Sepi banget hati gue.... Membuat gue berpikir-ulang lagi untuk menetap lebih lama disini. Padahal baru kemaren gue mendapatkan drive dan tiba2 mulai research companies and jobs. Dan padahal setelah sekian lama, baru akhir2 ini gue mulai nyiap2in cover letter dan bbrp online application. You could say I'm ready to apply now.. But, I dont know.. London's so lame...
I'm missing myself... My old self..
I couldnt relate... still couldnt..
Jakarta is just too good for me.. It has always been. . . . . I love Bandung so much.. and I know I could probably love London one day... But speaking of career and social life.. whoaaa.. there's just no limit for that in Jakarta.. sky is the limit.
Here,.. you could never go anywhere.. here, you're stuck... You can get money.. high salary... but you're stuck.
The networking you could get from being in Jakarta could be 3 times bigger you the network you could make here. Plus, your network in Jakarta would be much more beneficial for your future?.. Now how could your former employer here help you one day, 10 yrs from now, if you're running business in Jkt?.. slight chance they could help u, rite?
Here,.... could you be one day, an executive director of say, Merryl Lynch..or maybe JP Morgan,.. somehwere in the CIty?.... probably not ..
Could you be a CEO of IBM Indonesia, one day? Could you be the owner of a succesful developer in Indonesia? A succesful investor respected in the Jakarta business scene? .... chances are much more likely.
Here, .. you could go to pubs with your friends, rite?. that's social life.. you could go clubbing..... but you're stuck...
Now how could your english, scottish, wales friends one day help you,.. if you are in jkt?.. how could your british indian friends help u one day if your business is in Jkt?.. tough chance.. Even the british Indians are stuggling to be respected here.. I dont see how you, me, us could have more chance than them.
PROs and CONs:
***LONDON ***
CONs:
-Di London lo jadi kacung
-kehilangan kesempatan networking (compared if u are in Indo, ini juga tergantung berapa lama mau kerja disini)
-karir lo berkembang lambat(bahkan bisa stuck di suatu titik), namun...
PROS:
-pengetahuan bisa berkembang cepat (lebih karena fakta bhw you're working in a new and different environment-not necessarily better knowledge),
-lo menjadi lebih mature (walau lebih individualistis-Ibaratnya sampe jkt paling2 jadi cengo lagi),
-dan alasan paling penting dari semuanya.. tabungan gaji yang banyakkkkkkk.. nyam nyam nyam...
***JAKARTA***
PROs:
-Di jakarta, skies are the limit.. lo bisa ngapain aja.. , progress career leih cepet (lebih cepet naek gaji dan naek posisi-if ur smart that is),
-kesempatan buat lo buka bisnis jelas lebih viable,
-you could get respect easliy from the industry you're working in (in UK, ur struggling to get ur respect), ..
-networking lebih berguna (karena org2 yg lo ketemu could definitely be ur future clients, future partners, future employee, future competitors) ....
-Social life much much better (you could do whatever u want, be whatever u want to be) .... Namun .....
CONs:
-pengetahuan mgkn tidak sebesar di London (london selama lo kerja chances are lo dapet the global view), dan most importantly,...
-tabungan dari gaji lo kecil.. hihihihih... (unless lo emang start ur business, kalo gini income bisa nembus langit)...tapi di umur kita, we're still likely to work for someone else dulu.... and salaries sometimes just aren't enough.
These are just some comparable reasons from a whole lot more..
Comments guys! Comments!
btw.. ini gedung Merril Lynch di Tokyo.. so gak ada hubungannya sama Jakarta ataupun London.. hahhahhaha
Monday, January 31, 2005
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Cara Pergi ke Bandung
In the name of boredom... I've decided to put here the lyric of my newest soon to-be released single (most probably to be in Raygava's 2nd album)
It's basically about wanting to go back, but the situation is just difficult...
CARA PERGI KE BANDUNG
by Raygava
Intro
Terbawa ku teringat kan masa lalu
Namun tak kan pernah ada mesin waktu
Tuk mengantarku pergi dari tempat ini
Menembus jaman dan mengenang dirimu
Betapa kita sudah berubah kawan
Selalu terpaku melihat masa depan
Namun diam-diam aku masih mencoba mengenang
Dan menemukan lagi jalan untuk kembali
Temu temukan cara tuk pergi ke Bandung
Walau banyak hambatan dan langit pun terus mendung
Namun akan kutemukan jalan yang tepat
Walau perlu waktu ...aku akan menunggu
Ingat saat dulu kusering merenung
Dari tempat kududuk menatap gunung
Namun itu masa lalu seperti kata temanku
Tapi ku tak peduli, aku ingin kembali
Temu temukan cara tuk pergi ke Bandung
Walau banyak hambatan dan langit pun terus mendung
Namun akan kutemukan jalan yang tepat
Walau perlu waktu ...aku akan menunggu
Uhuuuu....
Sekarang semua sudah sangat berbeda
Tak seperti saat kita masih muda
Namun diam-diam aku masih terus mencoba
Dan menemukan lagi jalan untuk kembali
Temu temukan cara tuk pergi ke Bandung
Walau banyak hambatan dan langit pun terus mendung
Namun akan kutemukan jalan yang tepat
Walau perlu waktu ...aku akan menunggu
Temu temukan cara tuk pergi ke Bandung
Walau banyak hambatan dan langit pun terus mendung
Namun akan kutemukan jalan yang tepat
Walau perlu waktu ...aku akan menunggu
It's basically about wanting to go back, but the situation is just difficult...
CARA PERGI KE BANDUNG
by Raygava
Intro
Terbawa ku teringat kan masa lalu
Namun tak kan pernah ada mesin waktu
Tuk mengantarku pergi dari tempat ini
Menembus jaman dan mengenang dirimu
Betapa kita sudah berubah kawan
Selalu terpaku melihat masa depan
Namun diam-diam aku masih mencoba mengenang
Dan menemukan lagi jalan untuk kembali
Temu temukan cara tuk pergi ke Bandung
Walau banyak hambatan dan langit pun terus mendung
Namun akan kutemukan jalan yang tepat
Walau perlu waktu ...aku akan menunggu
Ingat saat dulu kusering merenung
Dari tempat kududuk menatap gunung
Namun itu masa lalu seperti kata temanku
Tapi ku tak peduli, aku ingin kembali
Temu temukan cara tuk pergi ke Bandung
Walau banyak hambatan dan langit pun terus mendung
Namun akan kutemukan jalan yang tepat
Walau perlu waktu ...aku akan menunggu
Uhuuuu....
Sekarang semua sudah sangat berbeda
Tak seperti saat kita masih muda
Namun diam-diam aku masih terus mencoba
Dan menemukan lagi jalan untuk kembali
Temu temukan cara tuk pergi ke Bandung
Walau banyak hambatan dan langit pun terus mendung
Namun akan kutemukan jalan yang tepat
Walau perlu waktu ...aku akan menunggu
Temu temukan cara tuk pergi ke Bandung
Walau banyak hambatan dan langit pun terus mendung
Namun akan kutemukan jalan yang tepat
Walau perlu waktu ...aku akan menunggu
Friday, January 14, 2005
Retourner a Vie !
Back to life !!!... The winter break was very dull and tremendously boring.. and now with all the guys back, Drinks on my hand..... yes.. I'm back to life !!!!
Hanging out w/ Jonny ,Argie ,and Geoff was so much fun.. I should spend more time with these british bastardos.... hahahhah..
Tony's RnB Party at Embassy?.. no way!,,.. Dont you know me? Im the stingy bastard!.. I dont want to spend 5 quid for a travelcard.. and take a bus back home drunk.. huh.. no way.. even if there are some rich spoiled indonesian bitches over there,... I still wont go.. (no, actually i really want to go.... but,..ahhhh noo.. no point trying to blend into this bourgeois community..)
Hanging out w/ Jonny ,Argie ,and Geoff was so much fun.. I should spend more time with these british bastardos.... hahahhah..
Tony's RnB Party at Embassy?.. no way!,,.. Dont you know me? Im the stingy bastard!.. I dont want to spend 5 quid for a travelcard.. and take a bus back home drunk.. huh.. no way.. even if there are some rich spoiled indonesian bitches over there,... I still wont go.. (no, actually i really want to go.... but,..ahhhh noo.. no point trying to blend into this bourgeois community..)
Monday, January 03, 2005
Who Wants To Study?
ooh... too much beers.. now how can I study??.. ahh but shit I dont have the urge to study anyway for the whole day.... waste another day I guess... but who cares.. I want to be a rockstar rite? huahahha.. not someone working in a corporate finance of investment banks.. or portfolio analyst for real estate... ahh shit!.. fuck the careers! let's just be happy... it's Rob's birthday anyway.. hahaha... and he said it, rite?.. he wants to be my roadie if I ever made it to be a rockstar in Indonesia.. a population of 250 million cheering for me??(reduce some 100thousand there, cause of this Aceh tragedy) . hahahha.. what a stupid dream eh?.. (how can I laugh anyway?) .. Well the point is, everyone wants to be successful... and all I want to be is just happy as a common people !!!
I guess the issue remains.... be succesful or be happy???...
I guess the issue remains.... be succesful or be happy???...
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