An Introduction

بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيم

Assalamu'alaikum.

Hello cyberspace, let me first introduce who invades you.

I'm Sintya. A wandering bookworm.

Born and raised with warmth and loving souls I really enjoyed my life back then in Indonesia before opening a new door to a whole new adventure in a little town million miles away from Yogyakarta. This place that most people call Germany is now I comfortably call home, Alhamdulillah.  To know me more, please go to my 'About' page here.

Until this very second, I've been settling down in Germany for about a year and 2 months.

To be honest, it's been a hell of a ride but the actual adventure isn't starting yet. I received my Zeugnis (report) from Studienkolleg (preparatory course) already last January and is now ready to face the next big challenge: (finally) Bachelor!

But long story short, I couldn't enter the Uni this semester because my major doesn't accept new students in the Summer Semester (around April-July). That's why I need to wait until the Winter Semester which starts around September, which means I got a very long break starting from February. It's so long I lost count haha.

And that's why I seemed to legit have so much time to spend -- in a nutshell.

But why blogging? you may ask.

I started to blog when I was around 11, back then blogging was a trend. Everyone had one, therefore it was a must for little Sintya to start blogging! I was actually stunned by my perseverance in this cyber world and how I actually joined communities actively. I guess now you can see how my self-discipline and self-confidence are getting worse each year passing. But it saddened me that the more I engaged with my social circles in the analog world, I tend to fade away from the other.

I hesitated to start this new chapter for a very long time. Being given many spontaneous changes and 'life' had forced me to delay blogging on repeat.

But now, let's start fresh.

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Nautical Chant literally means 'song of the ocean'.

I tend to see life as the ocean. Expressing itself with beautiful and at the same time powerful waves. It moves in harmony with the wind, all the creatures living beneath and above, and even the hard rocky cliffs. And me? I'm actually the sailor. I got my compass and that maritime knowledge ready, but sometimes I just need to know when should I follow the flow, and when should I make one.

This blog is all about my version of trying my best life stories while 'flowing' in Europe along with a list of stuff to do and not, probably miscellaneous thoughts on what I've watched in Netflix lately (preferably ones from Studio Ghibli and docuseries), living sustainably, personal spiritual reflections, travel journeys, and many more.

I can't promise how many times I would show up every week, but at least let me try my best, yeah?

Maybe some of you aren't familiar with those words I made italic up there, but no worries. This post is only the beginning of the beginning. Join me in my 'nostalgic' throwback of how did I ended up choosing one of the hardest life decisions I've ever made in my upcoming posts!

Thank you for reading, I hope you have a wondrous day today (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Love and light,

Sintya