English Assignment

An Email (English In Mind Assignment Page 39 Unit 5)

2011-11-07T06:42:00.000-08:00

Hello!

I'm writing from an internet cafe at Orchard Road, Singapore. I arrived here two days ago. I think it's a real pity you couldn't come with me. There are some awesome tourism in here, you'd love it.

I've had a great fun most of the time. It's sunshine all day. On the first day, I was watching Disney's The Lion King Musical Show at Marina Bay Sands. The music and the theatrical action were very interesting, awesome, and amazing. On the second day, I went to Universal Studios at Resort World Sentosa. I took many pictures in here.

Have to finish, I'm so happy in here. I'm going to shopping at Lucky Plaza now and then I will go to Merlion Statue. I'm going to stay in Singapore for another one or two days and then I'm off to Bali. I'll write again from there.

With love,

Kamila Nanda Eriana

By : Kamila Nanda Eriana / 18 (X-B)

trip

2011-11-07T05:31:00.000-08:00

I’m in Yogyakarta for my holiday trip, arrived here yesterday. This place is so relaxing, the air is not polluted, the people are very friendly! Im so excited to be here!.

I already visited many places, such as candi Borobudur. There are many information about candi Borobudur and it’s very interesting.

There’s a tourist that ask me about candi Borobudur, I don’t know much about it but when I explained something that I know from school and friends, the tourist gave me 100 thousand rupiah. I’m very happy!.

It’s a pity you can’t come with me to yogya maybe next holiday we can go on a trip together.

I’ll write to you next week okay I’ll tell you a lot of great and exciting things here in Borobudur, see ya!!

badra gufhran R

My Trip

2011-11-07T05:03:00.000-08:00

Hi!

Remember when I told you that I would email you the next time I travel again? Well I think you can already guess what am I doing right now! Yes I’m on my holiday and right now I’m in Greece right now. I’ve arrived here 2 days ago and had already visited so many places. And thank god the weather here has been sunny ever since I got here, so everything went really great.

Oh yeah! I went to the national archaeological museum yesterday! I know you’ve wanted to visit that museum since a long time ago, so I took a lot of pictures for you. And of course I think we needed to go there again with you next time when we have the time. And we should definitely check out the next exhibitions I heard it’s supposed to be really entertaining. I didn’t get the chance to watch the exhibition because it was so crowded there yesterday.

Well, I’ll write to you again soon about the rest of my holiday in Greece later. Because right now we’re getting ready to got to the Balos Beach! I’ve heard that it’s best for it’s white sand, turquoise water and amazing view! We should really go there together next time. So I guess that’s it maybe and I promise I will write again soon. Bye!

Your best friend, Biby

by: Dhia Nada Nabila / 12

My Classmates' Images, X-B! (FINAL DRAFT)

2011-10-12T06:26:00.000-07:00

The aim of this report is to present what is popular music, movie and Indonesian culture in my class, X-B. I interviewed eighteen of my classmates by Blackberry Messenger. They are Ihsan Aring, Adinda Farah Fadhila, Annisa Sabila, Athira Presialia, Dhia Nada Nabila, Dina Ramadhanti, Hasif Syahrastani, Melissa Putri Hidayat, Nabila Shaza, Nadia Khairunnisa, Nadhira Nur Aqila, Nisya Putri, Raquel Dhita, Ravenska Nania, Sekar Saras, Tatar Kristanto, Andina Zahra, and Rizki Taufik. And of course, the questions concerned movie, music, and Indonesian culture.

Music :

Nine from eighteen of my classmates prefer to listening to the modern music to raise their spirit. They said that modern music is more famous than traditional music and it’s easy to learn modern music. One from eighteen of my classmates prefers to listening to the traditional music as a proof that she loves Indonesia so much. Five from eighteen of my classmates prefer to listening booth of them while three from eighteen of my classmates didn’t know what they have to prefer.

Six from eighteen of my classmates want to be a musician to enlarge their talents in music. Twelve from eighteen of my classmates didn’t want to be a musician because they thought that they didn’t have any talent in music.

Movie :

Four from eighteen of my classmates said that the most memorable movie they ever watched is Harry Potter because they followed the movie since they were young and the movie is so cool, amazing, and imaginative. Two from eighteen of my classmates said that Laskar Pelangi is the most memorable movie they ever watched because it gaves them some moral values. Two from eighteen of my classmates said that Karate Kid is the most memorable movie because they watched it with their girlfriend. Well, ten from eighteen of my classmates said that the most memorable movies are National Treasure 2, Dear John, Transformers, The King Speech, Whip it, Ada Apa Dengan Cinta, and Catatan Harian Si Boy.

Five from eighteen of my classmates said that Indonesian movies are better than before especially for comedy movie and it starts to up their level, while eleven from eighteen of my classmates said that Indonesian movies are the worst movies they ever watched especially for horror movie. The movie hasn’t got any meaning and moral value. Then, two from eighteen of my classmates didn’t said their opinion about Indonesian movies.

Indonesian Culture :

Six from eighteen of my classmates want to preserve Indonesian traditional dance like Saman dance from Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam. Four from eighteeen of my classmates want to preserve Batik with wearing them as a dress, shirt, skirt, etc. Two from eighteen of my classmates want to preserve Indonesian traditional songs like “Rasa Sayange” song from Maluku. Two from eighteen of my classmates want to preserve Indonesian traditional music instruments like gamelan and angklung from West Java. Well, four from eighteen of my classmates want to preserve all of Indonesian culture.

Six from eighteen of my classmates express their pride to the Indonesian culture by learning them and follow the traditional dance extracuricular at school. Six from eighteen of my classmates express their pride to the Indonesian culture by love them and use them in every single part of their life. The last six from eighteen of my classmates express their pride to the Indonesian culture by promote them on social network like facebook, twitter, etc

The most surprising aspect of the report are that a large number didn’t want to be a musician (twelve people), didn’t like to watched Indonesian movies (eleven people), and prefer to listening to the modern music than traditional music (nine people). I was also surprised to find out that just one people who prefers to listening to the traditional music.

By : Kamila Nanda Eriana/18

Will It Be Possible To Live Forever?

2011-08-14T02:51:00.000-07:00

Everyone must be wondering, will it be possible to live forever? Of course not. There are many reasons that can support my answer.

God already set our age. In holy book, god already told us about age and life. We can’t live forever because god already arrange when we will die. So we will definitely die.

We will age. It’s for sure that we will die. When we got old our body can’t resist disease and many factors that can cause death. Even with doctors suggestions and applying healthy lifestyle we cannot live forever.

Doomsday will come. God already arrange when will it come and nobody knows. All living things will die in doomsday and nobody can survive it. So there’s no way people can live forever.

Considering my reasons, there’s no way people can live forever. Eventually all living things will die.

badra gufhran ramadhan xb-10

Will there be schools and teachers in the future?

2011-08-13T21:59:00.001-07:00

Will there be schools and teachers in the future?

To answer the question above I’ll definitely say no. because we people already know that at this moment of time, technology already became a big part of almost every human’s lives. For example, people already invented E-books. E-books are a device that replaces books with a mini laptop with no keyboard. The purpose of inventing an E-book is for using less paper for books and to safe the trees for human’s future. It has proved that in the future there might be a bookstore where they sells E-books that contains all of school textbook any students will ever needed.

And as for schools? I’d say there won’t be any schools in the future. Because as I said before the technology will rule the world in the future. So student, or shall I say youngsters, because there won’t be any schools in the future so there will be no students left in the world, will study trough the internet. And since the technology will be so accurate, so the computers will teach the youngsters what the needed to learn.

As the conclusion, I’d say that technology will take over the world and there will no schools or teachers or even books left.

By: Dhia Nada Nabila / 12

Will it be possible to live forever?

2011-08-13T19:33:00.000-07:00

We know that everyone definitely want to live forever in this world. They use every way to get a long life so they can live forever in this world.

Doctors say that applying healthy life in a real life is the best choice to get a long life like do the sport activities every morning before go to work or school, sleep well, don’t get stress out, eat more fruits and vegetables, and drink more vitamin supplement syrup and milk. If we applying healthy life in a real life, we can get a healthy long life and maybe we can live forever in this world.

But, in other hand, we know that someday doomsday definitely will come to us and destroy everything in the world. The world will stop spinning around and people would be die. Only God who knows how long is our life, how-where-when we die, and when the doomsday come to us. We can deny it. We can’t live forever in this world.

To conclude, until now, I still don’t know will it be possible to us to live forever. Maybe yes or maybe no. Only God who knows that. I believe that God have an other good plan for us. The best way for us is keep praying, wish God always gives us the best.

By : Kamila Nanda Eriana/18 (X-B)

An image of Labsky Students

2011-08-07T08:03:00.000-07:00

A report by M. Arkandiptyo XB 23

Labschool Kebayoran Senior High School or more popularly known as "Labsky" is the high school where I am currently studying. In this report which is also a writing assignment for English subject, I interviewed six of my friends in my class, X-B to ask them about their lifestyles and point of view about their current lives in high school. The interviews are done directly (orally) face to face with my friends.

The topics I covered in this report about their lifestyles are about their hobbies, their point of views about music and Indonesian culture, and also their goals in high school. As for the aim of this report is to give a picture about the lifestyles and thoughts of Labsky students.

Hobby

Fifty percent of my friends or three out of six answered that online gaming is their hobby to kill their time and for relaxation whilst two other stated that their hobbies are linked to musical activities such as singing, playing the guitar or the piano mainly because it is fun and that they can also express their feelings through it. The last one said that her hobby is sleeping. Based on this result, I could say that online gaming and music are the hobbies most Labsky students do to fill their time, for relaxation, and for fun.

Music

Much different from my question about hobby, in this point of interviews, all my friends posed different answers when I asked them about the genre of music they most liked, there were six answers which were acoustic, electronic, alternative fusion, K-Pop (Korean pop), funk, and fusion jazz. From these answers, I conclude that nowadays Labsky students have different and diverse tastes of music.

Culture

In this section of my interviews, I asked my friends three questions; which culture do they prefer and admire, Indonesian, Western, Korean, Japanese or else, and why do they prefer the culture. The last question asked them how do they appreciate the culture they most admire. The first question got a uniform answer - all of my friends liked their own culture - Indonesian culture over all other cultures in the world. All of them answered they loved their own culture because it is the one that is most familiar to them and also as a part of the Indonesian nation, they feel they have to love their own culture at most over all other cultures.

Sadly, four of them answered that they appreciate the Indonesian culture only as an enthusiastic audience to the culture, they don't have an urge to study or learn further about the beautiful culture Indonesia have. One of them answered he was only interested in the history and development of the Indonesian arts, and one of them stated that he was truly inspired and interested in learning more about Indonesian culture, particularly about Indonesian music.

Based on the results, I can say that although many Labsky students love Indonesian culture, only a few of them have the urge and interest in learning more about their own culture and preserving it through actions.

Priority in High School

This last part of my interviews, I asked my friends about their highest priority of activities in high school and why do they chose it. This time I got three answers in which all three answers were equally represented by each two persons.

The first third answered that studying to get through to their favorite universities is their priority in high school so that they can enter the universities they wanted as a good base for their future careers. The second third said that getting along with friends and trying new things to have more life experiences and freedom are their highest priority in high school based on the old saying their parents said that a good time in high school are for those who dedicate their time for freedom, friends, love, and trying new things. While the last third stated in which their main priority in high school is to explore their talent and potentials such as music and sports because until the moment they haven't decided clearly yet what will they do for their career and future.

This responds broke that the myth in which was said that most, if not all high school students prioritize their time in high school for freedom and friends. In fact, the answer is various.

From all the aspects in this report, I thought that the most surprising is about their music taste and priority in high school, from what I observe in real life about our music taste, I thought I would end up in my survey saying that Kpop (mostly from girls), Metal (mostly from boys), and Hip-hop are three of the most liked genre of music. But in the end all of my friends answered differently, and only Kpop from my previous prediction goes as an answer. About their priority in high school it is also surprising to find that there were three equally represented point of views about this. At first I thought there would only be two answers, the first one is studying for university entrance which would be the minority answer and the second that would be the majority answer which is to trying new things and getting along with friends. In the end the facts talked much differently.

As a conclusion, I would say that nowadays the lifestyle and trend of Labsky students are really diverse and unique, in which none pose a same answer, even though there were some majority voice in some points of their teenage lives and thoughts it only showed up in few points such as their thoughts about Indonesian culture and their hobbies, the rest are made of really different answers. This proved that teenagers nowadays doesn't have a one strong trending lifestyle to follow. This result in a really heterogeneous, unique, and probably and hopefully more creative generation of high school students.

indonesia-xb/ badra gufhran ramadhan-10

2011-08-02T09:11:00.000-07:00

The aim of this report is to present what is popular in Indonesia. I interviewed 5 of my friends in class by telephone and in person. The topic in my question are food, sport, and transportaion.

Food: 3 of my friends in class likes Indonesian food more than other countries. 1 prefer food from other countries and the last one prefer both.

Sport: 3 of my friends said that soccer is the most important and favourite sport in Indonesia. 1 said basketball is the most favourite and the last prefer football than soccer and basketball

Transportation: 4 of my friends prefer having their own transportation rather than have to use public transportation like taxi, bus and many other. The other one prefer both public transportation.

The most surprising thing of this report is that 4 of 5 people I interviewed for transportation prefer their own transportation than public transportation.

Indonesian Favourites

2011-08-02T08:44:00.000-07:00

Well, the aim of this report is to know what Indonesian nowadays like. I interviewed 10 of my friend and 10 of my family. Total is 20 people that I interviewed. All of them, I asked by message them via SMS. The Questions concerned food, movie, and music.

Food: 40% said they like Indonesia food and 60% said like Japanese food, Chinese food, or Western food. the reason is simple, they said it because Globalization. Honestly, I prefer Japanese food than other food, but I like if they combine Japanese food and Indonesian food.

Movie: I know the percentage will have big different. Indonesian prefer Western movie. The percentage is 75% or 15 people. the reason is the quality of Indonesia movies is decreased so, Indonesian prefer western movies that have high quality.

Music: I didn't expect the percentage will almost equal. Indonesian who like their music is 45% and who like other than Indonesia music is 55%. The reason is Indonesian nowadays like Korea music and Western music. Me too, I prefer hear western music.

60% of them said they prefer music. the reason they said it is because music has dominate Indonesia and a whole world. 25% said prefer food and 15% said prefer movies. We must protect our culture and our food!

--Mentari Adnin Mahmudah-- XB

IMAGES OF INDONESIA

2011-08-02T02:45:00.001-07:00

The aim of this report is to present what is popular in Indonesian teenagers life. I interviewed several people from my class by blackberry messenger. And the questions are about music, food, and gadgets.

Music

Based on the interview, most of the teenagers listen to the music almost every time. Most of them also liked pop music. They listened to western pop song more often than listening to Indonesian pop song. The reason why the like western music more is because Indonesian music revolves around only love song.

Food

From the interview, most of the teenagers prefer to eat Indonesian food more than western food. Because Indonesian food are more tempting comparing to western food who doesn’t really have the rich flavor and spices like Indonesian food. And most of them also cannot cook Indonesian traditional food because of the difficulty.

Gadget

Most teenagers in Indonesia owns their own hand phone, Laptop, and an Mp3 player. Usually they use Blackberry phone, and an iPod as an Mp3 player.

So, the conclusions of the report above is that Indonesian teenagers prefer listening to western pop music than any kind of Indonesian music. But Indonesian teenagers would choose Indonesian traditional food over western food. And for gadgets, Indonesian teenagers choose a very modern age gadgets than any kind of old gadgets.

By: Dhia Nada Nabila / 12

My Classmates' Images, X-B!

2011-08-01T20:54:00.000-07:00

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By : Kamila Nanda Eriana/18