One random weekend, I was bored and decided to drop my resume to Human Resources (HR) email of Market Research Firm in Indonesia. I did my research and found roughly about 15 firms, then I deposited my resume to those 15 firms. The following week, I received interview and/or test invitation from 3 different firms. By percentage, it is 20% successful rate of resume screening. Well, 20% is not really a great number, but 3 different invitations in a week could be a major problem for someone who already working like me.
I would say that my resume is not really that great, but it is sufficient enough to catch some people attentions to, at least, give me a chance for interview and/or test.
Before I continue, I would say that this post personally from my experiences and personal judgement, because I do not have any training background in HR or resume coaching.
Yup, this time I would like to explore a topic that important to everyone who recently graduated: RESUME!
I have seen a lot of different kind of resumes, from the bad to the good one (in my personal opinion). Due to my track record and randomness in joining hiring process from different companies, I know that my resume is acceptable. Due to this as well, some of my friends asked me to check their resume or requested my resume instead. In my opinion, there are some mistakes that I've seen from resumes that I checked. Following are the list that really caught my attention whenever I checked a resume or perhaps let's pretend that I am an HR.
1. Longer than 2 pages resume
If you have 10-15 years working experiences, it is fine to have longer than 2 pages resume (in my opinion), but if you are just graduated from your bachelor degree, my first reaction will be: WHAT THE HELL DID YOU PUT IN YOUR RESUME?!
2. Nice layout attracts me ...
I define nice layout from the flow of the resume and how you make a full-use of those (2 pages) space.
I have seen too may resumes with so many spaces. This is one of the reasons why some people have a resume longer than 2 pages. On top of that, some people do not know which one to put first after education part: working experiences, co-curricular/leadership experiences, achievements, or skills. From my personal opinion, put the one that you really want to talk most and more first. I have seen a few resumes that put achievements first after the education part, meanwhile in my resume I put achievements as my 4th part. Whichever you choose to put first, make sure it is really something that can catch attention of others when they screen it.
3. ... but relevant content makes me "stay" longer
There are some people who put every single thing from their life into their resume. That will be a total disaster (in my opinion)! Why would you put if you are a member of organization A, B, C, D, while at the same time you are the head division of organization E, F, G. These kind of listing-everything-resume is another reason why some resumes could hit more than 2 pages. In my personal opinion, it reflects that you can't really focus your energy on something that you really want to do. It is better if you focus on the latter, elaborate and highlight more of your experiences and achievements instead.
4. One-two liner for every points you put
Write concisely for the job and title descriptions or achievements is important. Such a long-winded text in resume rarely impress people, unless it is a paragraph/story.
5. Play with one or two other colours
By default, the font of your resume will be in black. It is no harm to add another colour for your font, to make your point, highlight, or hierarchy of header and sub-header clearer. As long your resume does not look like a rainbow. My favorite colour for this case will be Blue.
6. Availability period
You do not want to go for interview and/or test which the position need to filled immediately, while you need to give one-month notice to your current employer, do you? If you already put, and you get a call, it means they can wait for one-month notice period, don't they?
7. A (nice formal) picture of you
Most of the time when I went for job interview, the picture in my resume will be something that lightened the nervous situation. The interviewers normally will say "you look different from picture". Well, at least from my experiences, it indicates that they read your resume beforehand, which is good.
So, is there anything that caught your attention whenever screen a resume? or do you even agree with me on above points?
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Job Interviewers, Please Do Not Ask Me These Questions!
1. Why Should I Hire You?
Only the employers will know the best answer to this question, because they have seen other candidates, meanwhile the candidates only know about themselves. Whenever I encountered this kind of question, I was very tempted to actually to ask the interviewers, why did you actually call me for this interview? Did anything on my resume catch your attention for this job?
2. Where do you see yourself in five years time?
Seriously, it is not business plan when I need to plan five years projection about the business. If business is quite unpredictable, don't you think life is more unpredictable? Alright, perhaps as a candidate I can have future plan, but I do not have any ideas what's coming in my life, do I? My favorite and a must answer to this question is "I have a plan to pursue higher degree in five to seven years time i.e. MBA, but prior to it I need to acquire as much experiences as I could". Yet, the interviewer will give that not-satisfied-face, most of the time.
3. What is your greatest achievement?
As a person who do not really like to brag about what I have done, instead let others do whatever they want when they learn about it, it is not an easy question for me. The answers that I gave to this question were varied. But from my observation so far, interviewers would love to hear something that really showing what you are really good at, but survival skill in life is not in the list. In my opinion, employers should concern more about the potential, instead of the past achievements. So instead asking, what do you think about our business? Anything that can be improved?
4. What is your expected salary?
It is the least-hated among the hated questions. Well, I know it is really a standard question for any job interviews around the globe (at least from my experiences who were interviewed from most all the continents so far). Well, bench-marking to the market price is the standard thing everyone will do. But normally I will add it up together with the transportation cost, cab fare on daily basis for going to office and going back home. Although at the end, it is still negotiable price. Although it is a common practice, there are some employers who surprised with the quoted price. For this kind of employers, I always wanted to tell them "why don't you give me number on how much you can afford to pay me, instead?"
So, this list is mine. Any more questions, people?
Sunday, September 16, 2012
A Week to My Birthday, But A Company Ruined It [Author's Corner]
It was Friday 14th evening, after finished giving my tuition at CCK, I headed down to Tiong Bahru area. As the clock kept running, I realized that I have an hour to kill, so I decided to sit in Coffee Bean and ordered my favorite drink, Iced Caramel Macchiato.
As the time approached to my interview schedule, I prepared myself before walking to the interview place. When I walked toward the direction that I thought was correct direction, I realized that it was not the right road and I decided to check it in Google Map.
"Fuck My Life!" That's my first reaction when I realized that I was not supposed to go to Tiong Bahru MRT, but Redhill MRT instead. So I decided to take Bus 33 and alighted at Redhill then walked to the interview place. Lucky me that the person in charge who sent me the e-mail asked me to come 30 minutes earlier, so instead of came at 18:00, I reached the interview place at 18:15.
By the time I reached interview place, one of the staffs handed over me 4-pages form and 2-pages structure questions that I need to fill and answer accordingly. So I tried my best to finish it as soon as possible and I handed the filled form and answered structure question papers about 19:00.
After handed over all of those, I checked my phone and the yellow color on my battery sign alerted me to turn off my phone, because my evening still long since I will have meeting at 8pm in Clarke Quay and also because I could not find any available power sockets around. During waiting time I just realized that there were quite numbers of candidate that waited with me at the same time. It was 7-9 people in the room, excluding myself.
Waited, waited, and waited, until there were only 2 other candidates and me left in waiting room when the previous candidate just finished his interview, but it was already 19:50 (I was bored and I decided to turn on my phone to check any messages and time). But after this, the interviewer was on the phone and walked around when he answered the phone for about 15 minutes, then he called the next person without any "sorry for make you waiting" or so whatever line to the next candidate.
So it was about 20:05, when it was only me and another candidate, called him Mr X, in waiting room. This another candidate handed over his filled form and answered questions papers to the staff after me, so I thought it will be my turn to be called after this, but apparently when the clock showed 20:30 and the interviewer finished with the candidate, the interviewer called Mr X instead of me. My reaction after that was "WTF! Forget it, I have better things to do and I am already fucking late for my meeting". So, I decided to walk out from waiting room and headed down to my meeting in Central @ Clarke Quay. Along the way, I sent an email to person who contacted me to withdraw my job application, since I can't find any staffs around to tell it on their face.
It is not like my first time attended job interview. I could say that I have been through quite some, but from this one I learnt few things:
1. Respect other people time, everyone has their own limit for waiting.
2. "Sorry" is an important word that some people might forgotten sometimes, unnecessary showing that you are inferior from others.
3. Treat your guest(s) with great hospitality as possible as you can provide.
4. Employees attitudes are part of company's image, especially their working culture.
As the time approached to my interview schedule, I prepared myself before walking to the interview place. When I walked toward the direction that I thought was correct direction, I realized that it was not the right road and I decided to check it in Google Map.
"Fuck My Life!" That's my first reaction when I realized that I was not supposed to go to Tiong Bahru MRT, but Redhill MRT instead. So I decided to take Bus 33 and alighted at Redhill then walked to the interview place. Lucky me that the person in charge who sent me the e-mail asked me to come 30 minutes earlier, so instead of came at 18:00, I reached the interview place at 18:15.
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| Some people asked me about what company that I attended for this job interview, but I will give a logo clue instead of giving their full name. :) |
By the time I reached interview place, one of the staffs handed over me 4-pages form and 2-pages structure questions that I need to fill and answer accordingly. So I tried my best to finish it as soon as possible and I handed the filled form and answered structure question papers about 19:00.
After handed over all of those, I checked my phone and the yellow color on my battery sign alerted me to turn off my phone, because my evening still long since I will have meeting at 8pm in Clarke Quay and also because I could not find any available power sockets around. During waiting time I just realized that there were quite numbers of candidate that waited with me at the same time. It was 7-9 people in the room, excluding myself.
Waited, waited, and waited, until there were only 2 other candidates and me left in waiting room when the previous candidate just finished his interview, but it was already 19:50 (I was bored and I decided to turn on my phone to check any messages and time). But after this, the interviewer was on the phone and walked around when he answered the phone for about 15 minutes, then he called the next person without any "sorry for make you waiting" or so whatever line to the next candidate.
So it was about 20:05, when it was only me and another candidate, called him Mr X, in waiting room. This another candidate handed over his filled form and answered questions papers to the staff after me, so I thought it will be my turn to be called after this, but apparently when the clock showed 20:30 and the interviewer finished with the candidate, the interviewer called Mr X instead of me. My reaction after that was "WTF! Forget it, I have better things to do and I am already fucking late for my meeting". So, I decided to walk out from waiting room and headed down to my meeting in Central @ Clarke Quay. Along the way, I sent an email to person who contacted me to withdraw my job application, since I can't find any staffs around to tell it on their face.
It is not like my first time attended job interview. I could say that I have been through quite some, but from this one I learnt few things:
1. Respect other people time, everyone has their own limit for waiting.
2. "Sorry" is an important word that some people might forgotten sometimes, unnecessary showing that you are inferior from others.
3. Treat your guest(s) with great hospitality as possible as you can provide.
4. Employees attitudes are part of company's image, especially their working culture.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Welcoming Second Half of 2012 with Bus-Car Accident, Hello Singapore! [Author Corner]
Seems like this year my life is getting further beyond the social life drama. Started with mistakenly caught by police towards ending of first half of 2012, while this time I just experienced bus-car accident for the first time in my life.
Call me lazy or what, but I took bus with longer travelling time because I was too tired standing all the way during the journey back home. Well, there was a bad sign when I just reached the bus stop nearby YMCA building in Dhoby Ghaut: bus 502 doesnt pass that bus stop, which surprised me at first. (un)lucky me that there was another bus, 174, which going to Jurong Point, so I took 174 instead of 502.
There was no other bad signs anymore, unless if I want to count high traffic along Bukit Timah area as bad sign of the journey, but I am already get used to with no-moving at all traffic in Jakarta, and I have times that I can spare, thus I didnt even bother to worry about it. I am not pretty sure whether bus 174 driver or the car driver that should be accused as a wrong party during accident, but bus 174 was about to turn right, so it was moving toward the right side of the road, while the car (I think) tried to took over it from the right side as well, and TADAAAAAAAA, I experienced the very first bus-car accident in my life.
At first when I heard the sound, I thought it was the wheel of bus 174 that exploded, but when people who sitting at the back made noises, then I took a look and saw a car that can not move at all, as the picture below.
Obviously due to this, all of bus 174 passengers need to alight immediately and change to the next available bus. Lucky us, it was not at quiet area of Bukit Timah, but it was in Bukit Batok area that has quite number of buses to choose. As for me I took bus 157. While waiting for bus 157, I tried to take few pictures of accident from bus stop.
Call me lazy or what, but I took bus with longer travelling time because I was too tired standing all the way during the journey back home. Well, there was a bad sign when I just reached the bus stop nearby YMCA building in Dhoby Ghaut: bus 502 doesnt pass that bus stop, which surprised me at first. (un)lucky me that there was another bus, 174, which going to Jurong Point, so I took 174 instead of 502.
There was no other bad signs anymore, unless if I want to count high traffic along Bukit Timah area as bad sign of the journey, but I am already get used to with no-moving at all traffic in Jakarta, and I have times that I can spare, thus I didnt even bother to worry about it. I am not pretty sure whether bus 174 driver or the car driver that should be accused as a wrong party during accident, but bus 174 was about to turn right, so it was moving toward the right side of the road, while the car (I think) tried to took over it from the right side as well, and TADAAAAAAAA, I experienced the very first bus-car accident in my life.
At first when I heard the sound, I thought it was the wheel of bus 174 that exploded, but when people who sitting at the back made noises, then I took a look and saw a car that can not move at all, as the picture below.
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| Is it wrong focus? O.o |
Obviously due to this, all of bus 174 passengers need to alight immediately and change to the next available bus. Lucky us, it was not at quiet area of Bukit Timah, but it was in Bukit Batok area that has quite number of buses to choose. As for me I took bus 157. While waiting for bus 157, I tried to take few pictures of accident from bus stop.
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| while waiting for a bus to change |
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| help reached within 10 minutes, considerably fast? |
Saturday, June 23, 2012
I Need "Words of Affirmation", What About You? [Author Corner]
Some of my friends knew that every Saturday I joined this "secret gathering" from period of February to April 2012. During one of sessions, the discussion about Love and Relationship, and just happened there is this little quiz about knowing of a person Love Language. I never knew that actually there is someone who quantify it in such way and when I tried to google about it, I found that it is already been around since 1992, means it is already for over 20 years.
During the session, I found that my primary love language is "Words of Affirmation" and according to a website, it means
If you are curious about the quiz, I tried to consolidate the quiz and the result brief explanation. Simply download following file (password: egi). Sorry, but the file I protected, so it is Rad-Only file mode.
The Five Language Quiz
There will be 30 pairs of statements. Read the statements and imagine yourself having to choose ONE out of the two statements. Choose one that fits you best, and put "1" under your choice column. I tried to make it easier, so by the time you finish all of the questions, simply go to the Result sheet to find which one is the most dominant.
During the session, I found that my primary love language is "Words of Affirmation" and according to a website, it means
Actions don’t always speak louder than words. If this is your love language, unsolicited compliments mean the world to you. Hearing the words, “I love you,” are important—hearing the reasons behind that love sends your spirits skyward. Insults can leave you shattered and are not easily forgotten.Well, it is possible that a person has same score for more than one language, just take it as you are a bilingual or maybe even multi-language person. It is kinda good in my opinion understanding what your love language, as you might realize whats the most important for you in relationship and for your partner to know about it, so yourself will be felt more loved by her/him.
If you are curious about the quiz, I tried to consolidate the quiz and the result brief explanation. Simply download following file (password: egi). Sorry, but the file I protected, so it is Rad-Only file mode.
The Five Language Quiz
There will be 30 pairs of statements. Read the statements and imagine yourself having to choose ONE out of the two statements. Choose one that fits you best, and put "1" under your choice column. I tried to make it easier, so by the time you finish all of the questions, simply go to the Result sheet to find which one is the most dominant.
Sunday, June 10, 2012
NTU is not Singapore, walking around might get caught in SG! [Author Corner]
Sorry, my house in Indonesia is secured enough and we are not really that kaypoh about what other people doing around us, but we indeed know each others around neighbourhood.
That's what I
felt like to tell that policeman last night when he asked me "what will
you do if someone walking around your house area in wee hours?". Pardon me
for being anal about kaypoh-ness of neighbourhood here and sorry also for my
grammar mistakes.
Well, basically last night I was unlucky,
because usually when I walk around waiting for my friend, nothing happened to
me. But, perhaps I need to learn it in hard way that waiting for your friend in
void deck at wee hours might get you being suspected for something illegal to
do in Singapore.
It was started when I couldn't sleep last night,
so I asked my friend who stay in Jurong for supper, simply want to talk about
some stuffs. Aggreed to meet in McDonald, but after I finished all of foods
that I ordered, he was not there yet. So my decision was walked to his block
and waited for him at void deck. Oh to make it more details, it was 230 in the
early morning.
So while waiting, I walked around, while I still constantly
contacted him through sms and phone call, yet no responses. That's the time
when police "caught" me. Oh well, there were three policemen, and from my
observations, each of them has their own job-desc when holding someone
momentarily. One will check all of your belongings, including the contents of
your phone, another one will call the station to confirm what should they do to
the person, while the last one will start small talks to the person to ease his/her feeling. I thank to myself, because I don't have data plan at that
moment, and lucky me for not having any indecent contents in my phone (maybe
only a video that my friend sent thru whatsapp). But seriously, they need to
make it right when reporting to their station in the first place, while another policemen still questioning the person on hold at the same time.
"Dude, you don't have the full story, yet you
reported to your police station like you know everything".
Lucky there were only
few groups of police who patrolled around, I can't imagine if they have a lot,
and at the same time with same SOP that they have and they treat all the same as what they did to me, cant imagine all the
crowds that they might have in police station.
Well, I was suspected because I have similar
descriptions with the report that they received earlier. When I asked, what are
the descriptions, they told me can't reveal everything, but what they told me it was
related with nudity in public.(Yeah right, I will run naked in public like nobody business). At the time they told me that, I was like
"oh God, why you gave me this physical body appearances thus I need to get
thru this kind of things". To my friends, congrats to all of you who said I
have perverted face, you guys might be right all this time. *proven by Singapore policemen* =.=
Moral of story: NTU and home country are not
Singapore! Do not walk around during wee hours. You might be questioned by
policemen if you do.
Monday, January 30, 2012
My Haircut is 5 Cents More Expensive Than My Mouth Ulcers Dissolvable Film! [Author Corner]
Recently, I've been out of my comfort zone twice. First is related to my mouth ulcers and second is about my hairdo. So here we go.
gastric problem --> could not eat something sour --> less intake of vit C --> mouth ulcers.
Lucky for me, by the time the ulcers appeared, my gastric problem is getting better, so I can consume those vit C without upsetting my stomach and make it worse. But knowing the fact I couldnt really force myself to consume sour stuff, so my friend suggest me to use Dissolvable Film for Mouth Ulcers (picture as shown below).
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| Payment that contributes to additional 5 cents coin to my wallet |
It is so weird (till now I still feel weird), because there is something stick in your mouth wall, but I've been treating it like a candy. Well, from my experiences, when you use this you could not eat or drink. So for now it only works for me when I am going to sleep. So I can sleep well without worrying about my mouth ulcers. *to be noted as well, I have insomnia, which mouth ulcers make it worse*
As I mentioned about my hair, I've been contemplating about trying new hair style since 2 weeks ago and only yesterday I dared to try it. I wanted my hair style as nice as this, but of course my attempted to let hair stylist know was failed. First because I think she has her own imagination about what I mentioned verbally and second I was in a rush to meet a friend who came late for an hour at the end. If only I knew my friend will come late, I might ask the hair stylist to redo my hair. :-(
Well, luckily I used voucher my friend gave to me, so instead of paying 28sgd, I only paid 8sgd! Even cheaper than that QB House haircut fee. So I guess, I could not really complain about the result eh?
Well, luckily I used voucher my friend gave to me, so instead of paying 28sgd, I only paid 8sgd! Even cheaper than that QB House haircut fee. So I guess, I could not really complain about the result eh?
Tried to play around with my hair this afternoon, and below is another fail attempts by me.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
[Author Corner] Is Singapore Cab Fare Too Expensive or Is Jakarta Cab Driver Underpaid?
I wanted to write about this post for quite some times back then, but only now I am really motivated to do it because cab fare hikes news lately in Singapore. In this post, I will have a simple comparison overview about the cab fare in Singapore and Indonesia, particularly Jakarta.
I do comparison between Singapore and Jakarta because both are the city I familiar with for past decades, when my critical thinking was/is developed. I think some might think it is like comparing apple and orange because there are plenty of differences in both city demographically and geographically.
First let's see Jakarta Cab Fare. There are few prices of cab fare in Jakarta, but I will take the normal one at this case.
And now let's see Singapore Cab Fare (before being revised). I will take average here for flagdown fare.
From both data, we can tell that meter fare in Jakarta is 5% of Flagdown fare (every 100 m), while in Singapore the meter fare is only 2% of Flagdown fare (every 100 m). For waiting time, the fare is about 0.16% (every second) of Flagdown fare in Jakarta, while in Singapore the waiting time fare is 0.045% (every second) of flagdown fare. Well, it is true from these numbers we can say actually Singapore has lower meter and waiting time to flagdown fare ratio than Jakarta, but the fact that both countries have different standard living cost should take into account as well.
In Jakarta, a price of FastFood chain set meal is about 20K IDR or about 3.5 SGD, meanwhile in Singapore it will cost you up to 7.00 SGD in average. So in fact, the standard living cost from meal perspective, Singapore has higher price as much of 2 times than Jakarta. Comparing this cost with cab fare in both cities, we might think that Singapore has higher cost in cab fare, don't we?
The ratio of Flagdown cab fare to FastFood meal cost in Singapore is about 42%, while in Jakarta it is only about 30%. Meanwhile the ratio for meter fare is about 0.87% (every 100 m) in Singapore, but 1.5% (every 100 m) in Jakarta. The ratio for waiting time fare is about 0.06% in Singapore, but about 0.05% in Jakarta for every second.
By taking assumption ratio of cost of living is more valid than the former and from all of the numbers above, one absolute point that can be pointed out is the flagdown cab fare in Singapore is relatively higher than Jakarta referring to their standard living in both cities. But the meter fare in Singapore is relatively lower than Jakarta, while waiting time fare in Jakarta is relatively lower than Singapore. The latter can be justified with the fact that Jakarta traffic is a messed and traffic jam is everywhere, so the waiting time fare supposedly (relatively) cheaper than Singapore which does not really have terrible traffic jam like Jakarta has. But the waiting fare to flagdown fare ratio in Jakarta is higher than Singapore as about 4 times, which it is quite big difference.
Analysing this (stupid) numbers, makes me realize that actually cab fare in Jakarta is underpaid only for the flagdown fare, which make people in Jakarta simply hail and book the cab even for short distance of travelling, due to relatively cheaper flagdown fare. Booking a cab is even cheaper because there is no booking fee. It is true that public transportation in Jakarta is suck (for some people), but by increasing the flagdown fare by at least 2 times of current fare will discourage some people to take cab and using public transport instead. But well, it might have drawback to cab industry, they might get higher revenue, or/and they need to cut down number of cabs that being operated on the street, which at the latter case it means less vehicles on the road in Jakarta, less traffic. As the matter of fact, Singapore has about 26,700 cabs on the street, means it only can cater about 2% of its population.
So back again to the title, which is a question, which one you think is more appropriate statement?
I do comparison between Singapore and Jakarta because both are the city I familiar with for past decades, when my critical thinking was/is developed. I think some might think it is like comparing apple and orange because there are plenty of differences in both city demographically and geographically.
First let's see Jakarta Cab Fare. There are few prices of cab fare in Jakarta, but I will take the normal one at this case.
Flagdown Fare: 6k IDR or about 0.85 SGD for the first 1km
Meter Fare: 300 IDR or about 0.045 SGD for every 100 m or for every 30 seconds waiting time
No booking fee
No peak periods surcharge
And now let's see Singapore Cab Fare (before being revised). I will take average here for flagdown fare.
Flagdown fare: 3.00 SGD for the first 1 km
Meter Fare: 0.2 SGD for every 385 m (from 1 to 10 km) and 0.2 SGD for every 330 m or 0.2 for every 45 seconds.
Booking Fee: 3.5 SGD
Peak Period Surcharge: 35% and 50%
From both data, we can tell that meter fare in Jakarta is 5% of Flagdown fare (every 100 m), while in Singapore the meter fare is only 2% of Flagdown fare (every 100 m). For waiting time, the fare is about 0.16% (every second) of Flagdown fare in Jakarta, while in Singapore the waiting time fare is 0.045% (every second) of flagdown fare. Well, it is true from these numbers we can say actually Singapore has lower meter and waiting time to flagdown fare ratio than Jakarta, but the fact that both countries have different standard living cost should take into account as well.
In Jakarta, a price of FastFood chain set meal is about 20K IDR or about 3.5 SGD, meanwhile in Singapore it will cost you up to 7.00 SGD in average. So in fact, the standard living cost from meal perspective, Singapore has higher price as much of 2 times than Jakarta. Comparing this cost with cab fare in both cities, we might think that Singapore has higher cost in cab fare, don't we?
The ratio of Flagdown cab fare to FastFood meal cost in Singapore is about 42%, while in Jakarta it is only about 30%. Meanwhile the ratio for meter fare is about 0.87% (every 100 m) in Singapore, but 1.5% (every 100 m) in Jakarta. The ratio for waiting time fare is about 0.06% in Singapore, but about 0.05% in Jakarta for every second.
By taking assumption ratio of cost of living is more valid than the former and from all of the numbers above, one absolute point that can be pointed out is the flagdown cab fare in Singapore is relatively higher than Jakarta referring to their standard living in both cities. But the meter fare in Singapore is relatively lower than Jakarta, while waiting time fare in Jakarta is relatively lower than Singapore. The latter can be justified with the fact that Jakarta traffic is a messed and traffic jam is everywhere, so the waiting time fare supposedly (relatively) cheaper than Singapore which does not really have terrible traffic jam like Jakarta has. But the waiting fare to flagdown fare ratio in Jakarta is higher than Singapore as about 4 times, which it is quite big difference.
Analysing this (stupid) numbers, makes me realize that actually cab fare in Jakarta is underpaid only for the flagdown fare, which make people in Jakarta simply hail and book the cab even for short distance of travelling, due to relatively cheaper flagdown fare. Booking a cab is even cheaper because there is no booking fee. It is true that public transportation in Jakarta is suck (for some people), but by increasing the flagdown fare by at least 2 times of current fare will discourage some people to take cab and using public transport instead. But well, it might have drawback to cab industry, they might get higher revenue, or/and they need to cut down number of cabs that being operated on the street, which at the latter case it means less vehicles on the road in Jakarta, less traffic. As the matter of fact, Singapore has about 26,700 cabs on the street, means it only can cater about 2% of its population.
So back again to the title, which is a question, which one you think is more appropriate statement?
Monday, November 28, 2011
[Author Corner] Slaugthering: Why Some Indonesian Care, Some Don't
Disclaimer: If you are vegan or some activist who objects about slaughtering, please refrain from reading or even comments on this post. Your concerns are appreciated but not in this post, because I wont talk anything about how violent or so-wateva about slaugthering. Thank you.
Read an article about the way of people do slaughtering of the animals and which one is good, and some arguments I had lately triggers me to write-up this post.
Basically if what's the article said is true (I havent dig up the research paper, so if anyone who found the paper, please let me know), then I have no objections about Islamic-way of slaughtering is the best way so far that human race can have. But been lived in Singapore and Indonesia so far (luckily only 2 countries), makes me ponder why some people really care about slaughtering and why some don't.
As you know majority of people in Indonesia are Moslem, while Moslems in Singapore are in minority portion, but the standard in Singapore is so much higher compare to Indonesia, particularly about what we are going to talk about at this post: Slaughtering.
According to google (type: "define: slaughtering" in your google search bar):
The fact that there is halal certified in Singapore are the key part why Moslems in Singapore have such so-called double standard. During arguments about it, one of my friends insisted something about the non-halal way of slaughtering whenever I have meal in non-halal resto (no pork, no lard). But when I confronted saying: "then you can not eat at all if you pay a visit to Indonesia, coz you need to have your own animals for you to slaughter by yourself, then you know it is halal". Then the argument about it stopped.
Another friend of mine said to me: "well, since Indonesia has big percentage of Moslems, about 90%, so it is matter of trust among Indonesian". Well I do believe that Indonesian themselves have their own concerns about it, but then they do not really take a big issue and then when I brought such values to Singapore, some people will start to judge and so. Well, it is up to them to judge for what I consume (not only food, everything!).
So back again to Indonesia, with population of more than 260mil (no idea why this number came up), the population itself is more than 40 times of Singapore population. It is only population, if you talk about areas, then it will be even worse. Then it comes with the way people buy their raw meats in Indonesia and Singapore. In Singapore, majority of people will simply buy their raw meats from modern market, while in Indonesia, most of them will buy from traditional market. So from here you can see, why in Singapore they can easily-controlled whether the raw food is halal or not, while in Indonesia it is nearly to impossible. Can you imagine if every morning my mom should ask to the sellers whether the raw foods were slaughtered in Islamic way? It is only in the perspective of my mom, what about in the perspective of the sellers? How many people will ask them? 100 a day? or maybe even more!
Although in Indonesia the government can come up with halal certificate, so it will be more reliable, soon enough there will be a lot of fake-halal-certificate around. To be honest, Indonesia people are so creative in doing such things, because our government can not really keep-up to what their citizens can do illegally, unlike here in Singapore that has less people and less area. Then it will create another problem.
Another scenario is to refrain people from buying raw meats in traditional market then direct them to modern market thus government can control the halal raw meats, there will be a lot of objections around the country i.e. more people lost their day-jobs. It will create another problem.
Morale of the story
Read an article about the way of people do slaughtering of the animals and which one is good, and some arguments I had lately triggers me to write-up this post.
Basically if what's the article said is true (I havent dig up the research paper, so if anyone who found the paper, please let me know), then I have no objections about Islamic-way of slaughtering is the best way so far that human race can have. But been lived in Singapore and Indonesia so far (luckily only 2 countries), makes me ponder why some people really care about slaughtering and why some don't.
As you know majority of people in Indonesia are Moslem, while Moslems in Singapore are in minority portion, but the standard in Singapore is so much higher compare to Indonesia, particularly about what we are going to talk about at this post: Slaughtering.
According to google (type: "define: slaughtering" in your google search bar):
slaughteringpresent participle of slaugh·ter (Verb)
Verb:
Kill (animals) for food.
Kill (people or animals) in a cruel or violent way, typically in large numbers.
The fact that there is halal certified in Singapore are the key part why Moslems in Singapore have such so-called double standard. During arguments about it, one of my friends insisted something about the non-halal way of slaughtering whenever I have meal in non-halal resto (no pork, no lard). But when I confronted saying: "then you can not eat at all if you pay a visit to Indonesia, coz you need to have your own animals for you to slaughter by yourself, then you know it is halal". Then the argument about it stopped.
Another friend of mine said to me: "well, since Indonesia has big percentage of Moslems, about 90%, so it is matter of trust among Indonesian". Well I do believe that Indonesian themselves have their own concerns about it, but then they do not really take a big issue and then when I brought such values to Singapore, some people will start to judge and so. Well, it is up to them to judge for what I consume (not only food, everything!).
So back again to Indonesia, with population of more than 260mil (no idea why this number came up), the population itself is more than 40 times of Singapore population. It is only population, if you talk about areas, then it will be even worse. Then it comes with the way people buy their raw meats in Indonesia and Singapore. In Singapore, majority of people will simply buy their raw meats from modern market, while in Indonesia, most of them will buy from traditional market. So from here you can see, why in Singapore they can easily-controlled whether the raw food is halal or not, while in Indonesia it is nearly to impossible. Can you imagine if every morning my mom should ask to the sellers whether the raw foods were slaughtered in Islamic way? It is only in the perspective of my mom, what about in the perspective of the sellers? How many people will ask them? 100 a day? or maybe even more!
Although in Indonesia the government can come up with halal certificate, so it will be more reliable, soon enough there will be a lot of fake-halal-certificate around. To be honest, Indonesia people are so creative in doing such things, because our government can not really keep-up to what their citizens can do illegally, unlike here in Singapore that has less people and less area. Then it will create another problem.
Another scenario is to refrain people from buying raw meats in traditional market then direct them to modern market thus government can control the halal raw meats, there will be a lot of objections around the country i.e. more people lost their day-jobs. It will create another problem.
Morale of the story
Let yourself knows about other people life background, before you start any kind of arguments
Thursday, November 3, 2011
[Author Corner] Philanthropist, Billionaire (or multimillionaire), Socialite, and Social Climber
I should not write this kind of stuffs at this hour while I am doing my report project due in 5 days time. The fact that writing this piece is easier than writing my report tempted me to have longer distraction by writing this insensible piece. All of you might wondering what I am up to with the title that somehow related and somehow might not.
Been talking to my friend who in an industry that involve those words while himself get involve with the prominent person in the particular industry. Let's call my friend as Mr A, while this prominent person as Mr F. So here is the story.
Mr F who claimed himself as philanthropist, yet socialite at the same time was organizing a big event and approached my friend to ask for sponsorship. Mr A, a small fish in the industry could not resist the marketing effect that he will gain from the event, cant really say no, yet Mr A does not want to give 100% sponsorship, instead he gave his Intellectual Property right to Mr F to utilize it. The reason of this action was taken because Mr A heard from his other friends/networks that Mr F is a kind of difficult person to work with, but since he has not experienced it directly, so Mr A put his trusts on Mr F, a person who Mr A admired for quite long time.
In another hand, Mr F is a multimillionaire who become a billionaire in only 1-2 year(s) time. To be honest, after you read to this full story you might question whether this Mr F is really a billionaire.
To cut long story short, Mr F cheated, tricked, and humiliated Mr A in so many ways that you think will only happen in the screen i.e. Gossip Girl TV Series. Mr A has a right to sue Mr F to the court i.e. from violation of IP-right, humiliation, etc, but his logic that Mr F is a prominent person and will use any number of ways to win the court, chickened out Mr A to do it, because generally society will think that Mr A simply wants to leech out Mr F money, while the fact is another way around. So now Mr A is simply praying to GOD so Mr F will get the karma from what he has done to him and OTHERS.
Yeah I said others. Like I said previously, Mr F us a kind of difficult person to work with. In organizing an event, he likes to ask for sponsorship from a small fish to cut-off his budget for an event or what kind of his business. You can see here how a businessman thinks economically, but if you claimed yourself a philanthropist, you will not do something that will cause unhealthy economy or even worse welfare of others right? Because the last time I check to Mr Google about the meaning of philanthropist, here is what Mr Google told me:
So actually if Mr F claimed himself as philanthropist, shouldnt him quote a price to Mr A because it will give a positive economy cycle to both parties? In one side, it gets along with what Mr F claimed he is, while in another hand Mr F nurture economy at the same time. I found it amusingly WOW when heard about other stories from others about Mr F:
1. Out of 3 events, another friend of mine working together with Mr F, only 1 was totally paid and the rest? No ideas why Mr F never paid, maybe he is too busy with his own schedule? As you know he is socialite as well.
2. Mr F claimed he bought a new car with a price of more than a million, while I heard a story from the PREVIOUS OWNER OF THE CAR, that Mr F bought the car under 500k sgd. Well, you might think it is not a big deal, but will you still think the same if Mr F made the fuss about the so-called new car and the price to media?
Okay from the story above, can I say that the statement of Mr F is a billionaire (or multimillionaire) philanthropist is wrong? In my own opinion, I can say so. So now what about whether he is a socialite or a social climber? Let's ask Mr Google again what those 2 words mean.
Well, according to both definitions, I think he fits both words, because indeed he is socialite, yet a social climber at the same time. He cant deny that he just get into the SG society few years back (yeah Mr F is not local), and lifestyle that he has now makes him cant pay for the expenses that he had for his own organized past events?
This kind of story always remind me of a talk by Derek Sivers when I attended Echelon 2011: a person only can hold to one in a time, call it wealth, fame, legacy, or in my case as a student: knowledge? But it is kinda true that you shall focus in one thing, so you put your best efforts on it.
Been talking to my friend who in an industry that involve those words while himself get involve with the prominent person in the particular industry. Let's call my friend as Mr A, while this prominent person as Mr F. So here is the story.
Mr F who claimed himself as philanthropist, yet socialite at the same time was organizing a big event and approached my friend to ask for sponsorship. Mr A, a small fish in the industry could not resist the marketing effect that he will gain from the event, cant really say no, yet Mr A does not want to give 100% sponsorship, instead he gave his Intellectual Property right to Mr F to utilize it. The reason of this action was taken because Mr A heard from his other friends/networks that Mr F is a kind of difficult person to work with, but since he has not experienced it directly, so Mr A put his trusts on Mr F, a person who Mr A admired for quite long time.
In another hand, Mr F is a multimillionaire who become a billionaire in only 1-2 year(s) time. To be honest, after you read to this full story you might question whether this Mr F is really a billionaire.
To cut long story short, Mr F cheated, tricked, and humiliated Mr A in so many ways that you think will only happen in the screen i.e. Gossip Girl TV Series. Mr A has a right to sue Mr F to the court i.e. from violation of IP-right, humiliation, etc, but his logic that Mr F is a prominent person and will use any number of ways to win the court, chickened out Mr A to do it, because generally society will think that Mr A simply wants to leech out Mr F money, while the fact is another way around. So now Mr A is simply praying to GOD so Mr F will get the karma from what he has done to him and OTHERS.
Yeah I said others. Like I said previously, Mr F us a kind of difficult person to work with. In organizing an event, he likes to ask for sponsorship from a small fish to cut-off his budget for an event or what kind of his business. You can see here how a businessman thinks economically, but if you claimed yourself a philanthropist, you will not do something that will cause unhealthy economy or even worse welfare of others right? Because the last time I check to Mr Google about the meaning of philanthropist, here is what Mr Google told me:
So actually if Mr F claimed himself as philanthropist, shouldnt him quote a price to Mr A because it will give a positive economy cycle to both parties? In one side, it gets along with what Mr F claimed he is, while in another hand Mr F nurture economy at the same time. I found it amusingly WOW when heard about other stories from others about Mr F:
1. Out of 3 events, another friend of mine working together with Mr F, only 1 was totally paid and the rest? No ideas why Mr F never paid, maybe he is too busy with his own schedule? As you know he is socialite as well.
2. Mr F claimed he bought a new car with a price of more than a million, while I heard a story from the PREVIOUS OWNER OF THE CAR, that Mr F bought the car under 500k sgd. Well, you might think it is not a big deal, but will you still think the same if Mr F made the fuss about the so-called new car and the price to media?
Okay from the story above, can I say that the statement of Mr F is a billionaire (or multimillionaire) philanthropist is wrong? In my own opinion, I can say so. So now what about whether he is a socialite or a social climber? Let's ask Mr Google again what those 2 words mean.
Well, according to both definitions, I think he fits both words, because indeed he is socialite, yet a social climber at the same time. He cant deny that he just get into the SG society few years back (yeah Mr F is not local), and lifestyle that he has now makes him cant pay for the expenses that he had for his own organized past events?
This kind of story always remind me of a talk by Derek Sivers when I attended Echelon 2011: a person only can hold to one in a time, call it wealth, fame, legacy, or in my case as a student: knowledge? But it is kinda true that you shall focus in one thing, so you put your best efforts on it.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
[Author Corner] See you Singapore in 10 days!
See you Singapore! Thats what I always want to say for the past few weeks!
It is almost 1 year for me for not going back to Indonesia, my home country. As you can see from the picture that I took below, the last time I had a flight out from Indonesia in Sept 14, 2010 and only yesterday that I had chance to get back to this lovely country, regardless what are happening/happened around it.
In the midst of my busy schedule (school and works), I am taking a risk by going back now. Well, it will be 10 days trip for me. As usual, I will go to Jakarta and then Bengkulu.
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| Heard quite few numbers of complaint about it recently, but so far I quite trust it in term of their service in budget market |
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| Took picture from inside of the airplane with my lousy phone. View around Soekarno-Hatta airport from the air |
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| Okay Rebecca, I chose to sit in the back seat! haha.. :D |
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| Heavy traffic again, but Jakarta always has stuffs to comment along the street i.e. the billboard |
Jakarta: Aug 25-28
Bengkulu: Aug 28-Sep 4
Jakarta: Sep 4-5
And fyi, the ticket from SG-JKT is cheaper than JKT-BKS. So domestic flight is more expensive than international flight?! What do you think? I have nothing to say beside more competition please! =.=
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
[Author Corner] Death and Happiness
People come and go in someone life. One of the laws that being set by nature that I believe.
It is not only about friends that come and go, but also about your family members. A newborn baby and an old wrinkle people are totally different.
This morning, I got a call from my sister regarding a bad news. Grandfather from my father side just died last night, 15th Aug, about 8pm West Indonesia local time. It was indeed sad, where I can imagine myself as my father. The distance between 2 different provinces in Indonesia and no availability of direct flight between those 2 places make it even sadder for me if I was my father. At the end, my father must take land transportation and I hope he had reached at my grandfather place by this post being published.
It was weird for me to get such news, because in contrary, today is my little brother birth date (without year, so it will be 16th Aug). I just hope he is fine with my father is not around today and so sorry for him that I just sent him sms after my schedule ended and I can have free time for myself (like now).
Well, for me I just hope that I will not face such things like what my father has for now. I want to be on the side of my parents when they are dying, not that I hope it will happen anytime soon. Or at least I can be there before their burial. In that sense, I can not live so far away from Indonesia, so south east Asia is the only choice for me so far.
It is not only about friends that come and go, but also about your family members. A newborn baby and an old wrinkle people are totally different.
This morning, I got a call from my sister regarding a bad news. Grandfather from my father side just died last night, 15th Aug, about 8pm West Indonesia local time. It was indeed sad, where I can imagine myself as my father. The distance between 2 different provinces in Indonesia and no availability of direct flight between those 2 places make it even sadder for me if I was my father. At the end, my father must take land transportation and I hope he had reached at my grandfather place by this post being published.
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| Within 4 hours, at least there 3 people who said their condolences in my facebook and one friend sent a sms to me |
It was weird for me to get such news, because in contrary, today is my little brother birth date (without year, so it will be 16th Aug). I just hope he is fine with my father is not around today and so sorry for him that I just sent him sms after my schedule ended and I can have free time for myself (like now).
Well, for me I just hope that I will not face such things like what my father has for now. I want to be on the side of my parents when they are dying, not that I hope it will happen anytime soon. Or at least I can be there before their burial. In that sense, I can not live so far away from Indonesia, so south east Asia is the only choice for me so far.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Me, Twitter and Butter Factory
If you follow me on twitter and saw my timeline last night, here is what I am going to say: social networking is really an anal sometimes. Why would I use such strong nasty word? Because I was (or I am, since I still can feel it now) so annoyed due to what happened last night. I tweeted this to one person (she works at butter factory!) because bloody DM didnt work. *tried zillion times of copy-paste for DM*
then right after this tweet, my friends who followed me replied the tweet as shown at following timeline:
Okay, I know all of those conversations above are in Indonesian, so if you do not understand it, I will not try to translate it, ask your other Indo friends to translate it for you if you really want to understand everything.
Maybe some of you might questioning why would I go to butter factory in the first place? I need to admit that I need a break from my routine, thus I went to club for dancing. Yeah, literally dance. You can ask some of my close friends (let me know if you want to know who) that I can dance like nobody business if I feel the music is good. *Oya, can ask people who attended the PINTU Prom Night 2011 and saw me dancing*
Since I have roomie now, so I cant blast the music in the room and dance as free as I can. Thats why I need some spaces to dance last night. Since the school about to start as well, which mean the hectic days will come, last night was also one of opportunity for me to express myself.
Last night was my second time went to butter factory. My first time went there, I enjoyed it, till I had piles of sweating all over me, and one of my friend of friend told me that I danced way much crazier than she did? I was laughing when she said that. Thats the reason I agreed with my friends when they asked me to go to butter factory last night, due to customer loyalty that being created from good experiences before.
But then, why would I tweeted such thing to the person in the first place? It because she is part of marketing person for the club, so she would know better. And actually I think the guy who checked our ID, actually can allow us to get to another room (for above 21), but since I bloody honest so we ended up at Fash. *I think it is due to my birthday only about 1 month to go*
We paid, we put our bags, then we went in the Fash room, and you know what welcome us? This poster:
Thats the reason why I tweeted the person! In fact, all of us couldnt stand the crowd and leave quite early, with the fact we always took a break after 40 minutes being inside for 3 times are good enough for us to leave early and we rather had our supper instead.
I think next time, they shall put the poster outside the club, so unintended people who have no idea whats happening can know before hand.
And I just checked the website when I am doing this post, and the information there also was not so obvious, but there is such info, yet people might miss it when the majority part of the poster is not about the info! I did screenshot for that.
What will you take if such things happened to you?
For me it will be: check the website of club you wanna go (the date, the event, the cover charge, the admission age etc), do not anyhow tweeted (althought your DM doesnt work!), and bring your cool friends to accompany you whenever and wherever you are! =.=
Monday, June 27, 2011
Six Weeks With My Casual Dress At Office
Last week marks my sixth week of my internship, means it is already halfway for me! :)
There are more of fun and learning for me rather than any pains that most of my friends bragged about during their internship. As all of you can read from my earlier post, A Quick Glance About the Author, currently I am doing my internship at SGEntrepreneurs.
Well, basically what I do during internships are quite interesting in my opinions, coz such experiences are the things that I never experienced before in serious manner.
1. Writing
I like to write, but not about news and such. For the past 6 weeks, I have posted more than 20 news articles. Among those 20 news articles, we have 1 new section of article that we plan to publish it periodically: Key Indonesia Startup News (9th Jun edition and 23rd Jun edition). Well, it has nothing to do with I am Indonesian, it just a coincidence. :)
2. Running A Contest
Indeed running a contest is not as easy as it looks. Although you have great idea how it will work, yet executions of your idea are the crucial part here. We had one contest before that I was mainly in charge: Echelon 2011 SGE Ticket Giveaway. The responses that we had during the contest wasnt that bad in my opinion. During the contest, I see the power of social media whereby twitter is more useful than facebook in term of spreading the words about the contest to attract the traffic.
3. E-Newsletter
Well, it is true that I should know about basic html coding when doing wordpress blogging, but preparing E-Newsletter is more challenging. It is really challenge your eyes, but after you get used to with it, then it will be like a piece of cake for you. Initially it took me like half day to prepare it, now if I know all of the content inside the newsletter, it will only take me about 2 hours. :)
4. Networking With Others
This is what I like most during my internship. I have no idea why I like networking, maybe it is my basic nature loves to socialize with others. But as an intern, you will feel like a small fish in ocean (yeah I am the Nemo maybe..haha). But well, I did manage to know some other amazing people, some are written in my previous post: Have You Ever Heard About Echelon?
5. Other Marketing Tools
Well, as I told my employer earlier before I get into the internships, I want to get to know more about marketing stuffs. Well, she is really open and frank about it to me, and she shared to me quite much about the condition and environment at this industry. Gaining a trust results in access of few stuffs where I learn a lot from that. I can say that all of my suggestions regarding marketing strategy is more of by looking though statistics that we have and looks at how the market plays and twisted a bit here and there to differentiate it. Well, I think thats the basic thing we learn from school, but I just experienced it from the past 6 weeks during my internship and I am really enjoy it so much. So far I knew that bit.ly is really useful, then I know also about mailchimp. LOL I am not a tech-savvy, so pardon me if I sound like an old generation. =.=
Well, thats the major things that I've done for the past 6 weeks, not much maybe as other people experiences, but I am really looking forward to the next 6 weeks that I have. And actually I am considering to work part time during school term, since I only have 9AUs for next sem. Meaning I only have 2-4 hours of school from Monday-Thursday, and I am free every Friday for next semester!
If you are aware of the title of this post, it is true that I always wear tees to office, either with jeans, pants or short, depends on my mood and events after office hours. :)
There are more of fun and learning for me rather than any pains that most of my friends bragged about during their internship. As all of you can read from my earlier post, A Quick Glance About the Author, currently I am doing my internship at SGEntrepreneurs.
Well, basically what I do during internships are quite interesting in my opinions, coz such experiences are the things that I never experienced before in serious manner.
1. Writing
I like to write, but not about news and such. For the past 6 weeks, I have posted more than 20 news articles. Among those 20 news articles, we have 1 new section of article that we plan to publish it periodically: Key Indonesia Startup News (9th Jun edition and 23rd Jun edition). Well, it has nothing to do with I am Indonesian, it just a coincidence. :)
2. Running A Contest
Indeed running a contest is not as easy as it looks. Although you have great idea how it will work, yet executions of your idea are the crucial part here. We had one contest before that I was mainly in charge: Echelon 2011 SGE Ticket Giveaway. The responses that we had during the contest wasnt that bad in my opinion. During the contest, I see the power of social media whereby twitter is more useful than facebook in term of spreading the words about the contest to attract the traffic.
3. E-Newsletter
Well, it is true that I should know about basic html coding when doing wordpress blogging, but preparing E-Newsletter is more challenging. It is really challenge your eyes, but after you get used to with it, then it will be like a piece of cake for you. Initially it took me like half day to prepare it, now if I know all of the content inside the newsletter, it will only take me about 2 hours. :)
4. Networking With Others
This is what I like most during my internship. I have no idea why I like networking, maybe it is my basic nature loves to socialize with others. But as an intern, you will feel like a small fish in ocean (yeah I am the Nemo maybe..haha). But well, I did manage to know some other amazing people, some are written in my previous post: Have You Ever Heard About Echelon?
5. Other Marketing Tools
Well, as I told my employer earlier before I get into the internships, I want to get to know more about marketing stuffs. Well, she is really open and frank about it to me, and she shared to me quite much about the condition and environment at this industry. Gaining a trust results in access of few stuffs where I learn a lot from that. I can say that all of my suggestions regarding marketing strategy is more of by looking though statistics that we have and looks at how the market plays and twisted a bit here and there to differentiate it. Well, I think thats the basic thing we learn from school, but I just experienced it from the past 6 weeks during my internship and I am really enjoy it so much. So far I knew that bit.ly is really useful, then I know also about mailchimp. LOL I am not a tech-savvy, so pardon me if I sound like an old generation. =.=
Well, thats the major things that I've done for the past 6 weeks, not much maybe as other people experiences, but I am really looking forward to the next 6 weeks that I have. And actually I am considering to work part time during school term, since I only have 9AUs for next sem. Meaning I only have 2-4 hours of school from Monday-Thursday, and I am free every Friday for next semester!
If you are aware of the title of this post, it is true that I always wear tees to office, either with jeans, pants or short, depends on my mood and events after office hours. :)
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
My Freaking Early 21st Birthday Gift!
I have no idea what came up in my friend, Dinda, at that time. She simply gave me freaking early birthday gift! I was not expecting anything really that early! 4 months earlier than my actual birth date? O.oWell, the bag is really useful for me, because I am really using it whenever I go during my summer internship (my summer internship doesnt require me to be in formal dress). And you know what? My boss even told me that the bag looks nice, but too bad I do not have this brand card name where I can give to her if I had thus she might know where to buy it. :(
Well, I do not mind be marketing guy tho, by simply provide me with the product and I wear it? haha.. :P
Talk about the brand, this brand is actually made in Indonesia. It is handmade, so the quality is better than the mass production by machine and with their competitive price with other brand at the similar class. It is about 70sgd if you buy it in Indonesia, the shipping cost will be waived if you are around Jakarta and Bandung!
Seems like I am promoting this brand? Haha.. Not really, because just want to share with my friends who asked me previously about my bag. Seems like there are few others who were interested as well when saw me used this bag, thats why I simply writting this blog post. Oh for you who want to know more about this brand, simply come to their facebook page: mouton leatherworks.
Oh, not forgetting to say thank you to Ayu Dyani because she was the one who deliver it to me all the way from Indonesia to SG! :)
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