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Bonne Nuit*!

*) Read: Good Night in French

It has been forever since the last time I updated my blog. I have been truly overwhelming by my schedule this semester. A week after completing my internship, I went straight back to Bandung to start my intensif french course. -Here, 'intensif' means 5 days a week with 2.5 hours for each meeting which lasts for 3 months.- At first, I thought I could handle this because this semester I am only taking 19 SKS. In fact, I was wrong. '19 SKS' is what so called de jure and is only written in the KSM because a lot of my time was spent by doing a never-ending team assignments. Beside the academic activities, I am also occupied by laboratory activities as well as GMUN selection and preparing AIESEC exchange's document. -Yap, I registered for Ganesha MUN Club in my final year.-

Now, the french course is over and I have taken my DELF test in mid. November. -DELF is a (french) language sertification which has 4 levels, A1, A2, B1, and B2. The test is held 3 times a year and once you have taken the test and passed, the results will remain valid for a lifetime. There are 4 competencies tested with the maximum final score is 100 and the threshold grade is 50.- The result for my test will be published next week. I am hoping that I do not only pass, but also get a good grade #fingerscross.

About 1,5 months ago, I accidentally met a dear friend of mine. We haven't been seeing each other for quite a long time. There, he told me about his future plans such as graduated in March, continuing  his study abroad, attending international conference, etc. He also said that he will do the IELTS test on Dec. 5. Triggered by his inspirational story, I also decided to register for an IELTS test. Without taking any further consideration, I registered for an IELTS test on Dec. 13. Now that I have a clear head to reflect my decision, I think it was reckless and not well planned. Dec. 13 is the end of my first final exams week. So, I will still have to prepare for the second week of final exams. I am a bit afraid whether or not I am able to optimally perform in every exam, including the IELTS. Unfortunately, I don't have wide array of choices. I have to nail every test! So now, I have 6 days left to prepare for my IELTS test. May the force be with me..

The last project I am involving in is AIESEC Exchange Program. I should have gone for student exchange in the last summer holiday, but since I had to do the internship, the exchange is delayed until the winter holiday. Out of all possible alternatives, I decided to go to Taiwan because it is the only project which fit my holiday schedule. On the next Monday, I will recieve my VISA from the Taiwanese embassy. I hope they give me a more-than-a-month VISA because my project in Taiwan lasts for 1,5 months #fingerscross. And guess when I will be going! On Dec. 19 at 4.40AM! In fact, my last exam will be on Dec. 18 and there is still a TUBES (Tugas Besar) waiting.... I don't know how I can pull this off. But I believe everything will be fine. Sometimes, being optimistic (and realistic) is the best policy.

Bonus photos:

 Bareng mas toko roti di kantor.

Hampir tiap hari saya tukar kupon roti di sana

jadi kenal deh sama si kang Dedi hihi.

Bareng mba2 dan mas dari Corporate People Development

Menang juara 2 pas lomba 17an.

Ada 2 ibu hamil di foto ini.

 Bareng mas2 dari divisi sebelah a.k.a

Astra Management Development Institute (AMDI)

Mereka masih muda2 loh. 

(Left) Psikologi UI 2009, (Sit) Teknik Industri ITB 2008.

Yang di kiri ini namanya Mba Stella. Doi juga dari AMDI.

Unfortunately, the picture is blur..

Dapat penghargaan 'Best Position Paper' di GMUN 1st caucus.

Waktu itu saya dan Mae (kiri saya) mewakili negara Belanda.

I am wearing the same batik in both photo events. What a coincidence! LOL

Hugs & Kisses,

Delicia

My Internship Mate + Photos Edition

The first day on internship was pretty much nerve wrecking. I woke up in the morning and thought "What am I going to wear?" "how will it be to meet the other employee?" "How is my bos/manager will be like?" "Will it gonna be awkward, there?" "Do they have a suitable project for me?"and so many more questions rushed in my head. Despite all the question, one thing I know best was "first impression does matter!". So, I made sure that I wore a proper outfit and I was not being late. 

I arrived at about 7.10 AM and went straight to the receptionists. At that time I walked to the building, I convinced myself to look confident and professional (even tough I was so nervous inside). So that people will give some respect and take me seriously although I was a stranger. When I was waiting on the lobby to meet the 'bos', I saw some people sitting there, too. Not long after that, there were a couple entering the front door. The guy was skinny and looked kinda 'hey yooo. what's up?'. In the other side, the girl looked calmer and I liked the shoes she wore! LOL.

After waiting for about 20 minutes (it actually felt like 2 hours, no lebay), the receptionist called "Claudiaaa!". I looked around, but no one responded. Then, she called again "Claudiaaa!" and this time I was sure that she looked at me. I was like "What? Meeee.....? Possibly.....". I was quite astonished because I have met no one who mistaken between my name (Delicia) and 'Claudia'. They are not even close, please.....

The receptionist asked me to go to the second floor. In my mind, I was guessing what my 'bos' will be like. Is he one of the people who passed me in the lobby? When I walked out of the lift, not far from there there were two people talking. One of them suddenly looked at me and greeted "Hey, Claudia!". I was like, "Okay, he must be him!  The 'bos'". Then, the bos asked me again "I heared Mr. Aso recently passed away.." (Mr. Aso was a senior lecturer at Industrial Engineering ITB). Yep! The bos is an alumni of Industrial Engineering ITB year 19** (censored). This time, I was so surprised! I never thought that my bos would be from the same university as I am. 

Okay, still remember the couple in the lobby?

It turned out, they were also having an internship in the same room as I am. They are from Universitas Negeri Jakarta which formerly named IKIP. Albite we were not in the same department nor the same cubical, I felt pretty much connected to them as the same third year college students in our first-time-ever internship. I spent my lunch with them which I thought I would have no lunch-mate in my first day of internship. Unfortunately, they would only stay for a month...  :(

In the last day of their internship, we took some photos as their documentation. I think I will do this too in my last day of internship.  

Here are the photoooosssss!

Voila!

This is the couple in the article.

Deli-Eka-Tia

Dwi (an intern form President University)

Tia - Deli

 Deli-Dwi-Tia

THIS IS THE TEAM!

First Row:

Eka-Mba Dina (Admin)-Mba Chitra-Deli-Mba Dea-Mba Rini(bumil1)-Mba Agustine(bumil2)-Mas Irwan ('The Bos')-Tia

Second Row:

Mas Elthone-Mba Arini-Mas Thom

EXTRA STORY:

Mas Thom is my mentor here. He is so hilarious, I really mean it! He loves joking and doing 'unordinary' things LOL. He brights up people's day! One word that decsribes him best: KOPLAK! hahah. Look at his funny face!

 Hugs & Kisses,




Delicia

Internship: My Project

BONJOUR!

YES! It has been a very long time since the last article. I myself am almost forget that my blog still exists. These 3 months, starting from June, are the end-semester holiday. Instead of having a vacation, I am now sitting on my chair at an office building in North Jakarta. Yap, I am having an internship for about two months at this holding company. If I mention the name of the company, I believe none of you do not know about them.

I have been here for about a month now. I started on June 2nd, 2014 and will be ended on July 31st, 2014. I am placed in Corporate Organization Development (COD) Department. Here, COD acts like a strategic consultant for the affiliated companies. They are a projectized department with many different numbers and topics of projects to take care about. However, they work only with two analysts and one Dapertment Head. So, there are a lot of work to be done by these three musketeers.

So, what am I doing here?

At first, the Dept. Head asked me to help them with their project with Izusu Sales Operation (ISO). The project will be about Man Power Planning (MPP) using Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) tool by Boston Consulting group (BCG). I spent the first a couple of weeks to learn about their business and management system as well as company philoshopy and so on. After almost 3 weeks there, unfortunately my mentor told me that the company was not ready for the project since they still had another project to be done. So, I had to think quick and find another topic/problem to be solved.

All of the sudden, my Dept. Head suggested me to do Work Sampling. It was random, I thought. However, Work Sampling method can be used to measure the 8-hours-work-efficiency of the back office personnels. Then, the sampling result can be compared with the KPI achievement during the sampling period (for about one month) to measure the back office personnels' productivity. For your information, to measure back office personnels' productivity is the main issue in Human Resource (HR) division across the companies. They have to find an appropriate tool to measure the back office personnels' productivity because the unroutine type of job and the type of result they produce is somehow hard to quantified.

There are always pros and cons for this applied method. But logically it worth a try. And if this method works and representative enough, then it will also be applied in the other affiliated companies. At last, productivity is improtant for the calculation of employees' bonus as well as to measure the over all performance of the entire company.

Well. I think that's enough information about my Kerja Praktik (KP) a.k.a internship. Actually this internship is an obligation, but I enjoy it a lot than I thought I will. I am gonna tell you more about my internship in the next post.

Anyway, 

SELAMAT MENJALANKAN IBADAH PUASA BAGI YANG MENJALANKAN! 

Semoga puasanya ga ada yang bolong sampai akhir.

Semoga tambah berkah juga di bulan puasa ini.

: D

Hugs & Kisses,

Delicia

p.s: I really miss the 'Hugs & Kisses' part LOL xoxo :* ({})

p.s.s: Don't forget to invite me if there is any 'Buka Puasa Bersama' event hihi ;)