Riska Kusuma Wardhani

When you try your best but you don't succeed

When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
could it be worse?


Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you


High up above or down below
when you're too in love to let it go
but If you never try you'll never know
Just what your worth

Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears streaming down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears streaming down your face and I

Tears streaming down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you


-Fix You- by Coldplay

Dedicated to people whose lives need to be fixed... and I.
Riska Kusuma Wardhani
With the same format as my October's Wishlist, here is a list of things that I wanna accomplish in November 2010:
  1. Have a more-than-average kind of grade for my Mid Term Test starting from November 12th to November 22nd. I know that I didn't study hard for my previous exams (Sales Management, Marketing, and Good Corporate Governance) and have a feeling that I won't study hard too for upcoming exams, but at least I do the test by myself, WITHOUT CHEATING or USING CHEAT-SHEET FROM LECTURERS!
  2. Have a great 20th birthday. It falls on this November 27th, and as I view the age (20) as a starting point of transformation from late teenagers to legal adult, I expect to have a nice birthday: Not a birthday with nasty surprises here and there (no flour, egg, water, and soy sauce allowed! Erk!), but more like a birthday where my precious people will surround me and wish me maturity and prosperity.
  3. Get a meaningful gift for my father. How I love this assertive man who always works hard to earn money for his family and gives me his unconditional, familial love. Yet, I can't reciprocate all his sacrifice since I have no personal income and still depend on him. Hopefully one nice surprise that I got in the end of October will help me pace one step closer in paying him back both in financial and emotional ways.
  4. Get more money in legal way. Again haha. People can argue that money isn't everything, but I think my life will be better off if I have more money: I can increase the quality of life, improve my knowledge (by buying books or entering a course, paid with the money), or even help other people needing it for various reasons.
  5. Win some competitions. Will enter a Business Plan Competition held by some universities this month along with Tia and Vita (another university mate), and we must win them all! Pray for us, pretty please? :)
  6. Get a part-time job concerning market research, project management, and community care! Have already prepared CV in both English and Bahasa to support this wish, and although my experiences and accomplishments are not extravagant enough, I do proud of them.
And that's the list, six points acting as a personal guidance to reach better future. Kindly remind me to work hard in order to achieve all of them, will you?

Riska Kusuma Wardhani

Recently my friend posted this question in his Twitter account:

"Hey guys, could you please inform me if you know a business-themed TV Series? Wanna watch it."

And God, how I wanna watch it too. Badly.
Why? Because it's a great source for us to know the way people operates business in Europe and America. To understand their value and culture to later compare it with our own.

And because I want to work abroad and, in the same time, take a postgraduate education (MBA) from one of these universities: Harvard University, or MIT. FOR FREE. Hard to reach? Yes. Impossible? No. I believe nothing is impossible in this world as long as we have strong, clear vision with effective and efficient perseverance.

Here is some of the business-themed TV Series that I've already known (and watch, for a season or two): The Apprentice (but it's more like a reality show than TV Series), Leverage (let us know various financial vocabularies, though the focus is more into fraud than the business itself), and The Office (tells us about cinematography world, how directors must compete against each other to maintain their position and market share. At first glance, it's quite educational, but God, the rest is PORN).

And yeah, my tiny brain only recognize those three. Do you know other TV Series beside the ones that I've mentioned above? Do tell me :)
Riska Kusuma Wardhani
The Stand Community LOs Team


On October 30th, I was volunteering in Pesta Blogger+ 2010 held at The Oval Epicentrum Walk along with my best friend, Istiarina Putri (Tia); my university mate, Brian Ardianto; and other volunteers coming from different areas and backgrounds. There we had a responsibility to act accordingly with our job description: the Stand Community LOs, the minutests, the Stage 'Managers', the Informants, the Traffic 'Managers', or the Zero Waste campaigners. I myself had gotten the position of a Stand Community LO with eight others:



Tia, my best friend (as always, we're inseparable :D)



Rara, a junior from Binus University



Riza (left), sorry for not taking your self-portrait!



Dwi, a lecturer from Gunadarma University



Nony, a young lecturer (I'm not joking) from Gunadarma University



Arisyi, a senior from Gunadarma University



Andhika, also a senior from Gunadarma University



And Jemiro, the sophomore from Gunadarma University too.


Actually there's still one more, Mima, but due to some tests and bad weather she couldn't come even for an hour. That's okay though, because other LOs had been prepared to face such situation. The fact that we had already known each other a day before the even helps too :)

As we're narcissistic people, and to better acquaint ourselves with each other, after the event had ended, we held a 'get together' photo session in the main lobby of Epiwalk. Here is a picture of us, minus Riza and Rara who had left earlier to finish some personal matters:

Back Row (from left to right):

Arisyi, Nony, Andhika, Mbak Rara (the Head of Committee), Dwi, Jemiro, Mbak Endhoot (LOs' Coordinators), Tia, Me, and... someone whose name I don't know yet (sorry!!!)

Front Row:

Again, someone whose name I have no recognition of, and Mbak Sinta Setiawan (100% woman, but everybody calls him Mas Setiawan or Masset :))


Glad and proud to be the part of your team, Pesta Blogger+ 2010 Committee!! :)


Riska

Riska Kusuma Wardhani
I won the 1st place of XL Writing Contest.

The moment alone has become one of the most precious fragments of my life, due to the unbelievably amount of sheer happiness I felt at that time.

And guess what? I got what I desire most.

A BlackBerry!!

Got Blackberry Curve 8520 (Gemini)

and a nice amount of money!!!

Ignore my ugly and oily face; kinda tired after volunteering for 12 hours

Do you keep in track of my October's wishlist? Do you? Do you notice what I've written on point 2 and 5?? They've been realized, they've become true!

I can get what I want without paying for anything, and in the right month too!

All gratitude is presented to Allah (as nothing is impossible for You), XL and Pesta Blogger+ 2010 (for holding it), and the last but not least, my best friend, Istiarina Putri, who had kindly given me the information about this competition. Remind me to treat you, dear :)

This achievement has driven me to explore deeper into blogging world. Hope I'll receive the same achievement (better more) on next month or next year!

Additional Notes:
At first I was very skeptical with this winning, seeing that some other posts are quite good, and even better in my personal opinion! Some of them even use touchy diction to better capture the hearts of the judges and the readers. Me? I use scientific facts to support the general statement of my post, and mostly I use a businesslike words rather than touchy ones. In order to erase some confusions, can some of you who know please explain the assessment process of this competition? I think it's quite beneficial for future development of myself and others.

Thanks,

Riska