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Friday, December 31, 2010

2010 will pass in a few more hours.. What can I say.. Was it exciting? Yes! Was it great? Depends on your point of view. Was 2010 easy? Hell no! One thing for sure is in 2010, my company, Avevo is starting to evolve. Is it for the good? Hopefully so.


Book sales was over the roof this year. Our focus has been the corporate market the last couple of years and although sales spiked, corporates rarely pay in advance and more often than not, disturbingly late. Of course this hampered with our cash flow quite a lot and there were times I thought we were gonna have to close shop. Strategic loans and optimization of order processing was key to our survival in 2010. Learning from past mistakes was a major turnaround as we now have a representative in the US that helps make sure all administrative documents are in order and our staff know the procedures in customs and post office. We can now boast 0% lost packages during delivery.

Mid year, I was contacted by Adhityo Priyambodo, a former business partner back when I worked at Ametis. He asked me to join his startup, which was NgaturDuit.com to support it from the business perspective. This was an exciting new chapter because we had a chance to present the idea at the StartupLokal meetup back in September (check out our slide here). A month later, we partnered with Aidil Akbar and his consultant group Akbar's Financial Checkup (AFC). We spent developing many features as a result of this partnership and we hope to launch them in 2011. The projects in 2011 among others are online consulting, online seminars, games... It's going to be exciting!

We also opened several new divisions in 2010! The first division opened was managed services, also known as maintenance. At the end of Q3, we opened another division which was gaming and mobile apps. Already we have three gaming projects coming up in 2011. Hopefully things go as planned :) Finally, this December we contacted our freelance designer and offered him a partnership deal to join and build a design division. The design division currently already have 3 ongoing projects so it's a pretty decent start.

Not all of our divisions were peachy. Our online recruitment system, Talentum did not do as well in 2010 as it did in 2009. This was mainly because we were not overly active searching for recruitment projects this year. We did get some recruitment projects from referrals, however we hope to move our focus from projects (quick cash) to a steady revenue business model. We are currently in discussion with a head hunter agency to provide and support their IT recruitment system. 

Of course, many of the progress could not have been possible without a good partner. On January 2010, a longtime friend and someone I admired business-wise, Harry Kazuya Rasito, joined Avevo as a shareholder. By leveraging Harry's network and resources, we were able to jumpstart or at the minimum support some of Avevo's divisions. Having a reliable partner is also important in the sense that I had someone to discuss problems and get advice from someone with more experience.

Finally, perhaps one of the major changes in 2010 is the location of our office. Formerly contracting a ruko, we have now moved to an office building. It's not in the premium business locations (sudirman, thamrin, kuningan), but pretty damn close. Although the office rent is twice what we used to pay, I think working in an office building is better for us because everyone is now more disciplined and professional. I guess it's the effect of the environment.

There are several other exciting adventures we have planned for next year, but I dare not state them here yet. Perhaps in next year's documentation ;)

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Sunday, May 30, 2010

JADWAL PERTANDINGAN PIALA DUNIA 2010

Grup Pertandingan Tanggal Jam
A Africa Selatan vs Mexico Jumat, 11 juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
A Uruguay vs Perancis Jumat, 11 juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
B Argentina vs Nigeria Sabtu, 12 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
C Inggris vs USA Sabtu, 12 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
D Serbia  vs  Ghana Minggu, 13 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
D Jerman  vs  Australia Minggu, 13 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
E Jepang  vs  Kamerun Senin, 14 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
F Italy  vs  Paraguay Senin, 14 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
G Pantai Gading  vs  Portugal Selasa, 15 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
G Brazil  vs  Korea Utara Selasa, 15 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
H Spanyol  vs  Swiss Rabu, 16 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
A Africa Selatan vs  Uruguay Rabu, 16 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
B Yunani  vs  Nigeria Kamis, 17 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
A Perancis vs  Mexico Kamis, 17 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
C Slovenia  vs  USA Jumat, 18 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
C Inggris vs Aljazair Jumat, 18 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
D Ghana  vs  Australia Sabtu, 19 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
E Kamerun  vs  Denmark Sabtu, 19 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
F Italy  vs  New Zealand Minggu, 20 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
G Brazil  vs  Pantai Gading Minggu, 20 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
H Chile  vs  Swiss Senin, 21 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
H Spanyol  vs  Honduras Senin, 21 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
A Perancis  vs  Afrika Selatan Selasa, 22 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
B Yunani  vs  Argentina Selasa, 22 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
C Slovenia  vs  Inggris Rabu, 23 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
D Ghana  vs  Jerman Rabu, 23 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
F Slovakia  vs  Italy Kamis, 24 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
E Kamerun  vs  Belanda Kamis, 24 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00
G Portugal  vs  Brazil Jumat, 25 Juni 2010 20.15 - 23.30
H Chile  vs  Spanyol Jumat, 25 Juni 2010 24.30 - 04.00

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Friday, May 28, 2010

CNBC Mad Money: Mad Cramer

April 13
Investors shouldn't wait for employment to come back before buying stocks, because there will be many significant moves in the market before then. TARP was a success and we are 6 months away from seeing genuine prosperity.

April 14
Take the money out of stocks, and keep it in cash or equivalents so you can sleep comfortably at night The worst markets make the best buying opportunities, chance to buy stocks at Dow 8,000 is a great opportunity that may never see again. Final suggestion for investing in bad markets is to avoid calling a bottom.

April 15
Bearish barricades were nothing more than canards, fabrications that don’t hold up against the facts of this market. Bad news for the euro and Greece is good news for US. Get in at a better price than you should be able to, on the Dow 12,000 freeway

April 26
It's because of Greece the market is going higher

May 7
Don't buy any stocks until DOW 9000. Dow’s decline was natural result of Europe’s debt and the riots in Greece. Investors should wait for the decline before they buy anything again


May 10
European debt contagion no longer a risk, call to halt most stock buying until Dow 9,000 is off. That’s the new reality, buy stocks now, the crisis is done, this is the real deal, just focus on how oversold stocks are right now

May 12
Pay reductions and job cuts for civil service employees will result in a jump-start in spending in the stronger European Union

May 19
If we don’t see total capitulation in Europe over the next two days, US market’s going to go higher.

May20
It hasn’t come down enough to make buying compelling. We are still not down enough.

May 24
We just aren’t strong enough to withstand a Greek default

May 25
Will the Dow Plummet to 8,260? That's the worst case scenario. Don’t give up, too much good is happening

May 26
When the market rallies, don’t get excited. It’s not sustainable, until we get something definitive out of Europe

taken from http://www.cnbc.com/id/37357274

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Reposted a Note from a Childhood Friend in Florida, US…

 

Today Mirin and I went to Diamond Village where I grew up. It is a place where the University students can live with their families. We look at the plain two-story brick buildings from over the short chain-link fence. They are surrounded by lawn and trees and winding sidewalks. It is interesting how often my dreams take me back here. It is so different there now.

Many trees, old friends, were cut down.

There are no more gardens of tomatoes and cabbage outside the buildings. The guava trees, which were such a large part of my childhood, have been removed. It is quiet and serious here. No children, as there always were.

The doors are different--dark and heavy. Gone is the old white wooden door with glass slats. I would look through it at night and see a forest of trees with leaves of gold within the patterns of the frosted glass and the yellow breezeway light.

I look at the doorway that used to be mine. The door is just like every other door. Gone, too, is the Halloween sticker I had stuck above the door when I was seven. It was there last time I had come, only a few years ago.

I picture our building how I remembered, with the golden rain tree casting green shadows on the other side of the breezeway, with the parsley my dad grew spilling onto the bricks, with the old door and the mailboxes. Over by the golden rain tree funny bugs would always appear, shield-shaped bugs with black and orange. And people kept their bikes, beside the two steps up, with a rose that bloomed sometimes growing under a window. Behind the bikes were slabs of cement, all broken and in a pile. A skink lived there.

The only thing unchanged is the two-flight stairway leading to the second story, the stairway where older boys would ride their bikes down, where so many of us cracked our heads. It is steeper than I remembered, and the steps seem smaller.
We headed to the old playground.

Gone is the huge old wooden merry-go-round that stood three feet off the ground.
Gone is the old metal slide and the long, dangerous see-saw, and the metal jungle gyms. They have all been replaced by safe-looking plastic creations--corner-less and ersatz.
We didn't see any children. I pause by the old cement barbeque's where an older kid would light things on fire.

We check on the creek that flows beside the playground. Gone is the old wooden bridge. You can't go that way anymore. Someday I will tell Mirin about when my best friend's dad took us on an expedition up the creek and through the sewers. When he tried to lift the lid of a manhole big roaches fell on us in the dark.

The stump of the soap berry tree...

The apartment of the Russian children...

The place where the persimmon tree stood...

The laundromat, where women would gather, where we used to see the woman from Africa who called my brother "Ivory."

The old gazebo, now a building for the mailboxes, where we used to jump off the roof.

We pass the sloping hill in front of my old home, where we would ride my old red wagon, and sometime roll all the way down.
That was how I got my first bee sting, rolling in the clover.

Boonsri's stinky eggplant bushes....
We called them stink bombs. Even after they moved their eggplant bush stayed for so many years. The maintenance men herbicided it again and again, and it still grew back. Finally they removed the topsoil, and it still grew back. It seemed they had finally defeated it, though.

I stop and look at the apartment where I spent ten years. Gone is the avocado tree my father planted from a seed. It once stretched all the way up to the roof. Gone, too, is the holly tree we used to climb, whose red berries I picked for a wreath one Christmas.

We cross the new sidewalk, new when I was 8, that we weren't allowed to write on. Before that we had only a plank of wood to walk across.

As we head out, I smelled a wonderful smell. It was the smell of someone cooking, and it smelled like fish sauce. I was lost momentarily in nostalgia, running home after a long day of playing, hungry and smelling the different dinners cooking through the windows. At least something hasn't changed.

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Friday, March 05, 2010

Been there a couple of times... This song makes me smile

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Saturday, February 06, 2010

pillows, cellphones were being thrown all over the place as we were making love. when we finished, I checked my cellphone and found this typed on it:


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Saturday, September 19, 2009

let us out!

hmm... finger food

woozy... too much energy drink...

triple threat

father & son chow time

bleeee.... :p

mom & dad wanna get out of the nest

it's 9PM... me wanna zleep

energy drink before going to bed!

last drink before bedtime

curiousity

leave me alone... me zleepy

let's play a game.. ransack api's room!

poser

wanna take an afternoon nap...

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