Lucky or Unlucky ?? (Part II)

Continue from the previous part..

As I mentioned before that the third experience was related to eveything happened in Netherlands. Someone has guessed what it was. I think he is definitely right :D
There is a boy and there is a girl. Girls can make boys life more colorful. The first time I left Indonesia, I felt unlucky because I had to leave someone that I really loved so much. I approached her intensively almost 11 months. I felt unlucky cause I couldn't be together with her. I could be at least 5 years the time that I would spend in Netherlands. As predicted most of my friends, our relationship is over. She couldn't make it anymore. She needs someone who can always be close with her. I cannot do it :( Finally, we broke up.. But...

Someone special comes to me. Someone who is really care about me. Someone who really really loves me ( she said so :D ) Eventhough we come from "different world", we will try our best to be together because Love conquers everything ( I hope so :D )..
I am LUCKY, so far :D

Lucky or Unlucky ??

Sometimes you might feel that you were borned as an unlucky person. Is that true or do you believe that ? For me myself, I admit that at some points in my life sometimes that I feel that I am unlucky person. But now, I have realized that everything behind it has another side that brings you to luckiness.

First experience is when I was in senior high school. Before I graduated from senior high school, I had already decided that I wanted to choose IF ITB as the first choice of my higher education. Unluckily, I was rejected for my first choice in UMPTN and I was admitted for the second choice which was mathematics. I remember that the day of the announment I was travelling by bus to Bandung and when I heard this news from my father, I was really disapointed. Eventhough I was admitted by ITB and my family was really happy, but I could not been happy at all. I just kept silent along the journey to Bandung. I was thinking that if I had been admitted for my first choice, I would have been more enthusiastic to study far from home. During the first 2 years in ITB, I was still thinking to change the major to Informatika. I was really suffering to study what was not my first choice. Eventhough my grade in mathematics was not really good, I could still get IPK 3.3 for the first 4 semesters ( because I am good at mathematics :D ). The small hope came up when the curriculum in mathematics was changed. There was a new sub major in Mathematics department called Financial Mathematics. I was really happy since the courses seemed suitable for me. The excitement brought me to achieve better grade and I chose this submajor and eventually I gradutated with IPK 3.57 cumlaude. Not only that, but also 2 months before I gradutated I was already hired by ABN AMRO Asset Management because of my submajor, Financial Mathematics. I feel so lucky since most of students even after their graduation they are difficult to find a job. Am I lucky or unlucky ?

The second experience is the continuation of the first one. Actually before being hired by ABN AMRO, I wanted to continue my study to Singapore, NTU but I decided to keep it. After 2 months working in ABN AMRO, unluckily, something happened !!! I fell sick and it needed around 1 year to be cured 100%. I was really really stress and once again I fell that I was unlucky person. It was the worst period in my life. After being healthy, I decided to continue my study to Singapore. But what happened ? I was rejected by NTU, because I didn't have enough working experience eventhough I graduated cumlaude from ITB. It took almost 1 year for me to apply to universities and scholarships from around the world. I was admitted by UWA, Monash, UNSW (Australia) but I did't get any scholarships. I was also admitted by Zurich university in Switzerland but no scholarship either. At last I applied to Uva, TU Eindhoven ( Netherlands), Ulm and Kaiserslauterns (Germany). I was still unlucky, I only got partial scholarship in UVa, Ulm, Kaiserslautern. The lucky month in my life is July 2007. TU Eindhoven offered me ASML scholarship. This scholarship consists of 2 years study in TU EIndhoven and 3 years working in high tech job in ASML which is one of the big company in the Netherlands. I didn't think twice, I accepted the offer and went to Netherlands. As soon as I arrived in Netherlands, Paris University ,collaborate with Erasmus Mundus, offered me another full scholarship, Erasmus Mundus scholarship fo study 2 years in France, Germany and Italy. And they asked me to come to Paris in 1 week after that offer. Eventhough the last offer seemed more interesteing, but I had already been in Netherlands. Another advantage choosing ASML scholarship is that I don't need to find a job any more after graduation. After thinking for 1 day and I decided not to accept this offer and continued everyhing in Netherlands. Now, I am still studying in Netherlands in second year and I feel so lucky eventhough I had to get through a long suffering 2 years after I graduated from ITB. Am I lucky or unlucky ?

The third experience is still secret and it's related to everything happened in Netherlands :D.
To be continued...