Counting Days
The wait is over (well, not over yet tho I am still waiting for my visa and etc), the final result has been announced earlier this January. The road wasn’t smooth, it was rather rough and full of rocks. I limped but He guides me ’till the end. I was being worried, doubtful, and indecisive but He convinces me to continue, to remember the reasons why I started. I have one month left to officially become a KGSP 2018 scholar. Aside from being busy applying for my visa, medical check-ups, preparing my entry to Korea, and the hectic-packing-ngeribetin-days, I spend some time hanging out with my friends and family. Hang-out, the thing that I rarely do because most of the time I like to…
3 months or less // a reflection on year 2017
Date: 14 December 2017, today;Time: 2:26 a – posted;Place & Condition: living room, with blankets on and comfy pajama, the weather is quite cold after rains since morning. puffy eyes, dark circles, redness, flaky, and pimples all over the face (lol sorry). oh, and hungry. Just a few weeks more before 2018. This year was okay. Fantastic if I may say, the dynamics of being a high schooler to a college student. The first six months of 2017 was filled with the constant chaos of exams: from school mid-term, end-term (whatever you name it), national exam, SNMPTN (though I didn’t pass since the very first round kk), SBMPTN, UM/Mandiri/Simak UI, TOPIK, IELTS, and never-ending life lessons. woooww, that escalated quickly.…
[PART 3] South Korea Trip: Korea University, Gyeongbokgung Palace, and Myeongdong!!
“…when I was paying for the book that I bought at the bookstore, the cashier was looking at me, smiling, and said “assalamu’alaikum” lol I was pretty shocked so I awkwardly smiled and left without saying anything…” Hello again! Wow. it has been a month, it’s 21st October already. I almost forgot everything that I did in Korea, I am glad that I decided to write it down, otherwise, I would have forgotten everything. Sooo, we took a train back to Seoul at 8 and arrived at 12? It was Sunday, yay. I have an appointment with my friend from Indonesia who currently is pursuing her undergraduate study at Korea University, Nabilla. I met her during ISPO 7th (Indonesian Science…
[PART 2] South Korea Trip: Train to Busan
Read the first part As soon as I arrived in Seoul, we went to Seoul Station to take a Train to Busan. For real!! lmao no there was no zombies but it was fun thrilling enough to imagine that I was in that movie because everything looks exactly as in the movie. Well, except, there were no zombies. For every one of you who is anti-drama or Korean things, you really have to watch this movie!!! This is truly exceptional. 👵Funny Ahjummas in Seoul Station We arrived at 11 pm although our train was scheduled to depart from Seoul at 12:30 pm and arrive in Busan at 15:07 pm. We still have more than an hour and a half left before departure, therefore, me…
[PART 1] South Korea Trip: unexpected in-flight meeting !!!
“…So we were having a conversation in Korean until he started saying things that I don’t understand due to my lack of vocabularies. And that’s how he started to speak English. Up to my surprise, he speaks VERY GOOD ENGLISH. Perfect. Like, the first Korean I know who speaks really good English. “ Woowww it’s October already. Wow. I didn’t sound that excited, eh? Okay nevermind. Oh and yesss I just came back from a short trip to South Korea! Yeah. Yeahhhh. Hahaha. I am so random I am sorry. So um yeaaaaaaah I was in South Korea for 6 days from 21-27 September 2017 and during that time I’ve encountered a lot of things worth to learn and remember which I…
공감
“싫은 일은 하지 마라미운 사람은 만나지 마라가기 싫은 자리는 가지 마라먹지 싫은 건 먹지 마라 살아보니 인생은 짧더라경우에 어긋나지 않는다면너 자신에게 먼저 집중하고 살아라” [email protected]_ek_1101 진짜. 완전. 정말. 취고!! ㅠㅠ
First IELTS Test Experience
Yeah, I kinda screwed up the exam. I got the result yesterday and wasn’t really satisfied with my overall band score that I got. So faaaar away from my target. But alhamdulillah, thanks for the native ma’am who kindly gave me a pretty decent band. Lots of love for you ma’am. If not, I might have got even worse. But the most important thing, it still passed the minimum requirement though. 🙁 First, I would like to say that the parts in IELTS which I feared the most are the reading and speaking section. Okay. You know, the reading part in IELTS is hella… hell scarryyy. They have different kinds of question apart from what you will find in TOEFL. There would only…
TOPIK 52휘 RESULT!!
안녕하세요 여러분들♡ 잘 지냈죠? 여기 왔어서 감사합니다!! HEHEHEHEHE. So I did TOPIK Exam 52휘 on April 26th 2017 and the result is out today!! Yayyy~~~ For your information, TOPIK 토핔 stands for Test of Proficiency in Korean/한국어능력시험, it’s like TOEFL/IELTS/DELF/DAF/etc but this one is to test your Korean language skill. Well, I started learning Korean in October ’16 after I decided not to take JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) and self-taught myself Korean after going through bunch of considerations. But for sure, I am glad that I did! I would say that I am pretty disappointed that I wasted my time and felt like I haven’t studied enough for the test. Korean is though, man. I should’ve put more efforts.…
