Who Am I?

Jarot Endik Setiawan was born in a cool and hilly city of Malang, East Java on Sweet Wednesday, 4th of April 1984. On the day he was born, it seemed that the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true. So they sprinkled moondust in his hair of silky black and starlight in his eyes of brown. And voila! Jarot was here. 😛

His close friends call him “Endik”. However, later, many people recognize him simply as Jarot: the Boy who Smiles. 😉

Being the youngest son in his family, Jared grew up as a spoiled boy. Almost all his needs were fulfilled by his parents. This treatment has proven “bad” for his mental and character development. Hehehehe. The thing that he regretted so much later. Fortunately, year by year he learnt and learnt more about many things and life and he could successfully manage i. Hurrayy. 😀

Young Jarot completed his pre-school in Indonesian Navy-owned kindergarten of Hang Tuah XIV in Malang. Here he learned basic life skills or things about what is good, what is bad or how to do this, how to do that, etc.

Later he continued his elementary school at Saint Mary I Catholic Primary School. A place that taught him disciplines and laid the foundation of his character. Public Junior High School 2 of Malang was his next stop. There he grew up to be adolescent and experienced the sweet and bitter things of early teenage life.

He spent his teenage in Public Senior High School 1 of Malang. He considered it as the greatest time in his life. A time when he felt the defeat and success, a time when he experienced many things that made him a tough boy, a time when he struggled to find his real identity, a time that was so unforgettable… what a wonderful time… 😀

It’s College time! And the OSCAR goes to…. English Department of State University of Malang. Well, it wasn’t his first choice actually. But after considering many complicated and dillematic things, he actually agreed to take this program. Here, his English ability was enriched and trained to the maximum level. He learnt about critical thinking and creative writing. He also met outstanding lecturers whose names he could only read from books in the past.

5 years passed by and finally he graduated satisfactorily.

Then, the destiny wanted him to color his dull life and experience brand new things by sending him to a far far away land.

And, here I am in Bontang, East Borneo…

A new place where I am gonna create new stories…

A new place where I am learning to be mature person and real man…

A new place where I am trying to realize all my childhood dreams and make my parents proud of me…

A new place, a new experience, a new ME… 🙂