Story Mode?

The thing I enjoy to do when I have some good free time is reading stories. By reading them, I can spend my free time in better way than lazing around without doing anything. I can also expand my knowledge because some stories give me new things about the world that I did not know.

There are two kinds of stories I like to read. The first kind is fiction stories that are written by their original author, like novels or one-shot stories. It is really easy to find them. I just need to go to the bookstore and then buy some books that I think are good to read. The second kind of stories that I like to read is fiction ones that are written by fans of the first kind stories, which are called fan-fictions. These fan-fictions are commonly founded in websites, whether it is official or unofficial one, but in few countries some of them may get published by certain publisher.

Talking about my favorite fiction author, I cannot say who for there are too many to think about. Therefore, I usually divide them based on their genres. For ‘romance’ stories, I like the romantic scenes that are written by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy and Katayama Kyouichi. For ‘tragedy’, Shakespeare’s and Osamu Dazai’s works are very good to read. For ‘mystery’ stories, I would nominate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, and Edogawa Ranpo as the best mystery maker. For ‘adventures’, I can say that Mark Twain, Darren Shan, J.K. Rowling, and J.R.R Tolkien write some good stories that can make me feel absorbed to their world. For the ‘fairytale’, I really love Andersen for his originality in making one. And then, for ‘life-matter’ stories, Souseki Natsume, Fahri Asiza, and Donny Dhirgantoro are my favorite authors.

Maybe for some other people, my fondness about stories is a bit boring, but still, I like it very much that whenever someone talk about them with me, I will get really exited.

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I Love Watching Music Performances

As a music lover, I’m interested in watching live music performances. There are some reasons why I love doing it. First, I can directly meet the artists and watch their real performances, especially if the artists are well known and their songs are great. Second, attending music performance can be a reunion time since many of my friends excited in watching it as well. Third, I can enjoy the music with other audiences so we can sing along or even dance together. Forth, watching it is both relaxing and joyful. Thus, it is always interesting whenever I get a chance to attend the music performances.

The best concert that I have watched so far is BoyzIIMen’s. The concert was started by performance of Glenn Fredly and Ello. After their performances, the concert was delayed for two hours due to BoyzIIMen’s coming late. I was quite upset and so are the other audiences, but when BoyzIIMen appeared on stage, we were extremely exciting so it was worth waiting. BoyzIIMen performed really well and made us sang along during the concert. The best song that BoyzIIMen presented was Song for Mama, because the light was turned off and we were ordered to turn on the light of our cell-phones and raised them so the cell-phones were like shining stars in the venue. In conclusion, BoyzIIMen successfully created a romantic and unforgettable moment that night despite the two-hour delay.

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my music, my friend

My hobby is listening to the music, because music is meaningful. The lyrics, the tones, and all of the other parts of music have a mean and bring some messages. It can be a media to express our feeling. So it’s not just a sound, but for me it is a living poem.
I like many kinds of music, depend on my feeling at that time. When I am sad, I usually listen to mellow music, such as Take Me to Your Heart by MLTR, Alive by Jennifer Lopez, Gomenasai by TATU, Hero by Mariah Carey, or sometimes I listen to classic music too, although most of the teenagers like us are not interested in listening classic music. When I feel happy, I usually listen to cheerful music, such as Sweet Dream by Jang Na Ra, Stars Are Blind by Paris Hilton, Intuition by Jewel, etc. When I am doing assignments I usually listen to hip hop music that can make me conscious, e.g. Tokyo Drift, All about Us by TATU, My Band by D12, etc.
I have a special experience with music. When I was in Senior High School, I got depressed and I didn’t know whom I can talk to. At that moment, unintentionally I heard Losing Grip sung by Avril Lavigne, and I was attracted with that song. Then, I bought her album. Every time I remember my problems, I listened to the songs in that album. By listening to those songs, I felt like there was someone accompanied and understood me. Since that time, I consider music my friend in every season.

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things I like and dislike

things i like is chatting on the internet. i can spend many hours just for chatting. With chatting, i can make friend from all over the world. Chatting is also good to practice my english, because when i have chat with people in other country, i use the english. Sometimes, i feel saver to tell secret to my cyber friend when chatting because we dont know each other. Cyber friend from chatting are also very entertain me, because they sometime say unusual thing. But I will never dare to meet my friend from cyber world.
In other hand, I really hate calculus. I think it is very hard for me to understand it. Besides, i really find a difficulty in calculating. To see the objects and symbols in calculus really make me feel dizzy. In addition i really hate to remember many formula in the calculus .I really seldom get a good scores in calculus, but most of my friend can get good score easily. That's why I really hate calculus.

beautiful village, Sumedang

My hometown, Sumedang, has many good place for recreation. Most of them is natural recreation place. In nangorak, you can find agrobusiness area in Sumedang. There are many kind of agriculture plant, such as strawberry and melon which you can crop by your self. Beside that, you can go for fishing in there, otherwise you can also do the wild camp. Many hot springs water are also available in sumedang. There are Cipanas Congeang and Cipanas Cileungsi. those place are very attractive for its beautiful hot spring water and completed with the facilities.
Sumedang is also a place for history. There are many place which is full of history. Gunung kunci is one of the history inheritance. it is a place where dutch built a cave for fortress. Cut Nyak Dien one of the national hero was died in Sumedang. her grave located in gunung puyuh area. There is a unique aceh mosque built near her grave.

Things I like and I don't

Basketball is one of my favorite sports. When I’m bored, I can lose that feeling by playing basketball. It also makes me healthy. I love it because I can get more friends. I really like it when I score. It makes me proud. There is so much passion when I play basketball. Basketball can make me feel very happy when I won but also very anxious when I lose.

The other things that I like is watching movie. I usually watch movie on weekend. I like it because it can improve my English. I also like it because it makes me think the purpose of life. I learn many things from watching movies. Movies can entertain me when I’m sad or bored or confused.

I don’t really like to read novel. I don’t like it because it has so many letters without picture. And usually the story is very long so it took me many days to read it. Especially romantics novel. Usually the story line is the same. And sometimes I can’t really get the ending.

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To see deeper

Drawing is how to see things in a different way. For me, drawing is how to see things in detail. Seeing an object, think of it, then translate in on to a media. It is an activity that involves your eyes, brain, and also your hands. Eyes to see object, brain to make a creativity about the object, and hands to create an image on the media.

I love drawing because of it’s freedom. When you desire to create a drawing on a media, no one could rule you what to draw. It is something personal that every person could make a different drawing about an object. Drawing is part of art. In art, no one could give exact measure about right or wrong. It is just about relativity of human sense.

I draw since I was a little girl. Ever since I was able to hod a pencil, my mother often give me pieces of paper to draw on or to write on. I used to draw everything that I saw in a simple way. I drew many things. For example, I drew nature scene that I saw when I walked around in the morning, other object is living things, I drew my mother, my cats, trees in front of my house, and so on. I drew all of that with my on perception. I do not care whenever people understand or not.

Now, I am studying in architecture field. In this field we make a lot of drawing. But, there are some differences with those that I made before. In this field, drawing is to communicate. I have to able to make people understand my drawing. In the other word, now, I have to make a drawing in a certain context. There are some rules.

Even now I make a different kind of drawing, I still love drawing. It is something amazing for me when I am able to built a shelter for people by my drawing.

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Things I Like and Dislike

Bekasi, Jakarta and Yogyakarta

Hometown for me has several meanings. First, hometown is the place when me and my family live and spent our daytimes. Second, hometown is the place that my grand mother and the other of big family live. Third, hometown is the the place where my parents came from. Bekasi is the answer for the first meaning. My house is in Bekasi. My parents and my siblings live there. It is the place where I used to live before study here, in Bandung. From the second meaning, Jakarta is the the answer, because most of my big familiy live in this city. And from the third meaning, the answer is Yogyakarta. It is the city where my father come from.
Bekasi is my first hometown. It’s near Jakarta, and it usually called the satelite city, because it supports Jakarta. Now Bekasi is on the move. It can be seen by the shopping malls and the hotel in the center of the city. They are: Metropolitan Mall 1&2, Mega Bakasi, Hero Plaza and also Hotel Horison.
Jakarta is my second hometown. I was born in this city 18 years ago. Jakarta is a very crowded city, but nice. It is fulled with hustle and bustle and it is absolutely polluted. But one thing about Jakarta that differs it from other city in Indonesia is the name of “Metropolitan City”. Jakarta takes the most important city in Indonesia because it is the center of Indonesian government where all of the policies, laws and regulations related to Indonesia made.
Yogyakarta is my third hometown. It is a famous as one of the main tourism and destinations in Indonesia. It’s absolutely a beautiful-cultural city. Where you can see a lot of cultural heritances like ‘Keraton’, museums, temples, etc. I also like the people of Yogyakarta because they are nice and friendly.
Besides the rich of the cuture, Yogyakarta also has several well known names. They are ‘City of Gudeg’ and ‘City of Students’. It is called city of gudeg because Yogya is very famous for this traditional food, Gudeg is a very delicious food consits of vegetables, eggs and even soybean curd. Named ‘The city of student‘ is because there are so many school and universities there, both private and state.
I rarely go to Yogyakarta, maybe once in a year during the ‘Lebaran holiday’. Last time I went there wason November 2006. It was quiet different from the last time I saw. As we know, in May 2006, Yogyakarta was shocked by an earthquake. , and that what made it different. In some places, there were so many historical sites collapsed and damaged by the earhquake. For example, part of Prambanan Temple, Keraton etc. .
I was very sad. I had several families there, and fortunately they were all right. After all, Yogya is still Yogya. Their spirits and willingness to rebuild Yogya is remarkable. They are tough and strong-hearted man. So I hope the people Yogya can totally get up and together rebuild our beloved city.

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I love sports

I like to do some sports. I don't know why, I only fell happy when I do sport. From what I read, when you do some sports your brain produces a hormone called endhophrin more than normal. It makes you feel more relax and make you forget all problem that you face.

From elementary school until high school I join basketball school team. At elementary school we never win because we don't have basketball coach, we only have school teacher who like basketball and would like to teach us.

At Junior highs school I only joined school team on first and second grade because I stopped play basketball at third grade, I was concentrate for final exam that day.

I joined my high school basketball team only for one year, because the distance between my house and my school is too far and the practice is finished at seven o'clock.

Today, futsall is my favorite sport, I play almost every week at night. I make friend with many people since then.

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Jakarta, my city

I have been live in Jakarta since I was born, but when I was in elementary school I moved to Bekasi to get closer to my school. I stayed in Bekasi until I graduated from junior high school, then I came back to Jakarta.

Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia, that's why all kind of activities like economic, politic, and security are controlled in Jakarta. But, the most bad thing about Jakarta is it's crowded traffic. People from other city surround Jakarta come ever morning to go to work, they drive their own car. Jakarta is also has a predicate as the third city with polluted air in the world.

Jakarta also has many entertainment place like malls, ancol, dufan, etc. People in Jakarta are very consumtif and the investors know about this so they built hundred of malls all over Jakarta. If you visit Jakarta don't forget to visit ancol and dufan, you won't get regret.

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What I Like and What I Don't Like

Thing that I don’t like most is waiting. Waiting is such a bore. Especially when I have to wait without doing anything in quite a long time. Spending half of our time with doing nothing, that’s worthless and bores me a lot. That’s why I don’t like waiting. I much better like to be waited than to wait.

The other thing that I dislike is being forced. I’m not the kind of girl that you can easily to be forced. Because in my opinion, if I don’t like something, so why do I have to do it? Even though I know that thing is good for me but if I don’t want to, I won’t do it. I just don’t like being forced. The only person that can force me are my mother and my lecturer because it’s related to my duties as a human and a college student.

Those are some of my dislike things. And what do I like?

There are many things I like to do. One of it is reading. I’ve been addicted to books since when I was a child. Because my mother used to buy me comic books when I was a child. So I get use to read until now. My favorite reading is still comic. I just can’t have fun without it. I read story about romance mostly. But I also read about comedy, fantasy, gangster, and anything but epic. I just don’t have an interest in epic. Beside comic, I love to read novel too. My favorite novel is Harry Potter. Nothing can beat it. Moreover, I’m a fan of Sophie Kinsella’s novels. I read many of her books.

I’m really fond of hanging out with my friends too. I do a lot of things with my friends just to have some fun. I watch movie together, karaoke together, chat about anything. That’s what girls usually do. Having fun is what I really like most.

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Like and Dislike

I like doing many things, depends on the purpose. When I got bored, I like to spend my time watching movie, reading novel, and doing a window-shopping. It is relaxing and fun to do.
When I was happy, I like hanging out with my friends, cleaning out my room, and doing my assignment. It will done better, because I did it with pleasure. It would be different if I did it when I was in a bad mood.
When I got confused and depressed, I like to get over it by crying, eating chocolate, and share my problem to my best friends. They usually can give me the way out, and help me solving my problem.
The things I do not like are getting a bad mark, being ignored, being alone, and especially waiting someone who is late. I know that I am not the most on time person in the world, but at least I never late for more than 1 hour. It is so boring, waiting someone for 2 hours alone and has nothing to do.
Those are the things that I like and dislike.

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Drawing Freak

Academic Writing 08: TASK 2


I like drawing any stuffs interest me. Those are manga, graffiti, and architecture buildings. It's all because each of them has special unique identity. Manga visualizes people and everything around in cartoon or simple style. Graffiti is just kind of single word art in colors, but by using scale, we could enlarge it and stick it on the wall. Architecture got special characteristics in drawing lines, rendering materials, coloring shapes and so on.

There is a chronological story about how they come into my life and be my lovely object to be drawn. They arrived one-by-one since i was in primary school, high school until now in the institute. First of all, the story began when American cartoon 'Walt Disney' influences kids in 90's. Afterwards, used to draw each of it's freaky animal. I was getting more interested in cartoon. As the time goes on, a new comer cartoon from Japan called 'Manga' interests me more than 'Walt Disney' does. Having my self studied in high school, another art for teenagers attracts me. Day by day, i learned from experience and got my drawing skill upgraded to be able to create graffities. I love to do such a thing like that. Eventually, architectural art shows me different side view in the artistic of buildings. That's why i wonder how to create buildings in the context of architectural art. Besides, that's my own duty to study architecture in ITB now.

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I Love Bandung !!!!

I really love my hometown, bandung. There are two reasons why i loved my hometown, the foods and the buildings.

Foods in Bandung are incredible. You won't get starve if you live in Bandung, because here you can find food anywhere and anytime. The choice are vary, from traditional food to international food. And the price are also vary from the cheapest one to the most expensive one.

The heritage is another thing abou Bandung that makes me proud of my hometown. Bandung has so many beautiful old historical buildings like Gedung Merdeka, gedung Sate, Villa Isola,etc. Those buildings mostly winesses historical moments that very impotant back then.

I hope those amazing things I love about Bandung will always exist. Because Bandung without its icon and landmarks are nothing.
I LOVE BANDUNG VERY MUCH !!!!

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Listen to The Tranquil Whisper of The Madame Nature

I am an architecture student in ITB. Being in my first year in my undergraduate programme which I call it as adaptation year, and burdened by a lot of tasks everyweek, surely I can sometimes get exhausted and bored. Moreover when I miss my hometown, I can really get stressed. So, sometimes I can really feel depressed.

Considering about this fact, I one-hundred-percent know that I need to refesh myself whenever I get bored and depressed. Then I start to join outdoor activities, such as outbond, since I find out that indoor ones (watching, listen to music, playing games in computer, chatting, etc) already have no effect fo me in effort to entertain myself.

There is once when I joined my friend to have an outbond, I walked alone in mountains and felt so pleasure. From that day, I know what I really need to do when I start to get bored and depressed. From that day too, I start to love this activity, to walk in mountains. In the same time, I can totally get refreshed and find inspirations. Not only that, by walking in the mountains, I feel closer to the nature, get fresh air, and see the great natural beauty. The most important for me is that walking alone in mountains provides me the serenity of the great nature of our amazing world.

Until now, I am still falling in love wih this simple activity. My mind will always become calm and fresh as I walking around in the mountains, breath in the fresh air, look at the green scene, and listen to the tranquil whisper of the madame nature.

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Parisj Van Java

Bandung known as Parijs Van Java since 1920. At the first time, bandung was known as the city where the European live. The European whose live in Bandung run their life just like when they are in Europe. They still depend on their culture as if they were in Europe among our native traditional culture. Their house, their way of life, food, even their dress just like the other European whose live in Europe. It was happened when jaarbeurs, in other word, we could say as Pasar Malam in Indonesian language. Event where people gathering together at Aceh street, it was full of live music, theater, drama and else. The event held in June to July every year. Not only that, Braga street is also the reason why Bandung known as Parisj Van Java. There are lot of building designed and built by European Architect. Architect called it as Art Deco, just like we seen in Gedung Sate. At Braga, people buy and sell dress and other commercial thing those were famous in Europe too. Neither in the morning nor in the evening, Bandung full of European people do their activity, because of that, Bandung known as Parisj van Java.

Bandung is also known as city with full of special culture that makes it become the city where tourist spent their vacation. Not only from outside, Indonesian people, especially whose not from west java, like to spent their vacation in Bandung. In 80’s, bandung was known from its “Kelom Geulis”, honestly, writer did not know about this thing. In 90’s, center of jeans, Cihampelas and also center of shoes, Cibaduyut, become the place that most people visited just to have some fresh air or walking around to have a nice weekend. Also Cibadak mall that provide shirts, trousers, and other dress with cheap price. And now on, Bandung known as heaven for who love shopping, with its factory outlets, those sell fashion needs and other wardrobe for people who really care about how to be fashionable. Not only factory outlet, there are also distribution outlet those sell wardrobe with touch of “creativity” from the young. Bandung is well known as place for who want to try many weird food, weird because not all of the food is available in other province of Indonesia. Food like batagor, oncom, peuyeum, keripik, and brownies. That is why Bandung become place where people like to spent their vacation.

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What I like

There are numerous things that I like to do in my spare time, drawing sketches and listrening to musics. I like to draw sketches because it can keeps me a way from boredom. When I feel bored, I could just grab myself a piece of paper and a pencil and go outside to find a perfect object and just sketch it. i don't know how it works but when I sketch, I feel like I'm in a world when I can do anything. I feel like I'm the one who has the authority to make my own new object without hurting the old one.
The second thing that I like to do is listening to musics, because it can help my head to just relax for a while. Listening to musics also helps me to concentrate when I'm studying and keeps me busy when I'm bored.

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Don't Ask Me to Swim

There are so many things I like doing. Activity I like doing the most is reading novel. I like it since I was in the first grade of junior high school. I always do it in my spare time. Even though I like novel, I don’t read all of the kind of novel. I don’t really like easy-read novel such as teenage novel. I like novel about mystery because it can make me feel that I am a part of the story. I also like novel about reality, such as ‘A Child Called It’ by Dave Pelzer.

Beside activity I like doing, there is activity I hate doing. Activities I hate doing are waiting and swimming. Waiting makes me bored. It’s better for me to do something while I am waiting than doing nothing. Reading while I am waiting makes me feel better. I don’t like swimming because I have a trauma. I ever drowned myself when I was in first grade of high school. Since drowning, I don’t want to swim anymore.

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What I Like And Dislike

What I really like doing is reading. There are three reasons why I like reading. The first is that reading doesn’t need much energy. When we read a book or something else, we just need or stand, don’t need a move. We put our mind and our eyes on what we read. Next reason is that reading can improve your mind. By reading, whether we realize or not, our knowledge can improve by itself, particularly when you read newspaper or magazine that report about events around us. The last reason is that reading can be done anytime and anywhere we want. It doesn’t need any preparation. It doesn’t need any special time or place.

What I really hate doing is waiting. Waiting needs patience and time. Coincidentally, I don’t counted myself as person with patient nature. It makes me feel boring and wasting time. Besides, it wastes my emotion because I always keep asking myself to be patient to keep waiting.

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My Hobby Is...

My hobby is having a tour. The tour maybe a trip to the other city, such as a trip to Jakarta or Yogyakarta. It can be a tour in the outskirts of city. The tour can be only walking around the city, like walking around in the centre of Bandung.

There are many things to do and to get when I having a tour. Taking picture from my trips is my favorite activity, because I like to be a photographer. At the moment I having a tour, there will be somebody who being my new friend. When I getting bored, walking around the city can refresh my mind and give me some kind of fun. The most important thing that I can get from having a tour is the new experience, it is make my knowledge wider.

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Letting Go With Music

Most of the things I like to do involves with music. Those things include, playing music instruments (either playing solo or in a band), singing, and dancing. I like doing those things because they give me the opportunity to let go of any feelings I have and then somehow help me to relax.

Singing and playing guitar helps me to let go of my feelings. Sometimes when I am happy, sad, angry, or just when something is bugging me, I play and sing songs I like with my guitar or play random chords on my guitar and humming some notes. I never quite make the humming and the random chords into a song, but it helps me to let go of my feelings so that I can feel more relax.

Dancing also gives me almost the same sense of relaxing and expressing myself but in a different way. For example, one time, I came into my dance practice feeling very tired and gloomy. I didn’t want to come to the practice but I had to because we were about to perform in a week. When my dance teacher played the music, I started to feel like dancing. I dance through the routine and I felt that I could let go of my gloom and tiredness through the dance move. I felt freer.

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Swimming everyday

One of the things that I like the most is swimming. I started doing it since i was in elementary school. I was about 8 years old at that time and now I am 19 years old. At first, i practiced swimming only for keeping my health. But day by day i practised, my coach thought that i had a potential to be an athlete. So i started to practiced everyday, at morning and at afternoon.
Practicing everyday made me stronger and faster. I also joined many competitions and won in some of them. But this regular habit and regular activity also made me feel bored. Besides, i also leaved some activities that i liked only for concentrating in swimming. Finally, when i was in the third grade of junior high school, i stopped practicing and leaved anything about swimming. It didn't happen long. I can't hate swimming. I still like swimming although I don't practice everyday as an athlete. That's why I joined a unit of swimming in my campus called URPA. In this unit, I can practice swimming again although it just for fun, not for fight.

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My Favorite Sport

Softball is my favorite thing. I’ve been playing softball since I was twelve years old (now I’m eighteen years old). Softball is played by groups, so I absolutely have to join a team if I want to play softball. I will have a coach and some partners. I and the other players in my team have to work together harmoniously so I can play well and win the game. I have to be nice and understand each other. I find many different person characteristics there. I have to reduce my ego. If I can’t work together with the others or my team doesn’t like me, I won’t be chosen to play by my coach no matter how expert I am. I have to be discipline. If I come late than the exercise schedule or when we have a match, I will inflict not only me but also my team. Because in softball players have different position that can not always be substitutes by other players.
I got many things from softball. I learn so much here. I learn to understand other people, I learn to reduce my ego, I learn respect the others, I learn to be sportive, and many other things. The most precious thing that I’ve been taught from softball is “we have to fight and work hard for something that we want to reach”. My teammates, my seniors, and my coach now seem like my real brothers or sisters. I share many things with them. They sometimes give me some advice for my problems. So I guess, I got not only friends but also a family here.
Softball is my favorite thing, but being alone is a thing I hate the most. I hate waiting alone, I hate walking alone, I hate eating alone, etc. I always try not to being alone. Maybe it makes me love to knows each other and love to make friendship with everyone. The most thing I’m afraid is “when I’m sad there’s no one to share my cry with, and when I feel very happy there’s no one to share my laugh with”

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(What I Love Doing) My hobby

Everybody has a hobby, whether it’s playing sports, listening to music, or even studying. Each of those hobbies is enjoyed by different personalities. Artsy people usually are interested in music or poems, active people usually like sports, lazy people usually likes sleeping, and so on.
I am one of the artsy people. That’s one of the reasons why I’m into making poems. I get inspired by so many things in life and I really love expressing them by writing poems. For me, poems are the best way to pour art and passion.
The other reason why I love making poems is that it gives me a chance to show my personality or more precisely, the other side of me that my friends or family have never seen. For example, in real life I am a very easy going girl and I live life in the simplest way you can imagine. But in my poems, you can see me as a really deep and very confused person. This means that a poem can show whether the person who wrote it is skeptic or positive-thinking, emotional or patient, hateful or lovable, mature or childish, or even a living dreamer.
One thing about poem writers is that they usually have a lot of thoughts. Some even have too many thoughts that they see this world in a too dramatic way, which is a negative impact for their personality.
Other than that poems are so effective in expressing my feelings. It can give me a chance to tell people how I feel, without even thinking how I say it and whether people would understand it. By writing poems, I can express my feelings in a disorganized way, write the most illogical thing and it could still be called an art because those poems are inner feelings of a writer. We can’t lie because there are some feelings inside us that are hard to understand that not even we could understand. So when I pour those feelings into poems, I can show people how my real emotions are.
As you can see above, making poems is one of the things that I love doing. Hope you can see how passionate I am about it and why I am.

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My Ideal Town

Bandung is an ideal town for me. Bandung isn’t a big city as Jakarta, but Bandung has many facilities almost like Jakarta. If you looking for a good university to study in, Bandung has some well known universities such as Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Universitas Pajajajaran (Unpad), Universitas Parahyangan (Unpar), Maranata, and many others. If you just want to shop around, there are many malls, factory outlets, and boutiques here. Bandung also has a lot of restaurants and cafes that serve variant delicious foods and drinks with variant prices. And if you want to find fresh air and beautiful scenery, you can go to Lembang, Tangkuban Perahu Mountain, Taman Hutan Raya Djuanda(in north bandung), Ciwidey, Kawah Putih, and Pangalengan (in south Bandung). You can get almost everything you need in Bandung. That’s why I love bandung very much.
On the other side Bandung has some minus too. If you see with seriously, you will realize that Bandung is a quite dirty town. You will see many rubbish are thrown by people at many places. Bandung now famous with its traffic jam.We often get trapped by traffic jam on several main streets in Bandung. In former times Bandung had cool temperature air. But now not again, Bandung has become warmer and sometimes too hot in the afternoon. The air of Bandung isn’t fresh anymore, mostly in center of the town. Many trees had been cut down and now being replaced by building construction.
All the damages and the troubles that happen in Bandung are caused by bad habits of its citizen. Many people in Bandung break the traffic rules such as crossing the road without using the zebra cross, stopping the car on the forbidden spot, ignoring the traffic lamp, etc. All of that causes traffic jam. Some of citizen did not throw rubbish to the right place. They throw their rubbish to anywhere they want. And make Bandung dirty. Cut down the trees and too much pollution from motor vehicles cause the pollution of Bandung air and higher the air temperature too.
So, if we (Bandung citizen) do really care about Bandung why don’t we take care our Bandung from now. Stop breaking the rules, stop cutting the trees, stop damaging and contaminating Bandung, reduce “the grey development”, and any other action that might harms Bandung. Start to make bandung better. Start it from our self, start it from little things, and start it from now.

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Behind the Wonderfull Lights of Jakarta at Night

Jakarta is a town which have never died. It goes from the time that people usually go to work and until some of us maybe already asleep. But while we were sleeping, there still people who go and enjoy Jakarta, different way from some people used to do. For teenagers, Jakarta is the perfect place to “hang out” and show their capability to be a grown-up. But for parents, Jakarta might not be the place that you can feel free to let your child go and enjoy their life.
We can tell that night life is equal to the life at the clubs. In Jakarta, clubs usually opens just for adults. These places only allow person with ID card showing that they are 17 years old and above. Many people did not realize that some of the ID cards they are showing are not real. So, automatically, teenagers under 17 years old are entering places that they shouldn’t be there yet. Not only by showing their identity, for some people, they don’t need their ID card because they have the guest list. Their friend asks them if they want to come and join the party, and they give the “guest list” for free. They smoke, drink, and the worst thing that might happen is drugs.
Many parents didn’t know about their child behaviour. They tell their parents that they want to sleep at their friend’s house. Or they got homework and haven’t done yet doing it at a friend’s house. They lie just to go and enjoy what they call life. Social life that maybe doesn’t good for them who doesn’t have the basic knowledge of what might happen to them in those clubs. Teenage nowadays are very smart to protect their alibi from going to clubs, especially teenagers in Jakarta.
These things happen everywhere in this world, or in the smaller part, Indonesia. But Jakarta is the most dangerous city that can cause a bad thing for your child. All of these things happen because Jakarta got no strict rule for many clubs here in Jakarta. People did not take this seriously and if we are not the one who cares about this, no one does. They will keep allowing children under age to enter the clubs and without knowing it; your child might be one of them. So, for you who have a child in Jakarta or studying here in Jakarta, you should take an extra care of them. Everything can happen and it is your responsibility to take a good care of them.

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Opera vs Poem

"When people like it (Opera),they could have been die for it,but when they dont,they still respected it"---Sir O.Henry

I am the one who mad about opera. Opera for me,is such a precious thing. In order to get an act in opera,i like doing vocalising. Vocalising means singing in Operatic/cantabile/classic styles. It requires a good technique to produce good quality and strong voices. By vocalising, I able interpreting the opera scores in my own style. It is very hard to understand the scores,because instead of many of them wrote in latin or italic,they have several emotions divines on it,the singers should bring such as emotions appeal into their performance,so the audience will understand trully the meaning of the pieces. That, requires sight reading ability to read the scores,imagining the unreal note at different key is the key . The sight reading itself, depends on the composer's character, creating a scores.Some are very calm, some very emotional and some are very melancholic.So in order to perform good interpretation of opera,i did a lot of practices in vocalising.

Based on my interest in Opera, i've been take part in many musical events. So far, i've been participating on Singing in Wisconsin competitions, Mozart Competition 2003,St. peter's Choirs and Royal Music conservatory. While i'm in the States, I achieved gold medal for vocal perfomance (opera category) of Wisconsin Music Affair 2003, The stars gold medal for musical interpreting and the gold medal for vocal jazz performance.Another achievement is,the roling play as Dorabella on Minessota Opera sesons "The Magic Flute" composed by Mozart.Those are very ingenious experiences of singing. I really hope i can improve my ability more.

Meanwhile, contradict from being very 'operatic', I really hate read a poem. I hate it because it takes a lot of effort to understand the poem.Indeed, it is not quite different from reading the liberettos (opera's lyrics) ,but still ,poetry is such a confusing.

I have expereinced on reading Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Thoreau 's poem. It all ended up with confusion. I can't read the poet's mind in his work.I'm so numb in interpreting the emotion occurs in their wriitng.Simply, i have no sense on it.To me, It is very hard to be able sense the word in every poem.

Based on my self description above, i fully conclude myself as a person who like to be melancholic through the musical pieces not through the art of poetry/literatures.

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Interest

MY INTEREST AND MY NOT

As, a people, we have something that we like to do and we don’t. Usually we are spiritfull if we do something that we like most. But, how about if we face something that we don’t like ? People usually try to avoid this kind of thing and consider it as a problems. Otherside, some people try to cover this kind of problems by doing something that they like. As the example, I will describe my favorite and unfavorite thing and my way to solve something that I don’t like.

One thing that I like most is playing music. I like it because I consider that music is the language of adolescent. My interest of music came from my family. My family is a music lover. In my spare time, I choose to play music to cure my boredom. If I don’t have any instrument in my hand, usually I knock the table like I play a drums. My most favorite instrument is guitar.

Next, I like to play volley ball. This is my favorite sport. When I’m in the match to beat other team, I always try to perform my best spike to bet my enemy <>. Exactly, my favorite position in volley is a spiker. I like to do this kind of sport I will not be over tired and I can learn how to collaborate with others to make a strong team.

Another else is joking and make a friendship. I always want to communicate with others or new people. In fact, my friends in college wrote some testimonies and said that I’m a funny and cheer boy. Exactly I like joking because I think by laughing I can feel more relax and happier. I guest laughing is a “medicine” to keep my emotion from the boredom. I’m a person who very easy to be bored.

I don’t like waiting for something uncertain. I really hate it because I consider it is wasting time and have no results. Usually, if I pass this condition I will use the pare time to draw in a piece of paper. But, actually, I don’t really like waiting except if there is an certain ends.

Next is study in the crowd. I prefer to study in silent condition. It gives me more concentrate better than in the crowd. I will lost my focus if I found another condition occur when I study. Even I can’t study acoompanied by music.

Another is do something in hurry. I never be able to do it because I need to concentrate to what I do. Usually my result of this condition is bad organized. So I prefer to do something by relax.

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Things I Like and Hate

Two things i like the most are reading and writing. Otherwise, there are some things that I hate, such as gardening and singing.

Gardening is one of the things I hate. I hate gardening because it makes me look dirty, especially my nails and hands. Moreover, there are many worms and caterpillars in the garden, I really hate these organisms much. That’s the reasons why I hate gardening.Besides gardening, I hate singing too, because I don’t have a good voice.

Otherwise, I like writing and reading. I like writing since I was an elementary school student. I like writing in my diary, especially. Besides writing, I love reading in my spare time. There are many kinds of books that I like. The books I love the most is books by Meg Cabot because of it’s funny and interesting story.

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Bandung, Place of Great Things

Bandung is a beautiful green and flowery city. It is located at the center of West Java and surrounded by mountains. That’s why Bandung has cool climate and fresh air that makes us relax. Bandung is a great place for us to spend our vacation or weekend after our busy workdays.

After we spend our days with thinking so hard and doing many work, shopping is the right choice for refreshment of our brain. Bandung is the right place for shopping, especially clothes. In Bandung, we can find several factory outlets, the places where we can shop clothes, bags, shoes, and other fancy things. The factory outlets’ mostly located along Dago street and Riau street. Every weekends, this area is always crowded by people. They love shopping in factory outlet because of its cheap price.

If we want to grab some eat, Bandung has many choices for us. There are many restaurants or café we can choose. Not only the good taste of the food, but they also offer beautiful view of Bandung’s city lights at night, although the price is quite expensive. If we want to get some delicious and cheap cuisine, Bandung has many choices too. We can go to ‘Timbel Istiqamah’ which is located on Citarum street, ‘Ayam Cobek HQ’ on Cihapit, and many other great places to eat.

I’m sure Bandung will be a perfect place for our vacation or weekend. We can find many interesting places and enjoy the freshness of the air too.

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Yummy Gingerman Cookies and Books

Talking about things I like to do is a very hard thing to do, because I have many things that I like to do. In brief, I enjoy life. I like to do everything I have to do in life. From sleeping so soundly in my very own bed to sweating hard when I cheat during exams. However, two things I like to share here about my things-I-like-to-do, which I think shows the most of me, are making ginger-man cookies and reading books.

I like making ginger-man cookies. Although the pressure of mixing up the ingredients correctly is sometimes stressful, making ginger-man cookies are always been one of my happy moments. The best part of making ginger-man cookies is when you shape it like a shape of a man and then you garnish it with a kind of batter named icing. By garnishing it with colorful icing, you can express your creativity and have fun with it. The last thing about ginger-man cookies is it taste very delicious, it give you a warm sensation in your stomach, especially when the weather is cold.

Another fun thing I like to do is reading. It may sounds boring for some people, but for me, reading can throw away stressful feelings out of me. I can spend hours on reading, spend only a couple of days reading a 500 pages interesting novel. For that reason, I am an impulsive buyer when it comes to book. I can spend a lot of money on books without much consideration. I like almost any kind of book, except for those Indonesian teenlit series.

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Metamorphosa of Bandung

I always consider Bandung as my hometown. There are so many reasons why I always consider Bandung as my hometown. I was born in Bandung and I have spent almost my entire life here in Bandung. I studied in Bandung, from elementary school to university. Although from about 4 years ago, my home has been part of Cimahi city instead of Bandung city because of the government policy, my thought about my hometown was never change a bit. Bandung will always be my hometown.

If I flashback to about 13 years ago, to the very first time I know about Bandung, there are so many differences between Bandung 13 years ago and Bandung now in year 2007. Life changes, people say, and so have my Bandung. Changes I am proud of but also changes I am disappoint.

Bandung 13 years ago has given me so many great memories. From the mist in the early morning when I rush to school to the trees that shaded almost every road and street. I always enjoy every single trip I have in Bandung. I rarely experience traffic jams because cars are not as much as today and the weather are incredibly cool even in the daytime.

However, Bandung today was a very different city from what I remembered 13 years ago. There is no longer mist in the early morning that I can enjoy and the government cut down trees for reasons I could never understand. Development on a large scale has sacrifices so many things I love about Bandung: the trees, the weather, the population, everything. Development attracts people from other country to migrate here and make the population grow in a rapid. I heard that Bandung was design to be a city with only 700.000–800.000 inhabitants, but now Bandung’s population has grown to about 2 million people. The traffic was suck, the weather makes me stress, and the crowd of people especially in weekend is not an enjoyable view at all.

I always hope there is something I can do for my beloved Bandung. I think that is one of the reasons I took City Planning as my major in college. Bandung’s development plan must be change or else Bandung will end up like Jakarta city and its entire problem. I do not want Bandung 5 or 10 years from now become even worse that it have been now.

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Things that I love to do

I like reading. Reading has been my daily activity. Besides it can fulfill my interest and broaden my knowledge, it also can improve my English. I love to read the Tom Clancy's series, four-four-two, and the Reader Digest. Tom Clancy's novels are a kind of adventure novels that foretell about a secret agent who works alone to save the world from the danger of havoc. The Four-four-two is the soccer magazine which provides the reader with a lot of interesting stories about footballers' lifestyle and their career. Then,The Reader Digest is a magazine which conveys many useful information for the reader, the English that being used in the reader-digest is intelligible for any person.

The other thing that I like to do is watching films. I like to watch action-thriller film, such as Prison Break, it really pump up my adrenaline and entertain me.


I also like gathering around with my friends and joining their activities. I feel so much fun when playing and talking with them. In my point of view, friends are prerequisite and priceless. I feel warm and carefree when mingle with them. That's why I love to get near with my friends.

I like to have a siesta, too. I can refresh my mind and revoke my spirit with a siesta. But, it had been a long time since the last time I did that thing. Siesta has been something that I can't afford since I became a highschool student, it's all because the malignant homework that queeing for me.

Everyone has something that he/she like to do and he/she hate to do, but the feeling of refusal to do the things we hate must not be an excuse for us to abandon that things to be done.

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It taste like Mocca

I like music very much. I always enjoy listening to it, as long it’s not hip hop anyway. While listening music, I can learn english at the same time. Somehow it helps me a lot. It’s very helpfull to practice my ability to hear, to read, and to spell words in english. To me, music has been so influential. That’s why I like music so much.

My pleasure to listening music is pointed by my pleasure to listening to so many bands with all different type of genre. Mocca is one of my favorite music band. It’s kind of swing-jazz band from my hometown, Bandung. The first time I heard their song (called Me and My Boyfriend), I didn’t like it too much. But when I heard the entire album, I just knew that I really love this band. Mocca have so many differences with another local bands. First of all, Mocca using english as their main lyrics (except for their song on Untuk Rena original movie soundtrack). And the other different things from Mocca is their live performances, which is always outstanding.

Music is like the big part of my life. I just can not imagine how would my world be if there’s no melodies and lyrics on it. Music help me through every mood I’ve been going. With music, I feel my life’s taste like Mocca. Sometimes it sweet but sometimes I can taste kind of bitter on it. And once again, music help me through all of it.

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The Place I Love The Most

It is Bandung –my lovely hometown- where every place could be interesting to visit. If you got time to take holidays, I suggest you to spent your days here. There’s so many things you could do; shopping from the cheapest price to the expensive one, hunting the tasty foods (believe me here in Bandung, everything taste good), or if you don’t want to spent money you could just take a walk around Dago or Braga and enjoy the atmosphere.

Dago is one of the shopping spot in Bandung. There’s a lot of factory outlets here. And not far from the outlets you can take a lunch, dinner, or just try some snacks on food courts, cafes, or restaurants. Food’s also the reason why people came to Dago besides its factory outlets. You should try the road cafes that stand on the border line along the street. Mostly general on its menu, but sometimes you can get something you don’t on the other place.

After walking straight along the street and you go down Dago over Merdeka street, you will reach Braga. It’s a very popular street in Bandung. Here in Braga, you can find café and the old book-stores. I’m sure you will enjoy this street. I guess maybe this is one of the reasons why people called Bandung as Paris Van Java, because I can feel someplace that influence this street. Maybe Paris it is.

Anyway, Bandung is not only about Dago and Braga. I hope you can find the different sides of Bandung by visiting this city. When you find it, maybe you will love this city so much like I do. One last thing I want to remind you. That whoever you are, wherever you from, when you are about to get into this city please remember to always keep everything clean. Thank you.

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The Joyful and Peaceful Pandeglang

My hometown is Pandeglang. A small town which really different with the place that
I'm living now, Bandung. Pandeglang is located in Banten Province. It is not so far from Serang, the capital city of Banten Province. Maybe Pandeglang is an unfamiliar name for some of you. So let you know about my hometown.

It is very joyful and peaceful live in Pandeglang. First, Pandeglang is a religious town with the atmosphere of Islam religion. No wonder it is like that, because many leader Moslem live there. But the solidarity among the follower of each religion in Pandeglang is high. We respect our belief each other. The second is the nature. Pandeglang has a beautiful nature. It is surrounded by three mounts. Karang Mount, Pulosari Mount, and Aseupan Mount. Pandeglang also has awesome beaches, like Carita Beach and Pasir putih Beach. Have you ever heard Natural Conservation Ujung Kulon, with its protected rhinoceroses? It is also located in Pandeglang. Because of that, many tourists both from domestic or foreign come to enjoy all of those. For information, in Banten province, Pandeglang is the district that gets economic income most from the tourism sector and agricultural sector. So, come and visit my hometown and you will know how joyful and peaceful Pandeglang is.

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Sleeping and Vegetables

As human we need to spend our time for taking a rest after doing some activities in a day, and I think sleeping is the best way. It is known that the time which is recommended for sleeping in a day is about eight hours. But, I able to sleep over that time. I pretty like sleeping. For me, sleeping is not only to refresh the whole body. It is a must and being my hobby. I can sleep anytime and anywhere depend on my mood and situation. Many things can influence me to fall in sleep. I sleep when I’m bored and when I don’t know what I have to do or what I have to speak, like in the classroom. The weather also influences. Cold weather or a soft cool breeze is such a connector that brings me going sleep. I’m a type of person who really easy getting sleep and so much hardly to wake up afterward. I don’t know exactly why it works on me. But, while I’m sleeping, it feels like all my problems are gone and I can find my new world in my dream, whatever the dreams are. So, those are the best reasons why I like sleeping the most.

In contrast with something that I like is about an activity, something that I don’t like is a kind of food. I don’t like vegetables. My mother said, when I was child, it was no a big deal for me to eat vegetables. Until one day, I threw up when I was eating vegetable. So today, vegetables seem like horror for me. Its bitter taste is very unfriendly with my tongue. Although I know vegetables contain a lot of vitamins and minerals which useful for our body, but I think, I never want to eat vegetables until I able to forget my memory about threw up when eating vegetable.

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Bandung

Having lived in Bandung for over fifteen years, I have discovered several changes in this city. Development in some areas and urbanization have transformed it into a metropolitan area. The urbanization has caused Bandung to become a high density populated city, have a hectic traffic system and high criminal level, so I have no doubt that Bandung has quite many similarities with Jakarta. Beside Jakarta, Bandung is an attractive destination for many people in Indonesia to seek for jobs to earn their living. Unfortunately some of them haven’t successfully got the jobs therefore it makes unemployment rate in Bandung higher and affect the criminal level to become higher as well.

High population makes Bandung need more space for the people to live in. That has influenced some people to exploit natural resources excessively, particularly in the conversions of protected upland area into highland villa and real estates. Those people didn’t realize that what they had done can cause bad impact for the city in the future, such as flood, soil-erosion, and landslide. Thus, we have to conserve the environment around us in order to make a better living for present and future.

Although the city has encountered many problems, Bandung however still has its charm to attract people to visit Bandung, either as weekend travelers or living in. In conclusion, Bandung still needs to be revised in several areas so we have to think from now how to solve the problems and develop this lovely city without exploiting the environment.

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Tennis versus Basketball

The most interest things beside games in my life is sport. My body does not too good for sport, but i'd love to try all kind of sport, because I think every sport has its uniqueness and that’s make me curious.

I will discuss about one of my favourite sports here, it was tennis. I usually saw my father played tennis when I was still a little kid, he played very good and every single time he hit the ball, he impressed me very much. The big moment was when the first time in my life I holding the real racket on my 11th birthday, and then I keep in my mind that I will practice hard for this. I join the tennis club when I was still in elementary school, at that time I almost spend a whole week to play tennis, somehow I become addicted and want to practice more and more. I keep practice there until my age 14. I quitting because I need to be concentrate in my school. After signing out the tennis club, I played infrequently, I became used to it cause I had another goal, to become the student of SMAN 3 Bandung. Even if I was succeeded, I regret that I almost forgot how to play tennis on senior high school. But, I still played once or twice with my father, I realize that our performance were so much different, there was still a long way for me to be equal with him..

Right now in university I choose to play tennis again. I will practice like the old days, from beginning. But this time, I will improve my skill, performance, and stamina, until someday, I will play again to defeat my idol.. please wait a moment, dad..

Everything has a weakness, I mean that even if sport make me curious, there is one activity that I dislike, it is basketball. I think I prefer football to basketball due to its similarity on teamwork play. I play basketball once, but it is very hard for me to control the ball clearly, when I try to dribble again, it still not perfect, and then it made me bored in the end. I guess anyone can hate and like anything he want, he deserve it, like me, let me just be a basketball game audience.

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There is No Other Place Such as Bandung

I am really enjoyed to live in Bandung. Bandung is my hometown since I was born here, Bandung also my parents hometown, this makes me know much about this city. I already lived in Bandung for 19 years until know, precisely last January. I don't know that much about Bandung though, but I will try to describe this beautiful city.

In some condition, Bandung is better than the other big cities in Indonesia. When we talk about it, first let we feel the air in Bandung, it was fresh and cool. This happen because Bandung is located in a high area that was far away from ocean, beside that Bandung itself is surrounded by a group of mountain nearby, let me tell you a secret, Bandung used to be a huge lake before its drown and turn into the fertile soil.

I guess we break the line too far, for the second prove, we can see that Bandung’s traffic are safe and rarely to get jam. Even though bikers and angkot driver usually scares the other driver with their disorder way of driving. Then, the other thing that can be most proud of Bandung is we can visit and see beautiful scenery of its natural resort, the resort itself is not located in Bandung exactly. They located on the mountain area near Bandung. We can see not only view of Bandung and Lembang from above, we can also see the gorgeous waterfall at Curug Cimahi, or a amazing huge lake at Situ Patengang and Situ Cileunca, or else the beautiful white crater at Ciwidai.


All of them are magnificent and somehow gives comfort and peace to our mind, body, and soul.. believe it or not, that is why there is no other place such as Bandung.

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i love this i hate that

I love watching movie very much. I love this activity, because when I see a movie I feel there are a lot of things that I can get. For example, when I feel very confuse and bored with my study, I can entertain myself with watching movie and forget all my problem for that time. Watching movie gives me so many experience and lesson, especially movie that based on the true story. I love it very much.

I don’t know why, but I hate reading a book. I know by reading a book we can get a lot of knowledge. For me reading a book can make me bored and not entertain me at all. reading a book make me wanna to sleep and sometimes i always feel confuse if i don't understand what does the book means.

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Pontianak, My sweet litlle town

I love this city very much. I have some reason for that statement. This city surrounded by rainfall tropical forest, it gives very fresh air , so people in pontianak can breath easily. Every morning and exactly in rush hours there is no traffic jam because of Pontianak have wide road. In pontianak there still live famous primitive tribe that name dayak. For me, dayaknesse very nice people and they are humble.

Pontianak lies in khatulistiwa line, so it makes the air in pontianak too hot in the morning and evening. but it is not a big problem, because we always get a fresh air and fortunately there’s no too many factory that can cause a pollution.

People in pontianak line in harmony and peacefully neighborhood. Their living by supporting each other. Eventough in 1998, there was terrible war happened among dayaknesse, maduranesse, and malay. For me it was very scared, when I saw a lot of people must die because of that war. But the war is over and people in pontianak feel happy because of that. I hope that terrible war never happen
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Hate And Like

I love traveling and watching movie. Traveling can make me see another world from other perspectives. I can meet another people and feel their culture through traveling. Watching movie is similar to traveling. The difference is just the way we feel the journey. Both of them do make my eyes opened.

I also like to write both poet and story. I can share my ideas through poets and stories. Usually, I write poet to criticize myself and story to criticize another people.

Moreover, I love listening music, especially classical, orchestra, and pop. Music can both relax me and cheer me.

I also have many things to hate. I hate to get angry because anger wastes a lot of energy. It’s really exhausting. Another thing that I hated to do is waiting. I hate to wait because I am impatient.

In addition, I really hate to do something forcedly. No matter what the work, the result will be bad.

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Jakarta, City of Glamour

Jakarta is the city of dream. It provides a glamour life. Life with high class apartments. LIfe with magnificent shopping centers. Life with luxurious clubs. Jakarta has everything that can make dream every people become true.
In fact, Jakarta is same as a coin, which has two sides. For the rich, Jakarta is the right place to fulfil their dream of glamour. but, for the poor, Jakarta is a place that makes their life worse. House is very expensive. So, they must live in slump area and unpermanent houses. Their lives are getting worse because there always be a big flood every five years in Jakarta.
Every Jakarta's citizens knows that living in Jakarta is not easy. Every people must "beat the bushes" just for a spoon of rice. A lot of people beat the bushes just for a sheet of money. For these people, living in Jakarta is only about struggle, struggle, and struggle.

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MEDAN, Paradise of Food

Medan, my deeply loved hometown, is greatly known for the food. We can find various of food and surely great-tasted. There's no doubt that we can easily find many kinds of cuisine from so many countries around the world, such as Indonesian, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Middle-East, Italian, American, etc. Therefor, Medan is also called as the paradise of food.

Some of the specially well-known sites for their food is Merdeka Walk & Kesawan Square. Both of them are located not far (arond 1 km) from Balai Kota, one of the most monumental architecture in North Sumatera. These food-courts provide us many kinds of food, such as Indonesian food, Italian food, Chinese & Japanese food, etc. One thing you should know about them is that they are only opened from 7 p.m to 1 a.m only.

The other sites that also well known for their delicious food are the food-court on Semarang street and the one on Selat Panjang street, but they only provide Chinese food. The location of these food-court won't cause us any trouble to find since every taxi driver know it perfectly. The best time to visit these places is about 8 0r 9 p.m because they are only opened from 7 p.m to 3 or 4 a.m. So, you should visit these 4 food-courts if you visited Medan. ( You do not need this sentence)

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Semarang -- A Unique Town in Architectural View

I would say that my hometown,Semarang,has very unique architectural sides in common. Semarang affected by several cultural assimilation ,due to the style pf the building. It mainly influenced by the dutch,china and native culture itslef ( Java).

Semarang divided into several area,in which the culture influenced them the most. There are three area that mostly have unique architectural sides.They are Kota lama, Pecinana,and Jatingaleh. In area called "Kota Lama" ,located downtown of Semarang,has colonial-dutch style of building. In other word, many building here referred into art deco style. Most of building here use pastel color,such as beige,creme,white and so on, which is being one of the charactersitic of art deco style. Another thing that simply admit the building into the art deco style is the simplicity of the shape,ornaments,coloumn and detail in building. Another sites ,which quite interesting instead of Kota lama is "Pecinan". All of the building here have oriental style. The building mostly colored in red. The ornaments,statue even the fench indicates that the building is very oriental. For the statue, they usually captured theis god/godess.Not quite different from the ornaments which sometimes the carving in those ornaments tell us the story about the god/godess too or something related into spirituality. They have unique fench.What's make them unique is the height of the fench, ornaments and sometime the decor their fench with somekind of offering,which could be the sign that the house is belong to chinese. The last area as fascinateing as those 2 above, is Jatingaleh, It has different atmosphere from other., It becasue the bulidng built around it is a native /traditional buidling. Which simply not affected by those 2 culture above. The building called joglo. The joglo located in front of the house,which makes the living home quite interesting. The function of joglo is for welcoming a guess. Besides of their function,Joglo has very gorgeus material used that should be concerned of.They made from Jati woods,which is the strongest kind of woods, and nowadays,it is very rare in Inodesia to find the woods. The woods created into the whole sequel overlapped construction that made Joglo very strong. Strong enough to beat the eartquake so there are no many damages occur. What makes Joglo able to "defeat" the earthquake is the floor construction,which made up into higher position from the ground( Different with another 2 bulding above). It allowed the shocking of the building while eartquake happens. The function of the "upgrading" floor is for shockbreaker compare to car.

In spite of three arear above, Semarang likely become unique in architectural sieds. therefore, Semarang is one of a heritage city in Indonesia ,well-knowed as unusual architectural view,in ech side if city. You can see Semarang in many faces due to its architectural sides.

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My Hometown Medan

Medan is a big city. I was not born in this city, but I grew up and did many things (what did you do?) there, so I love this city very much. This city has different faces at day and night. It has many city lamps all over the place, create the different faces at night. Almost in every street, various decorative city lamps share their light. There have been many place to visit and pleasure things to do. The climate is quite hot, but not as hot as Jakarta. But don’t worry, there are many parks in this city, make the temperature fells more comfortable. (your topic sentence is not clear enough)

Medan also has many entertaining places. Just for hanging out or refreshing your mind. First candidate, shopping centre. You may find Medan Mall, Deli Plaza, Sinar Plaza, Menara Plaza, Medan Plaza as the old ones. According to the government plan too make this city as a metropolic city, there have been built many more shopping centre. I can say The Sun Plaza foe the example. This shopping centre held its grand opening at year 2005. using the international standart, this place is also comfortable. Plaza Medan Fair is the other new building. This place is often used to held sport games and musical event, such as basketball competition, outdoor bands concert, etc. there still The Grand Palladium and also the-under-construction Cambridge.

Second ones is for the food hunter. To collect and manage the food providers, this city has several places, such as Merdeka Walk, Pagaruyung, Kesawan Square. The Merdeka Walk located at The Lapangan Merdeka. This place has just established. Not only for food, this place also provide interesting various shows to attract and entertain people and also ncluding live music with bands. The atmostphere is uniqe. It is outdoor and has uniqe design for each stand. The Kesawan Square occurs at Jalan Kesawan, it lays on the sidewalk of te Kesawan Street. Pagaruyung is at The Kampung Keling. (the topic sentence is not clear to me)

The third ones are food. Medan has many kinds of delicious food. This is one of the part of my hometown that I miss the most. You should try sate padang, rendang, kare ayam , siomay, bika ambon, lapis legit, etc.

For architectural study, the Medan city also provides ancient buildings. We may find it at many places, but most of it lays at Jalan Surabaya and around it. At the centre of the city, the ancient buildings used as the government office. Near the Lapangan Merdeka, we can also see the ancient post office. Others are Istana Maimun and The Masjid Raya. Most ancient buildings here were built by the Dutch.

Last but mot least, now we’ll talk about the citizens. Horas!!! Seemed to be the most well known greetings of te Medan society. Actually, the origin people of Medan is the Melayunese, but at present, there have been Bataknese all over the city. The word ‘horas’ is taken from the Batak language, means shalom. But don’t worry, Medan is not just about the Bataknese, there are many ethnics stay there. For me, this is one of the special things about Medan. People in this city come from various backround, but we can still neighbouring in quite and peace. Even we are different, we hate war. (your topic sentence is spoken language, so you have problem in developing your paragraph)

I may say Medan is a very interesting city to visit. If your hometown is not at the Sumatera, you should visit Medam sometimes. You would find interesting people and experience.