more downward tone in their hearts.

Well, I known it was a hard process for the HR friends and management, but then you’ve gotta remember, we’re soldiers in a battle field. So the only choice available is to follow the assignments or get your ass out to another office. Works these days have little if not no consideration on a persons feelings towards their placement as most employees nowadays are considered mere robots, even to be considered a soldier is still quite a luxury.

On my side,I guess I am truly lucky to be assigned on that role. The reason is that I am one of the few people who got the placement exactly were I wanted to be. For that only, I feel really grateful to Allah SWT who has heard my wishes and prayers. My choice to be there is also based on certain reasons, that most of them stretch back to my life perspective, and future plans ahead.

Going back to my basic principles, working in a bank honestly wasn’t my best and ideal job and career. Though I have yet to know what best suits me for my life, I can tell that working here is somewhat of a vile and capitalistic work. The idea of amassing huge amounts of money from other peoples is just way too much. And we are continuously forced to do so. In short, they say greed is good.

And it is thru these things that people just get a job in any banks possible. My friends have also yearned for those prestigious positions in a bank such as marketing, dealer, analyst and so. But for me, such spotlights aren’t dazzling me anymore. While I can settle for reasons saying that it’s more to build a career portfolio in the long run, for long term commitment in a bank, I think that’s gonna eat your life up some day.

To think my thoughts are wrong. Well, I’ve seen one too many people in the office that stands as direct examples of what I perceive of people that end up amassing to much money for the bank and themselves. The saddening part is, though you do gain a well paid paycheck, you barely could enjoy your life with someone meant for you. Even if they do have someone already, its as if your playing chase and run everyday just to juggle your roles as a familyman and salaryman.

On my personal view on my placement in the department and towards the office, it still stays as a mere stepping stone. It’s for need of amassing the needed knowledge, know hows and money to get ready starting up my own job. I’ve always longed to do so. Eventhough my head is still blank in regards to what would be my finest things to do, I have engraved it in my heart and soul to be able to achieve soon. If my plan is still vague, lets just say I hope by the next 12 years, I can start to see myself doing some little steps in beginning a new self job.

Nevertheless . . . welcome yourself to a new journey !! :)

Music Memories (Part 4)

1. Be with You
Ngga’ bisa lupa adanya lagu ini terkait hari2 pertamaku di Perth. I remember it on the first Monday of my time there, just rite after I was left by my parents to start on a new journey in my life. After take bus routes here and there for the whole day, I thought of concluding it with a trip to the inet cafe just rite besides my hotel. And to my surprise, BoA just released her latest single. Download it I did, and . . . being a soothing slow ballad, it marked my first of the lonesome days in downunder...

2. Sunadokei
Okay . . . it was around november to December when I first heard this song. What was I doing? Well . . . just nothing daily asides taking my nihongo courses, watching dramas and fooling around, waiting for my time in ozzy would come. The good song prompted me to buy its physical album when I went to Jakarta on December 2007, which I also met Donny & Syarif at Solaria Thamrin.

3. Ignite
If there was one time in my bachelor days where I did achieve and enjoy a high score, it was on the 5th semester. After foolinh around for the first 2 years, I finally got to notion that I’m a real college student. On the other thing, I attended two classes of a middle ages guy. Turned out to be thrilling as not only the class approach was friendly, I managed to end up the semester with the highest GP of all my entire study period . . . 3.33 . . . first and last :p

4. Gracious Days
Mantep dach . . . . sik tas tuku albume BoA sing MIT, langsung kena gejala tipes slama 2 minggu. Akhire rong minggu pikiran ra kuat dinggo garep skripsi. Pas wes mari lorone, langsung tancep gas mendem ning kamar rong minggu non stop ngetik ditemani lagu2 tekan album MIT. Dibilang kesel yo kesel, tapi jangan tanya rasa puasnya . . . . bener2 mantep iso marekno kabeh bab 4 hanya dalam 2 minggu setelah kena masalah di metpen, ngebut nggolek responden dan kena sakit pula.

5. Pelukis Malam
Sik tas mari lulus SMP, kepikiran arep dolan ning omah dulurku ning sby. Pertama kali ngine mrono, uonkep dan akeh nyamuke sing langsung entuk. Selain itu, rasanya lumayan bisa tau sisi kehidupan lain dari Indonesia, karena ketika itu yang kuketahui hanya ja tkarta thok. As for the song, pertama denger pas lagi bantu2 mas dedy di rumahnya. Asik dan gimana gitu. Little did i realize it was gonna be a start of a whole lot of things in my life, well . . . at least for the next decade . . .

6. Thanks for the memories
Sungguh ngga bisa ngga inget lagu ini begitu pas mau brangkat ke Perth. Hanya rasa trima kasih yang bisa diucapkan atas segala masa2 indah terutama 8 bulan menjelang keberangkatan. Ketika itu, sungguh aku ngga’ tau kapan aku bisa ngunjungin Indo, so I kinda though that it might be quite some while before my next visit.

The A-Z of modern Life (Part 1)

Android (A)

Naaah. . . this ain’t a robot. Well . . . its sorta, but just on the picture, one little green robot that is able to rock the world of mobile communication. Being the an open source mobile OS launched in 2009, it now is one of the fastest growing OS in the world, rivaling the iOS used in iPhones.

What makes this OS special is its openness. Being an open source, it makes people to easily tweak and do anything to it even to then codings of the software, not something you can do to a proprietary OS like Symbian or iOS. And the growing number of apps on the market speaks of it self as how many and many people are flocking to use this thing.

If you may think its gonna blow a hole on yer wallet, think again. As an open source (again), phone developers have the ability to customize it to the phone specs. By doing so, even small spec mobiles are able to use this green dude. The only difference comes in speed of processing due to spec limitation. So, you don’t need to worry about blowing your savings to get one of these.

Blogger (B)

One of those famous blogging sites out there, makes life easier when you have to tell out your thoughts and ideas on the net in words. Though i’ld personally think the tweaking for our blogs are kinds hard and with limited choices, it still free though :p. And most of all, it’s owned by google, so your pretty much integrated with all other google services which makes things easier if your gonna matchem up with other services like youtube and mail maybe.

Detik (D)

A long time news portal from Indonesia. Delivering updated news second by second as the name implies. Not juts ordinary news, but all kind of news, from politics, economy, social, celebrities, tech, sports and health, just name it lah. Really useful if your pretty lazy on browsing other news sources as it compiles most of the news available from very much point of views.

Facebook (F)

Ok . . . who hasn’t has a facebook? The biggest social network site in the world has put its claws in Indonesia around 2009-2010 perhaps. Surpassing myspace and the now morfed friendster, it sure has become one helluva giant. But thumbs up really goes to Mark Zuckerberg who always brings out something new for facebook. Not only as a social network, but we are able to chat, do e-mails game online. In Indonesia, it also has become some kind of a marketing tool to sell goods here & there.

However, it really goes back to its basic function, connecting people. Finding long lost friends from the past are way simpler nowadays, as long as they aren’t completely of the grid. Also communicating with people as human get more mobile nowadays is also made fun with the comment function on the wall. Privacy? I guess this is where facebook wins as we are able to set the privacy perimeters, one things its predecessors lacked.

Google (G)

The ultimate search engine that everyone would refer too. News has it that even some people already consider it as a god due to its massive abilities, from just a search engine, to maps, translator and so on. It now even has created the open source android OS for mobile phones. For me personally, its one of those few things nowadays that really has made a huge impact on how we do things daily. You can almost find any thing on google. As they say . . . just google it :D.

iPod (I)

Pot e pot . . . . the revolusionary gadget that changed the music, computer and mobile industry. Its sleek design and breakthrough features have followed on to its other siblings such as the iPhone and iPad. But for the iPod itself, listening to music has changed lately. Not only making it more compact, but also how you get it over the web. Still awaiting other related “i” things from apple ;)

Kaskus (K)

As the tagline says . . . the biggest forum in Indonesia. It surely does live of to its name. Hosting hundreds of dozen of threads from everything all across Indonesia and areas that have Indonesians, kaskus now is even transforming itself to a e-commerce hub with its FJB. Sorta of a localized version of ebay, its more of an online meeting point. Despite still sounding manual compared to ebay and other counterpart, its still one of the most used and famous places to buy and sell online in Indonesia.

Mozilla (M)

The fox that’s chewing IE slowly. Well, it still has other competitors like Opera and the new Chrome. But for me, mozilla’s still number 1 ;). Its getting more sleek in terms of design and also quicker. Moreover, the menu for me is quite similar to IE, hence I don’t have to bother adapting myself to the other words in the menu’s of other browsers :p.

Deployment Chronicles~Risk Administration (Middle Market)

Up i go to the third floor again. And for another first time, I’m confined in a room, specifically for the middle market risk unit, one sort of an autonomous unit under the RAD. Why I say autonomous, is because all the unit here, like CMU and OMU, aren’t really related to each other asides the fact that they both control risks. Hence, its sort of odd when they all seldom interact with each other as their work requires little so.

As it says market, its somehow of a policeman towards what the treasury does. So, its kinda more close of a relationship to the dealing room compared to the others. The benefit? Often gettin free meals and snack when any of the dealers are having an occasion. Sort of inviting some jealousy from the other units :D.

The first days here, were not only on dealing with learning the ins and outs of the place, it was more on swifting my mindset. Having been six month in the ops departments, my mindset was kinda set at having to help out others with their work ASAP. And since it was more practical and physical, it didn’t take long for us to do so. But in the middle office, we had to have a better grip of the work, the products, and the workflow. So we couldn’t just rashly go and help others. We had to move at a sure but steady pace.

So for the first weeks, I was almost left with nothing real to do asides attaching myself to one of the staffs, learning, asking and taking notes on what they were doing. Asides so, I was also left learning the treasury products, which to be honest, have some twist in them. This hindered us from understanding them quickly. It wasn’t until the second month there that I finally had the chance to do some real work, still under the supervision of a senior staff.

It was around March or so, that i finally had the chance to do the work with almost no direct supervising. As time moved on, I was given the chance to learn other duties. On several occasions, I was also given the chance to contact other staff to discuss certain aspects of work. All these slowly build up my knowledge and guts in work interaction.

But what excites me in this unit, is the fact that you get the chance to know things of the front offices work, without having the need to handle it first time. It’s useful as a stepping stone and as a learning process, since you mostly have the time to get use of things by yourself. This is the case for most middle office deployments like KYC/AML, RMD and PIP.

One another side, the time here in the MMU, i gained a lot of weight, all to the likings of the staffs there who really like to snack and dine out. I guess that’s what happens when most of the staffs are women -_________-;. Another thing is that I managed to travel in a consecutive 4 months, to Singapore, Jogja (2x), and Malang. But
I guess this was due to to piling boredom of working in middle office. Its the routine that often kills.

Anyway, that’s almost all on my time there. New place new things, I guess that what I’m gonna face when entering my new office. See ya next time ;-).