The Edge of Glory

"I'm on the edge of glory and I'm hanging on a moment of truth"

Thursday, 15th September 2011 is both historical and hysterical. In fact the whole week was magical. I can still recall the atmosphere in Grand Kawanua Convention Centre the night the medals were given away. It was the most awesome feeling I have ever experience.

Yes reader, finally my hard work had been repaid. I present to you this silver medal! I ranked 11th overall and ranked 6th among the other silver medalist. I was a wee bit disappointed though that I didn't get a gold medal because everyone was already kind of hoping so. But it's alright, thinking that I get to experience Pelatnas is good enough for me :) I must fight though, because this time there is only two slots available and I want this thing. So bad.

Anyways, I had a lot of fun with my friends from DKI Jakarta for the past couple of weeks. Meet The 12 Happy Contestants and our co-ordinator:

From left to right, back to front: Matthew Billy, Janice Tanumihardja, Meva Nareza, Bu Naniek, Nazmun Lailah, Alvin Sanjaya, Bu Yus, Tazkya Amany, Elva Vidya, Meutia Admiralda, Afandi Charles, me, Nobian Andre, Fahmi Ahmadi

Oh and the biology team of DKI Jakarta brought home 3 gold medals, 2 silver medals, 4 bronze medals, a best experiment trophy and an absolute winner title. So proud of them! God, I miss them already :')

Award Night at Grand Kawanua :)

So, what's next? Next is pelatnas satu which will be held on 5th of October at Wisma Kartini Bandung. This is a training and selection for Indonesia's delegation at International Biology Olympiad 2012 Singaporee!! I will be rejoined with most of the DKI Jakarta biology team except for Nazmun, Elva and Fahmi. I will miss you guyss :") Please do not forget me okaay.

Oh and before I forget I'd like to thank these people:

Biology most legendary couple: Harun Reza Sugito (Gold IBO Korea 2010) and Marsha Christanvia (Silver IBO Taipei 2011)

Thank you for your kindness and patience during the training week at Belleza and also for everything before and after that. Thanks for the chocolate, and your faith in us. I hope you'll like the present we gave youu :)

Alright, I think that's a wrap. Oh and last last request, please always pray the best for me. I am nothing without you ;)

Torang samua basodara!!!

My Silent Words...

Hey bloggers, it's been a while. Confused about my last post? Nah just let it go, it's just a phase. I'm sure for the next few days, I will be all over it.

R: Oh for God sakes! Can we talk about other things? Pleasee

L: Owkaay..

This past few weeks has been a theater, a production, a play, a masquerade: name everything with drama, act, feelings, surprises, upside, downside, it's my past few weeks you're talking about. Why? Oh why else would something like this happen beside the fact that Chace Crawford came to our school and declared his love for me in the middle of a lesson! the result of The Province Science Olympiad is out.

Yes, that's true everyone. It is out. And boy that pdf appearance brought a lot of concussion. I'm talking about national mass hysteria here. Apparently there's some changes in the rules this year and those rules were applied without a prior notice to the contestant. Some disappointed contestant even hacked the website of the announcer to send a message that they are messing with Indonesia's best students. Well, in our turf, these new rules costs us our bright students who could have passed but thanks to the stupid 2-students-per-school, they have to stay home and give their last and precious chance to someone below their achievement, who got lucky because apparently they are in the first place in their province.

As to my room mate, my team mate, one of my best competitor and motivator: I miss you so much! We, miss you so much. I don't know what I've done wrong or if I've done something wrong, if I do please forgive and please please please be normal again. You told me that there's nothing wrong but your actions reflect otherwise and it's killing me. It's not going to be the same without you, trust me. I mean we're Motil after all and we've been through A LOT together. You're still the great you even without this OSN stuffy. Don't let it defines who you are. You kicked people's asses before and I believe you'll kick ass as hard as you did before or maybe even harder. No, definitely even harder.

Okay maybe I'm not your favouritest person right now and maybe you'll say that I don't understand your feelings right now but at least please let me be there for you. Don't go all alienized on me, we're room mates for goodness sake, you know how awkward it is when the three of us are in the same room. And well you may say I 'm a coward by putting this in my blog rather than talking to you, the fact is I've tried! I even burst into tears one night and told you that I missed you but then it only changed you for a smaaaaaaallllll amount of time and parts before you go all 'alien mode: on' to me again. Talk to me, pleaseeeeeeee. Desperately need you here.

Aloha Means Hello and Goodbye

What's with the sad title? Oh nooo, it was not sad. It's inspiring. Because we all know that every hello followed with a goodbye. The problem is not everyone know when to say goodbye, or how many time they have left until they have to say a goodbye. A goodbye can be planned or it can arrive like a wind and they'll be gone before you know it.

Oops, I forgot to greet the bloggers. Hi everyone. It's been a long time since I posted for the last time. I swear I tried to post as often as I can but consider this condition: I'm on a boarding school with super hectic schedule and many competition to participate and I have to win all of them in order to get a scholarship and my modem is not available and my school network is sooo moody, looking at that situation, I am grateful if I can write one post per month. Okay but I will not talk about that. At least not at the moment.

Guess where am I now bloggers? New Yooorrrk! Malaaang! City of Flowers and City of Apples! What am I doing here? I am participating a competition. A biology competition held by Universitas Negeri Malang (Malang State University). The competition is called Lebah Madu and the theme of this competition is "Where Great Minds Compete To Become A Real Biologist"

It was fun and amusing. We didn't get into the final because our experiment score are very low, but thank God we manage to become the best performer in case study. We scored 91,5 out of 100!! Isn't that fun-fu**ing-tastic? I feel bad to my friend that I didn't manage to get into the final. But I personally, feel satisfied because of that case study score. That means we are ready for the theoritical aspect.

Oh, why we? Because I don't fight alone. We enrolled as a team and my teammate is Tiroy Junita. She is a super smart student and I'm glad having her as my teammate. We also meet our cousin-in-law (literally in law), the brilliant class students, Zuriel Immanuel Natan and Yosua Heresta. They are pretty bright as well but nonetheless we still score better than them :P

On Sunday (that means yesterday) we spent the whole day exploring Batu, the tourism city of Malang with BC students and our guardian teacher, Mr. Dion. First of all we arrived at an agrotourism object. There we picked two apples and two guava and eat an apple friedrice. After that we took a really nice photoshoot and of we went to Cuban Rondo Waterfall. It is amaziiiiinng there. The cliff are soo cool and the air is so cold. We took pictures in front of the waterfall, buy some souvenirs and head back to the hotel.

The next day we searched for more memento.Our friends asked us to buy apple crackers and jackfruit crackers so we went for them. I bought some Malang Apples as well. We also stopped by a crystal store called Crystalline that it's advertisement we saw at the airplane on our way to Malang. We love its handphone cover so we're looking forward to have it. But when we asked about the price, I got hopeless. It is sooo expensive. Almost 1,2 million rupiahs per item. So we skipped it. We stopped for a while at an ancient ice cream shop called Toko OEN. It has been in there since 1930, it means since the Dutch Colonial era. I ordered the one called Calypso Fantasy and it is awesome :9

We have to go back to the airport by 1 p.m. We had an uneventful airport experience, a normal flight and I'm back in Jakarta. I love coming back to Jakarta because Jakarta is such a great place to live in. They have everything in here. Name it and you'll find it here. But coming back to Jakarta means I have to go back to my routine, which I resent. Well, not actually resent but I don't want to learn anything but Biology at the moment. I think one of the reason I still failing is that I'm not focused. I don't give a shit about Cambridge or any other thing going on in my school. I just wanted to win many competitions for my CV in order to get a scholarship. Selfish? Tell me about it. Well, the point is I just hate saying goodbye and go back to my routine. Just like when I come back from OSN. But, every hello has it's own goodbye. So, Goodbye Malang and Hello Routine :)

OSN IX 2010 :D

Hey bloggers, how are you? I'm doing just fine.
I know, I know I haven't posted for ages but now I am ready to share a new one!

I'm in my room right now waiting for my call to go to the school while I'm writing this blog. It is now 06:10 a.m and Sugar Sugar from the Archies is playing from our dorm speaker -____-

I'm going to share all of you my most recent breathtaking experience and that is: attending Indonesia's most prestigious academic competition.

I am very very very proud to become one of the participant in that event eventhough I didn't get any medal or even get to be the Indonesia's Biology Olympiad Team. I wasn't trying hard enough to deserve that medal so I guess I'll have to try next year :)

About the competition, it is divided into eight major for high school student and that is: Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer, Geology, Astronomy and Economy.

I majored in Biology which I resent for the first time but now I'm really in love with this subject <3

Now, biology is divided into three main competition. One experiment and two theory. I failed in the experiment and the theory as well. My score is only 49.24 out of 100 and that makes me in the 61st position (general) and 22nd position (11th grade)
And the requirement to be a TOBI is that I have to at least become the big 15 in my grade (11th) and I only lose 2.08 point to the last big 15. Isn't it heart breaking? :'(
Well, that's competition.

But what I really want to share is that I miss being a part of that event, I miss the training, I miss my DKI Jakarta team, I miss my coach and my friends I met in Medan. I miss the atmosphere and the competition aura. I want to dedicate my whole life for Biology. I want to be a part of this event forever, whether I am a participant, a coach, a crew, a companion teacher or even a reporter in that event. Every year I get to meet many bright students from all over the country, I learned their key to success and sometimes envy them on how life can be so easy for them. But I am so thankful that I have an opportunity to be a part of this event and realise how small I am to thius big big world.

I also wanted to congratulate my friends who had been able to carry that medal home. Wish me to catch up with you guys next year at Manado. Au revoir! I have to go to schoooollll