ON HIATUS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Selamat malam, para pembaca setia Milky Way Cafe!

I am beyond thrilled to announce that I have been making progress in my flight school, woohoo! Akhirnya, setelah menanti-nantikan terbang selama dua tahun lamanya, gue terbang juga. And by terbang, I meant real terbang as in you get to hop inside the aircraft, turn the ignition on, get it to fly, and do real maneuvers stuff. Keren, ya?

Nah, semakin sering gue terbang, semakin tinggi stage gue, maka semakin sedikit juga waktu luang yang gue punya untuk melakukan hal-hal yang biasanya gue lakukan. Yang biasanya gue bisa menikmati weekend mampir ke bistro terkenal yang sedang happening, sekarang gue kebanyakan bersemedi dirumah menikmati kasur gue yang empuknya nggak tertandingi. Yang biasanya gue bisa ngaso di barak setiap weekdays, menikmati jaringan internet yang super kenceng dengan membuka semua website yang bisa gue buka, sekarang gue lebih sering garuk-garuk tembok sambil komat-kamitin hafalan untuk terbang besok harinya. Yang biasanya sehari-hari gue bela-belain nahan lapar demi punya badan kayak Mila Kunis, akhirnya gue makan tiga kali sehari ditambah snack gara-gara otak gue yang mendadak jadi super lelet kalau gue lagi lapar.

Banyak deh pokoknya, contoh-contoh dinamika hidup gue yang berubah semenjadk gue terbang. Salah satunya lagi, ya, gue jadi jarang punya waktu luang untuk menulis. Oleh karena itu, gue memutuskan untuk hiatus. Nggak lama-lama, kok, hiatusnya. I'm thinking on taking a break until I graduate, but that doesn't mean that I will stop writing. I would definitely still write and publish is in social media, especially here in Milky Way Cafe, just not as often as I used to be. 

Kalian mau, kan, nungguin gue balik? :)

Best regards,
Kinan L. Wirastani

Dear readers,

being a cadet has taken its' toll on me. 

I haven't been able to take control of my blog in the past 6 months due to the hectic schedule of the academy I'm now enrolling at. The only spare time that I have is only during the weekends, and it doesn't even last for 24 hours - I go home at 6 in the evening on Saturday, then I have to go back to the barracks at 4 in the afternoon on Sunday. Even if I have the opportunity to bring my laptop to the academy, along with a modem with super duper fast internet connection, I still won't be able to update Milky Way Cafe because activities start at 5 in the morning and end an hour before midnight. So much chaos.

For those who wonders, I've been recruited to STPI (Sekolah Tinggi Penerbangan Indonesia), some people prefer to call it ICAI (Indonesian Civil Aviation Institute), a semi-military academy where the students here are called "cadet" - "taruna" or "taruni" in Indonesian, depends on your gender. 

Sekolah Tinggi Penerbangan Indonesia

Being a cadet, you can't do anything on free will for you are required to follow every single rules existed. You have to wear uniform all the time. All taruna have to be bald, while the taruni have to cut their hair Anna-Hathaway-short. You wake up to the sound of trumpets being played, pretty much like Forrest Gump and Cadet Kelly combined. Every morning and night, they do a rollcall to check if all cadets are in position - and if one of them is nowhere to be found, a consequence is to be applied on all of us. School starts from 7 to 5, and after that is dinner, followed by an obligatory study time, and ended with a rest period at 9. It's a pretty strict and organized life I'm living, so that is why I can't leisurely write about Ladurée's Macaroons, or Mendl's Courtesan au Chocolat, as I pleased. 

The uniform that we wear

I'm not sure how long this will last, but I hope I will be able to write again, soon. Will you wait for me? 

Regards,

Kinan Luhur W.  

3 Months Hiatus

Good day, readers!

I will not be posting any articles for the time being because I will be very busy with school. You see, I just got accepted to the flight school that I applied to, and the students are required to stay at the barracks for the next three months. Expect me and Milky Way Cafe to resurrect around July, or August!

So, in the mean time, you can scroll down and re-read every post that I wrote in this cyber journal of mine. Just to, you know, kill time until I get back.

Have a good day now, readers, and don't forget to have lunch!


Regards,
Kinan L. Wirastani