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On 17 March 2015 - M Building Asia University, Taiwan (#latepost)

In Asia University, it has event organized by International College here. International College or we called it "IC" is a college that manages the international students coming from many countries, include full-time and exchange students. It can be Indonesia, Thailand, France, Japan, Korea, India, Mongolia, Vietnam, Mexico, Malaysia, China, and many more.

Every year, they hold the events, like International Food Festival. It's always held in the day of Campus Birthday. In this event, we get chance to taste the food from the other countries. The participants are all the students from the different countries. Everyone is welcome to visit and to taste. Beside that, there were the performances from the students. Singing, dancing, and costumes introduction were being the side event in it.

At that time, we were wearing Batik (one of the Indonesian traditional costumes we proud of) to introduce it to all of the audiences. For the food, Indonesian students served the soup cuisine with vermicelli noodles (Bahasa: Bihun) to the visitors, it's what we called "Soto". And we also provided the Indonesian style home-made milk mixing with ginger, eggs, and honey in it. You can call it "STMJ (Susu Telur Madu Jahe)".

Presentation from Indonesian
In the introduction section, I was pointed to be the presenter about our fashion we're wearing with the others. We presented in both English and Chinese, which in Chinese language was presented by Vivian, the 4th year student who is studying for her bachelor degree here. It's my pleasure as one of the persons to be in front of the whole participants and visitors. It would be my new experience here. Really really not been prepared as well... So, the natural speaking did at that moment. I was wondering if some speaking mistakes and missing ideas were made or not. Hahaa... So funny, though.
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And absolutely we made some preparations before the food fair. It's mostly done by the girls for sure in the cooking section. Haha... The girls will always be used to do it. No doubt for that... =D


So, HERE WE ARE... Indonesian Students in Asia University in 2015. *Still has some other indonesian here, but they were just in case of having other activity, so they were not shown up in this pict.

This is one of my Chinese homework I did. It's all about the taboos we should prevent to do in Taiwan. So, it's a good time to share with u all.



















Kuliah di luar negeri merupakan impian semua orang. Dan tidak sedikit juga dari kita mahasiwa yang merasa minder sebelum melangkah. Hanya dengan cita-cita dan khayalan waktu kecil bisa membawa kita menuju ke cita-cita yang kita impikan. Ini FAKTA!!!

Hal ini telah dirasakan oleh saya pribadi. Saat ini, saya telah menjalani perkuliahan +/- 1 bulan di Asia University, Taiwan. Suasana perkuliahan memang berbeda dengan suasana di Indonesia. Tapi, tidak juga memberikan suasana yang mengerikan bagi kita yang sebagai orang asing di negeri orang. Perasaan GALAU pasti akan dialami semua orang ketika ke suatu tempat yang belum pernah dikunjungi sebelumnya. Dan rasa persiapan yang belum matang juga menjadi faktor penyebab MINDER bagi kita. Kenyataannya, jika kita friendly terhadap nature, nature akan baik juga dengan kita. Yang paling penting adalah STAY "RAMAH".

Taiwan berbeda dengan western country, masih dalam benua Asia. Oleh karena itu, beberapa budaya masih hampir sama. Jika kita sebagai orang Indonesia, kita masih bisa lumayan cepat adaptasi. Kesopanan dan tata krama masih menjadi prioritas di sini.

Pada saat pertama kali saya kuliah, hal pertama yang saya tanyakan adalah bahasa apa yang digunakan dalam sistem pengajaran. Di Taiwan, bahasa nasional mereka adalah bahasa Mandarin. Untuk tulisan mandarin yang digunakan adalah Traditional Chinese, sedangkan Simplified Chinese malah digunakan di negara utama Chinese yaitu di China (Tiongkok). Perbedaannya sangat signifikan dan sangat rumit untuk traditional chinese character. Contohnya: Hall, untuk Traditional (廳) dan untuk simplified hanya seperti ini (厅), kedua-duanya bacanya "Ting". Sangat jauh berbeda, bukan? Nah, pertanyaan saya akhirnya dijawab oleh dosen. Untuk semester 1 ini, saya mengambil 4 kelas teori-praktik dan 2 kelas lagi kelas mandarin. Untuk perkuliahannya, menggunakan Bahasa Inggris dan Mandarin (Bilingual). Karena kita bergabung dengan mahasiswa Taiwan (yang pada umumnya lebih jago mandarin), sehingga dilakukan 2 kali pengulangan.


Ini adalah salah satu kelas di sini. Pada saat itu, saya iseng ikut mendengarkan perkuliahan untuk mahasiswa S1 di mata kuliah Behavior Finance. Kelas ini kebanyakan mahasiswa dari Mongolia dan beberapa dari Thailand dan Finlandia. Untuk kelas S1, jumlah mahasiswanya sekitar 40an. Sempat merasa WOW, karena di kelas saya (S2) paling banyak hanya 7 mahasiwa. Dan pernah juga saya kuliah hanya face-to-face dengan dosen. Hehee... Tapi, untungnya ga masalah. =)

Untuk perkuliahan di sini, suasananya sangat santai dan tidak ada beban. Walaupun sebenarnya untuk materinya juga ada beberapa yang cukup mumetin, tapi overall masih OK. Dan keuntungan kita kuliah di Taiwan adalah karena Taiwan negara bagian dari Asia, Bahasa Inggris bukan mother tongue mereka. Oleh karena itu, bahasa inggris tidak menjadi prioritas bagi mereka dan orang Taiwan di sini bisa sama-sama memaklumi.

Mungkin bagi saya, salah satu mata kuliah yang cukup sulit adalah Seminar. Seminar di sini, kita harus mempersiapkan materi-materi untuk dipresentasikan. Materi-materinya adalah jurnal ilmiah. Mengapa sulit? Karena kita menghadapi jurnal-jurnal dengan topik yang belum kita tau sama sekali. Di dalam sebuah jurnal, juga mencakup beberapa topik yang digabungkan untuk menghasilkan sebuah result. Jadi, kita mesti mencari tahu asal-muasal dari setiap topik-topik yang tercakup di dalamnya.

Oke deh, saatnya tidur. Lanjut lagi di kemudian waktu. Sampai jumpa lagi!!! =D

Taiwan Lantern Festival 2015

Well, after about a month here in Taiwan, I got the time to update my blog to u again. Time always goes so fast, like a flashlight. And unconsciously we're getting older and older day by day. It's not the problem, actually. Still we can keep our spirit like the past.

So, now, I'm gonna share with u about my lifetime in Taiwan for about a month here. At the first time arriving in Taiwan is very astonished. Being so amused, as that going abroad especially the country far away from Southeast Asia is my target since a long time ago. So, I felt that something came to me as I wished. It's such a lucky thing I had. In my college time, I was used to living in one of the coziest places in Indonesia I have ever stayed, that is Yogyakarta, a city with full of culture and culinary and also tourist's sight-seeing. Jogja has caught my heart ever. Such a lovely place u must visit. And Taiwan also gives me the sense like it.

The peoples around are always ready to help you when you need. The weather is also comfortably (for me, Indonesian). But, in the sunny day, the sun will kill you. Overall is very cozy to stay. And the food is also spreading along the street when we're going to Night Market. The price is reasonable. Comparing with Indonesia's, I think it's costly/higher than Yogyakarta's but cheaper than Jakarta's.

Many places of interest can be reached by bus easily. And taking bus also the best way for u who want to live economically, because it's costless with the bus within 8 km in Taichung (I'm living here). As I don't want to pay any for sometimes, I usually make a transit before at the end of 8 km point. And then, take another bus to get to our destination. It's a good idea, isn't it?

In Taiwan, I have been in some places/events that are free of charge, like Lantern Festival and Mt. Ba Gua Big Buddha. Yet, some certain places are also needed to pay. It won't cost much, anyway.


Mt. Ba Gua Big Buddha - 八卦山大佛

Sun Moon Lake - 日月潭

It has been a long time I put it away to write a blog.
So, today I have a story about a dinner... Just in case we didn't know what we're going to eat, so suddenly the ideas came up from my buddy, Ti (Thailand). Actually, we would like to cook "SUNNY SIDE UP", but we FAILED... Hahaa... At the beginning, we've prepared all the tools and equipment to fry. Then, we went out to buy the eggs. When we're arriving in the kitchen, we realized that the stove is not working properly. So, we got an alternative way to cook it on the rice cooker. And, it works. Unluckily, we've messed the eggs up. No Sunny Side Up made. Finally, we just decided to make it scrambled. At the end, Scrumble egg was served.

Scrumble Egg Ala Chef Ti from Thailand and the helper me