Living abroad as an expatriate has always been my dream, at least since I was still a student. I tried to achieve it multiple times, through different paths. In my 3rd year of my bachelor's degree, I applied for internship positions in Malaysia but didn't get them. I applied for scholarships to England, Japan, and Australia, and even received a Letter of Acceptance from a university but didn't manage to secure the scholarship. I was once offered a job in Singapore but was forced to do it remotely due to work visa constraints (plus the Covid-19 situation).

Those who are close to me know that my main destination was actually Japan. I learned Japanese every day (only through Duolingo though) and actively applied to all English-speaking positions in Japan I could find since around mid-2024 but still no luck. Until one of my coworkers left to move to Estonia. Before she left, I made some small talk and asked her to let me know if she found a suitable position for me there. Months later, she actually shared a job opening, and then, as I teased a bit at the end of my Persib Back2Back note, my journey began. I finally got the long-awaited chance and made the big decision to bring my family to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

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It all began in 2003. My brother was watching Persib get beaten. Can’t even remember which team did it. What I do remember was Bobotoh going off, calling for Marek Śledzianowski to get sacked. That was my first memory of watching Persib on TV. Twenty-two years later, I watched Kevin Mendoza and co lift the BRI Liga 1 trophy with my very own eyes.

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Received The Best Paper Award from ICoICT for the second consecutive times since last year. My papers are:
"Hardening the Virtual Password Authentication Scheme" (ICoICT 2018 - Telkom University, Indonesia)
"Virtual Password Authentication Scheme in Hashed Domain" (ICoICT 2019 - Federal Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

* I didn't notice that I wore the same shirt in both occasions.

Dari kecil, aing udah disuguhin hal-hal absurd tentang Jepang. Benteng Takeshi & Masquerade udah jadi tontonan setiap hari. Semakin kesini, tontonan absurd seputar Jejepangan semakin nambah aja sumbernya apalagi begitu ada Internet. Mulai dari TV Show aneh khas Jepang, iklan produk, inovasi nyeleneh, sampai yang hal-hal di daily life yang pas dijadiin meme. Kata orang-orang sih, mereka kayak gini karena udah dinuklir dua kali hahaha.

Meskipun gitu, aing juga jadi penikmat anime Jepang jaman dulu, jaman-jamannya Doraemon, Shinchan, Nube, dan segenerasinya (generasi di TV Indonesia). Tapi begitu munculnya grup idol terus munculnya wibu (yang artinya sendiri baru aing tau karena baru search : over-fanatik ke hal Jejepangan), aing mulai risih sama...

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