Words of Friendship Vol. 1

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they're supposed to be somewhere else..

Money can buy things, good and evil.

All the wealth of the world could not buy you a friend or pay you for the loss of one..

To the young, friendship comes as the glory of the spring, a very miracle of beauty, a mystery of birth.

To the old, it has the bloom of autumn, beautiful still..

Friendship is love with understanding..

There are times when I have needed to tell someone my fear,

times when I have needed someone to share a secret,

times when I have needed someone to rejoice with me over an achievement,

and those are the times when only my friend will do..

Men & Their Songs

Hypothesis
H0: Men are similar with their songs
H1: Men are not similar with their songs

Term Limitation
"their songs" are not always songs that they created on their own, but could be songs that they picked and gave to a woman..

"similar with/not similar with" doesn't mean it should be equally the same (how can we compare the very 2 different things?) but it's all about the characteristic of both things!

"men" well.. I think it's no need to be explained anymore coz it's clear already, right? :D

Test of Hypothesis
- Tong Hua: deep, slow but sure, consistent, mellow, long lasting
- Love Bug: nice at the beginning, cool, sudden change, popular, temporary

Conclusion
Accept H0

Career Gate

Although my school's graduation day will be held 10 months from now, there are already many work opportunities and vacancies available from companies either on the soft board or in mailing list.. One of the recruiter companies is Unilever, large consumer goods company in Indonesia with their Unilever Future Leader Program.

It's all began with a personal invitation from Unilever via email to attend their career day @ Balai Kartini. After I confirmed, without brought resume or transcript (coz all they wanted was the spirit), me and several my friends from Prasetiya Mulya went together by Ades's car. Actually it's a full load (8 people) so thanks God, the car is Kijang Innova..

The event began on 2 p.m. but we should registered 1 hour before.. Almost misplaced with Balai Sarbini coz the driver heard about conversation between 2 passengers (one of them is me) about Balai Sarbini (they thought the event will be held there) but unfortunately we arrived on time :p

Then we registered, got some brochures and Buavita (yeah it's mango), sat down in the ballroom and wait. It's really not career day at all I think coz there just like info session, you know like showed us their company profile, explain how each division works, career path and position.. Moreover, it was included Q&A session and sharing session with top directors of Unilever Indonesia.

It took approximately 2.5 hours and near to the end we found it quite bored. Guess what? Boys in front of me (read: Vicko, Gio, Ridho) played Bingo! FYI, they sat on the first row >.< when it's over, people dismissed, took snack box and goody bag which contained soap, shampoo and other cleaning stuffs.. And there was free ice cream from Walls as well! Sadly, the taste wasn't good (come on, it's free!)

As we wait for each other, there was a shocked and (I called it) crazy moment! Well let me tell you.. In front of the ballroom, there were banners with last year trainee's photo. One of them is Rowan, my senior and indeed me as a girl admitted that he's the most good-looking from the others.. But the crazy thing was there was a girl (absolutely not from PM) standing beside Rowan's banner and asked her friend to take a picture of her. OMG, please..

Anyway, forget about the details which mostly unimportant, hahaha.. What I'm going to say in this post is me (and many friends of mine) have to face the career world soon. Like it or not, it's almost there and no one can't change that. So just be prepared and welcome to the career gate!

Terry's Day

I can say that today is Terry's day! Why?

1. Good news: My pug dog, Terry Ang is 6 months old today (7.5 kg already, hohoho..)
2. Bad news: England captain, John Terry is fired by Capello due to the sex scandal. So from now on he's not the Three Lions captain anymore :(

As a consequence, my family are going to rethink about the name of our dog. Hmm..

Blind Dating

Yesterday I watched a DVD titled Blind Dating, kind of romantic comedy film but I found it was so fresh coz the story is quite different from the others. Here's the synopsis..

Danny (starring by Chris Pine) is smart, handsome (definitely agree!), popular and blind (not just physically, he also can't see how wild women are for him coz even his sexy therapist can't keep her clothes on around Danny!) After a series of painful "blind dates" set up by his brother, Danny falls for a young Indian woman named Leeza and finally everything seems picture perfect. But when cultures clash and Leeza reveals that she's been promised to someone else, Danny must prove her that love is more than meets the eye..

And I really like Danny's quote about love..
"You remember when you tried to tell me what your family thought about love? Well, let me tell you what I think love is. Love is how you speak to me.. You have a softness in your voice that.. And love is how you touch me and guide me, showing me the way to go. And when we kiss.. It moves me to my soul"

Hoho.. So romantic, isn't it? ;)

Degrees Of Freedom

I think everyone admires a good life, part of them is about having good relationships with people.. To make it happens sometimes you need to struggle or sacrifice something, so it's absolutely not an easy task in life. What I'm going to share is completely a different idea from the typical advices like communication building and so on..

Somehow I feel that it's better to give a space or distance between two people to make them harmonize. Do you think it's weird? Well, I don't whether it works for others or not but I found it works on me and my mom. Space or distance allows us not to know each other in an extremely detail ways coz we would often had fights because of unimportant things if we were >.<

Mostly while my mom sees an event as an important one then I feel that's not a big thing at all, and vice versa.. Maybe we have many different or contrast opinions and honestly we hard to give in to each other, for real.

I have some real examples.. My mom took a lot of attention to my study life when I was in my elementary school, FYI she always made a Q&A session before I had an exam just to make sure I'll be able to answer the exam test and have good marks, controlled my homework and checked my schedule. It seems nice, right? But I didn't feel comfortable at all..

There were times that I couldn't answer her questions or just felt lazy to work on my homework.. In my opinion, too much know about the process details isn't good anyway. Someone called it the degrees of freedom (I borrowed from you, bro!) yup she doesn't need to know every single details of my study life, providing that I have good academic records and achievements.

Since I wasn't controlled my mom (my final year of elementary school), we hardly ever (maybe never) had conflicts about my study life coz I've showed my responsibility and proved that I'm able to do it well without her supervisory anymore..

That's what I meant by space or distance.. Indeed, it's not a real distance like I live thousand miles from home but it's more like some place (virtual place) that you have on your own and you're free to take care of it whatever you like as long as the result is good :)

H.M.S.P

If you're a stock analyst, especially in Indonesia Stock Exchange, you must be familiar with HMSP. For those who are not, HMSP is the ticker for HM Sampoerna, one of the largest cigarette companies in Indonesia..

Indeed, I'm not a stock analyst but I'm familiar with HMSP coz I've analyzed and valuated the company for about 4 months. It was my individual project from my lecture subject, Business Valuation that assign me to choose one of public companies that listed in BEI, do the valuation and make research reports..

Actually it's like a trial or rehearsal for being a true professional CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) coz the way how they work is similar to my Business Valuation project. Well, it definitely differs in the matter of time and whom do you prepare that report to :)

In short, I found that HM Sampoerna is really a good and prospective company as seen from its financial performance, market position (which is already become a market leader by now), sales growth and company image as well. Therefore, my theme for my research report is "Investing for the future"

Based on my analysis on the cigarette market and my fair value estimation using discounted cash flow method on HM Sampoerna, I came to a fair price of  IDR 13,120/share and its current price was IDR 10,600/share. Hence, I began my research on HM Sampoerna with a BUY recommendation..

FYI, I finished my report 12 hours before deadline and it made me sleep for only 2 hours. Hohoho.. But at the end, I found many benefits I got from this project such as ability to work under pressure, deal with uncertainty and familiar with individual project (read: discipline is the key).

Moreover, I became fall in love with HM Sampoerna.. Hmm, maybe that is what often called "Local Love" haha, I promised my self if I had a lot of money, I would invested in that company! But not for now coz HMSP is a large cap. company, meaning the shares price is quite expensive ;p

Although there's many things I wanna share about the company, I'm not going to copy and paste my full report even the highlights in this post. So just in case if you wanna know more, please feel free to contact me..