My New Year Resolutions

Hello all, now I wanna tell you about my New Year resolutions. Do you know about New Year resolutions? New year resolutions is some of your hope to be better person in the next year or some hope that you want to do it in the next year then you put in a box, after that you can open it in the last date on December to suitable your hope and what are you doing in a year.

2011 will be end, so I wanna make some hope to 2012. Here they are:

1.       1. Want to be a better person than previous year

Why I want to be a better person than previous year? Because I think, now I’m 15 years old. I’m more adult now. So I don’t want to be like a child again. I want to help my friends to finish his/her problems.

2.     2.  Want to have a bike

Maybe it’s funny for you, but I want it very much. Because I don’t have a bike at my home. I feel so bored, every day I must ride motorcycle. I want to cycle with my friends too.

3.      3.  Want to be taller

I want to be taller than now, because I want to be a woman-soldier, so I must do exercise to be a tallest girl :* hehee

4.     4.   Want have permission from my parents to hang out by my motorcycle

My parents always not allowed me to hang out with my friends go to somewhere by my motorcycle. It’s make me always go hang out with my friend’s motorcycle, I don’t like it. My parents have a thousand reason to forbidden me :3

I hope I can do my new year resolutions J and get good result for me :D
those are my new year resolutions, how about yours?

What Do I Want to Achieve for 2012?

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Last year on 11^th December 2010 I and some students wrote our new year resolution for 2011. We listed some of our goal and also I wrote things that I want to have.

There are things that I wrote such as :

• ·         To write a book and send it to a publisher
• ·         To establish an educational group / Non Government Organization
• ·         To graduate from my postgraduate program

These three things were on my last year New Year resolution list. But none of them has been accomplished by me. It’s not an easy thing to keep focus on my goal. Either because I lost focus or because I lost the passion.

I was so keen on making children story in last 2010, so that’s why I put write a book and send it to a publisher as my first resolution. But as time goes by, writing is not my passion anymore. Well, basically I never really love writing, but at least once I was so motivated to write a children story book. Now, I don’t even realized I’ve put it as my New Year resolution.

Second goal, is to establish an educational group. The idea was to establish a free tutorial class for children in a remote area. I’ve done this in 2007 or 2008 for almost a year. I taught children of 6-10 years old. I taught them English at that time. I named my group LENTERA (lantern) which aimed to make children in rural area speak English. I know the benefit of mastering English and that’s why I want the children have the same opportunity as their other friends in urban area. I was still having the passion but the focus was lost since I had a big family matters. It was another hard time for me.  Too busy and too tight schedule in the end influenced me to leave this big idea.

The last one, which is the hardest one, is still the same thing that I wrote in this year resolution.  I really have difficulty managing time and mood to conquer this challenge. Yes, study is not a simple and easy thing to do. Still it’s a crucial thing that I need to accomplish. I hope by the end of March next year I can finish my study. I will really try hard on this.

What is this year resolution? Well I’ve listed things that I want to accomplish for next year. Some of my goals are:

• ·         To graduate
• ·         To travel to India and Netherlands
• ·         To lose weight
• ·         To live a healthier life

·         To clean my room at least twice a week

There are still some things that I don’t think should be put here in the blog. They’re something really personal to me.  What I’ve listed are things that I REALLY want to get. Now it’s a matter of time to accomplish all of them. Wish me luck!!

My Best Friends

Now I was in senior high school in third grade. I have been learning in Senior High School 11 Surabaya since 2009. My school is a public school that located on Jalan Perumnas Tandes I Manukan Kulon Surabaya. I start studying at 6.45 am until 3.30 pm. It sounds exhausting, I spend most of my time in my classroom so my classroom just look like the second house for me. But all the fatigue will be forgotten if I had teachers that has its own characteristic and best friends.

I have seven best friends in my class. All of us are girls and we have our own characteristic. We are 17 years old except Savani, she still 16 years old.  That picture was taken when we finish exercising. We often spend time together in school, laugh, sad, anger and giving an advice, learn from each other. Among us also had a dispute but in my opinion it’s a normal thing that did occur that strengthen our friendships. Let me introduce my best friends in senior high school.

Starting from the left is Rica Desy Andriani. She was born in Surabaya on July 12, 1994. She is interested in acting. She is good in being a drama artist and she said she wants to be an artist.

Next to Rica is Afifah Dwi Kurniawati. She was born in Surabaya on May 31, 1994. She is a fashionable girl, I think. She has long straight hair and she wears eye glsses.She interested in fashion and social field. She like to join with various organizations.

The next is Rizkiyatul Auliyah. We called her Riris. You can see she is wearing veil. She was born in Gresik on December 4, 1994. She is smart and creative girl. She said she interested in drawing  and medical, but she said the most interesting is astronomy because she wants to be an astronout.

Next to Rizkiyatul is Puspita Khanela (Nella). She is a beautiful girl and a half blood between Javanese and Sundanese people. She was born in Surabaya on May 14, 1994. She is interested in modeling. Nella started her career since she was in third grade of junior high school. Her dream is to be famous model.

Beside Nella is Rossa Aulidya Firdaus, we called her Audy. She has curly hair and good voice. Audy is a singer. Born in Surabaya on September 6, 1994. She is a friendly girl. She interested in music and broadcasting.

 

Next to Audy is me :D I think I interested in traveling, learning foreign language and Barcelona especially the football club. I love David Villa very much. 

 The next is Laily Indriany (Leli). She was born on August 10, 1994. She is a tomboyish girl. She interested in metal music and basketball. She often attend metal music concert. She said she want to be a psychologist.

The last is Savani Debrina Alsri, we called her Debrina. The youngest and the cutest girl beetwen us. She was born in Bandar Lampung on July 3, 1995. She has white skin and quite blonde hair. She interested in music and Korea. Her favorite actor from Korea is Lee Min Ho.


(Emma)

My Good Friends from The Net

Other people make friends at school or workplace or even from social networking site such as facebook, for me..i make friends with people i meet online.I have three good friends which i met on spinchat, a chat site where we all met.

Wojtas wearing batik shirt i sent him

My first good friend is a polish named Wojtas. He even posts his comments on this blog regularly. He's the first guy who's so nice to me and we decided to write each other via e-mail. He's a helper too in my thesis writing process. He helps me edit and gives comment on my draft. He studies in university now and he's majoring English translation - correct me if I'm wrong Wojtas.

To me Wojtas is a cool and calm person, and a smart guy. He works hard on managing his study and life. He has passion in teaching and he already gives private tutorial for some students. I've tried to make him teach here in Indonesia after he graduate, so that i can have a partner in teaching. So far he hasn't said yes to my plan. But time will answer. I'm so good at approaching people he he







My next friend is a German, named Gunter. Gunter is a busy engineer who works in a manufacture company. I forgot what the company really works on. He loves paddling so much. In fact he has been paddling since he was 12 years old. He showed me some of his pics when he paddled to the river in The Alps. He also likes hiking and cycling. He loves outdoor adventure.And he usually helps his nephew with his math's homework. I think he's a smart guy though he's so quiet. Definitely not as talkative as i am.

Rahul eating mango

My other close friend which i met online from the same chat site is Rahul Mathur. He's Indian. He comes from Jaipur but he lives and works in Delhi. He's the funniest guy. He's also talkative. He likes to call me with many kind of nicknames. He calls me miss bee since i always busy, that's according to him though. He also calls me mombassa (which i believe is a city in Kenya), daddu, bambino, and  other funny nicknames. He's the most cheerful one.

Having an online friends is cool. It helps me to know people better. And of course help me to know how to get along with people from different countries and different culture. As a sign of friendship i sent them postcards. It's just a lot of fun.


Friendship is not only in real life, even the technology can help you to find nice friends from all over the world.

(Friendship)

I Love This Boyband ♥♥♥

New topic …

Let’s talk about a boyband …..

I want to tell you how can I love a boyband ….

I had a neighbor, she was 11 years old. She really loved with boyband. At the first she like boyband, she love a boyband from Indonesia SM*SH. She really addict with boyband. Not only from Indonesia she also like Boyband from Korea and Japan.

Boyband addicted …..

At the first time I think that what did you see from boyband they weren’t good…

But I knew that all of my judge was wrong….

Thank you for my neighbor that helped me to show that boyband wasn’t to bad. Actually, I never like boyband from Indonesia because they can’t show their quality, they never care with their voices and they didn’t care about how to make their fans satisfied.

That was the think that I don’t like. But, my dearest neighbor always played the Boyband from Japan.

Super Junior ….

They were very handsome and I love their dance. If I listen their song I always want to dance and dance …

I love my neighbor ….

Super Junior song that I heard in the first time was Mr. Simple …

This is the video ….

I always listen Super Junior songs at school. In my school there were a radio, every Thursday they had a theme about Western and Eastern songs. So, the students can request songs that match with theme in that day. And many students that request that songs, it really good …..!!!!

Here I have the other video from Super Junior with Bonamana

and the last video Super Junior with Sorry Sorry

Boyband Oh Boyband...

Recently Indonesian teens are so crazy about new boybands and girlbands. I believe this phenomenon, especially the boyband, is not a brand new thing. It happens in other country too. I believe when i was in Junior high school, which was like 13 years ago the world was crazy about Backstreet Boys; N'Sync-who's lead singer now is a big superstar called Justin Timberlake; and i also remember another boyband ehm..LFO 

But as i remember the first boyband should be addressed to The Beatles!! 

Now i'd like to give my opinion about the term boyband. To me boyband is a group of boy in a music band. But then what's important is their appearance, their costume and physical appearance let's say..gorgeous ones :D. Well The Beatles, internationally famous since 1960s definitely fit in this definition. They're gorgeous, attractive to ladies, and they were all unite in a band. The Beatles music genre was rock. They have many men fans too. But since the members were cute, young, fresh, and handsome, in all of their concert you'll hear ladies' scream. I guess the ladies went for the  appearance rather than the musical ability. Or maybe because in the past there were rare cute boys in the band ladies went crazy for them. So yes, to me The Beatles were the first and the super famous one.   

Then, still in the same country England, Take That n English five-piece vocal pop group comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams is another boyband which succesfully conquered Europe and the rest of the world. The band was active in the music industry since 1990 - 1996, then they had a break and re-unite again in 2005. They still exist till now, but of course they become a "man" band :D. Take that marked the ear of gorgeous-energetic boys who don't play musical instrument in their performance with lead singers. Pop is their genre. Their performance is supported by dance ability. And yes, they succesfully got girls attention. 

Started from Take That, my own definition of boyband has switched from a group of boys in a band to a group of boys with cute and gorgeous face in attractive appearance who expected to sing as good as dance. Well, wikipedia define boyband as "a popular music act consisting of only male singers. The members are expected to danceas well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances. More often than not, boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on stage" Read more about boyband here.

The rest of the world then followed Take That success. Mostly in Europe. In the same era, in 1993 Boyzone, an Irish boyband with two lead singers, Ronan Keating and Stephen Gately smashed the UK hit list. Just like their predecessor, Boyzone members sing and dance with their charm on the stage. And yes, they're gorgeous. They might not be famous in U.S but they're so famous in Asia. I guess Asia really loves cute boys in a band.

Another famous boyband formed in the 1990s - 2000 are 

• Caught In The Act (a half English, half Dutch boy band. established in 1993 with four members of the group: Lee Baxter, Eloy de Jong, Bastiaan Ragas and Benjamin Boyce); 
• Code Red (a British boyband with Phillip Andrew Rodell, Neil James Watts, Lee John Missen, and Roger Ratajczak as band members formed in the 1996); 
• A 1 (a British-Norwegian boyband, originally made up of Mark Read, Ben Adams, Christian Ingebrigtsen and Paul Marazzi in 1998); 
• Westlife (an Irish boy band established on 3 July 1998 with early line up consists of Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan and Brian McFadden)
• Blue (an English pop vocal group, whose members are Simon Webbe, Lee Ryan, Duncan James and Antony Costa. Blue originally formed in 2001);  
• The Backstreet Boys (an American vocal group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993. The band originally consisted of A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson)
• 'N Sync (an American boy band formed in Orlando, Florida consisted of JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick formed in 1995)

There are still dozens of famous boyband at that time, but the last two were the famous ones in U.S and the rest couldn't conquer the U.S music market but they were succesfully won Asians' heart. Like mine, since in the past I love Westlife :D. Anyway the list above were list of boyband which was quite famous in Indonesia started in the 1990s.

          Then lately, started in 2009-2011 Indonesia's teens - the girls are crazy about Indonesian Boybands. Unlike the famous European and U.S boyband, Indonesian boybands are following Korean boybands. The musical genre is called K-popo which is a musical genre consisting of electropop, hip hop,pop, rock, and R&B music originating in South Korea (K-pop information here).  Indonesian Boybands are copying the music genre, costume, style, performance, and dance of the famous first Korean Boybands. To name some of the band here are the list and i think many more will be formed in the near future.

• Max 5
• Sm*sh (Smash)
• NSG Star
• S9B (Super Nine Boys)
• M1st
• Treeji
• 3 in 1

I bet all of these boybands try hard to win the boyband competition. They are having the same criteria. Good looking, good appearance, good dancing, and ehm...to me not good vocal quality. But since they sing altogether the vocal harmony does help. Do the girls mind their vocal? No! I believe outer beauty come first. Smash, the most famous one so far even had a special 1 month reality show on TV. And cheers and screams were all around whenever the band went outing.

            Well, no more story about Indonesian boybands since they're all new and so far there's no interesting story about them. Sadly they copy the Korean and Japan boybands so that to me they just a bunch of copycat boys. But wait..maybe i'm wrong too, they just meet the demand of the market. To be like exactly like one of the already succesful boybands. Will the boybands last long? I doubt that.