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My Top Books of 2022

January 08, 2023
Throughout my life, there haven’t been many identities I’ve embraced as much as I’ve embraced being a reader. It’s also one of the things which, amidst all the new experiences I went through in 202…
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My Top 5 Books of 2021

January 17, 2022
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always loved reading. One of my fondest memories growing up is the trips my family would take to Gramedia, an Indonesian bookstore chain, on the weekends. When I lived in…
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November Resolutions

November 01, 2017
I’m always looking for ways to constantly challenge myself and keep learning, so I thought I’d set up some goals for the month of November, and hopefully every month onwards. Personally, I’ve found…
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Leaving A Mark

May 07, 2016
I’ve been living the 9 to 5 grind for nine months now. A lot has changed since I entered the workforce, and I’m proud of how I’ve developed: I’m more comfortable picking up challenging work and I feel…
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Living Life to the Fullest

February 18, 2016
Time is a precious resource. It’s one of the only things in life which you can’t gain. In other words, the amount of time you have on earth will always decrease at any point in time. If you want to…
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Adult Life

January 12, 2016
In the past six months, I have: Graduated from Brown University. Moved to Cambridge, MA. Started working as a software engineer at Cimpress. As a kid, I would always look forward to the day where I…
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Home At Last

June 08, 2015
Upon graduating, I decided I would try to spend as much time as possible back home before I start working full-time. Indonesia is practically on the other side of the globe from Boston, and with only…
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Officially a Brown Alum

May 28, 2015
This past Sunday I walked through the Van Wickle gates for the second and possibly last time of my life. The first time I walked through the gates was in September 2013, when I first enrolled at Brown…
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Exploration

December 19, 2014
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. -Mahatma Gandhi First of all, I CAN’T BELIEVE THE SECOND TO LAST SEMESTER OF MY UNDERGRADUATE CAREER HAS ENDED…
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Revelations

October 05, 2014
This week has been so hectic that my Saturday felt like a Sunday. Why? Well, I studied pretty much the whole day, and Saturdays aren’t meant for studying...Sundays are. I got a lot of stuff done…
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A hodgepodge of thoughts

September 25, 2014
I keep telling myself to write more but I never have time, and when I do, I’m so exhausted that all I want to do is sleep. That’s what college does to you, kids. When I was younger, I always wondered…
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Bucket List

August 21, 2014
Because why not, right? I just love to  live life dangerously . Go skydiving. Go bungee jumping. Witness the Northern Lights in all its glory. Learn archery. Learn to play the harmonica. Get a scuba…
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#vistaprinterns

July 12, 2014
The past five weeks have gone by incredibly fast. I. Am. Halfway. Through. My. Internship. Much fast. Very work. Such internship. For the past five weeks, I’ve been interning as a software developer…
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Wrapping Up Spring Semester

May 03, 2014
This is super cliché, but it’s amazing how fast time passes by. I still remember being all excited for this semester, and now, as I write this blogpost, my semester ends in eleven days. I have to say…
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April Mayhem

April 09, 2014
It’s April here at university and you know what that means…. April Mayhem! sing it in Daily Grace’s Sexy Friday tune In a way, I’m really happy that Brown has Spring break , because it allowed for…
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Let the Semester Begin!

February 07, 2014
Dear Reader, I have completed my first assignment for my Software Engineering class and Spring semester is in full swing (incidentally, I used Swing for my assignment!). I am taking a wide variety…
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double confidence = 0.0;

April 02, 2013
Spring break has ended and now it’s time for Spring quarter. Which can only mean one thing: two and a half more months as a Green River student. Truth be told, I wasn’t exactly a happy camper when I…
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cout << "Hello";

February 15, 2013
Long story short, last night I decided to make a new blog so that I could talk about my journey. Maybe, ten years down the road, I can look at my blog's archive and laugh at all the weird stuff I…
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