Hectic 2015

Happy New Year, Guys!
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Wow, it's been a LOOOOONG since I wrote in this blog. Hehehe. I totally abandoned this blog for a year, sorry. It's just I have no muse to write anything though actually there's so many things happened in 2015. Okay, first I'd like to wish you all a very prosperous and wonderful year. Second: I'm changing my URL blog into ravenandherrandomstories.blogspot.com :D and then.. I decided to revive this blog again and start writing, mostly in English. Not because I want to show of about my English skill or something, but lately I have been active (again) in a fan-forum worldwide site and I always use English there so.. Yeah, here we are. 

2015 for me? HECTIC! So many wonderful things happened in this year. I have been dying to write about this and since I had some break time (not really, I'm currently taking a break from study while having a cup of tea and Coldplay albums on my playlist) so I decided to make this post. 

So... where should I start this?

1. Bachelor Thesis and Graduation

So in 2014, my main focus is my thesis because I was in my last year of bachelor degree and to graduate, writing a thesis is a mandatory. My thesis story itself is not that easy. I had to change my topic two times, chasing the adviser, and postponed my graduation for a few months. But then, I was relieved that my thesis had been finished by the end of 2014. Earlier 2015, I had the thesis presentation. I was very lucky that the moderator (who was also my main thesis adviser) pushed back my turn into the last one. And when my turn was up, it's already 4.45 PM and all the examiners were already tired so I just needed to present my result :D and fortunately there's no major error in my thesis so I passed with flying colors. 

Done? Not yet. There's still one big exam. The board.. Well, I don't think board examination was a goof translation though but let's just use this word :D So this is an oral exam, one student vs four examiners from every department (Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Biology, and Pharmaceutical Analysis and Medicinal Chemistry. Alhamdulillah, I passed the exam and officially graduated as a Bachelor of Pharmacy on January 20 2015. And my graduation ceremony was held on February 6. 

some of Graduation photos

2. New Chapter of My Education: Professional Degree

In this year too, I continued my study by taking the professional degree for one year. To be a fully registered pharmacist, taking this degree is mandatory. Unlike the bachelor one, I mostly spent my class by theoretical stuffs, presentation, papers and @_______@ For once, I was kinda relieved that no more lab classes and all that jazz, but I was WRONG. I totally missed working on a lab. Glad that it only took one semester for the theoretical class while 

What did I do for the next semester? Internship. We did three internship in a three different places (but I took four, one of them is not a mandatory): Pharmacy, Hospital and Pharmaceutical Industry. There's a little drama on my internship placement. I was placed in a Central Hospital (Rumah Sakit Hasan Sadikin, Bandung) on August. But then there's a sudden notification that this hospital couldn't accept interns on that month because of JCI accreditation stuff. Boo... Then I was placed in a district hospital in Baleendah, a small area in a countryside. But so far, all my internship moment was... not that bad. 

3. My Brother's Wedding!

Earlier in 2015, My brother and his girlfriend finally got engaged. I was very excited with this... They both are just perfect for each other. After the engagement, our family (mine and my future sister in-law's) decided that the wedding would be held on September 27 which was interesting because 1) It's just three days after Eid Adha and 2) Six days after my brother's 25th birthday. And fun fact that both of our families come from Padang, West Sumatra so, no doubt that for their wedding, they used the traditional Minangkabau concept. 

My Brother's Wedding

Hopefully they're gonna have a long happy family life. I'm so proud of you, brother. I hope you can be a good husband for your wife. For Kak Ridha, welcome to the family! I hope you can be a good wife for my brother and hopefully there's gonna be a little bundle of joy coming soon this year ^__^

4. Newest Addition to My Family: A Baby Boy!

Hello there, Baby Rayyan!

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 was glad that finally my sister got pregnant this year. And the baby finally was born on November 17 2015, at 5.30 PM. It's a baby boy! She named her baby Rayyan. And last month I had a chance to visit him. Ugh, he is so cute! Welcome to the family, little Rayyan! I hope you grow up happily and healthy and be a good boy, make your parents proud. And for my sister, I hope you can be a good mama for your little baby. 

Oh yeah, this is my parents' first grandson which means he's also my first nephew. Merlin, I am old an aunt now!

5. My Major Accomplishment: Collecting ALL Harry Potter Books!

my babies! I can't... Even... *sobs*

Yes. I did it. I saw them in a bookstore on an airport a few months ago and the shopkeeper dude said that it's their new edition. I have been dying to own all of them since I got hooked into Harry Potter and its Universe. But apparently they stopped publishing the Indonesian version *sigh* At that time, I said to myself that I'm gonna collect all of them this year, starting by getting Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. But then, they're not physically available on the bookstore so I have to ordered it online. For the last three books, the bookstore had to ordered them from Bloomsbury, the main publisher O_________o and in the end, I got all of them. All the seven books, after taking some money from my monthly pocket money :D

In conclusion, 2015 has been such a great year for me. I'm looking forward to face this 2016 and I am 200% sure that it would be greater than the previous years.