When Silence Is No Longer Golden

So a friend who I knew from my internship in Sydney a couple of years ago came over to Singapore for the whole week last week. She said she did that because the tickets were very expensive if she was to fly back to Sydney right after the long weekend (it was the long weekend Easter holiday, and Sydney had the Friday and Monday off). For some reason, we ended up practically dating for the whole week. So it all started a few weeks leading up to her vacation to these parts. For some reason she messaged me almost every day in the different platforms where we are connected (there were just two basically, but for some reason we jumped back and forth between the two platforms depending on the time of the day). We were initially just talking about work stuff mostly, and some personal, but still work-related stuff like how I kept going back to the office on weekends ( :'( ) and how her rating during the last performance review was below her expectation (it was actually fine... But she...

Hi readers! Did not expect me to write so soon after only 1 month? Actually it felt much longer than 1 month since the last time I wrote. So much has happened in the last 1 month compared to like the whole semester last semester that it felt like I shouldn't have done so much in such a short amount of time. About a week after I wrote the last post, I attended my graduation ceremony, spending time with family in Singapore and stuff. The following week I went back to Indonesia just so that I could celebrate my birthday with my family (after 3 years celebrating it somewhere else). Then I went to Singapore to start working. The first week of work was orientation, meeting a lot of people doing a lot of stuff I don't usually do previously (such as socializing and networking lol) and the following week I flew to the US for my second part of orientation! I was (still am) here for 2 weeks, and because of various reasons, I didn't attend some of the orientation classes and inste...

Hi readers! As you might have read in my previous post , I was offered an internship position in Google Sydney this summer (or winter, down here). And today is my first day at work! I'm sure all of you who read this blog must be waiting for this post! So here it is! Before I start on my story about Google, let me start with my first impressions of Australia and its people. To give you some background, I have never been to a "Western" country my whole life, so it was really quite an experience when I first arrived there. I already had some expectations of how Australians would be (the usual "Western" stereotypes: very cheerful, friendly, talks a lot, etc..). And they really are; I was picked up by the AIESEC people in the Kingsford Smith airport. They were just like those stereotypes I just mentioned lol. Not that it is a bad thing, but I was really tired from the flight, so I was not ready to speak a less-Singlish English and to reciprocate their eagerness to...