I’m an introvert. It’s not a disease or disability, but sometimes I have a tendency to retreat from what so-called human being and everything that connected to it. It’s not that i hate human being, it’s just that I need only a small dosage of human being to connect with everyday or for the rest of my lifetime for that matter.

No, i’m not anti social, although there are some moment when i think i was anti social. I have one or two best friends, a lot of friends or should i say acquaintances. But, all in all, I feel liberated or have more freedom if i’m left alone. Yes, social networking is important and you shouldn’t say that social networking is something that only extroverted person capable of doing.

Indonesia is an extroverted country. We share stories, gossip and just content when you feel needed by others. Indonesia knows words like ‘musyawarah‘,’gotong-royong‘ and a Javanese slogan, ‘Mangan ora mangan asal kumpul.‘ Sometimes Indonesian people just cannot left people alone. They want to know other person’s desire, opinion and business. Maybe that’s why a gossip show is very popular here.

So if you have an introverted friend, don’t judge him/her to be a loner or a hard person. It’s just them doing their own business.

Caring for your introvert [via The Atlantic]

Do you feel a teensy weensy bit of guilt when you open your windows XP last week? Or a small pang in your stomach when you type something in your microsoft Word document? That’s because William Henry Gates III otherwise known as BillG is here. He make a promise to give us free software (non Microsoft proprietary software I presume) and more internet access for Indonesian kids. And He wears batik too during his joint conference with our president.

Some of the news are here :

1. Bill Gates go to Indonesia 1
2. Bill Gates go to Indonesia 2
3. Thursday, Bill Gates visits Indonesia
4. Bill Gates supports IT in Indonesia

The Pirate of Silicon Valley finally visited the Piracy Land.

If you have spare time to create, there’s a site that provide templates for 12-sided Calendar. It even have Indonesian language version. Once you download the PDF, you can cut the lines and glue it in together.

Have fun.

12 sided calendar

If you have one of this habits, maybe it’s time for you to change. There’s a lot of disadvantage of being ineffective people, such as wasting time and energy and lost focus of what important. Here’s all of the habits :

1. Not showing up.
2. Procrastinating half the day.
3. When actually doing something, doing something that isn’t the most important thing right now.
4. Thinking too much.
5. Seeing the negative and downsides in just about anything.
6. Clinging to your own thoughts and being closed to outside influences.
7. Constantly on information overload.

Do you have these habits? Change it.

7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People [via Positivity Blog]

Do you often complain that 24 hours is not enough and you wish that there’s 3 extra hours available? Well, there’s a tips to add more hours to your day. You can use this three big steps, which is :

1. Remove big chunks, where you remove unnecessary use of time including television.
2. Reclaim Gap Time, where your time is not long enough to do something useful.
3. Triage, focus on what’s important.

Don’t expect a miracle of the 25th hours, get extra hours today.

21 Ways to Add More Hours to the day [Lifehack]

I always love this game. You don’t know jack is a combination between knowledge, street smart, and jokes. There’s a nice feeling when you can smile and learn something. The game in website is divided itu two game :

• Episode : A 7 questions games. 5 regular multiple choice question, 1 DisOrDat and 1 Jack Attack.
• DisOrDat : You will be given seven item and you mush choose which appropriate: Dis statement or Dat statement. Like the latest regarding Chernobyl, You will be given seven superhero and you must choose which one have their superpower through radiation or not. Quite funny.

If you like smart humor, or a sarcastic one, then this site is for you.

YDKJ

Are you using Microsoft Excel for your work? Then you will definitely some of this tricks, including my favorite :

Line Break Within a Cell
With text wrap formatting set in a cell (Format | Cells | Alignment | check Wrap Text), sometimes you want to force a line break at a certain point. Use Alt-Enter.

Enjoy!

Microsoft Excel Tips [via ForestryComputingHelpdesk]

There’s a lot of things that you must do before your big interview to make a good impression. Yahoo! hotjobs compiles seven of them, including :

Find out what keeps the Boss up at night. Do your homework so you understand not only the job or promotion for which you are applying, but also the job of the senior executive above it. Do you know to whom this person reports, and what the top issues are for your boss’s boss? Tip: Make that knowledge part of your interview conversation. Show an interest not only in the specifics of the job, but in the product and markets for that company. Ask broad questions: “What do you think the potential growth in the Indian market is?”

If you want to get that big job, you must also thinking big. A different interview that you offer could be the decisive factor between a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ decision.

7 Things You must Do in an Interview. [via Yahoo! hotjobs]