Mindstrolling on what ideas I'm basing on

"It's the calling of leadership to understand what the office or organization needs, and what the customer deserves and to then help them get it." - Michael Useem, Professor of Management at the Wharton School 

summary :
- understand what the office or organization needs

- what the customer deserves
- help them get it

"shareholders come last– the most important groups are customers and then employees. He says matter-of-factly that customers are the ones who pay him and employees are the ones who stick with him but shareholders come and go." - Jack Ma, CEO of The Alibaba Group

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/24/the-surprising-religion-of-jack-ma/

summary :
- don't work for your sake, work to entertain and inspire your audiences
- appreciate they who stick with you in good time either bad time

just my 2 cents...

An Enigma of Men and his Dreams

The system has no allegiance, man has.
A coin has two sides. Without one, there's no so called the coin.


Even though man stops breathing, his dreams will live on.

That is, only if we're investing on the dreams, not on short-lived men.

Protecting the man is important, but one generation doesn't worth the lives of the next three more generations.

Men will die, but his legacy will move on.
Yes, I voted.

Because in the end, any man is only struggling to survive from death and pain anyway.

Blue and yellow

My doodle for tonight.

Mechanical pencil on yellow envelope.
Colorized in Instagram. 

Got no eraser as usual.. pardon the messiness. 

Morning walk

A little bit late in the morning. About a decade since the last time. The neighborhood has changed a lot.

But finally I jog and walk again on Sunday daylight.

I didn't bring my watch,wallet nor phone.
Just me,a small bottle of water and a piece of bread for my late breakfast.

I hope I can repeat this next week.
The routine that is important after all.

Let's get fit again.

Foodspotting in my last trip to Singapore and Malaysia

Food and beverages I got in my trip. Should I caption every photo ?

All photos is taken with my Galaxy Nexus phone. Excuse me for the amateurish shots. No editing has been done to the photos. 

Looking around, observing

"Next Stesen, Asia Jaya."
LRT Malaysia, September 2012


A couple of months ago, I look around finding out people around myself are like frogs in a well. They do boring works, working boring jobs, coping with boring proud people who only lives and work their asses off for wealthiness.

I was frustated.

I know that I'm caught in the same well with them.
This country, this environment, these people...
It's so simple to solve their... our problems, but yet so difficult to stand up and be honest to raise our hands, calling for help.

I was damn frustated.

Then, last week, I went for a trip (business trip) to Singapore and Malaysia. Meeting with great people who have great achievements.
What did I see? What did I find out?

I felt like I've been travelling into the future. They told that they've had their parts of frustations as well. The incompentents, the corrupted, the lazy, the jealous, they who just don't like you're better or ahead of them...

It's very similar everywhere in the world, they said. We all walk on the same path. Once we go down this creative path, it's actually all the same everywhere.
To the rest of the world, this road is untrustworthy, unreliable, childish dream, and so on.

But !

What mostly important is that we need to keep going. Keep fighting for our faith, keep looking for people who can see what I can see, people who I can trust to share my load, or at least trust me on their future ahead that we will make it.
All the hard works will pay off in the end. If it hasn't paid off yet, it's not yet the end.

My partner said, that looking at Singapore and Malaysia, we are 10 years behind.
So, during those 10 years, our comrades in passion had gone through the hell. The hell I haven't gone through yet, or may be has been just starting in.

I hope 10 years from now, I will still be here, not flushed away in the desperation of the uncanny left-behind-mindset of the local Indonesian commercial art industry.
...
10 years... OMG...
At least there's still a possible future ahead and I should be still positive about it.
I shouldn't give up. I should be strong.
No matter what troubles come, I should stay on my feet and survive the storm.
I still have hope.

Now, "back in the past"...
At least this should be our start to help change the local world.