An Offer I Can’t refuse, The show must go on!
This week has sucked the energy out of me, but at the same time, has drenched me with a new kind of energy. In a nutshell, that’s how I felt this past week.
As the chief of the highly passionate Octopus Team, I have spent the whole last week preparing for the trip of a lifetime, commemorating our 2nd anniversary. A trip full of passion, wildness, and satisfaction. Five individuals from different backgrounds were gathered to brainstorm, and plan the event. As a result, PASSION TRIP was born.
The event was to be held in Bali for a full three days. Three main events were planned; Passionrace, Passion Jackass, and Passion Show. The team worked days and night to do a field survey, find some coordinators and locations for the passion race. Not to mention, passport for each individuals were also put together up to the last minute.
It all went down seamlessly up until two days before the event. The phone rang… a voice on the other end said; “Bernhard, congratulation! You got the project.” It was Dino Patti Djalal, the special staff of the president. I was left frozen. The octopus icon and the face of President SBY were floating on my mind.
When two equally hefty task need to be done, when both has to run smoothly, there need to be a sacrifice…. For this reason, I was on four flights between Jakarta-Bali within 48 hours. There is no way I am going to back down from this achievement that we all have worked hard for in the past couple of months. It was my love for my Octopus Team that made me stay for at least a couple hours in between their events.
My Point is I would like to send a big THANKS to all of the passionate committee and to all passionate octokers.
I might have missed a lot of those passionate moments, but I can still feel your energetic passion, the new spirit that makes us different.
Guys, hopefully, with our second anniversary, we can learn what it is like to be passionate in work, struggle, fight, and play.
Once again, on behalf of the management, I would like to express my true gratitude for all your effort that has brought us to be who we are today.
God Bless you all.
Tags: Octovate, Passiontrip, President of Indonesia, SBY
November 15th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Dear readers, that top most photo is real… No fake… Please ask Roy Suryo if you don’t believe it…
And passion trip was hell crazy… Congrats to Indra our MVP… And to all my beautiful beautiful friends… you guys rawks!!
More shot are available through our Flickr.
November 15th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Wow , meet number one person in indonesia republic, congratulation to our leader in passion republic , mr Ben , its great achievement .
Yeah , its crazy,gokil and fun trip.Thanks for the mvp award , For me everyone/all octokers is MVP because everyone passionate,fun,gokil,etc.ALL is WINNER man !!!. Passion trip is over , but its very crazy and nice moment , welcome back to reality, go Create again… , c u on next passion trip !!! ^_^.
thx Octovate .
November 15th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Roy Suryo has just confirmed that the photo was REAL.
But he thinks the comical saying between two great guys ( SBY & Ben ) is not valid enough… huehehehe..
anyway, OCTOVATE ROCKS!!! VIVA OCTOVATE!!!
November 15th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
top markotob!!!
mabuk lagi….mabuk lagi……
tidur lagi…tidur lagi…..
anak bawang kabur ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
November 15th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Wow wow… asik asik. One great point from Ben is we need to work hard and also play hard. “hahahaha” Seruan buat anak anak bawang sini saya trainingnya. Mr.Kimono ini seniornya di ranjang doang ah….
November 15th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
ssstttttttttttttttt
jangan buka rahasia ranjang kita yang beralaskan kimono donk
biarlah hanya kita berdua yang tau
shanti shanti shanti……….
November 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Congrats!!!! get older, get bigger… stay sharp…
Hiro Whardana
3 Indonesia
November 16th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
thank you jek…
November 16th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Ro It’s been official kan… c u soon bro! Yay it’s gonna be great… Woohooo…
November 17th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Stef : when we have a very long discussion and debate like what we’ve done when designing a ‘new mobile carrier’ website… then you know it’s official. :)
cheers,
hw
November 19th, 2007 at 10:07 am
hahaha… tunggu tanggal mainnya…