If Trouble is a Friend...

I don't know what I want, so don't ask me

Cause I'm still trying to figure it out

Don't know what's down this road, I'm just walking

Trying to see through the rain coming down

Even though I'm not the only one

Who feels the way I do.....

Confusion. Undecided. Uncertain. Have you ever feel that feelings? When you do not know what should you do next. When you do not run the 2nd Habit, Begin with The End In Mind, because you do not know what you want actually.

I'm alone, on my own, and that's all I know

I'll be strong, I'll be wrong, oh but life goes on

Yeah, it is impossible for us to not doing any mistakes when we run this life. We do mistakes, but we have to learn from it. That is life. So I am here, in this big world to learn from my mistakes. I am here to fight for my dreams, and I have to be strong. But what can I do when I am still confuse, undecided, and uncertain about my life goals?

Oh, I'm just a girl, trying to find a place in this world

I am just a girl who are trying to find a place in this world. A place to live this life  well as I expected, as I dreamed before. But back to the first question, how if I have a problem to figure out what whould I do next? As I am now, who is still confuse about what should I do when I have been in senior year, what should I do after graduate from this Senior High School, and what should I do after graduate from universities. Haha.

Hey, I have God, as my guide, as my Lord, as the director of my life. I am sure that He will guide me to a better life. But I realize that God will not guide me offhand. I have to tried my best first.

“ The best person who help you to out of a problems is the person you see in the mirror. “

Being tawwakkal is when you have done your best, your hard work to reach something, but turn over the result to your God. When I am in trouble, pause, think, and do! So I will get the best problem solving. But when the problems can not be handled by me lonely, I am sure God is with me, to guide me. That’s why I have to pray all the time. If I can not do my best in praying to God, what is the reason for God to give me the best, too? That’s the key, guys.

Nobita-kun Wanna Be

...............

All of them, all of them, all of them

He helps me

He helps me with a convenient tool

Look! a toy soldier

(Here! Attack!)

Ah ah ah

I love you very much,

Doraemon

That place is nice

I wish I could go

This country, that island, there is many of them, but

All of them, all of them, all of them

He makes me able to go to them

He uses a gadget of the future to grant my wish

I want to go on a world trip

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(Doreamon Song – English Version)

When I was ten years old, every morning on Sunday, I was in front of television. No one was allowed to disturb me. Because I was watching my favorite cartoon TV, Doraemon. Do you know Doraemon? Yeah, a big robotic cat with his magic pocket.

Yes, Doraemon has a magic pocket contained of a lot of magic stuffs from the future. Anywhere door, bamboo-copter, and time machine. Doraemon was commanded by Sewashi Nobi to help his grandfather, Nobita-kun, so that he will get a better future. Nobita is a lazy boy who always late on submit his homework, bullied by his friends, and always rely on Doraemon all the time.

If I were Nobita......

Yes, of course, I will utilize Doraemon, just like what Nobita did. I can use his 'Anywhere Door' to go to anywhere fastly. When I miss my parents in Pasuruan, I can visit them easily by using this magic door, right? Hehe. I love travelling. So I also can use this magic door to go to Belitong beach, Bali, Jakarta, or even France and USA. What a great life! That’s what we call Sharpen The Saw. LOL. Not only his ‘Anywhere Door’. I wondered how if I have a time machine and I can see what happened yesterday and what will happen tomorrow. My life will be more well-organized. Although I realized that life won’t be challenging on that way.

This cartoon always tell us how to make someone’s life happy. Despite of Nobita’s laziness and clumsiness, he always try to make someone’s life happy. Have you ever watched an episode about Nobita, Doraemon and his friends’ experience in the Wind Country? Although he does not even know the people there, Nobita tried to help them to save their world from Uranda, an evil Wind Country people who use his strength to do bad things. At the last, he can save the world and make Wind Country people happy. This cartoon tells us how to love all of God’s creatures and help each other.

If I were Nobita.......

I am envy with Nobita. It’s hard to find the other Nobita in this world. I wish I could. I wish I could make other people happy in my own way, too. If I were Nobita, I would utilize Doraemon. I want to safe the rest of forest in the world by asking Doreaemon to make a ‘forest protector’ or whatever the name is, so that no one can cut the tree easily, no one can hunt the protected animal up to them. Not only that. There are a lot of good things to do and if I were Nobita, I wish I could use Doraemon’s magic stuffs to do it easily.

Paradigm

You are the one who can change yourself to be better, not anyone else. You are the one who decide whether it's good or not to be done. You are the one who decide what will you be tomorrow, 3 months later, or even 10 years later. You will find the difficulties. You will find the obstacles. But it seems like a little rock that can not stop you to reach your life goal. No need to find who you are, cause you are who you are, who can not be changed by anyone else. Just be yourself. Create yourself as you want to be. Because ONLY YOU who can do it.

Happiness

When I was 5 years old, my life seems very simple. I played with my friends, do everything what I want, and I have no serious problem. My mom always said that my smile is better when I was 5 years old than now. I said, " Because I'm happier at that time than now, Mom. "

Everything changed. People changed. Problems come. But life is still about happiness. It will not changed and life must go on, whatever happens.

When I grew up, I realize that God gives me a lot of great things, that's why I have to be grateful. I have a happy family. My mom who always call me before I go to school and listen to my story about boys, school, and friendship. My dad who seems like he does not care about me, but actually he does. He always remind me about my preparation to go to school, even he is the one who remind my mother to call me every morning. They mad at me sometimes, but I realize that it's their other way to show that they love me. They are my everything. They love me and I love them too. It gives me happiness. I realize that when I was 5 years old, I will not realize this kind of things. All I know is just how to smile and laugh  by playing games with my friends. I did not know how to be grateful for this happy family.

I also have so many lovely friends now. We always laugh together, hang out together, share our problems, and solve those problems together. My friends is not like a shadow. Shadow will not exist when there is no sun. Shadow exist only in a bright condition. While my friends are always there, whatever the condition. They are there when I was at the lowest condition. They are there when I was happy so we can share our happiness, too. I'm happy for having them as my best friends. When I was 5 years old, I also have a lot of friends and we played together at my house. But just now I realized that they were not beside me when I cry because I lost my candies. They even laughed at me at that time. Once more, I'm happy I can grow up 'till now so I know what is real friends mean. I know the feelings when my 'real friends' are always beside me.

Now, when my mother said that my smile is better when I was 5 years old, I can say " Because it was all I can do. No wonder my smile is very beautiful. Because I just concern how to smile at that time, Mom. "

Although my smile is not as beautiful as before, but I am happy. See? Life is still about happiness, although you are not in the kindegarten anymore.

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Struggle, Sacrifice, and being Grateful

"You will never be happy if you are searching for what happiness consist of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. " Albert Camus 

You will not find the meaning of life on Google or Yahoo!. You can not define what life it is by reading a lot of books at library. Every single person have their own opinion and definition about life. They got it from their own experience, when they live their life. So, what's the meaning of life for you?


For me, life is like climbing a mountain. It's difficult, but when you are on the top, the scenery is very beautiful.

I can almost see it

That dream I am dreaming
But there's a voice inside my head saying
"You'll never reach it"

Every step I'm taking
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking

But I gotta keep trying
Gotta keep my head held high
There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose
Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down
But no, I'm not breaking
I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm gonna remember most, yeah
Just gotta keep going
And I, I got to be strongJust keep pushing on
Keep on moving, keep climbing
Keep the faith, baby
It's all about, it's all about the climb
Keep the faith, keep your faith, whoa
(Miley Cyrus - The Climb)

I'm sure all of us have our own dreams. The way how to reach our dreams sometimes will be very difficult. There are a lot of obstacles, temptations, and many things that bring us down. Sometimes it makes us surrender and shake our faith. But, hey! Life is about struggle and sacrifice. Whatever the condition, we have to keep our faith for our dreams. Although it will be very difficult, but trust me. When you have reached your dreams, the feelings will be......uh I think it's difficult enough to be explained. Trust me, it works! So, never give up to reach your dreams! Life will makes you stronger, guys.

We all live our life now. And sometimes, life does not run as well as we expected. We face a lot of problem and a hundred reasons to cry. We fail, we do the mistakes, we regret, or we have confusion. However, we also have a lot happiness in our life and a thousand reasons to smile. We share, we have a lovely family, we have a lot of funny friends, we are normal, we can see the beautiful rainbow outside, we can smell the rain's smell, we have dreams to be catch, and we have God Who will always protect us and bless our life. The point is, we should live our life happily! Open your eyes, and look within. Are you satisfied with your life? No? Really? Hey. We should be very grateful for having this kind of life while other people do not have it. Every people's life is unique and can not be felt by others. So, once more, we should be very grateful because of this life which is full of joy. Realize it! Keep on struggling, sacrifice, and always be grateful, so you will see the beautiful scenery from the top! :-)

FAIR ELECTION : Everyone reserve the right to vote and to be voted!

Election process in dormitory to choose new head of dormitory committee

When we hear a word “election”, what’s on our mind? A democratic party whis is held by our country once every five years to choose our next governor? Yes, that is not wrong and that is what mostly people think about election. But, since I became the students of SMAN 10 Malang and lived in dormitory, this paradigm has been changed.

Three weeks ago, there were an election to choose the head of dormitory committee in my dormitory. That was held by captain of 9 houses and it was commanded by Mr. Muslich, our Head of Dormitory. The election process was very interesting. The process and the rules of this election were made as good as the rules of the national election for choosing our new governors. There were an interview test, opened campaign, and public debate. They also made a rule said that the one who will become the new head of dormitory committee have to get at least 125 votes of the students.

And after all of those election process has been done, the students were free to choose their new leader in dormitory. I was there –of course– and I became the witness so I saw the counting process. First candidate, Nando and Mini got 113 votes while Tedy and Bahrul got 101 votes. The rest chose Pandu and Nizam. Suddenly, the committee made an unilateral decision. They decided that Nando and Mini became the new head and vice head of dormitory committee although they get less than 125 votes, as the rule said before. Some of my friends said, “ It’s ok. I know that the committee were very tired to made this election. So they don’t need to make the second round election. “ While my other friends said “ It’s not fair. They break their own rule and it makes me dissappointed! ”.

So, what do you think about this kind of case, when the election process doesn’t ran as the rule said? Should we call it as an unfair election while the principle of election in Indonesia which are LUBER JURDIL has been applied there? As we know, fair in this case means all people reserve the right to vote and to be voted if they are suit with the criterias. In my opinion, the election process in dormitory has applied it, so we can call it as a fair election. When we talk about the violated rules, I think it is just about the mechanism of the elction process and it is not a big problem as long as the candidates has been agree with that decision. So, essentially, the elction process around me has been fair and it has applied the principle of election. Oh ya, by the way, congratulations Nando and Mini! Good luck for making this dormitory better! J

Teacher's grades by the students. Is it allowed?

The most important elements of a school are the students and the teachers. They live together in school to do their own job. Teachers teach the students and students are given knowledge by the teachers to study. As the older person, teachers have to be respected by the students. Moreover they are the one who give us knowledge.

When we talk about the relationship between teachers and students, there are a lot of case. When I watched a news on television last month, there was a teacher who blame his student because the student said something about him that he does not like. As a teacher, is it right that he deserve to do that? When actually what the student said is the reality. Is it right that students are not allowed to grade their teachers?

Some people said that students should not allowed to grade their teachers, because teachers are the one who give us their knowledge. So we do not deserve to make them dissappointed and angry because of our grades to them. We have to respect them. We have to receive them as they are and we just need to absorb their knowledge.

In my own opinion, students should be allowed to grade the teachers, as long as they way how to do it is right. Teachers should know and care what are the students’ opinion about them. They need to know whether they have been a good teacher or not based on their students’ opinion. They need to know when they have to change their teaching method or their attitude to their students. And when students think that teachers should be changed, the teachers have to do it. So, the teaching and learning activities can be done well. The students can absorb the knowledge well, and the teachers can deliver their knowledge well too. The mos expected effect is relationship between students and teachers will be better with this transparancy. Even they will look like a mother/father with their children and a comfortable condition at school will be created.

Homework, good or bad for us?

“ A lot of homework make me tired and bored. “ I’m sure that some student have ever said that kind of statement, including me. When you want to refresh your mind on weekend and holiday but a lot of homework are waiting for you to be done, what will you feel? Sometimes I am sullen although I know what is the reason of my teacher why they give a lot of homework to us.

The teacher give us homework because they want their student to study. They know that some students will not study if they have no homework and examination. Homework will help them to study because to do their homework, students have to open their books and read it, right? It will also help the teachers to grade the students. They will know whether she/he is dilligent students or not by their continuity to do his/her homework. Homework will also help to increase our score on student report when our examination scroe is not too good. Because I believe that some teacher will take the score of our homeworks to their scoring book and combinate it with our examination score to make it better. That’s why homework is very helpful for us.

But, as I said before, sometimes homework makes students tired. They do not have any leisure time to refresh their mind, even in a long holiday, such as Idul Fitri Holiday because their teachers give a lot of homework to them. And for some students who are need to study and read their books intensively, they are not agree that homework is very helpful. Because they will study whether there is a homewrok or not. They even feel that homework is very harmful because it decreases their time to read the book intensively. They said that when we do our homework, it’s right that we will read the book. But it’s just a skimming and scanning method, just to find the answer of our homework. So we can’t get the knowledge well.

Back to the ‘law’ said that everything have positive and negative sides. But in my own opinion, homework is very useful as long as it’s not too much and teachers should pay attention to their students’ time to refreshing that is very needed. If the students are stress with their assignment, it’s possible to make their performance at school down, right? Whatever it is, students should do their homework, because that’s exactly our job as a students.

Be careful, computer addiction is harmful!

Nowadays, technology has dominate all of our life aspect. A lot of gadget have been created and it always evolve all the times. Some people don’t even realize that they ‘think’ they can’t live without their gadget nearby. One of the most useful technology in our daily life is computer which is very related to the internet connection. Both of them are very important for us. But, have you ever realize that both of them also have negative and positive sides?

Computer can’t be separated from students in this era. When they find some difficulties on their assignment, they use the internet connection to search it on Google, Yahoo, etc.  So it’s clear that computer is very useful for students. Computer also has some other feature. We can listen to music, playing games, or watch a movie by using computer. In other words, computer can help us to be happy, amused, and refresh our mind. Besides, we can do social networking on computer. It’s also an advantages of computer, right? We can have some new friends and find our old friends in it.

The paragraph above shows us that computer hasa lot of advantages. But, when we are too dependant to computer, the advantages can be the disadvantages which is very harmful for us. Some people can be very addicted to computer, till when they face their computer screen, they won’t care about their surrounding. How if some people prefer to play with their computer rather than gather with their family? It will makes a hurmonious family, right? It makes the qualities of a relationship decrease because there is no direct communication between each other, because some people prefer to use social network. The most harmful disadvantages of computer are when some wrong information is spreading in some website. The cyber crime will be increase, such as cracking, hacking, and phising. Besides, the computer will makes the student’s academic report worse because some students prefer to play computer rather than read their books.

Based on my explaination above, we can concluse that computer will be very helpful if we use it wisely and we’re not too dependant on it. Sometimes, we can use other stuffs which have same function as computer. We can use books to find the answer of our assignment, right? We can play with our friends and family to entertain and refresh our mind, right? So, everything is depend on you, guys!

WELCOME!

hey, I'm Mentari Rizki Amelia, part of #xiscience5 #littlehornbill of Sampoerna Academy Malang. Love swimming, blogwalking, and mathematics. I belong to my parent and all I want to do is make them proud of me. Engineering Management student of ITB wanna be. wish me luck! ;)

oh yaaa, this is my special blog for English task by Mama, Ms. Anis Ken. I'll share my task and my opinion here. I'll start to write on the middle of September2012. be ready! I hope my writings here will be very advantageous for you all. Gomawo! ^^