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Life Update—Kind of
Winter in Huanglong Scenic Area, Sichuan For the umpteenth time, I have to use the phrase of “It’s been a while since the last time I was writing here…” because, again, for the umpteenth time, I’ve been keeping this blog away from a new post since almost a year ago. “Business” has always been the excuse, but this time it was slightly different. Initially, I was planning to make my second post about Vietnam in June 2024 following the first edition, but my life was turning topsy-turvy in the mid of 2024. From being promoted to new a position, stationed for a new project—all while I still have to juggle…
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Ipoh, Again
The first time I went to Ipoh was at the end of October 2021. Since then, I haven’t been there again. At least until October 2023. After almost two years of not coming to the British colonial city, I finally decided to pay it a second visit. Firstly because I needed to finish my annual leave as I still had a lot of them—eight before the year ended; and secondly because in October I was distressed and I think I needed to somehow distract myself from the sadness. Not that I didn’t acknowledge my feelings, no, but I think it is better to just being sad somewhere else far away…
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Fate Took Me to India and to Many More Places
For a lazy person like Ari Cipta Gunawan, little did he know that most of his, if not entire, life would change in the month of June 2017. Because from that moment on, he would be experiencing something that you would call “an adventure”—or so he thinks. It was all started with a thesis defence which ended quite satisfactorily despite being spiced up by some drama, up to the point where he had to choose between stick to this new job he had just acquired or sacrificing that to get something that was still uncertain. He chose the latter and he was, is, not disappointed. In June 2017, right after…
