as a new comer and still dont understand yet about mandarin language, i think it so difficult for foreigner to enjoy taiwan, because communication become barrier
and i try my best to understand about mandarin language soon, i promise ^_^
live in dorm at asia university somehow make me can not enjoy my room, because i have 3 roommate and as you know, i will not have a privacy, i can not manage the room, i should consider their feeling everyday, so i should stop to over talk and over do, i lost my freedom
even if i am really happy in getting this full scholarship, somehow i feel bored in taiwan, especially in my room, what should i do god ???, hope all will be ok....
for last five days, i felt so bored, i ca not concentrate in my study, i need to refresh my self, i want go outside the dorm...
guys, ladies and gentlemen he he, if you are debater you will get so many beneficial thing for your future....
debate is so helpful for master degree because the method that use in debating is also pretty much same even equal for us to presentation our original paper and use the method of debate, and during the class we also always discuss about the course and debate skill is so helpful
debate skill is seem like you exercise your self about speaking, confidence, structure for presentation, and our communication skill, and how to convince people make them trust
so in my conclusion, debate is related to the life sector, critical thinking,think fast, and confidence
in the first time, i assume that to be full scholarship student will still burden me and family economically and study abroad will really hard to get, really hard to do and big risk and full of questions...
but after i follow the scholarship program and take then enjoy that, i know no people is perfect and there is no impossible, the most important is you are confidence with your self, brave and just think that you are special
because the one who should respect your self is yours and dont think that you are stupid, dont think that you are not capable, dont give up before you try, everything can be changed
so far to be full scholarship student make me understand that it is amazing, everything can be managed, dont afraid, you will fail, dont afraid the money is not enough he he
in abroud we are special, native people respect us more then local people, so it will be a lot of wonderful thing that you will get
so chance will not comes two times, if you have a great chance just take it, just do your best, never think the result, because the judge is god
at the end, to be full scholarship is a prestige and the way to obtain bright future
waw wonderful, Jogja is a place that teach me everything and was given me everything
experience, friendship, winning, defeating, tears, happiness, prestige, and etc, thank you allah.
let me told you about me as long as in jogja ^_^ here we go, this is true story :
In the begining in 20004 : i go to jogjakarta from lubuk linggau (part of palembang region), by bus, and i dont have any family in jogjakarta, i dont know, just follow my feeling and my parents suggestion but i love it, then my neighbour in sumatera that already study in jogja take me for a few months in his bourding house, my goal is only one, i want entering Stimik AMIKOM Yogyakarta, and i take my major in information technology (i know AMIKOM from television and internet, and i believe).
During my bachelor degree many empiris that i have done in jogja : active in debating society of AMIKOM, debate in everywhere around indonesia, all cost is provided by my collage, in this torney also i found my new family, new sister and brother, we are fighting together, care each others, supporting each others, i love you all full, here there are : Doni Agustian, Custiana, Mandahadi Kusuma, Muhammad Ridwan, Sulidar Fitri, Imam mutakim, Ruslan Abdul Gani, Lutfie, Dwindy stanza, Kharisma Chendika Putra, Rizka Bella, Putri Rianti, Avief Bimantara, Nurmalikhatun, Frian, Nunung, Redy, and all AEC ranggers.
then i also have ever work part time in mentari disc rental here we go :
rental for cd well program, film, songs, really hard to work here, after about 6 months i dont know why it could be, i have last rank of all employer even new employer is in up position even they dont know all the program, film and everything, then i protest to my boss but the answer is simple, he/mas arie call me and said david we need to improve mentari so you better out of mentari, i am so sorry that is because the valuation, wow great, then i go with so sad but confuse because actually valuation is not fair for me but let it go
after 1 week out from mentari i accepted in fortunet that is internet cafe i work there about 4 months, i believe that god love me, and i trust i am not so stupid like what mas arie mentari thinks, he is supervisor of mentari until now not graduated from university may be DO, his salary a month about 1000000 - 2000000, having wife and children and his life depends on mentari, but many grateful for mas arie because of you i can complete my final project and i believe that is allah way for me, i am sorry mas arie to write this, i dont hate you
the reason why i work is because i need money and i am not rich.
Then when i was student i also be part of amikom choir, i was a translater in medikom, adjudicator for debating competition around jogja, so even if my major is IT but english is my life, but i am sure i love IT too.
I have many friends : positive one and negative one means that : any baground of people is interesting for me, naughty but smart and ellegant he he that the most important, still use your brain. then at the end in august 28th 2008 i was graduated from STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta, it was so interesting, because in that graduation agenda where is so formal activity and so many parents and students attend for that ceremony include my parents and my family and i speech as a delegation from all students in front of them, really proud, then i also sing a song in front of them ho ho ho, and in the graduation book, my picture is as a background, i just said waw on that day, and i got my diploma for my bachelor then my planning is i will go back to palembang and looking for job there.
But mr Erik call me and offering me to be lecture assistent in AMIKOM, i am so confuse then after discuss with my sister and my mom then i took that, and i teach and be part of amikom lecture, i thing so different because only one week after graduate and then i be a lecture, i teach many people, wow so in that time my alteration that i feel, well in fashion and everything, but i love it so much, at AMIKOM between lecture and asistent lecture is same, the different is only the salary he he he, as long as teaching at AMIKOM, many empiris that i got, many knowledge that i got, and something positive comes to me, taeching is something drugs when i am stress, looking for people interest to get my lesson is heaven for me, looking for the eyes of ladies student who have a feeling and care then love me he he is something satisfaction for me, got critics is something trouble but fun for me because none perfect, i love it so much...
After 1 years or 2 period of teaching at AMIKOM, i got something great that is offering from mr Dibyo he is my english lecture, for following full scholarship program at Asia University Taiwan, then i follow that, and i also accepted in that program, wow wonderful, so i should continue my master degree in Bioinformatics on september 13th 2009
this is my last time in jogjakarta for 2 years later, coz show must go on
but before go to taiwan i will comeback first to my hometown at Lubuk Linggau to meet my parents and all my family there
there are a few steps to get resident visa to Taiwan :
1. DEPKUMHAN : so you should verified your diploma and transcript there, 1 document need 25000 rupiahs, and need 3 days to complete that.
adress : Jalan HR Rasuna said kav 6-7, kuningan, south jakarta,
work time : 09.00 - 15.00.
remember :
You should bring your diploma and transcript that already verified by your university. and you should also prepare "signature spesimen (spesimen tandatangan)" it needs by DEPKUMHAM, you can make it by your self, make in table, content are : name, position, paraf, signature, cap of your university (this is for people who verified your diploma and transcript / if your diploma and transcript was signed by directure of your university so you should make his / her spesimen tandatangan, make it in A4 lanscape).
2. DEPLU : after verified in DEPKUMHAM your diploma and transcript also should be verified in DEPLU, 1 document need 10000 rupiahs, and it need about 2-3 days, you can ask to the officer to get it faster.
adress : jalan pejambon no 6, jakarta pusat
3. TETO (taiwan ambassador) : after you verified in DEPKUMHAN and DEPLU your diploma, transcript, and others data that required for TETO in applying resident visa, it need about 1 week, 1 data need 168000 rupiahs
adress : artha graha, 12th floor, jalan jendral sudirman, kav 52-53, jakarta.
4. then you can apply for resident visa in TETO too : it need 3 days and the cost is 726000 rupiahs
requirements to apply resident visa :
1. fill in the Application letter and photo 4 x 6 2. passport (you can check in your immigration office, cost about 300000 rupiahs, requirements : identity card, fill in the application letter, letter of recomendation from your university, the proses will take about 1 week) 3. letter of acceptance from your destination university 4. diploma which be verified by TETO (original + copy) 5. copy of family card 6. certificate of medhical check up (you can check list of hospital in TETO, cost : 300000 rupiahs, the process about 3 days) 7. you should have account in bank and a number of money as your Saldo that can guarantee for your life in Taiwan (at least 15.000.000) or you should have letter of sponsor who guarantee you as long as in taiwan
hi guys, toefl is something interesting when you know how to answer it well, and what the strategy, and ect...
well here we go :
1. prepare your health, you should do the test in very good condition, before test make sure that you will not go to toilet, come 30 minutes before, use jacket if the room using AC he he...
2. the time for toefl paper based test is 2 hours, contain : listening (50 questions), structure/grammer(40 questions), reading (50 question), so you need to manage your time the way is : never review again your answer before you finish all, so you should answer in one chance no repetation, 1 question about 15-30 seconds, choose the right answer, decrease the answer options then choose the best one for you
3. listening
if i am not mistake, question number 1-25 : listening the dialogue/conversation then answer, 26 - 35 : short conversation, long conversation : 36-50. hear carefully and then answer, for dialogue you need to write on blank paper to remain you again, if the place of your toefl test using type or vcd, so you are better to sit in front of the type or vcd, based on my empiris, it would clearly to listen
4. structure : 40 questions
this question need strategy, you can practice first online : just type on google "online toefl practice" or "online toefl test", and you need 3 days to understand type of the sums and the strategy
5. reading : 50 questions
dont spent to much time to read, tips every single paragraph just read first and second line in the early and last of paragraph.
but the most important is that you should prepare for the questions, understand about type od the sums, how to answer in a short time, you should to be confident and undestand the questions
you can check on gogling for toefl test, and toefl practice
"I'm not a perfect person who finds. But, from my imperfection , I have a love that will be perfect only for you
"I don't love a woman because she is beautiful or sexy, but she is beautiful because i love her......"
snow story
One day, a small child named Belinda is considering her mother washing the dishes in the kitchen. Not long after he saw some piece of gray hair from a lot of black hair of her mother. With high curiosity, Belinda asked, "Why do some color white hair Mama?" Mama said, " every time you make a naughty to mommy or complain, a piece of hair of mama would be changed so white."
belinda is thinking about her mama answer briefly before continuing, "I now understand why all the grandmother hair is white ...."
The point of winning is actually on defeating our self, our weakNEss and ego, and goes beyond our limit , ora at labora ,never depend on someone, be your self, easy going, no drugs, before try never say you can not do that, legends are made by work hard
Yogyakarta | Lubuk linggau - south sumatera | Taiwan - Taichung (now), Taichung, Taiwan
I am David Agustriawan.
Phd student of Biomedical Informatics at Asia University Taiwan.
and working as student researcher now with my professor in medical informatics and microRNA
