http://en-route.blogdrive.com/ On a continuous journey... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:45:01 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. http://en-route.blogdrive.com/archive/28.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:11:39 GMT Now seriously.. what makes a company the best place to work for? Is yours considered one? What do you need from a company to make you decide this is the one, this is the place I want to grow old with! Is it the huge pay? The ability to give you excitement by giving you challenges you thought you won't be able to tackle before? The environment, the people you spent time with more than your children? The overseas trainings (they promised at the interview) for your personal and professional development? Or the Bosses? *Yeah right!* I guess it depends on your priority right now, what are... (more) http://en-route.blogdrive.com/comments?id=28 http://en-route.blogdrive.com/archive/27.html Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:34:54 GMT After more than 7 months cut off from going to the cinema, we finally took our daughter to see one. First attempt was a failure, 10 minutes of Pirates of the Caribbean was enough to make the little princess uneasy and decided to try our luck another time. The second one was a success! It was Fantastic Four, and the princess was sleeping from start to finish. Two other movies afterward (on another week of course!) made her got the feeling and ready for the grand prize: TRANSFORMERS! Here in Indonesia, in order to prevent movies from being hijacked we got the priviledge to see ... (more) http://en-route.blogdrive.com/comments?id=27 http://en-route.blogdrive.com/archive/26.html Tue, 08 May 2007 09:58:12 GMT One thing I consider complicated is how to end a relationship, with this regard I mean a professional one. What makes you want to separate from an amazing team and a great boss? What drives you to get out off the comfort zone? Notice if you're ending a relationship, you start to heed the bad things that were going on in it no matter how small it were. Guess it's the defensive mechanism kicks in to secure the decision. A psychological boost that tells you you're doing the right thing by putting an end to those bad things happened to you. That's why the best way to do... (more) http://en-route.blogdrive.com/comments?id=26 http://en-route.blogdrive.com/archive/25.html Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:42:10 GMT I was being a jerk to have called the previous experience as not-so-fun. Only now by looking backwards I can see the dots connected to what we have right now. I forgot that all things were a process, a journey that we must pass through. It's not always amusing, but for sure it isn't all tedious along the road. There won't be any differences between the parts, all parts are fun now. So the story goes.. As I posted before, I finally had the courage to take the risk resigning from my previous company. My boss asked me why in the world I would give up the offer? The answer is quite simple:... (more) http://en-route.blogdrive.com/comments?id=25 http://en-route.blogdrive.com/archive/24.html Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:55:36 GMT Took me nearly 8 months to grasp what's been happening in my life after we left Myanmar. I barely remember the details, only some 'old' memories flashing inside my head and what's left written on my wife's blog. It's like a sudden flash, it's all happening too fast for me... To make peace with my mind, I'm trying to trace the events one by one starting from last December 2005 when we were packing for our holiday. Don't know whether it's a hunch or else, but somehow I knew we're not going to come back ever again. Or was that maybe, unconsciously I was trying to... (more) http://en-route.blogdrive.com/comments?id=24 http://en-route.blogdrive.com/archive/23.html Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:16:19 GMT Funny if you think where life will lead you to. Although I'm not myself a 'life-planner' -you might say-, but I try my best to have a plan or two to reach my milestones. As like every mortal in this earth, all I can really do is plan, try my best effort to stick with it, and then pray.. I could never know the outcome until it's in front of me. This time last year, I didn't even know whether I was still going to have my job or not. But in fact, two months after that I was sent to Myanmar and given the chance to start a new life. The next 241 days or so, at the end of the... (more) http://en-route.blogdrive.com/comments?id=23 http://en-route.blogdrive.com/archive/22.html Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:11:01 GMT Do you believe that every single breath you took was already been written in a book somewhere someplace, even before you were born? Do you believe that every single thought you had was already been setup to pass your mind with an exact successions - in that book even before you were born? Do you believe that every single road you took today was already been chosen for you – in that book even before you were born? Do you believe that the person you will be in your forty was already been made – in that book even before you were born? Do you believe that the menu for your... (more) http://en-route.blogdrive.com/comments?id=22 http://en-route.blogdrive.com/archive/21.html Wed, 05 Oct 2005 06:33:17 GMT It’s the time of the year again: 1 Ramadan, the time for us Muslims to fast. We consider this as an opportunity to test and develop our inner spiritual selves. The fasting regimen is rigorous. No eating, drinking or smoking is allowed after the first prayer in the morning until the opening of the fast in the evening. Prayer times change based on sunset and sunrise, so the exact timing is different every day. The morning prayer usually comes around four-thirty. Before this time, a Muslim family must rise and consume the last food or drink that they will have for the next fourteen hours.... (more) http://en-route.blogdrive.com/comments?id=21 http://en-route.blogdrive.com/archive/20.html Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:10:19 GMT So many things in my mind right now, pending projects, project plans for next year, year-end projection budget (which I just found out that there’s a huge miss in it! Gosh!), and many other job-related things you can think of. Not that I’m an important person or what, but plainly because I’m so lazy this week. Or in my defense, I feel so weak in this last two weeks. I even skip one day for work last week because of a sudden headache followed with minor diarrhea (Did I already make it sound like a complicated disease?). Thanks to my wife I got through all of that in no time. We spent a... (more) http://en-route.blogdrive.com/comments?id=20 http://en-route.blogdrive.com/archive/19.html Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:50:04 GMT Have you ever thought about death? Why are we afraid to talk about death? Isn’t it one of the most sure things will happen to anyone of us? If you see it on the news nowadays, almost every month, if not week, there’s a disaster involving so many people. From drought into flood, from tsunami into storms named after women -how silly is that? I mean, common! Why didn’t they name it like: bloodlust or hellhound, or anything creepy instead of a woman’s name? Were they kidding themselves? Did they think naming a force of nature to a beautiful woman will make them loved by the storm? And... (more) http://en-route.blogdrive.com/comments?id=19