PNS dan Toefl Score

Kemarin sore ngobrol-ngobrol dengan sepupu yang juga PNS di Pemprov, cuma beda dinas... dan kakak sepupuku itu hepi banget karena sudah selesai diklat PIM 3, karena kata beliau: Mulai tahun depan, yang mau diklat PIM 3 harus lulus TOEFL 400 dulu.....

Beberapa minggu yang lalu, di surat kabar saya membaca bahwa salah satu syarat melamar CPNS di Pemprov Babel harus menyertakan sertifikat lulus TOEFL 400....

Tadi sore, saya membaca, di Batam ada kewajiban bagi PNS di dinas-dinas tertentu untuk menguasai bahasa Inggris....

Beberapa waktu yang lalu, Kepala BKPM RI Gita Wiryawan mensyaratkan TOEFL 600 bagi pegawai di BKPM, yang mulai diikuti langkahnya oleh beberapa kementerian.

When Juna Cried

I'm not really a fans of reality shows, yet I love watching cooking program on TV... ^_^ So, this afternoon, I randomly watched Master Chef Indonesia 2, and for the first time I saw Juna (the cruelest judge among the 3 judges , the sharp -mouth -Gordon Ramsey- like), could not hold his tear... Wow... Juna cried! That haughty guy, the bad boy who has experienced street life in the States, being kidnapped and tortured, with tattoo all over both hands, with his vicious look and  sharp mouth that can not stop berating the contestants, and he was cracked, CRIED on TV, because one of the potential winner he puts lots of hope on, could only answer 8 out of 20 mystery kitchen herbs/ cooking ingredients in the pressure test, resulting the contestant got kicked out of the competition...

DRIVING IN THE DARK....

One of the things I don't like is driving at night. It's even worse if it is also raining...
Once... (I think it was in 2001), A boy with 2 girls on a motor bike hit my car when they turned right without giving signing lamp one evening. Thank God they only broke the front cover of my car... Anyway... I just realized they had damaged my car after I was home... :(

I always find it was difficult to drive at night, especially when it was raining... It's very difficult to see the road, especially with the blurring light on the windshield... I always feel reluctant to go to any events at night, and could only manage to go because I had to, and usually it's because of work.

Idul Fitri 1433 H, Tradisi Kadang Harus dirubah!

Tentu saja setiap tahun selalu ada yang berbeda ketika merayakan Idul Fitri...
Waktu masih kecil dulu, Idul Fitri selalu dihabiskan dengan mengunjungi semua rumah di kampung, dan juga teman-teman dan guru di sekolah....
Tahun 1990an awal, mulai tidak rajin keliling-keliling lagi kalau berlebaran..., dan dimulailah tradisi "mudik" pada tahun 1991 karena saya mulai bersekolah di Jawa.
Tahun 2000, mulai mengakhiri acara mudik lebaran, karena tahun 1999 saya sudah menyelesaikan S1 di Yogya. Mulailah masa-masa pengangguran.... dan pertanyaan-pertanyaan seputar "kapan mengundang" nya... setiap kali lebaran....