Tag: friendship

The Broadcast People (imho)

In 2012, I joined a broadcast industry. Haha, no, no, not as a celebrity. I joined Sony as Product Marketing for broadcasting product. I didn’t set any expectation before I joined. I didn’t know that it was a life changing experiences. Thank you for the people in it.

When I joined, I only had 1 year experience as a consumer electronic product marketing. It was a whole different world. Especially the product. I was feeling like a stupid alien, couldn’t understand anything my colleagues or customers talked about. My first 3 months was stressful. Again, thank you for the broadcast people, I survived. Not only survived, but successfully nailed it for the next 6.5 years.

If it’s not because of their understanding for all of my first errors and mistakes.

If it’s not because of their patience to teach me the basic knowledge of Broadcasting (and advanced one, of course. It’s exactly the place when your customers are more knowledgeable than you)

If it’s not because of their warm heart to welcome me like their little sister.

All of those “let’s meet up at coffee bean/LG floor/kopitiam/canteen at GF/8th floor/engineer room/studio x”, that led to gossips, laughs, confiding to each other, or hints to the next project, that bonded our relationships.

All of those complaints, critics and lost projects, that taught me how to maintain an account relationship, not only in good time, but also in bad time.

All of those laughs and funny stories in every tiring and jetlagged business trips for NAB, IBC and BCAsia.

They are people who is always fun to be with. Even the big big boss. They could told you a brutal honesty, but they’re indeed kind people. And, tbh, I miss them.

Kuping Gajah

Have you ever thought about having a lifetime bestfriends? Some bestfriends you have since you were born until today. Or do you have ones? Well, I’m blessed to have, not only 1, but also 7 bestfriends! We were born on 1987-1988, and our friendship practically started since then.

So, Imagine you were born in a small town. Quite remote. Your parents worked at an oil & gas company that has its own housing, complete with our own K-12 schools, sports (any kind of it, you name it) facilities, house of worships and airports (yes, you read it right. our very own airport). Every day, we the kids went to or off school by bus, bikes, walk or dropped by our parents. Mostly by the school bus, though. At school (it was literally and figuratively an old school), in 4th – 12th grade, we were classified based on ranked. So, let’s say, there were 7 class for 4th grader. Class A is for the children who’s in rank 1-30, B is for 31-60, and so on. Now, as I mentioned to you that the school is basically our own school, our classmates won’t change that much. Our close friends won’t change that much.

Now, can you imagine? Everyday we meet the same people. At school, after school activities, or at the school bus. We had local phone lines that allowed us to call each of the house for free. So, yeah, we continued what we talked about at school by phone (sometimes it’s an easy way to work on your homeworks together with your friends). Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that we felt like we’re forced with it. It’s just that….we’re so bonded.

So what it’s Kuping Gajah (Kuping = ear, Gajah = elephant. Elephant ears. We love catching gossip that our ears felt like as big as elephant’s one) on the title above? You know it’s so typical for girls on high school to form a gang, don’t you? Well, it’s basically that. But, instead from hoghschool, each of us actually has bonded our friendship right after we’re born. Or when we were in kindergartens. Or when we were in the 4th grade, at least, since the classification started. Up…until…now. Exactly this second.

One of them only has 1 birthday apart from me. 3 of them shared the same desk with me at class for years. Some of us listened to the same boyband, watched the same anime, had a (silly) crush over the same boy. All of us spent a lot lot lot of nights of stayover at each other house. Now that we’re separated into 5 different cities, there’s no single day spends without us sharing gossips, stories and commentaries in our WhatsApp Group. We allocated some times for video call. We still laughed about the same stupid things we did when we were kids, or talked in the same level of randomness. When any of us visiting each other town, we always spending time together. Our husbands even close to us (they simply have to understand/accept that we’ll arrange some meets up couple of time in a year. Priority. HAHA!).

I’m blessed, indeed, to have them in my life. Our support and love are always there for each other. They’re kind of the first people you’re bump into when you have something to share, when happy, sad, or confused. You know there’s an old saying, “Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in our life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are”. Nothing could describe them better than that ❤