Building Civilizations on Primitive Planets
2. I'm Udin Petot, Udin the Doctor

I know Zahiruddin Muhammad, as Zayn explained I was an orphan. Tau lo, my name after I became internet literate was the name of the first Mughal Sultan in India. I don't know what my background is. All I know from the Orphanage that raised me in Subang, they got me when I was a two-month-old baby from both parents who died in an accident in the Demon Village.

There is no identity on the body of the couple that my parents strongly suspected. Yet people thought they were both Arabs by appearance. The name Zahiruddin Muhammad himself was obtained from a blanket that wrapped me which people said at that time did not stop crying. Going forward after a little I read on the internet my name makes me think I am not of the Arab race but of India.

My condition a little bit makes me less. I was bullied a lot at school because of my thin body, my friends called me Udin Petot from Elementary to High School. I easily memorize everything I hear and I read, even so I only focus on the subjects I like most Chemistry, others bodo very, very, my other grades are not bad though also arguably mediocre even though I never recorded and in a state never able to buy a book. Just for Chemistry, always a perfect value dong.

One of ustadz realized my ability to memorize so that it gave me motivation to memorize the Quran since 2nd grade Junior High School which I managed to memorize all along with the meaning in Indonesian and English in 3rd grade High School.

My motivation is only one, I don't know both parents since the baby, but the little devotion that I want to offer them is a request for forgiveness to them in order to inhabit His heaven and I want to pair a pair of crowns for them both later in heaven.

Udin Petot's call ended when I went to college in Surabaya. Actually, college in Surabaya is not my ideals that do not have aspirations. The story at that time began to bloom opened hafidz scholarships for various campuses and I of course targeted the Faculty of Medicine either way on which campus. But without realizing my focus on Chemistry makes the value of my other report cards ordinary even though it can not be said to be ugly. As a result I lost to compete with other hafidz whose average value is better in winning the start of becoming a doctor.

In the newly completed boarding houses owned by the benefactor's sister I was in charge of raking up the children to pay the cost, keep clean and at the request of the owner to always advise the boarding children to worship. At the boarding house I met a Syrian student named Zayn. He is my true friend for the rest of my life, all horizons of thinking, ideals, vision of life and the nickname “the Doctor” I get from him.

Since then the acquaintance of students, even lecturers and lecturers from the University called me Doctor Udin. Of course because I was considered a genius with a visionary mindset. I must admit that I got all of it thanks to Zayn's inspiration, which I now have with him become a genius of Physics and Chemistry at Princeton. But unfortunately finally bad luck befell him and now he's just as good as me.

I and Zayn graduated S1 in Surabaya in 2017 and immediately flew to America to achieve the Master we got in 2019. Soon I really settled on the nickname the Doctor by grabbing it with Zayn in the same year 2022. The struggle for my PhD is good even though Zayn is very heavy. We have to fight with pandemics. But effort does not betray results. Shortly after graduating S3 we were immediately accepted to work at Princeton as academics.

Unconsciously the madness with Physics and Chemistry made us both like a nerd if observed. Even at the age of Zayn who was 28 years and I was 27 years old, we were both single and trembling if we had to talk to women.