2007 Flashback
Hi, 2007 will soon be gone! But I think the memories that I made will not.
Well, thanks God who gave me a good year and now let me have a little review about this, two thousand and seven…
- In the early of this year, I had 7 days trip to Bali with my school, it was such a great trip, Bali was so beautiful, and so were my friends (I have posted about it).
- Soon after my trip to Bali, it was getting very busy. Due to my plan to go take NTU and NUS entrance exams, I had to join 3 private courses (Mr.BoenFie’s and Mr.Kheng’s for mathematics and Mr.Yosef’s for english).
- February 10, my school had a Valentine Night Event, but sadly I couldn’t go there because in the same time I was on Canisius College to take NTU entrance exam.
- I think March and April were the two busiest months in my school, yeah, I’m talking about final national exam and its preparations.
- After my last exam, I was directly go to the 2nd National Computer Olympiad Team Training Camp in ITB, there was something sad for me just before the camp and that was my first time blogging. Passed the selection, a week after that camp, I went to 3rd camp. In the middle of the camp I have to went back to Bandung having ITB entrance test (without any preparation, hehe…).
- Juni and July were full with my preparations since I passed the 3rd camp which mean I would go to IOI, yeah, at last!
- Maybe August was the hottest month of this year because I went to IOI 2007 and thanks God I got the bronze! Besides that, it was my first time go to university, thought I won’t graduated from the same university (yes, it’s about ITB).
- After that, I also invited to OSN 2007 as a jury there, an extraordinary experience.
- Surprisingly, soon after my IOI, I got mail which said that it’s possible for me to be NTU’s student of academic year 07/08. I met NTU’s Dean of Admissions in Soekarno-Hatta and had a deal, not only that, I also got the ASEAN scholarships for my study there.
- I passed October and November with my “short” study in pure mathematics faculty in ITB, not bad, I got new friends, new knowledges and get closer with someone (although, problems really did headache and heartache to me).
- Finally, December, I spent my time mostly in the 2nd National Computer Olympiad Team Training Camp as a coordinator of assistants. Without any serious preparation after the camp, I went to Singapore joining ICPC Regional Contest. Not really bad, we got the 9th place.
Several special facts about this year:
- There were 3 international competitions (APIO, IOI and ICPC).
- Though overall I only got 7 achievements (not as 2006 when I got 14 achievements), 2007 still the best so far, coz I got my best medal so far, bronze IOI 2007.
- Thanks God that gave me good health so that I could travel a lot. If I count every single way that moved me from one city to another one (went and back again counts as 2 single way), I did 41 single ways in 2007 (it tooks about 160 hours on the move – about 2% of the whole year): 6 Bandung-Jakarta, 7 Jakarta-Bandung, 1 Bandung-Surabaya, 1 Surabaya-Bandung, 1 Jakarta-Surabaya, 1 Surabaya-Jakarta, 1 Bandung-Bali, 1 Bali-Bandung, 5 Bandung-Depok, 4 Depok-Bandung, 1 Depok-Jakarta, 3 Jakarta-Singapore, 3 Singapore-Jakarta, 1 Singapore-Frankfurt, 1 Frankfurt-Singapore, 1 Frankfurt-Croatia, 1 Croatia-Frankfurt, 1 Bandung-Purwakarta, 1 Purwakarta-Bandung
Well, I think that’s enough “A Brief History of Brian Marshal in 2007″, hehe… Soon I’ll try to write about my resolution in 2008, but first let me thanks for everyone around me, my family, my friends, and you (who read it) for your supports and affections, without all of you the history might be different. Thank you. God bless you all…
December 31, 2007