May 22nd, 2008 dinautami
Hotel Borobudur, May, 14-17 2008
me-zahra-cynthia-asri from Fulbright M.A program and two American grantees
The Fulbright Program is designed to increase mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and the people other countries. So they send us to America and send American to Indonesia.
The M.A Candidate
The Pre-Departure Orientation was great.
The hotel was great, the food was great, the candidates was great. I love the speech that is very casual and never last more than 5-10 minutes-so America. Most of the session was used to mingle and share. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 8th, 2008 dinautami
I had just signed the “Fulbright Program Term and Conditions of Grant” and “Fulbright Foreign Student Program-Terms of Appointment and Special Instructions” and sent it to AMINEF. It basically contains information about financial and benefit terms, duration of stay, revision of term, renewal, revocation, suspension and termination of the award, visa, contact information, role of IIE, report and arrangements I should make, and my rights and responsibilities.
I will receive monthly stipend and fund to purchase books and computer. My tuition’s free, provided by Northeastern University. Fulbright will cover all fees, my health insurance, international travel. My grant duration is one academic year and it’s renewable only if I show satisfactory academic performance.
So, I’m short of like Fulbright’s employee whose job’s to study 
By the way, I find this-Rights and Responsibilities cool:
“Grantees are private citizens retaining their rights of personal, intellectual and artistic freedom as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. All recipients of Fulbright academic exchange awards shall have full academic and artistic freedom, including freedom to write, publish and create. Pursuant to the Act, as amended, no award granted by the FSB may be revoked or diminished on account of the political views expressed by the recipient or on account of any scholarly or artistic activity that would be subject to protection of academic and artistic freedom normally observed at universities in the U.S. The FSB shall ensure that the academic and artistic freedoms of all persons receiving grants are protected.”
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May 6th, 2008 dinautami
Getting scholarship gave me lots of excuse for shopping Don’t worry, most of them I really needed. I think
So here’s my shopping..uhm, no, my preparation..no, shopping well, preparation list so far:
A very huge(29) traveler bag I can also use it as a cabinet when necessary. It’s so big that I’m too shy to carry it from the department store to parking area so my dad did it for me while I did more shopping with my mom
*love you dady..love you..love you..
Many many many clothes I think I need to buy lots of clothes because It’ll be hard for me to find long sleeves clothing, besides clothes are more expensive there(isn’t it?). If I bought them here I wont have to shop for any more clothes there” *honestly, I dont think I’ll be able resist buying any more clothes there
Digital Camera Off course. I want to document everything besides, I want my mom & dad & friends know that I’m fine there. They’ll miss me
Glasses, just in case I need one.
Winter suit. it’s hard to find it in Jogja. I intend to buy a mountain jacket, which is also designed for extreme weather, for a change but detty said it’s not fashionable. It’s true actually, I don’t wanna walk around downtown looking like someone who’s about to climb a mountain. So, she’s in charge to find me one
btw, detty’s so excited. She’s even more excited than I am. Asking me a lot of questions. Busy reminding me to bring this and that. hi..hi..I felt like I have a wife.
*I miss her already.
(to be continued..)
:: How many are on this posting? 10. Meaning: I’m very very happy when I wrote this *make it twelve
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May 5th, 2008 dinautami
I watched midnite show at 21 last saturday- Ironman. When it comes to US military technology…dilemma oh dilemma. On one hand, I so against any kind of war and those military technology makes war even more advance, but on the other hand, isn’t internet was originally developed for military purpose? Yet, it give us so many advantages (and disadvantages) today.
But when it comes to Sci-Fi movies????? I’m so NOT against that
The cycle they created is great. To make a Sci-Fi movie ones must have advance imagination and also knowledge about recent available technology but once the movie’s on screen they inspired people to dream and think about how to actually build such technology.
I saw very interesting user interface that Tony Stark used to create his ‘costume’. You’ll see it too in Minority Report. Btw, that guy is so genius- oh!, and he went to MIT(dear God, let me be one of its PhD candidate :D) -oh! . Perhaps, they were inspired by the tangible user interface that Prof. Hiroshi Ishii developed at MIT Media Lab.
I watch a documentary show about The Terminator on Metro TV on Sunday afternoon. Developing the movie takes a lot of knowledge in robotics technology and also military vehicle that they had to visit places in which most advance technology were developed- you know, like NASA or Pentagon. Off course, In the movie, the technology is way more advance because they’re predicting technology of the future.
When terminator was on screen they soon become a box office. It made the lead actor very famous- a governor now. Many people was inspired by terminator. Among them was a men who now owned a company which built the best robot that can grip.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” -Albert Einsten
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