Tur Budaya 2014

On the 3rd April I went to Bali with all my friends 32015 plus the teachers and school's staffs. This event named Tur Budaya 2014. We started our trip by executive class train Turangga at 18:30. At first we told to sat alphabetically, so I sat with Bejo (Reza). But then I sat with Salma, hehe. 

In the train there were some people who play cards, chatting, just sitting calmly and enjoy the trip or sleeping. It was late at night but it's still crowded. I just felt kinda bored because I'm so tired so I decided to sleep. at 1 AM I woke up because I'm hungry, and I ate while everyone was sleeping so tightly. It's funny to see their sleeping face. Then I just listened some music before I slept again. Most of us woke up at 5 AM to do prayer, ate, then back to sleep. 

We arrived at Surabaya around 8 AM and continue our trip by bus to the harbour . I really like the bus we used, it's cool. We were just sitting all day long that day. On the way we stopped at a restaurant (I forgot the name) for Jumatan, rest, and lunch. We finally arrived at the harbour at 7 PM. With ferry we cross the sea to get to the Bali Island. This was my first time to ride ferry. In Bali's harbour we should continue with bus again to the hotel, it takes some times. But because we're all feel so tired and we have some schedule in the morning, we're all sleeping on the way to the hotel. We checked in at the hotel at 1 AM. My roommate was Irna, Nadira and Saarah. We took a bath and then go to sleep. Everymorning there was a 'morning call' at 5 AM to waking up people. It was really annoying! haha, but it worked. on the 5th April we went to Tanjung Benoa to play some watersport there and visited Pulau Penyu. So much big penyu in Pulau Penyu, but there are other animals like a bat, big snake and some bird species, and we are allowed to take photo's with them. 

That time i should just play parasailing but really long lines and we didn'nt given much time. Previously I didn't want to play a wet watersport because I didn't brought much clothes. But it ended with my pants soaked. Fortunately I brought a cardigan, so I used it to cover the back of my pants. Then we continued the tour to Graha Wisnu Kencana. Played a game with prizes, take 2015 generation's photos,and watched Tari Kecak performance. Then we ate at the shore in the night. 

On the next day we visited Desa Adat Panglipuran, had lunch at a restaurant ( I forgot the name) and buy some souvenirs. In the night there were Malam Keakraban with the 'beach party' theme. There were some award and performance from our generation such as band, Kelompok Vocal, dance by Tiloe's Theatre (I'm in!), Musik Klasik 3, etc. I performed dance with Tiloe's Theatre hehe. We had practiced really hard until late for that performance. But we're all happy!

On the next morning we wen't to Pandawa beach. The beach was very beautiful and clean, it has a really good view. But we didn't have much time left, my class got the first flight so we should go to the airport. :(

We bought some souvenirs first at Krisna. We flight at 14:55 and arrived at Bandung at 16:00. 

It was so tiring but I'm always be happy because we're together.

I was really an unforgetable memmory!

Thank you 32015,

I Love you even more!

"The Meanest Mother"

     I had the meanest mother in the whole world.  While other kids ate

candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal, eggs or toast. When others

had cokes and candy for lunch, I had to eat a sandwich.  As you can

guess, my supper was different than the other kids' also.

     But at least, I wasn't alone in my sufferings.  My sister and two

brothers had the same mean mother as I did.

     My mother insisted upon knowing where we were at all times.   You'd

think we were on a chain gang.  She had to know who our friends were and

where we were going.  She insisted if we said we'd be gone an hour, that

we be gone one hour or less--not one hour and one minute. I am nearly

ashamed to admit it, but she actually struck us.  Not once, but each

time we had a mind of our own and did as we pleased.  That poor belt was

used more on our seats than it was to hold up Daddy's pants.  Can you

imagine someone actualy hitting a child just because he disobeyed?  Now

you can begin to see how mean she really was.

   We had to wear clean clothes and take a bath.  The other kids always

wore their clothes for days.  We reached the height of insults because

she made our clothes herself, just to save money.  Why, oh why, did we

have to have a mother who made us feel different from our friends?

    The worst is yet to come.  We had to be in bed by nine each night

and up at eight the next morning.  We couldn't sleep till noon like our

friends.  So while they slept-my mother actually had the nerve to break

the child-labor law.  She made us work.  We had to wash dishes, make

beds, learn to cook and all sorts of cruel things.  I believe she laid

awake at night thinking up mean things to do to us.

     She always insisted upon us telling the truth, the whole truth and

nothing but the truth, even if it killed us- and it nearly did.

     By the time we were teen-agers, she was  much wiser, and our life

became even more unbearable.  None of this tooting the horn of a car for

us to come running.  She embarrassed us to no end by making our dates

and friends come to the door to get us.  If I spent the night with a

girlfriend, can you imagine she checked on me to see if I were really

there.  I never had the chance to elope to Mexico.  That is if I'd had a

boyfriend to elope with. I forgot to mention, while my friends were

dating at the mature age of 12 and 13, my old fashioned mother refused

to let me date until the age of 15 and 16.  Fifteen, that is, if you

dated only to go to a school function.  And that was maybe twice a year.

     Through the years, things didn't improve a bit.  We could not lie

in bed, "sick" like our friends did, and miss school.  If our friends

had a toe ache, a hang nail or serious ailment, they could stay home

from school.  Our marks in school had to be up to par.  Our friends'

report cards had beautiful colors on them, black for passing, red for

failing.  My mother being as different as she was, would settle for

nothing less than ugly black marks.

      As the years rolled by, first one and then the other of us was put

to shame.  We were graduated from high school.   With our mother behind

us, talking, hitting and demanding respect, none of us was allowed the

pleasure of being a drop-out.

     My mother was a complete failure as a mother.  Out of four

children, a couple of us attained some higher education.  None of us

have ever been arrested, divorced or beaten his mate.   Each of my

brothers served his time in the service of this country.  And whom do we

have to blame for the terrible way we turned out?  You're right, our

mean mother.  Look at the things we missed.  We never got to march in a

protest parade,  nor to take part in a riot, burn draft cards, and a

million and one other things that our friends did.

She forced us to grow up into God-fearing, educated, honest adults.

      Using this as a background, I am trying to raise my three

children.  I stand a little taller and I am filled with pride when my

children call me mean.

      Because, you see, I thank God, He gave me the meanest   mother in

the whole world.

written by Bobbie Pingaro (1967)

Holiday

      Last holiday i came back home to Subang, i always come back home every holiday because i miss my family so much. You know how it feels when you live alone somewhere so far from your beloved family. Home sweet home. I enjoyed laying around in my house because it bring back memories. I didn't want to go anywhere or play with my friends hehe. On the friday we go to Dufan, Ancol, Jakarta together with my father's sister's and brother's family. It was sooo muh fun. My family slept at my uncle house in Cikarang and then went to dufan at 6 in the morning. We came early so we didn't have to line for play. We run here and there together even if it's tiring but that's okay, it was fun. 

Because i'm bored i decided to learn some dance and i did it! Happy synthesizer dance, i'll post the video later~  

But here's the url please visit, watch, like and subscribe thank you!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eOaMIJPKn9U&rdm=12qjpi750&layout=mobile&client=mv-google

Gerund

1. Eating people is wrong
2. Hunting tigers is not allowed
3. Flying makes me nervous
4. The hardest thing about learning English is understanding the gerund
5. One of life's pleasure is having what you have been fighting for
6. She is good at painting
7. I look forward to hearing from you soon
8. She didn't really take to studying English
9. I can't wait for the driving lesson
10. I couldn't help falling in love with him

The Next Leader

  Hello everyone! I'm Rasya and I'm from XI Science 2. I have choosen to be the one of the three candidates for the next event's leader. First of all, thank you so much for your coming to this meeting. thank you so much to all of you who have choosen me and give your trust and this opportunity to me. Thank you to Allah SWT so we all can be here in the good condition.

  Ask you know our event 'INORI' is an event where we can show our skill, culture, talents, our creations to the outsider about Japanese stuff. We've held this events for eight times. We can raise our school name, our organization, improve our skill, thighten our friendship, and make more relationship. The target of this event is otaku, people who love Japanese culture, cosplayer, roleplayer, teenager, merchant, Japanese tourist and others.

  My vision is to make this, the 9th event to be success and reach more than 300 visitors. We have to make these festival to be more wonderful and unforgetable. For this vision I'll lead you all reach this vision. Together we could make this event successful and better. Because without any helps from you guys this event won't mean anything. We should make any progress everyweek. And first we should deviding our jobs and everyone should know their role and do it seriously with responsibility.

  I think we shall work hard and a bit fast so we wont disturb our school and we can get the preparation better. We should learn from the past, learn from our seniors' mistakes and not doing it again. I hope this month we can make the proposal done and then giving it to the companies and start to search the money for this event. 

  I'll do my best for this event because I'm waiting for this event so much. I love this event because in this event we can spread our love to others and make so much memories and get closer to you guys. Thank you so much for your attention. Wassalamualaikum wr.wb. So please choose me and let's do this together.

Pompeii Frozen Victims

Those that did not flee the city of Pompeii in August of 79 AD were doomed. Buried for 1700 years under 30 feet of mud and ash and reduced by the centuries to skeletons, they remained entombed until excavations in the early 1800s.

As excavators continued to uncover human remains, they noticed that the skeletons were surrounded by voids in the compacted ash. By carefully pouring plaster of Paris into the spaces, the final poses, clothing, and faces of the last residents of Pompeii came to life.

Their last days began on August 24, 79 AD, the day after the Roman holiday of Volcanalia, dedicated to the god of fire. At noon Mount Vesuvius roared to life, spewing ash hundreds of feet into the air for 18 hours straight. The choking ash rained down on the cities in the surrounding countryside, filling courtyards, blocking doors, and collapsing roofs. In the only known eye witness account to the eruption, Pliny the Younger reported on his uncle's ill-fated foray into the thick of the ash from Misenum, on the north end of the bay:

". . .the buildings were now shaking with violent shocks, and seemed to be swaying to and fro as if they were torn from their foundations. Outside, on the other hand, there was the danger of failing pumice stones, even though these were light and porous; however, after comparing the risks they chose the latter. In my uncle's case one reason outweighed the other, but for the others it was a choice of fears. As a protection against falling objects they put pillows on their heads tied down with cloths. "

And then: "You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men; some were calling their parents, others their children or their wives, trying to recognize them by their voices. People bewailed their own fate or that of their relatives, and there were some who prayed for death in their terror of dying. Many besought the aid of the gods, but still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness for evermore."

The next morning, the cone of the volcano collapsed, triggering a hundred mile an hour avalanche of mud and ash that flooded Pompeii, just a little over five miles away, destroying everything in its path. Pompeii and its smaller neighboring village of Herculaneum disappeared, and were only discovered by accident during the construction of Charles of Bourbon's palace in 1738. Miraculously, the two cities were nearly perfectly preserved under layers of ash.

About 3/4 of Pompeii's 165 acres have been excavated, and some 1,150 bodies have been discovered out of an estimated 2,000 thought to have died in the city when it was destroyed. This means that the vast majority of the city of 20,000 fled at the first signs of the volcanic activity. The plaster casts of the men, women, children, and animals of Pompeii were primarily made in the mid 1800s. The building they were originally housed in suffered extensive damage in WWII, and they are now located in several places around the city.

The Antiquarium, near the Forum, once held most of the plaster casts. It was damaged during Allied bombing in 1943, and has been closed since 1978 for restoration.

The Garden of the Fugitives holds the largest number of victims found in one place, where thirteen people sought refuge in a fruit orchard. Nine sets of remains were found at the House of Mysteries, where the roof collapsed trapping them inside. One plaster cast can be seen inside the Caupona Pherusa tavern.

The Stabian Thermal baths and the Macellum (fish market) both house two plaster casts, and the Horrea (granary) and Olitorium (market) holds several more, including a pig, and what may be the most famous cast of all, of a small dog in a collar, writhing on its back.

The casts are reportedly no longer made as they destroy the delicate skeletons within.

In 2010 a exhibition includes several of the Pompeii plaster casts opened at the Antiquarium de Boscoreale, near Pompeii. Many of the artifacts from Pompeii are now located at the National Museum in Naples (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli), including the famous "Secret Cabinet" of erotic art.

One million people now live in Naples, in the shadow of Vesuvius. According to National Geographic Magazine in 2006, "[Volcanologists] Sheridan and Mastrolorenzo have calculated that there is a greater than 50 percent chance of a major eruption each year now, the odds rising incrementally as the time since the last big plinian event grows longer year by year."

source: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/plaster-citizens-of-pompeii

Photos of the Plaster Cast

source : http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/plaster-citizens-of-pompeii

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IF CONDITIONAL

1. If I have to study abroad, I'll miss my family so much.
    If I had to study abroad, I'd missed my family so much.
    If I had had to study abroad, I'd have missed my family so much.

2. If you can't take the rules, you shall leave.
    If you couldn't take the rules, you should leave.
    If you couldn't have taken the rules, you should have left.

3. If you ask me, I'll do anything for you.
    If you asked me, I'd do anything for you.
    If you have asked me, I'd have done anything for you.

4. If I can't be the starring role in your heart, I'll take the supporting role.
    If I couldn't be the starring role in your heart, I'd take the supporting role.
    If I couldn't have been being the starring role in your heart, I'd have taken the supporting role.

5. If you feels doubt about it, you shall say no.
    If you felt doubt about it, you should say no.
    If you felt doubt about it, you should have said no.

6. Will you be the Koga if I become the Nina?
    Would you be the Koga if I became the Nina?
    Would you have been being the Koga if I became the Nina?

7. If you falls, you shall not dive it deep.
    If you fell, you shouldn't dive it deep.
    If you have fallen, you shouldn't have dived it deep.

8. If I'm being serious, you shall not play around.
    If I was being serious, you shouldn't play around.
    If I've been being serious, you shouldn't have played around.

9. If you do that, you'll never regret it.
    If you did that, you'd never regret it.
    If you have done that, you'd have never regret it.

10. If I can travel through the time, I'll tell the little me that she can be anything she likes
      If I could travel through the time, I'd tell the little me that she can be anything she likes
      If I could have have traveled through the time, I'd have thought the little me that she can be anything she         likes.