Jakarta

From left to right: Moleskine planner, travel documents, black cardigan from Uniqlo, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, Ripcurl pencil case, wallet, free pen from Changi Airport, hairband, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, local sim card from Indonesia, vegetable biscuits, iPod touch

these were the things that i had with me in my kanken bag when i came back from indonesia about two weeks ago. surprisingly jakarta remains the same even when i have not been back for almost 2 years. 

this trip was not exactly a leisure trip. i booked a test date for my toefl test a few weeks back so i could take the test in jakarta. couldn't take the test in singapore since there were sadly no available dates for august and i needed to take toefl to fulfill my application requirements for arizona. 

it was very nerve-wrecking. felt like my heart was about to jump out through my mouth. i didn't do much preparation but i did familiarize myself with the format of the test and how it went about. my parents took this test before so they thought toefl would be a breeze for me - seeing that i am already proficient in english and it's my first language after all. to be honest, i was not all that confident. 

ets emailed me about the release of my results last week. i was surprised at the results of every segment that was featured in the test. well, my results are definitely above average. 

now i'm just looking forward to universities accepting me and whatever that lies ahead of me.