Saturday, July 27, 2019

My very first job

I just graduated from NTOU as a master student of food science.

Fortunately, I got a chance to be a Research Assistant in Fisheries Research Institute, Council of Agriculture, Taiwan (FYI, that is one of official government offices in Taiwan.). I can say I was lucky to just directly work after my graduation. I was very happy, and that was out of expectation because they received someone who was not good at Chinese (as I know before, they asked for someone who can work in laboratory and speak Chinese and of course that person was not me!).

Thanks to my advisor who took part to help me get this job.

So, I grabbed this opportunity and I took one month holiday to go back Indonesia and come back Taiwan to have an interview.

I was pretty under pressure to prepare my interview because they wanted me to introduce myself in Chinese. Honestly, I was not confident to do it as my Chinese was so miserable (even UNTIL NOW).

The only way to have a good speech in Chinese less than 2 months was to memorize it! HAHA

and I got my friends to help me translate my power point in Chinese, teach me what to say to open the speech and pronounce sentence in Chinese. Even though, I could say I was nervous during the interview and I forgot some parts in my presentation. and, I answered the questions in English and violaaaaa, it was okay for them as they did not asked me to answer in Chinese too (thank God).

It has been 3 months for me working there. So far, everything is good and yaps, doing experiments, doing research, making presentation, reading journal, writing reports and papers are things that I do. Hey, what do you expect to do when you work as a research assistant?!

Talking about the environment, the place is nice. My boss is super good, all of coworkers are nice, they help me a lot and try to understand me. They speak Chinese-English to me as they know my Chinese is poor (Forgive me !). I enjoy the time to laugh and work together with them.

I thank God for this opportunity.

Hopefully, I can give my best and good impressions during working here, as I decide that I won't take this job for long (For some reasons, I wanna go back to Indonesia and get a permanent job, and of course to build my career, to chase my dreams).

Below are some pictures of scenery I enjoy along my way back home from office.

The place I work

view from the bridge

colorful building, every day people come to take picture here

Saturday, June 8, 2019

M.Sc !

It's been 5 months since I was officially graduated from National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU), Taiwan. I did my study as a Food science master student for 2 years, started from February 2017.

M.Sc

Honestly, I did not expect that I would come to this school for doing master. I also wondered why I finally joined this school, even finished my study and got my M.Sc degree. I think that is God's plan.

Back to the end of 2016, I submitted my master application into three universities. They were Wageningen university in Netherlands, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) in Taiwan. All those universities accepted me and gave me scholarship, except Wageningen university. At that time, I planned to register myself for LPDP scholarship so I could go for Wageningen as I received the letter of acceptance (LOA) in Food technology department. Unfortunately, LPDP would open the registration 6 months after. It means that I had to delay one semester of study. Besides, there was a possibility I would not get the scholarship. On the other hand, I could start studying in NCKU or NTOU right away with a full ride.

It was not easy at all to finally make a decision to choose NTOU. I considered many things like hundreeeedddd things as I am a thinker xoxo. That situation was similar to the moment when I had to decide for my bachelor study. I had no idea why I went to UNSRI, but in the end I knew the reason. Something that I might not get if I was in another university, a transformation from darkness to lightness.

I could understand that everything happens for a reason like many people said.
But I believe that everything happens according to God's plan.

So far, I feel blessed here. I have good friends, a good community in church, excellent advisor and teachers, friendly lab-mates, and super pretty scenery around school as it is near to ocean.