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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
My 2012 Resolutions

My 2012 Resolutions

Let’s start by reviewing 2011. 2011 is a wild year. One of the best years in my 28 years of life. Although I’m not fully achieving my 2011 goals, but I’m not disappointed, as I have achieved something else that could be equally or more useful. I don’t do very...
Weekend Getaway: MesaStila Spa

Weekend Getaway: MesaStila Spa

I’ve been working very hard in the past 11 months and I think I needed to reward myself with a spa getaway. I’ve been a spa and massage addict, and once every time I want, I  spend my time enjoying spa grander than usual. Spa, for me, is more than...
Korea Winter Trip

Korea Winter Trip

My assistant @navikaanggun  is crazy about Korea. Setiap kali ada kesempatan, dia akan menceritakan semua hal yang berbau Korea terutama drama Korea. Maka saat Korean Tourism Organization mengundang saya untuk Winter Trip di Korea selama seminggu, ada 2 orang yang terperangah: saya dan Vika. For me, it was unexpected offer,...
ON|OFF 2011 - Ideas Meet Opportunities

ON|OFF 2011 – Ideas Meet Opportunities

It’s been a long journey. Early May 2011, Ong & Hanny come to me and asked me to be the Chairwoman of Pesta Blogger 2011 or we call it now ON|OFF 2011. I was overwhelmed (still is). It’s been a BIG event since 2007. I don’t know if I can...
Latest entries

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...

My Style Metamorphosis

People said I’m fashionable, such a hijabi fashion icon, trend setter (that make polem style popular hehe), but I don’t born this way. In fact, a year a go, I don’t even close looking like this. I was 10 kgs overweight & always wear boring & ‘safe’ stuff. After a year, I learned that fashion...

I’m on TV for Indosat Mobile TVC ad

Suddenly for these couple of days, my friends (from high school friends to my business partners), family (spread to all extended family), my twitter followers, FB friends, my parents friends, in short: everybody that knows me, shocked to see my presence on @IndosatMobile  tv commercial. And I’m laughing hard to their various hysterical reactions. The...

The Rise of Creativitiy

There’s a lot of events these days using the word ‘creative’. It’s good because people start to realize the importance of listening to your right brain, instead of just using left brain like what we’ve been doing all these times. But I’m pro of balancing the usage of left and right brain. I have a...

Money Diary

I’m inspired with an article from Marie Claire magazine about women’s money diary. It’s actually important to have one, because we will find out which area really draining our money and we could be more careful, if of course, we already decide to be wise on money (like me now hehe). As a 28 years...

Tips on Effective Delegation

The first rule of management is delegation. Don’t try and do everything yourself because you can’t. -Anthea Turner Saya adalah salah satu orang yang menggemari pendelegasian tugas. Sebabnya? Saya tidak ingin terjebak dalam pengerjaan ‘pritilan’ operasional yang akhirnya membuat saya tidak punya waktu untuk menjalankan tugas saya sesungguhnya dalam menjadi pemimpin yaitu maintaining vision, networking...

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...

Spread Inspirations at Nulis Buku Club Palembang

The first time I met @dheaadyta   was at the launch of NulisBuku.com, October 2010. She successfully completed the writing in 9 days challenge along with 98 other writers. The launch of NulisBuku.com event was also the launch of 99 writers books and she came all the way from Palembang with her family to attend...

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...

On Celebrating #OllieBday

Can’t believe it’s my birthday again! This year, I spend my birthday in Singapore with friends while attending Echelon 2011. This year’s birthday is officially the first birthday without him. It’s been 10 years, and he’s always around. But last year, I felt like I already ‘lost’ him anyway. So, for this year, I have...

Echelon 2011

After judging Echelon Satellite Event in Jakarta, I’ve got a chance to visit Echelon 2011 event in Singapore with 5 of my #StartupLokal buddies. Startup scene is currently very vibrant in Indonesia, and of course as founder of several startups like NulisBuku.com and organizer for one of the biggest startup communities in Indonesia, #StartupLokal, I’m...

The Quest of #IndonesiaJujur

“Always speak the truth, even if it is bitter.” (Baihaqi) Hashtag #IndonesiaJujur muncul di twitter setelah kabar mengejutkan tentang seorang anak pintar di sebuah SD di Surabaya, yang diminta untuk memberikan contekan kepada teman-temannya oleh sang guru. And this is not the shocking news. Ibunya, Siami, yang mengetahui hal itu, langsung melapor ke Kepala Sekolah,...