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Stuned Scholarship, the Failure, and the Lesson-learned

Stuned, a shorthand of Studeren in Nederland, is a full-funded scholarship for master’s degree, short course, and tailor made training programs sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Nuffic Neso Indonesia along with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Indonesia will arrange some procedures and administrative documents that applicants should submit completely and punctually. For master’s scholarship program, the selection procedures and due dates for submission would be announced in the late of December or in the beginning of January. My advice is to frequently check the Nuffic Neso’s Website to ensure that you won’t miss the deadline for submitting your applications. 

Stuned Scholarship is generally intended to young professionals and fresh graduates who have good academic and organizational records. In some scholarships, the GPA doesn’t mean a thing, but I think, in Stuned, they also put GPA as one of the main considerations to choose whether or not we are credible candidates. Fortunately, young professionals might have more chances than those of fresh graduates. If I am not mistaken, there are only no more than 11 awardees who are literally fresh graduates in my term because it might be that the priority is still  young professionals who have working experiences at least 2 years.

More importantly, your motivation letter would be the most prominent attribute to market yourself. On the prepared application form, you need to write down your motivation by answering 3 questions with no more than 600 words. My advice is to deeply understand your own intention on studying abroad and why you choose that major, to read again, and to ask your friends to screen and to give feedback on your motivational letter, and you need to be straightforward to your own motivation. I think that other people don’t have rights to change your determination on what you are going to be in the future, they just have rights to support and to give you commentaries intended to rebuff your motivation. In my experience, I couldn’t neglect that my closest friends, Erwin and Tita have already given me many inputs to my motivational letter without trying to change my objectives. Put it simpler, they encouraged me to think beyond the boundaries in a hope that I could elaborate many important things that I could highlight on the letter. 

Some documents that you need to prepare are as follows: 

Application form (can be downloaded on the Nuffic Neso’s Website);

Motivational Letter;

Curriculum Vitae (can be downloaded on the Nuffic Neso’s Website);

Academic Transcript (Bachelor’s Degree);

Bachelor Diploma or Certificate (Ijazah S1);

IELTS Score (minimum score: 6.5 or CEFR Level B2);

Letter of Acceptance (LoA) from one of the universities in The Netherlands;

Other supporting documents, etc.

You may add other supporting documents such as a letter of recommendation from your Dean, bachelor’s thesis supervisor, or maybe your office director, a thesis proposal (your prior thesis design projecting what you are going to research on your master’s thesis), certificate of achievements, seminars, workshops, etc. 

Furthermore, Stuned Scholarship has also priority areas to intentionally strengthen the bilateral relationship between the Republic of Indonesia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands so the prospective applicants should also give a further attention to attached documents on the Nuffic Neso’s website regarding some priority areas or study fields’ priorities that are required for Stuned Scholarship. In my term, there were six main areas highlighted by the Nuffic Neso which were including Health Management, Transport (Agro)logistic and Infrastructure, Security and Rule of Law,  Water,  Agri-food and Horticulture, and International Trade, Finance, and Economics. At that time, I have been admitted at MA in International Relations in the track of European Integration in which this major is still considered as a part of Security and Rule of Law area. These might be changed due to the condition of bilateral relations among both countries. 

Please bear in mind that they might not circumscribe how many additional documents you can apply as supporting documents to your application, however, you should rethink and select which documents that might be aligned with your major, motivation, and objective to study in the Netherlands. To sum up, no need to attach unnecessary documents.

In addition, you might be surprised that the selection process is only all about the application you have sent to the office of the Nuffic Neso. It takes a month on waiting the announcement, but you don’t need to worry because they will keep you updated whether your application has been well-received or not. In my term, the selected awardees are announced via e-mail in the late of May. They won’t also give you a prior notification or a precise date when they will exactly announce the successful candidates. On the other hand, you couldn’t underestimate the selection process because it might be seen so simple and easy, but the fact is that you need to have been accepted in a particular university in the Netherlands first before you submit the application to Nuffic Neso Office in Jakarta and there could be many standards and screening process both at Nuffic Neso and the Embassy that we don’t exactly know.

The selection process at the universities is sometimes more complicated. In the case of the University of Groningen, they determine the prerequisite documents for students who are keen on applying at the Faculty of Arts. At that time, I needed to complete documents as follows: 

IELTS Test Score (minimum score: 6.5 and each band score cannot be less than 6.5, too) ;

Bachelor’s thesis resume in English no longer than 10 pages; 

Academic transcript; 

Bachelor’s certificate; and 

2 letter of recommendations (my advice is that would be great if you could get a letter from Professors or Deans at your previous university). 

You need to submit it via Studielink, an academic platform for all applicants who want to apply at one of the universities in the Netherlands, and no need to pay anything including application fee. 

Within 2 weeks, the Admission Office of your selected faculty will notify via e-mail whether you are unconditionally admitted, conditionally admitted, or unfortunately rejected. Sometimes, most students are recommended to do a Pre-master especially for students who are originally not coming from IR discipline. 

In fact, the number of selected candidates for Stuned Scholarship has also decreased compared to those who were accepted last year. As our Scholarship coordinator has said, this would be more competitive year by year. The Dutch Government has believed Indonesian students to study there so there is no doubt that the Nuffic Neso and the Dutch Embassy would be very selective. I was also so nervous at that time, waiting so long under uncertainty.

Technically, at that time, the Nuffic Neso Indonesia instructed us to submit documents before 1 April 2016 and I received the result via e-mail on 25 May 2016 at 4.45 am in the morning. I submitted the documents on 29 March 2016 directly to the Nuffic Neso Office on Jamsostek Building 20th Floor, Jakarta. You can also send it via Pos Indonesia, JNE, or other courier services in Indonesia. Once I have been admitted as a grantee, the Nuffic Neso Indonesia would facilitate us on Acculturation Class in which we are encouraged to know the Dutch culture and language. For grantees who were living outside Jabodetabek, the Office would also arrange their accommodations. On the other hand, once we have accepted and have entered the academic period at particular universities in the Netherlands, the one who will be in charge of the scholarship is our university. The Nuffic Neso Indonesia will directly contact the university to arrange all financial procedures for our scholarship since this scholarship is from the Dutch government. This procedure is perfectly well-arranged and I am feeling really satisfied. 

If the readers want to know more about Stuned Scholarship specifically, you may contact the Nuffic Neso Indonesia Office via this following e-mail:  [email protected] or if you want to know personally in terms of my personal experience in dealing with Stuned applications, you may also write me an e-mail to: [email protected] or add me on Line application with username: meilindasy. You can ask me anything both technical procedures and personal experiences and I will happily reply it as soon as I receive your e-mail. I will also never think that your questions are unnecessary because I really know how it feels when we want to prepare for the best on our applications, we simply don’t want to miss a thing, right? Thus, ask me anything! 

One motivational statement that I heard from my Scholarship coordinator at the very first meeting of Welcoming Session was that “We choose you because you deserve it.” The thing that I am really into Stuned is that because they think we deserve to be supported on realizing our motivation, they want to eagerly invest on us and they don’t want us to pretend that we have such a loan with them and need to pay back immediately. They really encourage us to seek for experiences as much as possible. 

Then, one thing that I learned from the long process of seeking and struggling to finally get the most suitable scholarship is that “Stop thinking that you need the scholarship, but start thinking that the scholarship needs you.” How to show that the scholarship needs you? You also need to pinpoint the best version of yourself and struggle more to prepare yourself. There are so many other prestigious scholarships out there which might offer a larger amount of allowance, but the right thing is to choose the best one which aligns to your motivation and suits you the best. I have also proceeded an application for LPDP beforehand, but I have to admit that I failed to convince the assessors to give me the scholarship. When you are failed, admit it, don’t keep blaming on others. Once I received that bitter announcement, I also felt so disappointed after struggling for 5 months on preparing this battle. But then, I keep contemplating and doing self-reflection as well as immediately building myself to meticulously check again my application for Stuned because the deadline had been approaching. I also didn’t mean to make Stuned as my second scholarship option, but, in fact, my principle is that I don’t want to do multiple applications because, first, LPDP’s selection process is opened along the year and I took the very first term because if we want to actively involve at class on September 2016, we need to get the scholarship 6 months in prior. Second, based on my own principle, just in case, I got both accepted, I have to choose one and it means that I have thrown away an opportunity that is supposed to be ultimately valuable for others who are also seeking for scholarship but not accepted. From then on, I was asking myself what exactly my objective and future plan for master’s degree are. During my contemplation period, I was feeling no direction and merely got hired as a private teacher for IELTS and basic German. I also felt anxious because most of my friends have been settled down in such good institutions or companies, but me, only running from one place to other places to share my limited knowledge. But then, I found something that really makes me defining what happiness is, witnessing a person making a good progress because of the time we spent on studying and discussing together. Seeing a person making a progress on doing something is such an unprecedented feeling for me until I eventually realize what passion exactly means. Sometimes our passion has been overlapped with our ambition and it is unavoidably true that we often cannot distinguish the terms of passion and ambition themselves. This circumstance also taught me a lot to differentiate the profound meaning of both terms and I hope you, readers, will also find your own meaning or may be already on the right track. 

After those long application scholarship processes, I barely know that every scholarship has its own character. Not only preparing your application and the battle of the selection process, but you also need to have an in-depth understanding in terms of your objectives and characters, and the scholarship’s objectives and characters. Unintentionally, both will create such a great configuration once you have been accepted. They choose you because you are suitable with their aims and vice versa. In the meantime, once you are failed, no need to think that you are not smart enough, but please thinking that there are many great things left behind which have been prepared for and suit you the best. “Success is not always about how great your achievement is, but sometimes success is about how you deal with your failure.”

Last but not least, another case is that sometimes we also have to deal with the condition of whether or not the scholarship is more important than the major or specification we are keen on. As its consequence, we often experience the shifting of academic and financial motivation in which we, unfortunately, need to change our most preferably major in a purpose to be more easily getting the scholarship. This circumstance might occur for applicants who want to apply for Stuned or other scholarships. Nevertheless, don’t let that condition happens to you. Because if I could say some words, choosing a master’s degree is not an option, but somehow, it must be a priority. You need to focus on your passion and what you really want to struggle for in the upcoming academic year once you have already been accepted. In fact, there are many things out there you need to deal with during your master’s life. The Honeymoon Phase would actually end immediately.

To close these elaborative procedural instructions regarding Stuned Scholarship and my personal experience as well as the lesson learned I have obtained, I just want to shout out: “Good luck and I am wishing you all the best for your scholarship application process! Allah will definitely guide you to the right decision and Allah will absolutely choose the right destiny for you as well. In between of your struggles, always reminds Allah, too.” <3

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Happy Europe Day!

I probably am not a typical person who chooses social media (these mean Path, Instagram, and Facebook) to elucidate anything related to education thingy. Nevertheless, as a European enthusiast, I couldn’t neglect to congratulate Europe for its anniversary, marking of the “Schuman Declaration.” May sometimes people think that it is a bit bewildering which one is the real Europe Day, “Is it May 9? or May 5?”.

Indeed, there are two separate designations of Europe Day, as its mentioned in some historical books, the May 5 was symbolised of the form of the Council of Europe, which the spirit of Europe has emerged to immerse hatred and resentment amongst France and Germany. In the meantime, the May 9 was more typically the formation of EU, which later on, the EU’s flag and visibility of them were inevitably popular.

The days, which inexorable wars occurred were finally coming to the end pooling coal and steel production would - in the words of the Declaration - make a war between historic rivals France & Germany - “not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible." 

"The European Union was born in the aftermath of a terrible war and we still live in an unpredictable world. Robert Schuman's words, therefore, remain as valid today, as they were at the time. I want a Europe at the heart of the action, a Europe which moves forward, a Europe which protects its citizens, its interests and serves as a model for others." - European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker.

Hence, EU, nowadays, has widened its wings carrying its normative value which is different with other super power countries, strengthening its relations with many developing countries such as Indonesia. Then, I highlight my point here. Putting a hope on Indonesians’ young generation who keeps enthusiast to enrich this knowledge doesn’t mean that they are putting aside their nationalism. Let’s bring a hope to see a further potential relationship by being eager to learn anywhere you are and any fields you study for a better Indonesia. That might be a bit “cosmopolitanism” where I put unity and peace beyond nation-states, setting a mindset that international society will play a great role to create a better world without marking boundaries the origin of us when we are eager to pursue a great dream for a more developed world. People are basically citizens of the world rather than of a particular of nation-states. Therefore, to develop their own countries, they need to see something more outward-looking, seeking possibilities to have a great partnership with other countries or entities, or even more communities, such as EU. In result, as we see the world wider, we could grow our nationalism to our countries even deeper and think that we, also, a part of global citizens so that we could take benefits, learn every lesson, and make a friend with other people in the world.

In the next post, I would like to examine the current issue on Indonesian sailors kidnapped by Abu Sayaff: the issue amidst various roles who claimed releasing Indonesian hostages. Is it the negotiators? Is it the government? or are they actually working together but separately?

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My darling..

Pictures of my darlings in 2014. I am just missing them anyway. 

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Tentang kuliah, sahabat, dan Jogja yang selalu dirindukan...

Sebuah pelajaran termanis, peneman terbaik, dan pelabuhan terindah yang tak akan pernah lekang oleh waktu. 

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About US Election 2016

Sounds ridiculous for me to finally elucidate a comprehensive explanation in terms of something’s really happening in today’s world politics, US Election 2016. I perhaps want to beg you pardon to flood your timeline with an issue, which is not all of you love to read a handwriting about something that should be called a bit weighty. But then, I don’t intend to show any intelligence in criticising this highlighted issue. I am just going to depict how an election could attract analysts’ attention in a hope that it would flesh out people’s knowledge in terms of the most prominent presidential election in a superpower country named the United States of America. 

I probably won’t explain too brief about the election since I am not an academician who concerns in US politics, but I have to admit that this issue is inevitably attractive, showing the fluctuating result of the running presidential nominations in which the result would be announced on the next July. Also, I have just recognised that time goes by so fast. In 2012, I was encouraged to review about US Election 2012 as a part of weekly assignments in the US Government class and, at that time, it was about the rivalry between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Now, it’s 2016 and I have the intention to write about the same thing without any enforcements from anyone, then it is now all about Hillary, Trump, Sanders, and other delegates. What a life! 

The election itself is going to conduct on November 2016, if there is no further change. Today, the election news are always becoming the headline in every newspaper and online new, such as The New York Times, obviously and BBC News. For those of you who are willing to search any additional information in regard to this issue, you could connect to these links:

1. The New York Times 

2. BBC News

There would be more than hundreds top news that could lead you into an in-depth understanding regarding the US Election. 

To flesh out this brief information, currently, the US government is running a presidential nomination whose the election in 50 states will result the best candidates who will be the nominated president representing each party. There are two parties running the current election, gathering voting and public attention from every state in US, the Democratic Party and the Republicans Party. For the Democratic Party, candidates must seek 2.383 delegates to win a nomination. For the Republicans Party, candidates must seek 1.237 delegates to win a nomination. In the Democratic Party, there are two candidates which struggle to win caucuses in conducting campaigns and public speeches. Both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders are such competitive candidates in which Hillary has been recording a great contribution to the country as a senator, a secretary of state, and a first lady who campaigned woman rights and health care coverage when his husband, Bill Clinton, was a US President, and Bernie Sanders are successfully gaining young people’s attention from his revealed platform. Nevertheless, it is seemed to be clear that Hillary still leads this nomination for the Democratic Party from her superdelegates / unpledged delegates (party leaders who are free to support any candidate) massive support. 

On the other hand, the Republicans Party is seemed to have more candidates who are in favour to carry out their missions to be the number one in the country. The most vocal candidate who is always under the spotlight is Donald Trump. Yes, he is, a businessman who nowadays runs a politics, giving many new insights, getting many attentions, gaining many supports from its fellow millionaire and billionaire who mostly run business as well (showing by a result from 3.3 million votes, 34.7% of the total voting for him have come in from the New York billionaire). Correct me if I do a mistake. Getting many attentions means receiving many questions from the people. In a caucus, a young lady asked him about his perspective and mission towards women rights, then Trump’s bewildering answers turn into a headline in some social medias that are currently spreading on your Facebook’s timeline. Moreover, in another caucus, a university representative also asked about his platform regarding health care coverage, what he will do towards heath care in the US. In the New York Times, he was reported explaining something that confuses people and doesn’t fit what he has been planning before. However, the Republicans is not only about Donald Trump, but also about Ted Cruz, Marco Robio, and John Kasich nominations. Ted Cruz is the one right below Donald Trump’s leading position in the chart of Republicans’ nomination.

To sum up, this running US election would be very interesting to follow. There would be a lot of great news in which we can be utilised to analyse the political attitudes in this election, performing such a rigid competition to win the first chair as the successor of Obama’s tenure. Thinking about media’s affiliation in politics, it could be better for us, who are supervising the election from million miles apart, to dig more information from other perspectives in a hope that we could enrich ourselves from various commentaries and reviews from writers and experts in the media. 

Again, spread the positiveness by travelling the world through words. Travelling the world is actually not only about going abroad and enjoying the excitements, but also showing our desire to know more about the world by keep asking what’s happening to the world.

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Dear world...

Has been million years, I didn’t express my words, opinions, suggestions, perspectives, stances, and so on in my blogging platform. I might not write about my private life experience, but I am trying to share something worth regarding the excessive political, security, and economic problems in the world that we endear the most in a hope that we could also develop a good perspective.

It is seemed to be essential to underline some issues, which lately become the headlines on every front page of the newspapers, online news, and social medias. Sometimes, the news might bewilder people who aren’t familiar with a hodge-podge of occurrences in this world, starting from bomb blasts in Western Europe countries (France and Belgium), terrorism attacks in all over the world, Panama leaks which are lately really vocal, Brexit (a shorthand of explanation in terms of UK’s intention to leave EU), Donald Trumps’ candidacy as the successor of Obama’s tenure, Donald Trumps’ contradiction on revealing his plans over Health Care planning in U. S., and many more. 

My explanation above will probably confuse people who are not really into the world’s economic and politics. On the other hand, if I am allowed to say words, I would like to say that collecting information regarding “what’s happening with the world and, especially our country?” is very beneficial for the development of our way to think about something. In my country, to be honest, I often meet people in many cases, complaining about the government and our country’s failure without giving any closing statements that depict their intentions to embrace a herculean effort  to re-design what we should do as the young generations in the future, or, at least, giving a piece of statements that shows your optimism. Thus, the need of enhancing our willingness to know more about the world is very crucial. 

I could also say that I used to be a person who easily judged something, especially what happened with my government before. Nevertheless, as long as I keep adding knowledge and enforce myself to open my mind, I begin to think that it is just a waste to flooding any platforms only with criticism without any concrete solution we offer. It doesn’t mean that we have to act like an expert who knows about the world, but it just means that we must start from ourselves in building a positive mind about the world. Giving critical statements is really appreciated and it would be even better if we gave additional conclusion expressing our optimism about the world. Giving suggestions I believe that it would be more than beneficial. 

Yes, lately, I attended a discussion, which encouraged us to speak up our opinion toward some issues. Those opinions were really brilliant, showing their competence in analysing important issues and I really admire them so much. They are really really smart! I also gained a lot of knowledge from them. Unfortunately, none of them were showing their elegance on closing their statements, expressing a bit of positive thinking or, at least, a positive suggestion to those debatable issues. At that time, I just kept nodding my head and folding my arms in a hope there was a participant saying their suggestions at the end of their opinions instead of continuously giving acerbic commentaries to the government . I was waiting for it. Well, at the end, I just could say, that was the way people share their opinions and I didn’t have any rights to argue or blame them. I have to accept it. I am just feeling like… how could we collectively change a bit our mind to inject some optimism? After all, we are the ones who live in this world, create human beings, and make wrongdoings and at the end, the ones who should establish fervent actions are also us. 

Therefore, dear my young generation darlings, let’s build a positive-minded starting from now. 

“Hanya bangsa sendiri yang mampu mengubah nasib negerinya sendiri” - Indonesian first President, Soekarno

If it is not us who support the world, who will change the world then?

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Nach der Universität...

“Tidak ada satupun yang bisa membandingi sebuah kebahagiaan ketika kedua orang tua bangga akan dirimu, kembali percaya akan dirimu, dan mengakui bahwa pilihanmu membawamu ke arah yang lebih baik. Terima kasih, Mama & Papa. All the achievements belong to you.”

Endlich habe ich schon fertig mit meinem Studium an der Gadjah Mada Universität. Ich entschuldige mich mit meiner Fehler, weil ich nicht die Geschichte meiner Graduierung in diesem Blog erkläre. Nachdem ich an der Universität graduieren hatte, hatte ich viele Probleme über meine Ausbildung, weil ich im Ausland studieren möchte, aber ich musste oft zum Krankenhaus gehen. 

Aber jetzt fühle ich mich besser als gestern, weil ich endlich meinen Plan arrangiere, im Ausland zu studieren. Ich denke, dass ich viele Informationen über meinem Masterstudium haben muss, weil es sehr kompliziert ist, die Anmeldung auszufüllen. Vor 2 Woche bekam ich die E-Mail der Universität, die sich über meine Anmeldung zu einer Abteilung an der Universität informierte. Glücklich bekam ich eine gute Information der Universität und konnte ich endlich zur Heimat zurück fliegen. Wegen meines Planes kann ich nach Hause zurück kommen, weil ich mich nicht so gut fühlte, wenn meine Familie nach mein Masterstudium fragt. Eigentlich habe ich Angst, dass meine Familie enttäuscht sein will, wenn ich sie keine gute Information über mein Studium gebe. So, es ist besser, dass meine Familie mich in Yogyakarta wohnen lässt.

Vorher fühlte ich mich sehr glücklich für meine Graduierung, weil ich eigentlich zwei Auszeichnungen der Universität als eine Cumlaude Studentin und die Studentin, die am schnellsten an der UGM graduiere. Eindeutig freute ich mich über die Auszeichnungen, die meine Eltern zu mir sehr stolz waren. Vorher der Graduierung musste ich oft zum Krankenhaus gehen wegen meiner Krankheit. Ich hatte sehr schlecht Kopfschmerzen, deswegen musste die Krankenschwester sich um mich im Krankenhaus kümmern. Eigentlich fühlte ich mich krank, während ich noch meine Bachelorarbeit schrieb. Trotzdem habe ich gedacht, dass ich meine Bachelorarbeit fertig machte, deshalb ging ich oft zum Krankenhaus. Aber jetzt fühle ich mich sehr besser, weil ich jetzt noch weisse, ob Gesundheit sehr wichtig ist. 

Da oben ist das Foto von meiner Graduierung. Wegen der Freunden, die zu meinem besonderen Tag kamen, habe ich mich darüber gefreut. Und ich natürlich bedanke mich für die Unterstützung der Familie, die mir viele Ratschläge gibt. 

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Liebe Freunde, 

Ich bin Meilinda und bin 22 Jahre alt. Ich komme aus Indonesien aber in diese Foto wohne ich für 6 Monate in Deutschland als  Austauschstudentin an der Universität Leipzig.

Seit 12 Jahre alt, habe ich nach Deutschland met meine Familie getraeumt. Endlich kan ich nach Deutschland fliegen, obwohl ich nicht met meine Familie gehen. In diese Foto, stehe ich vor Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, das berümtest Museum in Deutschland. Später, finde ich das Museum sehr toll, weil ich viele Geschichten kan siehen und lernen. Jetzt verstehe ich der ersten König und die erste Königin in Deutschland. 

Wenn man die Gesichichten von Europa und Weltkrieg, muss man nach Schloss Charlottenburg besichtigen. Weil elke Geschichte in Europa immer in Deutschland auftreten, gehen viele menshen naar diese Museum damit sie direkt zu die Bilder oder die Schloss Eigenschaften können siehen.

Zum Schluss ist meine Reise nach Deutschland sehr interessant. Ich fühle mich sehr Glück um die Gelegenheit zu haben. Viel Erfolg! 

Grüsse aus Indonesien, 

Meilinda

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Dag, vrienden!

Ik ben Meilinda en ben 22 jaar. Zoals je ziet in het foto ben ik naar Netherland geweest. Ik vind Netherland is heel aardig met een mooi omgeving. Daar kunnen we veel huizen met hun traditioneel cultuur zien. Ik ben daar voor 3 dagen daarom volgende dag moet ik naar Parijs gaan, maar ik ben zo gezellig met de mensen en elke cultuur in Netherland.

Daarna ben ik ook naar winkelcentrum gegaan, want ik ben heel aanhitsend om te winkelen. In Netherland ziet ik ook de waterrad en die is heel interessant. Zoel je weet is Netherland de eerste industrie in Europa. Dus zijn deze waterrad heel beroemd.

Tenslotte moet je op reis naar Netherland gaan, omdat de land wel bijzonder is. Als je daar bent, wil je niet naar thuis terugkommen. Viel plezier!

Veel liefs, Meilinda

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Versailles Palace, France March 2015

“History is boredom interrupted by war”- Derek Walcott in The Bounty

Have you ever heard about the great power of Europe under the domination series of Versailles?

Have you ever heard about the Europe’s powerful leader in the 17th-18th century? Louis XIV? Napoleon?

Or simply, have you ever read or heard on your high school history book about the Treaty of Versailles 1919 which symbolized the end of World War I?

This place was one of the historical site which represents how the great power of Europe dominated at that time, how the states (the Westphalia Treaty 1648 formed) struggled to embrace the world, how they fought one to another, how they made efforts to balance the power as it called the Concert of Europe (1818).

In short, it substantially represents the history of Europe and such a must historical site to be visited. Particularly for you who are keen on histories.

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Prague, Czech Republic February 2015

They said it has been too romantic to be true.

I said it is so gorgeously beautiful and potentially being so melancholy to be here.

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Disneyland, Paris, France March 2015

Fairytale, yes I do love fairytale. To perceive everything in a positive way and to always believe that everything occurred in this life will have a happy ending. That is only happened in a fairytale.

Arrived at the place where the fairytale begun was one of my biggest dream in a lifetime.

So, why do you still lay on the bed and scroll down my blog?

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Berlin Wall, Germany

The witness of Germany’s partition as well as the witness of Germany’s reunification. (1961-1989)

Book can tell history. But, those who must guneinely preserve the history are the people.

People can re-elucidate the history in different perspectives. No matter what it is, please tell to our grandson and granddaughter later that history is a part of life to be remembered.

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Volendam & Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 2015

“If you wanna know who you are, travel the world independently, then you’ll realize it soon.”

Jangan lupa terus bermimpi.

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Brandenburger Tor January 2015 "If you have to dream something, dream it." Grüsse aus Berlin!

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Birthday People are always in a joyful moment when someone is born. If I throwback to the day I was born, I couldn’t imagine how happy my mother and father was. Tears and joys were absolutely spread out at that time. Several days ago, I turned 22nd which I think I am no longer teenager, I am no longer a kid who can always lean on my mother shoulder to cry and blabber every single problems. In short, I have to try to solve my problem by myself. Every adult must do it. I know. One thing that I am always continuously grateful is…. People are too kind. Sometimes I am so sad that I know that lots of people affect and care to me that much, but there is no one instead of my mother and father who tries to love me. Besides, as time goes by, as I lately grow older, I define happiness as a simple thing. I am no longer nagging on something too much because as I grow up, Allah, with His great power, will give everything I need not always what I want. I define happiness as them. Good people, good surroundings, good places, good parents, good friends, good achievements, and good opportunities that I always sequentially little by little got from the most graceful on this earth, Allah. So, what else can make me complaining of this delightful life? Sometimes, no, not sometimes, every day, we have to start our mind with something positive. It works though. From my previous posts, I always wrote down that good things always come up when we were trying to think positively. Do not hate people. Do not. But, do not be naïve. Do not. That was I have learned until I finally reach my 22. Ps: Thank you for my dearest parents and sisters for giving me a chance to be born in this cruel life but you both keep planting me good vibes to transform me into a good person in this realist life. Thank you for my dearest college friends who are continuously loving and caring this unstoppable workaholic careless girl. Finding so many friends are so easy to catch up, but finding some faithful (luckily I found some, not just one) friends are really hard to get. We learned about how to curb which one is our privacy and which one is something to be shared. We learned about a genuine helpful thing. We learned about how to be always around each other when anyone of us needs someone to lean on. Thank you for my working partners who transform me to be strong-hearted one. One of the best decisions I ever made is being a part of political atmosphere which was not really me. I found lots of fake persons but I fortunately found lots of supportive persons also. Last, thank you all for the endless good wishes you all gave to me. You all mean precious. Thank you, life.

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Markkleeberger See January 2015

The pictures captured represents a magnificent sightseeing on the different zone of Leipzig, Markleeberg precisely. We need to take Tram 11 and go out in the very last station.

It’s named Markkleeberger See which serves its beautiful lake and scenery. Well-said again, it would be such a best place to be visited by those who are romantically in love with someone.

We just can walk around beside the lake and enjoy the scenery as well as talk endlessly. It is supposed to be more interesting in Summer or Spring because it is obviously not as cold as in winter so we can enjoy the warmth of lake which is really rare in Germany concerning its mostly land-lock country. Only a part on the north which has its own beach, but some friends said it was not as interesting as in Indonesia absolutely.

In Summer, you can also enjoy the rafting recreation around this area. It seems interesting to be tried. Unfortunately, i don’t have a chance to objectify it well due to my short-term living here.

However, i would like to profoundly declare that I enjoy every minutes here, yaps, the ups and downs, i am not only passed good things but also bad things which suffered me in regard to attain better knowledge here.

In this understanding, it is not as luxurious as its appearances in these pictures. Lot of efforts should be passed are also needed to conform with the educational system in this country.

In conclusion, here i learned, sometimes people have to think autonomously in order to make our own self-reflection, what is good and what is bad. So, we can keep learning.

Enjoy this picture, Meilinda