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Diary of a Thesis - Day 270

After several days of procrastinating, frustrating, thinking, writing, boring, yet exciting, my author was finally got on track! She finalized my method section and got a green light from our lovely supervisor to continue to focus on other sections. My results section is starting to show it's shape and is awaiting for next week feedback. This week's plan is to write discussion as much as she can. I hope I could help, but I can only remind her of how she wrote the results, and try to analyse it from a further view to see the broader yet deeper thoughts about it. Another thing that I encourage her to do is to read more articles to obtain richer empiric supports. Meanwhile, her Australia visa for World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies 2016 has been granted. So this week she was also busy to arrange the preparation. Tickets and hotel had been booked, she just need to do three more things: prepare the presentation, present the paper, and submit for seminar fund reim

Antara Organisasi dan Pertemanan (Kenapa Saya Unfollow Pak RK)

Minggu kemarin New Zealand kedatangan salah seorang tokoh keren dari Bandung, sebut saja RK. Melihat kontribusinya yang bejibun dan mengenang pertemuan saya dengan beliau jauh sebelum beliau menjabat, sudah bisa ditebak dong sebesar apa keinginan saya untuk ketemu lagi dengan beliau. Pada mulanya saya dengar dari salah satu teman bahwa beliau akan menghadiri dialog bersama mahasiswa Indonesia di Auckland, yang kemudian dibatalkan. Ini kayak sudah berharap sampai ke awan terus dibanting jatuh. Dan tiba-tiba di malam terakhir beliau di Auckland, saya mendengar kabar kalau ternyata pengurus organisasi sudah bertemu dengan beliau saat makan malam. Dan rasanya kayak dipukul pake pukulan dewa-nya Stephen Chow di Kung Fu Hustle. Yang saya kecewakan dan/atau sayangkan bukan cuma karena saya nggak jadi ketemu lagi dengan beliau, tapi juga: 1. Teman yang saya kira sudah sangat dekat dengan saya, yang kebetulan pengurus juga, malah nggak ngasih info sama sekali tentang pertemuan itu. Padahal ka