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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Sing Till You Drop

Karaoke is very familiar to me. When i was about 9 years old, i remember my parents bought a karaoke tape player. My father bought some cassettes and i sung almost everyday at that time (though the songs were Indonesian evergreen songs). I love singing and karaoke was a superb technology at that time.
As years gone by my best friend once asked me to join him at a karaoke place. Then it was the starter of my greatest moment in a karaoke room. I couldn't even feel that the time ticking so so fast. I didn't even notice that i've spent almost 3 hours for singing with my best friend. wow...
Then after that in a month i always have time for karaoke-ing. I've asked the other outstanding whizzes to save money and spend some time for karaoke-ing. I'll share more time when i have that with them.
The longest  time i've spent in a karaoke place is 3 hours. I can sing more than 50 songs within 3 hours. I sing the happy songs, sad songs, old songs, new songs, rap, hip hop, any songs.
To me karaoke is the best way to spend my time, to boost my mood, and unfortunately spend more and more money...sigh...

I do Hate YELLOW!



Yellow is the only color that I do hate. I hate it since I was in 1st grade at Junior High School because I have bad experience closed with yellow. It began when I return to my house by bicycle slowly, in the middle of my journey I met a boy with his friends that I recognized if they were at the same school with me. One of them who wear yellow bag approached to me and asked my name, my address, my hobby and the other annoyed questions but I unanswered it and keep silent saw the street. A few minutes later he said rude words to me—he seems angry because I don’t answer his question then he attacked my bicycle’s back tube until I fell from it. I stand up and punch his head and escaped from him passed the narrow street. After that day everyday I met him after school ended and he always disturb me—jokes me, stole my school tools, brake my bicycle tools, etc. Since this moment every come back to home I saw around a boy with yellow bag, if there is nothing him I’ll come back home soon and if I met a boy with yellow bag I’ll hid and checked whose it.

Except it yellow is too brightly, I prefer dark color than bright color. And yellow is identical with dirty things for example… yeah, you know that Surabaya’s people called it: Yellow—in—the river! (Yaiks)

Yellow is banana’s color too and I hate banana but my daddy always forced me to ate it because it have a lot of nutrition and nice to our health.
Increased again the reasons why I hate yellow.

So someday if you wanna gave me something please: Don’t with YELLOW color! Hehehehe 


(Ryu)

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 ! :)