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Where will my blog go?

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I feel guilty to myself because I have broken my commitment: write and update this blog at least twice a week. So here I am, updating this blog. However, this post will be about where will my blog go.

I have listed several topics related to chemical engineering and general engineering. The topics was selected from google keywords and there are some topics that related with my previous works. I really wanted to make the post about those topics, but again I am afraid if my post would not be interesting.

I have checked how people came to my website and what they are looking for. Read More

How to be a Creative Writer

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Two weeks ago, I got an amazing opportunity to participate in Bandung Creative Writer Festival, an event organized by KPKers (Creative Writers Community).

In this event I learnt how to motivate ourselves to be consistent in producing writings, how to gain ideas for our writings, and many more.

There are three speakers in this event, which are Jumadi Haryadi, who gave tips and trick to easily write something (we even practiced it in the event), Pak Adrie Noor, who has published books abroad, and Pak Ali Muakhir, who has wrote many kids and teenagers books.

Motivation First!

We write because we have motivation to write. What is your writing motivation? What your motivation is will drive you to be a lasted writer or temporary writer.

Several motivation of writing
Several motivation of writing

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Aging with Grace

Aging with Grace and My First Beauty Class

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Last weekend, I participated in Aging with Grace Seminar and beauty class. This activity was held as one of celebration event of 70 years of ITB School of Life Sciences and Technology (SITH). I think this seminar and beauty class will be very interesting.

Speakers of the seminar were Dr. Anggaini Barlian, who is lecturer in ITB School of Life Sciences and Technology, and Bu Maily, who is advance research coorporate head from Sariayu Martha Tilaaar (PT Martina Berto Tbk). Dr. Anggraini explained about what aging is, aging process, what causes aging, and several of her research on aging. In addition, Bu Maily explained about trend in current cosmetics and how to get healthy skin as we grow old. Read More

My Little Trip to Yogyakarta Related to Project of The Year and Culinary Experience

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Last week, I had a little trip to Yogyakarta related to this post. It was quite nice experience, despite of my role in this trip. Me and my team were supporting members of this meeting. If supplementary explanation is required, then we help.

This meeting was nice because I can witness how Plan of Development is prepared from A to Z and what was each topic about. Read More

I Participated in Lokakarya Sertifikasi Insinyur Profesional LSIP

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Yesterday I participated in “Lokakarya Sertifikasi Insinyur Profesional LSIP” or Professional Engineers Certification Workshop held by “Persatuan Insinyur Indonesia” (Indonesian Engineers Association) in Jakarta. It was very awesome experience and I will tell you why.

At the beginning my motivation behind participating in this workshop was simply to get certified as professional engineer. Maybe if I get certificate, it will add value to myself. After I participated the workshop, being professional engineer is more than that. Being professional means to always work safely, to continuously improve oneself, and to contribute to the society. I am sure there are more than that, but those three points are what I remembered.

What did I get in Lokakarya Sertifikasi Insinyur Profesional LSIP?

In this lokakarya I got explanation about:

  • Indonesian Law no 11/2014 about engineering
  • Organization structure of Persatuan Insinyur Indonesia (Indonesian Engineers Association)
  • Engineer ethics code
  • Professional engineer application form – how to fill the application

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Get to Know Toothpaste Composition and What The Function Is

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Today I bought a toothpaste from GlaxoSmithKline and got interested in its composition. I actually gained interest in reading composition of various things, but never answered what their functions. In this post I want to share you what I googled about the function of every component in toothpaste. Each toothpaste may have different toothpaste composition. I used this toothpaste brand for example. Please note, this post is not meant to encourage you to buy the product :D. Read More

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Ten Tips How to Survive Working at Consultant Company

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I’ve been working in two different consultant companies. Totally I’ve been working for almost four years in consultation world. In this post I want to share you some advice on how to survive working at consultant company. The inspiration of this post was from many difficulties I’ve faced.

#1 Working Experiences

The term consultant itself defines everything. When you work at consultant company, so you are “consultant”. You are the place where your client ask about their difficulties. You are also a right place to judge something. It is impossible to do that correctly if you are lack of experience. That is why consultant companies must be reinforced with well-experienced personnel, probably the one with more than ten years working experience in special fields (for example in LNG field, geothermal field, and so on). How if you are fresh graduate or the one with lack experience? I think you should learn from experience ones. It will be better for consultant company to invest in experienced personnel. Read More

Job Description of Project Engineer – My Real Experience (Part 2)

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Please check first part of this post to explore my experience as project engineer 😉

I remembered the night when me and my colleagues went to Senoro 5 to show mechanical completion dossiers to our project manager. We brought three dossiers to show him the example. We thought he will be a little happy to check the dossiers and conclude that we are close to ready for gas in. Unfortunately, he didn’t.

At that time, I realized something more important that dossiers. He wanted to see by his own eyes that we’re ready. And dossiers didn’t convince him.

Fortunately, in the end we managed to get all aspects ready for gas in. Read More

Job Description of Project Engineer – My Real Experience (Part 1)

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When I was working in this company, I worked as project engineer for precommissioning activity. In the end I realized that the term precomissioning department was not suitable for us, but mechanical completion.

I want to share you some experience and what I actually did as project engineer in that project. For your information, the project was Senoro Gas Development Project. It is owned by Joint Operating Body of Pertamina & Medco EP. It is located at Senoro, Central Sulawesi.

The History Begin With… Read More