A piece of heart, sprinkles of mind

I think I'm going to break my own promise, because I can't find the motivation to write about the rest of my experiences during ASEP 2017. It's certainly not because those memories are no longer precious, heck I wouldn't trade any of it for something else. It's a little bit complicated actually. You see, it's been almost a week since the program ended, and I was forced to separate from my beloved group members. Now I should be in the phase where I have put those wonderful memories neatly in my heart, and continue living my life (with all its duties and responsibilities ). Yet here I am, still reminiscing about all the times I've spent together with my new friends in Japan. Even my own group members seemed done with all these ASEP experiences. I don't know which is worse, me being overly sad and sullen all by myself, or the fact that I choose to be like that. It's like I don't want a future without them being a part of it, whereas that is ...

How do you keep memories from slipping away, when you barely remember the things that made you laughed as if the world was never a cruel place How do you hold on to something without overdoing it, when time insists on going just when you wanted it to freeze. How do you cherish things from the past, when the photographs started to look dull, and the emotions were no longer there. How do you miss someone without aching, when you know the feeling was always yours and never theirs. How do you flee in rhyme with the ever-changing life, when you find yourself inevitably rooted to ephemeral moments and when you did decide to leave everything behind, it makes you forgot the things you almost called home.

It's been a long time since I wrote on this blog, huh? To top it off, my posts were all very gloomy! Haha well, that's because I use this blog to write the things I can't tell my friends (which is mostly about my sadness) But you know what? I'm going to tell you something different now. Something that gave me so much happiness during my stay for the first time in Japan. To start with, I was lucky enough to be selected as one of Universitas Indonesia's delegates in Asian Students Environment Platform (ASEP) 2017 in Japan. It was an annual event held by AEON Environmental Foundation, and all of the accommodations are fully covered! (otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford it LOL). There are a total of 8 Asian countries who participated in this year's program, and they are Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam, with Waseda as the host university. Thus, each participant is grouped with 7 other participants from diff...