This is the taste of Life!

okay,this is a short post of my blog for this week. I have to summarize these few day happenings, because tomorrow I will have a week trip to singapore. Wish to meet my friends there.Before I leave for my trip, I have finished 50% of my university registration and whatever things i should settle with.

lately,I realized that it's not easy to enter a university, difficult to study there, and more difficult to graduate from the university.

Last few days I went to a club of my university. It's one of the most important club i should follow to support my study there. Most of the club's members are Buddhist, but all of them come from different faculties. But one thing I can ensure is that all of them are Chinese. That's why it's called Chinese community. They can help you to settle the so-called 'cultural shock' and to adapt with the university life. If you go to government university, you'll find out that most of the students are Indonesian and you'll hardly find Chinese as it's just a minority there.. In the club, I got my first task, I have to make list of all the members in that club followed by their telephone,facebook account, twitter account, sign, etc. I think there are hundreds of senior and friends i have to find. oh noo.. i have to finished that asap. hope that I can settle it down before 24th July.

My senior are divided into some groups, depending on the year they entered the university. The longer they study in university, the more respects the got from their juniors. In my faculty,the most important thing you should learn is to make yourself as friendly and as nice as possible. There are various kinds of people there. From the crazy ones, wicked ones,and ones who love to tease you. Because my brother has been in the faculty for some years, I can recognize some of my seniors and make friends with them. Some of them gave me good impressions - Stef (2008), she is so kind to me ; Prawira, a nice guy who loves to joke so much ; Dickson, a friendly guy. Everyone knows him, but he loves to tease people or even make joke on someone,I think he is one of my "good" friend's cousin. Most of them are my direct seniors who have the responsibilities in welcoming us, freshmen. So we have to be good to them if we want to feel safe to study there.

Before I start my study, I have to follow a welcoming program from my senior (it's an orientation usually). This orientation is a three-day-activity. Within 3 days, I have to go to uni early in the morning and I have to wear whatever my seniors asked us to. It's quite terrible. My brother and sister told me that i probably have to eat smelly things, to roll around on the floor, to climb tree, to sing, to catch frog and I will be scolded even if I don't do any mistakes. But luckily, they may not do physical harm to me. they have to keep my life safe. the only thing they can do is to torture freshmen mentally.

Okay, my orientation will be held in the late august. oh noooo.. hope i can pass it!

Friendship never ends

One of my bests is going to move next month. She will continue her academic in the other part of the country. We'll be apart soon. So, later, we are going to spend our time merrily. We have had memories that will never be forgotten and will always stay in our heart. These memories started when we started to swim and jog together. When we both were in the pool, some people said that we are twins. We look exactly alike in the pool.ha-ha-ha. Especially when we swimmed across the pool together.
Eiiitss, not only both of us, but three of us, me, vanie(my best),and david(her boy), had lots of fun together everyday. We used to have breakfast in McD every time we finished our routines : swimming and jogging. Ha-ha. We went to market the other day, cause I had to buy some vegetables for lunch at home. In the afternoon,we used to always wandering around Thamrin Plaza. Often, we go home by foot. One day,when we're half way home,we passed through MBox. We decided to go in and to karaoke for an hour. Yeah,we had lots of fun. Three of us sing out loud and every single songs is filled with feelings. We knew that someday we gonna miss that time. The song touched me most was "at the beginning" by Richard Marx.

Here are the lyrics :

(Donna Lewis)

We were strangers starting out on a journey
Never dreaming what we'd have to go through
Now here we are and I'm suddenly standing

At the beginning with you

(Richard Marx)

No one told me I was going to find you

Unexpected what you did to my heart

When I lost hope you were there to remind me

This is the start

(Chorus)

And Life is a road and I wanna keep going

Love is a river I wanna keep flowing

Life is a road now and forever wonderful journey

I'll be there when the world stops turning

I'll be there when the storm is through

In the end I wanna be standing

At the beginning with you

(Both)

We were strangers on a crazy adventure

Never dreaming how our dreams would come true

Now here we stand unafraid of the future

At the beginning with you

(Chorus)

And Life is a road and I wanna keep going

Love is a river I wanna keep flowing

Life is a road now and forever wonderful journey

I'll be there when the world stops turning

I'll be there when the storm is through

In the end

I wanna be standing

At the beginning with you

(Bridge)

Knew there was somebody somewhere

Like a light in the dark

Now I know that dreams will live on

I've been waiting so long

Nothing's gonna tear us apart

And Life is a road and I wanna keep going

Love is a river I wanna keep flowing

Life is a road now and forever wonderful journey

I'll be there when the world stops turning

I'll be there when the storm is through

In the end I wanna be standing

At the beginning with you

Life is a road and I wanna keep going

Love is a river I wanna keep flowing

Starting out on a journey

Life is a road and I wanna keep going

Love is a river I wanna keep flowing

In the end I wanna be standing

At the beginning with you

Every songs has its own meaning. That's why i love to listen to songs so much. Especially piano. My mind flows swiftly as my fingers dance at the tuts. at least it can change my emotion and mood. maybe it's the reason why people use music in some therapies.
Here are some pict we have together, three of us ;

Me and Stev wu in the PromNite

david ho, stevwu, and me in M-box karaoke

me and Stevwu at the poolside

David ho , Stevanie wu , and me :)
in felix 17th birthday party at Koki Sunda

Stevwu and Me

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the beginning of happily ever after

Today i feel so great. Because yesterday I've known that I am being admitted in a government university, University of North Sumatra,in medical faculty. Being admitted in USU means that all of my plans to study Chinese medicine and accept the scholarship in Shanghai is cancelled. Maybe I will go there to have short course after I finish my undergraduate program. My next target will be “majoring Chinese medicine and acupuncture in China.” I love to help people, I want to cure people from sickness and release them from sufferings. It's good to see people around me are faraway from ailments and see their smile. A simple smile could change your day, couldn't it? I think it is enough to make me and my family proud. Many of them failed in this time elimination exam. All of my classmates are success in their exam. I am one of the lucky ones. Thanks God. ;)

Beside saying thank you to all my friends and relatives for the support. I want to shout out loud “i won’t regret” because I will never stop to stay strong and put smiles on my face. Now,I wholeheartedly believe one of Ajahn Brahm's sayings : “The longer I hold something,the heavier it feels.1 minute,i feel tired. 2 minutes,i feel pain.3 minutes,I am suffering and become a stupid man.The solution is,just put it down.” By that saying, I've learned to take everything as easy as I can and be strong. Also from another saying : “Happiness is having fun, just enjoy who I am and who you are.” ; I learn to have fun and be happy. Maybe you should try to follow what he said too, you will be happier after that.

And one more thing to add my happiness.My dad is gonna buy me a car. Yey! Finally i can go anywhere by my own. And the point is i no need to walk everywhere under hot and cold weather.hahahaha.

Been talking about the good things, I have bad things to share, too. I will go to a different university with my best friend. Her university is located faraway from mine,even different province and island. So sad to be apart :( I can’t meet her everyday anymore. We can’t go swimming and jogging anymore. No more eating gargantuan meals together. Aaaaaaaaa. Not only those,i can’t meet lots of my friends, either. They are going separately to pursue their own dreams. Some to Singapore, some to Hongkong, one to Canada and Australia. Gonna miss them all so damn much. But we’ll be gathered someday as great doctors, engineers, architects,psychologists, and other successful jobs for sure. Hope for the best. It’s not the end of everything. It is the beginning of happily ever after!!!!