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Friday, March 4, 2011

Cristiano Ronaldo

I want to tell you about my favourite football player .....
Every body loves him very much .........


Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born on Funchal, Madeira, Portugal in 5, February 1985. He is a Portugal footballer. Now he play in Spanish La Liga for club Real Madrid. . Ronaldo is the youngest child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro and Jose Dinis Aveiro. The name Cristiano Ronaldo have a meaning, Cristiano is because his mother want his son to be religious person and Ronaldo is taken from US President Ronald Reagan who is his father favourite actor. He has one olderbrother and two older sister, Elma and Liliana Catia.



At the first time be a football player, Ronaldo play in Andorinha club football in Portugal. He play in Andorinha starts from1993-1995. After that he played with local club Nacionalabout 1995-1997. Next after give winning for Nacional he moved to Sporting Clube de Portugal. He played about 1997-2001 and he appearances 25 times and 11 goals. He continue played in Sporting CP until 2003.

After that Sir Alex ferguson know his talent from the match that MU lose 3-0 with Sporting CP. Ferguson really want buy him from sporting CP. Ferguson need12,24 million Poundsterling. But Ferguson really lucky, he get Ronaldo that same with the price. Ferguson said that Ronaldo must use number 7 in MU because he is a talented football player. Ronaldo can show it to Old Trafford that he can make 84 goals in his 196 time appearances. And he can give trophy for MU to win Champions League. He played in MU about 6 years. He was named Player of The Tournament, FIFPro World Player of The Year and FIFA World Player of The World. He also get FIFA Ballon d'Or and becoming The Best Football Player 2008.

In 2009 he decided to move to Real Madrid from MU for 80 million Poundsterling and sign 6 years contract and also make him The Highest Paid Football Player in The World. Ronaldo was welcome by 80.000 fans in Santiago Bernabeu. Before he move to Real Madrid, Sir Alex Ferguson don't want he move there because Ferguson really love Ronaldo. But Ferguson can forbid Ronaldo.

Beside  play football Ronaldo also be a model of some advertisementlike Emporio Armani, Nike, Castrol, Extra Joss etc. When he was 5 years old his father is passed away, it make him really need to feel love from father. He live with his Mother in Spain. At the first time his family are live in Portugal but now, they move to Madrid and stay in Ronaldo's villa.

Many people said that Ronaldo is playboy. That statement is true because he really almost change his girlfriend. His ex girlfriend are Kim Kadarshian, Paris Hilton, Nereida Gallardo, Bipasha Basu and many others. Now, 2011 he have girlfriend name Irina Shayk. Maybe they will married after this Summer.


I really love him ....
He is so perfect........
If you're also his fans don't forget to follow his twitter @cristiano ....
And don't foget to open his official website http://www.cristianoronaldo.com/ .......
I always update about his news.....
and sometimes i watch the match because i'm a Madridista .....
CR7.....

(Fifi)

Rick Riordan




Rick Riordan who has full name Richard Russell was born on June 5 1964 (age 46) in San Antonio, Texas.
He  is the author of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. He also wrote the Tres Navarremystery series for adults.His first book in the series is  The Maze of Bones. As far he always write with genres FantasyDetective fiction,Mythology.


He is like reading since he was child. And the first book that Rick Riordan remember reading is fun was the Lord of the Rings. He read mostly fantasy and science fiction in high school, then he start got interested in mysteries when He got to college. He started writing when he was in middle school. The first story he submitted for publication was when he was 13. It wasn’t published. His first published works were two short stories in the UTSA literary magazine.


Rather than say "things that i like", he's one of the peoples who inspires me. I love the way he write a story, it feels real and he has wild imagination! He ever said that his favorite book he wrote is which have a hard question for a writer. It's kinda rarely tought, but i think that's excess of Rick Riordan that can make he different from the others novel writer.


This is Rick Riordan advice to every young people who want to be a writer



Any advice for young people who want to be writers?

I started writing seriously when I was in eighth grade. I had an English teacher who encouraged me to submit my work for publication.
I became a middle school English teacher largely because of the impact Mrs. Pabst had on me twenty-three years ago, and I love having the chance to encourage kids to write the way I was encouraged. That’s one of the reasons I was not anxious to leave the classroom to pursue full-time writing.
The first thing a young writer needs is a mentor who believes in his or her talent. So don’t be afraid to ask for help! Find a teacher you respect. Correspond with authors. You will find that a polite email will almost always get a response.
Secondly, read a lot! Read everything you can get your hands on. You will learn the craft of writing by immersing yourself in the voices, styles, and structures of writers who have gone before you.
Thirdly, write every day! Keep a journal. Jot down interesting stories you heard. Write descriptions of people you see. It doesn’t really matter what you write, but you must keep up practice. Writing is like a sport — you only get better if you practice. If you don’t keep at it, the writing muscles atrophy.
Finally, don’t get discouraged! Rejection is a part of writing, and it hurts. The trick is to keep at it. Wallpaper your room with rejection notes, if you want, but don’t give up.


After read his books i always think "I want to be like him!"
I really love his novels. It's not boring and reaal 'teen' haha
And he teached something from his advice,  it's like 'write about anything, just do what you want, and don't ever give up!"


That's really can cheer me up ~ and how about you?


Want to know Rick Riordan more?


1. THIS is an interview with Rick Riordan. It's interesting! You can check it out
2. Rick Riordan Site
3. Rick Riordan Blog


(Lily)

Purple

Purple is a color between red and blue. The word 'purple taken from The Old English word 'purpul' which from Latin 'purpura'. Purple is warm and cool. The things that has color purple are eggplant, lavender, lilac, mulberry, orchid, plum, pomegranate and wine.

Using purple also have some meaning :
* deep or bright purple suggest riches
* lighter purple are more romantic

We also can combine purple with another color :
~ a deep eggplant purple with neutral color, conservative, color combination with a little touch mystery the purple provides
~ green and purple can be striking combination
~ pink and purple has feminine appeal

Many people believe if purple is a color for widow. But never believe them, because if they say like that it means they really hate purple. But for me that's not true. I really love purple and i collect many things that have a color purple. My room has purple paint, school bag, helm, pencil case, shoes, dolls, pencil, ballpoint, clothes etc. And i will collect more.

(Fifi)

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Learning Language

I really like learning language. To me learning language is an interesting activity. It is interesting because I can listen to different sounds of words which can be produced by different people. I can also learn about different custom, culture, and way of thinking of people in a certain country just by learning the language.
The first foreign language i;ve learned is English. I learned English when i was in the second grade of elementary school. AT that time my teacher only taught me about how to make sentence more or less "it is a ...." and to reply a question: yes it os or no it isn't. I rarely read an English text at that time. When i was in Junior High, my English was progressing. In the second grade i started to send letters to my English teacher. I learned English by myself and the first skill that i master is writing. Then i started to learn the second skill which was speaking. But not direct speaking. I chat to foreigners through chat room like the #chatworld, #worldchat,#teenchat, etc.
http://www.buzz.com
Then i gained my listening skill by watching film with English subtitle. It helps me to know some new vocabulary. Songs also taught me pronunciation and listening skill. I've started to listen to English songs since o was about 10 years old. The for reading i've started when i was in junior high. My mother used to buy me some English magazine. Though i don't understand the meaning but i kept on reading it. Then slowly i learned how to pronunce correectly and in the end to understand the meaning completely.
The second foreign language that I ever learned is Italian. I learned from books, but it was only for about less than 3 months. Then i quit learning.
The third foreign language that i've learned is French. To me learning French is more difficult than Engglish.The structure is different. Even worse, th pronunctaion is so difficult. I've learned it for more than a year, but not continuous. And unfortunately i haven't had any time to expose myself more to this language. The input and the exposures are a few. So i was at the novice level, and the worst is now i almost forget my French.
Though learning language takes time and need hard work, i really like it. I want to be a polyglot )someone who speaks many languages). Maybe 2 more languages? Hopefully

(Silvana)

Comics


Hello all ...
Now I want to tell you about comics ...
Because if I feel bored , I will read my comics collection ...
I have many comics . Comics is picture story ...
Sometimes I hope if my subject book like comics . Wahaha I think it's nice , I will not feel bored if I study :D
But it's impossible :(

My favorite comics is Detective Conan. I like that because the story of Detective Conan is cool. Conan is smart too :) I want to be smart like Conan. I have the comics , I collected it !! :D
You know , I had not listened my father call me . Suddenly my father came into my room then took my comics ! :o
He wanted to throw my comics ! Oh no ...
I was lucky at that time , my father was patient but I got angry from him --'

And if I don't have a new series of Detective Conan , I read my old comics [again] :d haha,
I desire if I spend a lot of my money for comic ! comic is part of my life ..

I love Comics ! :)

The Simpsons Movie



The Simpsons movie version was created at July 27th 2007. In the story Springfield is a city at USA that were modern, beautiful, clean, crowded, etc. The ruler of Springfield is Arnold Schwarzenegger. But in the fact, Springfield doesn't exist in USA. It just fictional city but a lot of people debated about where is it!

The Simpsons Movie telling about Homer Simpson—the leader of Simpson little family, when he decided to got a pig for his pet. Homer very pleasant with his pet everyday he played with it, slept together or hang out with it even he made Bart Simpson—his son, disappointed and jealous with his new pet. One day Marge Simpson—Homer’s wife, asked him to throw the excrement of his pet that he saved in a high rocket beside their house. Homer forced to throw it away from his house but in the middle of journey Homer’s friend called him and told him that his favorite doughnut shop would close and it shared a lot of doughnut free. Homer that don't want run out of free doughnut got a trick to throw it to the Springfiled’s river and it causes river’s water became black, poisonous and be polluted. Even the little animal that sank in it became scary animal. And the Simpson family’s problem begin!
The Government of Springfield heard that bad news. Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger decided to isolate Springfield city in order to not influence another city. All Springfield’s citizen were angry with it, they reported to polices and forced them to found someone that causes it soon until name of Homer Simpson became famous and must to be responsibility for it.  Homer was so afraid, he decided to save his family and escaped from Springfield though the suck sand that he made unintentionally.

The Simpson success to escape from Springfield and headed to Alaska. They were happy and free but not for Springfield’s citizen. They were poor, stress even crazy because their town be isolated so they couldn't work, recreation, cooperated with another city, found fresh air, water and food. Springfield became the sadness city. Merge Simpson heard about it, she asked Homer and her children to back to Springfield and saved them. But Homer refused it, he still avenged to Springfield’s citizen and then disruption of this little family happen. Merge and her children back to Springfield and wanted saved all Springfield’s citizen to go out from Springfield. But in the middle of journey they caught by Springfield’s government and they jailed in Springfield forever.


Homer felt alone in his new house, he remebered when he married with Merge, played with Bart, Lisa and Meggie—his children, and enjoyed at Springfield. He wanted felt it once again, he wanted happy with a lot of people than lonely. He felt empty. Then he decided to save Springfield too. And Homer realized that his family caught by Springfield’s government and it made his spirit increasely. At the same time the Government of Springfield knew about the rebellion of Springfield’s citizen, they were brake Springfield city with nuclear soon. So, Can Homer save Springfield before it broken? Will he lonely? Can he repair all?

It’s the most of my favorite movie. This movie could gave me new lesson that not all evil and fool people is useless sometimes he / she could help us.

This movie is family movie covered with funny action. So it could make me leave all my duty, problem, stress and laughed over load. I swear it! 

This is the Trailer!
So enjoy this Movie (Download)

source: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_Movie


(Ryu)

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Reading Comics and Novels

I love reading reading since i was in elementary school.
I read all of genre story from mystery, comedy, teen, romance, fantasy, and anything ~
For comics i prefer Shonen Manga that Shojo Manga.
Shonen manga is comic for teenage boys, and Shojo is comic for teenage girls

These are my favorite comics until now ::

1st : Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) by Yana Toboso

I guess this is a popular comic now. The story is not monoton and a bit different. It's about hell butler (Sebastian Michaelis) who serve a magician (Ciel Phantomhive). The genre of the story is fantasy of course

2nd : Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle by CLAMP

This is a quite old comic but i really love the story! I love all comic by CLAMP, because CLAMP always make a awesome story. This comic is about adventure to search Sakura's wings to return her memories  back. The characters is from all CLAMP comics. All appear in this comic.

3rd : Oniichan to Issyo (With My Brother) by Hari Tokeino

This is a family comedy comic. I love this comic because the story is really funny! xD

4th : Kirarin Revolution by Nakahara An


An idol life story ~

Acctually i have many books that i like but i think those are the most.

And for my favorite novels, it's only two. That are Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan and Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling. Both is a fantasy story. I love fantasy, especially the writers write like it real happen! They style of writing is cool.

To all who likes reading too, I promote all of these comics and novels to you.
And, happy reading ^^

(Lily)