August 2019, the third semester arrived, time to worry about thesis. Luckless, my research topic was about the virus and molecular, something that I never expected before, moreover, I didn't take plant virology class in the previous semester and molecular was complex. After knew it, I took a plant virology class, class seminar, and thesis for this semester. Becoming the oldest in the plant virology class and the same class as my junior was advantageous, that I found new friends. Meanwhile, trying to understand the virus and molecular was hard, even just read a few pages of books or journals about the virus and molecular already made me dizzy.
I kept myself busy by organizing at FOST, attending seminars, and watching drama to escape from the gloomy thesis. Watching drama was the worst way, but I did that. At first, watching drama was just for entertainment, but by the times brought me addiction. This semester I only had one class, so I had tons of time away to watch Chinese drama. I could watch the drama for long hours, but for reading a journal or book my eyes automatically sleepy. When I watched Chinese drama, my ears heard Mandarin, my eyes caught English subtitles, and my brain translated into Indonesian. Watching Chinese drama almost every day gradually created addiction.
Watching drama was enjoyable, on the
other hand, my consciousness whispered that watching drama too much was
terrible. After completing one drama series, I felt regret, weirdly I repeated
it again and again. There were various ways that I had tried to free myself
from the addiction, such as listening to the khutbah, making the poster
"It's forbidden to watch the drama" on the bedroom wall, but didn’t
work. Last, I asked my friend to scold me if I watched drama, yet didn’t
effective. After all that had been done, but it was still arduous to free from this
bad habit. Until the end of the semester, my thesis proposal and class seminar
draft were not finished yet.
