Is this really happening?

This time last year I was sitting in my Aunty's house in Kebayoran Lama, Indonesia, eating leftover Eid biscuits, sipping on some tea and voicing my opinions on the latest developments of the Ahok politics issue.

Later that week, I had to go back to immigration department in 3 days to close my student visa and finally prepare to leave my home for the last 6 months, Yogyakarta.

I was delayed for up to 7 hours, stranded at an airport alone and trying to spend my last couple of rupiahs on a rip off Ralph Lauren cap.

I can assure you that the last thing on my mind was what I would be doing in exactly one years time.

Here I am one year later preparing to leave Australia to work at my graduate job at Facebook in Singapore.

I know - is this really happening?

I'm not quite sure what to expect from this upcoming adventure - just that it is going to be an incredibly huge learning curve that will challenge me physically, mentally and emotionally. How I wounded up in this position, I still do not know, but I do know that it was from some hard work accumulated over the last couple of years.

I still remember receiving the phone call and going into a complete state of shock.

'Me? Really? Are you sure?', I replied. Jumping, bouncing around my living room, then falling to the floor crying of sheer happiness and joy.

I'm an excited-terrified-confused-pumped-scared ball of fear right now and probably should get packing.

T-minus 10 days till a new chapter begins!

My beautful friends when they surprised me with a farewell lunch at a local cafe in Parramatta three days ago. I'm going to miss these ladies. It's starting to feel real!