john’s log

Kopi

Posted on November 27th, 2011 by john.
Categories: coffee, personal, work.

Kopi!

Salah satu alasan yang cukup baik bagi saya untuk mulai (belajar) nulis lagi adalah Kopi!
Saya sedang belajar tentang kopi. Belajar dari mana? Ya dari mana saja, mulai dari para pakar seperti Kang Toni Wahid (@toniwahid) di blognya cikopi.com atau dari Kang Adi W. Taroepratjeka (@peminumkopi) dan blognya di aditaroepratjeka.wordpress.com hingga ke biangnya ilmu pengetahuan di masa kini seperti mbah Google dan tentu saja mbah Wikipedia.

Petualangan ini mulai secara alamiah sebenarnya sejak saya lahir. Saya lahir membawa “beban” brand kopi yang bagi saya berkah sekaligus “kutukan”, yang sudah melekat di keluarga saya selama sekitar seabad ini. Yaaa tidak heboh-heboh amat sih, tapi syukurlah cukup punya pelanggan setia yang bertahan hingga saat ini Secara definitif, saya menetapkan bahwa perjalanan kopi saya mulai ketika pertama kali belajar membuat espresso, cappuccino dan latte di Esperto Barista Course yang diasuh oleh sang Master Franky Angkawijaya. Sekitar bulan Maret tahun ini.

Sejak maret itu, saya mulai ‘rajin’ membaca soal kopi. Mendengar di sini dan di sana, membeli buku atau apa saja yang bagi saya menarik soal kopi, hingga berusaha mencoba berbagai rasa kopi yang terjangkau dalam radar telinga dan mata dan tentunya kapasitas dompet saya

What an amazing world! Dunia kopi itu begitu menarik, dan menyenangkan, seperti kata pak Kasmito, salah satu jagoan kopi spesialti indonesia di bawah bendera Maharaja Coffee, bahwa pelaku usaha kopi itu orangnya baik-baik, suka saling berbagi dan cukup terbuka satu dengan yang lain.. petualangan kopi ini pula membawa saya akhirnya bisa bertemu dan belajar salah satu tokoh kopi dunia, salah satu orang yang memulai prakarsa kopi spesialti untuk arabica sekitar 25 tahun lalu.. Ted Lingle, sang Direktur Ekskutif dari Coffee Quality Institute dan SCAA, asosiasi kopi spesialti amerika.

Perjalanan itu akhirnya membawa saya pada hari ini, kurang lebih seminggu setelah saya menjalani minggu “ajaib” yang menjadikan saya tidak lagi memandang secangkir kopi dengan cara yang sama.. Ah, luar biasa kekayaan itu.

Anyway, ini kulminasinya. Untuk banyak belajar, saya harus banyak berbagi. Untuk memahami lebih atas apa yang saya baca, saya harus menuliskannya kembali. Bukankah begitulah alasan kita mencatat semua pelajaran ketika sekolah dulu? Entah seberapa baiknya kita menyimpan catatan itu. Mungkin dalam beberapa waktu catatan itu menjadi absurd, kuno, atau bahkan salah! Tetapi sadar atau tidak, catatan itulah yang mematangkan ilmu yang kita pelajari. Dan semoga saya betah untuk mencatat dalam pelajaran kali ini

Here’s something to start.. Semoga catatan ini bertahan dan tidak menjadi “salah” sebelum waktunya..

O iya, soal nama-nama di atas, umumnya saya (akhirnya) sudah bertemu secara langsung, dan untuk info lebih lanjut soal mereka.. Just ask google! … #bloggermalas

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Learn Today!

Posted on October 30th, 2007 by john.
Categories: personal, work.

Things I learned today:

1. Be prepared to interview someone or two at any day, they might just come when you least expect them to show up.
2. Because there’s such thing as the 32 Forbidden Interview Questions, be more creative on the questions, and that’s hard especially with candidates with no previous work experience, fresh grads, or lower level workers (janitor, delivery boy, etc).
3. Don’t write too much e-mail, focus on your main job.. I’ve got 3 contracts due tomorrow, and it’s way over my working hours now
4. No matter how stupid the leader is, but when they win his/her followers heart, the followers would die for him/her.

It’s time to go home

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di Bandara

Posted on September 13th, 2007 by john.
Categories: internet, Makassar, work.

Pesawat Delay,

Makin malam tiba di Jakarta…

Untung ada Hotspot

Walaupun lebih mahal dari 11000

Kutebus saja 9000 itu dengan posting ini

Kurang konek detekted…

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Aaaaaa

Posted on September 11th, 2007 by john.
Categories: Makassar, personal, weblog, work.

cuma pengen teriak ajah

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Quit Complaining About Your Job

Posted on June 28th, 2007 by john.
Categories: fun, internet, work.

Stumbled at:

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/quitcomplainingaboutyourjob.htm

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F&A

Posted on September 4th, 2006 by john.
Categories: personal, work.

God works in mysterious ways. That’s a sure thing.

After my last post about a month ago, at least 3 significant job offers came up. None of them are similar, two are closely related but still very different. It will take me 3 pharagraph with about 200 words each to write the complete story. That’s too much personal information

To be simple, the 3 jobs are (listed by the time the job offered to me):

• Teaching job (ITC) at a very well known National Private School,
• Finance & Accounting Controller at PT. Tritanu Makassar
• A job as a System Administrator for one of the very well known Public Unviersity in Makassar, and that would give me a big chance to become a civil servant (PNS in Indonesian)

The one I take? Well, I think you know which one. Altough the salary and benefits in this new job that I decided to take is not as much as the others, but after a long and deep thought for about 3 days, I made my mind. The point of no return was last Wednesday, when I got all the keys and last cash balance for the new job/office.

Well, maybe I’ve got to change some things in this blog and many more places on my web, especially work related information

So, I have left the world of System Administration (at least for a week), but hopefully not leaving the computer world Thanks for 2 supports I got at the last post, they mean a lot to me.

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Cut Off

Posted on August 2nd, 2006 by john.
Categories: family, personal, work.

That’s the term, they said it’s a temporary thing, that in the future they might need us back on the job. Whatever. Maybe this is the answer to all my questions and wondering, my last post has received the answer. But I believe the decision is given to me, not taken by me. I believe that God has given a sign or correction to me through all this, to tell me “move forward, do something else!”

Hopefully it will bring me and my family to a better phase in our lives. Specially in this time, when my family needed me most, my wife being pregnant with our second child, my son is entering a new and more advanced school, and my parents need someone to help them do all their things.

A part time teaching offer has come and hopefully I am the right person they’re looking for. With the cut off news today, I’ve received a lot of offering from fellow workers, mostly my superiors in the office to work on various projects. I’ll just take it first as a sign that they all appriciate my work all this time. Which will I take, I’ll just go through it more specifically one at a time, later.

I’m now back on the hunt, job hunt, and hopefully I will get a new one soon, a lot better one, I believe.

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