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My best friend and I were getting lunch at a Vegan restaurant in Kyoto when James Bay’s song came on the stereo and the conversation topic took a turn to the future – something that commonly happens lately, what with the impending doom of the scary life post-graduation. At one point, I started talking about […]
What’s a lesson you choose to unlearn? -@izzaalyssa That I am limited. As a four year old kid, my life knew no bounds. If wings for humans existed and we all get to have our own, mine would have had been flapping tirelessly due to my endless eagerness to fly higher, higher, and then even […]
There is one thing that never fails to make me admire people. The courage to dream. It’s not necessarily the dream itself, because dreams are subjective and unlike a fair race, life puts everyone at a different starting point and therefore the extent of one’s dream differs based on that too. No, it is the […]
Kak, Instagramnya kenapa? Kamu, 20XX Kalau kalian pernah menanyakan ini ke platform sosial media aku baik di YouTube, Instagram (melalui second acc) dan Twitter, sini aku kasih tiga kemungkinan yang terjadi, dari yang paling tinggi chance-nya sampai yang paling unlikely. Pertama, usia kamu di bawah 13 tahun dan batasan usia minimum yang aku set di […]
Halo penanya! Bismillah, aku coba bantu jawab ya. Disini aku mau highlight beberapa poin yang menurut aku penting. Seperti yang sudah dijelaskan oleh penanya, mahasiswa program G30 adalah mahasiswa independen, dalam artian tidak ada komunitas khusus antar alumni dan calon mahasiswa seperti sebagaimana program MEXT/Monbu jalur embassy. Lalu yang membimbing ketika sudah sampai di Jepang […]
This year, I picked up an interpreting job at the local city hall. As an interpreter, my job is to interpret Japanese to Bahasa Indonesia (and vice versa) for Indonesian and Malaysian parents and students in various school settings. Recently, a large number of Malaysian families came to Japan and they currently reside at Ikeda, […]
There are two kinds of people in this world, the one to live and enjoy the joys and hurdles of life as it goes on, and the one who ensures every course of action in life is calculated to precision to produce maximum results. I have always been the second one. I have always lived […]
If you’re a regular visitor to this blog, you will know that I left it for a while. Look at the archives, see how rarely I made a blogpost in 2017-2020. Why? well, I didn’t really have the time, and I lost the passion to do so. I started writing because I felt the need […]
