And.. we arrived at the final point of Generasi Gigih Intermediate Phase. The technical class for this phase is finally over. It was such a fun and challenging journey. Two months is not a short time for me, there were many insights, knowledge, and experience I got in this phase. I wish I can continue to the next phase but up to this point I am already very grateful for everything I had in Generasi Gigih.

Everyone was celebrating their own biggest win in Generasi Gigih

My progress so far in backend engineering...

Skills I have developed in these 8 weeks...

1. Learn, learn, and learn more

2. Speaking/writing/reading in English

3. Communicate

A letter to myself...

Dear myself, you've worked hard this time. You finished your final project, did all the assignments and attended all the classes while you still have a thesis to finish. You are not a confident person but you have tried hard to give everything you can do and believe in yourself. You're still not a great programmer (yet), but this time you don't let that thought beat you. This time you really enjoyed the process and believe in all the things you've gone through. I know you can do so much better but you already did a good job. I am proud of you. Let's keep your enthusiasm and increase your confidence for your future career. I know you'll be a good backend engineer in the future. Aamiin.

 Hi, all welcome again to my blog! 

Welcome to the week 6 reflection. And I just got a package from generasi gigih yeayyy!!

Remember when I asked a question for other participants before? So for this week's reflection, I have to answer the chosen question from them.  Here they are!

How do you tackle burnout when learning about so many things in so little time?

One of my hobbies: Playing with my cats :3 (you can see them on ig:mochin.family_)

I love to cook and I love eating. Food always brings me joy! Do you wanna try my churros?

Call with friends, thanks to you all who always listen to me! (you know who you are)

My Career Readiness class with XLFL team as the speaker

 The xperience board header. 

Of course, I won't tell you the data because it contains private information (our points) hehe

😇

It's been already 4 weeks since the first class of Generasi Gigih. It's been such a fun and challenging journey. I already learned a lot from basic OOP Programming, HTTP Render and Routing, Databases, and the most challenging one for me.. Testing. Yup building a good test is a new thing for me. It's not only about understanding syntax or thinking to solve problems but we also have to be critical and able to predict the future, it's good if we could make tests that cover all of the problem cases.  

For the halfway through reflection, I got an interesting question template to answer. So I will write here based on the question.

How do I feel about these 4 weeks of experience?

I'm so grateful because I get to learn a lot of materials, not only technical materials but also English and career readiness materials. The learning process pushes me to explore more and increase my enthusiasm for backend engineering.  If the experience was a natural event, it would be a volcano eruption. The volcano eruption is a natural thing that must happen to balance the earth. Sometimes volcano eruption has a negative impact, like victims, building damages, etc. But it actually brings a positive impact in long term. It is similar to my struggle in Generasi Gigih, where sometimes I should sacrifice my dinner time, or my weekend to learn, finish assignments, or join a class. But I believe that worth sacrificing because the learning process itself will bring long term positive impact for me. In Generasi Gigih I also "explode", encouraged by other participants. Seeing them being so enthusiastic and hardworking influences me to improve my learning behaviour. They inspire me to be more enthusiastic in learning, persistent and always be thirsty for knowledge.

How much effort have I made in these 4 weeks?

This is how my learning environment looks like during the class. I have to open at least 3 apps, Zoom, OneNote (for taking notes ofc), and Visual Studio Code. Sometimes it's hard when you have to listen to the mentor, while also coding, but you also want to take a note of the explanation haha. But I enjoy the learning process a lot.

 
Now I have already done the second week of intermediate class. I didn’t post the first week here but from now on I’ll tell you about my journey in this program. So here is my story about the second week!

What did I learn?

The technical class is divided into a few modules, we learned 1 module every 1 week and there are 3 sessions for each module. In other words, I have 3 days of classes each week for technical class. In the second week, I learned Module 2.

I actually have already learned all of the subjects when I was in college. But what really attracted me is the first session, HTTP Method, Routing, and Rendering. Although the concept isn’t really new to me, I never learned about it using Ruby.  For session 2 and session 3, I also have learned it before in college. But learning again makes me recalling the lessons and I got a deeper understanding of the lesson. There is also a syntax that I just learned from session 1

How was it?

In the first session, I learned by listening to the explanation and following the hands-on given in the class. I learned something new about how to use Sinatra to create a simple API in Ruby, how to use erb template as views in Ruby app.  I experienced a bit of trouble because there were some errors when was installing the necessary library for Ruby. This thing happened because I didn’t install Ruby properly at first. So I had to troubleshoot in the middle of the class. Even though the mentor said that we don’t have to install the library that time and just try later if we experienced difficulty, I was still kind of frustrated because I wanted to follow the hands-on right at that time. But I finally managed to fix everything so I can follow the hands-on. Lesson for me: install everything properly in the beginning, you’ll never know what you will need in the future, and always ask for the necessary library before class.

Not like last week, there is only 1 homework for this week. Strangely I wish there was more homework wkwkwk. Not as “much” as it sounds but what I want is at least an exercise for every session. Because I need the motivation to learn more hehe. But never mind, I still can learn from other sources because the mentors gave us a list of study references (thanks a lot!).

I enjoyed session 2 and session 3 compared to session 1, especially when the participant was given a study case and then we had to find the solution with MySQL query. Maybe it is more challenging to apply what you have known and think critically than memorize and find new syntax (Ruby and everything related to ruby is new for me).  But overall the lessons are well delivered.

What to do about it?

From now on I can explore more especially about the session 1 topic because I already knew the starting point.  I have to learn from many study cases so I can have a broader mind for database problem-solving with SQL queries. I also will keep practicing writing Ruby code. All of the lessons I received this week can be used to create a complete Ruby app integrated with the database later in future work.

Yuhu that's all! I hope I can learn more and more and still be motivated to work hard! Because there are still many things I have to explore and get used to. 

Kuala Lumpur!

Berangkat

Sebelum naik bus damri

Tidur di Bandara

Jadwal penerbangan (berangkat)

Udon enakkkk FamilyMart

Peta KLIA2

Naik bis menuju pusat kota Kuala Lumpur

Dari KLIA 2 ke stasiun pusat kota atau KLSentral itu ada beberapa pilihan transport di antarnya kereta dan bus. Kami memilih bus karena lebih murah (hehe) lumayan juga buat tidur lagi dan liat-liat jalanan. Harga tiket bus bisa sampai 1/5 nya tiket kereta (KLIAExpress). Berdasarkan informasi yg didapat sekarang sih tiket busnya sekitar RM11, kalau KLIAExpress sekitar RM55. Bus yang dimaksud adalah SkyBus. 

Sampai di pusat kota

Perjalanan dari KLIA2 ke KLSentral memakan waktu sekitar 75 menit. Ternyata pemandangan jalur perjalanannya mirip-mirip aja sama di Indonesia, macet juga hihi. Saya agak lupa tempat turunnya persis dimana, tp seinget saya di terminal dekat KLSentral gitu.

Pemandangan saat keluar dari terminal (CMIIW)

Kami memesan hotel di daerah dekat Central Market. Jadi dari KLIASentral kami beli token lagi buat naik LRT ke stasiun Pasar Seni. Nggak jauh dari stasiun Pasar Seni, kita jalan menuju hotel yang sudah kita pesan.

Hotel

Hotel yang kami pesan itu namanya The Explorers Guesthouse. Meskipun budget hotel tapi kamarnya enak kok ada AC, dan ada wifi + komputer di lobby-nya. Mungkin minusnya adalah kamar mandi nya di luar kamar, jadi agak ribet kalau mau bolak balik kamar mandi. Tapi ada banyak kamar mandinya, di setiap lantai ada sekitar 3 buah. Kami juga dapat sarapan roti setiap pagi. Biasanya jatah sarapan kita bekel jadi bisa makan sambil nunggu kendaraan atau sekalian buat snack siang wkwk. Di sana ngga ada aturan ngga boleh dibekel sih jd aman hehe. Tapi kalian harus cek cek lg aturan di tempat kalian menginap ya.

Kami sampai sekitar pukul 9an, sedangkan baru bisa check in pukul 12 jadi kami mentipkan koper terlebih dahulu di lobby. Di hotel tsb memang ada ruangan khusus buat yang mau nitip-nitip koper gitu. Setahu saya kebanyakan budget hotel bisa nitip barang bawaan. Jadi kami gaperlu repot repot nunggu jam 12 dan bisa langsung melanjutkan wisata.

Tampak depan hotel

Papan namanya kecil bet ya, saya sampai mikir negatif hotelnya bakal jelek

Ternyata dalemnnya nyaman pisan, lumayan bgt buat harga murah

Sarapan Pertama

Karena hari itu kita belum check in, jd belum dapet sarapan. Kami memutuskan cari sarapan sekalian cari bekel buat makan siang. Di tempat wisata tujuan kami hari itu, kami nggak tau makanan enak apa yang ada. Jadi daripada menghabiskan uang untuk makanan mahal tp b aja mending kami cari makanan enak lain buat dibekal. Kami mencari makan di sekitar central market. Sebenernya kami udah cari tahu sebelumnya sih makanan apa yang ingin dicoba. Pagi itu kami ke Restoran Yusoof dan Zakhir. Restoran ini merupakan rumah makan India. Btw kebanyakan makanan India itu halal, jadi aman-aman saja. Dan kita udah research harga sebelumnya.

Kami memesan nasi goreng dan makanan kayak martabak tapi pake saus macem-macem (lupa namanya). Porsinya ternyata guede pisan, jadi kita gak habis sarapannya dan bisa dibekel deh buat makan siang wkkw. Makanannya juga enak, apalagi si martabak enak bgt ditambah cocolan saus yang nikmatt.

Restoran Yusoof dan Zakhir

Kakak saya lagi makan nasi goreng

Martabak(?)

Selesai makan, kami jalan kembali ke Pasar Seni untuk naik LRT ke KLSentral. Selama jalan, pemadangan jalanan bagus-bagus seperti  Kasturi Walk.

Yuhuu, jadi itulah kegiatan-kegiatan sesampainya saya di KL. Selanjutnya kami melanjutkan wisata ke Batu Caves. Buat cerita wisata Day 1 ini akan dilanjut di post blog berikutnya ya! yaitu Budget Trip to Malaysia, 2018 #3

Sampai jumpa!

Pertama kali sampai di KL, menggeret koper menuju hotel

Beli Tiket

Persiapan

1. Penginapan

2. Referensi lain

3. Itinerary

Itinerary yang dibuat itu seperti rundown, mau ngapain aja di sana, jam berapa, berapa lama, mulai dari bangun tidur sampe tidur lagi. Dari referensi yang udah dicatat, kami bisa menentukan estimasi durasi kunjungan dan durasi perjalanan. Kami juga dapat menentukan makanan utama yang akan kami beli berdasarkan lokasi tempat makan dan perkiraan tempat yg sedang kami kunjungi. Pokoknya detail banget deh . Eh tapi walaupun detail, itinerary tersebut harus tetap fleksibel dan realistis ya. Karena kita harus tetap siap untuk hal di luar dugaan nantinya

kurang lebih begini lah penampakan itinerary yang dibuat

4. Logistik, dsb