Diner dg Kekuarga UGM

We're from across Korea...gathering for a dinner....celebrating our friendship...

....it so happened to be the birthday of our head of department. Met Ultah Pak Tri.

Ms Lee Hyena jg hadir jg.

Alhamdulillah. ...kami bisa berkumpul di Seoul.

...and of course our students, as well.

HUFS Malay-Indonesian Department's 50th Anniversary (part 2)

@Aekyung Hall, Graduate School of International Area Studies where the opening ceremony was held. Along with my colleagues from Gadjah Mada University (UGM) who attended the anniversary. Pak Heru (Vice Dean, School of Humanities), Pak Tri Mastoyo (Head, Korean Department, UGM), ibu Novi Siti Kussuji (Head, cooperation affairs, research center, UGM), and mbak Wira, lecturers of Indonesian Language & Literature Dept., UGM....and the list would go on..had I not stopped... 

and..Min Seonhee popped up. She's an UGM alumni so she determined that she'd surely meet their colleagues from UGM while they're in Korea. And she did.  

The so many jilbabers or women in jilbab that dotted that day's atmosphere really showed the fact that indeed lots of guests from Southeast Asian countries came to the anniversary. These are my colleagues from Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta and from Unsoed, Purwokerto, Central Java. And likewise..the list would go on....

We had a dinner at 금강산 restaurant near HUFS right after the whole-day seminar ended. Prof. Yang was handing out a token of gratitude to our representative, Pak Tri Mastoyo. I should've taken more pictures..but my hands were tight down...not literally, of course.

An after-dinner group picture--looked like we're not ready to take a pose when the camera clicked!!!`

seminar-done. presenting paper-done. dinner-done. and what's next? 

traveling in Korea..to buy some souvenirs..(the following day's agenda)..and I got to be a sudden tour guide....with pleasure*-^^

Back into College Years...

My fellow friends back then in 1992. We were the class of 1992. We are now surely living in our separate and different ways since we graduated years ago. In front of PBB (Pusat Pelatihan Bahasa UGM), right after we had our first class that day. September 1992.  

Look at my left eye. It was swollen with red bruise on it. I just got an accident just two days before I had to be a liaison officer for an international seminar on Batik. The show must go on. Seen from the flower and the round table we were at, yep..it was the farewell dinner of the seminar. 

Another time we had after a small seminar held by our department. My fellow classmates and seniors. Imelda, Meity, Meicky, Dyah, Deddy, me..and...? 

Wait..Meity? Yes, she's my wife now. But, back then..we were just friends. 

Borobudur Temple with our classmate. This was the first field trip we had in 1992. Lukas, Susan, Srikandi, Yeny, Imas, Mahfud, Ita, and others...

The rain did not stop us from enjoying our happy days.  

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Gunaedi, Me, Lukas, Mugi, Nina, Ita, Wiwik, and Yenni...^-^ 

Can't stand my hair....is that really me? How come that I have no hair at all now.^^ (chuckles) 

We went on a picnic with our fellow friends to Dieng and how I love those times we had on our road trip.