This is the bank of my thoughts and perspectives.
How do you measure a year in a life? From a corporate quantitative approach, its by comparing actual annual performance to the year end target. Is it that easy? Does our year measure by only comparing those numbers? Does those number give meaning to our overall happiness? Maybe it is for you, but it is not for me. While 2014 was the year to challenge myself in a new arena, 2015 was the year to think more on long-term life […]
Categories: Scratches • Tags: #2015, #reflection
In one night in 2013, i took a flight from Australia to Indonesia via Singapore. It was total 13 hour journey, with 2 hour lay-over time in Changi Airport, Singapore. To maximise my stay in Indonesia, i took night fight to arrive in the next morning in the destination city. It was a typical traveling day. I packed my bag. I went to the Tullamarine Airport. I went to check-in counter. I boarded the plane. I wore the seat belt. […]
Categories: Scratches • Tags: #ark, #atotalstranger, #humanity, #humanity_restore, #kindness, #totalstranger
In our digital era, we are surrounded with a lot of information. Aware or not, most of them are bad ones. Thefts, fights, lies, accident, murder, massacre, and war. Those made us start to lose hope to kindness. To humanity. Not only others, but also ours. We start to think, Why we need to be kind when others don’t? When i travel, i am grateful that i meet amazing persons who have those virtues, kindness, humanity, and many others. […]
Categories: Scratches • Tags: #germany, #humanity, #kindness, #talking_with_stranger, #traveling, #travelstory
Since a few months ago, i have been reading a book, Savor by Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Lilian Cheung (2010), as my bed time reading. I found one part of the book was intriguing and worth to share. This was the speech delivered by Jennifer Leigh Levye in June 2007, addressed to her Sharon High School classmates. “Thich Nhat Hanh, . . . holding up an orange, said, ’The entire world is inside this orange.’ ‘Inside an orange?’ was the […]
Categories: Scratches • Tags: #buddhism, #buddhist, #mindfulness, #reflection, #savor, #thichnhathanh
2014 was interesting year for me. Full of new experiences with new people in new city. Lots of traveling. Lots of fun. Lots of ups and downs. Lots of contemplating. It was started with end of working assignment in Melbourne, Australia. More precisely, on 2nd January, i flied back to Indonesia. I have decided to accept an opportunity that came from a global function in Jakarta Head Quarter. Its been a long time that i avoid this mega city. But […]
Categories: Scratches • Tags: #2014, #reflection, #runalittlestories
This was written back on 6th August 2011. I feel today is the perfect time to reveal it. Its all started when i watch a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVe3dtgz-fg&feature=share). This make me re-think again. Same as the person on this movie, sometimes I behave like that. I become inpatient, and usually become mad. As time passed, one second, one minute, I start to think about this.I realise that we can tolerate our children but we can not even tolerate our parent. Then, as […]
Categories: Scratches • Tags: #2014, #diary, #motherday, #thoughts, #throwback
On 13th July, my phone rang on 5.00 AM in the morning. I noticed the call because i was awake because of my gastritis, vomiting, and cold sweat. Soon after that, bunch of text messages came in. Couple of hours later, i checked the phone and found out that my sister was trying to inform me that “my uncle – my Daddy younger brother – passed away this morning”. It was certainly a shock. I first met him when i […]
Categories: Scratches • Tags: #lifelesson, #obituary
