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Upon being notified of selection as participant in ASEAN-Japan-Timor-Leste residency program and ASEAN Literary Festival 2016,   I was so excited but at the same I   also questioned myself on how I would participate in this event for the   first time.   I asked my Timorese poet and writer friends if they had attended such events but none of them had except for the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. I   soon came to know that I was the first Timorese to attend this program event. Therefore, I was encouraged by my fellow Timorese poet and young aspiring writer friends to do well at this event, in order to return with something valuable to share   about creative writing which now was starting to emerge in Dili, Timor-Leste.    ASEAN-Japan-Timor-Leste Residency Program (April 29 – May 4 th , 2016) My trip to Jakarta went well and I was glad to be there again for the second time since my last visit in 2013. Overall, curiosity about how the program would run was filling