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from the outside looking in // a personal blog

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sporadic life update: shifted from consulting → finance 🌻 so many new things i'm learning every day. today marks 6 years of me being in japan and while i'm nowhere near my ideal life, i think younger me would be pretty proud of where i am now.

P.S. does anyone know if there's a # studyblr tag for corporate girlies ... but 90% of us won't be able to post our notes and work content due to confidentiality. lol

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It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

...what? (lol)

10 years takes me back to my middle school self; new in the world of studyblr, looking for inspiration and ways to improve my grades. I remember being a very average student. I liked to doodle during classes and crunching last-minute for exams was the norm. Not saying that I completely got rid of all the procrastination, but the days I spent polishing my study skills, notes, and just trying to become a better version of myself definitely weren't in vain.

Now that I'm a slave to capitalism working full-time in an industry I've always dreamt about, making even the slightest impact in this difficult word, I can say I'm proud of everything I went through 😂 Maybe I should write more in this blog.

Dear younger self, I hope you know that you'll be okay.

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お久しぶり。

it’s been four years since i updated this blog, and five to six since i was last active in the studyblr fandom. a lot has happened since then, but life recap:

managed to keep my full scholarship during the entire four-year duration of my study in japan,

acquired other scholarships totaling over a million yen,

was representative of the indonesian student community in my university

did multiple internships, part-time jobs and research work in business / sustainability / web design / english teaching among others,

traveled more than 10 prefectures in japan, interacted vastly with local communities and students of all ages,

did my thesis on the impact of sustainability ⇆ fan culture and entertainment; two things i’m very passionate about,

acquired JLPT N1 and am using the language on a business level daily,

about to start my career in a major consulting firm in tokyo.

it wasn’t always smooth sailing, and i made sure to enjoy myself outside of uni and work (probably way too much as i was seeing a musical or attending a fandom event every other week lmao)

looking back, everything i did during my IGCSEs and IB hell - all the sleepless night and stacks of notes and hours spent revising and studying and doing past papers - were all so fucking worth it.

people say high school isn’t everything, that your grades don’t define the rest of your life - which is true! it definitely didn’t. but the study skills, the work ethic, the way i motivated and disciplined myself when times were tough, proved to keep me going wherever i was. 

i don’t think i’m particularly gifted or talented, nor do i have anything i’m highly skilled at despite all the experience i’ve gained throughout work and acads. but i sure can say that i’ve worked hard to achieve everything i did. i failed and stumbled many times along the way (job hunting stress was real; i probably applied to 50-100 companies), but somehow, i made it here.

and for the first time in a while, i think i’m happy with my life.

to all my fellow studyblrs and langblrs, i hope you’re having a good day and taking care of yourself. dreams do come true after all, i guess. who knew that me starting a little study blog eight years ago could lead me to the person i am today :)

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a lot has happened in the past 8 months, but here’s a recap:

got my IB diploma (40 points!!!!!)

started uni in my favorite place in the world, japan

back on making notes as it’s exam season

so who knows, i’ll be posting again here from time to time. ☆

とにかく、今日は試験だった。この授業は英語を使っているですが春学期に特のSDGゼミを入ろうと思って...相変わらずに頑張らんくちゃ！

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Thank you

So I finished 100 days of productivity, and this blog reached 300 followers. Prior to starting this challenge I had around 200 (and I’ve been on studyblr since 2016?!) so thank you so much for the comments, notes and follows! ;;

I won’t be posting regularly after this (feel free to send requests if anyone wants to see a certain post) but my messages/ask box is always open for anyone to ask about the IB, japanese learning, and maybe uni apps too (I got into my first-choice uni in Japan with a full scholarship so yay)

It’s still IB exam season so let’s put our all! I firmly believe that a number over 45 does not define you but I’m not going to put these past 2 years of striving into a waste. Soon it’ll be over and I can go to JP ^o^!!

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100% || Simultaneously reviewing for ESS and English while also mapping future plans. There’s a lot to look forward to from summer onwards so make the best out exams now @ self ; ;

あと４日だけ！！精一杯頑張りましょう！

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98~99% || Not the best time to catch a cold but I’ll power through the remaining papers somehow

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96~97% || In all due honesty I felt like math was tough (or maybe I’m just dumb lol). Hopefully everything goes well in ESS tomorrow ;;

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94~95% || Just one more day until I’m done with the wrath of econ HL forever (இдஇ; ) also who thought it was a good idea to put math on the same day as well

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92~93% || Last-minute review sheet for econ paper 3 lawl. Since the bulk of IB exams starts next week, good luck to everyone!! /o/

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90~91% || Well, business paper 1 was pretty challenging ;; here’s to hoping that paper 2 would be kinder.

図書館の日当たりに浴びながら勉強しよー6年間でお好みなところになっちゃった。

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88~89% || First paper coming up is business this friday... /frantically annotates the case study

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86~87% || I’ve reached a point where I’m stressed (?) for externals that I’m calm (?) - anyways, doodled in between econ notes. (●‿●✿)

二週間で終わりですし頑張らなきゃ！！

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84~85% || Uni admission documents done, now time to work on my weak spots (read: the entire econ paper 3) as IB externals are in less than a week ....

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82~83% || Nothing interesting lately except for burying my head in IB1 econ notes because these 3829 graphs still confuse tf out of me. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

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80~81% || Barely hanging in there lol

P.S. My market failure notes are originally typed because my previous teacher told us to read the entire chapter in one night, which was 40 pages so... fml

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78~79% || More progress! Externals is in 2~3 weeks /shudders

ゼブラこころは安くて書きやすいし最近気に入った！オススメです。