Aslm wrwb,
Today I attend a coffee talk with some of my coworkers and board of directors. When it was my turn to speak, I talked about how hard it was to do my job with the absence of a knowledge base of experts on software area, esp Java. And also about how Java ES still doesn’t have big mindshare in the Indonesian developers community. From those two issues, I got a lot of feedbacks, which I can conclude into two words: Contacts and Passions.
Contacts, this means that I should have more contact to discuss and share knowledge. Before this, I usually only escalated my issues to my peer and let him contact our regional peers. This is how the procedure works, but in some cases I really need to have my own contacts to gain more knowlegde and be better. Nice one, thx 
Passions, this means that I gotta have passion for my job. Even the big boss said, if I love what I do, that’s a great gift, that is to enjoy what you do means you’re not working I do enjoy what I do before, and my current job is even more enjoyable. But one of the managers said that I gotta have more passion, and share in the community. If the community doesn’t familiar with Java ES, well I have my share of the blame. It reminded me how I was so passionate that some even call me religious in Java :p Aah, it hit me good, I share too little lately. Even better advice… thx again.
And the Personal Profile Analysis report just came in. It is interesting to read good stuff about yourself, right? Hmm, it seems like I cheated on the test somehow that I got exactly what I wanted to look like. But hey, maybe it’s just what I am, coz I remember answering all of the questions honestly 
Anyway, it shows some facts that all of this time I couldn’t see or figure out. Really helps me to define my objectives.
The funny part of the report is, it said that I might be in a frustion currently, and should be looked into by my manager to avoid performance fall. I didn’t expect them to find out that I was frustrated, man… the machine is damn good. But what is it that frustratres me? Is it the project’s stress, or is it my dissatisfaction of my peer, or my personal life? Well maybe the complication of all….
Words to describe me from the PPA: Innovative self-starter, assertive, decisive, confident, positive, gregarious, eager, restless, independent, strong-willed, alert, competitive.
