Commencement Icak-Icak***

Warning!

Don't come to the commencement ceremony with this following conds :

1. Wakeful a.k.a not sleeping at the earlier night [*even with the reason "i must do my experiments, otherwise my bacteria will be passed away"]

2. Starving [*even with the reason "i'm bored of eating instant noodles"]

3. "Gondog berat" with something to be happened at the commencement [*even with the reason "i'm sick of being "the victim of injustice""].

The chronology of the D-day

June 5, 2010; 1 a.m

At lab, nurturing my B. longum and L. acidophilus.

June 5, 2010; 3 a.m

Typed down the 1st chapter.

June 5, 2010; 6.25 a.m

"Picked up" Wahid at Guest House [*she was sleeping when i arrived there. Poor her. She was also typing her thesis the whole night].

June 5, 2010; 7.05 a.m

Arrived at the College of Life Science commencement's spot in front of library.

I couldn't believe this. ONLY College of Life Science [*Food Science Dept. is one of the departments in this college] conducted the early commencement and paraded the graduates with the NCYU's drumband team. Besides that, i just knew that another colleges [College of Agriculture, Teachers College, College of Management and College of Science and Engineering] weren't bothered to conduct the early commencements, after the College of Life Science parade was passing the way from the library to the auditorium. Other graduates from another colleges were watching and waving at us along the way [*berasa seleb :))].

June 5, 2010; 9.15 a.m

Arrived at the auditorium, the commencement ceremony's place. 

Me and Wahid were "shocked" seeing our friends were running away from the parade and pretended to come back to their own labs. For Dept. of Food Science, we were started with 20-something graduates and only...5 graduates left when we entered the auditorium. Oh..my GOD :))! Actually, Wahid was already winked at me to give a sign to leave the parade and follow the "runaways" a couple minutes before we entered the auditorium. But Prof. Huang, Head of Dept. of Food Science, was already seeing us and then escorted us behind. Hence, the runaway project was a total failure :)) :)).

June 5, 2010; 9.50 a.m

The commencement ceremony has begun. Dept. of Food Science's row was definitely looked spacey with only 5 graduates there [*and later, only 3 left [including me and Wahid] because the other two were running away].  

June 5, 2010; 10.55 a.m

Wahid has fell asleep silently form the start. I was unable to do that with Dean of Life Science's eyes watching our rows from the stage. But i was very sleepy and hungry to death. I couldn't stand any longer. There were 6 more guest speakers to give the speech, not to mention that after that there will be awards giving ceremony and such. Then, i woke Wahid up and whispered to my other friend to runaway together. Finally...WE WERE SNEAKING OUT! Left the Dept. of Food Science's row...EMPTY. Hahhhahhaaaaa...eduuun pisan =)).

June 5, 2010; 11.10 a.m

We went to 7-11 with Nidya and Ajeng along with us.Then, we went to the canteen at the second floor to have our brunch and...people there were staring at us. We were just realized that there were a giant screen connected to the commencement ceremony at the auditorium. Both of me and Wahid were still wearing our graduation cloak, hence we weren't staying inside the auditorium :)) :)). Pretending nothing has happened, we took off our cloaks and ate our brunch quietly. Xixixi...

June 5, 2010; 12.30 p.m

The commencement ceremony has ended. Our runaway-friends were already gathered near the auditorium to take our department pictures for the last time.

June 5, 2010; 1.30 pm

Headed back to the dorm and sleep. Zzzzz..zzz...

***Icak-icak is West Borneo-Malay language means ""pretend to be" or "pura-pura".