Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2013

Review: The Alchemist

There live a young shepherd in Andalusia, named Santiago. He is a great shepherd, he knows anything about sheep. He isn't only treat the sheep well, he also learns about the world from the sheep. He has a dream, about finding a treasure in the Pyramid of Egypt. A gypsy women tells him to pursue his dream and finds the treasure. But he doesn't believe in a gypsy until he meets the king of Salem that also tells him to after his dream. The old king also says "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.". Right after that, with all his courage he sells all his sheep to travel to Tangier, in Africa. When he arrives at Tangier, a strange land to him, his money stolen, but he keeps thinking that it is a new experience to him, and it's not a strange land to him, but something new. He continues living without money, there when he finds a merchant crystal, and works for him to collect the money and turns back to Andalusia, where he

My First Paint!!

Tiba-tiba kepikiran pengen nyeritain cerita ini gara-gara tadi ngomongin sama temen gue. Dari SD paling gaksuka sama yang namanya 'menggambar', bukan berarti gak pernah takjub kalau ngeliat gambar-gambar yang bagus, tapi karena gak pernah bisa -_- Waktu jaman TK, pernah disuruh gambar sama guru, gua gambar dinosaurus, dan semua orang pada komentar "wow, keren kodoknya", beda jauh loh! mungkin niatnya muji, tapi jatohnya malah.. Itu kejadian waktu TK, waktu SMA, gua ikut kelas Clay iseng-iseng, berhubung waktu itu gua baru lulus SMP, dan lambang SMP gua burung hantu, jadi gua bikin burung hantu :) dan pas udah jadi, gurunya lewat dan bilang, "Aw, how cute! I love your pig", dalam hati gua "IT IS AN OWL!!", dan pas tadi siang gua ceritain kejadian ini ke temen gue, dia malah bilang matanya kayak dicubit -_- Sangat kebetulan, beberapa hari ini di sekolah gue banyak freetmenya, alhasil, salah seorang temen deket gue di kelas, Rut Pratiwi (yang

Review: The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera (La Fantôme de l’Opéra) is a romance and mystery novel written by a French writer Gaston Leroux. It that was published at September 23, 1909 to January 9 1910 and translated to English at 1911. The story tells us about a “ghost” who have a really good voice and uses to sing in the Paris Opera House (Palais Garnier). Almost everybody has hear him sing, but no body ever see him. Christine Daae who works as chorus at the Opera hearing a beautiful voice. She follows the sounds. She believes that the sound belongs to Angel of Music because when she was a child her father told her a story about Angel of Music, and he told her that Angel of Music only came to a great musician. Then Christine asks to the sound, does it really belongs to Angel of Music, the voice answers it, and says that he is. And he also offers to teach her how to sing. Since it, everyday Christine talks and learns to sing from the Angel, even she never sees him. Everybody shock when they hea

Kopi Asin

Seorang pria bertemu dengan seorang gadis di sebuah pesta, si gadis tampil luar biasa cantiknya, banyak lelaki yang mencoba mengejar si gadis. Si pria sebetulnya tampil biasa saja dan tak ada yang begitu memperhatikan dia, tapi pada saat pesta selesai dia memberanikan diri mengajak si gadis untuk sekedar mencari minuman hangat. Si gadis agak terkejut, tapi karena kesopanan si pria itu, si gadis mengiyakan ajakannya. Dan mereka berdua akhirnya duduk di sebuah coffee shop, tapi si pria sangat gugup untuk berkata apa-apa dan si gadis mulai merasa tidak nyaman dan berkata, "Kita pulang aja yuk...k?!?" Namun tiba-tiba si pria meminta sesuatu pada sang pramusaji, "Bisa minta garam buat kopi saya?" Semua orang yang mendengar memandang dengan ke arah si pria, aneh sekali!! Wajahnya berubah merah, tapi tetap saja dia memasukkan garam tersebut ke dalam kopinya dan meminumnya. Si gadis dengan penasaran bertanya, "Kenapa kamu bisa punya hobi seperti ini?" Si

History of LOL :D

 Lol (Laughing Out Loud) yang mempunyai arti tertawa terbahak-bahak sangat populer digunakan dalam percakapan tidak formal saat ini. Lol digunakan sebagai penyampaian ekspresi dalam percakapan mulai lewat e-mail, SMS, social network, bahkan terkadang diomongan secara langsung. Awal kemunculan kata lol sendiri mempunyai arti “Little Old Lady” yang kemudian populer pada tahun 1960-an. Namun, seiring dengan waktu, arti lol terus bergeser. lol juga sempat mempunyai arti “Lots Of Love”, bahkan ada beberapa bercandaan dari hal itu seperti “Your Grandma has just passed away. LOL”   Pada tanggal 24 Maret 2011, secara resmi kata “lol” telah dimasukan ke Oxford English Dictionary”. Dimana “lolled” digunakan untuk bentuk past tense, dan “lolling” untuk bentuk participle. Hal ini sempat mendapat respon negatif dari beberapa pihak.   “”the death of dictionary” komentar salah seorang Blogger. Bahkan, dibuat sebuah group di Facebook khusus untuk para haters kata “lol”. Salah seorang di group

Looking for the Great Perhaps

Looking for Alaska is a young adult novel by John Green published in 2005. The book is divided into two chapters: Before and After. Before: It's tells about Miles, a regular young boy, who loves to read biographies and remember famous people's last words. He is obsessed with Francois Rabelais’s last words "I go to seek a Great Perhaps". Then he decides to leave his home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his junior year to find a great perhaps.   After he gets there, he finds his roomate, Chip Martin, but he wants to be called "The Colonel", he came from a poor family. Colonel also makes a nickname for Miles, he calls him "Pudge". Not long after that Colonel introduces him to Alaska, a smart, beautiful, moody, and unpredictible girl who loves to smoke, and collect books. Colonel also introduces him to Takumi, a student of Japanese descent. They spend their time together, Alaska, Takumi, Pudge, and Colo

Review: Norwegian Wood

Author: Haruki Murakami Original Title: Noruwei no Mori Country: Japan Language: Japanese Translator: Alfred Binbaum Publication Date: 1987 Published in English: 2000 Publisher: Kodansha ISBN: ISBN 0-375-70402-7 (US edition)            ISBN 0-09-944882-3 (UK edition)            ISBN 4-06-203516-2 (JP edition)   Is that the title of The Beatles's song? Yep! but I'm not going to talk about it. Im talking about one of my favorite novel from Haruki Murakami. It's a story about a young, quite, and serious college student in Tokyo named Toru Watanabe who just loses his bestfriend Kizuki who took his own life when he was 17. Since Kizuki's death, Toru becomes close to Naoki, Kazuki's girlfriend whose emotionaly unstabil, because her big sister also suicided at 17, and Kazuki is not only becomes a boyfriend to her, he also a bestfriend to her. Kizuki and Naoko had been date since they are kids. They are so close, Kizuki is an active person, but it i