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My name is Ollie and this is my blog. I'm a writer, startups founder & community organizer, one of them is #StartupLokal. Email me: auliah5 [at] gmail [dot] com
Inspiration
Intel & I

Intel & I

I have the priviledge to have dinner and chat with Intel’s Director of social media, Becky Brown. She’s in Jakarta to meet Intel Indonesia team that has been very creative and successful in doing social media campaign. At the dinner I also meet other Intel friends like Jamshed from Intel Singapore and Dottie (my good...
Women, Work & The Art of Savoir Faire

Women, Work & The Art of Savoir Faire

Eid Holiday is officially over! Now, we’re preparing for the busy routine and I think this book by Mireille Guiliano: Women, Work & The Art of Savoir Faire (you can buy this book from Amazon via Kutukutubuku.com by emailing admin at kutukutubuku.com) is one of the best to read in these times. It’s like a...
Entrepreneur Story

Entrepreneur Story

So what is your definition of success? It’s really hard to measure. A lot of journalists would ask me about how much my companies make. And of course I’m not comfortable in answering that. But they need numbers to sell in their media. Apparently people still need that to be motivated. So they’d keep pushing...

Spirit from Regional Entrepreneurship Summit 2011

The Regional Entrepreneurship Summit talks about entrepreneurship, but it’s really talk about dreams -Hillary Clinton Lucky me to be invited to Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI) – Regional Entrepreneurship Summit (RES) in Grand Hyatt, Bali from 22 – 24 July 2011 represent #StartupLokal. In Bali I was staying and spend time with the amazing girls...

Create Your Own Luck

At Grab Your Luck & be a Winner seminar by @BongChandra , there are 2 ‘opening’ talk show with @PritaLaura  the famous anchor, and me @salsabeela . Compared to Bong Chandra & Prita Laura, I am nobody. How can I speak in the same seminar with the famous and successful people like them? Let’s enlarge...

Retired Before 35

“What do you mean retired? Do you really really wanted to retired… NOT WORKING at all… before 35?” That’s my friend’s reaction when I told him that my goal is to retired before 35. What I meant about ‘retired’ is the joy of financial freedom. That I no longer HAVE TO work in order to...

Inspirations from My Office Girl

My #olliebday writing challenge come from my personal experience. As a writer, I always want to see someone, not solely from the interface that I see (excuse my geeky phrase -_-), but from other perspective. Because I believe everybody always has an inspiring story we can learn from, and it can be good for my...

Writing Workshop at #PerpusKreatif

Education is life, it should never stop -Mas Indra of #PerpusKreatif I have a concern about children education in Indonesia and been wondering if there’s anything I could do about it. After my blog post, @inandatiaka email me directly. We manage to meet and talk more about this. Well, I do most of the talk...

Gate to Success

Went to one day business trip to Surabaya yesterday, going to 2 events: Indonesia Bercerita and my Nulis Buku club Surabaya event. I wrote a story for Indonesia Bercerita’s book: 22 hari bercerita #2 called: Cerita Selma. I never write a children story before and I was confused on what to write. That’s when I...

Kartini & Technology

Today is Kartini day. She’s been an inspiration for many Indonesian women to achieve more in their life. She wrote letters to her bestfriend, Stella, in Europe regularly, share her insights about women condition in Indonesia. And how she wanted women to get more education, equal to men. Mr J. H. Abendanon, the Minister for...

About New Theme

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. -Walt Disney Trying new theme by WPCharity. It’s a child theme of Twenty Ten. Tumblr style. Something I really wanted to try since ages ago. I must figure this theme out the whole...

The Amazing February

So I wrote about my progress in January 2011. Now I want to share what’s happened in February 2011. February has been fabulous for me! Not because it’s a month of love (they say), but because I (and friends) hosted 5 events in a month! For me, who was once a painfully shy girl and...