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HI (Hotel Indonesia) Circle is a city square in the most flourishing area in Jakarta, Mohammad Husni Thamrin Street. Along with Sudirman Street and Kuningan Area, they are often called as “Golden Triangle of Jakarta”, means those area are the heart of economy and business activity in Jakarta. There are plenty of head offices, malls, embassies, and apartments there.

For example, around the HI Circle, there are important head offices, malls, hotels, apartments, and embassies, such as:

HI Circle can be easily accessed via TransJakarta bus, the most well-known public transportation in Jakarta. The route you choose is Blok M-Kota route. Then you can stop in Bundaran HI or Tosari ICBC bus stop.

Besides its well-known name, the traffic jam in this area is very bad, especially in the morning when people go to work and in the evening when people go back from work. Not only traffic jam, in rainy season HI Circle is sometimes terribly flooded. January 18, 2013, the terrible flood hit Jakarta. The height of water flooded HI Circle area was as high as knees. That day, many people could’t come to work and TransJakarta bus stopped their operation for Blok M-Kota route. Also, some employees in UOB Plaza are dead because the flood came like little tsunami in UOB Plaza basement.

Now I have been in Jakarta, working as trainee for one month already. I feel this moment doesn’t have much different with the time when I was in university. Learn, play, and hangout with new friends…I feel very grateful. I remembered my last semester, when I feel so confused about future, whether I will continue my study or work first. But I am only human anyway, my view about future is very, very limited. So my plan which I think is the best isn’t always the best in God’s eyes. Yeah, I have learned one lesson now.

In Jakarta, I learn more about life lesson from many people: my mom, my aunt, my colleagues, and also board directors in the place where I work. One thing I must always remember in my mind is: to be a better person, I must stop idolizing my own self. Sometimes we felt better when we criticize others, when we post some good words in social network, when we talk about things that are right in our own view, when we said God’s word, so we can be seen as hero. But as time goes by, such actions will make us proud of our own self. When others criticize us, we will become sensitive and then defend ourselves. And it will make God sad, because without we realize, we forget God and become self-centered.

To be a better person, we must throw our own self away and learn from others instead of criticize them. So we can be a blessing to others. I have so many plans when I was in university, but in the end God’s plan will be done. It proves that our life isn’t us at all. Our life isn’t ours, it’s all about God’s glory.

Even when we struggle with desperation, even when we must struggle with dark side, even when we must experience trials and misery, but if it’s God’s plan….it’s OK. Just do the best with our part. Coz life is all about God.

Having free personality

That can smile whatever the condition is

That can be more open to everyone

When everyone sees me, they feel comfortable near me

Having many best friends

More open, more open

No more dark side

No more things to hide

That is my dream

That is what I want to be in the future

I won’t escape from past

But I will deal with past no matter what

It’s not easy for me

Who has been an introvert for years

But this is my dream

I will fly to the sky

I will soar high in the sky

And for that reason

I will continue to fight

Coz life is precious

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