Words of Mine After HNMUN

Hello everyone! Actually I intended to write about my first experience in HNMUN 2015 couples months ago in Boston, USA. But I haven't had much time yet due to the upcoming exams. I'm going to post few photos instead. 

I have to say, joining HNMUN was the BEST DECISION I've ever made in my entire life. Though I admit there was soooo much things I had to gave in. Yet I told you, I didn't regret a single thing of it. Otherwise, I am thrilled to do it again. Yeah, I wish I could. 

Along with this post, I would say thank you to everyone who has supported us from the beginning... My mom and my dad, especially, who have encouraged me to take chances, be brave, and to cross any boundaries in order to reach my dreams. They always lift me up whenever I doubt myself and about to give up. Thank you to let me do some (or a lot, i guess) things beyond your expectation.I LOVE YOU MOMMY POPPY!! My elder brother, Mas Kiki, who always be so kind to let me use his credit card for buying things and booked hotels or bus tickets.I felt so sorry at first but I couldn't resist it ;p My sister-in-law, Kak Sari;my younger brother, Fafa; and you,yeah all of you who has supported me in any possible ways even if it was just like put a 'love'in my Path's posts. THANK YOU. YOU RAWKK!!

My lovely team in a frame

We were posing after the closing of HNMUN

First time we stepped in Boston and it was a day after terrible blizzard.

Times Square!!!! YEAAAAAHHHH!!!!

In the end, I would like to invite all of you to have such an amazing journey all the way to USA to attend the biggest MUN held by Harvard University Students - HNMUN. Just click www.brawijayaforhnmun.com and fullfill the inquiries.

• As the wise men said, in the end you would only regret things you didn't do. So don'tlet HNMUN be one of them.GOOD LUCK!!!

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Pengalaman Wawancara Visa Amerika (2)

Pada hari Rabu di bulan Desember, sesuai dengan jadwal yang telah ditentukan sebelumnya saya datang ke Konsulat Jenderal Amerika Serikat di Surabaya. Lokasinya di daerah perumahan elite Citraland, dekat dengan Pakuwon dan Supermall. Jalan menuju kesana juga tidak susah karena penunjuk jalan sangat jelas. Sebagai informasi saja, sebelumnya Konjen AS berada di Jl. Dr. Sutomo Surabaya kemudian pindah di Citraland ini. 

Menurut jadwal, wawancara saya dimulai pukul 08.45. Namun berdasar saran teman-teman yang sebelumnya sudah diwawancara dan menilik pengalaman saya sebelumnya mengenai visa Schengen-Eropa, saya memutuskan untuk datang lebih pagi. Sekitar pukul 6.45 saya sudah sampai di lokasi. Dari depan, Konjen AS didominasi tembok putih dan mirip dengan bunker dengan penampakan petugas keamanan yang bersenjata lengkap.

Konjen AS di Citraland tampak samping (google.com)

Saya orang kedua yang datang pagi itu. Ketika datang, saya lapor terlebih dahulu ke petugas keamaanan dan disuruh untuk menunggu. Katanya, meskipun jadwal saya 08.45 namun karena saya datang lebih dulu, maka akan didahulukan (Yes!). Sembari menunggu, saya pun mengobrol dengan pelamar visa yang lain. Sebelum saya, ada seorang bapak yang ingin memperbarui visanya karena akan bekerja di Bermuda dengan lebih dulu transit di New York. Beliau sudah bolak-balik ke Bermuda karena pekerjaannya. Untuk transit ternyata butuh Visa juga, yang berlaku 29 hari. "Banyak mbak, orang Indonesia yang curang. Mereka apply visa C1 (untuk transit) lalu kabur untuk bekerja. Tapi ya resikonya besar, tidak bisa pulang atau pulang dan dipenjara" ceritanya sekilas.

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Pengalaman Wawancara Visa Amerika (1)

Seperti yang telah saya sebutkan di post sebelumnya, saya berencana mengikuti konferensi dan simulasi sidang PBB terbesar di dunia, Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) 2015 Februari mendatang. Berbagai persiapan telah kami (saya dan tim) lakukan, dan Hari H semakin mendekat hingga akhirnya tibalah waktu kami untuk apply visa Amerika.Saya akan mencoba menceritakan kepada anda tentang pengalaman saya mengajukan aplikasi Visa Amerika.

But first of all, the main question everyone would ask is : How to apply for US Visa? Bagaimana caranya? Saya sendiri dibantu oleh teman satu tim Brawijaya for HNMUN yang berbaik hati.Jadi bisa dikatakan saya hanya menyerahkan data-data saja. Prinsipnya, pertama anda harus mengisi data-data aplikasi online yang disebut DS-160 di web konsulat Amerika. Untuk mengajukan aplikasi visa non-imigran seperti saya, silahkan klik di https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/ dan untuk informasi lebih lengkap pengajuan visa Amerika, anda bisa klik di web berbahasa Indonesia ini.

Setelah aplikasi online anda selesai, selanjutnya adalah melakukan pembayaran. Prosedurnya yaitu :

1. Klik di sini untuk mengetahui berapa yang harus anda bayar disesuaikan dengan kurs rupiah. Print Slip Deposit tersebut. Sebagai informasi, ketika itu saya harus membayar 160 USD yang setara dengan Rp 2.000.000.

2.Bawa Slip Deposit, Uang, Fotokopi Passport ke Bank Permata dan serahkan kepada Teller Bank.

3. Minta tanda bukti pembayaran

DS-160 Confirmation Letter

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Lessons.

Have you ever seen a romantic soap opera on TV and feel sick about the plot? Have you ever seen girls crying after breaking up with her lover in the public places? Have you ever seen a couple who are having a terrible quarrel and yelling at each other in the public places? 

If one of those answers is yes, you might think that love can be so incredibly wrong and what might be left are the PAIN and HATRED

So, what are we gonna do? We can't just easily walk out or force ourselves to not being in love with someone. It's just clearly impossible, isn't it? What I suggest you to do, my dear readers, is do learn from the experience. Take lessons from every terrible things that bang you in the past.

This time, you can learn from my experience. My personal experience about LOVE which I should say the most frustrating thing ever in this decade of my life. It's like the thing you wanna tell to your children later, so that they will be more prepared in the event that they're in the same position (which I really don't hope so)

So fellass.. Let's begin our lesson. (I'd say these things to my beautiful children if I have later)

"Kid, if someone starts to pay more attention to you or starts flirting with you meanwhile he's still in relationship with someone else, back off and say NO from the beginning. Because he will do it again to you, sooner or later."

"Kid, if you are in the middle of your friend's relationship, just stay quite and do not act or talk to them unless they've finished their problems. Otherwise, you might add another problem"

"Kid, if you get blamed by many people for something you don't do, just be nice to them and let the time reveals all the truth. Because if you're busy listening and clarifying things here and there, it's totally in vain"

"Kid, if someone say bad things to you, don't do the same thing. Because they won't stop"

"Kid, if guys come to you and say they love you,don't be too happy and accept them easily. Take time. Take time as long as you need to convince yourself whether he's the right one. Because a guy who's in love and seems like he wants you very bad,will say enormous sweet things to you. Unfortunately, most of them are just garbage. They just want to get you in their hand first, and they will forget everything they say to you"

"Kid, if you feel like people abandon you, and you feel alone, it's the sign that Allah misses you. He just want to talk to you, so go talk to Him"

"Kid, don't judge people easily based on other's people story. Ask directly to them. Because you might be in their position someday, and it feels HOLY terrible"

End of the lessons.

As Ted said in How I met Your Mother : 

"A word of advice: play along. The more you fight it, the worse it’s gonna get. It’s like when your car slides on ice, you stir into the skid"

"There are a lot of little reasons why the big things in our lives happen"

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A Simple Smile

People always ask me how I could possibly (was) in relationship with someone who are a hundred miles away. How could I possibly miss someone I hardly ever see? How could I say that I love someone whom I met no more than 5 times in 8 months? Riddiculous, huh? Usually I only answers them with a smile. Knowing that even if I told them the reasons, they would never knew ;p

But now, I wanna reveal those answers.

 

Why?

Because I am a happy girl when I am next to him.

Because a minute with him could erase a hundred hours filled with insecurity, worries, and loneliness. 

Because a simple smile of him worth the excruciating pain I had to deal when we're apart.

Now that we're no longer like we used to be, I just want to wish you a happy life ahead. Keep in mind that these short times we had, decisions we both agreely took, may be a good lesson for both of us. No one knows what will happen to me, or you, or us. Just keep moving forward, and hey, I miss you by the way :)

Bye byeeee and see yaaa in another better time, Ivannnn! :D

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Alhamdulillah

Good news coming from this early of May. After going through some tight selection phases, finally they announced the official delegation of HNMUN 2015.

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah.

Allah has been so good to me. Though I aint a good believer.

Anyway, I would also like to say congrats to Ivan who made it through to Mitsubishi Job interview in Singapore. Best of luck for us!

And I hope to you, whoever read this post, can reach your dream one by one someday. Amin. Just keep going. It is true that the moment you want to give up might be just an inch close to your dream. Keep going. Keep going. No matter what.

 "Then which of the favours of your Lord will you deny?" - Surah Ar Rahman

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People Smuggling and Its Social and Humanitarian Implications

Smuggling is a crucial issue in the world, with a large number of countries affected by it. According to the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, the number of convicted smugglers of migrants rose significantly, from 589 in 1995 to 2,457 in 2004 (UNODC, 2011). Meanwhile, about 65,000 illegal migrants landed in Italy, Malta and Spain in 2006 (UNODC, 2009). In Indonesia, people smuggling cases increased 24,78% in 2012 according to Polri. It is truly a serious threat for transnational security and stability since the smugglers constantly violate migration laws, cross border regulations, and visa requirements.

People smuggling has brought many negative impacts, especially to the countries of origin, transit, and destination. Smuggler migrants are not properly identified since they have no legal documents. It would be serious security and criminal concerns as they commit crime in one country and could be remain undetectable. Besides, the smuggler migrants might be carrier for infectious disease or other health risks to the citizen. It is possible because they evade national border control.

The smuggler migrants are also prone to human rights abuses and violation. They are willing to travel through unrecognized routes without any guarantee for their safety. In some cases, smuggling leads to human trafficking and exploitation. It could cost them their lives and totally not worth the money they had paid to the smugglers.

Those implications of people smuggling highlight the importance to fight against it. In order to increase international cooperation, United Nations is the essential component. UN can accelerate the solutions people smuggling, such as encourage cooperation between international law enforcement agencies, enable information sharing between country officials, or conduct joint immigration surveillance.  

Picture source : google.com

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The Eleventh of May

Hello Sunday ! 

Just wanna tell you, I currently love a song from Justin Timberlake - Not a Bad Thing. Justin's voice is just so soothing. The lyric is also majestic! The video clips is also hyper romantic! Awwww... 

So I would present this song and my handcraft below to complete our Eleventh of May :)

Thank you for this three. Sorry for this is the only thing I could do. Hope to see you soon is always be my prayer in the morning while we are busy chasing our dreams. Good luck for us!! :))

" So don't act like it's a bad thing to fall in love with me
Cause you might fuck around and find your dreams come true with me
Spend all your time and your money just to find out that my love was free
So don't act like it's a bad thing to fall in love with me, me
It's not a bad thing to fall in love with me, me

Now how about I be the last voice you hear tonight?
And every other night for the rest of the nights that there are
And every morning I just wanna see you staring back at me
'Cause I know that's a good place to start "

Justin Timberlake - Not A Bad Thing

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My First Stop Motion Video

Berawal dari rasa bosan karena jadwal kuliah yang sering kosong, timbul keinginan saya untuk mencoba melakukan sesuatu yang baru. Dan pilihan saya jatuh pada membuat Stop Motion Video untuk seseorang yang jauh disana hehe. Pernah dengar Stop Motion Video? Itu loh, video yang dibuat dari foto-foto dan diedit sedimikian rupa sehingga terlihat seperti bergerak. Kinda cool.

Cara membuat video yang populer sejak tahun 2000-an ini saya ketahui pertama kali dari teman saya. Ketika itu dia membuat stop motion video untuk seorang teman yang berulang-tahun. Her video was pretty awesome at that time. Penasaran, saya nanya gimana cara buatnya. "Ngga susah kok, cuma foto-foto aja yang banyak trus disatuin deh pake movie maker" katanya waktu itu.  me such

Lalu, pada hari itu saya memikirkan konsep dan segera menyiapkan peralatan yang dibutuhkan. Bisa apa saja sih, tergantung tema dan kreatifitas anda. Anyway, kalau mau tahu tentang berbagai macam contoh dan tema video stop motion, sudah banyak kok di YouTube. Setelah semua siap, mulailah saya jeprat-jepret. At the end of the day, ngga kerasa sudah 300an foto yang saya ambil. It wasn't as easy as it seems. Daaan ternyata proses editingnya lebih melelahkan lagi karena harus setting time per foto.

Finally, setelah semalaman di depan laptop, video stop motion saya yang pertama pun selesai! Yeay! Memang sih masih jauh dari kata 'bagus' but at least it gave me such huge satisfaction. Next time I promise I'll do better. Enjoy my humble video fellas :3

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3 am

Sudah pukul tiga dini hari dan pikiran ini masih sibuk berlari kesana kemari. Tak tahu kemana arah yang pasti namun dia terus mencari. Pelajaran yang didapat hari ini, ikuti hati nurani. Ketika lempengan bumi bergeser bernama gempa dan menimbulkan hentakan misterius di kamar, keluarlah. Bila takut, katakanlah. Diri ini akan bisa melihat siapa yang benar-benar peduli dan siapa yang berpura-pura. Klise. Hey, tapi menyakitkan.

Lima koma empat scala richter yang bisa mendekatkan hati ke Sang Maha Agung. Sadar bahwa manusia sama sekali tak berdaya di depan kehendak Nya. Semoga yang tercinta selalu dalam lindungan Nya.

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