Time passes by so quickly and I can’t believe that I’ve lived in this country for 7 months. That means, I’ll go back home in 2 more months and I can’t wait for it! Despite the homesickness, I’ve been living my life to the max. And sometimes I’m worried that I probably have too much fun. But I never regret it; because I’ve learnt and experienced so much things on the way. I feel great about living here. It provides me so much opportunities; from conferences, summer camps, til volunteering — everything is possible. I don’t need to worry about visas in order to visit most countries in Europe. I can do whatever I want to expand my horizon. Freedom is the best thing and I cherish it in every moment! The next thing I need to do is to figure out how to make it happens (read: money! :D).

I have final exams and assignments in the next few weeks, but I just can’t resist to write about this ad campaign. The campaign is called Rahma which means mercy in Arabic. The main purpose of this campaign is to raise public awareness of mistreatments of foreign workers in Saudi Arabia. The campaign itself has been going on since the mid of November 2008 on Saudi-owned satellite TV — MBC channel (watched by millions across the Middle East), but I honestly have just watched this ad few days ago. To give you an idea how the ad looks like, let’s watch this video:

What do you know about mental disorder? If you ask me that question few years ago, I wouldn’t have a slightest idea. I knew that a man whom I saw on the street in my neighborhood in Jakarta had a mental disorder (or what we always say "crazy") because he always spoke to himself and never wore proper clothes. I knew that an illness like schizophrenia (which I first came to know when I watched Beautiful Mind) was categorized as a mental disorder but I had no idea why it ever occurred to people. The world of psychiatry was completely out of my sight — almost nonexistence, until my own sister suffers from it for the first time in 2005.