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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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Jakarta Street Kids

In one fine afternoon, me & my friend @adhisaputra  walk across the Cikini street. We talked about writing, human interest, and everything in between. Suddenly a boy following me, offering books he carried. I said, I’ll buy the book, but you must follow me. Then we stop to a very famous chicken porridge restaurant. I...

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...

Welcoming the Elegant Magnum Cafe

Sebagai seorang penulis, sangat penting bagi saya untuk punya tempat hang out untuk menulis yang cozy dan menawarkan makanan ringan yang enak-enak! Sekarang, di Grand Indonesia, West Mall, lantai 5, sudah ada tempat nongkrong baru! It’s Magnum Cafe! Yeah… ini cafe-nya Magnum ice cream itu loh. So… selain bisa menikmati cafe yang interior-nya vintage chic a...

What Bill Gates & I have in common

So yesterday I went to Mekar‘s office with @chandramarsono  to have a private assessment on our new business together. Razz from Mekar gave a lot of useful insights on what kind of startup that investors looking for and how to make our business plan works the charm. One of things that Razz did was identify-ing...

Fashion Tips

Okay, because today is Sunday, I’d like to write something light. Girls have been asking me on how to look cool, even if you’re a hijaber. So, I’m going to write some fashion tips according what I’ve been doing all these times. Many of you should have known about what’s happened in my life recently....

It’s Over

After 7 years of relationship & 2 years of marriage, me and Anang Pradipta, have decided to divorce. All the painful process has been done and taken care real well by our lawyer. We’re really sad for what’s happened and hope our big family & friends could understand our decision. We care for each other...

What I did in January 2011

I wrote some sort of New Year’s resolution for 2011 and I wanna keep track on the progress My plan to grow Nulisbuku.com now we started a new partnership in writing competition campaign with Acer. A new level in our 3 months old age. For my challenge to write a biography book, I already meet...

Children education in Indonesia

When you create excitement, education happened! That’s what I learn from watching one of TED videos about a professor who put PCs in slum areas in India and just let it there without doing any mentoring to the kids around. In days, even hours, a lot of them could create things using the computer. No...

Info: Ajang Kepedulian Netizen Indonesia bersama Network

‘’Memulai sesuatu dalam hidup, harus didasari dengan niat yang kuat !’’ sudah jadi pernyataan yang pastinya keluar saat kita berniat melakukan sebuah perubahan dalam hidup. Tapi pernah nggak kita sadar untuk melakukkan sebuah perubahan untuk masalah-masalah yang terjadi di Indonesia? Sulit buat di pastikan sih, apa memang benar-benar sudah kita lakukan atau belum. Hal terkecil...

Pursuit of Green Living

Beberapa minggu yang lalu saya ikut rombongan teman-teman saya untuk Birdwatching di Pulau Rambut, kawasan Kepulauan Seribu. Buat yang belum paham, birdwatching adalah… ngeliatin burung dengan teropong (bahasa awamnya aja ya hehe) saat pulang dan pergi ‘ngantor’ trus ngitungin jumlah burung, ngeliatin aktivitas-nya dari jauh, dan pokoknya all about burung! Seru banget loh… soalnya masuk...

Resolusi 2011

Hey… it’s that time of the year again, where I have to review my life and create a new year’s resolution. Tahun 2010 adalah tahun yang penuh kejutan buat saya. Keren lah pokoknya. The rise of Indonesian digital Startups dengan #StartupLokal community (yang mana saya menjadi salah satu inisiator bersama @NataliArdianto , @Nuniek  dan @SaGad...

Behind The Scene: Komodo Trip

Setelah menulis kisah Komodo National Park dalam bahasa Inggris yang lebih serius, maka sekarang saya ingin cerita yang ringan dari perjalanan kemarin ^-^ Jadi perjalanan ke Pulau Komodo kemarin adalah salah satu upaya BudPar untuk menggalakkan campaign vote Komodo National Park as the New 7 Wonder of Nature pada website New7Wonders.com campaign ini juga ada...