Hai dan Maaf.
Dua kata itu nampaknya paling tepat untuk memulai post kali ini. Enam bulan? Yaaaa, nyaris enam bulan lamanya saya tidak menulis di blog ini, bahkan menyapa teman-teman pun tidak  Saya memohon maaf karena (kemalasan) ke-hectic-an pada bulan-bulan yang lalu menumpulkan keinginan saya untuk membuat barang satu-dua post saja.
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Alhamdulillah, akhirnya saya resmi jadi suami orang. Ga single lagi! 

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Tulisan ini hanya akan menjadi awalan penyemangat saya untuk mengumpulkan dan menuliskan kembali memori-memori selama enam bulan tersebut. Saya banyak terbantu dengan tulisan-tulisan di blog orang mengenai persiapan pernikahan; mulai dari yang rempong bikin pengen mecah tabungan sampai yang sangat sederhana tetapi penuh makna. Pengalaman-pengalaman mereka membantu saya membuat konsep pernikahan saya pada Agustus lalu, yang walaupun penuh kekurangan di sana-sini tapi akan terus kami ingat sampai tua nanti.

Saya beruntung punya begitu banyak teman. Saya bekerja di sebuah instansi yang cukup besar dan punya rasa kekeluargaan yang kuat, kami berdua punya teman-teman kuliah yang masih akrab hingga saat ini, geng SMA yang masih membersamai, hingga teman-teman yang saya kenal dari dunia maya dan masih menjadi rekan diskusi. Belum kolega dari keluarga Dinar, tetangga-tetangga Mama Ayah, teman pengajian, dan lain-lain, akhirnya kami memaklumi bahwa seremoni ini tidak seintim yang kami bayangkan sebelumnya. Tetapi rupanya kami justru bersyukur, kehadiran mereka membuktikan bahwa pernikahan kami diberkahi. Aamiiin…

Chi trova un amico, trova un tesoro
Who finds a friend, finds a treasure..
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Yes my Dinar Azzahra, my lifetime bestfriend, my lifetime partner,
you’re my treasure.

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Start from today, I insyaAllah will post and share regarding Halal Healthy Lifestyle and Habits every Friday. I get this idea when I joined the Halal Retreat Program last year in Malaysia. With the new Regulation that state every products in Indonesian market need to be Halal Certified, I believe that the society and community must have a greater awareness regarding Halal itself.

As a pharmacist, I combine the concept of Halal with Health, then voila! we have #HalalHealthyHabits campaign. I really hope this campaign can go viral and make an impact align with the purpose of Islam. Indonesian Moslem need to be protected and we have to increase our awareness and knowledge on Halal and Islam comprehensively.

I always have this urge to make everything better. I believe that the existence of me in this particular time is to create a better world as a better place by making a better me. On every occasion I tried my best to analyze and evaluate myself. Usually by knowing my strength, weakness, opportunity and thread. Side when I sleep, I really never stop thinking, I'm a hardcore thinker. Sometimes I think about small matter, but most of the time I think about a very strangely huge universe of mind.

The past,
the present,
the future.

This three always be the highlight of my thinking. Time. Moment. Prediction.
It's crazy how the theory of time diverse and complicated yet simple on its own way.
Fascinate me too much.

I love to think that I can make an impact. I want to change bad into good. Change the worst to the best. And I know, yes I know, to do so first I need to change myself. 

So, here I am, writing my first post of the year and declare that I will change.
To infinity and beyond! *jetpacks on*

2016 was amazing, and Im hoping for another awesome year in this 2017.

2016 will be remembered as the year I was selected as Abang None Jakarta Pusat.
2016 will be remembered as the year I finish my time as the secretary of Director General of Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices.
2016 will be remembered as the year I take my oath as the government official.
2016 will be remembered as the year I went abroad as a gov official.
2016 will be remembered as the year I got engaged !

A lot of great things happened to me and I cant be more grateful. In this post Id like to thank everyone that come passing by my life. Either as a blessing or a lesson. No regrets at all. I love every tiny details of it. Everthing that happen made me who I am today.

New year, same old resolutions, new strategy. Ive become more realistic but still believe in magic. Im sure this year I can cross more of my yearly resolutions list. In 2016 I manage to cross 4 of 11 resolution. Not bad.
Let's create a new positive habit in this new year!

Once again, Thank You 2016! Thank You, You!

My beginning standard:

1. I have to write an idea or two 
2. I have to write 3 paragraphs at least
3. It should be written in english 

Now to fulfill those standars, I need to start my idea of the day right now. Today, Id like to tell you about one of my aspiration in life. I want to make a change. I want to leave my footprint, a good one. I want to help a little. I believe just start with a small action, it'll create a chain reaction. If you ever heard about the butterfly effect, it relate to that.
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Now to be more specific, I want to help in what aspect? Since Im a pharmacist, I want to help in health expertise. I have this little plan of mine to join the World Health Organization, to give my ideas and act on it to make the world a healthier place. Right now I work in one building with the WHO Indonesia. And I join several communities to start volunteering to help others. I believe to achieve this plan, start from now, every single action that I do have something to do with this target. It got to be relate to it. I need to have laser focus on my dream. That way, with the blessing of God, I'll be in the position I always dream of or evend beyond.

To infinity!

Since elementary school when I learned history, I really want my name to be put on those history books. I want the future generation to learn from me, from what I did, my how and why. And the only way to do so is by doing something innovative, game-changer and phenomenal.

But then after you succeed to make an impact, you need people to know about it. How?

Write it on.

That is why I want to start this habit.
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Hi Fikriansyah,

In psychology, the "halo effect" refers to a psychological tendency where the impression of a person in one area carries over to another area.

The tendency was first identified and named by psychologist Edward Thorndike in 1920. In his research, he observed that people seen positively in one light tend to be assumed to have positive attributes in another area.

If you’re a tall, good looking man, you’re perceived to be smarter than average — even if you haven't opened your mouth to say anything yet.

The field of psychology is filled with a century's worth of academic research on these kinds of cognitive biases.

In short, human beings are not objective creatures. They are very much subjective.

The halo effect also works in reverse — something I term the “negative halo effect.”

If you’re perceived in a negative light, you’re often (unfairly) perceived negatively in other areas too.

If you’re shy, quieter or more introverted, in many Western cultures you’re perceived as less intelligent, less capable and less competent.

If you’re a woman or a minority, you’re often perceived as less intelligent and less skilled.
If you’ve made a mistake in one area of your work, you’re often perceived as being prone to mistakes in all areas of your work.

The halo effect cuts both ways. It’s useful to be mindful of which side of the halo effect line you’re standing on.

Do you get a positive benefit of the doubt on your thoughts, ideas and contributions in the workplace? Or a negative one?

The halo effect (positive or negative) is one of the psychological drivers behind gravitas. Gravitas refers to how seriously other people take your ideas.

One simple way to improve your gravitas is to be more likable by your colleagues. One factor that drives likability is familiarity and similarity.

A very simple way to be more familiar and more similar is to spend time with your coworkers in social settings.

In short, meet with them for lunch and talk about things outside of work. Try to find what you have in common with each other.

The more your colleagues see you as a whole, multi-dimensional person, with whom they share many things in common, the more they will like you. The more they like you, the more positive the halo effect (or the more you offset a negative halo effect).​

Thanks, 
-Victor Cheng