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The exam or what I called evaluation of my research student period will be held TOMORROW !!!

And I just received email from my sponsor that gave me support and spirit for tomorrow exam. 感動しました。。。 Well, that made me feel so grateful and thankful (especially to Allah) for being awarded as PS scholar… Well, I guess other students who received scholarship from other (monbusho or whatever lah) wouldn’t receive this kind of attention like this which support you to do your best… They treat their scholar as their children (I think…) just like what they said to my professor on area meeting… so sweet…

Here’s the email I received today.

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The day after tomorrow will be the big day of my life… It will be the examination. Overall, I see it as the evaluation for what I have learnt during my research student period, instead of entrance examination. Well, that’s just my opinion… My “ndoro besar” will assess me whether I’m qualified enough to do further research in his lab or not… That’s because in the first place I met him on April this year, he said that he had a great plan for me until I finish PhD degree. The same thing he also mentioned when my sponsor visited me and him last October. He will make sure to help me to find the scholarship for PhD study after the period of my scholarship end, as long as I pass the evaluation.

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もうすぐ12月6日ですね。。。試験日。。。どうかな。。。

It’s almost the exam day. Only 4 days left and I don’t think my preparation goes well. A week ago, I already memorized about 発汗 (sweating) and 汗腺 (sweat gland). But now when I tried to recall that memory, where the hell they leaved my head? Great… and I have to memorize every single kanji character about sweating and sweat gland again… Good for me I have memorized about cooling disorders, sick building syndrome, comfort-discomfort theory, and ANS (well even though I’m not so sure I could memorized it better, but surely, at least I know the main differences between 交感神経系 (sympathetic neural system) and 副交感神経系 (parasympathetic neural system), and also the main point in evaluating the 自律神経系活動 (ANS activities) even though finally I decided only memorizing 心電図 and 血圧.Yeah… it’s okay lah. There are two other things I need to memorize:　適応 or adaptation and basic thermal parameter (4 enviromental parameters: air temperature, humidity, air velocity, and thermal radiation; 2 human parameters: clothing and activities). It’s easy actually, the problem is how to explain the human parameters, what clo is, what met is. Ah… don’t know lah. Tomorrow I plan to memorize those.

That’s the preparation for the writting exam. Just now, about ten minutes ago, “ndoro besar” came to my cubicle and as usual, he inspected what I was doing, other works, etc. Fortunately, I was studying, yeah studying with some books were opened (just opened), and I was working with my ex-word (electronic dictionary), and my fujitsu screen showed some news article in Bahasa Indonesia which he didn’t really understand about :) Bad news if it showed internet page such as Facebook (haha…), yeah… Several months ago, he caught me facebooking, and one of my photogenic picture was appeared. Then he made comment on my picture…

He then reminded me about my research plan… He asked me to remember every single word I wrote in the research plan I submitted, because that paper would be handed to all professors during the interview session. And guess, how many professor will be… 15 to 17 professors… hahaha… hahaha… I just smiled… bitter smile…

I have to understand the content of my research plan, including any related researches that I used as references, and I must give brief explanation about my research plan, and it must be in Japanese !!! Absolutely in Japanese… Hmmm… I must re-arange my schedule, today I must finish the sweating and any related things I should memorize, tomorrow will be for adaptation and 6 basic thermal parameters, the day after tomorrow will be the review for all the materials, and also the research plan… and on Friday… don’t have any idea yet…

よし。。。頑張ろう！！！

Fukuoka, 1:26 a.m

Di tengah-tengah aku sedang berusaha menghafalkan materi tentang Autonomic Neural System (ANS) atau dalam bahasa Jepangnya 自律神経系, entah mengapa tiba-tiba kangen ngeblog lagi. Bukannya tidak tahan godaan, haha, tapi ada yang bilang, “if you have something to say, just speak out. Don’t keep it inside your heart”. Begitu kata teman dari Austria. “That’s why man couldn’t live longer than woman.”

Yup… sampai H-5 ini, alhamdulillah sudah ada beberapa hal yang udah terekam di memoriku yang hanya … 512 MB kali yah? Hehe at least otak-ku bukan pentium 3 apalagi pentium 2 atau pentium 1, yah meskipun belum core to duo apalagi core to quad… setidaknya setara lah dengan athlon XP haha… ndak nyambung. Ada beberapa point yang alhamdulillah sudah aku ingat dengan jelas (meskipun kadang masih agak lupa juga sih penulisan beberapa kanji tentang itu).

Tentang teori 快・不快　atau comfort dan discomfort. Agak memusingkan juga menghafalkan (dan juga memahami) apa yang dimaksudkan comfort dan discomfort secara fisiologis itu bagaimana. Terutama pada bagian mana dari otak yang terlibat… (ah kadang-kadang sampai berfikir apakah aku salah milih kampus ya?).

Paling susah memang tentang 自律神経系, bagian-bagian mana yang termasuk ANS, mana yang CNS. Ah entahlah… Sepertinya aku ga bakalan ambil mata kuliah kansei science deh, secara isinya adalah berkaitan dengan otak, syaraf, hwaaa… that makes me cry all night long… Bersyukur lah dulu ga jadi ambil Kansei Engineering di Waseda, otherwise… bakal belajar bagaimana proses kerja otak, sensibility, kemudian menerjemahkannya dalam bentuk bahasa-bahasa program dalam soft computing. Haha… can’t imagine what will happen to Dharma who will take Kansei di kampus yang sama denganku tahun depan. Haha…

Tinggal 5 hari menjelang ujian. Masih ada beberapa point penting yang harus dipelajari: teori tentang keringat dan kelenjarnya (entah mengapa aku lupa lagi dengan teori ini dalam bahasa Jepang, meskipun boleh dibilang alhamdulillah aku sudah menguasainya dalam bahasa Inggris), kemudian teori tentang adaptasi (lagi-lagi aku mengerti dalam bahasa Inggris, tapi tidak begitu jelas dalam bahasa Jepang), belum tentang lighting… Semoga dalam 4 hari ke depan udah bisa memahami… benar-benar another mission impossible lagi nih…

aah… Ya Allah… Hanya padamu aku mohon pertolongan… mudahkanlah …

後11日間ぐらいなあ。。。
It’s only 11 days left.
もうすぐ12月だ。。。
It’s December soon…
入試のために毎日勉強しなきゃいけない、朝から昼まで、また夜から朝まで、勉強ばかり。。。つまらないな。。。
For the entrance exam, I must study everyday, from morning until noon, then from night until morning, only studying… It’s bored right?
勉強ばかり？いや、それはうそだ。
only studying? Nope, that’s lie!!!

へえ？勉強してないの？昨日言ってた：さよなら。。。

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Waduh… Time flies so fast.

Gak kerasa 12 hari lagi hari penentuan apakah aku akan melanjutkan langkahku di Kyudai geikou atau aku mesti pergi ke Hokkudai… I can’t imagine what I would be if I have to move from this warm place to the extremely cold place in Japan: Hokkaido. Great…

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