I believe that we learn by practice..

 A quote I like, related to Knowledge Management, and can be used to explain why we need the practice part.

Integration Moment III

In my Master program in TU Delft, Management of Technology, there's a special course called Integration Moment (read more about it in my previous post). This semester is my 3rd Integration Moment starting from 12 -30 January 2009. It was said in the kick-off meeting that 3 best papers would be selected and given prize. Interesting :)

The task was to write thesis proposal. We had been informed about this beforehand and advised to have our thesis topic ready before the start of the IM3. However, being a person who liked to keep his options open, this was particularly hard for me :)

Nevertheless, I decided on a topic related to my specialization in Innovation System just on the first day of IM3. It was a project in IBM. That's what I want, a thesis in company so that it would be more practical (at least that's what I thought).

However, the topic itself was still very broad, I only had little contact with my supervisor (he was not involved in the IM3 course) and I didn't even get a reply from IBM yet, about whether I'm gonna be accepted as one of the intern. This really gave me a hard time to write the thesis proposal. You know, the uncertainty.. I just didn't want to redo making the thesis proposal later. Hey, that's the purpose of this IM3 :D

The deadline for submission the final proposal was last Tuesday at 4pm. On Sunday, mine was still really bad, only a scrape on one A4 and some wild thoughts. Fortunately I got a meeting with one of the mentor on Monday and he gave me valuable input and some literatures to read. Long story short, after a 3 weeks IM3 period, I submitted my work just in time. I just realized I sent it 3.55 pm according to the big clock on the computer room's wall but 4.01pm according to the computer's clock. OMG.

Today we had a closing session of IM3 with free drinks in Wijnhaven, a very nice cafe by the way. Three students had been selected (before the deadline) to present their works because the commitee found them interesting and that they had shown good progress. Indeed, Doudou's, Robin's, and Reinoud's topics were interesting. I especially liked Robin's, about the impact of incubators to start-up companies.

Then the teachers announced the 3 best papers. And wow..! One of the prize went for me!
I honestly didn't expect that. I mean, I liked my paper, it's concise and well-reflect what I had in mind about the research at that moment. But it's not my best, I should've put more effort, that's what I felt.

Of course I didn't refuse the prize, come on :D I went home with a flower bouquet and 2 bookshop vouchers, very happy :)

NB: One interesting coincidence.. The other two prize-winners were Monica and Robin (this is a guy, as this name is unisex). The funny thing was, we were the only MOT students joining an elective course called Network Management & Innovation a couple of months ago and formed a group for the assignment. Apparently in this IM3 course, we were once more reunited, hehe :D

Bi-directional Override

Stumbled upon an html tag with an attribute that will write text backwards (if your browser support it).. I know it's not gonna be used a lot though :D

The tag is <bdo> and the atttribute is 'rtl'=right to left.

If your browser supports bi-directional override (bdo), this code :

<bdo dir="rtl">
Let's try this bi-directional override tag
</bdo>

will be written from the right to the left (rtl) as:

Let's try this bi-directional override tag

Well ya.. If it's not written from right to left, you know what your problem is :D

The End of Integration Moment II

Haaah.. At last, the Integration Moment II has finished.. So relieved..

Integration Moment(IM) is a "special" course in MOT (my master program--Management of Technology) which takes place at the end of every semester. It consists of a big (i mean BIG) collaborative assignment which covers all courses in that particular semester. In addition to the complexity of the assignment, collaboration problem with group members might occur (and it did in my case).

The assignment for Integration Moment I in the 1st semester was the issue of eBay buying Skype. In this 2nd semester, the assignment was making a proposal to fulfill the tender from 3 Technical Universities for a novel joint graduate school in Netherlands with the innovation of new learning. The students were divided in 2 arenas, in which we were divided again in 4 companies. I was in Blackboard, the ICT company. The other 3 companies were Deloitte (consultant for new learning and project management), Reed Elsevier (publisher and knowledge management expert), and Bouwfonds (building expert). Each company consisted of 5 students.

We had to work as a consortium of 4 companies to win the tender (around 20 people), as well as protecting our own company's interests and goals within the consortium. So the IM2 was full of meetings and negotiations. The 2.5 weeks was cramped with scheduled meetings with the consortium and the consultants(the lecturers), not to mention every consultancy documents and consortium & company papers that we had to submit. Very tiring but in the end felt like the most productive period in semester 2.

And that's the motive of this post, to celebrate the end of the IM2 on Thursday 26 June 2008, hehehe :D After the final presentation to the 3TU board, our consortium went out to a park and had a relaxing BBQ time under the warm sun, while our rival, the consortium in arena 2 was having their final presentation, haha :D

Initiative

Self note:

Remember to require certain level of initiative from your group member next time!

Grrrhh..!

Kuliah & Ujian

Hari ini..

Bolos kuliah Decision Making karena masih (berusaha) belajar untuk ujian R&D and Knowledge Management jam 2 nanti.

Gyaaaaa....

update: And now it's raining. Great........... (1,5 hours to go..)
PS: What am I doing actually? blogging at this time? insane........ hahahahahha (laughing in distress )

Assignmentku selesai!!

Assignmentku nampak udah selesai.. Aku baca pelan2.. "Eh, tapi tadi tugasku kan belom selesai? Apa ini mimpi.." Berusaha mengingat2 isi dokumen itu untuk dituliskan di dokumenku (ngarep2 gitu)..

Yaaah, pas betul2 terbangun, ternyata emang lupa.. (dan si assignment sialan itu emang masih belum kelar)

--Ugghh... Mimpi yang betul2 keterlaluan.. memberi harapan palsu--

Begadang Jangan Begadang

Begadang.. Yang katanya menguras energi (apalagi klo ngeliat efeknya pada si blengkeng Nessa) sama sekali ga memungkinkan untuk bikin kurus.

Apalagi dengan ngemil senantiasa kayak sekarang *hiks*, xixixixi..

White day

I open my door today for going to the faculty...
And I see white everywhere...!!!

The world is covered in ice!!!

Well, I have to go to class now, I'm posting from the faculty.

Oh, I'm so excited..!!!!! :D

Bike's Saddle & Late Autumn

I arrived at the library at 10am with my bike to meet Harold for doing High Tech Marketing assignment.. It's already dark when I was leaving the building at 6pm and trying to find my bike among the other bikes.

"Well, I never thought I have a sparkly saddle. It looks good by the way..", I wonder. (Kek apa ya bilangnya.. Kek ngeliat kaca yg ada butiran2 bercahaya di dalamnya.)

I run my finger on the saddle's surface and can see a trail appearing.

"Ahh, it's ice!", I rubbed all the saddle's surface, revealing its true self, hehehe..

The winter's coming! I do hope that there will be snow so that I won't just face the cold weather and the rain. Indeed they say the winter's gonna be colder than last year.

Sunday Morning

Wake up early morning for studying Financial Planning & Report
Open up my window's curtain and see the sky's brightened up
Early birds are soaring on the other end of the sky
Accompanied by Hayley Westenra's soaring voice from her album Celtic Treasure
With a cup of hot chocolate (Okay, I admit. It's two cups already )
Perfect day!!

Babysitting

Last night was my first time babysitting.. Well, not that I do regular babysitting. My friend, Tantri, got the job but unfortunately she was ill yesterday and could not babysit. I just replaced her temporarily.

Basically, I would not say that what I did last night was babysitting. In fact both kids, Daniel (around 4 y/o) and Jingga (around 2 y/o) have been sleeping when I arrived at 20.15. So, I was mostly like 'satpam' () while their mother was away working as a nurse. I was indeed stayed awake doing my Human Resource Management report until 5am the next morning.

In the morning, I woke up in the living room and realized there's someone at the door staring at me. It was Daniel and he wanted to go to the toilet and I could tell he was somewhat surprised to see me instead of Tantri ("Who the hell is this guy?!!", he probably think ).

And I was right.. After doing his business in the toilet, he followed me sitting on the living room's couch and he questioned me, "Hoe heet jij?"
Gyaahh.. I knew only very little Dutch
"Ik been Andy", I replied,"Mama sebentar lagi pulang."

Lucky I was told that he understood Indonesian Language Unlucky, he started blabbering in Dutch and I had no idea what he's talking about. (Mental note: Learn Dutch Language a.s.a.p.!!)

Lucky (or unlucky), Jingga cried in her room. So, I left Daniel and headed toward her room. Seeing me coming closer to her bed, she cried even louder and "berguling-guling menyembunyikan wajah di bantal dan selimut"

I hurried myself out of her room. She stopped crying for a while, only to start again the next several seconds. So I took Daniel to her room. He lovingly (aww, so sweet) hugged his sister and tried to lift her out of her box bed. Not convinced that he had the strength (ya iyalah), I helped him getting his sister out. She stopped crying and calmly followed her brother who took her by the hand to the living room.

It took quite some times to convince her that I was a nice guy, hahaha. You know, by trying to be funny and showing her that her brother was not afraid of me.

The rest of the babysitting moment was I was continuosly beaten by Daniel because he was somehow convinced that he was Spiderman with all those shooting-web-through-his-hand gestures while I also had to listen to Jingga's story about all things from her little bag.

I love those kids.. Both are very nice (considering I can still control Daniel's energetic superpower) and funny (I couldn't believe Jingga was able to converse with her dad using the phone, in a very cute way) and smart (once their mother was home, she told Daniel that I couldn't speak Dutch and only speak English and Indonesian. To which Daniel replied in Dutch,"Why can't Om Andy speak Dutch? Dad can speak Indonesian.."). FYI, their father is Dutch and their mother is Indonesian.

Tantri is still ill, so I'll babysit again tonight..

Today I

I think I will follow the concept of an application in Facebook that simply displays the activities of a user in short description. That will be a good excuse for one liner

Let's start today..

Today I decided to study in the faculty, instead of in my own room, for tomorrow's Human Resource Management exam.

I am really glad I did that because I met Mai there and studied together. Very productive! (plus we got free hot chocolate ).

I should do it more often I think .

Skip The Class

Here I am..
On the first day of my second quarter..
When I am supposed to be at Zaal E..
Listening to Mr. Dekker..
But instead sitting in my room..
Getting ready to sleep..
After all night being awake..
Working on my Socio Technical Map..
And just emailed my file to Mr. Mulder..
After last week with only several hours sleeping..
Ohh, I am tired and sleepy..














(Hahaha Xiaojing, I bet you're already asleep now)

Hayley Westenra & Joseph McManners

During my overnight study for The Production of New Technology exam next monday, I am glad I was accompanied by Hayley Westenra & Joseph McManners. I just downloaded their albums from multiply network. Hayley's "Pure" and "Celtic Treasure" and Joseph's "In Dreams"

Their voices are amazing and having a soothing effect (eh, somewhat tempting me to go to sleep actually :p)

I knew Hayley from Bien and Charles who gave me 'River of Dream' and 'Beat of Your Heart'. I knew Joseph by coincidence this night while searching for Hayley's album.

For tonight, I specially like 'Heaven' by Hayley and 'The Little Prince Song' by Joseph (maybe part of my likeness to the book 'Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry).



PS: eh, tapi aktifitas belajarnya jg di selingi dgn gangguin Tantri dan ngobrol dgn Dias di YM tengah malam >:) huwehehe..

Company Visit: Shell

Hari ini sejak jam 12.30 ngumpul di Delft Central Station sama anak2 MoT. Janjian untuk bersepeda bareng ke Shell (emang disuruh ke sana untuk acara Company Visit). Materi presentasinya masuk bahan ujian sih, jadi semuanya mau2 aja datang, hehehe..

Ada skitar 15an orang yg bersepeda. Sisanya pake mobil ato bus. Tapi asyiknya, jadi kayak tur bersepeda,heheh.. Lucu aja anak2 S2 kayak gerombolan bersepeda di jalanan..

Inspiration comes unexpectedly..

I have been working with my 2nd Microeconomics Assignment since last Sunday. There are 3 problems, each having several questions.

Apparently the 2nd problem is the hardest. It has been several days that I've been thinking about the solution.. Even discussed it with some fellow students who got the answer from last year assignment. The lecturer has given us some pointers too, to solve the problem. But somehow, I still couldn't understand them.

This afternoon, I went to Gemeente (Municipality) to collect my residence permit. I got my queue number and had to wait. Bored of waiting, I opened the copy of lecture sheets. Not more than 10 minutes reading and I got the enlightenment to do the first question of the 2nd problem.. Wow, where have I been?

The answer is just right there in the lecture sheet but I couldn't understand it. Well, maybe we need the right time to understand something..

So I want to quote myself,

Inspiration and understanding often come at the moment they are least expected.

Have a good day, y'all!!
P.S.: I still need to work on the rest 2 questions of the 2nd assignment though

Got an offer

I have written this story long ago. However, I posted it 2 days ago :p

New update: I received an offer from TU Delft yesterday by email, yaayy..

I applied for Management of Technology. When they received my application package, they said that it would take up to 6 weeks for them to decide whether I could be accepted or not. Thankfully, I don't have to wait that long. they only need 2 weeks to decide it. I'm waiting for the official admission letter from the Admissions Office of TU Delft within two weeks.

Still, a lot more work to do concerning visa, birth certificate, accomodation, etc. Hehehe..

Rush trip to Medan (Depkominfo Scholarship)

=Cerita ditulis tanggal 17 April 2007=

Jadi gini awal mula ceritanya. Kan aku ikutan seleksi Beasiswa Depkominfo 2007/2008. Minggu lalu dah keluar pengumuman di websitenya, kalo aku masuk jadi salah satu kandidat untuk seleksi tahap wawancara. Happy, I am :D Diberitahukan juga klo informasi selanjutnya akan disampaikan melalui email masing2 kandidat.

Sampai akhirnya di hari Selasa sore, tgl 10 April 07, aku ditelepon.
"Selamat sore. Dengan Bapak Andy Credo? Saya dari Depkominfo"
"Selamat sore. Iya,saya Andy Credo."
(dalam hati) ohh, mungkin mau ngasi tau jadwal wawancara

"Kenapa tidak datang wawancara siang ini?"
"HAHH??" (kaget setengah mati) "Saya tidak tahu wawancaranya hari ini. Pemberitahuannya lewat email kan ya, saya cek mail tiap hari dan rasanya saya tidak terima email apapun tentang wawancara."
"Ohh begitu. Coba cek di bulk mail soalnya beberapa kandidat tadi juga bilang mereka menerima emailnya di bulk mail."

Aku cek spam folder di Gmail ku dan menemukan beberapa email dari Depkominfo tentang wawancara. Hwaaa.. Kenapa juga sampe masuk spam folder ya..

Ya sudahlah. Dari hasil telepon ke Depkominfo, aku dikasi tau masih ada jadwal wawancara di Medan dan Makassar. Higs, tak ada jalan lain, aku mesti nyusul wawancara ke Medan aja (ga mungkin ke Makassar, ga ada kenalan). Jadwal test Medan adalah hari Kamis 12 April. Tapi tempatnya belom dipastikan. Rabu mesti tanya lagi.

That day and the next day were the most rush day for me I guess. Bolak-balik nelpon ke Depkominfo tanya ini itu, soalnya masih ada beberapa persyaratan yang perlu dibawa.

Trus nelpon ke Bapak dan Mama untuk nge-fax bukti pembayaran rekening listrik, air, PBB, telepon, dan slip gaji mereka.

Nyari tiket pesawat terbang ke Medan. Sambil berbingung-bingung mutusin mau berangkat jam berapa ke Medan dan pulang jam berapa dari Medan. Soalnya aku pengennya masih sempat ngejar pertemuan pertama Conducting Class-nya Mas Indra di hari Kamis malam.

Masih bisa pesan tiket AirAsia Kamis malam dr Medan ke JKT dibantu Aju Kecil (tanteku, based on silsilah leluhur), tapi yg Rabu malam dr JKT ke Medan ga bisa dipesan online lagi karena kurang dari 48 jam sblom berangkat, harus ke counternya AirAsia. Itu udah hampir tengah malam. Jadinya diputuskan pulang ke Bandung jam 20.30 dr Medan. Ga jadi deh ikut Conducting class.

Rabu pagi, Bapak dan Mamaku tercintah mengirimkan fax-nya ke kantor. Lengkap dengan persoalan hasil fax yang ga gitu jelas. Setelah diulang beberapa kali, aku putuskan, ya cukuplah sudah. Walo ga jelas-jelas amat.

Menelpon sejumlah travel agent untuk tiket ke Medan, dengan sblomnya bertanya dulu ke beberapa teman yg berasal dari Medan. Ada yang tiketnya mahal banget, ada yang bilang kalo akan terlalu lama beli tiket dari mereka padahal waktunya mepet.

Nelpon XTrans untuk mesan seat dari Bandung ke Jakarta di hari Rabu siang. Tnyata lagi ga ada rute yang langsung ke Bandara Cengkareng, mesti transit di Pool XTrans Blora dulu. Ya udah, aku pesan seat untuk jam 14.00

Cari info penginapan yang murah di Medan via Mbah Google. Soalnya klo sampe Medan tengah malam, sayang juga klo tidurnya di hotel yang mahal. Toh, pagi2 banget dah mesti cabut ke tempat test. Sempat merepotkan Poppy yang sampai tanya2 tentang hotel2 murah itu ke Mamanya di Medan sana. Untungnya mamanya lagi ada arisan, jadi info hotel bisa didapat dari para ibu2 yang berkumpul. Mantap! :D Di sepanjang jalan Sisingamangaraja Medan itu banyak hotel-hotel, dari yang mahal sampe yang murah juga ada :D

Siang hari, aku baru berhasil dapat info dari Depkominfo klo tempat wawancara di Medan itu ada di:

Gedung Balai Penelitian dan Pengkajian Informasi
(BPPI) Medan
Jalan Tombak No. 31
Tembung - Medan

Jam 1 siang, aku ke bandara Husein Sastranegara untuk mesan tiket ke counter AirAsia. Udah minta cuti 1/2 hari dari kantor. Sampe di sana, si mbaknya bilang sih, dia bisa ngasi tiket yg jam 6 sore, tapi takutnya aku ga sempat ngejar waktu ke JKTnya. Itu dah jam 13.30. Minimal dah check in jam 17.15. Setelah nelpon ke Customer Service AirAsia JKT, jadinya aku putusin ga usah ambil tiketnya dan beli di tempat aja.

Segera pulang ke rumah, sampe rumah jam 13.45. Untung dah siapin dokumen2 yg perlu dibawa, tinggal masukin pakaian resmi dan cabut. 13.50 berangkat ke XTrans Cihampelas. Untung dekat, sampe dalam 7 menit, dan segera berangkat ke JKT.

Sampe di JKT, si supir XTrans menyarankan aku ga usah sampe ke Blora kalo mau ke Bandara karena bakal lama banget. Langsung aja ambil taxi di luar tol Cawang (eh, bener ga ya? Tomang-kah? Lupa nama tol-nya). Dari situ naik taxi ke Bandara plus biaya tol kena sekitar Rp.70.000,-

Sampe bandara, ke counter AirAsia, dan seorang mbak jutek penjual tiket bilang kalo ga ada tiket lagi untuk jam 18.00. Laah, aku coba telpon lagi customer service-nya, katanya masih ada tiket. Kudatangi lagi AirAsia-nya, sekarang ke bagian Customer Service. Trus dia bilang ada penerbangan malam yang dibatalkan, jadinya penumpangnya mau dioper ke jam 18.00. Kalau mau tunggu info lagi jam 17.30. Halaah, makin tak jelas nasibku kalo nunggu lagi.

Bingung mo milih pesawat yang mana sebagai gantinya. Akhirnya diputuskan naik Sriwijaya Air lewat calo, hiks. Ternyata itu pesawatnya di-delay (calo sialan. Ga lagi-lagi deh. Mestinya aku cari info langsung dulu dari Sriwijaya Air-nya). Tapi ya namanya orang kepepet, dari pada ga dapat flight malam itu, apapun dijalani, hehe. Tak papa.

Di Waiting Room Sriwijaya, aku nelponin beberapa hotel Medan yang dah kusurvey lewat internet, sebagian besar penuh. Sebagian lagi, harganya udah berubah jadi lebih mahal. Duhh.. Akhirnya tetap pesan tempat di salah satu hotel (daripada ga dapat tempat)

Berangkat ke Medan! Sampe Medan lewat jam 8 malam. Bingung cari taksi karena ga pada pake argo (padahal kata Poppy ada). Di dekat pintu keluar, ditawarin Rp.35.000,- sampe Sisingamangaraja. Pake taktik sok ga butuh, aku jalan menjauh dari situ. Benar aja, makin jauh, harga makin murah :p Rp.25.000,- sampe Rp.20.000,-. Aku sms Poppy, tanya klo ga pake Argo, sbaiknya minta harga brapa. Blom dibalas. Tapi di ujung bandara itu, ada Bapak-bapak Batak yang setelah tawar-menawar mau Rp.15.000,- ke Sisingamangaraja. Ya udahlah, aku terima aja. Di dalam mobil baru sampe sms balasan dari Poppy yg bilang harganya jangan lebih dari Rp.10.000,- Hehehe, telat deh Pop. Tapi si Bapak sopir ini cukup membantu juga. Katanya dari pada ke hotel yang dah kupesan itu, lebih baik ke hotel lain yang lebih murah yang sering dipakai para pengunjung Medan juga.

Dia membawaku ke Zakia Hotel di daerah Masjid Raya, dekat Sisingamangaraja juga. Waah, murah. Rp.55.000,- untuk kamarnya yang kayak kamar kost (tapi tempat tidurnya gede) dengan kipas angin dan kamar mandi dalam. Plus ada suara yang nyanyi "I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You" a la Zorro dari kamar sebelah. Mungkin anak pemilik. Suaranya bagus by the way :D (aiyaah, sempat2nya, hehe). Malam itu jalan-jalan keluar sebentar untuk liat lingkungan sambil cari makan. Trus mempelajari berkas-berkas ku sebentar termasuk jawaban2ku di form aplikasi beasiswa sama mengontak Bapak dan Mama ngasi info terakhir plus minta tolong dibangunin pagi2, hehehe.

Bangun pagi dan siap2 dengan cepat. Udah prepare juga dengan roti untuk sarapan pagi (iya dong, daripada nanti kelaparan). Trus nyari taksi di Sisingamangaraja. Kata Poppy sih sebaiknya berangkat pagi-pagi, supaya jalanan masih ga macet karena Tembung itu jauh (demikian juga kata Mama-nya Poppy dan Ira).

Naik taksi minta dibawa ke Tembung. Kata sopirnya dia ga tau jalan Tombak, tapi tau Tembung dimana. Ya sudah, lagian pake argo. Lama di jalan... Loh.. loh.. Emang sih kata Poppy dan Ira, Tembung itu daerah pinggiran jauh dari Medan. Tapi ini kok ngampung (ndeso) sekali. Apa mungkin tempat wawancara beasiswa untuk ke luar negri itu diadakan di perkampungan? Tampak tidak. Tanya-tanya ke orang sekitar, mereka juga ga pernah dengar BPPI maupun jalan Tombak. Mereka bilang, semua tempat ditandai dengan keberadaannya ada di dekat pasar ke berapa (ada banyak pasar di situ). Lah, mana ku tau ada di dekat pasar berapa. Sempat pusing bersama si abang supir, dia berkali-kali tanya ke pool taksinya, tapi belom ada info tentang Jalan Tombak di Tembung. Aku telpon Johnson (teman IF'00 yang anak Medan). Dia pun tak tau, bahkan dia sampe tanya ke keluarganya yang di Medan. Akhirnya kata bang supir, orang di pool bilang ada Jalan Tombak di Medan, di daerah Pancing, tepatnya di Medan-Tembung, bukan di Tembung. Gubraak!! Dalam hati, pasti deh disitu. Tampaknya informasi dari Panitia seleksinya kurang tepat. Yah, apa mau dikata. Aku dan taksiku melaju ke situ. Jadwal wawancara yang diberitahu lewat telepon adalah jam 8.30. Saat itu udah hampir jam 8, padahal aku berangkat dari hotel jam 6 lewat. Si supir cerita klo Tembung itu udah bukan wilayah Medan, udah masuk daerah Deli Serdang.

Dengan berpegang pada prinsip "malu bertanya sesat di jalan", kami tanya dimana jalan tombak itu ke seorang tukang becak di daerah Pancing. Nah, itu Jalan Tombak ketemu.. Tapi kok kecil amat ya jalannya. Kayak gang doang. Mungkin ujung satu laginya adalah jalan besar. Melajulah taksiku.. untuk sementara. Karena tiba-tiba bannya bocor. Oh nooo..!

Aku bayar tagihan taksiku Rp.70.000,- (ya iyalah.. Dah sampe tersesat ke perkampungan segala) dan memutuskan untuk menggunakan kakiku. Aku masuki si Jalan Tombak yang kecil itu dengan ragu-ragu. Coba telpon ke Depkominfo Jakarta tapi ga ada yang angkat. Btw, untung XL lagi promo tarif Rp.25,-/detik untuk telpon ke mana saja. Jadinya aku tak perlu ragu-ragu untuk menelpon.

Jalan.. jalan.. Jam 8 lewat. Jalan terus.. jalan.. Tanya beberapa orang. Ga ada yang tau BPPI Medan. Jalan lagi.. jalan.. Jam 8 lewat lebih banyak.. Tak ada tanda-tanda perkantoran.. makin panik dan ujug-ujug sampe di ujung jalan. Walaah, dimana tempat wawancara ituu.. Celingak-celinguk bentar, bertanya ke anak SMP dimana warnet terdekat, untung ada warnet cuma sekitar 100 m dari situ. Nelpon Inang Tua-ku yang di Medan untuk tanya alamat itu. Kata Inang Tua-ku, dia ga tau dimana BPPI itu tapi rasanya ada temannya yg pernah bilang. Jadi dia cari tau dulu, sambil jalan ke kantornya yang bakal lewat tempat ku berada saat itu.

Di warnet kubuka lagi Gmail ku, dan melihat jadwal wawancara ternyata jam 09.00 pagi. Huff, syukurlah. Aku search BPPI Medan dengan alamat jalan tombak. Ada berbagai macam BPPI dengan kepanjangan nama masing-masing. Untung terlihat BPPI yang ada tulisan Depkominfo-nya. Ada nomor telepon, dan ku telepon lah kantor itu. Kuceritain keadaanku. Katanya, bener itu kantor yang akan mengadakan wawancara beasiswa Depkominfo, dan dia tanya aku ada dimana. Kubilang di warnet jalan Tuasan dekat Jln. Tombak. Dia bilang, "Ada liat mesjid ga dekat situ?", kujawab ada. "Ada lapangan di sebelahnya?" kujawab ada. "Kantor kita ada dibaliknya"

Great! Berarti bener si jalan kecil itu tempat kantornya dan aku dah dekat. Tapi tadi kok aku ga nemu ya. Inang Tua-ku nelpon dan bilang dia dah nemu kantor BPPI itu dan dia sudah di sana. Jadi kami janjian ketemu di depan mesjid jalan Tuasan, abis tu aku di antar ke kantor BPPI Medan yang ada di balik mesjid itu. Inang Tua-ku lanjut ke tempat kerja. Padahal awal rencananya, abis wawancara baru aku mau berkunjung ke rumahnya di sisi lain kota. Malah ketemu duluan sebelum wawancara, hehehe.

Ternyata gedung BPPI itu memang ga besar-besar banget. Miriplah dengan gedung Puskesmas tempat Mama-ku kerja di Pekanbaru :D Ternyata udah rame di dalam. Di buku tamu tercatat udah ada 21 orang kandidat lain yang nunggu diwawancara. Yaah, masih lama dong giliranku. Tapi tak papa.

Nunggu pewawancara yang belum datang sebentar. Akhirnya mereka datang dan ngobrol2 sebentar, nanya kandidatnya datang dari mana aja.
"Medan!"
"Aceh!"
"Padang!"
"Medan!"
"Batam!"
"Pekanbaru!"
"Bandung!"

"Lohh? Kenapa kamu wawancaranya di sini?", kata Bapak itu heran(Pak Loso klo ga salah). Pertanyaan yang wajar, tapi panjang jawabannya :p

Ternyata urutan wawancara-nya sesuai urutan abjad nama. Yayy, jadinya aku yang pertama deh :D Wawancara dengan dua orang Bapak dari Depkominfo Jakarta. Dan selesailah sudah wawancara itu.

Haaaa..ahhh...
Aku lega, at least aku sudah menjalankan bagianku. Menjalani wawancara. Daripada mundur sama sekali, apalagi cuma karena info jadwal wawancara ga sampe ke aku dengan normal. Yaah, walopun ga bisa dibilang menyenangkan juga semua ke-riweuh-an ini. Memacu adrenalin dan menguras otakku.

Sebelum pulang ke Bandung, aku mampir ke tempat Inang Tua-ku. Dijemput sama sepupuku, tapi sblom itu kami mampir dulu ke Fountain (tempat makan es krim yang selalu dibangga-banggakan sama teman2 Medanku di Bandung). Ternyata emang keren dan enak makan es krim di Fountain itu, hehee..

Untuk perjalanan pulang ke Bandungnya, satu dua hal terjadi. Pesawat AirAsia-ku di undur keberangkatannya sampe beberapa kali. Katanya karena ada pemeriksaan mesin pesawat. Ah ya, terserahlah. Asalkan selamat sampai Jakarta. Aku dah ga terlalu mikirin. Kecapekan sih, hehehe.

Tapi dari Bandara Cengkareng ke Bandung, aku naik Papandayan Travel. Ada orang di bandara yg nawarin ke aku dan satu orang lagi, katanya Rp.135.000,- dan langsung brangkat. Lagi2 karena kecapekan, aku terima aja. Ehh, di daerah tol Cawang, ada masalah sama pemilik travel itu. Dia nyuruh supirnya balik ke Bandara, karena baru 2 orang isi mobilnya. Aku dan penumpang satu lagi ga terima dan protes habis2an (ahaha, di saat capek, untung juga klo barengan orang yg sama2 bisa membela nasib dan hak2 kami yang diinjak2 *aiiyaah.. berlebihan*)

Kasian supirnya dimarahin si pemilik. Tapi itu menurutku salah si calo yg di bandara, dan termasuk salah si supir yang mau aja jalan di suruh calo. Kan mestinya tunggu instruksi bossnya. Tapi si boss itu jg ga pantas dihormati, masa memperlakukan pengguna jasa dengan tidak hormat. Pake nyuruh supirnya nurunin kami di jalan pula. Kurang ajar banget ga tu.

Intinya, perjalanan pulang ke Bandung, sama aja susahnya dengan perjalanan pergi ke Medan, hufff..

=current situation=
I already got the scholarship. Thank God! ^_^ Still applying for the university in Netherlands though.

Tes Potensi Akademik di Depkominfo

Aku ada jadwal TPA (Tes Potensi Akademik) di Depkominfo jam 8.30. Mesti hadir jam 8 menurut website Depkominfo ato jam 7 menurut cetakan kartu tanda peserta (ga jelas jg nih mana yg bener).
Berangkat dari Bandung jam 4 pagi naik X-Trans. Sampe di Jakarta jam 6.30. Langsung ke tempat test di Depkominfo naik busway.

Oh my God, itu tempat testnya ga ada meja tulis. Jadi kita test cm mengandalkan alas tulis dan berbagai pose duduk / melipat kaki untuk men-support alas tulis itu. Alokasi waktu untuk ngerjain soal jadi terbagi dengan bolak-balik posisi buku soal, lembar jawaban, maupun ganti pose menulis. Belum lagi ngulet-ngulet dan meregangkan tubuh karena pegel. Sangat ga kondusif untuk ngerjain test dengan baik, menurutku. Tapi ya sudahlah, apa mau di kata Wong emang perlu banget nilai TPA itu sih.

Sisi lain yang asyik dari test itu, aku jadi bisa ketemu sama teman SMU ku Dah lama banget ga ketemu Detti & Bang Pinto. Dan ketemu 3 teman baru: Mbak Dewi yang ngajar Informatika di Itenas dan mau ngambil beasiswa S3 bidang Informatika juga di Aussie, Tantri anak Desain Produk'00 ITB yang barengan naik XTrans (bareng Mb'Dewi jg), sama Adit anak Kriya Tekstil'00 ITB, yang mencari ruang test barengan aku. Ternyata Adit temannya Tantri, hehehe.

I hope the TPA result will be good enough for the scholarship. Amen!

Update Maret 07
The result is indeed very good!! more than what I've expected Exceed the requirement by more than 150 points, hehe Thank You Lord!