Career Path

January 29, 2024, precisely at 12.35AM.

Finally, I can open this blog again. Ecstatic and writing is like ecstasy. It feels so good to be back. I must say that writing in diaries or blog is such a therapy for me since I can say whatever I think and feel in it. Yet, in blog I won't pour all of my deepest feelings since I like to stay keep it private or just say it to God, even we as human can't see Him.

Anyway, by the time, more than a decade since the first time I published my first post until this day. Thank you for everyone who stopped by or randomly find this blog. I really wish that you guys have a fruitful day.

I can't sleep, I think cause I feel unease since I haven't finish my job on reconciliating a financial report. Finding "why" the amount in report doesn't match with its source, like audit or accounting stuff. I am glad that I've worked in a field that I dreamt of since I was in Senior High School. Well, I mean, precisely I wanted to be an auditor but turns out I decided to work in a general field of accounting and universe support it with my current job.

If you find this post, either you are still in Senior High School or currently in college or uni life, and still wondering what do you want to take as your major or field to be able to survive in working life, or whether what you already do so far is the right one or even you don't like it but your parents force you to take it, honestly I don't have any advice. Maybe I just want to share my experience, maybe you can find something relatable in it.

1. Time and cost: I was really aware of time, that IF I took medical school, I know that my time would be spent on learning, not forgetting being a residence and so on and so forth. I've seen this my neighbors who mostly in it, so is my sister. Even my parents would be ecstatic with that journey, but I knew I would not. I wanted that after having my degree, I would apply for a job or be entrepreneur. Directly having my own salary to live my life independently, not burdening my parents anymore, so they could turn their focus on my little brother. That's it!
2. What subject I enjoyed the most: I enjoyed learning Biology and Chemistry, yet I didn't like the time I spent IF I had to take med school or phamacist school. Next, I ever learnt accounting in my first grade, it was just learning based on basic math and a bit addition of logic. When my teacher told us about audit world, when we could work and travel at the same time, as a naive girl, I liked how it sounded. LOL. That was the first seed of my ambition to learn accounting. My sister, she is very creative, love to draw, very neat. She had a dream of being a designer yet in our environment, being a designer sounded foreign. So, she entered dentistry school instead in which she can channel her creativity to make peoples teeth to be aesthetic and good.
3. What the world mostly need: I know that this world won't run without economics and business in it. In daily life, there is always trade, commerce, business. Growing up looking at my momma did her seasonal business strengthened my desire to take economics and business as my major. Yet, I know for sure that many people entering that field too, hence, to win in that field is you have to be outstanding than others. You can figure it out along the process.
4. Exception: I must say and still guessing that up until now, my little brother has not taken a field that he truly wants, since what he has done is basically following my parents suggestion. I must put my respect higher for people like them to big heartedly put aside their ego to obey their parents. Some of my friends are also similar. Based on what I see, they negotiate with their parents to take the other paths, but it still have to be rational. I once being forced to take med school but I insisted my parents that IF I go with it, I wouldn't finish it and it will have nothing but loss in their side and mine, either time and money. hehe.. It sounds threatening but rational at the same time, isn't it? You can use that reason too to your parents if you brave enough. Yet, if NOT, what I see is just go with it day by day. There's always a silver lining that you might not know the answer now but later. I once had an intern that the major she studied in is not her dream but she was told by her mother to take it. She wasn't brave enough to say what she wanted. She endures it up until now and this day, she wants to take a course a data analyst. You'll never know if you never try. Maybe there is also a silver lining in it and I remember a verse in Quran that said: "Perhaps you dislike something which is good for you and like something which is bad for you. Allah knows and you do not know".

That's my random contemplation about carreer. Look, from the uneasy feelings about work and it turns to be this writings. Hope you all have a brighter future and nice day.

1.30 AM, I gotta go sleeping,

Good night and thank you.

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Love,

Nessie

Retro.....

Holaa. Here I am again. Today's topic is still about Cafe in Malang Area or in Batu area, I'm not that sure, but this one should be mentioned as well. I saw this cafe from the story of my friend in whatsapp, asked the name. As you see the title, this cafe use the "retro" theme for their interior design. Lots of rustic and antique things.. So, what's the name? It

Hondje Cafe

Two weeks ago, I went to a cafe which called Hondjè Cafè. It is located in Malang, specifically in Kalpataru Area. You can find the exact location in Google hehe. I thought it was just an ordinary coffee cafe like what I usually find in Malang (coffee shops here increase rapidly in numbers, #fiuuhh). However, when I arrived, it was wrong. They serve......

Talks with Mr. Ali

Who is Mr. Ali?

Well, Mr. Ali is originally from Libya who take his PhD in Brawijaya University. He finished his Master Degree in Scotland, specifically in Glasgow University. He is very humble. I knew him since we became the delegate for the ABEST21 program in our University, Brawijaya University. We talked a lot after the final of ABEST21 event. I found that he has lots of amazing information, amazing experience that I think, I must share it to you. I was in awe since I learnt a lot from him.

Started from food, he said about a Tuna can that is lip-smacking. "Sun Tuna", that's the name of the brand. Make sure you have an original one, the one with olive oil inside. He said it. He also said about the culture in Libya. Libyan really like to fish since their land is surrounded by the mediteranian fish, so that's why they love to eat fish. It has its own taste like salty not muddy. Lol. Make sure to eat gurame and tuna! Sea gurame, not gurame from the river! Lol

Anyway, he is a brilliant businessman. He told us that he has a business of Tuna. He imported lots of Tuna from Indonesia, put it in Containers and add some of he oil to make it as a can tuna (if I'm not mistaken). He said his children really like to eat Tuna too. Just simply just tuna mixed with olive fruit or olive oil and put it on the bread.

He talk a lot about olive too. To be honest, I never eat olive fruit. They said it's a sour kinda fruit, yet if you eat one, you have to make sure that it is a solid one. It is because sometimes, the more sour the taste, it means that it's been expired. It's because Neira, one of the undergeduate student told us her experience on eating a very sour olive fruit. Apparently, she ate a soft texture of olive fruit, in which, presumably it was out of the date/expired. Mrs. Grisda who was involved in our group of chats also told me about his experience in eating olive. She had stomachache, and Mr. Ali said, perhaps she ate a food which already been mixed with vinegar to create a balance taste in food. I was amazed by his knowledge about food.

Oh yaaah, he also told us about several sunnah as well as tradition in Libya. For a new born baby, they must be showered by the olive oil for a week in strict. It's useful to keep the immune system for the baby. And also to make the eat a kurma for the first time. The way to make the baby eat the kurma just by take out the skin of kurma and poke a flavor of kurma in our thumb, put that thumb into the baby's mouth and let them suck our thumb with the kurma essence on it like they suck their pacifier. They believe that it can get rid off all the disease in the throat such as tonsils. He said it is a part of a hadith. After I dig some information, I found out the method for the baby with kurma is called as "Tahnik". So far, he put lots of new knowledge in my brain storage. hehe.

He also said that Rice is just being their main food for the past 10 years. Usually, their main foods was pasta and bread, "so that's why I'm fat" he said jokingly. The taste of food in Indonesia, India, Malaysia and his country, Libya, are also quite similar.

One more thing, he said to us, that one of the interesting part that he loves about Indonesia is the freedom of every household to open a home-business "I mean, every neighbors has their business, and in fact they have similar business and it's okay. While in Libya, it's hard to open it due to the policies and other stuffs". So, be grateful for being an Indonesian to have open access to do lots of small business since the government truly foster and support you.

He also said, he ever gallivanted around Batu, and see he farmers who truly work so hard in order to generate lots of good quality of rice. So, we suppose to appreciate our food. About the export and import, it's so sad to see lots of product in Indonesia mostly were imported while in fact we supposed to export. He was surprised by the fact of Indomie is the product from Indonesia. He thought it was from Taiwan since it's a noodle. Hahaa. He hoped not only Indomie that will be the exported products from Indonesia. We must urge our products to be exported, but most importantly to fulfill the needs of Indonesian first.

Oh my God, I write in a messy and unstructurized mode since I just write whatrver he said before it all of the memory evaoorate from my mind. Lol.

After that, what else?

Oh yeaaaahhh, he makes me think the importance to study big data and he invited me to join many programs or seminar related to big data! Of course, I'd love it! I hope I can have another moment to talk with him again since it's such an honor to hear lots of stories, knowledge and insights from a lecturer back in his country.

Last but not least, related to the university and learning method between Scotland in Indonesia. He said that there was no big differences. The kearning method was similar however in terms of publication and also or research, if we make it more up to date and develop it to a new level, then everything will be alright. In terms of facilities, well, he said it's almost similar. He think that in developing countries, what he has exoerienced in UB is beyond his expectation. In terms of facilities, services and others. He thinks that the more important thing is the innovation that's always been done, the process to change be a better university is the important one, and it's been done by our university and perhaps by universities in Indonesia. He believes that Indonesia has a better education system, if he has to compare it with other developing countries. So, why did he choose UB? Because he wanted to study everywhere and learn lots of culture.

From that moment, I learnt that as Indonesian, I put the prestige to study when I can go abroad most of the time, yet from that conversation, I learnt that you can take your higher degree in your ownn country. The system might slightly different, but the way that can make you develop your own knowledge is your effort to learn, especially with the help of technology which can make your learning process to be easier. Indonesia also has lots of easy access by the government, the point is about how we take the advantage of these easy accesses provided by them, such as ease of doing business. Furthermore, the culture that sometimes we forget. The farmer has been worked so hard but sometimes we don't appreciate it by not eat the rice. Our culture is what attracted lots of people to come into our place. It makes me want to learn about playing a traditional music instrument or traditional dance yet I don't know if that desire is truly drive to make it come true. haha. Let's see! ;D
All the best for ABEST21 for Brawijaya University.

Wish you all have a great weekend!

Nessy notes.

September 23, 2019.

All the delegates and Mr. Reviewer.
From right to left, Mr. Ali, me, Farhan, Daleneira, Wahyu
From Right to Left: I forget her name, Dear, Dina, I forget, Mr. Eric, Mr. Reviewer (From Malaysia)
Pardon my mind who easily forget about name of a person. hehe.

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