28 Years Old Me

Yeay! It’s been a long time I didn't write any birthday post.

Well, HAPPY 28^th BIRTHDAY to myself (on May 12)

I always always being grateful that I could live this long… it is the greatest gift from God for me.

Latest birthday post was when I turned 25. I was in Thailand pursuing my master degree. And time really flies so fast, 3 freaking years already passed! I feel like I still 25 years old, but in fact I get older and older in age number.

So, what changes in me after 3 years?

Many things changed.

I am now married, my ‘jomblo hina’ (desperate single) era was ended beautifully.

I am now living in Japan, already 1 and half years, and still have 1.5 years more, or probably longer.

I am now pursuing doctoral degree, stage I never thought I would reach in this age.

The most important is… I am now a mother.

And… I think my body is now being very nice to me, since I feel a lot healthier and a lot more active.

See, there are many changes that I have to be thankful of :)

Somehow, being 28 years old give me an effect of being mature, somekind like… I should more behave like a mature adult. However, I maybe still want to be young and free, like age is not an obstacle for me for enjoy life as I want to. I still can enjoy traveling, get lost in somewhere randomly, playing with water, wearing colorful clothes… anything. Something changed is just now I am with my husband and little baby. And they are my awesome crazy mates. I can still traveling and get lost with them, and even wearing colorful clothes matching with them. Maybe, as I get older, something also changed in my mind, or the way I behave to others, but I wish it is in a good way.

Something never change from myself is… I STILL A DAYDREAMER.

There are many goals I wanna reach in the future.

For myself, for my family too…

My personal dreams, and family goals…

I still want to travel around the world, with my family. I don't know, it will be turn out… maybe for study (again), for work, or just traveling on vacation. As long as I can go to a new place in the world, I am happy.

I still want to do something useful for many people. I feel, I never do anything useful for people yet until now. I’m still thinking the way I would make it happen someday… but for now, I have to study harder, maybe someday the knowledge I gained might be useful.

Short-term dream… conduct my research in awesome way, I want to make it one of my masterpiece I will be proud of. And maybe… related to my statement above, can be useful for people too.  I also look for a fit job for me in the future. Some said, doctoral graduate may fit in teaching job, I honestly want to do it too, but kinda not confident yet. I don't know, something happened in the past regarding this matter, or maybe I just too afraid of being rejected by university I dream to work for. Hehehe…. Wherever, Jogja, Surabaya… or maybe Japan… I’ll do my best!!!

Well, I am now 28 years old.

2 more years to turn 30… hahaha…

It’s not a big deal.

Age can be older, but my soul will stay young!

Let’s being awesome in 28!

For freams, for the future, for life!!!

Catatan Seorang Mamasiswa

Aaaaaaakkkk!!!

Berapa kali aku galau berat dalam blog ini?

Kayanya cuma nulis pas galau aja ya. Hehehehe… gomen ne, habisnya kalo galau di socmed kok kesannya lebay gimanaaaa gitu. Lagian ini blog sudah jarang ku update, hikks…

Oke,tanggal berapa sekarang?

17 April 2015

eh? Sudah April lagi? Sudah tahun 2015??

So, I’ve been thinking… I already 1.5 year in here… I am now in 2^nd year… 2^nd semester of my study. My study. Caps locked, MY STUDY. Jreng jreeeeng!

You know what?

Somehow, I still can’t believe that I am on this stage… being a doctoral student. I was a very ordinary student when I was in undergrad, I was also not an outstanding student among the other students in master. I just a lucky student.

So, with no knowledge of being doctoral student, I just doing this and that related to my current research… progressing as slow as snail… keep on busying my head thinking about research and stuffs, and baby, and house works and traveling (I try to do it as much as I can, even though it is not really much, actually).

Then, suddenly I realize that things become more complicated. I should not be just doing what I’m doing now…, should be more, deeper, faster… So now I try to adjust myself with it. Sometimes, or always, I need something to waken me up, like… deadlines, for every single goals.

Sesungguhnya agak repot juga menjalani research, at the same time, ngurusin bayi, dan ngurusin badan. Hehehe. Tapi ngurusin badan berbanding lurus dengan bikin research dan nguruin si Baymax, bayi yang batrenya maximal.

Sebelumnya aku pernah bercerita tentang galau ASI yang kualami, itu salah satu tantangan terbesar menjadi seorang mamasiswa (student mama). Some people may judge me anything tentang diriku yang bisa dibilang gagal kasih ASI eksklusif. But…, I try, I tried my best to give him… but, as my husband said, everyone have their own condition, and I already tried my best *sob (I always become very sentimental about this). Buat yang sukses, somehow, kalian membuatku iri maksimal, kadang-kadang suka nyeri di hati setiap ngeliat ada yang ngepost hasil pompa ASI yang berbotol-botol, berkulkas-kulkas, sorry kalo aku menganggapnya pamer, dan suka mendadak bete seharian gara-gara lihat gambar gitu. If you’re on my condition, you will know how it feels :)

Then, belajar adalah prioritas utama buat semua pelajar, dari SD sampe S3 sekalipun. Untungnya sekolah nggak kaya HP Samsung galaxy, sampe S6, ga kebayang bisa botak aku kalo sekolah terus. But having a baby make studying feels like an illegal activity, harus sembunyi-sembunyi, colong-colong waktu. Baru baca jurnal bagian abstract belom kelar, si Baymax udah ngajak main. Kalo enggak, kertasnya dipake mainan, kalo pake laptop, keyboardnya dipukul-pukul. Kapan kelar mama baca jurnalnya, Baymaaaxx??

Si Baymax sekarang sudah 10 bulan, mulai belajar berdiri dan jalan. Udah bisa main sendiri sama mainannya, yang kata mertua anak laki-laki mainannya harus banyak. So far mainannya sih dimainin dengan setengah bener. Seperti main bola dilempar-dikejar, main mobil-mobilan digeser-geser, dan gitar kecil dipetik senarnya… sampe copot. Hehehe…

Sekarang juga mulai bisa makan sendiri, walaupun berantakan abis. Dikenalin MPASI pake metode baby-led weaning, dianya sih seneng banget, bisa main sambil makan. Note that it is more playing than eating. But it’s ok, yang penting dia mau makan dengan fun. Soal porsi, memang sih nggak sebanyak disuapin (spoon-feeding) yang masuk, karena lebih dari setengahnya dipake mainan, kecuali kalo dikasih stroberi, habis bis! I mixed BLW and SF in weaning for my baby, conditionally. Kadang-kadang males bikin bubur-buburan dan pingin ngajak makan bareng di meja (si bayi pake high chair pastinya) ya pake BLW. Kalo lagi males beresin dan agak buru-buru ya SF. Walaupun nggak selalu lancar, tapi K punya selera makan yang cukup bagus akhir-akhir ini. Inilah bagian yang membuatku terhibur dari galau ASI, he’s quite good on weaning and his development going very well *cheers

OK, karena sudah lama enggak nulis, pas kubaca lagi ke atas, kok ceritaku enggak urut, bahasa berantakan, dan ngaco. Kadang iri juga sama mbak-mbak blogger ngetop yang konsisten posting, bahasa dan cerita menarik, dan pastinya punya banyak followers yang setia menanti ceritanya. I used to be very excited to write back then, when I still using multiply, having many loyal readers who become my real friends, getting feedback in every single post and interact with them. But now, everything changing, life keep on going… even I don’t get many readers like before, but one loyal reader still waiting for my stories… my beloved husband *kiss.

Akhir kata, I have to rush myself to progressing my research, make it my masterpiece! And keep the baby healthy and happy. Keep my husband healthy and satisfy, too~ hahaha!

Greeting from Kyoto

Spring 2015

The Pink Cat

PS: Mr. Kamen Rider is planning to take entrance exam for take master study in here, please wish him a good luck!

Greedy Me

"Today Kiyono sensei sent us Veronique's report to study," my friend Nao said. I looked at his iphone, and amazed with how my friend did for her assignment, so orderly good, professional, but still have personal touch in it. Then I remember my own worked, what I've been done with my assignment was too far from it. Such kind of feelings appears, I got jealous. Still finding many excuses to face the fact that I couldn't make even nearly like that. 

Then I realized one thing, deep inside me, I always want to be the best.

Sometimes, I feel hopelessly like I'm really nothing. Even if I try so hard to do something, I'm still like nothing. Then after many times trying, sometimes fail, at least I can be better. Feels so happy in this stage. But at the same time, my heart demanding for more, become the most... The best.

I feel so greedy. I should be thanked that I already blessed with this all. But still can't deal with this uneasy feeling. I think I should place myself again in the phase that I'm nothing, so I have nothing to lose, and keep on struggling to be better. 

I hate the fact that I'm so greedy. That I want to have many things more and more... 

But I think being greedy for good thing is not bad, unless I do everything (in a bad way) to achive it. I ever learnt that it is good to compete for good thing, "Fastabiqul khairat".

Yeah, being greedy is not that bad, but in this time, enjoy the moment is better, not forcing myself too much. I will do my best, and hope it will also be the best.

"With this delicate body, I will always fight for the best..."

Ganbatte!

Chance

Konbanwa…

Sawadee kaa…

How are you, friends? Sabai dee mai kaa?

I always wish you are all healthy and happy. So I can share so much happiness with you too :)

I don’t know why I feel so lucky lately.  Yaa walaupun dalam beberapa hal ada nggak beruntungnya juga. Life shows it balance na? (Na? Somehow my English is now turn out to be more like Thai).

Aku sendiri ngerasa bahwa ini bener-bener terlalu banyak hal baik yang terjadi padaku. First, dapat nilai perfect semester ini, itu sangat di luar dugaan. Gimana enggak, perasaan aku bukan mahasiswa yang cling-cling banget di kelas, ngerjain tugas pun ngaco, nilai mid-term exam desperado pula. Seriously, setelah lihat nilai mid semester kemarin, aku setres bukan main. Semua nilai kepalanya B. Bukannya mau sok-sokan kecewa dapet nilai B, tapi masalahnya, kalo IPK di bawah 3.5, lagi-lagi aku harus gigit jari karena path yang udah kurencanakan bakal berantakan total. Daftar dosen bakalan susah, buat ambil PhD juga pasti bakal seret beasiswa, and it really not good! So, pikiranku udah menyusun ulang rencana masa depan kalo-kalo IPK nggak nyampe 3.5, mulai dari ambil S2 lagi (yang mana ini adalah rencana paling wasting time), pasrah ditempatin ngajar dimana aja, sampe ya udah lah bikin toko benang aja :D hahaha (yang ini sih emang cita-citaku).

Dan ternyata sodara-sodara, setelah berkorban waktu tenaga dan pikiran selama satu semester penuh penderitaan lahir batin. I’m not lying, ini bener-bener di luar kebiasaanku, selama satu semester kemarin, terutama setelah mid, aku berjuang mati-matian biar at leeeeeassst dapet B+ semua, yaa… walaupun kalo ditotal sih IPK ga bakal 3.5, tapi kan IP semester bisa 3.5, not for anything but for myself. Sampe-sampe di meja belajarku aku tulisin “IPK 3.5, OSH! ^^9” hahaha…, untung aja temen-temenku nggak pernah ngeh sama artinya itu (note: hanya temen-temen Indo yang tau dan pasti langsung ngakak). Ok then, finally, I got a really good grade, even beyond my expectation, Alhamdulillah… :)

Secondly, this is really like dream comes true. I will see Japan! Whoaaaaa!!! Cannot described how happy I am when I heard this, I almost can’t believe it. Waktu ada pengumuman pendaftarannya, aku juga cuma daftar-daftar aja, yaa walaupun pengen. Tapi diantara sekian banyak anak kelasku, yang mana aku hanyalah mahasiswa biasa-biasa saja, kok aku yang dipilih itu beneran mengejutkan! Sampe dibilang, “I think this year is your lucky year,” aku cuma meringis, “You’re selected because your background in urban planning”. Dan aku melongo. What? Satu ya, selama jadi mahasiswa urban planning, bahkan kesempatan kayak gini nggak pernah ada, dua, I wasn’t an outstanding urban planning student. But anyway, sekali lagi thanks to Allah who give me this wonderful chance. Aku nggak menyangka banget hal seperti ini bakal terjadi. “So why you applied? Are you apply for fail?” tanya salah satu dosenku, noooo Sir, it’s just I thought it was tooooooo far from me.

Dan karena akan terbang ke Jepang itulah, maka... sadly, rencana liburan dan nyiapin nikahan selama bulan Juli pun batal! Padahal berangkatnya masih Agustus, tapi, “Cancel your trip to Indonesia, if you go back, you’ll be kicked, they will kill me, but before they kill me I will kill you first,” gitu kata si mbak officer jurusan. Maka terjebaklah saya selama bulan Juli ini di negeri gajah, ngerjain proposal tesis yang nggak tau kapan bakal maju defensenya.

Dengan berat hati, aku harus menahan rasa kangen ini, sama keluarga, calon suami, dan makanan-makanan. Hehehe... Really, when I missed my hometown, first thing come up to my mind are always foods!! Mulai dari bubur gudeg, gudeg permata, brongkos alun-alun kidul, nasi merah-sayur lombok ijo, lontong sayur babarsari, es krim rujak pakualaman, bubur ketan item, dan masih banyak lagi lainnya yang membuatku makin galau (halah).

“World is full of choices, all we need is being wise to choose.”

Sebenarnya, keberhasilan itu begitu dekat saat kita berusaha dengan sungguh-sungguh untuk mencapainya. Bukan nggak mungkin kesempatan yang lain pun bakal terbuka juga. Mamaku pernah bilang, “Sebenarnya kamu belajar sedikiiiit aja lebih rajin, kamu pasti bisa, tinggal kamunya aja yang niat apa enggak,” yeah it’s true, mama. Sedikit niat untuk berusaha lebih giat, ditambah kencengin berdoa, insya Allah pasti bisa meraih yang diinginkan. Soal hasil akhirnya, serahkan sama Allah, hanya Dia yang tau apa yang direncanakanNya untuk hidup kita. Apa-apa yang dikasihNya padaku, pastilah maksudnya agar aku nggak pernah lupa bersyukur, dan selalu berusaha lebih baik. 

I feel really blessed. Good grades. Japan. And one more thing, good man to be my husband in the future, who told me to never lose my dreams, never stop dreaming. OSH!

Don’t Know Why

Selamat datang bulan April 2012! Yeah, untuk keberapa malam aku nggak bisa tidur, udara yang sumuk ceria sungguh nggak nyaman untuk ditiduri, dan yang membuatnya ebih buruk adalah kenyataan kalau seminggu kedepan weekdays-ku akan dipenuhi oleh mid term exams. Aku harus belajar sebaik mungkin untuk menghadapinya. Tapi kenapa sulit sekali ya...

Tahun lalu, nggak lama setelah meraih gelar “Sarjana Teknik” aku kembali menenggelamkan diri dalam dunia pendidikan. Seperti orang yang nggak jera, kuliah S1 aja baru bisa kuselesaikan 5 setengah tahun, ini kok mau ambil kuliah S2, di luar negeri pula.

I just so damn lucky I got this chance. Jujur aja, ilmu yang kudapat dari S1 itu hanya sedikit sekali yang mengendap di otak. If you ever know, aku pernah merasa putus asa setelah tes wawancara S2 di ITB. Kemampuan teori ku NOL. Nggak ada satu teori yang kupelajari di S1 dulu mengendap di otakku. Apa itu teori Kevin Lynch? Aku lupa total. Kredibilitasku sebagai alumni Teknik Perencanaan Wilayah dan Kota UGM seperti tercoreng arang. Apa-apaan aku ini...? Keluar dari ruang wawancara, aku cari pojok sepi, telpon si Kamen Rider dan menangis sejadi-jadinya sambil melempar bola-bola tisu. Embarassing. Saat itu, aku bener-bener merasa down. Dan aku bertekad untuk pergi ke luar negeri dan membuktikan kalo aku bisa jadi mahasiswa S2 di luar negeri walaupun nggak ingat teori Kevin Lynch!

Pergi ke Thailand, sendirian dan tanpa beasiswa, bener-bener jadi beban buatku, lebih lagi orang tua. Beasiswa waktu itu juga belum pasti diterima atau nggak. Yang pasti, kalo nggak diterima, aku bakal mati-matian cari sampai dapat. And still, I’m just a lucky bastard I could get the scholarship, Dikti. Masalah berhenti di situ?

No.

Aku belajar dengan tenang selama setengah semester pertama, sampai sebelum banjir. Nilai mid term exams so – so lah, B+ untuk semua mata kuliah. See? I’m not a typical outstanding student. Just a very ordinary student. I’m not genius, nor diligent.

Selesai semester pertama yang kacau balau di Hua Hin, aku kembali ke Indonesia dan berlibur dengan tenang. Nilai semester pertama keluar. IP semester: 3.3

Masih ada yang nggak jelas dengan kontrak beasiswaku, terutama untuk instansi dimana aku mengabdi. Yang aku tau, seharusnya aku bersedia ditempatkan dimana saja, yaa walaupun jujur dalam hati aku nggak bersedia juga ditempatkan di universitas yang jauh, terutama jauh dari suamiku kelak. Sialnya, gengsiku terlalu tinggi untuk ditempatkan di universitas yang menurutku nggak keren.

Di kontrak tertulis instansi asalku ya di universitas yang meluluskan aku. Tapi sungguh aku nggak pernah ada kontrak kerja apa-apa dengan almamaterku itu. Dan ketika kutanyakan, bisakah aku untuk mengajar disana, cukup 5 tahun itu aja nggak apa-apa deh…, jawabannya: “Sayangnya IPK S1 kamu kurang dari 3.5, kalaupun kamu mau masuk lewat jalur S2, IPK kamu lebih dari itu, misalnya 3.7 gitu, bisa kami pertimbangkan,” what? Rasanya kepalaku seperti kejatuhan beton yang sampai sekarang nggak pernah bisa kusingkirkan. 3.7 gimana dapetinnya dengan otak pas-pasan kayak gini? Ditambah lagi IPK semester 1 hanya 3.3, semester 2 dengan beban yang harus kuambil 15 credits. It will blow my head. How come?? If somebody knows how to get GPA 3.7 please tell me how…

Selama kuliah setengah semester ini… rasanya otakku lelah sekali. Hanya di kelas aku bisa belajar, itu pun dengan terkantuk-kantuk, dan kadang nggak konsentrasi. Di luar kelas, di dorm, aku sudah nggak sanggup belajar lagi. Sekalipun aku mau baca handout dan buku bertumpuk-tumpuk, tetap nggak ada yang bisa nyangkut di otakku. Belum lagi sleeping disorder yang mulai menyerang. Gampangnya sih aku tinggal minum obat flu, dan tidur. Tapi sungguh aku nggak ingin merusak tubuhku dengan obat saat aku nggak sakit.

Sedikit penyesalan datang kenapa aku nggak cari kerja aja setelah lulus ketimbang sekolah lagi yang di luar kemampuan dan pengalamanku. Dan kenapa aku daftar beasiswa yang konsekuensinya aku harus mengajar di universitas. Kenapa pula gengsiku terlalu tinggi sehingga aku terlalu pilih-pilih untuk mendaftar jadi dosen. Salahkan semua sama mimpiku yang muluk-muluk untuk menjadi professor. Jadi dosen pun sulit. Mau nerusin PhD dengan IPK S2 nggak sampai 3.5 (lagi-lagi kenapa semuanya harus 3.5?).

Dan suara-suara itu pun datang.

“Mungkin mereka berat kalau menerima kamu, bukan hanya karena IPK kamu, tapi kalau mereka terima kamu, tiba-tiba ada anak lain yang mendaftar, IPKnya lebih tinggi dari kamu, dan lulusan Jerman pula, mereka ngerasa rugi,” DAMN! I can go to Germany fo PhD!

“Mungkin cuma segitu kemampuanmu,” siapa kamu bisa ngomong gitu cuma karena nilaimu A sedangkan aku B di mata kuliah kayak gitu?!

Kalaupun semester kali ini jatuh lagi, aku nggak tau lagi apa yang bisa kulakukan untuk kehidupan akademikku. Research anggak ada nilainya, IPK cuma dinilai dari course.

I don’t know what to say anymore. I just so sad feeling so stupid and don’t know anything about what I’m studying, and people start to underestimate me. 

This feels so bad… (T_T)

Nite Self-Talking

Sawadee kaa... (It's always "sawadee" wheter it is morning, day or night)

And as you can see in your watch (note: if you're in west part of Indonesia) it is half past 11 p.m. here, and I'm still cannot even close my eyes. Many things spinning on my mind and I need a space to write down a bit of it.

Recently, I see so many changes around my environment. Places, people. 

After flooded, here in AIT campus in Rangsit, Thailand seems like having spring in the middle of drought. Flowers bloom on the dry brown soil topped by old leaves. It's much more like mixed both spring and autumn in the same time. I like it. Though everything hasn't back to the conditions before flood, it is still feels like "home" for me, here in Thailand. I become more comfortable to study here, and life going stable. I like it. Some people said that a Taurus type like stable life, yes, I am.

But actually everything always change. Even me myself. Two years ago, I has just started doing my final projecct, waled along Selokan Mataram, did few chats with people, chasing my advisor... Love life? Went so messed up! Then a year ago, I finished all those messes, graduated, and having relationship with a very-kind bestfriend-become-boyfriend Aria. Life became more kind to me, lot of thanks to God. Even I was still jobless, I traveled a lot before I started this master study then engaged here for 2 years.

Some people said that I am so lucky. Actually maybe yes, I'm so damn a lucky bastard you ever know, who still complaining about her so-called lucky life, still envying others who reach another achievement that she hasn't achieved yet.

Some are studying in Japan (a country I always dreaming to study in), some are traveling around Europe (a continent I really really want to travel around), some getting a very good job with high salary (everyone also envying them, I'm sure, wheter I'm still wondering where will I work after I finish this), and some are already get married and have cute kids...

If I only see of what I envying, maybe I will never satisfied with my own life. I just realized that I already achieved what the others want to achieve. Maybe I'm not studying in Japan, but you see that living in Thailand is really fun, everything cheap and easy, besides, I can travel around South-East Asia and visit many most popular tourism sites as easy as Thai (to entering a temple, just keep silent and the security will think that I am Thai, free!). Maybe I haven't travel to Europe again in this late 9 years, but 10 years ago I ever went to Italy and France with a prize from Sampoerna after my team won the film festival, was I so lucky, wasn't I? And I can go someday, if I get the chance to pursue PhD degree or attending conference there :) Maybe I have no clear job right now, as my scholarship contract I have to teach for 5 years after I come back to Indonesia, but still I don't know where I will be teaching in which university, which city. I pray a lot to be accepted in my former university, but they said that my GPA is not enough to be a lecturer there. I must struggle more to get GPA 3.7 that I still think it's so impossible, let's see. Then maybe I hasn't get married yet, it is not because I don't want to, or my beloved boyfriend still not ready yet, but there are many things made us consider to postpone getting married and prepare for anything to be proper and settle for us in the future. Sometimes I envy with the smile of friends who getting married, I wonder I would be also that happy, and having a wide pretty smile like 'emn but not for now because my time is already waits for ehm, I finish this master study :)

Time changed. The world changed. People changed.

Just accept what I already got, and enjoy life with it. Everyone chasing happiness with their own different ways. I got my own path, just run on it, do the best on it. Somehow it is difficult, and start to look at others that I thougt the achieved more than me, envying them and feeling down. shouldn't have to be down, be motivated and at least do better. Maybe... There is someone or few people also envying me in this world, and be encouraged by me.

Not only me, you people also... Should enjoy your life, in your own path, with everything you already got, do the best!

FOR DREAM! FOR THE FUTURE! FOR LIFE!!!

(Raise punch to sky!)

Written in tiny little room Dorm D-44.

I send a warm greeting from here to Kamen Rider, my bestfriends, MP friends, socmed mates, and everyone who is kindly read my posts :) I really want to write post regularly again... I'm sorry for a bit long time disappearance *blame the bad internet connection!

My Life in Hua Hin: It’s a Messed Half Semester

こんばんわ！

Huwah… I can breathe now... after finished a bunch of Drought class assignment, I will take a rest for a while, then continue study for the final exam, then move to GIS assignment, then study for GIS final exam, then focus on Human Conflicts class. GOD! This half semester going really mess, everything chaotic!

Awalnya emang terasa santai-santai kayak di pantai, actually it is. Yap, karena kampus AIT tercinta terendam banjir, maka kami pun dipindah ke arah selatan Thailand, kota Hua Hin, dan letaknya memang di pinggir pantai. Dari AIT yang ijo royo-royo dan sepi nyenyet, pindah ke Hua Hin yang notabene adalah tempat wisata yang banyak resort, banyak bulenya (walaupun international, mahasiswa AIT kebanyakan orang Asia Tenggara dan Asia Selatan, bulenya ada juga sih beberapa) dan rame, lumayan happening lah tempatnya. As I said, awalnya sih emang santai-santai, bisa jalan-jalan menikmati Hua Hin dan akomodasi yang lebih oke daripada di AIT.

(in my devastated dorm A)



(AIT dorm after flooded)

Tapi tapi tapi, setelah lewat dua minggu menjalani kehidupan berumah tangga (berumah dan bertangga, hhahaha), mulai kerasa lah masalah-masalah yang membuat hidup dan suasana belajar mengajar di kota ini menjadi tidak senyaman di rumah sendiri.

Accessibility and transportation. Di Hua Hin tempat tinggal kami terpencar sampai ke Soi 90an (soi=semacam gang/jalan belokan dari jalan utama), yang itu lumayan jauh lah dari kampus yang juga terpencar jadi 3, yaitu di Rajabhat University, Stamford University, dan Silpakorn University. Yang terakhir disebut itu jauh banget, hampir sejam perjalanan. Mostly kuliahku di Stamford yang nggak terlalu jauh sih, tapi jadwal bis nya itu...ampun bikin capek. For example, kalo mau kuliah jam 10, harus naik bis jam 7.30, kalo kelewatan ya udah, tunggu bis selanjutnya, jam 11, piye coba?? Dan walaupun nggak telat, tapi nyampe kampus pagi-pagi buta gitu nunggu lama kan bikin capek. Mana koneksi internet lemotnya... siput aja kalah lambat jalannya, dan suka DC seenaknya sendiri pula. Gimana mau nyambi garap tugas selama nunggu?

(waiting for the bus in the morning)

(waiting for the class in the breeze)


(my quickie breakfast)

Hehehe, masih terkait dengan masalah transport, disini kemana-mana jauh. Kalo di AIT, seminggu terkurung di dalam kampus sih masih bisa hidup damai sejahtera. Laper, tinggal ke Kafeteria, Snack Bar, kolam bebek, kantin SOM, kantin Food Engineering, UFM atau Vietnamese restaurant. Atau kalo udah puas nyicipin semuanya, bosen-bosen bisa main ke Chiang Rak di sekitaran Thammasat University, nggak jauh (aku sendiri belum pernah sih… doing!). Kalo tau-tau shampoo apa sabun mandi habis, tinggal ke 108. Mau masak-masak, bisa beli bahan di grocery, yaa walaupun agak mahal sih ketimbang beli di Talad Thai (pasar). Butuh fotokopi hand out, tinggal ke copy center. Butuh alat tulis tinggal ke book store. Dan semuanya ada di dalam kampus, tinggal ambil sepeda dan tancaaaappp!!! (Jangan ngebut ngebut Tid, udah tau kan rasanya dijahit dagu gara2 kecelakaan sepeda? Nggak keren!)

Disini kemana-kemana jauuuh, mau beli ini itu harus naik song taew (ini sejenis angkot), nggak boleh bawa sepeda karena depan rumah langsung jalan besar, bukannya cepet sampe, yang ada malah keserempet ntar. Udah ada beberapa kasus kecelakaan juga dialami sama temen-temen. I have to be more careful.

(in song taw extended space)

Expensiveness. Ini ni yang bikin berat hidup di kota orang, apalagi kaum foreigner beasiswa kayak aku gini, uang kiriman tetep, biaya hidup naik berlipat-lipat. Sewa 1 kamar apartemen di sini harganya 3 kali harga sewa dorm standard di kampus, ya... gimana enggak, fasilitasnya pun beda, ber-AC, tipi, air anget (hahaha... actually I enjoy this luxuries so much). Cuma yang rada tercekik pas udah akhir bulan gini, gimana nih bayar apartemennya, subsidi kampus cukup nggak ya, soalnya kami di dorm standard cuma bayar 2150 baht, ini harga sewa 6000 baht, walaupun udah bagi dua sama room mate (ini room mate saya, Pi Lia), tapi tetep aja jatuhnya 3000 baht per orang, belum tambah bayar listrik dan air. Aduu du dudu pap paaap...

(swimming pool in the apartment, I never try this before the weather is really cold at nite and very sunny in daytime)


(coin washing machine)

(water refill machine)

Dan lagi, karena kawasan wisata, banyak turisnya, harga pun beda dengan di Rangsit. Walaupun Rangsit dekat sama Bangkok, tapi harga barang-barang lebih murah meriah, bahkan di pasar malam (taladnat)nya juga murah-murah, lebih murah sekitar 1/3 dari yang di Hua Hin, padahal barangnya sama...

(my new favorite, grass jelly drink, soy milk, yoghurt, tuna sandwich and pandan cake roll in here)

(me and Pi Lia enjoying christmast eve in Hua Hin Market Village)

Di luar itu yaaah, kami mau nggak mau harus tetap meneruskan segala aktifitas belajar dan diajar (kan nggak mengajar, hehehe). Edannya, dosen-dosen bukannya maklum sama keadaan serba susah kami, malah ngasih  assignment seabrek. Di waktu yang singkat gini, assignment seabrek bukanlah treatment bagus buat belajar. Otherwise, I really have no time to study, not even study from the assignment. Ya gimana mau belajar, walaupun assignmentnya tulis tangan, tapi cuma copy-paste aja dari internet, all we need is speed, mana ada yang masuk ke otak ;D Honestly, I’m a  bit afraid of my grade for this half semester, eventhough I got a pretty good marks in the mid exams, but I’m not sure for this time I will also get higher. Lha kuliah aja yang dipikirin “Duuuh, assignment ini belum kelar,” atau kalo nggak malah tertidur di kelas gara-gara ngerjain assignment. Unlike in AIT, I can sleep in the very late night or even in very early morning, disini aku sampe apartemen udah keburu capek, ngerjain tugas sampai jam 10, habis itu tewas sampai pagi. Itu pun masih ngantuknya ampuuun!

Dan disini juga... internet nggak se wuzz wuzz wuuzzz di AIT, hahaha. Sial, kalo disana aku bisa kapan aja Skype sama keluarga, dan kalo weekend pacaran sama si Kamen Rider di dunia maya, sekarang mana bisa... yang ada baru gerak dikit pasti internet DC dengan suksesnya. Hiks hiks. Gara-gara kehilangan laptop plus 3 ekor EXT HD, aku jadi nggak punya back up data apa-apa, harus cari-cari lagi dari awal, dan dengan internet yang se marmos ini, googling aja nggak kuat, gimana mau ngerjain tugas dengan tenang dan lancar?

(my messy desk, now it becomes messier, 5555)

Bener juga sih, home sweet home, sejelek-jeleknya kampus AIT, fasilitasnya udah oke dan kondusif buat belajar. Di Hua Hin walaupun seru tapi ternyata nggak asik buat belajar, enakan buat wisata (dan so pasti kalo wisata belajarnya lupa, hahaha…). Rumput tetangga selalu tampak lebih hijau, tapi ternyata rumput plastik, nggak enak (lepeh lepeh).

Hmmm, did I complaining too much? Hehehe, mau bagaimana pun juga, mau susah apa mudah, this way was my choice, I have finish this mess all, though it’s tough and uneasy. I’m sure there would be a very bright future waiting for me. For dream, for the future, for life!!! Yeeeaaah!!! :D

Yeeeahh… this week end (also year-end) I will start having the final exam.
WISH ME TRIPLE LUCK, friends!!!

PS: I will spend my holiday in Indonesia, ada yang mau nitip oleh-oleh? Hahaha… (gayamuuu Tiiid *ditimpuk bata rame-rame)

DANCE COMPETITION - WELCOME SHOW - AIT 2011 - INDONESIA

Me and my friends dance for AIT Welcome Show 2011
And... though I made many mistakes, it still get the first prize!!!
IN-DO-NE-SIA!!! Prok prok prok prokkk!!

Dongeng Geologi

http://rovicky.wordpress.com/
Hey hey..., since I am studying Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management here at AIT, and I realized that the FoS I've chosen is a bit far from my past focus of study (I mainly focused on urban space development), though it's still in the frame of urban planning, I still think that I really stupid in this area, then I started to look for references related to my field of study.

Most of disasters are natural disaster, and most of natural disasters are caused by geological phenomenon, so when I searching for it suddenly I stopped in this blog. Much much informations inside, and what I really love from this blog is the writer (Mr. Rovicky - Geologist) makes all the scientific explanation in very simple language, so common people like me can easily undertand.

It maybe also useful for you to broaden up your knowledge in geology... Really, all the explanations are in simple language :)