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Hidup Dengan Seimbang

Balance your Life - For God, for your family and for yourself

Enam bulan terakhir ini aku melayat 2 orang adik kelas yang meninggal dunia dalam usia yang relatif muda (early 30s).
Dari cerita kedua keluarga, satu hal yang aku bisa ambil pelajaran: keduanya pekerja keras, sangat berdedikasi pada profesinya, dan seringkali lebih mengutamakan keberhasilan tugasnya di atas kepentingan diri dan keluarganya. Keduanya sama-sama berhasil dalam karir, namun dengan harga mahal yang harus dibayar. Dengan sangat menyesal keduanya harus pergi dengan cepat karena tubuhnya tampak tak bisa mengimbangi tuntutan ritme kerja yang terakumulasi. Tanpa sadar ada bagian dalam tubuh yang tergerus kondisinya, dan bagai bom waktu menunggu waktu saat sang pemilik badan menyadarinya, yang sayangnya seringkali saat tersebut sudah terlambat.

Aku tidak mau berlagak berceramah, tapi selagi bisa, selagi masih ada waktu, marilah kita mengingatkan diri kita, mengingatkan keluarga kita, mengingatkan teman kita, bahwa hidup ini harus dilakoni dengan seimbang. Berikan prioritas pada Tuhan, berikan prioritas pada keluarga, berikan prioritas pada diri kita untuk jeda, karena sesungguhnya karir dan kerja bukanlah segalanya. Karir dan kerja adalah wahana untuk membahagiakan diri, keluarga dan beribadah kepada Tuhan, bukan sebaliknya.

Welcome to Jakarta, Welcome to Traffic Land!

Welcome to Jakarta, welcome to traffic land!

The advertising board has its big printed sign: “Welcome to Jakarta”. Yeah you can clearly see it, especially when your car is not moving.

Coming back from Singapore this afternoon, we, again, stuck with Jakarta’s traffic. Just 10 minutes after leaving the airport, everybody is greeted with Jakarta’s usual grim face. And I wonder, if you’re a foreigner who is coming for the very first time to this capital city of Indonesia, what perception this situation will leave to you? Not good.

I just came from reunion with my fellow Singapore International Foundation alumnus. The last time we met, 14 years ago, during our study in Singapore, we traveled to Thailand and Malaysia. Back then, Bangkok did not have a metro. And KL just launched its STAR monorail system. I remember Jakarta had plan for mass rapid transportation as well.

Fast forward, now in 2010, while my other fellows from Malaysia and Thailand can smile and share their relief that the traffic problem has subsided in their countries, we, the Indonesian fellows who lived in Jakarta faced worse and worse traffic situation every day.

Clearly, we were late in the game for at least 10 years. And we can’t afford to delay this anymore. Bundle the incompetent authority with self-interested politicians, we have perfect mix for getting this MRT project nowhere. Now we can only hope somebody up there has their sense well enough to understand this is not a sign welcomed by Jakarta visitors, investors and inhabitants.


*stuck in Jakarta’s daylight traffic – on toll road which we paid for better access*

Trying WordPress for Blackberry

Just trying to write a post through WordPress application from Blackberry. Let’s see how it goes. And will I be able to post more frequently using this? Time will tell.

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