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Tuesday 10 December 2013

War Horse Film Review

‘War Horse’ is a film about friendship in the era of World War I. Directed by Steven Spielberg who won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). It’s taken from a novel called War Horse written by Michael Morpurgo. The cast includes Peter Mullan as Ted Narracott, Albert Narracott’s father who likes to drink and gets drunk. Jeremy Irvine as Albert Narracott, who is very stubborn as his father. He is the one who takes care of Joey and have a very close relationship as an iron glue that’s hard to be remove with anybody between him and Joey. Joey is a horse, he symbolized bravery in this film, and he helps his friend, even though it could cost his live.

The story begins when Ted Narracott buys a foal, Joey. They don’t have money except Joey. Albert promises to his father that he would train Joey in just 1 month so that they could plough the rocky field and make money. People say that it is impossible but hey keep trying, work together and believe each other. Until one day, Ted Narracott loose hopes and sells Joey to Captain Nicholls to join the war. Albert can’t do anything and makes a promise with Joey that they will meet again. Captain Nicholls told Albert that he would take care of Joey.

The costumes have successfully makes me think that we’re really in 1914-1918. Joanna Johnston is the one who designs the costume. She has won a lot of awards such as from Who Framed Roger (1988), Saving Private Ryan (1998) and others. She and the director mostly work together. The music is absolutely cool that it can tell us about what expressions we need to express. John Williams is the music composer. He has won so many awards such as Academy Awards for Original Music Score, Saturn Award for Best Music and 20 more awards. By the music that he composed, it makes the movie feels alive. All elements in this movie support each other that make the movie looks real.


This film is worth watching. It consists of meaningful friendship binds and also has many good quotes. It’s good to know the situation was back then in the era of WWI. Besides enjoying movies, it also can add your history knowledge. There are many meanings and advices as well. By watching this movie, we can know how people in different perspective feel in those eras. I’m sure that you may be touch mostly by their words. Be curious and watch War Horse now!

Saturday 16 November 2013

School Uniform (PROs and CONs)

As a student in a school, they’re supposed to use a uniform, but some of them aren’t agreeing, let’s see their Pros and Cons.

When we don’t use uniform to school, we can express ourselves by using different kinds of shirt every morning. Of course following what the rulebook says especially about the clothing and also accessories. But each rule inside the rulebook has to be specific so that there will be only one meaning in each rule. And when they broke them, there must be a consequence. 
We can express our feelings and our characteristics that'll be more colorful. We’re going to feel so comfort because it’s our own decision to what should we put on. If we should wear uniform, that means, we need to buy the uniform from the school and the cost are quite high. More clothes that we need to wash if we use uniform. Besides that, the people that don’t go to school won’t be jealous as well because the others can go to school while they can’t. To create school identity, we can use accessories such as cap, jacket bracelet, or anything.
In one school, there are poor and wealthy student. If we don’t use uniform, jealousy between one student to another student will come up. The one who can’t afford to buy new good-looking clothes will loss their confidence also concentration. It also can be the cause of bullying and teasing as well. Without uniform, as one school, we won’t have school identity. A school identity have to be big so that it'll be easy to be seen, if we use jacket as school identity, would you bother to use them the whole day even though it's in a hot weather? If we can express as what we want, there are person that would wear inappropriate clothes such as short pants, tank top, short skirt, and others. 
Even though there’s rulebook, but there are so many different kinds of person. There’s the one who could be creative and there’s one who doesn’t care if there would be a consequence or not. As one family of one school, we seems to be unequal if we doesn't use uniform. 

What I’ve learnt about blogging

What I’ve learnt about blogging

In blogging, I’ve learnt a lot about what attitudes shall we give, and things that we can’t post as well. Like the other stuff “safety is number one” if we wrote something in online and share it to the world, it may cause ourselves in danger. Have you ever hear about an Indonesian poetry that is missing? It’s probably because of his poem that makes someone hate it. So, before we post or share it on online, we need to think about it again.
To make someone wont mess up with our reality life, make sure you won’t put your phone numbers, email, address, or something like that. There are more than 1001 kind of person in this world. If a naughty person threatened us, isn’t it going to be a nightmare? So, be careful in your every single word. You know? Words that you use has your image as well. If you post something that’s make another person don’t like it, your blog reputation may be worst but if there’s person that you know and they know about it, it may be more worst.
There are things that you have to maintain so that your blogs could be attractive. It’s good to put some pictures and good templates. So that when a person read your blog, they will be more interested and have energy to read your post. Be attractive in every perspective! Just try your best, and express your ideas!

How can we use blogs to explore new ideas, opinions and interact with the world around us?


Inside a blog, we can see the blogger’s context and learn about it. By reading, we know how others are feeling, others experience that we also could learn through their experience and also what's happening around this world that we're living in. By blogs, you can find almost all of the things. Videos, pictures, tips, information, trends and others.

If we’re the blogger, we post something that we want to share or express to the world such as our ideas, opinion, or feelings about an argument in some case that you can’t tell directly to a certain someone. When someone read our post and see the context, and they probably agreed or want to deliver their ideas, we can make an intersection with the commenters.


We use blog to deliver massages. Even though I know the theories, it's hard to make the action.  

Argumentative essay and debate reflection

In this 2nd unit, I’ve learnt about how to write an argumentative essay and also participate in debate as our unit score. My final score isn't that good but thankfully, I still pass.

For my Argumentative essays, I got those score because I'm not being careful enough while I was writing it and not recheck it again. Besides that, my paragraph aren't justify even though it's supposed to be justify. And I still need to improve my language structure because it's hard for others to understand what I mean.

In debate, I think I need to be more confident and research more into the materials that I needed to debate about. I consider not only the bad things, now that I've understand how to make a good format for argumentative essay and to speak in front of the class, I think my confidence are increasing little by little. Thanks to this experience, I knew my strength and weaknesses, also I can fix the things that I need to improve. 

Saturday 19 October 2013

Who Is Responsible?

There are many kinds of accident have happened this year in Indonesia. And last time, a 13 year-old boy who drove a car on the toll road in high speed crashed another car in the opposite road killed 7 persons. I believe that the boy has to responsible for the accident because he should have known right from wrong. Besides that, if you do something, it becomes your own business. You have to take the responsibility. Other shouldn’t replace you.

The father didn’t pay more attention to his own child. It’s believed that as a parent, the father has to pay attention to his own child. However, when the father is too busy until he forgets about his own child. It’s the perfect opportunity for the boy to sneaks out from his father’s side. The boy must’ve known that sneaking out is not good, and he still do it without thinking what would happen if he sneak, took and drive the car. He has to be responsible for the wrong action that he has taken.

The boy’s father gives his child a car. It’s believed that it’s the wrong way for a father to give his child a car in that kind of age. However, the son was given a driver, why he didn’t ask his driver to drive at the first place. People often say that a 13 year-old child has known about right or wrong, so he must have known that he’s not been allowed yet to drive the car by himself. Some other people say that even at their 13 year-old or even a little younger than 13, they have already known that the thing is wrong and they aren’t supposed to do it.

            Many people say that the parents of the boy have to responsible for this accident. I know about it and I understand. However, it’s not all about the parents’ fault, because as a child, he also has to keep and manage their parents’ trust and goodness. Even though their parents have bad attitude or behavior, he still has to make his family and others proud of his kindness and goodness.
           
            So, because the one who drove the car is the boy, my opinion says that the boy has to be responsible of his own action. Because he is the only one who can make himself do something, why at the first time he didn’t think about it.

Thursday 3 October 2013

Slip and Trip Report

To the chief of police, 
An accident occurred at the Volupides’ residence, we arrived on the scene at 2:00 A.M. on 20th  September 1920. We found Arthur’s body lying on the end of the stairs, on his back, face-up his legs are on the stairs. Queenie stood beside Arthur’s dead body. Queenie mentioned that Arthur slipped on the stairs and fell when he wanted to take another drink, she also mentioned that the paramedics said that the wound on Arthur’s head is his cause of death.
After conducting a further investigation, it seems like what Queenie said did not support the evidence. The first evidence that what Queenie said isn’t true is that when someone trips on the stairs, they will usually try to reach out and grab the nearest thing that they can hold to. But when we focus on the wall, the displays aren’t even misplaced. In fact, they’re still neatly hanged.
Second, when someone who is holding something fragile trips or falls from the stairs, they will try to let go of the object to grab hold onto something. But the glass was still tightly held in Arthur’s hand, and it’s still whole. While when someone is holding something fragile trips or falls, the fragile object usually break.
When someone trips or falls on a carpet-covered stairs, the carpet are usually messed up, but the carpet on the stairs were not messed up and it’s still neat. There are no paramedics present, according to what Queenie had said, she had contacted the paramedics and the paramedics had came over and states Arthur’s cause of death. But there are no paramedics present. Arthur is lying on his back, face up with his legs on the stairs.
When someone falls down from the stairs, their face and body will be facing the ground. Queenie had also informed that while she was going out to the party, Arthur stayed home. Yet, Arthur is wearing a formal attire underneath his robe. Usually, when someone stayed home they wouldn’t be wearing formal attires. And when we arrive, the stove is still on while it is around 1 A.M. Usually, people cook meals at a reasonable time. 
Based on our investigations and evidences, we can conclude that Arthur didn’t die because he fell from the stairs. We speculate that Arthur was indeed drunk, and Queenie did went ten minutes before her friends did. But she didn’t found him dead. Earlier, they had an argument, and Arthur was drunk that hour, so he can’t control his actions and words. He upsets Queenie, which caused Queenie to hit him repeatedly with a frying pan, which caused the terrible wound on Arthur’s head. She dragged Arthur’s dead body so it seems like he According to the evidences we got, we can conclude that Queenie should be tried so that we can know whether Queenie lied or not. 

Sunday 8 September 2013

Compressed!

From the first time I was born and see the world, they seems to grow smaller. When I was little, I felt like the days never ends. All the places are way too big and everything were very tall. While surrounded by lots of people, It's easy for us to be lost. We can go through under 90cm pole that's hanging above while adults can't. Go though to the small places while adults get stuck. Time's always moving, and now I feel like the world are compressed, don't you? A day feels just like a few hours. We couldn't even finish everything in just one day. It takes time to do homework and work and other more responsibility that we should do. The places that I felt very big, has come to "VERY SMALL!" I can't even fit to my old outfits. To bad, even if it's my favorite one, I still can't wore them. If I didn't notice the 90cm pole hanging above, I will tripped and fell down. The good hiding place while playing hide and seek are most likely small places that were not able to fit me anymore. There are many others. But I didn't thought of anything besides that. What about you, do you have any idea?

Saturday 7 September 2013

What a weekend?!?!?!?!?!

It's supposed to be your favorite day, isn't it? The last day of school. What do you plan for your weekends? I'm sure it's wonderful! I plan to stay at home and have some relax. But I've to attend all of my Saturday courses. In the morning, at about six something, I've to get up and prepared. Then I leave for my first course of the day at about seven thirty. It takes almost an hour to get to my Mandarin course. It lasts for two hours. I have an early lunch on the way to my next course. It takes my whole morning free time before I attend the next class, that is science and mathematics class. I'm busy with numbers and equations for one and a half hours. When I finish, I've just realized that it's been afternoon already. Luckily, I have an afternoon free time even though it's only for about half an hour to take a quick nap. When I wake up, it's time to face another wonderful class that's English. I usually feels sleepy during the class. But thank god my English teacher is exciting that make me also exited to join her lesson. I can share my feelings to her but in English spoken. Well, that's the hardest part for me because it's hard for me to communicate in English and in Bahasa as well. But she encourages me to speak in English more and more. After spending ninety minutes in English class, my suffer has't ended yet. Even though I directly go home, the traffic makes me bored. It makes my trip longer than it should be. When I arrive at home, it's already seven o'clock in the evening. It's a good timing for me to play games or watching television. While I am playing with my laptop and internet connection and other stuff, my parents seem to hate me a lot and try to bother by asking me for some favor so that I can't play. That makes me angry but still I can't just complain to them. After all they have a good reason so that my eyes won't get any worse. Haha! but they don't have all of excuses for the whole time. So that I still can play computers and stuff. But if I have homework, I must do it first until late at night so that I have more free time on Sunday. Feels like I'm getting an extra school day. What a wonderful Saturday.



Friday 6 September 2013

Bumper???

For some reasons, it's kind of cruel that I've almost bumped my head to the doors, walls and others for more than 5 times in this past month since I started going to school again from the 2 weeks holiday. Maybe one of the reasons is that I didn't watch my steps while I was walking. Especially while I was talking to my friend, I sometimes stuck at a door because of walking and talking. Especially while we are talking over interesting things, or maybe it's because of watching cartoon that frequently bumped themselves. And it happened again yesterday. This time I wasn't bumped to the door or something but I slipped on the carpet near the gate of my school. Luckily I didn't fall down, ahahahha I was so happy until I almost bumped to the wall in front of me and said "Oh my, It's so close after all."

Sunday 1 September 2013

Changes

          You know that everyone changed, don't you? even you also could change. But make sure that you change to be a better person. Concentrate to what you're up to. Don't go through the wrong way because it's only going to ruin your life. If you're depressed, don't try to kill yourself, cause it won't just stop there. It will continue, if your body dead, so what about your soul? What you should do is just to be patient, cause somehow, if you don't go through it now, you would go through it another time. Just be tough. If someone change and only look towards your bad attitude, don't be sad and don't hate them. They were just don't recognize your positive attitude. Stay being good to them, cause in the end they would recognize your good behavior and regret what they've done towards you.

Friday 30 August 2013

1st

Since this is my first time to create a blog, I don't know what am I going to talk about. So, maybe it will be a random one, see ya! :)