I'm Feeling 22!

Yeah, it's one of Taylor Swift's songs. Yesterday, me and Wenny turned to 22! So, actually I didn't expect anything this time, since everybody is very busy nowadays. Got the first birthday greetings from my buddy E from the conventional text messaging, hahax XD Well, as usual, the only one in my family who will remember my birthday is my sis, so she said the greetings through an Instagram post. Now I'll tell the almost-fail-and-expected surprise for me and Wenny yesterday XD

So, here's a friend named Jesslyn who is an old friend of mine from JHS till first year of SHS. Actually she was also in the same class with me in college, but only until the 2nd semester, before she moved to NZ to continue her studies. And after she got her Diploma from NZ, she moved back to Medan and continue to get the Bachelor degree this year. She is having her Entrepreneurship project, which is a quite troublesome project for every student, hahax. So she asked for my help on Friday on her financial plan. So, I helped her and luckily the mistakes were not that fatal. And on that day also, she again asked for my help for another financial plan component. I told her to just send the files again so that I could help her. But strangely, she asked for a dinner because she wanted to learn how to do the ones that she couldn't do. At that time I just felt weird, that was so unusual of her and I thought that she was a very busy person since she's also working. But, I put aside that feeling and agreed to her offer. 

Before I went to the place that we had agreed on, I fetched my mom to Cambridge and wait for her with my sis for almost 3 hours. I was afraid that I would be late. But after I had fetched my mom and sis home, I phoned her to ask whether she was on the way or not. She said that she was still on the way to fetch her sis, then after that, she would go to the place. Then I said okay and decided to take a bath. Actually, I was very tired at that time like I wanna cancel this meeting, but then I couldn't be that rude to cancel at the last minute. Around 7.30 pm, I decided to go to that place. When I called her, she said that she was also on the way to the place, which was another thing to be considered as weird, hahax XD When I was already in front of Sun Plaza, she called me again that she had arrived. Well, another weird signal, she arrived faster that I'd expected. When I had arrived, I looked around to find her and then I saw her sitting alone... On the day before, she said that she would be with her friend, but I thought that maybe her friends hadn't arrived yet. So, she opened the file and asked me to see the wrong part. I corrected some parts of it. I ordered drink first and then my food after a while. I was late for my dinner, so I thought that I wouldn't eat that much. 

Suddenly, Jowi came and pulled my hand forcely to follow her. At that time, I had known what they were planning, hahax. So, I just followed her and found out there were also others. They are Randy, Wilson, suddenly saw Wenny too, then Willianto, Carissa, Yulie, Virgo, and Jesslyn had already at that room == Wenny and I were so speechless that we were very awkward as many people saw us at that time. They had even set a table with mini cakes and the 22 candles also the balloons! Then they lighted up the candle, took several (actually too many) photos of the two of us XD We sang 'Happy Birthday' song then we made wishes before we blew the candles. We laughed a lot, chit-chat for a lil' while, suddenly, Wenny's bf came with another cake for her. So we sang another 'Happy Birthday' song for Wenny, and the others did another photoshoot of them. We continued our laughs and chats while ordering for foods and drinks. About 10 pm, Wisely and Sally came and said 'Happy Birthday' to us. We took many photos and played with the balloons, especially the duck one, hahax. We left that place at around 11 pm, which was quite late for my mom's time. 

Haah, never expect such things would happen. Actually, there were many flaws in their plan, hahax. First, I could be very late because of my mom. Second, I could walk to the another way where they had prepared the surprises. Third, I should have heard that the waiter said that our bill (the table which me and Jess sat) were combined with the table that they had used to prepare the surprise. Actually I heard the waiter said the combine things, but I didn't hear about their table, hahax. Y ME SO DEAF? In the end, it was a funny surprise, and I was so and still grateful for their willingness to celebrate our birthday =) Thank you God, thank you friends, as maybe this will be the last birthday celebration before I .... haah, dun wanna write it here before the day comes :')

Last Two Step to the End

Goodbye to the month of sorrow and hello to my month! Well, I was planning to post something on the 1st, but ended up with forgetting it till today. Yeah, I had my skripsi proposal convention on the 1st November, in other words, the first challenge of the month. That day was quite a tiring day. I was the first person (what I mean is the FIRST person in my batch) that would have the skripsi proposal convention. 

I arrived at the campus around 9.40 am and quite surprised with the students who wore my campus blazer. I thought that those were the ones who would join my convention. Phew, my thought was wrong and they were the juniors who wanted to attend the Nationality class. When I arrived at the convention class, I saw CT had arrived there. Wow, so fast, hahax. I prepared my things for the convention and had the first obstacle: the projector didn't connect with the computer. Then I asked the CS to call the IT staff to fix it. Fortunately, it could connect to the computer. At that time, the duo Jessica arrived dunno whether as the supporters or as the witnesses of my awkwardness when I answered the examiners. After some minutes, the projector didn't connect with the computer again. My advisor had arrived at that time, and still I got another obstacle == Then I asked the CS again, but she said I'd better move to another class. I ran again to the lecturers' office to ask my advisor whether we could move to another class. She approved then I ran to the CS to take the remotes for classes. I entered 4-1 and everything was alright till I found out that the projector couldn't be swung down. I was like OMG and I moved to 4-2 and another problem was that class' computer had no CPU. I was frustrated with my campus condition! I ran (again and again) to the lecturers' office to ask my advisor for the solution. She said that that projector at 4-1 could be swung down, just asked the IT staff to handle it. Then, for God's sake, I dunno how many times I ran, I ran again to the class to prepare it for the convention, then walked (I was tired already even before the convention) to the front office to ask the CS to call the IT staff to fix the projector. At that time my first examiner had arrived also. The last thing to do was move my bag and all of the things I brought to that class. At last I could sit and calm myself down. Around 10.45 (which was 45 minutes late), the second examiner arrived at 4-1 and in several minutes my advisor and the first examiner entered the class. I was like, okay, this is it!

I gave each of them a yellow map which each consisted of some forms for skripsi proposal convention and my skripsi proposal. The convention began with my advisor greetings as the moderator of the convention. Then I began my presentation which maybe last for only 15 mins. After that, the first examiner asked questions to me. Well, I was very surprised by her questions, which was quite hard for me to answer. Not only that, she checkmated me and I just could laugh with people inside the class, hahax XD I dunno why she was so interested with my topic and asked me for about 20 mins till I told her that the second examiner wanted to sleep already, hahax. Actually she still wanted to asked me, but then she realized that she asked for too many questions and let the second examiner to ask me. The second examiner was not a problem to me, she just asked things that I should add to my skripsi, and she asked for 5 mins only. Then my advisor asked me to go out for a while because they wanted to calculate the score of my proposal convention. I was dehydrated so much because of the first examiner, hahax. After several minutes, the advisor asked me to come in again and announced that my score was 93.7! At that time I dunno why I didn't feel excited at all, maybe because I was tired already. Then CT continued for her convention as well, guess what, her convention was about 30 mins only == 

The duo Jessica and some other friends were quite shocked with the first examiner's questions that almost beat me down, hahax. I nagged to JW so much after I had my convention while watching CT's convention. But seriously, I had a severe headache after that convention, too much thinking I guess, hahax. So, I decided to sleep to celebrate my post-proposal convention. I just want to thank God for His grace, I know I couldn't do it without His help =) To be honest, I feel like it was not me who passed that convention, like someone acted in behalf of me and I was just watching my outer-self doing all of that. I even didn't feel nervous for that convention, and I laughed a lot XD The second examiner felt weird and asked why I was so happy, hahax. Yeah, I can relax for at least until the end of this year, and start to deal with this again next year. Maybe I'll prepare myself for another competition at UI next January. My friends keep on asking me for the proposal convention experience, and maybe I've told this story for 3-4 times already == I know they can pass it also =)

Thank you God, my parents, and my buddies who have prayed for me. Left the last step, which is the final convention, then after that, a real goodbye for undergraduate life =)