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Hay hay.. Lamo indak bersuo. Akhir2 ini gw shibhuk abiss.. Bayangkan dalam 1 weekend gw harus menyelesaikan 11 report!!! omaigaatt.. parah ga sih. tapiii.. hehehe. harus gw akui sebagian adalah kesalahan gw sendiri yang sering menunda-nunda kerjaan sampe akhirnya numpuk banyak banget gitu. Selesai sih selesai, tapi mungkin kalo gw kerjainnya nyicil, hasilnya bisa lebih bagus lagi kali ya.

Entah mengapa akhir2 ini tuh gw malaaaaaasss sekali. Kalo udah pegang komputer dan internetan, 3 jam pun ga kerasa. Akhirnya rencana pengen ngerjain tugas dan belajar 3 jam, jadi cuman setengah jam. Parah banget ya?? Ke mana perginya semangat dan energi gw yang produktif abis waktu jaman2 PLO dulu?? Atau jangan-jangan.. Gw emang harus selalu diingetin buat kerja kerja dan kerja. Karna dulu kan gw liat semua temen gw pada sibuk kerja kan tuh, ga mungkin dong gw bermalas-malas ria. Apalagi dulu pas PLO yang namanya grup consulting ANTZ tuh selalu bikin stress karena jauuuuhh sebelom hari pengumpulan tugas mereka udah selesai. iiiiiihhh.. *hahahaha. sirik aja gw ya.

Tapi kalo iya gw emang orang yang harus diingetin terus buat kerja dan belajar, gaswat juga niii.. Teman2 ada ide buat kita bisa rajin dengan sendirinya? hahaha.. zahi shiritai desu (pengen tahu banget gw)! OKEH! Mulai sekarang gw janji pada diri gw sendiri akan berusaha lebih rajin dan ga menunda-nunda tugas lagi! yeaahh..

Anywaaayy,, di kesempatan yang sepesial (pake telor) ini, gw mau mengucapkan terimakasih yang sebesaaaar besarnya buat ketiga sahabat gw yaitu Aat, Inu dan Rere. Kirimannya udah nyampeeeee.. Makasih yaaaa..

Lihat pada gambar di bawah ini, WOW! Aat mengirimi gw minyak kayu putih, Antangin dan Rexona. 3 senjata andalan. hahaha. Kalo minyak kayu putih dan Antangin ya udah pasti ga dijual (kalo ada pun paling sedikiiiit banget) di Jepang lah ya, tapi kenapa di Jepang, negara yang begitu maju ini, tidak menjual satupun Rexona?????? Apakah cowok-cewek di sini tidak merasa membutuhkannya? eemmmm.. berarti ketek orang Jepang bau bau dooonggg.. IYYYYUUUUUHHH.. Gw aja kalo ga make rexona kayanya risih gimanaa gitu. haha. Sekali lagi makasih banyak ya At! Ntar pasti gw bayar. hahaha.

Kemudiaaan.. Pada gambar di bawah ini adalah pemberian sahabat sekaligus tante gw kalo di adat batak, yaitu Rereeee... Trimakasih Rereeee.. Dia tau aja kalo di sini gw tambah murtad, jadi ngasihnya buku-buku rohani. Hahaha. Gw doain semoga TA lo cepet selesai ya re. Ayo, ayo! Shemhanghat!!!

Kemudiaaaann.. pada gambar di bawah ini adalah hadiah ulang tahun dari sahabat saya yaitu Inuuuu!!! Terimakasih Inuuu.. Lihat, Inu membuat sendiri hadiah ulang tahunnya untuk saya. Terharu loh!!! Udah gw pajang di kamar nu. Makasih sekali lagi ya. Semoga anda diterima bekerja di tempat yang terbaik yang direncanakan Tuhan buat anda!

Btw, tadi untuk pertama kalinya dalam 5 bulan gw makan Indomie Goreng!!! Woow, it just tasted like heaven! (Sumpe bukan promosi. hehe). Habisnya gw bosen makan ramen dan udon sini yang rasanya begitu-begitu aja. Ntar kalo gw pulang bentar ke Bandung mau beli yang banyak buat bekel aaahh.. Hahaha.

Hari-hari terakhir ini gw juga belajar sesuatu. Yaitu : JANGAN MENGUPLOAD VIDEO KALO ANDA BELOM MENGECEK MENIT DEMI MENIT DARI VIDEO ITU (walaupun anda ada dalam video itu). Jadi begini ceritanya, gw mengupload video tentang kenangan bersama anak2 satu angkatan gw pas kuliah di ITB dulu ke salah satu situs akses bersama video yang terkenal banget, sampe masuk 5 besar situs yang paling sering dikunjungi di dunia. Nah, terus ternyata gw dikasitau oleh temen gw si X bahwa di video itu ada adegan mengenai si Y yang kurang pantes dilihat oleh umum. Wah, gw jadi merasa ga enak hati nih. Maksud hati mau mengenang kebersamaan, malah jadi bikin susah orang. Sumpah sebelumnya gw ga nyadar kalo ada adegan itu. Kalo ga dibilangin sama si X, pasti ga akan nyadar selamanya deh. Segeralah gw hapus video itu dari situs tersebut. Hhh.. Lain kali gw mau ngupload video gw sendiri (bener2 sendiri) doang ah ke situs itu. Siapa tahu bisa terkenal kaya Justin Bieber. Whahahahahaha.. Mimpi abis.

Btw, sebenernya ada yang pengen saya post lagi tentang hal-hal yang agak kurang berkenan di saya waktu menjalani kehidupan di Saijo Hiroshima ini. Habis kayanya postingan saya yang kemaren-kemaren tuh tentang sisi bagusnya Jepang melulu. Kan biar imbang gitu. Ada positifnya, ada negatifnya. Di dunia ini juga ga ada satu hal yang bagus melulu ga ada jeleknya. Betul? Btw, bukan maksud ngejelek-jelekin loh, cuman mengutarakan apa yang gw rasain aja selama hidup di sini.

Well, yang pasti ntar2 aja gw post kalo lagi senggang, soalnya sekarang udah hampir jam 1 malem. Besok ada company visit jam setengah 9. *terus kenapa? hehe.

Jya ne, mata!

Nb: My deepest condolences for political situation in Indonesia. Yang didemo dan yang demo sama2 ga punya malu. Menurut gw lho yaaa..

日本型ものづくり- 3 日本経済とものづくり

Economy of Japan experienced a change from agriculture-based country into an industrial-based country. This change was started from the light industry, and gradually towards heavy and chemical industries. This change requires three elements, namely land, labor and capital.

After defeated in World War II, Japan had lost its land, namely land of Japan`s colonies in Asia, as well as capital. Therefore, Japan made efforts to revive the economy such as: for the land sector, Japan tried to do the reclamations of land it owned to build the factories. However, this did not work a lot. In terms of capital, Japan tried to make capital acquisitions to assemble his capital to rebuild its economy. In the case of labor, which was the only Japan owned at the time, Japan did a lot of labor absorption of rural areas to work in urban areas.

Around the year of 1955, Japan has managed to restore the economy back as the pre-war period. So, it was declared no longer as post-war period, because the economy is back as before the war. In 1960, the government announced a doubling income plan. The program aims for Japan to double its income around 7.2% each year, so that in 10 years, Japan income would be doubled compared with that time. The period is also called the golden egg, in which many fresh graduates from high school got to work in factories in larger cities.

As mentioned earlier, Japan experienced a shift from the state of agriculture-based country to the light industry finally to the state of heavy and chemical industry-based country. This also would result in economic shift from a labor intensive, land intensive, and eventually become capital intensive country.

To support this change, Japan made some policies, particularly those relating to industry. In the case of imports, Japan had gradually made the substitution of products imported and slowly reduced its import. With these policies, the state-owned property remained in the country. Also reducing imported products circulating in the country will simultaneously stimulate the local industry to continue to grow. With the growth of the domestic industry, the exports can be increased, so that will add the income received by Japan.

In the case of exports, Japan made several policies, namely neutral policy, increasing exports and labor intensive products. These regulations are set in such a way that Japan wanted to become export-based countries. Then Japan also conducts policy hollowing out the industry to encourage foreign investment and stimulate local production.
In addition to the policy in terms of exports and imports, Japan had also continued to globalize its product, sales and management. With globalization, Japan can do production overseas, and can increase the exports of foreign countries.

Short Getaway

Lupakan semua beban pikiran, ayo kita joget dulu..

Hidup Adalah Anugerah

[taken from readers digest Indonesia mailing list]

Hari ini sebelum engkau berpikir untuk mengucapkan kata-kata kasar,
Ingatlah akan seseorang yang tidak bisa berbicara.

Sebelum engkau mengeluh mengenai cita rasa makananmu, Ingatlah akan
seseorang yang tidak punya apapun untuk dimakan.

Sebelum engkau mengeluh tentang suami atau isterimu, Ingatlah akan
seseorang yang menangis kepada Tuhan meminta pasangan hidup.

Hari ini sebelum engkau mengeluh tentang hidupmu, Ingatlah
akan seseorang yang begitu cepat pergi ke surga.

Sebelum engkau mengeluh tentang anak-anakmu, Ingatlah akan
seseorang yang begitu mengharapkan kehadiran seorang anak, tetapi tidak
mendapatnya.

Sebelum engkau bertengkar karena rumahmu yang kotor, dan tidak ada yang
membersihkan atau menyapu lantai, Ingatlah akan
orang gelandangan yang tinggal di jalanan.

Sebelum merengek karena harus menyopir terlalu jauh, Ingatlah
akan sesorang yang harus berjalan kaki untuk menempuh jarak yang sama.

Dan ketika engkau lelah dan mengeluh tentang pekerjaanmu, Ingatlah akan
para penganguran, orang cacat dan mereka yang menginginkan pekerjaanmu.

Sebelum engkau menuding atau menyalahkan orang lain, Ingatlah bahwa
tidak ada seorang pun yang tidak berdosa dan kita harus menghadap pengadilan
Tuhan.

Dan ketika beban hidup tampaknya akan menjatuhkanmu, Pasanglah senyuman di
wajahmu dan berterima kasihlah pada Tuhan karena engkau masih hidup dan ada
di dunia ini. Hidup adalah anugerah, jalanilah, nikmatilah, rayakan dan
isilah itu.

NIKMATILAH SETIAP SAAT DALAM HIDUPMU, KARENA MUNGKIN ITU TIDAK AKAN TERULANG
LAGI !

Ngeblog = Trend ??

Dulu, waktu gw blom ngeblog, kayanya semua orang punya blog deh. Sampe2 dari blog2 itu banyak yang dibikin buku pula.. ckck..

Sekarang, pas udah ngeblog, eh.. gw liat semua (kebanyakan) blog temen2 gw posting terakhirnya setahun, malah ada yang udah dua tahun yang lalu. hehe. Trus dari situ, timbullah pertanyaan dari dalam diri gw: "Apa waktu itu anak2 ngeblog cuman buat ngikut trend doang ya?" hehehe,, tapi mungkin nggak juga sih. Mungkin aja mereka bener2 suka nulis, cuman sekarang2 ini ga sempet karena banyak kerjaan, dll.

Kalo buat gw, gw tahu diri lah yauw gw ga bisa2 amat nulis, mengarang, atau apapun itu disebutnya yang artinya menuangkan ide dari dalam pikiran ke dalam sebuah tulisan. Beneran, dari SD gw paling ga bisa kalo disuruh ngarang. Trus pas belajar bahasa Inggris atau Jepang, kalo disuruh bikin kalimat, pasti blank aja gitu. Ga ada ide. hehe.

Maka dari itu, gw ga bikin blog dengan sok2an mau buat menceritakan pengalaman gw sehari2. hahaha.. Gw bikin blog tadinya cuman mau bikin report tentang pengalaman2 gw pas belajar di negeri orang ini. Jadi, kalo ntar gw udah balik ke Indonesia, bisa gw baca2 lagi nih blog. Jadi sebenernya "dari gw, oleh gw, untuk gw" hahahaha.. Lumayan menghemat space hard disk.

Malah gw merasa heran kalo ada orang lain yang mau membaca tulisan gw ini. 'ko mau2nya baca tulisan jelek begini?' hahahaha..

Btw, gw lagi sakit nih. Untung demamnya udah turun. Tapi masih pilek berat dan tenggorokan masih sakit nih. Satu hal yang gw dapet: Kalo lo lagi berada di negeri orang, JANGAN SAKIT! Apalagi buat orang yang ga bisa masak kaya gw. Pas lagi pengen2 tidurnya, gw harus bangun dan jalan ke kantin universitas cuman buat makan siang, dan makan malem. hhhh...

Entah mengapa, dari dulu gw gampang sakit. Ya masuk angin lah, ya sinusitis lah, aduuuuuhh..

Apa gw kurang olahraga ya? Tapi temen2 gw yang lain juga ga pernah olahraga dan mereka baik2 aja tuh..

Doakan saja gw cepet sembuh yaa...

日本型ものづくり- 2 日本人の労働観を支えるもの

This is the next part of my assignment.

As a worker, Japanese people rarely have the desire to switch jobs. In Japan, it is known the concept of 终身 雇用, which means the ‘lifetime employment system’. Nature of loyalty that is owned by the Japanese workers does not just happen but formed by a system created by every part of the society of Japan that includes government, companies, even workers themselves.

From the legal standpoint, the Japanese government creates such laws, making it difficult for companies to fire employees. Therefore, if there is a worker whose performance is not good, then the company will not fire him, but would asked him to leave of the company, or put this worker into a new job or new condition which is less well for his position, so that over time these worker will feel isolated and wasted and will ask to leave the company.

From the workers’ point of view, the Japanese people were told that moving jobs is not a good thing. Thus, when they face an uncomfortable situation in their companies, they will try to be patient until things got better again. People who switch jobs too often will be treated as people who do not have competencies, and companies where these kinds of people apply for jobs would be reluctant to hire them. Japanese people also like a comfortable situation in their working environment. The point of comfortable here is to have colleagues that they have known very well and can work together, also to avoid moving to a new environment which they do not know yet. Therefore, Japanese people avoid switching jobs.

The Companies also consider much about the importance of their employee’s loyalty. This is because they see their employees as an investment, namely through education and a variety of trainings. If their employees move to other company, it will be considered as large losses by companies because of the investments they already made become futile. Or even further, the companies afraid their ex employees will give away their secret of business to their competitors. Therefore, the company also creates a system to maintain the loyalty of his employees.

This system can be seen from the provision of salaries and retirement benefits. The provision of salaries and other benefits in Japanese companies is not based on the competencies possessed by the workers, but is calculated from how long they had served the company. The new employees will be entered in the bottom position in the company management system and will receive a salary that is not too high and the amount of the salary among them who are in similar positions will be the same. However, if they have worked long enough for the company, their salaries will increase drastically, and they will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to earn extra income.

This system can result many benefits. From employees’ point of view, although they must be satisfied with a salary that is not too high in their early period of work, but they will feel comfortable while working, because this system creates a harmonious relationship between superiors and subordinates, as well as senior and junior. In addition, over time, they will earn a much higher salary, so they can make financial plans for themselves, or their family. It also makes workers want to work hard during their youth, so when they have reached old age, they will already have a comfortable life and do not have to work too hard.

From the companies’ point of view, with the existence of this system, they will not have to pay more for workers in their early period of working. In addition, because of natural selection, as these workers reach working age that deserves to be paid more, in aggregate, the companies do not need to spend too much money, because the total amount of employees in that position has been reduced by natural selection. The other benefit for these companies is this system makes the workers of these companies work hard to reach the better status and higher earnings at their companies, so that in overall, the companies’ performance will also be increased.

In terms of team work, Japanese people have been educated since childhood to be able to work in a team. This is shown by the Japanese education, that is for example in primary schools, the students will be divided into groups and these groups are required to do various tasks, so that over time those students will be able to work in a team, even in the future, when they start working for companies.

The people of Japan also see a relation between themselves and others as very important thing. They do their best to keep their behavior so that they will not be hated or ignored by others. This comes from a combination of Buddhist culture and Confucianism that tells people to be good to others, because there will come days when they will need help from others.

Just Stand Up, Be your own miracle

Very inspiring song, dont you think?

Especially for the pessimistic me, who always think of the worst of everything..

Everything will be alright, yeah

The heart is stronger than you think
It's like it can go through anything
And even when you think it can't it finds a way
To still push on though

Sometimes you want to run away
Ain't got the patience for the pain
And if you don't believe it
Look into your heart the beat goes on

I'm tellin' you: Things get better through whatever
If you fall dust it off don't let up
Don't you know you can go, be your own miracle

You need to know

If the mind keeps thinking
You've had enough but the heart
Keeps telling you don't give up
Who are we to be questioning
Wondering what is what
Don't give up through it all just stand up

It's like we all have better days
Problems getting all up in your face
Just because you go through it
Don't mean it got to take control, no

You ain't gotta find no hiding place
Because the heart can beat the hate
Don't wanna let your mind keep playin' you
And sayin' you can't go on

I'm tellin' you: Things get better through whatever
If you fall dust it off don't let up
Don't you know you can go be your own miracle
Carrie Underwood:
You need to know

You don't gotta be a prisoner in your mind
if you fall dust it off you can live your life

Let your heart be your guide
And you will know that you're good
If you trust in the good

Everything will be alright, yeah
Light up the dark if you follow your heart
And it will get better through whatever