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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...
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Tips Sukses a la Ollie

Mata saya tiba-tiba menekuri sebuah piagam yang diberikan setelah saya memberikan seminar di sebuah event. Piagam itu ditujukan kepada saya, Aulia Halimatussadiah, sebagai Wanita Wirausaha Sukses. Saya jadi berpikir, apa itu sukses? Apa tolak ukurnya? Bagi saya pribadi, sukses itu saat kita sudah bisa memberi dan berbagi ke lebih banyak orang. Saat bisnis atau apapun...

A Day with Saphia

I have this photo blog called Jakarta Daily Photo and I have a lot of foreigners appreciating the blog because it shows the beauty side of Jakarta. One of the comment I got is from Saphia, a French girl who’s coming visiting Jakarta for work related and would spend months here. We met at National...

Perjalanan Umroh ku (Catatan Pinggir)

Dua hari terakhir saya di Mekkah, sebelum pulang ke Indonesia, tamu bulanan saya datang tak diundang. Jadilah saya mendekam di kamar sambil membaca buku Naked Traveler 3 yang saya bawa dari Indonesia. Buku Trinity ini, menurut saya yang terbaik dari ketiga buku. I love it very much. Ceritanya makin komplit dan makin vulgar a la...

My Umrah Journey

Living in Indonesia, country with largest Muslim population in the world, I’ve been a Muslim all my life. I automatically become a Muslim because my parents are Muslim. I didn’t walk thru process of ‘searching’. I accept Islam they way it is. And I didn’t questioned it. The 5 times praying ritual started become a soul-less routine....

Your Biggest Life Regret

Watch the amazing video made in Ireland >> One Town, 50 different People, One very difficult Question: What is your biggest life regret? If I have to answer it, maybe I’d need to pause for couple of minutes. I’d probably would say, I didn’t have anything to regret in my life. Because everything happened for...

Women & Technology

Seperti yang sudah saya sampaikan di postingan sebelumnya, yang paling penting untuk memulai bisnis adalah action. Tapi saya perhatikan, banyak dari kita yang kesulitan memulai karena terlalu banyak berpikir hal-hal yang susah. Yang paling sering saya dengar adalah: “Saya pengen bikin bisnis online seperti mbak, tapi saya gaptek banget!” Saya pikir, ini hanya masalah kemauan...

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...

Rethinking March & April 2011

8 minutes past midnight. A good time to write about what I’ve done in March & April 2011. Actually, after writing my January and February summary, I tried to pretend to forget writing this, until @fajarh  come to remind me :P So, I guess… I can’t get away from posting this LOL March was a...

Bukittinggi Memories

Taken from our last trip to Bukittinggi, Padang, West Sumatra. Invited by a travel magazine on  2010. Never manage to write the travelogue. Related Posts Peter Pezaris & Multiply It's an honor for me to meet Peter Pezaris, the founder and CEO of Multiply.com, also David Hersh,... Laskar Pelangi The Movie Kepala saya masih berat...

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...

Women: Should You Hold Back?

After a discussion with several friends, I found out that many successful women feel the need to hold back and slow down their career so their man can catch up and help brush man ego to eventually save the relationship. I think women should never do that. His lack of self confidence and insecurity is...

Judging For Echelon 2011 Indonesia Satellite Event

Happy to represent #StartupLokal initiators as one of judges of Echelon 2011 Indonesia Satellite event, sharing table with some big names in Indonesia & Singapore Technology world, such as Aulia Masna (Daily Social), Aaron Tan Wei Cheng (SingTel Innov8), Shinta Dhanuwardoyo (Bubu.com), Danny Oei Wirianto (Kaskus Networks), Andi Boediman (IDS Education), Irving Hutagalung (Microsoft Indonesia), Satya...