What i wanted to be and what i will be

First of all, happy graduation to all recently graduated Swinburne friends!!This week was a very quick reunion of buddies and well hey, it will take a long time until all of us meet again.

At first, i thought it would be so emotional when we all meet...HAHA...but when we met, just like usual, we kept throwing pranks and playing around with each others, especially to Avery...we celebrated his belated birthday...errmmm....it wasn't really for him anyway..who cares about his birthday??XD...what we wanted was just to spray whipped cream and smack his face with icing...kinda revenge of his trespasses against us...

We had this dinner in Howdy Grill House tuesday nite...the pork ribs there are damned good!!For friends in Kuching who are interested to try, go to Brighton Square area and if u know the Kuching City Snooker or McGregor, the restaurant can be seen at the left hand side of their front door...so we smacked Avery with all the icing and cream...we sprayed to his ears man!!!LOL...dats to make him smelled like butter in his graduation day...hahah...then we chilled out for a while somewhere nearby...Tony and Rachel came to join us rite after they arrived in Kuching....after chilling out, he was like "Eh...anybody needs a ride??Really, need or not?" then we all was like...err..."It's ok, we've got our transports"...and who knows this Shell Metering Engineer got his new car Nissan Teana...bugger!!we should've made his car dirty!!LOL...

Then it was the graduation day...i arrived at BCCK around 7.30 despite being so sleepy and slightly dizzy...(see how early bird i was??)...i got the queue card for gowning around 10 mins after...i din wanna go in the gowning hall first since i wanted to get some pics with my long-prepared attire...so i waited for our gang ppl to arrive and they arrived at almost 9...haha...we were the last to actually got our regalia on...when it was about my turn...the gowning comitee ran out of stock for the hood!!GOSH!!!!!but luckily they brought in the new ones (were still wrapped in the packaging)...

then it was time to go in to the hall...geez...during the ceremony we were popping our scrolls...LOL...then after the ceremony we ran here and there for pictures...took dunno how many pics with how many different people...haha...just check our facebooks!!ah...it was very nice of mel and arvin to visit us and brought us chocolates!!thank u!!

then me,jason,avery,mel and arvin went for lunch at causeway bay..winnie and her gand were there too...haha...then we rushed back to uni to take pics in our beloved campus...jason suggested me to go to library and said "hey guys, still studying?"...but since i was so humble i din do it...HAHHA!!!after that we returned our regalia and collected our testamurs and result scripts...

so we were planning to go back home from uni...and...AND....ANDD!!!!!!!we met claire and she told us they forgot to put the Honours title in the testamurs!!!;(

wat to do???we nid to go back to uni the next day...actually we were happy becoz it meant avery nid to cancel his flight dat day...HAHAH...at nite tony and his family invited us for a dinner...yeah we talked crap again and tony's mom's fren made tony a graduation cake, it looked gud and was delicious!!

we went to have a breakfast early the next day in Tawankung noodle shop..just like old times....went there with the Shell boy's Teana....we then went to uni and settle our testamur stuffs and went to our used-to-be-second-home pneumatic lab to take some pics...prof.nazim went in there and chit chatted wif us as well...LOL...

and...dats it...we all graduated...yeah...wat a feeling...long-waited but passed just like dat...happy of course...miss the undergrad time so much...where there were sincere ppl around u and u cud be whoever u r...well everybody has his/her own path...and for me i chose to further my studies...

well funny how thing goes...i kept changing my mind of what i wanted to be since kid...

when i was in early primary school, i wanted to be a bank director coz i tot i wud be rich...
few years later, i wanted to be a mathematician and comic artist...
when i was in junior high school, i wanted to be a rockstar!!a graphic designer as well!!
when i was in senior high school, i wanted to be a physicist/mathematician/scientist...LOL!!!!!how crazy i was...well, of course i am not a very capable person, but anyways...i enjoy doing different stuffs...

then it came to my foundation (A-level) time, i was in Foundation of Engineering...despite i actually "dreamed" to take Applied Maths...cool isnt it?taking the same course as Charles Eppes??;)...at first i was confused of which course i wanted to take...from mechanical,civil,multimedia,software (i love programming since high school)...

well when i joined robocon in my second sem of foundation, my interests in robotics grew up...and well...my long-time hatred with electronics softened and yeah...i like it as i advanced thru my undergrad!!

i took robotics and mechatronics bcoz...well, a partial influence from my bro and becoz it seemed like it was the course that cud answer my interests in different areas...still..in year 1 and 2 i still dreamed to be a mathematician...but reaching year 3 til i graduated, i was involved in many many robotics and mechatronics related projects and i love it...

i realize that the best thing is always trying to enjoy what we are doing and try the best out of the things/areas that one really really has the passion in...at first i tot i wud be doing robotics stuffs after i finished my undergrad studies...but who knows...my sincere love in maths led me to further my works in it...not much robotics...but my coming works will be mostly mathematical...yeah i am so grateful about that....

to love and to be expert in one area are totally different things...i love a lot of stuffs...i love doing different stuffs...and i am never an expert in any of these...but yeah...there are always things to learn...the point is to keep on believing, get a thing that i reli love to do and pursue it...haha...just now...just now...when i finished typing the previous sentence...i finally understood what Steve Jobs tried to tell us...one's heart somehow knows what one wants to be (or something like that)...yeah...enjoying itself does not mean it is without stress and without worry and without failures...i wudnt know will my life be a success or not...but anyways...hopefully i can always keep myself appreciating my life and others', then i wud consider it a life worth living...

i promise myself this wud be my last post of my undergrads stories!!hehe...sorry to show off but i am Riady Siswoyo Jo, B.Eng (Hons) now!!^^