struggling dreams

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Sabtu kemarin, akhirnya jadi ngebut juga bareng Ivan setelah absen 3 bulan lebih… Kali ini kita berangkat jam 05.15 dari depan starbucks TIS (Tebet), dan sampe tempat bubur Cipayung jam 05.45. Setelah bubur dan ngobrol sana-sini dikit kita turun jam 06.30, sampai rumah jam 07.05.

Perjalanan berangkat cukup bikin keder karena sudah lama ga ngebut.. kayaknya mesti balikin mindset ngebut yang sudah agak terplupakan, yaitu nginjek pedal gas sampai pol, steer handling yang lincah dan selalu siap nginjek rem sedalem mungkin…
Suasana yang masih gelap dan ramenya jalanan juga bikin tambah keder… apalagi Ivan ga nyalain lampu, jadi cukup membahayakan mobil yang disalipnya termasuk aku sendiri…

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My car is an Audi A4 with 6 cylinders 2.600 Liter and V configuration engine. An engine that could produce max 150 bhp at 5600 rpm. It has name… I called it "si hijau". Manufactured in 1999 (i suspect it produced in 1998 in Germany), the green has not so old looks but still cute yet powerful.

Not like the other Audi, the green does not have any leather interior, but it never be an issue for me since I also never be a fan of leather either. The red of every indicators makes it sport looks contrast to green and black theme. The green were never be a luxury car… but comfort thus personal functionality…

What has it delivered to me?
Everything about velocity experience… everything about handling experience… everything about the life beyond 200 kmph…
45 minutes Jakarta-Bandung
12 minutes Ciawi-Jakarta (or less?)

Cost me a lot to maintain its performance.. just to maintain it always produces 150 bhp when I race, always ahead every cars on freeway… hundred millions for maintenance… no new feature, no new looks, nothing new just for maintenance…

Q & A

Why not race at Sentul?
Soon if you deliver me an Audi RS4 2005 as a gift

Why do I keep it since cost me a lot?
I never knew it will cost me that much in the beginning of our friendship, then I had not enough money to afford new A4 Turbo FSI or any Audi beyond 200 bhp with quatro wheeling mechanism

Why Audi?
Very good handling, powerful, yet humble looks… not must though… if you offer me porsche 911 turbo for free…

Am I stupid?
you tell me…

I have been beyond 200 kmph.. have you?

I have a story to tell about today presentation… yes, I present the NET's web services and few about today's web concept to Nestle's marketing communication and customer relations team. Do I violate non disclosure agreement about the meeting or else? definitely not! I did not sign anything about the meeting therefore whatever happened be fact and I am free to share it to everyone here.

Days before the meeting, I learned that their corporate website (sahabatnestle.co.id) currently under Customer Relationship Manager and most likely will remain until few years to come. Added to my information that they need a new system for their CRM. Then i felt challenged…

under web 2.0 memes influenced I should be able to redefine the website which leads to community building but still a CRM front end for customer. Based on those condition I tried to googling around and I found few that seems to be solution but sounds hard to execute. I spent the night before the meeting to study the possibility of combining traditional CRM for consumer brands with web 2.0 model. (more…)

Sejam yang lalu Ivan telepon untuk ngajak ngebut malem karena dia lagi suntuk… Karena gue ga bisa, maka kita jadi ngobrolin yang lain… Ivan ngingetin testimonial nya untukku yang isinya tentang rekorku dan hasrat untuk punya audi dengan mesin turbo… Setelah ngobrol ngalor ngidul sekitar ngebut, kita janjian untuk ngebut bareng pada hari Sabtu dan berakhirlah pembicaraan…

Begitu telepon ditutup… gue jadi merenung, berkhayal ngebut pake audi turbo itu…. betapa indahnya dunia bila dilihat dari mobil berakselerasi ok dan dari kecepatan di atas rata-rata… gue berkhayal dalam…
hingga akhirnya gue mendengar jeritan dari dalam hati yang sangat kuat… sangat kuat… betapa di hati yang paling dalam gue mendambakan punya audi turbo…

betapa siriknya gue terhadap orang-orang yang punya tapi menyia-nyiakannya dengan tidak mengajaknya ngebut… ohhhh…. orang-orang bego itu…
kapan audi turbo itu jadi milik??? Tuhan tolonglah kami…

Teman-teman…
mungkin kalian tidak mengerti betapa miskinnya gue…. hingga untuk membeli audi turbo saja tidak bisa… tapi gue berharap kalian dengan membaca blog ini, mengertilah… dan bersimpatilah pada gue… karena hanya kalianlah pembaca blog ini yang mengerti derita hati ini…
bila kalian adalah orang yang berkecukupan… sudilah kiranya kalian membantu kami untuk mencapai impian kami… mungkin dengan acara pengumpulan dana atau sumbangan langsung ke rekening kami… tentunya akan sangat kami hargai…

bai de wai… gue juga ga ngerti kenapa audi itu mesti dibikin semahal itu.. padahal harga jual secondnya begitu jatuh… mengapa sih? kenapa juga gue ga dikasih pinjem gitu barang setahun atau dua tahun untuk kebut-kebutan doang… ga dipake ke kantor dech… padahal di showroom juga nganggur kan… dan tentunya kalo gue ngebut kan orang jadi tau betapa amannya dan handalnya sebuah mobil audi… mengapa oh mengapa??

setelah mencoba berbagi pemahaman SOA dan social software kepada ardy, saya jadi terpancing untuk bergerak ke pemahaman yang lebih dan mencari contoh dari web 2.0 dan web services… dan tentunya mencoba mencari pendekatan yang aplikatif sehingga akan terlihat peluang-peluang potensial hingga akhirnya dipersempit hingga didapat the most feasible business opportunities.

pemahaman mengenai web 2.0 dan web services diperkaya pula oleh tulisan o’reilly, referensi dari ardy yang sebenarnya sudah saya baca juga di majalah e-bizz asia… somehow jurnal o’reilly tersebut lebih gamblang dan jelas. Menurut Tim O’Reilly doubleclick dan akamai adalah pelopor web 2.0 dan web services sedangkan google adalah pemimpin perubahan paradigma menjadi web services, dapat dilihat dari pola layanan nya yang hampir seluruhnya menggunakan web.

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the web 2.0 came along with some new principles.. basically it just a new paradigm, a new way to look at and serve… a new way to build and use a service through some discovery of the human nature as social creature… i am not about to tell you what are those principles nor show you some examples of excersising the web 2.0… but i'm about to tell you few things that might defined as web 2.0 through its underlying criteria…

• a new genuine platform based on openess
• user generated content (user participatory)
• utility focus technology but flexible
• and neverending discovery…

the challenge of my new platform is how to link what one's thought to another's thought seamlessly, continously but always lead to a new idea… meaning constructive… more complex than just ordinary library, because thoughts have relationship and each relationship has a label on it…

my idea of new platform is make a system which enable a user to make their posts connected to another's and had relationship labelled… this will enable user to explore similarity and trace connected posts… 10yearsfromnow.com will practice this method, i believe… whereelse we can practice this platform? can you think of any… i do… imagine a website that aggregate recipes, make most interactive of comments and label them as "I tasted this" or "I will try"… and again enbling conversation between users… imagine same idea for aggregating tips of certain topic… what do you think? I will try anyhow…

NB. for those who does not familiar with the term web 2.0: you can find them around you (if you really an internet people)… youtube.com, flicker.com, myspace and digg are some of them…