Post examination catch-up

Hey everyone, I'm back on blogger, after month after tedious month of exams like the UAS (school exams), UAN (national exams) and SNMPTN Tertulis (the exam which gets you into national universities). Right now, I have been doing nothing at home but lie around, go over to a friend's house, and going out cycling in the afternoon waiting for maghrib, as you may know, it's Ramadhan! (it's when muslims fast for a month)

As for the results, I have to say the UAS were somewhat satisfactory and were above my expectations, not going to share the numbers or anything, but yea it got me graduating from high school. The UAN results? Abit disappointing, but having thought the school only had two weeks of preparation unlike other schools who get the whole year, I got one question wrong on the english paper, which'll leave a bad mark everytime I look back, but at least it also got me out of highschool.

I had to take the SNMPTN Tertulis all the way in Purwokerto, where most of my relatives live (that's in central Java by the way), because where you had to take the test depends on which universities you had for the two choices you were given, and I had chosen Gadjah Mada University (UGM) which is considered as a region II area, and Purwokerto is a region II area. I mentioned in a post on this blog that I wanted to go to Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB). Well, I bailed out because I thought I was never going to survive, or let alone get into the place, and decided to go for something abit realistic.

And guess what?

Yeaaaaaaaa!

Couldn't believe it at first, the night the results were posted online I couldn't help but run and hop around the house, after all the failures and disappointments in these recent years, I just didn't know what to say, but I guess God really is fair.

So I went to Yogyakarta on the 3rd of July by car with my mom, sisters and brother, stopping by in Purwokerto to drop off my sisters and brother at my grandma's house, so they don't have to continue the journey to Yogyakarta. In Purwokerto, I was really glad to see my relatives being happy for me and all, and all I could do was smile and nod.

My mom and I got to Jogja on the 5th, the roads were freshly paved, too bad I was too occupied in driving to take pictures. I'll get you some after Ramadhan. Having gotten to Yogyakarta, I headed straight to the UGM administration office to hand in some documents. While waiting, I talked to people sitting next to me in the waiting room, and boy these people were from all over the nation. Some even came all the way from Sumatra, and Sulawesi, even from places I've never heard before. But it feels really good to meet new faces and make new friends here.

I guess that's all I have to share right now, but I'll be updating the blog quite frequently from now on as I have nothing to do until September when my university life starts.

An explanation on why the internet hates 9GAG

So I was browsing through reddit, and look what I stumbled upon:

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All very well summed up. Kudos to whoever came up with the analogy.

2012? Already?

That was fast. After only having to post four updates on this blog- in which one of them turns out completely pointless - throughout the whole year of 2011, I've decided - like exactly what I did a few posts back - to return to blogging, only this time I'm doing this with a bit more effort. Hopefully.

Since the year's still fresh, just like anyone would do, I came up with resolutions, this time it'd be easier to manage. To think positive. That's right, no more unpleasant snickers to society from me, no more of my mild criticism towards anything. You might ask what struck me into getting into this resolution, well, it just came to me, really, seeing the world, filled to the brim with _______ (Be a lamb and help me out. I can't find the right word.) and all that jazz, got me to realize how we have to enjoy the little things and be content with what we have in order to avoid falling into what I call the nega-zone. I'm not trying to be some hippy demanding everyone to do whatever this is I'm doing, because I'm doing this for myself, now the cup-is-half-full kind of person.

Moving on, there are many things for me to look forward to this year. Some with very hard impacts on my future, and some hardly important to others.The semester two exams, Ujian Nasional, SNMPTN, and university entrance tests await me a few months ahead, I have to get my head in the game, this time, I'm dead serious this time. Of course I have other plans such as to get that bicycle frame sitting in my garage fully restored into a brake equipped fixed gear bike (This I planned from this time of year last year.) You see, I've decided to "go green" and commute by bicycle, when I, hopefully, get into a university, which by the way is preferably this:

 

Or this:

Planning to take mechanical engineering for one of these two bad boys. I guess that's all I have to say for tonight. There's a chemistry try-out at school tomorrow, really have to study for it to boost my free-falling chemistry scores. Bye!