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purple thing in Centennial Park (a park near where I live)
I'm starting a new journey! After about 2.5 years leaving school, I am finally starting my PhD! What a dream comes true! Hahaha...

Really? Is it really a dream comes true?

 Yes, I've been wanting to do a phd as soon as I submitted my master dissertation. And I've been seriously sending application for scholarship for a year: to the most desired one KGSP (to go to Korea!), Monbusho (to go to Japan), and LPDP. The first two is really an obsession of mine. I doubt I will get much - academically speaking, since anthropology is not that well-established in the said countries), but I always wanted to do research and live there. So yeah...

 Not really, because I was actually unsure about the choice of university that I finally landed in. I applied to two other universities (Heidelberg Uni - Germany and Uni of Edinburgh) before, and made contacts with a potential research supervisor at ANU (that I know from reading a lot of his works). All of which were rejected. But I attributed that failure to my lack of patience in finding suitable supervisor before I actually made the application. And also to pushing to apply although I knew that my resume did not fit the project description (I applied anyway because my undergrad lecturer talked me through it). 

 Not really, because I never really settled in this research topic. People said, "you will never be sure about it until you're actually doing it". But it's a bit different for my case since I'm sort of crossing between one discipline to another; from one topic to another (totally different one). So it's a yes or no situation.

 But well, anyway, I am finally here. So, I'm going to blogging again. I changed the lay out and everything to start fresh. I will be posting random stuffs, photos of my cooking, places, as well as all the ranting about my study, me missing my cat (I got a new cat!), and me missing Indonesian food.

 Oh and one more thing, who knew I'd be back in the first city outside my home country I ever visited? 

 About 6 years ago, I went to spend winter in Sydney - promising myself that I will not go back to this city if I ever had a chance to study abroad. Yet, now I am here. xD

 I guess, you never know.

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