Dreams Come True (part 2)

cont'd-finale

Dr. L : Oh, well. Prof. W is actually very nice. But he has his own unique way to express his kindness; nice and kind but a little bit tough. 
Me : Beughhh...pantesan aye dapet "bonus" semprotan pas pertama kali ketemu dulu XD. But Dr. L, I've secured my plane ticket to Indonesia by next Tuesday. #wails

Anyhow, after received Dr. L's full support, I gritted my teeth* and decided to meet Prof. W to ask a favor. Even though I didn't know how would I explain my situation to him, I determined to do so. A few minutes later, another person came and assured everything. Her English name is Monica. She's a PhD student; my advisor's former student. She's also a researcher in one of the biotech companies in Chiayi.

Monica : Bunga, long time no see! #a little bit dramatic with hugging and almost teary scenes =))
How are you? I haven't seen you for ages. What's this form? 
Me : Monica, I've made up my mind to resign as a student here. I want to go home to pursue another degree in my country. This is a form of resignation and I'm here to ask for Prof. W's signature.
Monica : WHAT? No, no...please don't do that, Bunga. You've worked really hard here and you MUST go home happily with your certificate of degree!
Me : #sighing Dr. L just said the same thing, Monica. She asked me to meet Prof. W to find a way out for this complicated thing. But honestly, I just want to go home. #drama queen mode : ON
Monica : Listen to me, Bunga. Did you know that I also ran away from Dr. Y's** lab? We had a fight about my research and I decided to change advisor. Now I'm under Prof. W's advisory. He's very nice. I'll accompany you to meet him and explain everything to him. I'm sure he'll help you. Bunga, I understand your feeling because I've faced the same situation as you when I was under Dr. Y's advisory.

Hence, Monica became the second person (after Dr. L) who successfully shifted my decision, 180 degrees. After an hour or so, Prof. W came and we awkwardly met. Shortly after sat, Monica explained my A-to-Z situation to him.

Prof. W : Hmmm...honestly, right now I couldn't come up with any idea for your research project, Bunga. Okay, what about like this. Monica, because you've promised to help Bunga, I'll assign you to be her supervisor. Put her on the same research project with you. The solid state fermentation project from your biotech company. What do you think?
Monica : No probs, Prof. What do you think, Bunga?
Me : Nodding speechlessly (*bengong saking bahagianya) --> That research topic is the ONE THAT I'VE ALWAYS WANTED!
Prof. W : If you agree, I'll be your new advisor. What do you say?
Me : Nodding extra speechlessly (*sampai hampir nangis di tempat) --> This kind-tough professor is the ONE THAT I'VE ALWAYS WANTED to have as my advisor because he's the expert in food microbiology-food safety; my all favorite things.
Prof. W : Done deal! So, Monica meanwhile Bunga is having her break in Indonesia, you have to arrange her experimental design, thus she can right away start her experiment once she comes back to Taiwan.
Me : Nodding extremely speechlessly (*akhirnya berkaca-kaca sambil tak berhenti mengucap syukur. Thank you, Allah~)

So, here I am. Start afresh as if I'm a new enrolled student :). Meanwhile, because I have to enroll as an extended student, I need to go home to Indonesia for a couple months and will be back there by July. 

Kun fayakun! Allah itu...KEREN :)! Rencana Allah itu...BEYOND KEREN! DREAMS COME TRUE~^^

*Grit one's teeth : to accept a difficult situation and deal with it in a determined way

**Dr. Y : my former advisor

Dreams Come True (part 1)

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Recently, seems like SURPRISE turns into A NEW OXYGEN for me. It becomes a part of my everyday's life. I never stops jaw-dropping everytime I recall these past few days' sequence of events. For real.

Started from my decision to leave Taiwan for my own good, -not for good, to vice versa's fate Allah has designed for me as in all new advisor-supervisor-research topic. Yes, after had sort-of "mental breakdown" for facing a dead end on my research, I was planned to take a u-turn with pursuing another degree in Indonesia. On Friday, I've made up my mind to arrange my letter of resignation to NCYU's OIA. But oh well, getting out from my university (*or maybe any university?) doesn't seem any easier from its enrollment procedures. I have to get my advisor's to dean of life science's signatures in order to resign from there. A mere withdrawal. 

So, after received a full support to drop out from school from my insanely weird advisor, I went to meet head of department of food science, -Prof. W. Apparently, he still has a class at that time, hence I have to wait. During waiting, Dr. L (*vice head? secretary of dept.?) came and flatly rejected* my "idea" to drop out from NCYU.

Dr. L : Bunga, I couldn't accept your decision to dismiss from school like this. Seriously, it's not fair. You've taken all required courses and only need to fulfill your thesis project. Did you know that in order to graduate, doing experiments at lab is not the only way? You can also write a literature review. Promise me you'll meet Prof. W. I'm sure he'll figure something out for you.

I was like...dumbfounded after heard her saying. Honestly, I was slightly wavering at that time. But still, I have two reasons not to listen to her.

Me : But Dr. L, I've discussed this matter with my parents and they've agreed. Moreover, I couldn't imagine myself talking to Prof. W**. Seems like he despises int'l students. #horrid

*Flatly rejected : menolak mentah-mentah

**He was the one who chased me (and one of my friends) out from his office almost four years ago, when we just arrived in Taiwan. #traumatic

I Feel Blessed

#fact = 600 mg painkiller couldn't chase away my asphyxiation during this kind of situation

I was just vaguely woke up after took a metamizole sodium and suddenly (healed) and feel even more blessed after found a couple loving-care messages from some friends. Seriously, I couldn't express my gratitude enough to Allah for giving me such an awesome friends like them :). Thank you Allah...

To be honest, I've no intention aside from "relieving my anxiety" through writing when I  composed this post, yesterday. Not knowing for what could possibly happened if someone read my post, -including some of my best friends there in Indonesia. And yeah...now I feel like I've caused a ruckus >,<. An emotive chaos. 

Truthfully, my feelings now are still somehow higgledy-piggledy. Campur aduk. But, regardless of how complicated my feelings are, I've locked up my decision. I won't waver. Papa...Mama...Bunga pulang hari Selasa. Ririt, Sunett, Nyu...I'll see you girls within a few days. #tiketsudahditangan

As an epilogue of this sort of blue episode, I would like to say that I feel blissful because I can sense the beauty of ukhuwah here in Taiwan. I really do. Thank you, dear friends...thank you...for everything :). May Allah will let us meet again in another part of the world...or in jannah.

"Ukhuwah Islamiyah is indeed powerful because it's not a mere friendship; it's a strongly tied connection in the name of the beliefs of our faith, aqidah".

A song from Dewi :)

All My Bags Are (Almost) Packed

"Nak, Papa sangat bangga padamu. Papa bangga Bunga berani mengambil keputusan seperti itu. Papa memahami kondisimu. Pulanglah, Nak. Masa depan terbuka lebar. Pasti ada hikmah di balik semua."

Even now, I'm still crying whenever I recall my conversation with my father by phone just a few hours ago. Believe it or not, I'm typing while crying. I've made one of the toughest decisions in my life. The decision I've been continuously thought over, these past 2,5 months. Going home without completing my study. Next week. There is no turning back. I'm 100% sure. All my bags are (almost) packed. Bismillah...

Ngape Tang Geye Jikku be~

I was just happened to stumble on this awesomely memorable video on Youtube. #hurrah!

I remembered my father always played this song through his car's CD player during our 50-something-minute journey to his father-in-law's (= my grandfather) house in Muntilan. I assume he still loves to play this song and his other favorite Sambas songs whenever he goes there or else.

After watched over the video, I realized that I've been mistakenly heard the lyric "Yo...ngape tang banjer jikku be" as "Yo...ngape tang geye jikku be". Oh my *-*. I've been listening to this song since I was a baby, but still made sort of catastrophic mishearing...#ckckck. Those two sentences are actually have a slightly similar meaning, but because "flood" is the main idea of the song, thus the first lyric is considered to be the proper one. And oh...btw, I was also just realized that the overall lyrics are somehow hilarious when it gets into this part "Barang jak oi...takder Tuhan". Ahahaha~. I believe that most of the floods that happened (and keep happening) in Indonesia are mostly caused by HUMAN ERROR. #sad

Personality Test; A Secret Weapon

This is my personality test result.
Ridiculously expressing my very self #whew

After doing another fad personality test*, I suddenly think that PERSONALITY TEST is actually can be administered in jama'ah. AHA~! #lightbulbstwinklingmoment

HOW COME? This idea is actually triggered by last week's "int.meeting" when my group was kind of dissecting "jama'ah's biggest flaws-slash-problems". What's that? Well, the problems are none other than COMMUNICATION and the person positioning system in every wajihah or wasilah (later to be called "ww"). Let's skip the first-capitalized problem which probably going to take 7 days to cut up. #smirk

At that "int.meeting", I was confusedly questioned about HOW or WHAT KIND OF METHOD being used to put every "int.member" perfectly in every "ww" we have? Is it only by seeing the previous track records of every "int.member"? Or else?

Honestly, here in Taiwan, I've found that some "int.members" were not precisely put in their "field of interests". This is actually THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS, because when the wrong person is placed in the wrong place...just wait until the disaster comes and swipe through everything. I know, this kind of problem keeps happening because there is not enough "int.members". Statistically, the ratio between the "int.members" and "ww" is lopsided; imbalance.

So, what's this post rambling connection with "personality test"? Hmm...IMHO, personality test can be used to dig deeper each "int.member"'s personality and preference. The similar example is a "placement test" before you get into your favorite English course institution. All in all, choose one trustworthy personality test and ask all "int.member" to fill it in. See the results/data and I think that'll make the person who is in charge to distribute "int.members" to all "ww" see the whole picture. Well...i think that'll do.

A Healthy Compromise

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Seriously, "compromise" is a word that has been dominating my everyday's life ever since I came to Taiwan. It's indeed a simple but profound word. In my opinion, the level of how profound it is to us, depends on our know-how to manage our ego. The better you hold down your ego, the higher compromise level you can get into.


With the shifted trait domination that currently happening to me, I find that compromising is an oh-not-as-hard-as-before thing to do. Although sometimes I can feel that my ego-slash-stubborn-sensitivity is seething to overtake my intention to compromise, but well...I can say that I'm getting good at it. I wouldn't say that I've mastering the art of compromising, because I know that I still need to work hard to be able to do so. But yeah...now I can "formulate" a bunch of "secret ingredients" to secure "a healthy compromise". 


Wait, a "HEALTHY COMPROMISE"? Yeah. Because IMHO, there's a MALIGNANT COMPROMISE. Just like "cancer" which is also known as malignant tumor, a malignant compromise can stress out the particular person who is trying to compromise the person(s)/situation he/she's currently facing. Why a compromise can turn out to be malignant? Well, there are a lot of possibilities and X factors. But mostly because it doesn't ended nor wrapped up nicely, in terms of the particular person still feeling burdensome after the process of compromising ended. Let's conclude that in order to do a "healthy compromise", we have to make sure that both parties are in a quite similar situation; satisfied.


All in all, do you want to know my "secret ingredients" to make a "healthy compromise"? I wouldn't care if you say "no" because I'm just going to blurt it out =p. Okay, here they are: 
1. 40% patience
2. 10% positive attitude
3. 10% self-reflection
4. 20% ability to highlight other's kindness/good traits
5. 20% conscience to maintain good relationship(s) with other(s)


I guess I'm not going to explain further regarding to those 5 points. Why bother calling it SECRET if it's meant to be thoroughly REVEALED? Haha~

5 (10?) Cool USB Flash Drive Uses

I...am...impressed! Although CNET only mentioned "five" on the video, they managed to elaborate USB flash drive usage to 10 points. Check out this link if you're as excited as I am #geek. Btw, I'm kind of intrigued to try point no. 8. Hmmm...let's see whether I have extra time to spare to mess around with my MacBook Air XD.