Meld Magazine

Meld Magazine: Melbourne's International Students News Website.
I truly forgot how I stumbled upon this website... wait, now I remember: Metcards! Again, I was browsing facts about Metcards, and Google led me to a post by Marcella Purnama on Meld Magazine, once again about the conversion of metcards to myki.

So, Meld Magazine is an online magazine run by students in Melbourne. How fascinating! You know I've once been an international student  :P (oops, my dad was, I think I didn't count lol) 
The writers, editors, photographers, web designers, videographers and every other staff are international as well as local students of Melbourne. Starting out in 2008, this magazine aimed to give international students a true insight on how life in Melbourne is really like.This way, international student candidates won't only obtain information from university promotions.

I think the articles in Meld Mag are extremely interesting, well-written, and actually a lot of fun, and it seems really helpful and informative. They cover up almost everything about Melbourne: lifestyle, cuisine, news, issues, reviews on films, music and festivals, education, youth programs, or anything else related to international students, regulations, fees and stuff. They tell you everything you need to know, every information, every hot issue, and also every fun facts about Melbourne. All in a youthful writing style, not too formal, yet mature indeed. Reading Meld Mag is so much fun, I learned a lot of new vocabularies and recognize different writing styles :)  And of course, my all time longing of seeing Melbourne is a little bit relieved.

To be honest, the fact that these students could produce excellent pieces of writings -which is in fact not in their own mother language- and manage it in an online magazine pretty much amuses me! I feel really inspired to learn from them and become a writer myself. They're actually opening up chances to join their team. I really wish I could join Meld one day [Of course I have to find a way to study in Melbourne first (y)]. But lets start with improving my English proficiency and writing skills. Oh and I know a good way to begin: visit Meld Mag and read!

Scarlet

I adore this color.
http://www.crayola.com/explore-colors/scarlet.aspx

It reminds me of The Scarlet Pimpernel, a beautiful novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, one of my all-time favorite classics :)

AU!

Airlangga University is one of Indonesia’s leading state universities located in Surabaya, thecountry's second largest city, as well as a major seaport and commercial center in the eastern region of Indonesia.

Airlangga University has been known as one of Indonesia's top five Universities with thirteen faculties, ranging from basic science, medicine, and social sciences, which are located in three campuses, 

Campus A accommodates the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Dentistry. The campus is comprised mainly of buildings built in the Dutch colonial era. The buildings remain upright, still conserved until today and noted as one of Surabaya’s heritage buildings.

Campus B hosts the Faculty of Pharmacy as well as the faculties concentrating in the social science fields which are the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Economy and Business, Faculty of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities. In Campus B, there also reside many of the main institutional support units for the university, such as the Central Library, Post Graduate Programs, Center for Health Care, Center for Quality Assurance, Institute for Educational Studies and Development, as well as a religious facility.

While in newest established campus C reside the rest of the life science faculties which are The Faculty of Science and Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine, and The Faculty of Nursing). The Rectorate building, the studentcenter, and the university’s convention center are also located in campus C.

To encourage educational and public service purposes, Airlangga University has alsodeveloped several educational and research facilities such as The Arlangga University Hospital and The Institute of Tropical Diseases, both located in Campus C. A Medical Education Center has also been built to encourage a better educational environment for the Faculty of Medicine in Campus A

The Institute of Tropical Disease is a research institute dedicated to developing researches, counseling and Laboratory services on tropical diseases including Malaria, Dengue Fever, Tuberculosis, Leprosy and many others. The Institute of Tropical Disease is equipped with up to twenty Biosafety level-3 laboratories.

Airlangga University started out as a medical school, built by the Dutch colonial government to educate young Javanese to become health experts. Itwas named NIAS (Nederlandsch Indische Artsen School). And since the year 1913, medical education has been conducted in Surabaya in Jl. Kedungdoro38, Surabaya. In 1923 the building was moved to what is now Campus A of Airlangga University. In 1928, a school of dentistry is founded, better known as STOVIT (School Tot Opleiding van Indische Tandarsten). In 1948, Airlangga University became a branch of The University of Indonesia with the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Dentistry. And in 1954, joined by the Faculty of Law which was previously a branch of Gadjah Mada University, Airlangga University was officially established by the government of Indonesia, coinciding the celebration of the 9^th Heroes’ day

By this year, it has been a century since medical education first started out in Surabaya.

A Seemingly Failing Holiday

I have at last finished up my journey in the second semester of med school :)
How's everything been? I cant guarantee flying colors since I haven't seen all my grades- the system's just keeping it a secret from me with no reason- but at least I didn't have to take any remedial. thank goodness.
It was rather tough, I honestly have to admit. Since the very beginning of the semester, I was evidently aware of having to study every single minute of my life in the second semester, and it freaked the hell outta me. But once again I have to admit that I didn't actually do that: Sitting still on my desk and concentrate on studying, staying up late, waking up early, all the study programs I made, the timetables I sticked on my bedroom walls- i planned them all, but it failed. I didn't remember the last time I studied. I didn't remember studying in the middle of the night. It was freaking weird. I watched a movie the night before one of my anatomy exam, I played with my sister a lot, I blogged, I read other nonsense in the middle of the exam week. But I survived. I guess it was all fate.It was fate. It came from my prayers, and my parent's and I have to pay a lot for it. For all the goodness Allah has given me.

So I planned to study again this holiday. I have started reading my anatomy books again, that I did on the first day of my unoffficial dholiday.

But circumstances cancel out my holiday plans.

tbc
July 9th. 2.46 PM. GMT+7.

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Ever seen this scene in a movie?
I'll give you ten seconds to recall before you blast. No way. I'm kidding.
It's from In Time! A 2011 sci-fi action movie starring Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and the bluey gooey eyed chameleon Cillian Murphy.

The movie was, fair enough, thrilling, entertaining. imdb rated it sixty-something percent, Rotten Tomatoes rated it thirty-something percent. I myself, have only watched halfway through. Not that I wasn't interested, but I actually watched it on the evening before my anatomy exam  and it sent me right back to my books, freaking me out...

Can you imagine only having twenty five years to live your life normally, and the second right after your twenty fifth birthday, the clock on your arm starts ticking backwards like a countdown timer, showing you your remaining lifetime. Not just that it ticks backwards like a countdown timer, you'll also have to buy your daily needs with your remaining lifetime, like buying a cup of coffee in a coffee shop would reduce your lifetime by ten minutes. Now what if, after a day's work, you wanted to go home to meet your son and "share some time", but you only had an hour and a half left while the bus fare was suddenly raised to two hours for a ride home, and walking home takes two hours. Doesn't that mean you'd have to run home? This is what I call running for life.

Time's too precious to waste.

Don't. Waste. Your. Remaining. Time.

Welcome to ... [drums rolling] our new header!

And my header is done! Hooray!!
To be honest, this blog was previously named Autumn Scribbles since I fancy soouu much the season autumn, but I couldn't find a pretty enough autumn themed header so I tried to make one myself. Well I actually found this reddish orange header with a crumpled paper on it and I decided to overlay it with some autumn scribble text but then I thought that it sort of didn't match, so well here I go, I thought it would suit better if I call it scribbles on a crumpled paper. A bit. . Straight, right to the point but ay, truthful anyway. And I write thoughts, tales, and much much more trash trash trash [ha-ha] but I'll surely leave trashiness behind. Then I found these critter images which are so adorably cute!! Uh! It adds to the crumpled-paper-been-thrown-to-the-trashcan accent :3. All crumpled and germy, full of creepy crawly critters lol. What say you?
And last, but definitely never the least, I would like to deliver my greatest appreciation to Picmonkey <3 which was a real big help in making this header! So it's a web based picture editing app, easy to use, simple yet rich in features: highly recommended! Oh and definitely they use ridiculous forms of language in their dialog boxes. You gotta try, you just gotta try and laugh out loud at some point!

Neon

Something went wrong with my camera when I tried to capture this. But it turned out awesome out of nowhere! Like abstract paint blobs!
In case you haven't realized, these are my collection of metcards :)