Colour of Hope

Rays of Sunrise to Calgary's downtown

A nice moment hard to forget.
Wish I can grab this view
Frame it on my daydreaming wall


It was really an amazing moment that I was lucky to be able to record it. Thanks to Tuna who took the picture.
Hue of orange inspires you to keep joyfull and happy, symbolic of prosperity and pride.

Motivation

Wow.. you won't believe how powerful is a MOTIVATION.
Here I have a story behind that...

On my last working day, last Tuesday before we left, I saw Nory, our Lab coordinator wrote her email address on a piece of paper and gave it to one Chinese guy. I can't remember his name. What I know he is one of the new landed immigrants.
Speaking about new landed immigrants ho..ho.. too many new landed immigrants in my work place.
Mostly people working here are over-qualified, well at least just to work as laboratory tester. Their background varies from chemical engineer, civil engineer to botanist. I know some of them even already have 10 years working experience in their home country with quite high position. There is one Russian lady with PhD degree with I bet more than 3years working experience.
The bottomline, people working in this lab are just for the sake of getting Canadian work experience to get professional jobs.

It is one of the reality that we have to face as new landed immigrants in Canada that to get more chance to work professionally is not easy. Most employers here put minimum requirements of at least to have 1 year Canadian working experience. It doesn't matter where you work as long as you know about the Canadian work environment it may benefit to you.

Just like me... I really want to continue my career as geologist especially in oil company.. That's one of my dream here .. But the reality I have to go through a long path. But it's OK.. I am realistic. I have set some plans, from plan A for the ideal one to plan D for the worse one. Plan B failed to go and at the moment I am taking plan B, decided to take this survival job as a laboratory tester in AGAT. I found it boring but it is not really a complicated job you just need to follow instructions. So in this lab, there are 6 stations of sample preparation and petrological analyses. A good thing, I am quite familiar with this stuff and I still deal with rock samples, one petrological analysis (methylene blue).

Being here, I am hoping that I will get chance to leap frog to a real geology worksite by knowing some geologists here. People here call NETWORKING as one technique to get job in Canada, I believe there is kind of networking in other countries too, but just in different terms.

Being in Canada, especially dealing with job searching is really a big challenge and a new interesting to do. I learned so many things about techniques how to make a good resume so that we can get interview which I found is totally different from what we normally do back home. Also how to deal with interview, and a must to do i.e. how to deal with job search research.

So basically.. searching job itself is my first job here in Calgary. I found it so time consuming, you need to be able to independently work, creative to manage your stress level, also need to be active and optimist to meet new people to spread networking. The most important one, you have to be in full motivation.

Anyway, so far I am happy with the labwork, I can make a bit of money, seeing new friends. hey..let's go back to that lucky Chinese...

So wondering what happened to him, I heard Nory said that he won't will come back to work as he got a job at Shell. Wow.. how lucky he is. I don't know very well about this guy but what I know he is a production petroleum engineer. Honestly, I was kind of jealous of him. But I was trying so hard to keep sending positive sensor to my brain to positively react to this situation. At home, I told about it to my husband. After that, I couldn't believe to my reaction, I was so deadly motivated to start applying jobs, things that I haven't done since I work at Lab.
In the following day, since morning I was sitting in front of my Dell the whole day, revising cover letter, CV and sending all job ads.. I sent about 9 job applications. I can't believe it. Lastly, I was so satisfied though not sure whether I will get response or not.. I don't care at all about it. I thought I have done my best and I was extremely happy as I am back in the motivated mode and just because of that lucky guy.

So, to be motivated is really something subjective, dependent on the person mood or let say someone's character. If a little happening around him/her may trigger a spark of motivation to this person or this person may see the positive side of the heappening then it may give positive response to him/her.
Being motivated really makes your days so lively and full of hope.
Hey nothing wrong to keep hoping right as long as we realise that we have to keep trying and The Creator who will decide whether He will give it to us or not.

Malam terakhir - ku akhirnya ada ditanganku...

Thanks buat Nigar, sahabat bacaku di Jakarta yang sudah rela memberikan buku ini utkku. Thanks juga buat adikku yg sudah mengirimkan buku ini hingga akhirnya sekarang kembali ada ditanganku. Semua baik deh, beruntung aku punya sahabat Nigar yang masih suka ngubek2 toko buku utk mencarikan sesuatu yg sudah jelas susah dicari karena sudah tidak dicetak lagi. Sudah hampir 10 tahun kucari, sejak buku ini menghilang dari rakku. Dan saat aku jumpa Nigar, dia jadi nara sumberku untuk Keberadaan Leila
--- Why Leila? Karya2 Leila sudah kuakrabi sejak aku SMP, hingga Malam Terakhirnya. Karya2nya umumnya berupa fiksi dan cerpen yang sering muncul di matra dan Kompas.
Sepuluh tahun terakhir aku mencari keberadaanya hm.. sepertinya malam Terakhir, benar2 karya terakhirnya.. and you know guys! you won't believe I found something! Malam Terakhir.. jadi salah satu referensi utk stage6 Bahasa Indonesia Program di NSW, ANU...
--- dimana kamu Leila..?

Fitness Corridor

this is fitness corridor.. at the basement of our apartment. Quite helpful for exercise when the weather is pretty cold to walk outside.. just walk back and forward for about 30minutes of course I also listen to music from my discman otherwise i will feel bored especially when I walk alone..  

Joke of Nortel

This joke is about Nortel.. where Tuna works.. he sent me this morning.. I can smell how his hatred, ignorance feeling to his Corp (right Tuna? :)
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--A guy goes to Nortel Networks to apply for a job. The interviewer
asks him, "Have you been in the service?"
"Yes," he says. "I was in the Canadian Armed Forces for three years."
The interviewer says, "That will give you extra points toward
employment" and then the interviewer asks, "Are you disabled in any
way?"
The guy says, "Yes 100%...a mortar round exploded near me and blew my
testicles off."
The interviewer tells the guy, "O.K. I can hire you right now. The hours
are from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. You can start tomorrow. Come in at 10:00 A.M."
The guy is puzzled and says, "If the hours are from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
then why do you want me to come in at 10:00 A.M."
"This is a Nortel Networks job" the interviewer says. "For the first two
hours we sit around scratching our balls.......no point in you coming in
early for that!!!!"
Now switch Nortel Networks with "a Government Services" job, that was the original joke.

Start blogging - Chestermere

Oh nooo, my off day has gone for 3 days and I haven' been out. Well yeah, been sticked on my chair in front of our silent Dell. dunno just lazy to be out. Though it's been sunny every day with at elast 15C, it's good enough to have a stroll. I think, since early March. Then remind me what always been said by Tuna -my husband- hm, you are lucky being in Calgary, so warm.. I admit that. I am lucky. Anyway, my Ma (mother in law) is sick today so that worsely i can't really go out. I have no complaint. Hope she is gonna be better tomorrow.
This morning I called my parent in Jakarta.. I was missing them so much yesterday..Mum and Dad.. and always Dad still like joking around telling me about pisang kepok that just harvested from our backyard, "you want me to send it Yulini?" .. I responded : "How?" "well there is only way to send it to you, I will take picture and send the picture to you".. ????!!??
Anyway, I was happy to hear that they are happy especially this weekend my sister Desti is gonna spend long weekend at our house.
This afternoon, I, Tuna and Ma went to Chestermere lake.
It was about 15km driving eastward. The area is actually out of Calgary.. There are new residential areas close to the lake. My impression to the area remind me to Devonport, Auckland. It offers awesome tranquil sunset atmosphere, lucky to people who can afford to buy house with lakeshose as their backyard, must be more than $300K... TOO BAD I didn't take my camera!!!Tuna said don't worry we will come back. It was about 6pm when we got there, about to sunset btu we passed coz.. I couldn't stand cold wind.. we took a short walk.. watching some geese tried to walk passing the soft thin ice.. one of them deadly tried and slipped all the time. On the way home, we stopped at Elliston Park, the closest artificial lake in South Calgary. There are about 4 spots of playground.. I saw few there... the lake is partly frozen. Tuna said that most of his summer time spent there, no worries this year I will accompany you and in the following year will be with our kids... our dream..