New features to get you better

I've been living for 25 years. My friends and other people living on earth, have been living more than that, and some are less than 25 years. Then, the question that I would like to raise:

What's the utmost difference between me and them?

The answer wouldn't be that simple. The answer is: Experience.

Why experience? not money or other stuff? I feel that experience is the best thing that a person can learn throughout time. It equips one to take decisions, and, the most important thing, to live with that decisions every single day in one's life.

Yes, that's exactly how a person can live a better life. It is to feel content to what he has decided, to feel happy with what he has, and not to regret what he hasn't got. I think that's the secret ingredient of making noodle, the dragon scroll reserved only for the dragon warrior (ref: Kungfu Panda)

Experience is like feature in product development. When we started with Hoiio, we have the best mobile application. However, that solution is not enough without an ability to pay through mobile phone. We learnt that. We answered it.



Yesterday, we launched Hoiio Mobile payment capability. That's a new milestone in our product development as it gives our users the capability of purchasing Hoiio credit using their mobile phone.

Humm... Products are like humans, they get better. Features are like experience. They are the function of time.

No Regrets

It's no longer a question that established companies always appoint someone above 40 years old to be their CEOs. These people have plenty of experience. They've been there and done that before. The more experience one accumulates, the wiser the person is, and the calmer the person becomes.

Most of my writings here are about life and how I perceive it. How I've got an understanding that I feel like I want to put it into a piece of article as I want to share it with others. This is about how I try to get a piece of experience from one occasion and try to interconnect it with other occasions.

I've got a feeling that life is a journey to understand oneself; a journey to find the answer of the question, how you would like to die. In Indonesia, there's a saying, "tigers die and leave their stripes". What about a human, a homo sapiens? For me, I would like to die without having regrets; or even better, I would like to get old without having regrets. I'm longing to this state of life when I can say, "I have nothing to prove. I've done what I think is right."

Life has taught me that the only direction is forward, we as living things have to move forward. Along the way, we would find troubles, happiness, joys, people, money, etc. Unfortunately, though, we can't stuff in everything that we find on the road to our knapsack when we travel from one place to another. Don't be greedy. Take some which you think is useful, and move forward with smiles.

My goal when I was in the university was to work in a consulting company, because I think it's cool and my creativity and problem solving skills would get enough challenges. However, no matter how many applications that I sent, no consulting companies gave me a shot. No reply or rejection letter, that's all I've got. Disappointment was there, but I didn't dwell on it much. I took it on the chin and pick myself up off the floor. The show must go on!!

So here I am right now, driving a startup company to strive in the market. I've got a great team and very experienced mentors; Enjoying every single day of it. What options do I have? It's either sink, or stay a float.

So many things I have learnt in life, I just wish one day I would sit on my rocking chair and singing Sinatra's song, My Way.

Tigers die and leave its marks (stripes). Made Adi dies and leaves no regrets.