Jon Kartago Lamida - The Awesome Dude (Page 2)

Reading with Purpose

I like reading since long time ago. However only until recently I learn more effective way of reading. Previously I read a lot but I got less from what I read. There several books that I use in improving the method I talked about. First set, How We Learn by

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The Road Trip

I missed in writing for more than a week. I went to Australia again last week. It seems that I am really falling in love with the country. With the nice empty country side road, with the nature, the national parks, the beaches, the hills, the animals and the drivings.

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Video Game

I am a casual game player. Like any other kids, I was so obsessed to have a video game console like my friends. My first console was Nintendo 8 bit. Actually it is made in China and not the original Nintendo from Japan. But it can run Nintendo cassette anyway.

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Animal Husbandry

One of my bucket list in life is to live a beautiful country and maintain an animal husbandry. In the morning I will go to take care the animal and in the afternoon will work remotely as a programmer. I The idea had appeared even before my last visit to

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The One Thing

Now I am reading Garry Keller's The One Thing. I am hoping this is the way for me to boost my future success. I have spent my life to much in vagueness and uncertainty. I have been stuck in greedy goal settings and bloated to do list. Initial lesson learn

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The Art of Visualisation

2016 olympics just ended. At this year, that was the first time when I really followed the progress of some games on it and saw the medals collected by countries participated there. Although, I have never interested or been good in any sport. I always excited to play table soccer

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Never Eat Alone

I bought the book sometime ago, but as usual it laid in the cabinet dusted and untouched. From many personal development books that I read, connecting with people, especially influential people is paramount. We can learn from their experience and wisdom. However, it seems that I am quite lazy in

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Why You Should Make a Fast Careful Decision

Update: At the end, I cancelled my plan to buy a drone because I couldn't justify a huge expense that I will rarely use and also huge risk of crashing it to a drain. Here I go again with my weak commitment in life. I think I just had most

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Non-Productive Weekend

Today I absent from attending my miracle morning session again. Last night as often, I couldn't sleep, hence I sleep again after woke up on 6AM al the way to 9 AM. I have done some house chores though, while my wife was going out for teaching. I am still

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Getting Things Done

Today journal will be quite short. This week I am trying to focus in doing stuffs. Like reading, instead of jumping around many books, I tried to focus with one or two but really spent sometime to really dive in into those fews. One of book that is in this

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Why I live?

Finally I made it. I woke up before 5AM as I have aimed todo recently. The purpose of waking up early is to have a personal time where I can evaluate my life, learn from the past and planning for the future. Aside from that also to have a special

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TODO: SAVERS

So the idea was for me to try to wake up earlier every morning and do personal development session as described in Miracle Morning book that is embodied in SAVERS principle. Today is my third attempt to try to wake earlier and I fail again. The alarm buzzed on 5AM.

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Journal D-1

Update: Previously I planned to have different blog installation that consists my journal. But at the end I am thinking to simplify my life and I will just put everything here. I was planning to start my miracle morning today as stated in my previous journal. But the miracle didn't

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Journal D-0

Update: Previously I planned to have different blog installation that consists my journal. But at the end I am thinking to simplify my life and I will just put everything here. I have completed the setup this blog since sometime. I have been thinking to start writing on it for

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Bash Trick - Editing Shell Command

There will a time when we need to run a long or complex command in bash. I found myself in this situation when I play around with elasticsearch today. I need to run many curl command with long body like the below. curl -XGET localhost:9200/megacorp/employee/_search?pretty

Tech in Asia Singapore 2016 Takeaway

I attended Tech in Asia Singapore 2016 (TIAS 2016) yesterday. Although usually I have difficulty to focus in a hectic conference, at least I got some good takeaway for my future reference. TIAS 2016 is held at Suntec Convention Center Singapore on 12-13 April 2016. There are 6 stages where

Moving Away From Blogger

After 6 years blogging in blogger, I decided to try ghost. Honestly I write really rarely, I don't know if with this move, I could re-trigger the enthusiasm to write more properly and consistently. Hopefully it could work that way. Why should move? The main reason is after years with

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Docker Hello World

Docker is an open platform for distributed application for developer and sysadmin. It helps to help seamless cycle of build, ship and run. In this post context I would like to share how docker helped me in prototyping or learning using particular stacks without complication of OS dependency and polluting

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A Late Resolution Note of 2015

I wanted to write this end/new year note since last November. Even as the new year had passed and now is not end year anymore, the note still has not completed. Let me write it now. As always, end of year to new year is a good place to

Smove.sg Car Sharing Review

So it is started when I and my wife were boring on last Saturday morning. Initially we didn't have any plan yet. Suddenly my wife was suggesting why don't we try Smove and just drive around Singapore? I rarely writing review about startup services. But since Smove is quite innovative,

End of Twenties Note: Evaluate Backward and Dream Forward

November and December are special months when many special occasions held. I got married on November. My wife birthday, my most special person, is also in November. And December is my birth month. Yesterday was time when my age clock tick to another year and it remind me that I

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How to Stay Competitive: A Self Reminder

If we drive our car every day, could we become a better driver? Not necessary. Daily driver of course will be good in driving compared to the new learner. He can act and respond promptly for some sudden event on the road. However, it will not make he can do

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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Review

Stylus in smartphone is something that actually I rarely use but I can't live without. It was started almost 3 years ago when the first generation of Samsung Galaxy Note released. The main identity of this smartphone is the stylus as the Note name coming from. Other than that, this

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After Six Months

Wow it has been six month again after my last post. And I will just jot down again some personal note this time. I went to Europe from January until March earlier this year. I took a long leave from my job. I was visiting my wife in Germany, the

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Another Self Reflection of Age Increment

var jon = {name: "Jon", age: 27} jon.age++ console.log(jon.age) Birthday is a special reminder. It will make us recall that few years back we had born to this world and one day we also need to depart. We do not live forever. There are two