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Mengapa harus ragu dan takut sebelum memulai jika kamu memiliki Tuhan Yang Maha Cerdas dan Pemilik Segala Ilmu?

Temuilah Dia di waktu 1/3 malam.

Tidak ada yang sulit bagiNya.

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Kerja itu untuk menunggu waktu sholat.

Hidup itu menunggu waktu untuk pulang.

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Lindungi Waktu.

Lindungi waktu untukmu bertumbuh sesuai dg impianmu.

Lindungi waktu untuk tubuhmu berolahraga.

Lindungi waktu untuk membuat dan menkonsumsi asupan terbaik.

Lindungi waktu untuk beribadah dan membaca ayatNya.

Lindungi waktu untuk menemani si kecil belajar dan bermain.

Jika tidak, maka waktumu akan terbuang untuk kesibukan yang tidak ada habisnya.

Apa yang didapat dari orang yang menomorduakan keluarganya dan mengabaikan apa yang membuat hatinya damai?

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Day 9 : Writing about happiness

Simply happy since I can do what I really wanted to do since 7 years back - doing data analytics. Later I'll attach the work here :)

Kalau Sina, anak gw happy nya beda, dia seneng kalau diajak main finger paint, main masukin mainan dia ke truck, nonton baby bus dan Cars nya Pixar XD

Alhamdulillah 'ala kulli haal . . .

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Day 8 : The Power of Music

When feeling low or deadlock, I have particular playlist to listen in my Spotify that lift up my mood.

Check here to see ❤️

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Day 7 : Favourite Movie

The only movie I always remember :

Habibie & Ainun

Here for synopsis

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Day 6 : Single and Happy

#WritingChallenge

Single? Ok I don’t know if I relate to this since I am no longer single, but I’d try to write fun things about these 2 syllables : Single and Happy. 

Here in Indonesia we have a stereotype : ‘If you’re single and your life remains sucks, just get married to someone’. HAHA. It’s funny yet ridiculous for me. 

Why? Well I tell you, IT WOULD NOT (unless you marry an angel or God, and I bet you would never do that lol). If that stereotype is correct, there will be no divorce cases here, isn’t it? 

I believe marriage teaches us to love more and better, to lower our ego, to hear & understand others even better (that is why Our Prophet Muhammad SAW advise us to marry once we certain we can afford it**), in a sense that we only can do that if we love ourselves more and better.

It is because the relationship with another person is the same as when you do to yourself, all the time. 

The question is, how can we love ourselves better? One way is to set ourselves free. Means, to release any negativity and judgement to our own selves. 

To let go of our inner child.

To accept what we truly are and all sickness we went through. 

To forgive our own mistakes as a learning journey. 

To embrace every process we’ve been through.

It’s not easy, but doesn’t mean we cannot do that. 

The thing we can do is to control our mind, to coach our thoughts and determine where it should be going. By then, we can go ahead to love our spouse wholeheartedly and create a greatest upbringing to our children.

If still single? Well, nothing could impress a human than the beauty of its soul, isn't it?

Back to the theme, fascinating question was : is relationship status becomes a predictor to happiness and well-being?

This novel research from Michigan State University fascinates me, saying that RELATIONSHIP STATUS IS NOT A PREDICTOR OF WELL BEING. (Source: Science Daily - When it’s Come To Happiness, What Love Got To Do With It?)

You can be happy either be single, or marriage, or widower, you name it. 

Happiness is something you make.

Never expect others to fix you, but you do. 

Cause happiness is inside of you.

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Day 5 : Parents

#WritingChallenge #Day5

My parents taught me to be independent since I was child.

No wonder they sent me to boarding school when I was just 13 years old, learning islamic and common academic subjects. Embracing to live separated with my parents, made younger me sad.

I remember how madly I was that time, I felt I was neglected, since they only did this to me, not to my elder sister. Can you imagine, the girl that just passed from elementary school should be thriving to live by herself?

Counting years, finally I have graduated from there, with ‘Mumtaz’ or ‘Perfect Accomplishment’, but I did that with blood and tears. Multiple times I got sick, took care of myself, healed by myself, learned everything with my fellow learners every single day, cried a river when got homesick. But in the end I know, every struggles I have that time has shaped me being tougher than others, including my elder sister.

Come the time for me to choose, that my parents asked me whether to continue studying at boarding school or into public school. If I choose public, I need to push my ability to the fullest, since my school can be seen as ‘underdog amongst other’, as islamic school concerned not only in common subjects like any other student in junior high school have, but both with islamic subjects that even took more disciplines, so yeah you can wondering how dispersed the knowledge we have earned.

Long story short, I made it. I went to the same school as my elder sister does in one of the renowned public high schools in Jakarta. Studied there can never be compared to previous school in terms of difficulty, oh yeah I have very few disciplines now and it’s easy peasy lemon squeezy to be top rank of students, hamdalah. Then I poked myself, maybe this is one of the benefits that parents wanted to give.

In late teenage I realised that my parents love cannot be considered as lovely as other people's parents might have, but 'Love Tough' they'd rather be. If I wanted to get something, go get it. Period.

When I come to college, I prefer to stay further from my parents' home since my major dream is located in Bandung, and I get used to living apart from them :)

Here I am now, benefitting from what I have learned when I have to struggle by myself since my childhood.

I know my parents are not perfect (there’s aint one out there), but for me they endless love and sacrifices are remarkable. They are the best treasure that I have for my entire life.

Thank you Bu. Thank you Pak for not giving up on me, eventhough I tend to questioning everything XD

Thank you for keep telling me that hard work, prayer and perseverance would never fail.

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Day 4 : Places I Wanted to Visit

#Day4 #WritingChallenge

Life treats us 180 degree differently during this pandemic. One of them is, we could not visit family and other favourite places, for safety and humanity. But I think there’s a blessing disguise for our personal life, that we can hear unequivocal sounds of our soul on what we need to do for the rest of our life without getting distracted by a crowd of noises - especially from social media. That was another story to tell. But here I have my most wanted places to visit :

1. Parent’s Home in Jakarta, since I haven't met them since Feb 2020, almost 7 months. 

2. Aston Anyer, which became the only favourite place to stay at during family leisure time, just 4 hours away from our home. Bali? What? XD

3. Natura Yoga, for having a Yoga Class session with my great instructor Mbak Manda. 

Knowing Yoga deeply since I was pregnant, that really help back pain and other joint illnesses of carrying more weight. Mindfulness can also be another big thing we can get from Yoga exercise, since it’s considered as work in, not work out. (Source: 60+ Benefits of Yoga for Mental & Physical Health)

4. Olympic Pool - Pondok Indah. Oh I really miss to bump into the water. 

Since I was elementary school, pool is the only place I run to when I feel burdened. Yet there are research about swimming benefits, including to release depression (source: Scientific American - Benefits of Swimming).

Patiently waiting, and to do what we can do to fight against this pandemic is the only thing we can help to fasten this uncertain condition. 

So please, stay at home. 

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Day 3 : A Memory

#WritingChallenge #Day3

All of us are human beings who perceive good or bad things in life and keep all of that in our memory. The question is how many moments we could save in our ‘internal’ memory?

Being said that the human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem. You might have only a few gigabytes of storage space, similar to the space in an iPod or a USB flash drive. Yet neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes). For comparison, if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows. You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage.

So the good news is that we would not run out of brain space to hold.

Another interesting part that piqued my interest, there are plenty of types of emotions innately involved in memory we have. But how could it be? 

Neurological research found that there is a robust linkage between strong emotion we feel and memories constructed, that the memory becomes seared in the brain. For instance, all the mothers will always remember the time when she gave birth to her children, surprisingly they would clearly remember what shirt’s colour when she gave birth. Same with the sweetest moment we ever sensed or the saddest incident we had embraced.

Scientifics speaking, Hippocampal neurons that respond to fearful stimuli relay that information to the amygdala. These neurons synchronize when memories of the stimuli are later recalled. The synchrony is critical to establish fear memories and the greater the synchrony, the stronger the memory becomes (Source: Why Are Memories Attached to Emotions so Strong?)

The next imperative thing is how can we manage that good and bad memory. What can we do with the good memory? Do we need to diminish or rub out bad memories for good sake of our life continuity? 

From my experience, good memory can be used to boost up our moods or give a glimpse of motivation when we’re drowned. For instance, once I feel useless and cannot do better in my work, I remember the time when I was working with the Minister and top tier of leaders in the Ministry a few years back, that my work was chosen as one of the greatest, that became the Ministry’s flagship. Or when I’m feeling bad at coding things when doing analysis, I remember when I succeeded in a final project in university that was unprecedented work even across the country.

As for bad memory, we should embrace and label the emotions that came when suddenly pop up of remembrance, and forgive when we tend to blame our ownselves.  For example, when we feel broken-hearted and neglected (who never feels these emotions anyway?), I keep telling myself that I forgive myself for choosing the wrong people in my inner circle. That was ok, and it’s very common for humans. So it’s not necessarily to remove or avoid the feeling. 

One thing I learn, to forgive ourselves is another task to overcome. Once we get used to it, beautiful healing we'll get.

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Day 2 : Things That Makes You Happy

#WritingChallenge #Day2

Whoa today's theme is one of my favourite topics. 

Happiness. Writing or just reading the word makes us want to smile, isn't it? :)

Regarding happiness, today I am gonna take a close look at one cause of happiness, of which when you do this thing, you’ll be happy (sounds imaginary? Haha kind of, but this scientific fact might blow your mind). That thing is: GRATITUDE.

Hold on, why do I cross other term like ‘Gratitude’ into ‘Happiness’? Do they really correlate one to another? 

Neurological research said that, when we express gratitude and receive the same, our brain releases dopamine and serotonin, the two crucial neurotransmitters responsible for our emotions, and they make us feel ‘good’. They enhance our mood immediately, making us feel happy from the inside. By consciously practicing gratitude everyday, we can help these neural pathways to strengthen themselves and ultimately create a permanent grateful and positive nature within ourselves. Thanking others, thanking ourselves, Mother Nature, or the Almighty – gratitude in any form can enlighten the mind and make us feel happier. It has a healing effect on us. (Russell and Fosha, 2008).

Gratitude improves interpersonal relationships at home and work (Gordon, 2012). The connection between gratitude and happiness is multi-dimensional. Expressing gratitude not only to others but also to ourselves, induces positive emotions, primarily happiness. By producing feelings of pleasure and contentment, gratitude impacts on our overall health and well-being as well. In the other research found that the effect of gratitude on the brain is long lasting (Moll, Zahn, et al. 2007). Besides enhancing self-love and empathy, gratitude significantly impacts on body functions and psychological conditions like stress, anxiety, and depression. Couple studies have also indicated that partners who expressed their thankfulness to each other often, could sustain their relationships with mutual trust, loyalty, and had long-lasting happy relationships. (Source: The Neuroscience of Gratitude & How it Affects Anxiety and Griefs)

That is why many people composes a daily journal by listing down numerous things that makes them feel happy that day, a simple thing that could bring huge yet long term multidimensional benefits.

As for me, I’d write things that makes me happy, but first please allow me to use Bahasa, so that System 2 of our brain doesn’t need to work harder (as described by Daniel Kahneman in Thinking Fast & Slow).

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Makasih ya Allah sampai detik ini bisa bernafas dengan lega tanpa ventilator atau penyangga apapun

Makasih ya Allah di pagi hari bisa berdoa dengan khidmat dan belajar dengan fasilitas yg baik dan nyaman

Makasih ya Allah keluarga kami diberikan kesehatan dan kebahagiaan bahkan dari hal yang kecil sekalipun buat kami MasyaAllah :)

Makasih ya Allah untuk suami yang baik, responsible dan penyayang, serta anak yang lucu dan pintar

Makasih Mas Eko, sampai detik ini terus support apa yg aku lakukan dan juga ga ngelarang kalau aku shopping2 hahaha :D

Makasih Sina, hari ini kamu makannya baik jadi mama ga pusing :)

Alhamdulillaah malam ini bisa makan sate madura enak banget setelah sekian lama

Dan yg juga sering dilupakan, alhamdulillah masih bisa sholat dan mengingatNya tanpa ada gencatan senjata dan bunyi dentuman bom di langit. 

Yet there’s so much more that I could not thank God enough. 

“Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world”. - Robin Sharma 

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Day 1 : Describe Personality

#Day1 #WritingChallenge

Once I have heard from the movie I watched, that personality is something that sticks to a particular person over period that would not change over time, no matter what the conditions are. At first I believed this (because it sounds like it has a strong basis of great philosophical value), but is that true? 

Well, in fact the latest study tracked personality changes over five decades, and the results suggest that while certain personality elements remain stable over time, others change in distinct ways. In other words, personality is both relatively stable and changeable, and the degree of change is specific to each person. (Source: Forbes - Can Personality Change?)

Reading that while looking back at myself 15 years ago, when I was in high school, all I can see is a humble girl of me, a sincere giver, yet with a low-key personality, not to mention whenever my friends asked for help, I’d definitely help if I could. Besides I have adhesive ambition inside that brings me to be a high achiever, deep down I resemble a tough trainer who has tacit standard to be implemented in any goals I need to achieve. I often keep pushing myself harder. Looking at myself today, I can say this kind of personality is stable over time.

On the other hand, I have another side that shifts gradually, at least for this 8 years. I still remember how melancholic I was in uni life (like crying over bad score in Calculus subject with my other mellow fellow XD), sometimes moody, clingy and extremely needy & possessive to my closest (lol) and somehow I have insecurity buried inside of me, that in a certain level it might occurred, also it's not a rare thing if I apt questioning myself  ‘Can I do this? Am I sure I can handle this greatly?’

I thank God. He always trains me in such a way that makes me better and better everyday. One way is linking my path to the great persons that becomes a mentor in life that I’ve always looked up to.

I can see myself today laughing of my old-day that unused mellow repercussions, moody, clingy, needy, possessive, and insecure. However I forgive that fool of young me :) The process I’ve gone through is not easy if I might say. Bruises I have had from previous days has made me who I am today, 

The key is how we can work on our weakness. Period. 

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Writing Challenge

Hi fellas, I’ve read one post in my feed on Twitter today regarding this 30 days of Writing Challenge, and I think it’s not a bad idea as it can boost up our self care and self love. 

Before that, I would like to compose a guideline for myself for every writing content, which should involved (implicitly or explicitly) 3 things :

1. Truth 

2. Positivity

3. Novel research basis regarding the theme 

As I am having quite tight schedule in daily basis, I promise to stick with the idea of 30 days writing in order. If my primary task (as I am taking some certification currently that need significant amount of time and participation) needs more time than usual, I’ll ensure to post this content not more than 3 days in between.

So let’s get started.

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Always let your plate be empty

Many people apt to compare what they’ve done to other’s. This is not wrong, since competitivenes plays an important role to make a better quality of any form of outcome. But sometimes we need to step back and look at ourselves, are we content enough with what we’ve been doing? Are we still relevant with our prior goal we’ve set before doing anything? Are we see ourselves happily in embracing upcoming challenges? Is there any strategy missing for ourselves to dig in and catch up? 

Most of people tend to see other’s lives are platable than ours. But they denied upon how many sacrifices he’s made until this point. They dont see bruises he’s had in previous phase of his life that made him a man. What they see is clearly final outcome. Glamorous life, expensive car, prestigious career position, adventorous holiday within premium class flight, what a extremely happy family without any blemish. what else you name it. 

But do they even think about tears and bloods he’s endure while pursuing what they’ve determined? do they understand the grain of persistence and perseverance of effort to make their tenacious habbit?

I guess not. 

But this is what I always remind myself. To always see under my feet.

To always look up to what I need to do to make myself better and better every single day. To always make my plate be empty so that I can make my own with the most optimum endeavour. 

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#selfdevelopment #myruleoflife

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Love at First Sight

Do you believe in love at first sight also applies to our interest?

At first I dont.

But along the way after 8 years passed by, I realised somehow it does.

I remember for the very fist time I read scientific journal regarding Analysis-Synthesis for Speech Processing, the very compelling part is that the system can predict high frequency whereas it is not even transmitted over the air. Why do we need to predict high frequency anyway if telephony frequency which transmitted sounds good. Well, in terms of satisfaction there’s always another skies over the sky, isn’t ? Technology can even make more better and better life quality we might never imagine. Prediction is a key.

So how it would be? After little dig deeper, it’s because Machine Learning.

Yes those computational intelligence behind make everything we see impossible being plausible and possible. At that time, 8 years ago I decided to to do my final theses for reconstructing wideband speech signal from narrowband, with a help of codebook algorithm and KNN clustering clasification. Luckily I had right supervisory under, thus the research went well.

But that was my past. After university life, I left all stuff including teaching assisting behind, and start a new life. Commencing my career in Government, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy The Republic of Indonesia.

I assisting the Director of Cooperation and Facilitation, of which the main responsibility is to build the right ecosystem for Digital Entrepreneurs (later, called digipreneurs). My main part is to create program for digipreneurs so that they can lift up their businesses of digital products (mostly apps and games) locally and globally. Met significant influence leaders across industry to do collaboration hand in hand with, from Venture Capital, Angel Investor, Central Bank of Indonesia, World Bank and other Gov institution, Multi National Corporation, digital communities, letting me learn to think strategics and should be comprehensive.

I think the way to understand better how digital business works, is to dive in. 

So within 2 years I work at one of digital service company which has strong cooperation with hi-tech global companies to help telecommunication company provide the white-label service. I deep intact working with Business Intelligence team and invaluable partner from various country to tap the local market. With data understanding and crack something into it with technology, it can make into something very impactful to the traction and revenues.

With engineering background and 5 years back and forth working with government and business, my love at data analytics surprisingly has not been vanished, even growing into something should be useful.

I really enjoy when my hand gets extremely-dirty  while doing preprocessing data, analysis, and visualise the result. Especially when it could enhance the way business works. For instance we could create market segmentation upon their behaviours, market basket analysis thus retail can make more efficient promotion & cross selling/upselling, knowing Customer Lifetime Value, and moreover knowing whether customer would likely to churn so that we could retain them (as acquiring new customer would take 5-6 times heavier cost than retaining),

Then I lately realise, we might fall in love with the same interest but with a lot more sharper direction.

How about you?

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Doing Log Regression Summary on StatsModels

Python 2 :

Log_reg.summary() #simplycode

Python 3: #add to library

from scipy import statsstats.chisqprob = lambda chisq, df: stats.chi2.sf(chisq, df)

For this case and some (such as load csv file) Python 3 is likely more not immaculate :)

However when come into Tensorflow, Python 2 is not compatible, hence we shall waving goodbye to this former version into newest one, Python 3. 

No probs!