The Last Meeting of Creative Writing Class

Today is the last meeting of creative writing class. It is longer than usual because last week was a holiday so this week class covers last week class. Honestly, what we have done in class is not so useful because there is a group which has workshop and the other groups which has no writing to give comment on discuss the story that we have read. Actually on Monday we decided to have workshop for Thursday so this means that every student should prepare something for workshop. As a matter of fact, they bring nothing on Thursday and only 6 students have works for workshop included me. As usual, having workshop is fun when we really discuss and give comment on our friends’ works and I don’t realize that we have had workshop for an hour, it takes many time but I never feel bored.
Honestly, it is a little bit sad and disappointed of having no more class on creative writing. It is because I begin to enjoy writing and doing homework. It can encourage me to write and that I can also express my thought and feeling. Anyway, it doesn’t really matter for me. I can continue other assignments that I should do and I also have to prepare my final project as well as research for the final examination.
Thanks to the lecturer for giving us many knowledge during this semester and also for her willingness and ability to encourage us to write. I hope with the questionnaires we have in the end of the class, she can improve herself and her teaching for next semester. GOOD LUCK!

Writing Autobiography in Italian

I have just realized that I get many things from Italian class. Now I can translate sentences into Italian. I am not sure that I can translate the sentences but when I begin to try translating, I can do it! So, the lecturer asked us to write about autobiography at least 200 words. Firstly, I write in English then I think it will be very complex translating in Italian. As a matter of fact< it is not really difficult but it needs extra effort and patient. It can also be done when we have a good dictionary, I myself use Oxford. Though I don’t translate in one hundred percent right but at least I know how to construct sentences in Italian. Let see my writing and also my translation that has been revised by my lecturer.
La Mia Autobiografia
Sono nato a Yogyakarta il 30 novembre 1990. Ho un fratello, il suo nome è Nicki. Ora cerca di maggiore studio all'università. Mio padre è morto quando avevo 8 anni e ora mia madre ha sposato di nuovo. Lei è un imprenditore, apre un piccolo ristorante in Cirebon. Ho passato tutta la mia vita in Yogyakarta e non voglio lasciare, anche progetto cercare un lavoro qui dentro. Studio all’inglese Dipartimento UGM, ora questo è il mio terzo anno. Mi piace moltissimo della lingua inglese e voglio migliorare la mia abilità che ho otteneto quando ho partecipato corso di inglese. Sono un duro lavoratore, non mi importa aiutare le persone quando bisognano di me. La mia debolezza è che sono perfezionista, quindi cerco sempre di fare tutto perfetamente. Quando non posso farlo perfettamente, rimpiangerò davvero e incolpare me stesso. Per questo motivo, cerco sempre di fare meglio per ottenere che voglio. Facciamo un esempio! Ho deciso prendere questa classe e così devo essere coerente. Quando la classe è in corso, ho una grande difficoltà a imparare una questa lingua. Questa è chiaramente perché non ho mai imparato la lingua europea così sento difficile da ricordare e memorizzare le parole nuove. Perché non voglio essere stupido, cerco di studiare duramente sebbene non sono ancora davvero bravo in questa lingua, almeno sapevo alcune regole e non rinuncio in attesa di un miracolo, vieni da me. Per la mia vita futura, progetto continuare il mio studio all’estero se otteno una borsa di studio. Poi, voglio essere una insegnante di inglese. Con speranza, può insegnare nel mio dipartimento. Sogno sempre ottenere un buono lavoro di modo che posso aiutare la mia madre a costruire e migliorare il suo affare. Vorrei che posso rendere la mia famiglia felice.

Going to Pizza Pazza Today

Today, after the last creative writing class, my friend and I plan to go to a pizza restaurant in Jalan Kaliurang named Pizza Pazza. We really wanted to go there since few weeks ago and now we have more time and money to eat there. It is a real Italian pizza because the chef is Italian and he is my Italian lecturer’s brother. My lecturer said to us in class that his brother opened a pizza restaurant and we were directly excited to taste the real Italian pizza. Actually I usually go to Nanamia when I want to eat pizza but my Italian lecturer said that Nanamia is not the original of Italian pizza. He said that the chefs in Nanamia only put some cheese so all pizzas there have a strong cheese taste and they have the same taste. However, they should have different taste with other kinds of pizza.
So, we leave at 3.30 p.m. and it takes about half an hour to get there. Unfortunately, it is closed. Indeed, we are very disappointed. We have imagined that we will taste the real Italian pizza but we can’t. I don’t know why it is closed because it usually opens in the afternoon until night. We still want to eat pizza, not any other food so we decide to go to Nanamia and order Napoli. It is a pizza with anchovies, paprika, onion, and mozzarella toping. We are quite satisfied and we want more but we are out of money. :D

Feeling Remorse of being Procrastinator

I planned to join writing competition. I read this competition announcement few months ago and the application submission would be closed this May. I am sort of a procrastinator, I will do a work when the deadline is closer. I guess some of my friends in class share the same thing with me. So, this writing competition required the participants to write about Dutch creativity. The winner of this competition would join two-week short course in Dutch. Since I admire Dutch so much, I am really interested to join this competition. The participants were required to write at least one writing or more, but no more than 3 writings on this topic. They should post them in their blog and send the link of their writings to the committee. The submission of the link was opened from April 16. During the time of the submission, I tried to write well and I have posted my writings in my blog. I wrote 2 writings on Dutch creativity in industry and education. Actually I have done writing and I was waiting for the exact time to send this link. I was thinking of sending the link on May 15 at night but I thought I had to edit them again. I did not really notice when the submission was closed. As far as I remembered, this submission would be closed on May 16. So, in the next morning on May 16, I turned on my laptop and began to review my writings. Then, I connected my laptop to the internet and opened the website of the competition. What a really big shot it was when I saw the final date of the submission was on May 15! I really felt remorse of being procrastinator. I wish I didn’t procrastinate and sent the link to the committee earlier. Though I was not sure to be the winner, at least I have tried. But my chance now disappears and that there is no hope anymore. I will always remember the 16th day of May.

I am in Love

Again, I am falling in love
I no longer want to feel it
for the feeling often tortures me
I no longer want to feel it
for you always come in my mind bothering me
I no longer want to feel it
for I want to do nothing without you
When I see people in love, and I am as well,
I feel what they feel yet it is different
Theirs is sweeter than mine, I think
I am thinking of having an affinity with you
though I realize it is impossible
I can only feel it with my pain
Again, I am falling in love

Am I Falling in Love?

When I am pleased to think of you
Am I falling in love?
When I am pleased to imagine you
Am I falling in love?

When I am pleased to phone you
Am I falling in love?
When I am pleased to talk to you
Am I feeling in love?

When I am pleased to see you
Am I falling in love?
When I am pleased to meet you
Am I falling in love?

When I am pleased to be together with you
Am I falling in love?
When I am pleased to jest with you
Am I falling in love?

Indeed, I am falling in love

Dutch as an Innovative Country in Industry

DUTCH, what come to your mind when you hear this country? A country with its windmills maybe? Or one of the smallest advanced country in the world? Most people are not aware that Dutch is an innovative country; the country where brilliant ideas are born. A small country does not always mean small in creating an innovative way to develop the country, instead it should be a motivation to work hard to be one of the best countries, and Dutch actualize it.
As an innovative country, Dutch is able to maintain their country as a country which is able to inspire other countries. Dutch could maintain a good relationship among government, university, and industry. They cooperate to organize and control the system in their country so that it could balance the development among all aspects. For instance, an industrial company labors in a cooperative manner with a certain university to create new ideas and technology to help the company in its production. This affects on how Dutch could manage their own country that is later called self-service country. This means that Dutch people are not dependent and are able to become self-reliance.
Dutch people innovate any aspect of their country, such as education, industry, even they innovate the way they build a land under the sea level. For the first example in industry, Dutch invent a plane without sound and carbonic acid. There used to be the same kind of this plane yet the previous one was not as fast as it is now, it moved 100-150 km/hour. Dutch people desire to manufacture this plane which moves 460 km/hour and is as fast as nowadays plane. Another example is that Dutch people try to overcome the traffic jam which nowadays becomes a main serious problem in every country in the world. Dutch is trying to invent a car which can fly named PAL-V (Personal Air and Land Vehicle). It is a vehicle equipped with 3 wheels and 2 propellers which can be folded. It can fly around 500 feet from the surface. When it is used in land, it can speed up to 180 km/hour. Though it has ever been invented with the same model by America in 2009, Dutch is still trying to innovate and make it better than the previous car. This sort of vehicle is suitable for public service such as ambulance and police officer so that they can go through a long distance only in a short time.
Creating a facility for a better life is not restricted only in industry. Dutch people do not run out of idea. Philips ‘floating’ street lighting was invented to save energy for efficiency. It is said to be lower in cost than the conventional lighting system. This street lighting is hanged at a height of four and a half meters. The design of this lighting is unique and that it won the 2011 Dutch Design Award.
All innovations in Dutch are created by themselves, for themselves, and to themselves. Who else will aware of their welfare if it is not them? They grow as a self-dependent country and that they could create wealth for their country. The character of Dutch people should inspire people in other countries in the world so that most countries could enjoy their successful hard work.

Sources:
http://ihatesundaymorning.blogspot.com/2012/04/belanda-di-antara-multikulturalisme.html
http://www.ramadoni.com/2010/04/5-fakta-inovatif-dari-si-oranye-belanda/
http://qonitarahmi.blogspot.com/2012/05/inovasi-belanda-dalam-menangani.html
http://www.newscenter.philips.com/main/standard/news/press/2012/20120410-eindhoven-first-with-philips-floating-street-lighting.wpd

Dutch as an Innovative Country in Education

Innovations play very important role in contributing advantages to a certain country. Innovations in Dutch arise as a result of many educated people. With knowledge, people are able to create innovations which later could benefit their country. Educated people need to update their information on nowadays event and that they need to read newspaper. Students, especially businessman are accustomed to read newspaper anywhere they are. When they are doing a travel to the office or school and when they are in public places, they sometimes read the newspaper while waiting for train, buses, or even their friends. Reading newspaper with a wide shape is not efficient, however, because sometimes this bothers other people with its wide shape. With this reason, Dutch people attempt to create newspaper in an efficient shape. What a creative people they are! This new kind of newspaper is vertical shape. Though this idea might be unique and simple, the advantage caused by this movement will affect much in people’s life because it directly connects to the efficiency and people’s daily life.
Talking about education, the most dominant aspect of it is library where people could get information and knowledge of anything, it can be from books, internets, or even some journals and researches. Dutch has a library called DOK which is financed by city council, it is located in Delft. This library is often called as entrepreneur library since it saves a potential of entrepreneur. There are kinds of membership that is free and paid membership and the librarians are able to make 28% delft inhabitants to enroll in a paid membership which enables them to access all facilities in this library. It is basically different from other libraries. Here, in this library, not only books can be found but also fast internet access in a lower cost. In DOK library, children are not only able to read books but they can also listen to music, play games and play station in computer.

Sources:
http://www.ramadoni.com/2010/04/5-fakta-inovatif-dari-si-oranye-belanda/
http://maulanusantara.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/sistem-pendidikan-belanda/

This Friday Writing Tutorial Class

Today I taught writing for first-year students of English Department in my campus. I have planned to discuss spoof text and an amazing holiday but I have just realized that next week is not sure whether it will be a holiday or not, so I decided to have an informal class. We watched movie and have nothing to do. The movie was “Don’t be Afraid of the Dark”, it was a horror movie. I think it was a good movie and Western horror movie are always good. Unfortunately, I couldn’t watch the movie fully because I had to interview some students for my sociolinguistics research. While they were watching the movie, I interviewed some of them. The class was supposed to begin at 1 p.m. but the students came at 1.20 p.m. so we started the movie late and the class was over late as well. It should finish at 2.30 p.m. but then it finished at 3 p.m. I should have done nothing after the class so I felt happy to be together with them longer than usual.

The Place Where I Used to Live

The place where I used to live when I was a kid never changes, but the people. I could see my mother was preparing breakfast for me and my brother, a gorgeous food, a glass of white milk. Then, she took us to school with the improper old motorcycle. We used to be together before it came and destroyed anything. Jackfruits hanging on the tree were always there in front of my room’s window. A small casuarinas tree which I always designed with my brother in Christmas Eve, pretending that we celebrated Christmas. The colorful lamp which my father set for us. Red, yellow, green, and blue. There used to be butterflies in our garden. They were easy to be caught. Children liked to play in our garden looking for some bugs. Taking a nap was an activity we always did together in my family. There used to be no veranda there. But when it came, it destroyed anything. The living room where we used to watch TV and jest was where the corpse laid down. And we, were separated. My brother was out of the city, so was my mother. But I was still here, in the place where I used to live when I was a kid and the memories always appeared in my mind.

Happy Wednesday

As usual, I attended Italian class at 1 o’clock. Today I was so happy because I have set it just after I got up in the morning. Some people believe that setting your mind and heart to be happy and not think of your problems at all will affect your feeling throughout the whole day. Anyway, I was glad because I have understood Italian grammar and I became curious to learn more about it. I asked many things during the class since it was so difficult to understand present perfect tense and relative clause in Italian. Unexpectedly, the native teacher, Fabio, told a little bit about Italian because there was something in the book we were discussing was related. He told us about the economics and Italian cuisine. All Italians could cook either they are men, women, children, or adults. Then I asked him where he usually went when he wanted to eat Italian food in Indonesia, he answered “in my brother’s warung.” I became more interested since I was fond of Italian food and that I usually went to Nanamia which served original Italian pizza. I took this class was as well because of the food. I loved the food and I wanted to learn the language. He said that his brother’s warung, Pizza Pazza, was more original since the chef was his own brother. Pazza means crazy, so it could mean a crazy pizza because of the taste or maybe the people who were fond of pizza. It was not only me who was interested in asking him about it, my other friends even asked the phone number to order the delivery. In the end of the class, he offered an additional time to have conversation class and all of us agreed, we even offered him to hold the class in his brother’s warung.  Fortunately, he agreed and he would provide us a drink for free. We were so happy and excited. I hope he would also buy us the pizza. 

When I am Falling in Love,

When I am falling in love, I want to do nothing
but thinking of you,
When I am falling in love, I want to see nothing
but you
When I am falling in love, I want to possess nothing
but you

For the first three weeks, it would be painful for I lose my mind, always thinking of you
Yet it’s only for a moment; If it isn’t, impossible for only three weeks
I like you, I admire you, I adore you; I know it’s only an emotion, a desire

How could I erase this feeling?
I lose control, it isn’t guided
Honestly, indeed I don’t try to restrain

Yes, your face is ahead of me any time
I will always wait for the time when I no longer like you
Because I already have a boyfriend