Aria Rajasa Masna

Just saw this article on urbanesia about having a quick escape to places not that far away from Jakarta. Definitely interested :D So, Tidung Island anyone?

*picture taken from urbanesia.com

Congratulation for my dear friend Yuri Ardana for the album debut. Did a little media tracking and the press conference he did at Kafe Pisa Menteng gets quite a lot of positive reviews and even his single is already downloadable at some shady places LOL. Here’s some articles that review Yuri Ardana:

• Dewiq ‘Jatuh Cinta’ SamaYuri Ardana – Boleh.net Music
  
• Yuri Ardana, Drummer yang Bersenandung di Album “Cerita” – Pikiran Rakyat
• Terinspirasi John Mayer, Yuri Ardana Nggak Pede Tampil Tanpa Gitar – DetikHot
• Yuri Ardana Ingin Kita Mengingatnya – Rolling Stone Indonesia

If you want to get to know him better, follow him on his twitter or his facebook page. Once again, congrats for the album debut. Let this day be the first day of super stardom!

*photo taken from his facebook fan page

Yeah yeah it’s all in the news, congrats for you guys so I’m not going to write another report on this. What I want to express is how it would impact the other start-ups in Indonesia. I’ll just phrase it in one word: Leverage.

Yahoo made the first step to acquire an Indonesia company, all eyes are practicallyon Yahoo, Koprol, and of course Indonesia. Everybody would wonder why Yahoo bought an Indonesian company and they would surely try to find out. I would expect more big brands to follow Yahoo’s step and therefore making all potential start-ups in Indonesia a potential buy. Even before this happens, there are a couple of Venture Capitalist that put much interest in Indonesian start-ups. So I’ll be expecting things to scale up even more next year. Now, ain’t that leverage.

Danny Oei Wirianto mentioned this once when we were discussing about Sparx Up, an event which goals is to achieve the same leverage and put the start-ups in mainstream media, and Rama Mamuaya from Daily Social thinks pretty much the same.

Congratulation again for this. It’s a big step and a big responsibility is ahead of you guys.

I ditched Firefox a year ago because Chrome on Mac delivers a very fast experience, I don’t need all the bells and whistle of plugins except for Web Developer plugin and Chrome have a built in tool that’s decent enough, so no complain here. But my mind completely changed after a long talk with Gen Kanai from Mozilla over dinner, he convinced me to check out Minefield, which is a pre-release version of Firefox 4.0. My first impression was one word: superfast!

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salsabeela shared this article with Google Reader: “Do you track your achievements?“. It’s a good read and it made me think of doing it. I’m always making goals every start of a year and never really do it (don’t we all :P). Well those goals are mostly about loosing weight anyway. To those too lazy to read it, here’s the gist of it:

What did you achieve last year? What progress did you make towards yourgoals?

Those are questions that, a few years ago, I’d have had trouble answering. Perhaps I could point to some money saved up, or to the next step of a qualification earned, but it was hard to see whether I’d really made much progress. Often, I’d feel bad that I hadn’t achieved more – even when I’d actually done quite a lot.

So it’s basically just recording your monthly achievements. Seems easy? well, it sounded as easy as taking a picture every day of the year, so why not just do it. Besides, it would encourage you to finish your goals so you can write it out here! So what would be an achievements then? Well it can be something that you’ve done for the first time or some project/event you worked on, well anything that makes you proud you did it.

So here are my accomplishments for march (and january and february also to wrap all up):

• Launching bebibobu.com with friends, selling cute and adorable baby stuffs.
• Making an collaborative event with Gantibaju.com and Koprol! Gantibaju is hosting a competition with Koprol theme, come and join us to win money prizes and fame among 40.000 (yes, 40 thousands) koprol fans!
• Being in a top 10 of SoyJoy Healthylicious program. It’s the first online reality show for people wanting to have a healthy life! I got 3 months membership from Celebrity Fitness + my own personal trainer! Isn’t that lovely.
• Have my first medical checkup! courtesy of SoyJoy Healthylicious program.
• Less smoking, I drop from 2 packs a day to 3 packs a week! hope I can go lower or at least stay this way.
• Big Sis big “Tukar Tandu” event is successful :) She’s getting married in April
• I propose to my girlfriend! Yes, of course this is an achievement! We’re getting married in November
• I started doing photography (with my girlfriend’s camera ehehe). Check out my photos on my flickr or my tumblr
• Learned Twitter API for PHP, for use with some office projects. Love playing with twitter
• Learned Flash and Flex, just beginning to at least.

Ok that’s my achievements for this 3 months. What’s your achievements?

As you can see, I ditch Rajasa Web and Graphics’ portfolio site. It’s a tough decision and it’s been a very awesome 6 years of ups and downs. But I’ve finally decided to go totally full time on my current office: Gantibaju.com. I believe my potential would be much elevated when concentrating on one thing at a time.

So yeah, this means I won’t be taking anymore projects because I don’t have anymore time to do so. I would of course finish all the on-going project. It’s been quite a blast working with all the clients for these past years. It really is.

If you have a web project, I would recommend vikingkarwur.com, digitalgrafis.com and tulakom.com. I can vouch for their skills and professionalism as I’ve worked with every single on of them myself.

So long and thanks for all the fishes!