Terakhir di blog ini adalah assesment di akhir tahun 2024. Akhir 2024 seperti ancaman terakhir untuk teriak dalam hati kalau sudah waktunya untuk ngoyo lagi. That is why banyak sekali hal-hal yang digentrakin di awal tahun sampai dapat realisasi kalau grasak grusuk menjelang waktunya itu malahan bikin panik dan putus asa. Tidak seharusnya gerak cepat itu dapet hasil yang cepat dan tepat juga. Di waktu yang sama, kesel banget dengan kata-kata "teratur dan konsisten". Namun apa daya, dua kata itu adalah jawabannya selama ini. Akhirnya, setelah ada keinginan untuk menulis evaluasi di quartal pertama di 2025, marilah refleksi tentang semua yang terjadi beberapa bulan lalu hingga hari ini.
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Friday, December 13, 2024
Assessment
Apart from the need to assess my subordinate at work, I think I should be the one who needs to assess my life at the end of this year.
Weeks ago, I came to a realization in the middle of some high frequency electronic dance music where the people around me were getting excited and jumping around with the hype. Then it clicked with my awareness that I was not comfortable being part of that kind of crowd. I had simply followed the opportunities that came for me but that was it. In the midst of it all, it felt like nothing really mattered.
Also, it came to my understanding that the society which I was raised in has become something I didn't care enough to try fixing because it was so corrupted by everyone that benefit from the systems.
Still in that crowd, I was observing. Most of the people whom attended the caremony have a stable jobs that somehow made them accompanied with their spouses/partners or even their children because that's what the ideal lifestyle looks like in this society. Looking at that pattern, I feel that marrying some Indonesian guy with steady jobs backed up with their existing parents and big family followed by some not-really-pure inheritance of wealth has never been an option for me. For one, I feel like I have nothing to offer. Secondly, I simply not wanting to be judged or pitied that I did not have alive parents or any proper family background to support me so (big insecurity detected). I think becoming someone's daughter or son is a privilege I didn't fully appreciate eight years ago.
I have come a long long way drama with messed-up relatives going around over the past 27 years of my life. While we live separate lives now, I have come to understand that relatives are just relatives, they are so much different with the main family (based on the importance and urgency).
Honestly, I could just packed up my bag and leaving on a jet plane (?) because literally I was given an available-unused-space in this house where I resided for the past 7 years and now it got me thinking why I didn't go immediately after making some money? Is it because I still hold on to my beliefs? Customs? Some attachments issues? Or maybe the very close reasoning is simply because my salary isn’t enough to afford a proper personal place?
What a misery it is to live in this country as sandwich generation/middle-class.
As I reflected from some silly self diagnosed videos in tiktok which believing that my toxic trait is attachment issue which I know I sound stupid—but honestly, It has become my thing that I will start to move on if I really really getting enough—or when I no longer feel like I have anything to do with those things anymore or the highest peek is when I am getting bored in a way it starts making me sick.
It is ironic to living the life where you are supposed to be grateful because you are in the "safe zone" yet after being the same conditions over and over. You will keep coming back to the same cycle: feeling grateful for your mundane life until the day comes when you have responsibilities not just for yourself but for someone else too. But hey, as long as you happy and fulfilled, I think that's a safe choice.
However, right now, I have nothing to lose. I am alone—in a good way. I may be alone but I do have people who are my support system. Before I settle into a mundane life and have responsibilities to any other human that is part of me, I won't hesitate for a second to leave all this behind. Slowly but surely, I have started to form an exit plan. As someone who are full of passion and hundreds of goals to reach, told me, when you are starting somewhere, you also must plan an exit. That’s how you keep life moving forward, or at least keep the will to live it.
I know I will probably going to break down at some point in this exit plan if things didn't go well as planned, maybe in the middle of it, I will need help—not only from my people but also from a psychologist, to help remind me to bring back all the reasoning in this head why I am still here.
Happy Friday, It is now Friday. Just 4 hours away to get back up and werk werk werk werk werk.
Friday, October 4, 2024
Older (and Wiser)
Not meant to reviewing the deluxe album of Lizzy McAlpine which was out hours ago, but with the release of her album, the album title was the muse of the theme of this writings (hopefully it will be out in the blog) and bring such a related content with what happened today—and again… hopefully this writings could be done and be shared on my blog.
Almost 2-years being in the main business of company, doing exactly what kind of work which guarding the wheels keeps spinning, I have learned so much comparing than I was in the other first and second positions before me.
The stressed thing was over almost a year after doing the work, post those times, I must say, the 70% of pressure was off and going smoothly. I am grateful for this kind of condition happening right now.
Well, I almost certain that I did make many connections in this phase. Approached people who I did not know before, coordinated with them to get things done and negotiating to reach into the agreement even after back-to-back doing internal discussion. Well, the negotiate part which I am still trying peel one by one until it got succeeded after my own decisions, but anyway, because of that, my communications skills were accelerating rapidly.
Back to today… after having meeting outside the office which felt hassled because how Jakarta in the afternoon was so damp and hot (Actually I still did not liking the feelings before doing the meeting)… I came to realization that in this age of mine, I was still lack of knowledge and it shows when I got to talk with my team which including my boss and my consultant.
I wanted to defend myself with some excuses on how my brain's frontal lobe just fully formed (?) just 2 years ago—which a compatible time for being an elegant-mature-smart adult who could get things done without asking my boss everything—or some reasons of me being friends with only a very limited number of people.
Anyway, having conversations with group of people who already done much—especially business in his/her work-life brings a mesmerizing thoughts also insecure feeling when you cannot catch up with what they are saying or only listening both of them talking aliens.
I know I much younger than them, and I very much certain that I needed that kind of convo for having challenges to keep learning… but also it is kind of scary when they know almost everything. There is no doubt that they will say that I am predictable and have this certain gen-Z attitude. And for the first time in my life… I was called introvert which I did not believe because I always knew I was extrovert or maybe all of my personality just all over the place now? I feel like I almost choked up when I was categorized by something I didn't even think before.
But anyway, in a reasonable
portion—it is not having conversations with people who are much older than you
was all horrible. It’s still awkward and you are trying to receiving all the
information but it is more than fine and what I liked about it so much that I get
opportunity to know what they are fussing about and also observing which I am
hunger for more.
Saturday, May 11, 2024
27th Wisdom
Because we do not have all the time in this world, what if I compile some personal wisdom that I have found and carried along in daily life—personally as individual. Mostly subjective, absurd, random, arousing questions and TMI.
1. Apple
Music has way better audio quality than Spotify. As an Android and Spotify user
for years, this discovery could be a deal breaker to stay in Android.
2. Your
boss and colleagues will like you more if you are tending to listen. Just be an
active listener, gather information and answer the question. The rest
communication is not actually necessary.
3. You
get bored with everything you used to enjoy. But losing interest also brings
you to another perspective of what you used to hate, and then you actually try
something new in those processes.
4. Fasting
is starving yourself for good purposes. Diet, eating disorders, spiritual
devotion, etc are in fact solved by fasting.
5. Be
brave enough to lower your guard and then up your awareness around—especially
strangers. Just believe that sometimes our instinct will protect us from bad
things and attract good things. If it is a nice thing, you will have a good
day.
6. Having
separate phones for work and personal matters is not necessarily needed. At the
end of the day, your judgment of importance and urgency was strengthened to
handle out-of-work hours messages.
7. Free
Palestine!
8. More
and more paying attention to your dental and oral health. Just imagine you will
be kissed by someone every day, that kind of motivation will keep you from
smelly breath.
9. Thoughtful
gifts are cool. You are an adult, you must take the time to think about what
gift to bring and hopefully, you have the money to spend.
10. When
someone checks on you, and with the complexity going around, if you did not
bother to respond any other day ahead, you are an asshole even if deep down you
feel grateful.
11. You
start to question: “Does the likeness to certain celebrities feel lame?”
Well, all we do is find distraction which is camouflaged with
self-satisfaction. Call it happiness or coping mechanism, just enjoy the
excitement.
12. Inevitable
judging “She/He/They should’ve known better” to your family and friends are the
act of ignorance. Check on them!
13. Basic
potential most likely revealed in the second year after your quarter life. If
you must know more about the hidden potential of yourself, then go on, if you
are fine with all you got in the present, that is realistic.
14. Travelling
requires good fit and funds to support the feeling of “all-in” or “YOLO”. You
don’t have both? No judgment for those people who choose to sleep in on their holiday.
15. Dude
who wasn’t interested in you will let everything doesn’t happen. Dude who
occasionally finds you, he is definitely just a friend.
16. From
now on, you will fancy walking more than everything else.
17. The
4-hour conversation with the acquaintance becomes regular thing you need once
in a month. There also goes the skill of being a good conversationalist.
18. The
guts to cut off friendship was done without conversation. You are being
careless with one existence and before you know it, the gap is already big
anyway.
19. There
is so many layers in low-maintenance friendships. With everything that happens
in life, focusing on yourself is understandable and should be. Instead, if the
balance on receiving approach was much more than you did on your
friends, you are self-loving selfish.
20. It
is too much for someone who ever dealt with grief expected to be a reliable
person. But if they become it, give them hug and offer help while you can.
21. Free
Palestine!
22. Stick
to your groceries list, tick your to-do list with honesty.
23. Being
lonely makes you impulsive. Having a company requires more money.
24. Submit
reimbursement for anything that is allowed by your company. Take it for
granted.
25. Guard
your fundamentals, being more practical to our religion, and be conservative
just for yourself.
26. Pray
for your parents, do them good for given circumstances.
27. Manage
your expectations for all the things you’ve always pray for. Brace yourself for
the outcome.
Monday, January 29, 2024
Iam.
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The thoughtful gifts from Iam and Nilem for my first trip to SK. |