Choices Between Working and Living

Working is a must to all adults to make living. As an mature person, I have to make priorities of what I must do first, second, and so, and make choices, considering professional and personal matters, based on calculations of risk and all. Life is a choice. I might have only been working in with a company for one year now, but I really know that working is a non-stopping activity. It goes round and round; jobs come and go, and come again sometimes later unpredictably.

Mita Diran, a young copywriter for a private company, chose to put her professional life on top of her list. She had not stopped working for 30 hours (according to her last tweet) until the angel of death put a stop to her career, and life. She consumed doses of caffeine to provide her with energy she needed to stay awake the whole time which caused her liver to deny more activities. She was just so near to make it to the holiday weeks later this year.

Mita's Last Tweet Showed That She's Not Been Sleeping Lately

Mita is just one individual of thousands who put their health aside of work. This is an example of how bad management in a company did their work. Companies might benefit from the competition between hardworking employees. However, they did not provide employees with healthy working environment.

Individuals should make priorities and made choices in their work and personal life. Work to live, or live to work. It's your call. My choice: I work to live a healthy and happy life.

sources:

http://www.venusbuzz.com/archives/60479/indonesian-copywriter-dies-overworked/

http://health.kompas.com/read/2013/12/16/1106346/Lembur.30.Jam.Picu.Kematian.Seorang.Copywriter.Muda

Wubi Installation Problem: Wubi Process Quits

I've been longing to install an Ubuntu for my PC. Recently, I looked up to my installers' folder in my harddisk and found this wubi installer and the ISO. So I started it. But the process never actually run.
I opened the task manager. For one second or so, the wubi.exe was there. But it quits and did nothing.
Thereafter, I found a forum asking for a solution for the same problem (http://askubuntu.com/questions/40531/wubi-exe-wont-start).
Fyi, my configuration is: windows 7 64-bit with administrative rights.

And so I did exactly what he told.

1. Right click on Computer > Properties > Advanced System Settings.
2. On the advanced tab, choose environment variables.
3. On the fields environment variables, find one that says 'PYTHONPATH' on the variable name (left side).
4. delete it.

If you by any chance, are willing to use the variable later, you can just temporarily delete it, and SHAZAM, wubi.exe is working.

Working As Part Of A Big Team

It's been almost a year since my joining the company I'm working at right now. There are so many people involved in every single process in the company. It's like what I did in college and in high school, but of a much bigger scale. Everybody has their own routine, tasks, priorities.

This is not the first time I requested for data that takes a week-or two, or even worse, two months-to get collected. As I said above, everybody has their own ego tasks and priorities. Perhaps they put me under their critical needs, which should be. And I have my targets too. Deadlines, which I cannot compromise because it's from my superordinate and has been declared since before I joined.

And one must understand the limits of their access; you cannot access the system as an admin when you're a low-level user even though you have knowledge of what you want to do. Once I asked for access to a specific system where I can collect data for myself. But it was not approved, and I thought: A person who works all the jobs cannot be part of a team; he is the team himself. But the company needs a team person; a person who can rely on and trust others.

Once again, this is a learning progress to become part of a big team. A big team with huge tasks. And to become part of this big team, one must understand the needs of others, appreciate others. And that's exactly what I have to do. A team walks together. Anyway, here's a picture of my beloved football team (at least there's the team, in case you don't see any connection :p).

MongoDB Cheat Sheet (v2.4)

For those MongoDB DBAs out there or students or whoever using MongoDB, Here's one thing you don't want to miss: a cheat sheet. It was created by Daniel Hodgin (http://www.hodgin.ca/). The cheat sheet is simple, readable, and covers about all of those basics you would want to do with your MongoDB (it was made based on version 2.4). He arranged, separated each section (sharding, db, etc) within each box, so you can easily understand which command runs on which level.
Here's the link to a copy of his cheat sheet (.pdf). Send any comments, suggestions, updates to his blog up there. :)

Note: I will update with a jpg version of the sheet as soon as I got home.

Edit: Here's the jpg version of the cheat sheet I promised :)

Salak Menjulang

Since when did Changi moved to Surabaya?

It's time we go home ~!