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Hey-ho, finally going to write about this much loved and enjoyed event of the year 2012 (besides IAAS World Congress). Read on!

2012 IPB Delegates, one of my favorite pictures!

I enjoyed the event so much because we had a solid delegates team and it was so much fun preparing for the event! We practices dances, I was supposed to dance the Peacock Dance, there is a Balineese Dance, Warog Dance and le spectacular Saman Dance! Not forgetting the preparation, we have private presentation preparation with the other delegates outside of the three presentations in front of Ibu Endah. We bonded over the process and now I actually miss spending time with them. :)) Oiya, and if you are accepted as a delegates, then you are going to be one of many incredibles Tri-U alumni. :D

The Tri-U Delegates and supporting lecturers

Last year, the Tri-U started with a cocktail party the night before, where we each get to know each other. I sit with the Japaneese from Mie & Ibaraki university. A very fun bunch of people. I don’t know why but Japaneese and Indonesian seem to mix well with each other :3. The next day was the first official day and there were a opening ceremony and general lectures by the lecturer and professor from Indonesia and the other host countries. Then it was the start of the first round of presentations. My presentations was in the last day, so I had more time to prepare. :) After that we were put into groups and we are told to do a workshop challenge. We had to make something out of scraps or trash and present it in the last day. At night, we have the welcome party! The Indonesian delegates danced Sajojo, since we were the host, we need to get the party started people! Hahahaha, and then we went dangdutan and teach them a few dangdut moves with their thumbs up.

My workshop group!

The next few days were all about presentations, working on the group workshop project and just having fun over dinner. We also had a fieldtrip to Mekarsari where we bathe the buffalo, plant rice, dance and painted caping. We also head over to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah and took pictures in the traditional houses! Social dinner at Botani Square was done afterwards.

Planting rice at Mekarsari

Taman Mini Indonesia Indah with Mie Univ. Delegates and proferssors! :D

On the last day, I had my presentation, the group presentation, the announcement of the winner, closing ceremony and the epic farewell party where we finally danced the dance we had been preparing for the last 3 months! Alhamdulillah I got picked as the Best Presenter in Food Category :’) although my workshop group didn’t win any awards because {)*@YP#&YR*O&HFP*Y!! *censored* We partied until late night and had a late-night swimming pool party! And you know what? The next day was Idul Adha so I have to wake up super early and pray with Syahrini at Kebun Raya (for real). But hey, we work hard, play hard and pray hard for best results right? ;)

Best presenter for Food topic! Horay! :D

Picture with costumes

What I got from the events are best friends, good friends oversea, an award for Best Presenter, dancing skills and great memories! :D It was an awesome experience and I hope you will get a chance to experience it too. This year I’m afraid I won’t be joining the team to go to Japan. Need to work on my thesis research. Hopefully the year after that I’ll get the chance again! :D Cheers guys!

Love love love you guys so so so much! 2012 Tri-delegates + Ibu Endah during dancing training session in Fateta Corridor :)

All of the Tri-U student participants! Imagine how much fun we had!

Hai guys, trying to consistenly write something in this blog than just posting pictures of my obsession ahahaha. So now, I’m going to explain more about Tri-University Student Seminar & Symposium (Tri-U) event. According to me, this is one of the most prestigious event that any IPB student can apply for.

Why? Because it is not one of those conference that you just sent an abstract and get picked and get sponsors and go. This event is fully supported by IPB from the moment you enter selection up until the day the event is finished. How you might ask? There is a tight selection by the IPB lecturers, very strict preparation from the lecturers also and partial financial support by IPB. :) So let me write down the way to become delegates

For starters, IPB had participated Tri-U many times, that IPB has become the 4th founder after the 3 original founder (Chiangmai-Thailand, Mie-Japan and Jiangsu-China). So the main theme of Tri-U is “The Role of Asia in the World” with five topics each year, four consist of fixed topic (food, energy, environment and population), while one topic is up to the host university. Last year, ecology topic is added since it was held in IPB. While this year, education topic is chosen since it is going to be held in Mie Univ. which is popular for its education program studies.

For the delegates of IPB, you need to prepare an abstract in english as the first selection process. Most importantly, the paper sould be about the research you are doing or something that you had done. I submitted a literature review in 2011 and didn’t make it. However, I submitted my undergrad thesis for last year and I got to be one of the delegates! Oiya, you need to be in the 3rd and 4th year to apply (preferably) or graduate school students. Why? Because your knowledge should be broader about the paper that you are going to present. It’s important since there will be questions coming from other students and professors from the other university.

After you submitted your abstract you will get a call-back if your abstract passed the first selection. Then you have to present your abstract in a short presentation in front of Ibu Endah & Ibu Alfa, the coordinators for the program & IPB delegates. If you passed, then you are a candidate delegate! :D congrats! After you become delegates, you then will need to sign a form that states that you will not graduate or have a permanent job prior to the event.

Why do you need to be delegates? Why can’t I just submit the paper myself? No can’t do since the committee only accept submission from university, not from us personally.

What do you do after that?
Then you need to make your paper, consult to your research advisor, practice dancing (yes! you need that since each country will have a performance!), practice minimal 3 times in front of Ibu Endah and do all the other stuff that is needed for the event. I joined while the event is in Indonesia (IPB) so it was super fun and it was all for free! :D But if the event is abroad, then you need to prepare visa, passport, and sponsorship for money.

This year, you have the opportunity to go to Mie University, Japan and present your paper there! The catch? You have to submit you abstract max on 30 April 2013 to Ditmawa. Don’t forget to put your name, phone number and email so Ditmawa can contact you back if you passed the first selection. Don’t miss out on this opportunity guys!

It’ll be easy since I’m not applying (hahaha, kidding) but I heard there is a lot of people who wants to apply this year. So I wish you all the best of luck and may the odd forever be in your favor! :3

If you have any question, don’t hesitate to contact me. :) I’ll be posting my experience as a delegate later tonight.

Hell-o guys!

It’s been a couple of weeks (I think) since I wrote down on my blog. Why? I can’t seem to find the time to do that during my first master’s exam time and all the stuff that had been going on. :( I know it’s not a good excuse, but I think I need to manage my time more perfectly from now on.

Some stuff happened while I was out.
Now, I’m the Social Media Coordinator in YLI AC.
I’m also one of the member in the Partnership & Community Development in the AGH Graduate Student Forum.
Writting reports.
Discussing about thesis research (which made me so depressed).
Opening up an online shop, Danessa Project.
Addicted to Polyvore -sorry for the cool spam post on outfits in my tumblr recently, haha-
Promoting Tri-University.
MC-ing.
Being a field person, observing plants and all. I think it’s fun though. Well, it’s my job anyway. -_-
Sleeping, hahaha. I’ve been sick for the pas couple of days so I think it is acceptable.

I have so much stuff that needs to be written here in the future. Just hope it’s going to finally be in this blog for you all to read. What is it? Well, you just have to find out. ;) See ya!