Giving Positive Impact On People’s Lives

Just when I checked the traffic to my blog today I noticed that one of them is the google search result with keywords
“medical technology course what is it about?”. Hmmm.. it really sounds familiar, because everytime people ask me what my bachelor course is and I tell them that it’s bs medical technology, they either do not know what medical technology do or never even heard the course at all. Continue reading →

Just tried playing with the software Comic Life by plasq. It’s a really cool software to create comic effects of your pictures collection in just a few minutes. Really cool software, it’s a must for you who get bored with ordinary photos on your blog or social network websites.

Here I upload my first comic life result. It’s composed of three pictures when me and my work colleagues in Bali Camp went to Kuta last month.

Just bought Okion Temus AHS9M Headset in Kuta today. I was really looking for a headset, headphone with microphone that is, so I can chat using Yahoo Messenger or Skype more comfortably rather than talking to my laptop monitor screen closely (since my laptop microphone is located on top part of the LCD screen).

Got several options actually, but somehow I got interested to this Okion Temus. Besides its friendly price (Rp 75,000), it’s also has a big driver. I love big driver because I still believe the bigger the driver, the better the power, which could mean better sound and deeper bass.

I borrowed my friend’s Sony Ericsson Walkman phone to test drive several headphones in the store before I decided to bought the Okion Temus. Continue reading →

Once again one of my dreams come true last Sunday when I and other 20 persons become the first batch that was sent to the Balicamp at Pacung, Bali.

It was not all sweet experience here though, chilling nights, ice water morning bath, great amount of hidden charges, and isolation far on top of the mountain are just some of the miseries we all experience here.

But when the time we went to Kuta beach, all of series of unfortunate events above are all forgotten.

This article is written to describe about the condition that we feel so far (three days far to be exact.. ;D) about our new work environment at the famous Balicamp. I try to be as objective as possible, though some subjectivities may still present. Continue reading →

Warning: This article contains strong and provoking words that may discourage some of the readers who are currently taking bachelor of science in medical technology and/or bachelor of science in laboratory science as it is called now.

BS Medical Technology (BSMT) or also known as medtech was one of the best science course one can take in Adventist University of the Philippines (AUP) during my study there. The sight of medtech clinical students (CD) wearing white uniform and black pants for the guys with a silver name tag shining sent an exclusive image for those who wear it.

The course was designed to only allows the smartest and the brightest to survive. It was famous for its hectic schedule, long laboratory hours, and difficult curriculum. All of these create a mysterious impression of the course itself and its students altogether.

Having all of these characteristics plus the banner that constantly announced the course’s top notchers in the Philippines medical technology board exam, the course receives high respect from the campus community. Thus the future seems bright for the medtech graduates.

However, the question is, is it true? Is the future really going to be dazzling for the medtech graduates, who are mostly the brightest students of the campus? This is the question that I’m trying to answer through this article. Continue reading →

In the programmers world, there’s such thing called application stack. It’s a list of favorite tools that a programmer use to write programs. A programmer’s application stack usually differs from another programmers’s because there are so many tools available out there, and programmers have different personal taste.

So as with one’s Sabbath School (SS) stack, I believe different people have different favorite Sabbath school lesson studies and preparation books that they read. Although if I’m not wrong, this only applies to less than 10% of church members who regularly read lesson studies to prepare for the Sabbath school discussion. (Don’t you think so?)

Anyway, I’m not writing this post to judge anyone, but I just want to share my Sabbath school stack, a list of my favorite tools that I use to prepare myself for Sabbath school discussion every Sabbath. The list is sorted in order of importance.

1. e-Sword
2. Adult Sabbath School Easy Reading Lesson Studies
3. Sabbath School U Video Cast
4. Adult Sabbath School Lesson Study Outlines by Bruce N. Cameron, J.D.
5. Sacramento Church Sabbath School Discussion Video Cast

I will discuss briefly about each of the tools above. Continue reading →

Who doesn’t know the Rich Dad Poor Dad book?
It’s certainly one of the best selling book that people know that popularize the word “financial freedom” and ignite the motivation to have business to more people than ever before.

I’m certainly one of the book’s “victim”. I changed my mind from taking Medical School in 2005 and thought to rather have my own business.

I’ve heard other authors wrote that Rich Dad Poor Dad is a fiction story that Robert Kiyosaki made up, and said that Robert is actually a liar.

But is it? Did Robert really make up the story about his amazing Rich Dad, and so all of the book content is nothing but a big lie?

I tried to re read the book again after the last time I read it three years ago. For three years I mainly worked as an employee, tried to have a join business with a partner which failed just after two months, and listen to many entrepreneurs about their view about business.

The book still sounds as good as it did three years ago. Better yet, this time I understood better the message that Robert said. So once again, is the Rich Dad Poor Dad a big lie? Continue reading →

Jawaban untuk pertanyaan ini bisa berbeda-beda tergantung pada sekolah yang anda inginkan. Banyak sekolah yg tidak mengharuskan anda mengambil GMAT, dan banyak juga sekolah yg mengharuskannya.

Walaupun GMAT bukanlah satu-satunya faktor yang menentukan sukses tidaknya seorang kandidat untuk diterima di sebuah sekolah, bila nilai GMAT seseorang tidak mencapai standard sekolah tersebut maka kemungkinan sangat besar orang itu tidak akan diterima.

Mengapa sekolah-sekolah Bisnis, terutama MBA, ternama mengharuskan calon murid untuk mengambil ujian GMAT? Jawabannya adalah untuk mengetahui kemampuan calon-calon muridnya berdasarkan sebuah standardized test. Karena latar belakang pendidikan tiap calon murid berbeda-beda, sangat sulit bagi sebuah sekolah untuk mengetahui secara pasti kemampuan calon-calon muridnya tanpa test yg sama.

Contohnya, apakah seseorang yg mendapatkan IPK 3.5 di sebuah sekolah universitas biasa lebih pintar daripada seseorang yang mendapatkan IPK 3.0 dari sebuah universitas negeri favorit?

Dengan GMAT, tiap calon murid dinilai berdasarkan test yg sama sehingga sekolah bisnis dengan mudah mengklasifikasikan kemampuan calon-calon muridnya.

Perlu tidaknya seseorang mengambil kursus GMAT tergantung pada berapa nilai GMAT yg diperlukan, dan berapa nilai yang anda bisa capai pada awalnya (tanpa melakukan review GMAT sama sekali).

Kursus GMAT pada umumnya meningkatkan nilai maksimal yang seseorang bisa capai dengan memberikan informasi-informasi penting tentang ujian GMAT dan tips-tips dari pengajar yg sudah pernah mengambil ujian GMAT.

Dengan mengikuti kursus, kita juga bisa saling bertukar pikiran dan pengalaman dengan sesama peserta kursus. Berdasarkan pengalaman, hal ini bisa memberikan semangat dan motivasi lebih kepada seseorang yg akan mengambil ujian GMAT dibandingkan dengan seseorang yg tidak mengambil kursus GMAT.