The Master's Lecture Note
Chapter 16 The Nong Ju Scandal

Today I came alone to payaban neng/Gedung one FON PSU on the shuttle bus, the fate of the final student of the lecture is not much activity just preparation of the defense proposal plus taking care of Funding Thesis which amounted to 25 thousand baht, itself bringing the completed form in the Advisor sign, Advisor, Mas Saiful I asked as usual he turned back to the dorm and put the form to me, upon arrival at building one I had prepared the form ready to be given to Nong Ju, upon arrival in the glass room of the international staff I saw the clean Nong Ju table was not used, there were no more piles of paper I had seen before.

“Hello, can I help you?” Seeing me bengong Phi Thong who was next to Nong Ju's table greeted me.

Then I asked Phi Thong where Nong Ju was, Phi Thong answered briefly he was no longer working, then I asked why, Phi Thong simply shook his head and said that Nong Ju's affairs were now taken over by him.

It feels strange to me because Nong Ju is so good for our generation, imagine that he is the one who takes care of all the administrative and academic affairs before we leave for Thailand even he also arranges the pickup using the Van to the Airport.

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That night I ate with Mas Saiful and Bang Wira in front of Mak Chayen's shop, where I asked Mas Saiful.

“Mas Lu knows that Nong Ju is not in FON anymore?”

He laughed ….

“Only ask the Koming, he was the culprit of his clan,” he replied

“What's wrong, let's tell,”

While sipping chayen Mas Saiful started telling stories

“ Si Koming last week I feel good to sleep on the phone, he just said [need I help quickly here … cepet here you are called Chairman]” While mimicking the Balinese accent Mbak Koming who makes me smile, Mas Saiful is indeed an expert dramatizing the situation.

“At last I wash my face to look like a shower and leave for the Chairman room,” kelakar Mas Saiful

So it turns out Mbak Koming explained about the preparation course on the chairman who incidentally is Mbak Koming's own advisor, he told me that international student friends had paid preparation course which amounted to 12,000 baht or about 5 million rupiah and one of the people who had paid before coming to Thailand was Mas Saiful, there they were both interrogated by the Chairman about the alleged misappropriation of money committed by Nong Ju and not only that, Mbak Koming who was not the recipient of the scholarship was also fooled by Nong Ju in the beginning of the semester because he had already paid but was still charged by Nong Ju.

Trus answered ama si Koming “Yes ajarn i have kuitensen.” Mas Saiful laughed until he spurted the chayen he drank.

The kuitensen? I also have no power to hold back laughter.

Mbak Koming told me that he had a receipt or proof of payment because he forgot his English he said kuitensen the origin of the word from the receipt.

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Planning to go to the international conference in Bali, at 16:30 pm I left with friends FON PSU 2014, he said, incidentally nursing Udayana University held the first International Conference on November 6-8, 2015 and many of our friends who tried their luck to attend the conference and thankfully we managed to get the Latter of Acceptance (LOA) from Unud, so we have the opportunity to present the scientific work we have.

This moment is a prestigious moment for me because this is the first international presentation that I follow let alone the place in Bali must be cool! Who does not know Bali with a tourist destination that is already worldwide. Exactly at 5.00 we arrived at Leegarden to take the consortium bus to Kuala Lumpur a long trip will be taken because the bus that originally transited at Terminal Puduraya is now no longer and must transit to Kuala Lumpur TBS (South Besepadu Terminal). Along the way we are entertained Malay songs, one of which is Betharia Sonata's song titled Heart of the Wounded with the legendary lyrics “Just return me to my mother or my father …” makes me drift and miss my hometown even more, somehow this trip I feel the nostalgia of a beautiful childhood like this example of this song became the first piece of my childhood mosaic, she said, I am no stranger to this country, Malaysia.

At approximately 7.30 am we arrived at the terminal TBS deliberately set the time to arrive in Kuala Lumpur in the morning although the flight was still at 16.45 pm local time, another destination is the streets in Malaysia, because of the limited time there are two destinations, namely petronas twin tower and merdeka plains, these two famous Malaysian landmarks become our tourist destinations.

By taking the Mass Rapid Transit or MRT we headed to the twin tower petronas building from KL Central. Petronas is the tallest building in the world, this building was the tallest building in the world from 1999 to 2004 before it was broken by the taipei tower, petronas building when I saw it once again I remembered the past, I used to see this building in the film entry (1999) film starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta‑Jones. The film tells the story of professional thief Robert ‘Mac’ Dougal (Sean Connery) and Virginia ‘Gin’ Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) as friends who help to steal the priceless jewel mask, what is clear is that one of the scenes Mac and Virginia hung on the bridge lights connecting the two towers, how much I could see the twin tower estate in front of my eyes and make the second mosaic pieces of my childhood.

Next we headed to Dataran Merdeka, not much I know about Dataran Merdeka but some photos of friends or relatives who went to Malaysia many take pictures in Dataran Merdeka, this, do not be fooled because the building in Dataran Merdeka many comments friends who take pictures in front of this building like traveling to Europe because the building is exactly European architecture probably because the building in the plains of independent Malaysia dubbed as the European of Asia, the building in Dataran Merdeka has a typical European architecture of the 18th century because it was built in 1884 when the British colonists ruled, because it was built in 1884, plains merdeka was a silent witness to Malaysia's independence on 31 August 1957 the Union Jack flag was lowered and the Federation of Malaya flag was hoisted for the first time in the middle of the night and since then, the flag of the Federation of Malaya has been raised for the first time in the middle of the night, Dataran Merdeka is the place to celebrate the Free Day Parade of the Malaysian people.

Finished our adventure in Malaysia, but we had to rush to the airport for a flight to Bali, before we headed to the airport we get information from the travel agent that the flight to Bali was canceled due to the eruption of Mount Rinjani for the next two days, that means we were unable to attend the conference in Bali with various considerations finally we decided to return to Hat Yai that night as well, despite the weight we decided to return to KL central and look for bus tickets back to Hat Yai and arriving at TBS all tickets to Hat Yai were sold out, but the ticket seller offers us the same bus but transit first to Penang and continue the journey by van to Hat Yai.

At exactly 21:30 we walked towards Penang Malaysia, in the bus my mind floated and somehow when the bus driver said Penang in my memory was a Poppy Mercury song, old school song that I liked as a child, I used to memorize the lyrics of the song, the song made me feel calm and happy when someone said the word Penang but I now only remember the reff.

“ My separate, obstructed love story on the beach stretches, between Jakarta and penang shackles longing.”

This song is the last mosaic of my childhood, Almost 5 hours we were in Penang before continuing the journey to Hat Yai, Malaysia with all his memories having a place in my heart, last night in Malaysia made me remember and knit back pieces of childhood mosaic that may have been forgotten as time went on but not for today, last night in Malaysia.