Silicon Valley Trip

Perjalanan ke Silicon Valley walaupun ngga mengunjungi semua tempat, tetap menjadi pengalaman yang mungkin tidak akan terulang lagi. Youtube adalah kantor pertama yang saya kunjungi karena letaknya paling dekat. Google was the best! Facebook penjaganya galak betul kaya anjing pudel. Ngga boleh foto-foto gedungnya (Padahal ga keliatan apa-apaan juga) cuma boleh foto dengan sign facebook di depan. Sebenernya gapapa sih, secara kita juga cuma foto dengan sign aja untuk semua perusahaan yang kita kunjungi. Mungkin karena kantor baru kaya dan mungkin juga penjaganya baru, jadi ya maklum saja. Di ebay saya disuruh apply karena ebay selalu buka lowongan kata seorang pegawai yang kebetulan juga sedang membawa keluarganya mengunjungi ebay. Yah kalau rejeki mungkin nanti balik lagi ke sini. Akhirnya bisa ngeliat EA Electronic Arts sebagai ucapan terima kasih karena telah membuat game FIFA 2012 yang keren abis. Dan terakhir Google! The best company in the world! Area paling luas mungkin menjangkau hampir 1/4 wilayah Mountain View (mungkin agak lebay) terbuka dengan orang luar. Saya bahkan menaiki sepeda google dan keliling gedung utamanya, walaupun belakangan baru tau kalau sebenarnya kalau bukan pegawai Google ngga boleh naik sepedanya. Tapi dengan cara si pegawai memberitahu itu sungguh marketing sekali, beda sama satpam Facebook. Emang beda level juga sih. Semoga nanti saya tidak hanya berfoto di luar, tapi bisa berfoto di dalam, di ruang kerja saya sendiri. Aamiin...

Personal versus Professional Blog

Don't you realize that mixing your personal and professional post in your blog is not a good idea?
When you decide that you want to create a blog, you might want to also decide what kind of post you are going to write there in your blog.

For some new bloggers I know it is so hard to do it. You feel that you just want to start writing something (based on my own experience). You want to feed your passion in writing, and let the time decide what is your writing style - could be journalism, feature, fashion, experience, food, etc. But by the time you realize that, your blog would be full with random stuff, because last month you  were really enjoyed wrote poems and this month you know how it feels to do some research writings, or post short stories. But someday when you look through your whole posts in your blog, it's going to look like a supermarket - everything is in there. This is not a good and professional layout. You don't want to show your blog to the employer because they will know your other side that you don't have to show it. It's like showing your diary. Nobody wants to show their diary in a professional life.

Professional writing doesn't always has to do with serious writing. Professional means something that can be your portfolio in order to go for your career. If you want to be a humor writer, your post should be anything about jokes. You can also post photos that you took and arrange it as creative as you can to show your photography skills, or your comment to the latest fashion if you want to chase your career in fashion.

Pay attention to your template. It is important since your template determines the mood and impression to your post inside. Choosing a template is a quite waste a time. It's not an easy but also not a hard job. Blogger has been developing its template to cuddle their users. Now blogger have many options to choose the template that best represents their concept. Same thing apply for the font selection.

Finally the idea of mixing your writings is not the best thing to do, because every genre of writings require a different font and template to elevate the mood and impression in your writings. I'd say it is better to have couple blogs to store your awesome random ideas, good taste of photography, travel stories, articles, or melancholy poetry, rather than just a huge pandora box with everything in there.

Now I'm preparing to sort and move :)