Passionland

I just read an article from the latest Forbes Asia during my flight to Surabaya this noon. Actually Om William Soeryadjaya is one of my idol. And that article makes me took some time to think. God always besides every right people. God bless Om William so damn great. Let’s take your time to think about it! Merry Christmas!

This year, the industry floundered with guerrilla ads and social networking; 2008 should reemphasize digital media and a return to sales basics. or our round-up of the year in advertising and branding, we asked creative directors from agencies in four locations around the world to nominate work that made an impact in their regions in 2007. Our panel featured Johnny Vulkan, co-founder of and partner at the New York City-based agency, Anomaly; Simon Waterfall, current president of British advertising and design organization, D&AD, and co-founder of London-based digital agency Poke; Jonathan Kneebone, co-founder of Sydney-based creative collective, the Glue Society. Over in the multinational agency corner was Sheungyan Lo, executive creative director, northeast Asia, for JWT (WPP), based in Shanghai. Please read more.

I want to cut and paste Bill Gates’ words about the formula of Success. “Communication skills and the ability to work well with different types of people are very important too.” “I also place a high value on having a passion for ongoing learning. When I was pretty young, I picked up the habit of reading lots of books.” Please shout to yourself to have Passion for Knowledge!

Hey Google Reader freak… This is new info about Google’s new toy. Google continues to take someone else’s cool idea, do it better, and steamroll the competition. Next up: a human-generated Wikipedia and About.com (NYT) killer, Knols. Knols provides web based templates with which experts can write posts about areas of expertise. Readers can then rank (and link to) the posts, which affects where they appear in Google search rankings. Google will share ad revenue with writers, thus providing an economic incentive to participate. (Full details from Google’s Udi Manber here. Example of a Knol here.)

There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity. Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

1. He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!
2. He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.
3. He still lives in the same small 3-bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.
4. He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.
5. He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world’s largest private jet company.
6. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis. He has given his CEO’s only two rules.Rule number 1: Do not lose any of your share holder’s money. Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.
7. He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch Television.
8. Bill Gates, the world’s richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.
9. Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.

His advice to young people: “Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself andRemember:

1. Money doesn’t create man but it is the man who created money.
2. Live your life as simple as you are.
3. Don’t do what others say, just listen them, but do what you feel good.
4. Don’t go on brand name; just wear those things in which u feel comfortable.
5. Don’t waste your money on unnecessary things; just spend on them who really in need rather.
6. After all it’s your life then why give chance to others to rule our life.”