Tabir Rindu di Sudut Penantian

Entah apa yang kemudian hadir membelenggu jiwa dalam terpaan angin keangkuhanmu
Bayang akanmu selalu bersanding dalam jejak nafasku
Memori akan halmu serasa memadati desahan langkah yang ku pijaki..

Mari kita menyebutnya dengan gaya bahasa anak masa kini
Yang sering mereka kumandangkan dikala terhinggap riak riak kasmaran..
Yah mereka menyebutnya ini "RINDU"
bukan hanya kali ini aku menerpanya..
Gejalanya sudah melanda nuraniku berkali kali
Gigih aku tak mengindahkanya ..
Berharap hanyut dalam buaian senja

Namun sosoknya mampu bermuara di sudut hati..
Menitipkan pesan dalam sekoci merah muda..
Melantunkan nada nada cemas akan pengharapan
Walau seringkali terasa kecut..
Tetap jua ku biarkan membuai rasa..

ku izinkan berlayar melewati samudera rasa
Meredam sengatan amarah dalam pekatnya embun malam
Dan menyatu dalam gelora RINDU yang bersambut...

Ku Biarkan

Ku biarkan kau berbicara semampu yang kau bisa…

Sekali lagi ku biarkan…

Dan tetap ku biarkan….

Ku luangkan waktu sepenuhnya untuk membiarkanmu berbicara…

Tak mengapa untuk menyakitiku…

Tak mengapa untuk mencaciku

Tak apalah ku terima semua ini

Tak apalah Ku harus tertekan dengan semuanya ..

Demi konsekuensi yang tak berujung..

Ku terima..

Sekali lagi Ku terima

Dan tetap ku terima…

CANTIK

CANTIK

Semua perempuan didunia ingin CANTIK. Dulu saya beranggapan bahwa memilki wajah yang menawan adalah kecantikan yang sesungguhnya namun setelah lebih memahami definisi CANTIK tersebut saya bermuara pada satu kesimpulan bahwa:

CANTIK menurut Devi adalah..................................


Ketika kita tidak merasa iri dengan apa yang orang lain miliki, tidak takut terlihat jelek (wajah) dihadapan orang lain, dan mampu menjadikan kekurangan yang kita miliki menjadi satu kelebihan yang patut untuk dibanggakan.

That's my point :))))

Telling Experience

Holiday in United State

            Several years ago, I went to U.S and spent an unforgetable holiday there. I invited my three collegues whom I have known since in university. We flew to Washington (the capital of U.S), after spending three day there, we went to New York by Bus as our first destination. New York is one of the biggest city in the world and more metropolitan city in U.S. We spent our night in one of the biggest and most famous hotel in New York besides Four Season, Hilton hotel which is heredity of Paris Hilton generation. Actually, New York is not glorier than what I imagined. The city is very compact, stuck, and rude. If I have known before, we did not want to stop there, at the city which called “unslept city”. Then we continued our tour to Michigan which called “Jazz Music from here”. Michigan is really different from New York. Michigan is calmer and full of space than New York. Eventhough, we spent just one day there to pick up our old friend, Emma, who learnt in one of the university in Oregon city. She too Philosophy major. Emma is an old friend who was admired by us because She is really smart. It was not suprised she took Philosophy major.

            After leaving Michigan, we visited Emma’s family in Alabama. Alabama is a historical city that full of respect. Unfortunately Emma should stay there and can not join us to continue our journey. She did not tell us the reason why she should stay there. Honestly, Whether or not she wanted to join, it does not matter. California was our next destination we nearly could not enjoy many beaches there because the whether was really hot. More we dried, more we got black skin. Luckily, several days later the whether was back to normal. There was unlucky situation when we dried in Beach. We lost our camera we thought that someone steal it but actually we forgot to take it. We should checkt it before left to Alabama. I asked Emma to bring that camera to Long island as our last destination in two days. When we arrived in Long island, I have to meet someone whom his son already knew by me since we met accidentaly in New York several weeks ago.  They invited us for having a dinner in thanksgiving day. We have spent one month for visiting many tourism places in U.S althought New York was regreting us.

Some questions can train your speaking (Fashion topic)

FASHION

1. Nowdays, most of people really care about how they look. Are you a typical person who dresses fashionably?
2. Talk about fashion in your environment!
3. They said fashion is influential to you. What are you wearing  showed who you are. Do you agree or disagree about that statement? Explain your reason!
4. Is fashion very important? From 1 to 100, how important is fashion to you.
5. “Fashion is expensive” express your opinion about that statement.
6. Compare about fashion 5 years ago and fashion nowdays and how will be fashion in 5 years later!

Basic Skill Test (Structure)

Basic Skill Test

Translate these sentences into English! You should consider both syntactic and semantic aspect in your translating!

1. Saya tidak suka sekamar dengan dia. Dia selalu meninggalkan kamar dalam keadaan kotor.      I dont like being a roomate/ sharing a room with her. She is always leaving the room dirty.
2. Jangan telepon saya pada pukul 7 malam ini. Saya sedang mengerjakan PR saat itu.               Do not call me at 7 p.m. I will be doing my homework at that time.
3. Mereka sudah menunggu selama 30 menit ketika seorang perawat muncul dan memberitahukan mereka bahwa dokter tidak akan datang.                                                                                 They had been waiting for 30 minutes when a nurse came and told them that the doctor would not come.
4. Pagi itu saya masih dirumah pada pukul 8. Saya memutuskan untuk tidak datang terburu – buru karena saya tahu ruang rapat masih sedang dibersihkan pada pukul 9.                                          I was still at home at 8 a.m. I decided not to come in a hurry because I knew that the meeting room would still be cleaned at 9.
5. Sayang sekali rumah itu sekarang milik orang lain. Kamu seharusnya tidak menjualnya kepada siapapun. Seandainya saya jadi kamu, saya akan merenovasi dan menjadikannya sebuah penginapan.                                                                                                                  Unfortunately that house belongs to someone else. You should not have sold it to anybody. If I had been you, I would have renovated and made it as an inn.
6. Jika saja Hiroshima dan Nagasaki tidak dihancurkan, Jepang tidak akan kalah dalam perang Dunia II dan Indonesia masih akan diduduki oleh mereka.                                                          If Hiroshima and Nagasaki had not been destroyed. Japan would not have lost in war II and Indonesia would have been colonized by them.
7. Kami telah menemui pengusaha itu bulan lalu. Dia menanyakan kepada kami bagaimana keadaan para korban bencana alam, apa yang sangat mereka butuhkan, dan     apa yang bisa ia lakukan untuk mereka.                                                                                                                     We met an enterpreneur last month. He asked us how the disaster’s victims’ condition were, what they really need and how he could do for them.

Just a piece

I don't need a caption to write how much I really love U dad, how much I really want to make you feel secure there. Las night I dream of you but ur appearence was not clearly seen. Hopefully we will meet there in a best place that we called heaven. I miss U Daddy 

Examination Hinders Education

Examination Hinders Education

            Examination in education is a kind of testing students’ ability to perform in a particular subject. When learning and teaching process was conducted perfectly, one way to prove the potentiality of the students in understanding the material well is by executing the test. There are many kinds of tests, each with a specific purpose, a particular criterion to be measured. They are diagnostic test, placement test, progress or achievement test, proficiency test, internal test, external test, objective test, subjective test, and combination test (Ezekiel, 2012). Those types of tests are way of checking knowledge or comprehension. They are the main instrument which used to evaluate learning by most educational institutions. Arikunto (1992) stated that the characteristics of the tests typically are both –reliable – they should be expected to show consistent results for each student, and valid – the tests should be accurately testing the content that they are supposed to test. Nowadays, examinations seem to be an indispensable part of education. Some people argue that exams exert a detrimental influence on both students and teachers, while some others claim that exams have the inherent advantages. People are not likely to reach a consensus in this issue, so let’s take a consideration of both contrary sides in the following paragraph.

             Some arguments manifest that examinations have some merits. In the first place, they are easy tools to regularly assess a student's capability. Exams help a lot to bring an improvement in the individual's knowledge because they provide regular feedback to the students who acknowledge their shortcomings and work on them. In the second place, examinations are not only a knowledge test, but also give a challenge to students express what they learn under pressure. Students can adapt to the fierce competition in the future much more easily. In the third place, it is also a feedback to teachers. Teachers can find out what are their students advantages and disadvantages through the exams, and change the teaching plans and teaching methods based on the results.

            Admittedly, exemptions also have the drawbacks. To begin with, some students may lose their confidence and self-esteem if they cannot get an excellent score. Moreover, too more exemptions make students exhausted. For instance, in some Chinese school, students take more than 10 exams in a week, which will make the students lose their interest in study (Woessman, 2011). On the other hand, they also have a poor predictive quality because they only judge a student's ability under set conditions and limited time. Many times, a student who is otherwise good may get anxious or confused under strict exam conditions and may not perform up to the mark.   

            In a nutshell, I would concede that too more examinations may have some bad effects. Despite that, I am convinced that examinations can promote the development of education. Overall, I believe that both teachers and students would get benefit from the reasonable exams. Examinations should be formative in order to be effective because students learn in different ways. Examinations can be also modified from the traditional paper- pen style to modern computer or hands-on method. The good results of exams is to give more information about students' learning to parents, teachers and students themselves, so that strengths will be maintained and weakness will be corrected on time.

My Hometown in next 20 years

Writing

Write one or two paragraphs about your city will be like in next twenty  years! In your composition you should describe:

Ø   Infrastructure available

Ø   Technology applied

Ø   People’s lifestyle

My Hometown in next 20 years

                I personally lived in Tiworo archipelago, West Muna, South East Sulawesi. It’s difficult to think or to forecast about what happened for the future in my city, but I think everything is going to change more in the next twenty years. To think about an indefinite future is very interesting. No one knows the world of 20 years in the future. I just guess about it; however, I think it will be better to live then than now.  I can say my city will be a better city after 20 years from now, because I think one and other parts will change for the better. Those things involves: infrastructure, technology, and lifestyle.

                For the infrastructure in my city, I think it will be more awesome than the existing infrastructure. Everything will be built in the luxury way such as: the road will be wider than now, the harbour will be an international track, the extravagant buildings are everywhere,  and the tourist will come every week to enjoy many maintained tourism places in West Muna. Therefore the investment will be developed continually for the prosperity of society.

                Twenty years later there will be a technological change on an astonishing scale. You can finish every work by "one touch"; you just hold a small remote, and it will order everything. For example, the car will drive to your house by itself according to your orders; the TV will choose the best program and tell you what is the important news for you today. The cars will not only be driven on the road, but also fly in the sky; you don't need to drive them actually, because everything is automatic.

                On the other hand, when so many new things are acquired in our life, that will cause some problems in life. Maybe people will feel strange around other people, because direct talk to one another will be rarely. The lifestyle of the people changed to be more modern because of the sophisticated machines. We use the Internet to connect everything. However, something should be considered that eye contact, face expression, and physical touch are very important as human beings.

                Those advances aspects will help people more efficiently. But I hope in 20 years later not only technology and infrastructure will turn to be better, but also people’s lifestyle. I wish all of the people in my city especially and in the world broadly will realize that religion is the first root to educate people to be well-behaved in every part of their life. So the peacefulness in this world will be achieved well, because each people will take care each other, love each other, and interact each other politely. In twenty years later, there will be no war, violence, starvation, poverty and everything that could make us as a bad figure. People will live in a clean life securely on this nice earth.