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July 18, 2012
Ramadan Preparation
Alhamdulillah we will welcome fasting month soon. Insha Allah, the weather is good as always, so there will be no problem. The productivity supposed to be unaffected. It’s the time of the year where I want to focus on detoxing my body and soul.
I have several plans:
Finish reading the whole Quran tafseer (minimum 4 pages after prayers)
Find lessons in the Quran verses and write about it in my Tumblr
Collect my writing into an Islamic book
Read solely Islamic books or articles
Giveaway Islamic books
Visiting different Masjids at least 3 Masjids a week
Writing for PinkMosques
Attending religious gathering
Meeting my religious friends or new friends to get their insights on life in general
Sharing/giving motivational talks in Masjids/Religious gathering
Try to give more of the cheapest shadaqah: smile
Giving more shadaqah jariyah
Doing more social activities including writing and reading
Going out of town or country for Masjids/Religious gathering
Wearing more loose fitting dress, limited edition by Salsabeela will come soon
I’tikaf in Masjid
Let’s say the ‘not eating’ part and the 5 times prayers are all a total must. So I’m not putting it in the plans Insha Allah, God will give me strength to do all that.
So, what is your Ramadan preparation plan? Share it in comment box bellow ;)
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July 4, 2012
Summer in London
I didn’t expect to meet the sun in London. I’ve heard a lot about London’s unpredictable sometimes grey, sometimes rainy, sometimes a little bit sunny weather. But, with all the faith I have, I packed colorful summer outfit and a lot of skirts. Thank God I can wear them all.
London was all sunny and happy when I started entering UK territory using Eurostar train from Paris. They said the train will go thru the sea, and I was excited to see the sea from the train, just like in a big aquarium. But of course that’s only happen in my imagination.
I feel a huge relief when I was arriving in London. Everybody’s speaking English. And mostly very friendly and helpful. I think London reminds me a lot of Jakarta, minus the beautiful historical buildings and parks :D The city is also like melting pot where people from all over the world work and live there. So, someone wearing hijab is widely acceptable, a lot of Muslims too, like in Edgware Road, where I went to to have my birthday dinner in one of Middle Eastern restaurants (yes, my birthday was celebrated in 2 cities, Paris and London :D)
Just like in Paris, I tried all kind of public transportation including London Underground. People said, if you can master London’s tube map, you can conquer the world. But I must say, if you can go around Jakarta without getting lost with our bus, you can conquer the world :)) Anyway, London Underground has the same complexity with Paris Metro, but after some time you will get used to it. From one place to another only take maximum 15 minutes, and it’s always on time. So, I can’t help but comparing Jakarta. From one point to another we must suffer for at least 1 hour in traffic -_-
After ‘travel hard’ in Paris, Amsterdam, Le Mans for 7 days, I decided that I want to take it easy with London and learn to be a ‘laid back’ travelers like my best girls. Too laid back that I missed a lot of places LOL. But then, I only stay for 3 nights, so yeah, I can’t see much anyway.
I enjoyed London bit by bit and in a very personalized way. Photo hunting and sat on the grass at Regent Park, making poetry in London Bridge overlooking Tower Bridge at night, running to Platform 9 3/4 of Harry Potter (because Nana insists I should take picture there haha), posing beside Sherlock Holmes’ statue at Baker Street (this time, fulfilling my promise to Lisa), cruising at Thames river, checking the cool British Library, watching the entertaining Shrek musical, get the highlight of London with red city tour bus, eating gelato outside Italiano ice cream parlor in the cold afternoon at Covent Garden, going in and out secondhand bookstores at Charing Cross road, wondering ‘what the hell was all these’ at Greenwich museum and many more absurds little thing that I enjoy in London.
I also met 3 of my Indonesian friends, Yayas & husband Rullah & their daughter (I met Yayas only 1 time during a project in 2007) and Nina (I met Nina only once in Ho Chi Minh City in 2009, then we met in London, so basically we never meet in Indonesia at all LOL). It was a fun reunion at East West Indonesian restaurant. Hope to meet you guys again sometime!
I’ve been ‘lucky’ during my trip, Alhamdulillah. Strangers keep giving me something out of the blue. At Underground, someone suddenly giving out his train ticket to me, and when it was very hard to get a Taxi (that cute little black London taxi) after midnight in London, someone stop to give me a ride. How cool is that
One unforgettable experience was at London Central Mosque. In Indonesia, at the Mosque, we just pray and leave. But in London, sisters say salam, and ask me where I’m from. I said I’m from Indonesia. They’ve been reading Quran, so they invite me to read 3 Ayah from the Quran. I feel like they’re curious with Indonesian Muslim. So, I read. They praise, Masha Allah!, and ask me to read more. This time, they want me to read Surah ar-Rahman. I was shocked.
Ar-Rahman is my favorite Surah from the Quran. I read it almost every day. The ladies from Iraq & Yemen, didn’t know me at all, yet they asked me to read my favorite Surah! I instantly felt Allah was trying to speak to me.
Bismillah, I read it with all my heart. The silence filled with the warmth from Surah ar-Rahman. I felt the tears start flowing down my cheek. After I finished reading the whole Surah, ladies start giving me a tight hug, they’re crying too. “Masha Allah!! Please pray for me! Insha Allah, you will get Jannah! Allah will give everything you wish for! Pray for me… please pray for me…!” Tears in our eyes. I was choked. I didn’t deserve such praise. I didn’t deserve it at all. So I walked out of the Mosque with mixed feelings. It was overwhelming.
When I was in Heathrow airport, ready to fly back home, I sat in a cafe in the center of the terminal, sipping my orange juice and ponder. I haven’t shop at Harrods, haven’t spend enough time in London’s icon like Big Ben, London Eye, etc, haven’t visit football stadium, haven’t check Olympic venues, cancelled my visit to Manchester and Liverpool to see my childhood’s favorite football team, haven’t visit Shakespeare and Jane Austen house, I just realized there are many things I haven’t experience yet in London. It’s a sign of one thing: I need to come back.
“You had a pleasant stay in London, miss?” The Cafe’s Manager greet me politely.
I collect my bag, put my black Londoner hat and smile, “It was the best time of my life.”
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June 28, 2012
Birthday in Paris
I wish Marco was older.
I almost choke on my birthday cake when he told me he was 23. He looks so mature, kind, well dressed (like most Italian) and that good boy family guy look in his face. (Marco bring his grandpa ‘Jeni’ to celebrate his birthday in Paris. How sweet!)
I laugh awkwardly after he mentioned his age, “Me too! I’m 23!” and his eyes smiling, “Great! Then we have a 23rd birthday party!” I can hear Saphia and Nana laughing uncontrollably. Of course I’m not 23. But let’s stick to 23.
It’s midnight in Paris. On my birthday night, I am surrounded by my new friends, a handsome Italiano I just met on Seine river cruise plus his awesome grandpa, who always walk faster than me. With us, I also have 2 beautiful and lovely ladies, Saphia and Nana, who’ve been accompany-ing me on my whole journey in Paris. Time felt stop for a moment when Marco, Saphia and Nana sang me happy birthday in 3 languages, Italian, French and Indonesian. The French waiter also sing and clap with us too. The best time of my life that I’ll never forget!
Let’s move back a little to year 2005, when I wrote my second book “Je M’appelle Lintang”. It’s about Indonesian girl wanting to find his prince in Paris and becoming a fashion designer. I have built my dream of Eiffel since the day the book’s launched. I wrote every single details with a careful research through various techniques, learning French on CCF course, interviewing Parisian, research heavily on the internet, all to build the story as real as possible. Write your dreams. It will come true, insha Allah. I take a step closer with photoshopping my picture so it looks like I’m standing in front of La Tour Eiffel. My dad comment when he saw the pic hanging on my wall: “Obsessed!” LOL. But, look, dad! In this picture, I’m standing in front of Eiffel wearing my own fashion line, Salsabeela!
I am obsessed with Paris, indeed. But the thought of realizing my dream is somewhat scary. What if, the reality is not as beautiful? If I make my dream come true (of coming to Paris), then what else I should dream of?
Some hard reality struck me 2 years ago, and I said to myself, hell, I’m going to make all my dreams come true. This is my time. So when the time is right, which is Summer 2012, I go to Paris.
Paris is more beautiful than what I have imagine. I fell in love over and over again by its beauty. This is the city, where even poet can become speechless, because finally there’s a place that is more beautiful than poetry.
In Paris, I explore like a true local people. I stayed at Nana’s apartment, my sis who take Master degree in Paris, and going around Paris using underground train called Metro. Metro lines are confusing, but I think I can start to master it the next time I go to Paris. Saphia, my French friend who just visited Indonesia last year, also joining us. She knew I am crazy about Paris. And she wanted to witness every single part of it
Paris is more romantic on midnight. Where me and Nana would walk from station to the apartment. We walk slowly with my limping legs, Nana said I’m a limping diva LOL, because I’m not used to walk that much and I hurt my feet from the wrong choices of shoes. I ended up wearing an ugly slipper during the trip, on rainy and sunny day. Because that’s the only thing I can wear. Other shoes, just eat my feet alive.
During our midnight walks, me and Nana would talk about everything. About how the day goes. About the people we met. About Parisian. About street musician. About the food we ate and how we crave KFC. About life. About love, especially after we saw kissing couple on the street.
Some friends are worried about me wearing hijab in Paris, because it is heard that France’s policy is not very welcome to religious symbol. But I’m okay. Some people stare, but I think it’s not about my hijab, but about me and Nana being different, even from other sisters. We do experiment a lot with fashion. And we’re proud to do that. We get a lot of help from other Muslim brother and sister during our journey in Paris. Someone can give me train ticket, seat on bus, helpfully guide us the way, give us discounts or the most heartwarming was when an Egyptian lady I met in Mosque de Paris, gave me zikr beads and said that she will invite me to Egypt to study Arabic after I gave her my contact number. Alhamdulillah, insha Allah.
Like most first time tourists, I went to Eiffel tower that has always been beautiful, standing in front of Arc de Triomphe, window shopping at Champs-Elysees, admiring Versailles, cruising on the beautiful Seine river on sunset while waving at people on nearby bridge, checking Napoleon Bonaparte’s apartment at Musee de Louvre (because I’m obsessed with Napoleon), fell asleep watching an awful Napoleon play at a small theatre in St. Michel (Saphia said she can’t understand why the Napoleon died in bathrobe and holding ipad LOL), left a message in Shakespeare & Company bookstore (the place where Ernest Hemingway used to hang out), step my feet in km 0 in front of Notre Dame castle hoping I’ll come back to Paris, eating baguette in restaurant’s outdoor like a true Parisian.
After a legendary midnight birthday dinner, me, Saphia and Nana had brunch in a cafe near Eiffel tower. It’s one of my dreams to sip a cup of coffee with Eiffel Tower as background. I’m so very happy we found the perfect restaurant. I fulfilled the dreams in my head one by one.
As I’m getting ready to check-in to Eurostar that will take me to London to have my birthday dinner, I hug my sisters, and hope someday, in near future, if Allah allows us, we will have another unforgettable adventure together. Amin.
I might travel alone, but clearly, I’m not lonely.
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June 5, 2012
The Coffee Shop Chronicles
I think most of us have experience this when we’re in coffee shop: we watch people. And our imagination grow.
That’s exactly what’s in the mind of 22 writers of “The Coffee Shop Chronicles” when they start writing a collaboration book about situation in a coffee shop in one day from the point of view of each of the guest (even from a coffee cup point of view :D)
The writers started writing and self published their book at NulisBuku.com @nulisbuku. We at NulisBuku.com see the potential of the book and submit it to major publisher: byPASS (under Penebar Swadaya group). byPASS agreed to publish “The Coffee Shop Chronicles” and on Sunday, June 3rd 2012, the book was officially launched at Gramedia Depok.
This is to mark the first book helped to published majorly by NB Literary (Nulis Buku Literary Agency). We expect more books from NulisBuku.com to be published in other major publishers soon!
Special thanks to 22 writers represented by Aditia Yudis (@adit_adit), Yuska Vonita (@yuska77) and Ifnur Hikmah (@iiphche) for having the courage to write. For Momo @momo_DM coming all the way from Lombok! Hope you enjoy signing your book for your readers ^_^
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May 26, 2012
Perempuan Inspiratif Nova 2012
It’s a great honor for me to receieve an Inspiring Woman Award 2012 (Editor’s Choice) from Tabloid Nova with 15 other inspiring women from all over Indonesia.
For the awarding night, we were gathered for 2 days and following a lot of exciting events by Tabloid Nova and the sponsors. There’s business seminar, make-up tutorial, beauty and body care seminar, spa, makeover, and shopping!
But the most important thing is to be able to know personally, all these inspiring ladies, and take lessons from them.
One of the most inspiring must be Mrs. Saidah from Buton, southeast part of Sulawesi. She’s a seaweed farmer but also environment activist. She captured and bring to Police more than 15 people doing sea bombing (for fishing) in her village. You heard me right. Like a superhero, she would run to the sea to get her boat whenever she heard an explosion. Once, she found out that the bomber is her own family, and she punched him immediately. LOL. Girl power!!
I asked her, “How did you catch them??” I mean, she’s a petite lady. I can’t imagine her fighting or anything like that. “You row your boat towards them and you smile wide, to trick them. When you close enough, take all of their fish and go to Police station, giving out their name.”
She really did work smart!
All my friends in Nova really impressed me. They did various things they believe they should do. Their own cause. Mbak Lili teach me about teaching itself, about how art heals everything, about patient, about love (she teach art as a therapy for children with autism or down syndrome). Ina teach me about compassion and being brave (she helped children with cancer). Dinda teach me about the power of feeling good by looking good (she teach women with cancer to do makeup and be pretty).
I can’t name them one by one, but all these inspiring women have similarities: they know what they want to do and they act on it. They’re strong, they have their own opinion and they’re a woman. Who cried when parted with the new Nova family. Thanks a lot @TabloidNova for everything.
Til we meet again ladies.
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May 16, 2012
Unleashing Women’s Leadership in Indonesia
The statistic is there. Despite the same opportunity to enter company in the entry level, thru the mid and top management, the number is decreasing. Only 5% of women in Indonesia remain to be at the top. ‘Ignoring’ the potential of half of population is not so smart. So what’s happened?
At “Unleashing Women’s Leadership in Indonesia” seminar by McKinsey and Femina Magazine, when Joanna Barsh, writer of book “How Remarkable Women Lead”, ask about what barriers hold women in the room, most of the women said, it’s personal barriers that hold them back. Women tend to belittling themselves, have a sense of ‘I’m not good enough’, fear to take risks and the guilt of feeling choosing work over family that stop them from going to the top.
Cultural barrier, especially in Indonesia, also play big part. Being successful often seen as a negative term for women (or wife and mother), but highly encouraged for men.
If there’s a person that couldn’t see anything as a barrier, it must be mbak Marta Jonatan, HR director at Microsoft Indonesia who sat beside me at the event. She told me that her husband once willing to let go of of his job and going with her to work at Philippines and let her get to the top of the company. An example of a good communication and understanding between husband and wife. Mbak Marta also doesn’t really care what people might say about her family situation that ‘slightly’ different than other people. As a leader, you’ve got to be able to focus on the things that really matter.
Ibu Mari Elka Pangestu’s speech on the event sum it all up: we need to do the best we can and use technology as a tool to go to the top.
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“As we alter our perception, we can change our emotions.” -Daniel Goleman
I watched Rory Sutherland’s TED Talk about perspective today. It’s a great talk and I totally agree with his ideas.
“In a party, when you can’t smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you’re an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you’re a philosopher,” Rory opened his talk. Everybody’s laughing and everybody’s agree.
Perspective or shall I say perception is finally define the reality of what we see.
I was doing a weekend trip to several cities in Central Java last weekend and doing talks about business and also about creative writing. One of my friends said, “Don’t you have time for yourself?” I was shocked with her remarks.
In her perception, what I did = working and that must be tiring working on weekends. While in my perspective, I’m doing this to share my knowledge and hopefully will be useful for young people in my country. Most of the talks I did are for non-profits, universities, schools. Speaking and sharing is the time for myself. It’s my ‘me time’. I enjoy every single seconds of it.
Of course I can also treat this as a job. But that will make me very very tired. I had tight schedules and barely had time to breath. But my perspective keep me happy and strong physically.
Try shifting your perspective into a more positive and empowering point of view.
Rory also made an excellent point about three aspects to solving a problem:
Technical – Psychology – Economics
He gave example of Eurostar train from Paris – London. Instead of using billions of dollars to add technology in the train so it will arrive 45 minutes faster, why EuroStar didn’t invest in giving WiFi on the train so the journey will be more enjoyable and time become measured in relative way. Or, use some of the money to hire good looking models to walk every 10 minutes inside the train, he jokes. That’s how to use technical, psychology and economics approach to solve a problem.
Now, time to think how to solve Jakarta messy traffic problems using this method :))
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Girls in Tech Indonesia: Do Indonesian Women Matter?
There was an intriguing question from Sati, Managing Director of Endeavor Indonesia, at last night’s Girls in Tech Indonesia meetup. She asked:“Do Indonesian Women Matter?” - The answer is a big fat YES.
April is a ‘woman’s month’ in Indonesian calendar, because April 21st is the day we celebrate Kartini day. Kartini is a daughter of Mayor of Jepara back then who believe in woman’s equal right for education. She wrote a lot of letters for her Dutch pen friends, explaining about her insights & vision for women in Indonesia. You can read the collection of her letters in Project Gutenberg > Letters of a Javanese Princess.
In the spirit of Kartini, Girls in Tech Indonesia create a meetup with a totally different format. We invite some speakers, mostly girls, to share how they use technology for their causes, we invite one guest speaker from foreign country to give us different perspective, we invite a ‘motivator’ kind of speaker to give us vision, and last but not least, in this meetup we have one male observer that will see from guy’s perspective on our very girly event
Thank you speakers >> @motulz on how to use digital devices to draw, @rahneputri on @piknikasik how to use social media to gather friends and enjoy offline moments, @LittleCaesara on her animal rescue cause in social media, Sakshi Mehta from India sharing her view about woman & IT in India & she also share about the ‘Indian Kartini’, Kiran Bedi, with her famous quote: ‘I dare’, also our first male observer @lexdepraxis who’ve been live tweeting about our event
Thank you Project Eden for hosting the event! Thank you my partners @anantya @adheRiya also @GirlsintechID associate @Fikhanza – team from Think.Web and Think.Voice who’ve been helping us with the event.
Sati elaborate the answer on why Indonesian women matter. Women number is 51% of 240 million Indonesia population. We’re bigger in number, living in a country with 1 trillion dollars GDP, biggest economy as well as country size in SouthEast Asia. Growing 6.5 – 7%. Relatively stable, politically. And more than 60% are below the age of 39 years old. That is A LOT of energy that will provide a dynamic and creative workforce.
In few years, we will have the world! If women can initiate their way to entrepreneurship (unleash their potential and absorbs workforce) and learning how to give better nutrition and educate their children better as Indonesian next leaders.
So, (Indonesian) girls, are you ready for the challenge?
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Indonesia: The Next IT Hub
"The center (of Asia) is not China nor India. It's Indonesia," Cristophe Thomson said on our own conversation at @StartupLokal 2nd Anniversary event co-host with @e27sg Singapore for Echelon Jakarta Satellite. You can read more about his opinion on his upcoming book: Jakarta! – published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama and will be launched soon.
Inside the room, panelists are discussing on how to make Indonesia as the next IT hub, how to be the next Sillicon Valley. But Phil Whickham, CEO of the Society of Kauffman Fellows, said: Don't try to become Sillicon Valley!
Sillicon Valley is unique. Indonesia should be Indonesia. We must know what we can build, what makes our ecosystem unique and figure out how we can connect. Because our startup is like neuron in the brain that will only good when it's connected.
And that's exactly what us from StartupLokal community been trying to do. The initiators, myself @salsabeela , @nuniek , @nataliardianto and the associates @bayu99 @ilmanakbar @hadigunawan , try as hard as we could to help grow and nurture the startup ecosystem in Indonesia. We partner with several Indonesia's digital activists and creating @ProjectEden , an accelerator to incubate new ideas to become startups.
Telkom Indonesia playing important roles in providing infrastructure as the backbone of startup ecosystem. Indonesia Wifi @Wifi_id project will make 500,000 wifi access points available all over Indonesia. The Project expected to be complete within this year.
We're grateful with amazing line of speakers on our anniversary & judges for Echelon's startup pitch: Brynerio, 4ID (Indonesia), Danny Wirianto, Mindtalk (Indonesia), Harry K. Nugraha, Intel (Indonesia), Kevin Mintaraga, Project Eden (Indonesia), Michel Birnbaum, SVCA (Singapore), Mohan Belani, E27 (Singapore), Phil Wickham, Kauffman Fellows (USA), Sarim Aziz, RIM (Singapore), Sri Safitri, Telkom (Indonesia), Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Service (Singapore), Vincent Lauria, Golden gate Ventures (USA)
I find Simone @simon session very interactive and exciting, we know for sure, step by step, on how to start a startup. A very nice opening session for around 350 participants that mostly 'new comer'. I can read on twitter timeline that people are inspired to start their own startup.
Big thanks to our generous sponsors: Finpay Online Payment Gateway, Telkom Indonesia and also E27 sponsors Amazon, Microsoft, Global Brain and Blackberry. Thanks Telios.Tv for the opportunity for startups to promote their services.
Thanks our host partner e27 & their solid team: @mohanbelani @joashweecikai @gabtwitx – it was fun working with you guys.
The venue, Telkom office at Kebon Sirih, was packed with enthusiasts from 10am to 6pm, on Saturday, holiday weekend. Everybody was in awe with the energy in the room!
"Huge potential, amazing energy, very creative people!" are some of the comments I overheard from Japanese, Singaporean, French, American at the event.
The future is bright for Indonesia. Our job now is to stay positive, start building and make it happens.
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