Exceed

Jakarta, August 7, 2014

"You guys, has done something that I may call as exceed.  What is exceed?  It's something that beyond expectation.  To be honest,  I've never had apprentices succeed to pull something off this great. Great job, totally.  Let's give our superb apprentices a superb applause.  They deserve it."

Exceed, maybe the greatest compliment we could hear from him, the MVP of TPB, a directorate where we held our apprenticeship  for almost 7 months.  He said that on our farewell party. We called it The Day.  The very last day we were gathered as a full team, working together as a team, laughing together as a team, eating together as a team, and crying together as a team.

So, what did we do that can make the MVP said that?  Quite a lot I think.  Started from January when the first time we were assigned to be apprentices in TPB, until the day we would be assigned definitively in new places, we were able to do our best, not only for our real program designed by Kitsda but also several extra projects from TPB. 

For our real program, we had specifically designed things to do.  The first one month was the internship periode.  We were asked to watch and learn, observe and understand bisnis proces in each section we were placed.  Sit back and relax, I think that was my motto back then.

Next part, the apprenticeship program. Sometime it's called the OJT program. We were rolled to another section once in a couple week.  In this part, we were given assignment to learn about the SOP, and finished jobs from our head of section. The jobs given to us were according to the SOP and rules from Kitsda.

So, were those something called exceed?  Maybe those were a bit part of it.  But I think there were more than that.  Something more that came in the right timing to the right situation.  We call it the Projects, as follows.

The first one, we, as a team, were asked to help TPB prepared some props to be displayed on DJP Expo.  On that occasion, we created a video showing what was happening all this time in TPB.  A quite unique video made from a programe named Freezi. That video was shown all 3 days long during the Expo.

Being happy and satisfied with our performance, lead to the next project.  The second one, we were asked to conducted a brainstorm and pulled out some ideas to extend one program that had already existed but with a few weaknesses, called e-Filling.  At first, we only thought about what programs would it be as the extension of e-Filling which were more friendly user ones. Then, we made a presentation in front of several head of sections about the ideas and the business process to be like.  Not to mention about the analysis document of it.

And the final project, wich was the biggest one, we were asked to create another tool for presentation about Change Management, that shall be used by TPB when they have a schedule to do it.  Not only for internal presentation, but all over Indonesia.  Thus, we should make it in an interesting format, to explain what  Change Management was about and how would it happen.  It was a very challenging task to do, since our time was quite occupied by a Pra-jabatan training.  And to make it more interesting, just several days after we finished our training and still had to finish our Change Management presentation, we had an announcement about definite placement, making us more anxious to finish the job in such a hurry.  Thank God we were able to finalize the presentation.

So, when we were on our Farewell party, with our signature style, we reported those acitivities to TPB member, including the MVP.  We made a presentation explaining our journey in TPB.  We showed all three presentations, submit the document analysis that had been perfected, even with two extra documents related with e-Filing.  And I thought, based on his expression, he couldn't be more proud of us than he was.

Was that an exceed?  I believed it was. Our "exceed" was not about how perfect our results or products were.  Our "exceed" was about, how did we manage our time to deliver, meet and fulfill every single task given to us; how could we be able to gather our skill and divide the task according to our ability and skill; or how did we success to keep our unsatisfied and anxiety for not influencing our performance in working.

You guys, had been one of the best team I've ever been in.  You taught me how to work well in every conditions, how to pull out our very best talent in every conditions, and how to bring the best behave in every conditions.  Keep doing that guys, and we shall conquer our world, and become everything that we wanna be.

meet the Dream Team

Sebuah Harapan

"Selamat pagi harapan, semoga kau tak pernah mati."

Itulah sebuah sapaan yang senantiasa disenandungkan oleh sahabatku, Nolkomadua, di grup WhatsApp.  Syarat dan ketentuan berlaku tentunya.  Jikalau Nolkomadua tidak lupa, tidak khilaf, tidak sedang malas, tidak sedang habis batre, tidak sedang sibuk dengan aktivitasnya di pagi hari, tidak sedang jengkel dengan kami, tidak sedang melarikan diri dari kami, dan syarat serta ketentuan lainnya.

Jika syarat dan ketentuan tersebut tidak berlaku, maka sahabatku lainnya, Sinaga yang akan berperan dan mengambil alih tugas maha berat si Nolkomadua.  Menyenandungkan sapaan yang tak hanya hangat di telinga (yang sebetulnya lebih tepat ditangkap oleh mata), namun juga terasa hangat di hati.  Namun, setali tiga uang dengan Nolkomadua, kondisi ini pun memiliki syarat dan ketentuan tersendiri.  Jika Sinaga sedang bersemangat, bergairah, tidak disibukkan dengan morning meeting maupun persiapannya, tidak sedang dilanda kegalauan akut akan kisah cintanya yang tak berkesudahan (seperti saya), maupun syarat dan ketentuan lainnya.

Sapaan tersebut merupakan pengawal hari kami, bentuk kasih sayang dan perhatian dari satu sama lain.  Pengingat akan pentingnya sebuah optimisme yang harus dipupuk dipagi hari, untuk kemudian dijalankan dan dipertahankan hingga penghujung hari. 

Harapan merupakan sebuah gerbang menuju mimpi dan cita.  Sesuatu yang tak akan datang menghampirimu dengan sukarela, melainkan sesuatu yang akan harus dikejar dengan seluruh kemampuan yang ada. 

Harapanlah yang dapat memacu semangat kita untuk bertindak jauh melebihi kemampuan dan ekpektasi diri, mengerahkan segenap potensi yang bahkan terkadang tidak kita sadari kita miliki.

Harapanlah yang senantiasa merekatkan tali persahabatan kami bertiga.  Harapan untuk dapat kembali mencipta memori, sembari bercanda riang dan berbagi kisah, saling mencela, saling memaki, saling memuji, saling mengingatkan, saling menghawatirkan, saling menertawakan, serta segala tingkah dan pola sebuah persahabatan lainnya.

Selamat pagi harapan, semoga kau tak pernah mati.

drawn by Sinaga

If Only

Someone said to me once, "If only we have the same faith, I'll ask you to let me know you more". And for one second, I was speechless. Not because the implicit propose, but because I barely speak English. *Kidding. That phrase was phrase that I haven't heard for more than a thousand days.  Last time I heard that, when I was in Jogja, which was lasting for about hundred days.

Having him said that, made me wonder. "If only" was a simple phrase with a huge impact.  In my case, if we weren't strong enough in our faith, our believed in God, we could say that, "Hei, let's do this.  Let's see where time will bring us to."  After that, one thing shall lead to the others.  After being together for a while, the feeling grew faster than we could imagine.  And the last thing that we want to do would occur; betrayed our faith, just to pursue our own faith in happiness.  Thank God we had a same perspective for not doing that.  And we were able to manage that phrase as just as a phrase.

I had another case involving "If only."  Once someone said, "If only we met just a few months earlier..." I was in cloud nine when he said that, knowing that he was just like my own reflection in different gender of sex; my favorite type of human being, which was me.  Hell, how narcissistic I am!  But then, my common sense screamed out loud, "But you're not! Just get rid of those thought and be friends with him."  Which I did, and it was one the best decisions I've ever made.

I'm not saying that "If only" is a bad phrase. It's like a coin, has two sides.

On one side, it represents the possibility occurred in the future.  “If only I can finish my work before 5pm, I’ll be reaching home before twilight.”  We might feel encouraged, and execute every single job we have as soon as possible.

But on the other side, and I think mostly happen in our daily life, it represents the possibility that should not be occurred in the present, forming feeling of regrets. As my example number two.   “If only we met just a few months earlier, we should have been together by now.” But since it didn’t happen, we aren’t together by now.  Is it sad?  Maybe, for those who might think that God is not good enough for them.  Because just remember, that God has planned every single tiny and detail destiny of our life, including the “the possibility that should not be occurred in the present – If only” thing.

But still, "the possibility that should not be occurred in the present - If only" might be forming in happiness too.  "If only we met just a few months earlier, I should have left you by now because it turns out doesn't work well."  See?  It's just the matter of perspective.  And there is one “If only” that means, yep,, it just won’t happen.  No matter how hard you try, how bad you feel, it just won’t happen.  Shall never happen.

So, keep in touch with “If only” in positive side, whether it’s the possibility occurred in the future, or the possibility that should not be occurred in the present in a bad way forming the happiness. You even should really thankful for that not happen.


What the hell am I talking about.  Such a rubbish post.