Saturday, 30 November 2013
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Alive...
I'm coming out from the shadows
Shooting straight like an arrow
Ain't nothing gonna slow me down
I'm gonna flow like a cool breeze
Stand taller than a palm tree
Ain't nothing gonna cut me down
Don't keep waiting for an open door
Break the lock and get something more
Make a move 'cause We're alive, alive
We ain't gonna get a second chance
Life ain't nothing but a crazy dance
Let the moves 'cause We're alive
(Dami Im, Alive, 2013)
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
and I am telling you...
And I am telling you I'm not going
You're the best I've ever known
There's no way I can ever go
No, there's no way
I'm not living without you
I don't wanna be free
I'm staying,
and you're gonna love me
And I am telling you, I'm not going
Even though the rough times are showing
There's just no way
And time and time
We have so much to share
I'm not waking up tomorrow morning
And finding that there's nobody there
...
With love
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
I don't need Raisa
Some people will like Raisa for her theatrical beauty
and want to spend a minute to admire as such
but not me...
I don't need Raisa
I need you, and I love you...
Alvi Syahrin
My one and only
Mirror...
Aren't you something to admire,
cause your shine is something like a mirror
And I can't help but notice,
you reflect in this heart of mine
If you ever feel alone and the glare makes me hard to find
Just know that I'm always parallel on the other side
Cause with your hand in my hand and a pocket full of soul
I can tell you there's no place we couldn't go
Just put your hand on the glass,
I'll be tryin' to pull you through
You just gotta be strong
I'm lookin' right at the other half of me
The vacancy that sat in my heart
Is a space that now you hold
It's like you're my mirror
My mirror staring back at me
I couldn't get any bigger
With anyone else beside of me
And now it's clear as this promise
That we're making two reflections into one
Cause it's like you're my mirror
My mirror staring back at me...
Monday, 4 November 2013
Sets of task to be done in the next 2 weeks
I have many things to be accomplished in the next couple of weeks...
1. Updating to do list as general management automatic process implementation
2. My Sustainability and Low Carbon Economy elective course's assignment (3000 words)
3. My wife Erbil visa
4. UK visa arrangement for my January departure to UK for 1 elective course in Warwick
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Multi-tasking
So, for the next.2 weeks or so, I will have to do as follows.
a. Paper contest for Global Sustainable Energy, submission 28th of October
b. My MBA learning log, submission 28th of October
c. 10K Erbil Marathon on 25th of October
d. My work in Erbil as normal
e. And some other important stuffs, can't be mentioned here
Hopefully all is well
a. Paper contest for Global Sustainable Energy, submission 28th of October
b. My MBA learning log, submission 28th of October
c. 10K Erbil Marathon on 25th of October
d. My work in Erbil as normal
e. And some other important stuffs, can't be mentioned here
Hopefully all is well
Monday, 23 September 2013
Sustainability: Day 1
Start with reviewing module 1-3 then 4 and 5. Took lunch and then individual debate on EU effects as leading emission reduction.
On Wednesday, will be interview for ads for Sustainability for low carbon economy. Looking forward to it
Friday, 13 September 2013
Travelling...
I will be going with wife to Vancouver to take my Sustainability and Low Carbon Economy. Will be there for 8-9 days and then Hongkong for 3 days (trying to relax)
Saturday, 10 August 2013
Hedge fund and outsourcing service lines... (part 1)
I have been in this business for quite some time, and proven to be, amongst its ups and downs, good and challenging. In early 2008, I was trying to manage the hedge fund of 2 until 3 private investors, and the return is significantly satisfactory, about 33% for each investor each 6 months, till the time the trading company closed down in Dubai. Overall when I close the account, the total return is about 900% from the original investment.
In late 2011, I started again and this time I didn't invite anyone but my younger brother. In the end of H1-2013, our portfolio shows 275% return, better than any kind of conventional investment, such as commodities, properties and estates, etc. Now, what is hedge fund?
Hedge fund is defined as an aggressively managed portfolio of investments that uses advanced investment strategies such as leveraged, long, short and derivative positions in both domestic and international markets with the goal of generating high returns (either in an absolute sense or over a specified market benchmark). Legally, hedge funds are most often set up as private investment partnerships that are open to a limited number of investors and require a very large initial minimum investment. Investments in hedge funds are illiquid as they often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
Now, my brother is thinking to open an hedge fund service line and shall consult it with me for 'attractive business' to be invested in to yield high return (surely high risk would definitely be always associated with it). He (will) take some high risk taker private investors :)
In late 2011, I started again and this time I didn't invite anyone but my younger brother. In the end of H1-2013, our portfolio shows 275% return, better than any kind of conventional investment, such as commodities, properties and estates, etc. Now, what is hedge fund?
Hedge fund is defined as an aggressively managed portfolio of investments that uses advanced investment strategies such as leveraged, long, short and derivative positions in both domestic and international markets with the goal of generating high returns (either in an absolute sense or over a specified market benchmark). Legally, hedge funds are most often set up as private investment partnerships that are open to a limited number of investors and require a very large initial minimum investment. Investments in hedge funds are illiquid as they often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
Now, my brother is thinking to open an hedge fund service line and shall consult it with me for 'attractive business' to be invested in to yield high return (surely high risk would definitely be always associated with it). He (will) take some high risk taker private investors :)
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Fulfilling my destiny
Some people say it serving the greater purpose, and some said walking the path, but I would like to define it my own, such as fulfilling my destiny. This post below is kinda different with all other post, since it's a reflection of what have been happening even before I know what I become, and will becoming. Might be interesting to read.
Right after finishing my elementary, junior and high school in my home town in Medan, I studied in so-called the best university in Indonesia, that is Institut Technology Bandung, taking Electrical Engineering, majoring Computer Engineering. So excited with the study and in the same time due to financial constraint that my family had, gotta finish it faster, or else my parents wouldn't be able to withstand the fee and the living cost for me and my brother.
I believed the quest to seek for knowledge shouldn't be stopped here, while working even from my early years in oilfield business, been trying to find a suitable post graduate course to attend; at that time, mostly confused either to electrical engineering still, or converted to petroleum engineering. Lastly, I chose the business side, and been taking global energy MBA in Warwick Business School, Univ of Warwick in UK. Still have 6 courses + 1 Thesis to finish, and now I am looking for the good place to take the DBA. DBA is an equivalent Ph.D in Business. It stands for Doctor of Business Admin.
I am not trying to be academia, but i guess it brings some feeling of satisfaction; just like a morphine that mixed with blood; that's how my thirst of knowledge and connecting to academic world, in the same time applying what I know from oil and gas business (or the other way around).
My wife supports me for this, cause we both know believe that I, as head of the family, must be 'someone' that is smarter, more clever, and wealthier in knowledge especially. We know that I need to progress to even higher ladder.
Right after finishing my elementary, junior and high school in my home town in Medan, I studied in so-called the best university in Indonesia, that is Institut Technology Bandung, taking Electrical Engineering, majoring Computer Engineering. So excited with the study and in the same time due to financial constraint that my family had, gotta finish it faster, or else my parents wouldn't be able to withstand the fee and the living cost for me and my brother.
I believed the quest to seek for knowledge shouldn't be stopped here, while working even from my early years in oilfield business, been trying to find a suitable post graduate course to attend; at that time, mostly confused either to electrical engineering still, or converted to petroleum engineering. Lastly, I chose the business side, and been taking global energy MBA in Warwick Business School, Univ of Warwick in UK. Still have 6 courses + 1 Thesis to finish, and now I am looking for the good place to take the DBA. DBA is an equivalent Ph.D in Business. It stands for Doctor of Business Admin.
I am not trying to be academia, but i guess it brings some feeling of satisfaction; just like a morphine that mixed with blood; that's how my thirst of knowledge and connecting to academic world, in the same time applying what I know from oil and gas business (or the other way around).
My wife supports me for this, cause we both know believe that I, as head of the family, must be 'someone' that is smarter, more clever, and wealthier in knowledge especially. We know that I need to progress to even higher ladder.
Saturday, 27 July 2013
Portfolio
Just short sell one of the big company by market capitalization these days. My portfolio now is complete with those bough and short sold stocks, such as SLB, HAL, SSN, ZLC, and RIG
I should expect 12% on MoM growth in my portfolio towards end of the year...
Sunday, 21 July 2013
What makes you beautiful...
You don't need make up to cover up
Being the way that you are is enough
Being the way that you are is enough
Everyone else can see it
Baby you light up my world like nobody else
The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed
But you when smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell
If only you saw what I can see
You'll understand why I love you so desperately
Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe
You don't know you're beautiful
You'll understand why I love you so desperately
Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe
You don't know you're beautiful
But that's what makes you beautiful
lyrics: One direction
Friday, 19 July 2013
Stock opens higher
Today must be one of the good day, that one of my stock opens higher yield about 12.5% profit compared to the time I bought it. Wife must be happy if I shed this news.
Planning till end of the year
So, here's my plan and wife till end of the year, hopefully...
On Aug, we will go to Erbil (transit in Dubai for 6-7 hrs), then on Sept (depending upon whether we got the visa or not), to Canada. On Oct, will be home, and Nov will be family vacation in X (still want to decide whether Thailand or Vietnam), and on December, will go to Dubai and Abu-Dhabi.
Next year, will be busy, since I have 3 residential courses in UK (January, April, and June). Then to Sanghai, China for 1 course on September 2014
Saturday, 13 July 2013
Cos everywhere I go...
It's funny how you think you really know yourself
Like you would never lose yourself to someone else
Silly silly me
Like you would never lose yourself to someone else
Silly silly me
Cause everywhere I go
No matter what I do
You are always here in my heart
No matter what I do
You are always here in my heart
and it doesn't annoy me because you are the one for me
There is always something 'bout you that I can't resist, and that's you being you
Friday, 31 May 2013
Friday, 17 May 2013
Last day in Maldives
Breakfast, uploading some photos, swimming, gym, and ended up with fine dining in La cucina Italian Resto
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Friday, 10 May 2013
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Monday, 6 May 2013
Thursday, 2 May 2013
There are difficulties...
There are difficulties... And there are hard times... But then there is you and I and all the future ahead of us...
I love you, as simple as that
I love you, as simple as that
Monday, 29 April 2013
Mahar...
And, it will be...
W amount of British pounds,
X amount of UAE Dirhams,
Y amount of Iraqi Dinar,
and Z amount of Jordanian Dinar...
reflecting the currency I have been using all these times to finally arrive in Alvi's heart...
British = where I am taking my MBA
UAE = where I always transit and have business meeting with clients/managers
Iraq = where I work
Jordan = where I always transit prior to arriving to Northern Iraq
Across the world...
I have to travel across the world
So many steps
So many breaths
So many of all
and now I found you
The half of my journey has been answered
My past taught me well
my present serves me right
and my future is with you
And i never said it's going to be easy
or it's going to be only smile and laughter
But I can assure you one thing
I love you
and only you...
The differences
When I was still holding an eligible single guy, I never really thought of buying so called "house".. instead I always invested to other things that I can't mention here in the blog for one reason or another. But hey, I am not single guy anymore...
I need to provide heavenly haven for my family, the one that she and the kids can enjoy up to when they are big enough and then moving to bigger house...
Saturday, 27 April 2013
Time to build our empire...
Sayang,
This is the time
to cherish our own happiness
to build our empire
together
forever...
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
The Rig and The Blues cherish my life...
After my Catalonia shocking defeat yesterday, at least the rig and the blue give me good news.. that overall both combine yield 2-3% from my asset invested..
Yes, plese keep going on and on...
Monday, 22 April 2013
Kau basuh jiwaku dengan lembut... dengan sejuta warna...
Bulan januari kita bertemu
Menjalani kisah cinta ini
Naluri berkata engkaulah milikku...
Bahagia selalu dimiliki
Sekian bulan menjalani bersamamu
Kunyatakan bahwa engkaulah jiwaku
Akulah penjagamu
Akulah pelindungmu
Akulah pendampingmu
di setiap langkahmu...
Kau bawa diriku ke dalam hidupmu
Kau sentuh cintaku dengan rasa sayang
Senyummu dan sedihmu adalah hidupku
Kau basuh jiwaku dengan lembut
dengan sejuta warna...
Sunday, 21 April 2013
The hotel rooms are booked
The hotels are booked for both in Southern Asia as well as Coventry :)
The one in London is still waiting for good places... Will update tomorrow
Friday, 19 April 2013
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
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