Ambition

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more (Sir John Lubbock)

Great quote from Sir John Lubbock which highlight that ambition is just like blood

I was born with ambition, just a simple ambition: to live

Living is the basic instinct, but I ever thought, if I have no ambition to live, I will die

Maybe it's too far, but my point of view about ambition is desire to achieve something, the dream

Without dream, I won't know what I want to do and to be

Some people may say, I am a person with high ambition

Hmm, but life is only once, life is about dreaming and reaching your dream

Do I have second chance?

I don't want to regret my life :)

happy birthday marco!

17 August is Indonesia's independence day

It's our precious day in history, and that's why I'm here smiling happily and reaching my dream :)

It's a date when a boy was born

The boy who had beautiful smile and white wings came to the world

The boy who has the key of my findings

Key of my happiness

Now he is a man who always brightens my day

Full with love, balancing my evil thought :p

17 August 2010, he's 22 years old

I made a cupcake for him, a day long

From finding the store that sells tools to make a cake, recipes in internet, and baking!

Believe it or not, finding cupcake recipes is just like shopping in supermarket

So many varieties, many products, different ways of cooking, until the time of baking

Finally my sister help me to find the youtube video of making the cupcake

Thank God I finally made it, and marco liked it :)

Happy birthday marco, long live, happy live :)

Sahur

In my country, or all of moslem's country, this month is Ramadhan month, or the month which Moslem should do fasting for 1 month

Before fasting, we usually do 'sahur" which is the early breakfast before sunrise to support fasting day

Unluckily, I have to do it alone, in my dormitory :(

Well this is the first year of working, so I live separately from my fam

Bad thing again, my roommate was leaving to Sweden for her master :(

Sad sad sad..

Maybe this is the time for me to learn how to live alone, so I can be able to be independent

Fight asta! yes you can!

Happy sahur, and happy fasting for all :)

Working abroad, one more step

I was doing my work with my manager on last Monday
Our topic was about forecasting,
I can't tell very much about it but actually I helped my manager together to do forecasting for specific account
It was 11.00 and I started to get sleepy, but I believe what I was doing is about my responsibility,
and I was pleased to do that :)
Tik tok tik tok, seconds by seconds passed.
I looked at her and I talked to myself, "Being a manager is really hard God, she goes home at midnight"
Then I revised my thoughts quickly because I knew, she reached her dreams by working passionately


Then I started helping her again, and it stopped in one conversation
She asked me "Asta, where do you plan to go for the next rotation?"
And she asked me again, "Don't you want to work overseas?"
And I looked at her and spontaneously said "Absolutely I want!"
Then she said about working overseas, so many opportunities, so complicated culture, and challenging competition
I listened to her and of course she knew about working overseas, because she was sent to Unilever Singapore 2 years ago


And finally, I was surprised of what she said because she offered me a chance for working abroad!
I was so happy but still stay humble because I there is the God who decides

>>>>>>>>>>>>


And the day after tomorrow, I was called by my senior manager and my direct manager, Mbak Wuri
I thought it was about my final presentation which will be held on Sept or about my project
Surprisingly, they said that my next appointment is in Singapore, Supply Chain Finance for Asia
They said that I should prepare my passport, my resident permit, and soon
But it will be happened when I passed my final presentation
I thanked to God for this chance, I am so happy that Unilever Indonesia, especially my division thought that I am good enough
Sent to region by Unilever is one in a million chance, because it's very rare
I may say that my struggle in Unilever was not easy, from someone who don't know anything and weak, to be a learner that stay hungry to learn, and now keep focusing on my future :)


I love you God, I love you my family, I love you dear Marco, I love you my friends
Never stop fighting, cause everytrhing is possible when you're trying to achieve it
Also, never forget to thank God for every second that God gives to me

Hope I can pass my presentation and let my dream will be come true

Holy Month

Holy month will come in a blink of an eye, but my mistakes may remain in your heart,

I'm sorry for all the mistakes that I made.

Happy ramadhan, boost your reward, it's once in a year :)