Monday, December 21, 2009

Rumput Tetangga

Ga bisa di pungkiri, yang namanya manusia emang ga pernah puas. Udah punya banyak hal, masih aja pengen yang lain. Udah punya banyak kelebihan, masih aja iri dengan kelebihan orang lain. Mungkin ini udah bawaan lahir kali ya.

Pernah perhatiin anak kecil? Biasanya ada anak yang selalu pengen barang yang dipegang anak lain. Meskipun udah punya mainan sendiri, tapi begitu lihat mainan anak yang lain, langsung kepengen juga. Alhasil berantem dan rebut-rebutan. Disogok pake mainan yang lain tetep aja ga mau. (Memang anak jaman  skg pada pinter... haha)

Sebenernya kebiasaan kaya gini juga berlangsung bahkan sampai kita tua. Yah ga pernah puas itu. Cuma bedanya yang udah pada gede lebih jaim. Jadi cuma mentok di hati aja. Ga sampe berantem atau tarik-tarikan baju. Yang penting tetep keliatan cool. halah. 

Kalo mau jujur, setiap orang pasti pernah iri. Sama anak tetangga yang sering diceritain kehebatannya oleh orang tua, cewek perfect yang cantik dan jago segalanya, atau sama temen yang sukses setelah lulus. 

Emang rumput tetangga selalu lebih hijau. Sering kali kita terlalu lama melihat ke atas tapi lupa untuk melihat ke bawah juga. Jadinya leher jadi pada encok dan susah beli koyo. halah. Melihat ke atas emang bagus. Menyemangati kita buat sampai kesana juga. Tapi terlalu lama melihat keatas, juga bisa bikin kita minder. Padahal masih banyak orang yg dibawah kita. Atau sadar ga sadar pasti juga ada orang lain yang iri sama kita. 

Kadang kita iri dengan apa yang orang lain punya. Tapi sadar ga sih? Kalau keasikan melihat rumput tetangga membuat kita lupa mengolah taman kita sendiri. Dari pada sirik melihat kesuksesan orang lain, lebih baik fokus pada diri sendiri. Kalo cuma jadi penonton ya wajar aja kalau ga pernah maju. 

Emang rasanya susah ngehindarin rasa iri. Pikiran-pikiran negatif itu akan selalu datang. And all we have to do is switch the channel, and start doing something useful. Bersyukur dengan apa yang kita punya dan be successful in our own way. Setiap orang punya jalan yang berbeda, so let's find yours.

Last words. Ada yang pernah bilang kaya gini.
"Mungkin kita bisa ikut menangis saat temen kita susah, tapi apa kita bisa ikut tertawa tulus ketika melihat dia berhasil? karena itulah teman yang sesungguhnya."

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Being A Designer

What is a designer?

At first, I thought a designer is a person who designs something. 
It's not totally wrong. But being a designer is much huger than that. 

This is what I got from my interview this morning.

A designer is the one who stands in the front row.
The one that people will look at, and whose work will be the one that people will look at too.

A designer doesn't dress up like others.
When you become a designer, you have to be extraordinary. A designer of course won't look the same as an accountant. Just smart formal look like that. But it also doesn't mean you have to have a long hair with many unique (I mean weird) things. It's just that you have to stand out among others and have your own style. Be different.

A designer sees things differently
Even just watching a movie, a designer will have different point of view from other non-designers. We will see it maybe in the cinematography way, the story line, the way they take the pictures the angle, and everything. We see and observe.

A designer must have a great presentation skill
It's just same like selling a product. When we sell our design we have to convince people with our ideas. We must have a courage to voice our thoughts. Also to clearly explain what is in our mind. 

A designer must have a speciality
What will make companies want to hire you? You have to have something special that you are really good at. Either your presentation skill, concept, or whatever. Something that differs you from your course mates. 

So far... that's all. 
But I'm sure there are still much more things that we can learn to really be "A Designer".



interview first day.

I went to KDC near Asia Jaya LRT station. I have never been there before, so at the day, I woke up earlier just in case I get lost or something. 7 o'clock in the morning, I went out from my house waiting for the bus. Okay, here is the route.

my house>>putrajaya>>bandar tasik selatan>>masjid jamek>>asia jaya>>KDC

!!! can't imagine that I will do that for 3 months everyday... 
On the other hand, I am also amazed. WOW! I'm going to my first interview! :)

I arrived there at 9 am. 1 1/2 hour earlier. I really don't know what to do. I went back to station, sitting at the bus stop, waiting for the time. Then I took out my small note book, write everything that happen there. And then an idea popped in my mind. I make a birthday card (kind of..) for my sister in my book, and then took a picture of it. post it on facebook. yey!
(maybe people that sitting next to me thought that I'm weird.. taking photo of notebook. haha. don't really care bout that). 

Soooo. here it is. tadaaa.
However, the interview was nice. Even though I was quite nervous and there were some questions that I couldn't answer. (huuu...)  But after all, I was accepted. yey!

At first I was a bit not in the mood because of the unanswered question, and the place, I mean the people there are not like what I thought. But I learned something today:

When you're given an ice cream sundae for free, you don't complain over a missing cherry. 

What I get is more than enough. I was accepted. The building was nice. I will learn a lot of lesson there. Why should I complain about other small things? So this time, I learn to see things from the back of different glasses. Called "positivity". 

thx God for all.