#803 - Great News

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Well, these last few days turned to be "big days" for me. One of them was planned, and the other one was kinda a surprise :-)

Last Saturday, I finally graduated officially from my undergraduate study. Of course my parents came to Bandung for that occasion. O yea, talking about coming to Bandung, my parents caught the new flight operated by Wings Air to get to Bandung. Well, about my concern a couple of week ago, they said I shouldn't worry about that as the flight and the aircraft were so comfortable even though they operated propeller aircraft, an ATR 72-500. There is nothing to worry about and they told me to catch flight to go back to Yogyakarta, not train anymore, hahaha :-) Well, back to topic, last Saturday was kinda tiring. I had to wake up early. Well, I was kinda lucky tho to be a boy so that I still could get up at around 5.30 AM while all girls should have got up by 3 AM to have some make over for the graduation, LOL.

I was notified to be ready at campus at 7.30 AM. Well, unexpectedly, the traffic in Bandung that morning wasn't really brutal. I already allocated 50 minutes to go picking my parents up and go north to Unpar, but in the end we could arrive at Unpar at around 7.10 AM, some 20 minutes ahead our schedule. Then, when I arrived at my faculty's desk, it was still empty. My friends and I had to wait. Anyway, at 8.25 AM we were lined up to enter GSG to start the graduation ceremony. O yea, my parents got VIP seats (as apparently I was picked as (one of) the best graduate :D) and their seats were just 2 meter from me. The ceremony then started at around 9 AM. It was just like any graduation ceremony (I guess), where each graduate was called forward to be appointed to be a graduate by our rector. I had to take a picture first before going up the stage, hehe. Anyway, the ceremony took so long until around 12 PM (no wonder, there were 619 graduates that day!). After the ceremony, we were invited to a "syukuran" feast held by my faculty in Building 09. I met my friends, and after the lunch, we left Unpar :-)

Well, the second great news came surprisingly last night. It turned out that I GOT the master scholarship I applied several months ago in The Netherlands!! YEAH!! The scholarship is really precious as it covers all tuition fee plus 800 euros living cost per month, for two years. I am so happy that I get this scholarship!! I hope everything will work all right, and no problem appears, amen :-)

note : graduation photos will be uploaded soon because all of them were split in several cams :-)

BAHASA INDONESIA

Yah, beberapa hari belakangan ini ternyata menjadi "hari besar" buat aku. Satu memang sudah terencana dan satunya lagi bisa dibilang seperti sebuah kejutan :-)

Sabtu kemarin, akhirnya aku secara resmi lulus dari pendidikan sarjanaku. Tentu saja dong ortuku datang ke Bandung untuk acara ini. O iya, ngomong2 tentang datang ke Bandung, ortuku naik penerbangan baru Jogja - Bandung yang dioperasikan Wings Air tuh. Hmm, tentang pertimbanganku beberapa minggu yang lalu, katanya aku tidak perlu khawatir karena ternyata penerbangan dan pesawatnya nyaman banget walau pesawat yang dioperasikan adalah pesawat baling-baling baru, ATR 72-500. Nggak ada yang perlu dikhawatirkan dan katanya aku mending naik pesawat aja kalo pulang ke Yogyakarta, nggak perlu naik kereta, hahaha :-) Yah, kembali ke topik, Sabtu kemarin lumayan melelahkan sih. Aku harus bangun pagi. Hmm, bisa dibilang aku beruntung karena aku laki-laki, jadi bisa bangun jam 5.30 pagi lah soalnya kalau perempuan harus sudah bangun jam 3 pagi tuh untuk make over untuk wisuda, LOL.

Aku diberi-tahu untuk sudah siap di kampus jam 7.30 pagi. Secara tak terduga, ternyata lalu lintas Bandung pagi itu nggak rame2 amat. Aku sudah mengalokasikan 50 menit untuk menjemput ortu dan perjalanan ke Unpar di utara, tapi akhirnya malah bisa sampe di Unpar sekitar jam 7.10 pagi, sekitar 20 menit sebelum jadwal. Trus, ketika aku sampai di meja fakultasku, ternyata masih nggak ada orang. Yah, harus nunggu deh. Akhirnya, jam 8.25 pagi kami dibariskan untuk masuk ke GSG dan memulai upacara wisuda. O iya, ortuku dapet tempat duduk VIP (karena ternyata aku terpilih sebagai (salah satu) lulusan terbaik :D) dan tempat duduk mereka hanya sekitar 2 meter dari tempat dudukku. Upacaranya dimulai jam 9 pagi. Yah, upacaranya ya kaya upacara wisuda gitu (rasanya sih), dimana tiap lulusan dipanggil maju untuk disahkan menjadi sarjana oleh rektor. Aku harus difoto dulu sih sebelum naik ke panggung, hehe. Ngomong2, upacaranya lama juga tuh sampe jam 12an siang (nggak heran juga sih lha ada sekitar 619 orang yang diwisuda hari itu!). Setelah upacara, kami diundang ke acara syukuran yang diadakan fakultas di Gedung 09. Aku bertemu teman2, dan setelah makan siang, kami pulang :-)

Yah, berita hebat kedua datang secara mengejutkan semalam. Ternyata aku mendapatkan beasiswa master nih yang aku ajukan beberapa bulan lalu di Belanda!! YEAH!! Beasiswanya lumayan banget karena meng-cover biaya kuliah ditambah dengan biaya hidup sebesar 800 euro sebulan, selama dua tahun. Yah, senang sekali nih karena dapat beasiswa ini!! Mudah2an semuanya akan lancar2 saja dan tidak ada halangan, amin :-)

note: foto2 wisuda akan diunggah kemudian karena terbagi di beberapa kamera :-)