The world has never been more connected like nowadays, as we might see there are a lot of ways for us to communicate no matter how far we separated. Rapid growth of technology development makes our life easier than before. But in other hand, it’s impossible for us to feed our needs without anyone helps, that’s why we need to build a good rapport with others.

In cross-country relationship, which has their own native languages, to bridge those differences we need international language, which is English. So, because of the importance of English as key factor to build good understanding among nations in the world, mastering English is inevitable.

Firstly, I plan to pursue Master degree overseas in English speaking country. I think it’s not enough for me just holding Bachelor degree to get good job because competition would be very hard and tight, and we need to be specialized in such particular expertise or diverse our skills in others field. Even from now, my lecture notes and text book all written in English, the better I know English the better I understand them. Thus, I believe that mastering English is an important start to succeed in Master degree and seize the bright future.

Secondly, I want to learn about cross-cultural ability in terms of the ability to work effectively and efficiently with people from different countries, cultures and traditions. The world now globalized, somehow shrinking in sense of we’ll have to interact with foreigners more frequent, and consequently to cope that situation we need to understand English well. Apart from that, I genuinely interested in American culture as I used to watch on Hollywood movies. Experiencing eight weeks in United States, will provide me an inside view about American culture and their daily life. In reverse, I can promote Indonesian cultures as well.

Thirdly, I’m very interested in English debate because it will improve my public speaking skill, develop critical thinking, understand such an issues better, and ability to see things from different perspectives. Debate is more than about right or wrong, but it’s about to think logic and sharp. In order to be a good debater, basic requirement is good both oral and written English command. To put it another way, criticism can be brought into classes, so that I can understand course I study far better.

Please allow me to briefly introduce myself. My name is Kharis Fambudi. I am a student of Bandung Institute of Technology and I am currently enrolled in the 5th semester of the Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, majoring in Mechanical Engineering Study Program.

Mechanical Engineering is very enchanting for me, so I decided to take this major two years ago when entering ITB. Since it’s my interest, I’m very passionate about learning this kind of knowledge, and I always thrive as student. I’ve achieved very good academic record since my primary school till college, so I need to strive and maintain my academic performance as good as possible.

In addition to my academic activities, I also give time to my community. I take part in many non-academic activities, which give me the experiences of working together with many people from different background. I’m member of Hubungan Luar KM ITB, DAP ComLabs, SEF ITB, FSL ComLabs, ShARE ITB and Perhimak Bandung. Getting involved on those several of activities gives me ability to see things from multiple perspectives and enriches my skills. Therefore, I can adapt to new situations and make friends easily. I am also comfortable with individual work as well as working together in a group.

I was raised in a family with a strong belief in the importance of education. My parents work as teacher, and they deeply concern with my academic achievements. I have two sisters, and we are all greatly encouraged by means to do our best in school. Apparently we did it, my older sister went to Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), she has already graduated and I’m an Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) student. My little sister is sitting on second grade of Senior High School, and she plan to continue her study to Universitas Indonesia (UI).

It took me twenty years to realize what an extraordinary influence my father has been on my life. He’s the kind of person who’d love to discuss everything with me, share something and give advices what might be the best for my future. Growing up with such a strong role model, I developed many of his enthusiasms. I not only came to love the excitement of learning simply for the sake of knowing something new, but I also came to understand the idea of giving back to the community in exchange for a new sense of life, love, and spirit. He’d love to work for charity for the community. He has strong relationship with the people surrounding and bonded tightly with them.
Everything that my father has ever done has been overshadowed by the thought behind it.  I have learned to truly value them by watching my father. He has enriched my life with his passion for learning, and changed it with his devotion to humanity. In his endless love of everything and everyone he is touched by, I have seen a hope and life that is truly exceptional. It’s been two year, I lived miles away in Bandung for my study. However, my father will always be by my side.
He is my real inspiration, I promise to make his proud and I’ll be better than him…

Here, I tried to capture what’s Obama said, but in some part of his speech I didn’t get his words. I like Obama, in sense of the way he speaks and deliver his speech. He simply good motivator, encourage people and talk straight to the point. So, I’ll share what he said in Wake filed High School-Arlington, VA about three days ago. So much moral of the story we can learn and so inspiring for me. The sentences I bold, are my favorites and good quotation.

When I was raised by single mom who had to work and struggle the time to pay the bill was not able to gives us the things that other kids have. There’s a time when I miss having a father in my life. There’s a time when I was lonely and I felt like I didn’t feed in. So I was no ease as focus as I should been on school. I did something that I’m not proud of, and I got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could’ve easily taken and turned for the worst. But I was lucky, I got a lot of second chances, and I have the opportunity to go to college, in Law School, and follow my dreams. My wife, first lady, Michelle Obama, she has similar story. Neither poor parents had gone to college and they didn’t have a lot of money. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, and so that she could go to the best school in this country.
Some of you might not have those advantages, maybe you don’t have adult in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone on your family has lost their job and there’s not enough money to go around. Maybe you life in neighborhood where you don’t feel safe or have friends who pressure you to do things you know are not right. But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, or you’ve got going on from home, none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or have a bad attitude in school. That’s  no excuse for talking back to your teacher or cutting class or dropping out from school. There’s no excuse for not trying. Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’re landed up. No one written your destiny for you, because here in America you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
That’s what young people like you are doing everyday all across America. Young people like Jasmine Perez from Texas, she hasn’t did speak English when she first start on school neither her parents had gone to college. But she worked hard, earned good grade and got the scholarship to Brown University, as now in Graduates School studying Public Health on her way to becoming doctor. I’m thinking about, Andoni Schultz from Los Althos California who’s fought from brain cancer since he was three. He has endured all treatment and surgeries. One of which affected his memory, so took much longer, hundred of extra hours to do school work. But he never felt behind. He’s headed to college this fall. And then, Chantell Steve from my hometown Chicago, Illinois even when bouncing from faster home to faster home, in the toughest neighborhood in the city. She manages to get a job in local health care center. Start a program to keep young people out of gangs and she’s on track to graduates from high school with honor and go on to college. and Jasmine, Andoni, Chantell aren’t any different than any of you. They face challenges in their life just like you do.
In some cases, they got a lot of worst of than many of you. But they refuse to give up. They choose to take responsibilities for their life for their education and set goals for them self. And I expect to all of you to do the same. That’s why the day I’m calling on each of you to to set your own goals for your education and do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a book. Maybe you’ll decide to get involved in extracurricular activity, or volunteered in your community. Maybe you’ll decide to stand up for kids who’s being teased or bullied , because of who they are or how they look. Because you believe like I do that all young people deserve the safe environmental study and learn. Maybe you’ll decide to take a better care of your self, so you could be more ready to learn.
And along  those line by the way I hope all of you are watching your hands a lot and then you stay home from school when you don’t feel well so we can keep people from getting the flu august fall on winter. But whatever you resolve to do I want you to commit to it, I want you to really work at it and sometimes you get sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work. And you take your success through rapping,or basketball, being a reality TV star, chances are you’re not gonna be any of those thing. The truth is being successful is hard, you won’t love every subject that you study, you won’t click with every teacher that you have, not every homework assignment would seem completely relevant to your life right at this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed in anything the first time you try. That’s okay.
Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who had the most failure. J.K Rowling who wrote Harry Potter. Her first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his High School Basketball team, he lost hundred of games, missed thousands of shoots during his career, but he wants said I have failed over and over over over again in my life and thats why I succeed. These people succeeded because they understood that you can’t let your failure define you, you have to let your failure teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get in the trouble, that doesn’t mean you’re trouble maker, it means you have to try harder to act right. If you had a bad grade its doesn’t mean you stupid and just mean you need to spend more time studying. No ones born being good at all things, you become good at things through hard work. You’re not varsities athlete the first time  you play new sport. You don’t hit every not the first time you sing a song, you’ve got to practice.
The same principal applies to your school work. You might have to do math problem few times before you got it right. You might have to reach something few times before you understand. You definitely have to do a few draft of a paper before its good enough to handed in. Don’t be afraid to ask question, don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that everyday, asking for help isn’t sign of weakness is a sign of strength. Because it shows you the courage you have when you don’t know something. and that allows you to learn something new. So find an adult that you trust. a parent, a grand parent or teacher, a coach or counselor and ask them to help you to stay on track to meet your goal. and even when you’re struggling, or even when you discourage and you feel like other people have given up on you. Don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on your self, you give up on your country.
The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. its about people who keep going. who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything not less than their best. The story of students who sat, when you sit 250 years ago, when the age of revolution and they founded this nation. young people, students who sat when you sit 70 years ago who overcame a depression and one of world war. who fought civil right and put the man on the moon. Students who sat when you sit 20 years ago who found a google and twitter and facebook and change the way we communicate with each other.
So today I wanna ask all of you, what your contribution gonna be, what problem are you gonna solve, what discoveries will you make. what will president who comes from here in twenty, fifty, or hundred years say about what all of you did for this country. Your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working hard to fix up your classroom, get you the books, the equipment and the computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do you’re part too. So I expect all of you to get serious this year, expect you to put your best effort in everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down. don’t let your family down or your country down and most of all don’t let yourself down. Make us all proud. Thank You very much everybody.
God bless you. God bless America. Thank You. Thank You.

I’ve been quite busy these recent days, because there are so many things that I have to do.
I’ll tell you some of them, here we go:
-HNMUN I’m applying for this, I’ve made essay about migrant workers, and present it in front of judicators..I was just sleep two hours or so, on those 2 days weekend saturday and sunday, preparing for the best… now I’m waiting for the results, but I think I’m not doing good, my presentation was awful, I’m not so good in spoken English. I’m a bit nervous and tensed at that time, so not be able to perform as the best I used to. Essay I made lack of analysis and not well constructed in sense of sequence and offered solution.
-AIESEC I’m better in AISEC, after I’ve been through the form selection, I strongly believe I’m gonna make it. Next step I go is FGD stands for focus discussion group , It was held on Unpad Dipati Ukur Campus, I can reach it easily because is step to my campus, but I found difficulties when looking for the room k.41 law faculty. But fortunately I got to it. Overall, FGD was good, such welcoming seminars, there was keynote speech from the board directors AISEC Bandung, I like it. I experienced real discussion then, when some of participant gathered into one group, and we have to solve two cases together, apart from that we also had individual paper test.
-ShARE I make it, now I’m junior member of ShARE ITB. But to be honest, in my mind ShARE was not impress me as it suppose to be. What keeps me interesting is that presentation skill, I really crave for.
- Machining 08, wow if I become committee that would costs be so damn lot of time. I’m just medical staff there, but those activities really intense and exhausting. We had hearing for three hours or more, it doesn’t make sense for me. We strive so damn hard, and devote our concern to the fullest just for such issues, I mean you know for me that would be nice if we talking about our country problems, criticize regulation our representative about to make, encourage us to love our country more and so on…That’s big issues deserves to be taken care of, needs so much energy and thought.
-SEF, I can’t believe that I’ve been through initiation session. I’m not so good at spoken English, I don’t speak much during session and I always come late. Yeah, I’m happy actually, SEF is important, good field teach me about public speaking, analytical thinking, building argument and confident. I undergone interview session as well, so final result whether I go or not, will be texted to me soon.
- Above all, my academic performance was not good, since its my ultimate priority I’ll give my time to the fullest. I bought so many heavy books, spend tons of money.

I guess the title smashed you badly, bizarre phrase maybe…I don’t care…
Since my mother tongue is not English, so you may please be kind and adjust a bit, LOL
I’ve been so busy lately, so much things to do and I don’t have an extra time:
- Lecturer gave me 3 homework’s, I haven’t done any of them. I don’t have idea where to start.
- Essay for HNMUN, saturday is the due date. I need to make a research and rehearse again and again for the final presentation. It will costs me a plenty time since this is my major priority.
- Prepare for AIESEC Focus Discussion Group, Padjajaran University DU Campus, held on Faculty of Law K-41 Room, where the hell is that?Once I came to Grha Sanusi, but I’m not sure finding those room will come easy. I need to go early, avoid getting lost somewhere.
- Taking TOEFL test UPI campus, I haven’t scheduled it yet, but I have to…
- Fasting-Break-Committee MMM at Friday.
- ShARE first meeting as Junior Member, and then GTV training on the same day.
- SEF, I have to attend this one, since it’s the decision making session, which put me on stake whether I’ll pass or just spilled out.
- IIEF for US exchange, MWA, and then much more… as submit scholarship form, FSL, complaint letter to ANNEX, and so on…
- Waiting for my online order, Swiss Army Original Watch, seller said it spend one day for shipping, means my watch will land on Saturday.

I feel blessed, thank God, you’re the One I count on tightly. Thanks God for powering my day….

As you’ve come to expect maybe, I’ll write today’s frightening experience, you know what?
At 02.47 PM today, Bandung and most of part of Java Island were shocked by massive earthquake, epicenter located 142 88.23 miles Southwest Tasikmalaya official said.
May God with us, there was reported no casualty during disaster, and no significant damage at my campus.
I’ve recorded and taped the scene where people panic and try to escape outta building. Yeah, I scoured my journalist sense. LOL
I’ll put it on Youtube soon, and I’ll stick it on my blog so you can see those panic attack.
First you need to do to face it, is respond in kind, and be aware of your surrounding and come to open space ( you’re gonna be safe)
I saw a lot people squeezed those narrow way, to get out as fast as they could before earthquake getting worse.
Once disaster passed by, our routine back to normal except for students whose class canceled due to earthquake.
Hilarious earthquake for some, but I have to confess it’s freaked me out.
What would be on your mind when you see the floor beneath you swaying and shake wildly, then hanging lamps swing around and almost fall onto you?

Shortly after gigantic accident happened:

As you might notice from the picture, most people hold their phone and try to tell others what happened? they give the brief report and share their feelings through twitter, plurk, facebook status, or even maybe just texting to their family.. and then I’m not surprise to see that within minutes hash tag “Earthquake” or “Gempa” rapidly raising on Twitter Trending Topics, yeas buddy the world now listen to us…yeha, it’s pretty obvious that technology simply change the way we behave and socialize.
And now, some moving picture should be able to vent those freaky time…
—>sorry this evernote free version doesn’t support video insertion, and I do need to upgrade to premium one instead.(You know, I never intend to do that)

The crowd growing big and bunch of people stumble on open space anticipating another upcoming earthquake attack.

It always be hard for me as newbie blogger to set the start point in every single post.
Once that passed by, it flows like water.
My concern today is yes one again, I missed class because woke up late.
It was tough. I stand very little chance to change this habit, I somewhat believe.
Got up at 10 a.m is not good idea, I missed two lecture today. Hence I’d prefer stay home, and do tidy up my room.
I bought wall clock and mat, even just two new things costs me badly since I’ve already spend bunch of money yesterday.
So now what’s irritate me?
Here, my junior…I hate him, I think he didn’t have ethics and behavior. He called me plainly, note that I’m older than him, what a jerk!
He showed his contempt, that’s what I saw in my vantage point. I don’t care if he didn’t mean to it, but I do!
Then, how do I treat him now? I stonewall and pass by, make a little contact as soon as possible.
I thought I need to punch right on his nose or whine at him. Maybe for some people it was okay, but for me I perceive he didn’t pay respect to me.
So better for us, always respect our senior by calling him or her properly.