Beyond 1 and 0

It seems that todays information worker need to go far more than 1 and 0, yes that’s particularly right, since most of our day to day activities far beyond 1 and 0.
So to speak,  A few days ago, I watched how my Japanese manager babbling with his numbers to persuade the board director to support his proposal.

This is the huge difference among Indonesian manager, most of Indonesian manager didn’t so good playing with numbers, they keep use their intuition in order to pull the trigger.
That didn’t work so well, I must say frankly. In this 2008 year, one of my resolution is I’m eager to learn this Japanese trick in order to use numbers instead of intuition.
Why we have data warehouse but didn’t utilize it, right? Let’s start to do it.

Day-5, Trip to Tokyo

Today I left Japan, uh…so bad. We left the Narita Kikusui Hotel at about 7:30 am, and arrived at Narita Airport half an hour later. The check-in was smooth although I had to wait for about half an hour since my flight check-in counter was opened at 08:30. While in Narita, I spent my last coins with buying something for my amigos in Indonesia.  The flight to Indonesia was a transit, means the flight straight to Denpasar, Bali and then continued to Jakarta at 23:00 at night.

When I arrived at Denpasar, I had to wait for about 5 hours in order to proceed the next flight to Jakarta…This is hilarious…why customer should be treated like this. Maybe next time I shouldn’t use this flight…I advice using SQ instead of GA.

Today, I arrived at Jakarta at 01:00 am in the morning, and have to get up at 6:00 in order to go work, yup…pretty up there.
But there’s one thing that cheers me up today, My  new development server that I order last week has already arrived and ready to installed, so we’re on schedule buddy…hehehe.

Day-4, Trip to Tokyo

We went to Narita, it’s near Chiba, Tokyo. We’re so lucky that there’s a huge temple called Naritasan Temple, It’s a Japanese Buddhist temple which has a new Gate, so there are a lot of people and the views was very artistic.

Naritasan temple…there’s only 1 word to describe it “HUGE”, it took me almost half day to explored the whole site. There’s a massive Pagoda, an old scripture, lots of statues and other beautiful sight seeings.

Last thing I did here was take a snap picture with a monk, hehehe…
Although the trip at Naritasan is my last activity in Japan, It’s really the best experience I’ve ever had in my entire life.

Really I don’t want to go back to Indonesia, I hope someday I could be posted here in My organization headquarter at Tokyo. I wish…hehehehe

Day-3, Trip to Tokyo

I also wake up early first in the morning, although it’s freezing outside but the temptation of Kawasaki was really massive inside of me. I took a jogging around Kawasaki up to the bridge where we could see the sea very close. The meeting itself started at 9:00, I was picked up by Shimazaki san, my colleague from HQ Tokyo and walked together to Kawasaki Tech where the meeting was held.

At The meeting today, I presented about our current network and local ERP situation, the people at AJITEC was really helpful and very warm. The lunch today was with “Bento” with combination of beacon and sea food along with wasabi sauce, really tempting.

The meeting for ASEAN project was over this evening, we got some conclusions and some schedule to look after when we back to our country. Afterwards, we proceeded with went to a restaurant at Hotel Nikko, Kawasaki. Here, we ate sukiyaki and drank a lot of Sake and also some Beers. Somehow, the waitress is so cute, I took a liberty to ask her to go out with me (NoT..hehehehe) only to take a picture with me.

Afterwards, at around 10:30 PM, we finished the dinner and continue to another occasion which was forced by Orike san, one of the AJITEC chief IT specialist, this guy probably the craziest person among us (Keep up the good work buddy!). We went to a small bar near Takeru district near Kawasaki Mall. What a coincidence we met with other AJITEC member here, we really had a good time here, yeah really good time until 1:00 AM in the morning, hehehehe. Actually we still proceeded another trip with visiting a Night Club still near Kawasaki, but I think I shouldn’t tell the stories since it’s so Japanese Style (If u know what I mean…hehehe) and make us totally passed out, If I’m not mistaken we got back to the Hotel at around 4:00 am in the morning…yeah it’s awesome.

Day-2, Trip to Tokyo

Today I got up early in the morning, and had a jogging around Kawasaki distric, but not far from my Hotel (Hotel METS). Afterwards I proceeded with prepared myself for the meeting. The meeting itself started at 9:00 am  (in Indonesia time, it’ll be 7:00 am), the project it’s about “Enterprise Application Integration” or EAI, it’s about integrating the whole ERP in our organization into SAP/R3 at Tokyo site. It’s pretty cool, but requires discipline and determination on both sites (Tokyo and Indonesia).

Apparently, the launch time in Japan it’s quite different with Indonesia site time, we took a break at 12:00 PM, and we  walked down the Kawasaki Tech sidewalk towards a Korean restaurant called “Sakuro”. The food was delicious, it’s a mixture of beef and beacon combined with Japanese sauces. Really, that’s the best mixture I’ve ever seen.

And after the meeting was over(It’s about 5:00 PM), I went to Kawasaki Mall with a colleagues of mine (Shimazaki-san), he accompanied me to look up souvenirs for my amigos in Indonesia. I bought chocolates, onion consomme, and other stuff. Afterwards we proceeded with dinner…This is the amazing part. We went to a Sushi House at Kawasaki Mall. We ate at least 8 different fishes and 2 glasses of “Sake”, Damn…That’s the hardest liquor I’ve ever drank in my entire life. Afterwards, we ate Wasabi Ice Cream as the Dessert. Since the Sake was quite strong, we need to neutralize it with consuming Japanese Tea, this particular tea was really bitter but really helped me to get back to my Hotel…hehehe..

I think that’s all for today, we continue the the live report tommorow, Konbanwa…Good Night.

Day-1, Trip to Tokyo

Today I’ve arrived at Narita Airport, Tokyo, Japan. It’s a great opportunity that I could attend an ASEAN project meeting at AJITEC, Kawasaki for the next day. It’s so much fun and so much new adventures I’ve had today, from the vending machine, buying JR ticket from a tremendous automatic machine and also until I come and see myself our headquarter.

Tonight I’ll take a break, since I’m so tired wandering around Kawasaki like a bunch of kid seing new things, hahahaha…

T ommorow the meeting will be full time, so better prepared, ciao.

Meaningless Kiss…hehehe!

Yes, that’s right…that’s exactly what happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I don’t know the word suit for it…but it’s a great coincidence, I’ve met with my old mate from High school in Medan, she is still charming and god damn beautiful, her name is Karina, yes… I’ve met her at BEJ buiding when I’m attending Microsoft Fast Track Academy, we’ve met a the hallway, she’s the one who pulled my shoulder and asked my name,…voila..chat went to dinner..dinner went into her house and before I went home she gave a ‘meaningless kiss’, what does it mean???
I’ve been trying to figure out what went wrong if I continue this love or lust….hehehe…since she is so aggresive and so wild.
Actually I really get into this chick, but the way she handle situation, I think I must cut off this feeling. People says, it’s not good to have a relationship based on lust. Hehehehhe….but some people does…..Where should I be? Love or Lust?

Family Gathering at Dufan!

Tommorow supposed to be family fun day at Dufan, SeaWorld and Gelanggang Samudra from my Company, but I couldn’t join it since 2mmorrow at the same time I have to attend the last day of Microsoft Fast Track Academy.

Why…why….I’ve got the T-Shirt, ticket, and some pocket money (’this is my company way’), hehehhe every friday and every occasion, nice…but still bloody Microsoft have to put the training on Saturday…idiots.

Microsoft Fast Track Academy

Exhausted and tired that’s the only word to express my situtation, since I have to attend Microsoft Fast Track Academy for the whole week from 18:00 - 22.00 at BEJ Building 18th floor every single day. I know sometimes we must be thankful for something that ur office and ur boss delegated to you, but we’re still human after all. I know the situation is mutual and help me enhanced my xperience with Microsoft technology, but why Microsoft didn’t put this program on working hour so we could get fresh air when the lesson begin, damn…

Nevertheless, one thing I could say that all female employee over there is ‘hot’, and they’re so warm with customer…hehehehhe….thanx yo Ms.Dina, ur so hottttt. See you tommorow in the same place at the same time…hahahaha.

Web 3.0, make online search more intelligent

The “3.0″ claim is ambitious, casting these new tools as successors to several earlier–but still viable–generations of Net technology. Web 1.0 refers to the first generation of the commercial Internet, dominated by content that was only marginally interactive. Web 2.0, characterized by features such as tagging, social networks, and user-created taxonomies of content called “folksonomies,” added a new layer of interactivity, represented by sites such as Flickr, Del.icio.us, and Wikipedia.

I hope Web 3.0 will be come  a set of technologies that offer efficient new ways to help computers organize and draw conclusions from online data, and that definition has since dominated discussions at conferences, on blogs, and among entrepreneurs.