I Got Good Marks !

I had to get my report by my self. My parents were in West Java. A few days before, my mother called Mr. Ganang, my teacher and told him that they can't take my report so He permitted me to get my report by my self.
On 27 December, the D-day...
I went to school with my motorbike. I didn't have any feelings about how would my marks be. Ohh, the road was crowded than usual when I go to school. In deed ! It was about 9 am, I went to school earlier than 7 am ! More crowded in SMA Muhi, my school. There were many motorbike in the yard. Many people, especially parents or someone who would take student's report.
I was getting into my class when my teacher came. Almost of in the class are parents. I was the one as a student, but later then, a few of my friends came. My teacher gave to us according to student's absent number.
Finally, I took my report. I got good marks in my report. I am lucky ! I didn't think it before. I was pessimist because I didn't study well, beside, the minimum marks has been increasing to be 75 for science subjects. Wow, In fact, I got more than it. Not all of my marks are above the minimum marks, one subject : history. I don't really like it.
I just have to be better in the next semester !

Happy Eid !

For my brothers & sisters : happy eid al-adha !

As usual,,, in the eid, we prayed together in the morning. My family and I prayed in 'Culinary Park', the nearest place for us. After one hour, there slaughtering began !
Hmm, I didn't see it because I must help my friends prepare some foods to the slaughters, people who sliced, & cooked the cow & sheeps flesh. It took so long, but it was fun for me because I could gather with my neighborhood, especially with the teenagers. It's a rare moment for me because I don't often meet them everyday.

I hope you have a great eid too,
eid mubarak !

I hate the racist !

I really hate the discrimination among religion. Many racism that can be found in this world. In France, the laïcite appears and applicated in schools, or government instance. It makes the banning of religious views. We can’t wear a Christ sign, jewish hat, or hijab. What the harmful things for muslimah is the hijab banning. I wonder why,,, they have rules such as those things. Not just in school, photo passport with hijab will be rejected. I’ve read those rules in the internet. Actually, wearing hijab in public place is safe and allowed. Beside France, the country that similar (have a “racist” rules) is USA. I read it from internet. I browsed in Google with keyword : photo + passport + requirement + (the country).

I feel glad because I found some country that still tolerate a passport with hijab : Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, & Netherland. It’s surprising.. Switzerland and France are neighborhood, but the rules are totally different. That makes me think and motivated, I prefer those countries in tolerance.

I have a great intension to study & live abroad, especially to Eroupe, more especially to France. I want to get many experiences during my living. I like to live in a country that has high tolerance and near my brothers and sisters. How about in France ? it’s hard to live there as good muslims. Should I sacrifice my faith for that ? I have many considerations. I won’t go there only for sightseeing, I really know that France is a beautiful country. I don’t want my trip will be wasteful, not useful for me. I’ll feel disappointed if I scarified what I shouldn’t show but then,,, when I get in to the country,,, I don’t get anything special or just temporary amusement. If I study there, I have an intention to study,,, that won’t be useless. If that’s the best way that granted for me, I’ll better do it.

I don’t know the future, I hope, I’ll be granted the best and I won’t feel what I’ve done are useless, like going abroad. It need a great sacrifice in anything: minds, power, carefulness, and even faith if it’s really really forced (I hope I won’t sacrifice my faith). So, what will I do in the future, it depends to my faith in my future to.

Source :
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http://www.epassportphoto.com/Blog/?tag=/passport+photos

Mid Semester Test

On 13-21, I had mid semester test. Ohh, I don't think I'll get a good mark. I wasn't ready for it. It's because I was absent for some 10 days, it's for school program ( I won't absent without reason !). Many lesson that I had passed. The worse thing, I didn't study during the school program. It seems, I was too relax.

The results was... I didn't do my exam well. Most were difficult ! Specially like physic and math. Actually, not just me who said it was difficult. Almost of my friends in my class said the same. We know, what we get (the bad result) wasn't just our fault. There were some subject that hadn't been taught to us. Worse, there's one subject that include the second semester part. No wonder, we didn't know at all about it. That's why our marks in many subjects were so bad.

Physic, I got less than 4 ! Oh no...

Happy eid al-fitr !

Eid is a day when all muslims celebrate their victory, after 1 month fasting (Ramadhan).

In Indonesia, we often call it as 'Lebaran'. It's in 1 October here. In that day, we pray together in a field, or big masjid. There are so much people who pray so it needs a wide place for it. Only 2 'raka'ah', but it's so special because it's in our victory day and we do it just once a year. We apologize eachother for our faults to our friends, family, cousins, and others.

Our other tradition during eid is visiting our family. Even, a far family. We call it 'mudik'. People usually leave for their family hometown in few days before lebaran. That's why the the trafic can be so crowded. But for my family, we left after lebaran. so, it's fluent enough. We can get through the trafic easily.

That's all of 'lebaran' in Indonesia

Welcome Ramadan !

Soon, we'll be in the Ramadan month. Like what people usually do in the 'lebaran' (eid), we, the muslims especially ask for our forgiveness each other. I'm sure that I have many mistakes to the others, so I apologize to some people around me. We just say : "Maaf lahir batin", means I apologize externally and innerly. We can say also that we apologize till the deepest of our heart.

Why should we do that while the Ramadan comes ? It's because Ramadan is the holy month. So our spirit should be pure. Pure from the bad, including our faults.

So, Ramadan Kareem ! ( Happy Ramadan )

Real Foreign Friend ?

I want to be a homestay through AFS. I’ve got the application for it. But till now, I haven’t submited it. Anyway, I knew from the AFS committee, Wulan, her name that there’s Belgian who will come to Jogja this year. So, I asked for his e-mail. Finally, I got it !

Arno, his name. I’ve sent him a message. He replied me. Till now, we’ve been sending message through our e-mail. We've been talking about Indonesia mostly. I explain him about my country. I know a little about him. Arno is a Belgian who speaks dutch. He choose Indonesia because he things that it's different than the country around. He is interested in Indonesia ! Cool...It's so fun to have a foreign friend.

He will come to Indonesia on 4 September. The trip should be on 21 August, but it was delayed. Then, on 11 September, Wulan told me that there's a gathering with AFS people . I think it's to welcome Arno, because he will come !
I hope, Arno will be my real friend.

My Poem : Life That We Are In

Life That We Are In

Traveling page by page

Making time with my age

Life is just an image

But not like inside the cage

Everything is here

Happiness is near

Decreasing my fear

It seems so clear !

I realize that life is just a dream

It’s as delicious as an ice cream

But it’s like we walk on a beam

Be careful ! We can fall into tear stream

Poem : To My Grown Up Son

To My Grown Up Son

My hand were busy through the day,
I didn’t have much time to play
The little games you asked me to
I didn’t have much time for you

I’d wash your clothes: I’d sew and cook,
But when you’d bring your picture book
And ask me, please, to share your fun,
I’d say, ”a little later, son:”

I’d tuck you in all safe at night
And hear your prayers, turn out the light,
Then tiptoe softly to the door,
I wish I’d stay a minute more.

For life is short, and years rush past,
A little boy grows up so fast,
No longer is he at your side.
His precious secrets to confide.
The picture books are put away,
There are no children’s games to play.
No good night kiss, no prayers to hear,
That all belongs to yesterday.
My hands once busy, now lie still,
The days are long and hard to fill,
I wish I might back and do,
The little things you asked me to.

Alice E. Chase

What a nice poem isn't it ? But it sounds sad for me. So, I'll explain my analysis about this poem. About the meaning of the poem and the culture that being told in the poem.

This poem tells about a mother who didn’t care about her son when he was a little child because she were so busy. She didn’t have time to play games with him, she refused her son’s request to read his picture book, and even when he would sleep at night, she just stayed for a moment, tucked him, heard his prayers, turn off the light, and went out of her son’s room quietly.
Now, she realizes that her son grew up so fast. He isn’t in her side anymore. She misses with what usually her son did. Such as children’s game, picture book, and his prayer. Those were just in the past. Though she is still busy now, she regrets because in the past, she was too busy till didn’t have time for her son. She wants to go back in the past to be with her son. It’s so ironic because a parent still being busy with the occupation because she regrets though her son left her because of he grows up. If she really regrets, she should be less busy so she can give more attention to her son though he grows up.
In the poem, we can find a culture that being implicit. It’s ’reading a picture book before sleeping’. In the western culture, parents read a picture book to their child before the child sleeps. In Indonesian culture as the eastern culture, we don’t usually do it. Before sleep, parents tell a fairy tell to their child. Also with kissing. In western culture, kissing in a public place is normal. May be to family or friends. In family, parents give a goodnight kiss to their child before sleep. But In eastern country, we don’t usually find a kissing habits.
We can analize the culture not just from which part of the world it is. But also the urban or rural community in it. It has the culture of ‘busy parent’. We can say the busy parent is a culture of the urban people or rich people. The mother has much money but they don’t have time even for her son. So, the mother doesn’t have an enough attention for her son. That makes her son feel lonely and different from the other children who is concerned well. He may be a naughty child, not an opened person, and don’t behave well. Those are the different between the western and eastern culture.

Finally, that’s all of my analysis about this poem...

What I feel about this school year

This year, I'm in the 11th class. Of course, the subjects are more difficult, especially because I'm in natural science class. I feel difficult in math, chemistry, physic, and biology because we should read much about it and do many exercises.

Like in chemistry time. When my teacher taught it, once she explained I didn't understand. Twice, still didn't understand. In fact, i paid attention. So, I asked my friend who sat next to me and in front of me. Then, finally I understood.

Perhaps, I need an extra course of those science subjects. But i think, that needs extra time too. Actually, I have an intention not to be focus with my school this year. I want to improve my French and moreover, I want to be a homestay in AFS organization. So, I will be busy because of my own activities. I'll have a French course of it starts and I'll be more busy to consultate with

But I can change my intention, my plan. If I really really need an extra course, I should have it. I don't want to decrease my marks of those subjects... I want to go in a foreign university !

Twice I've had an accident !

In the last post, I've written that I had an accident with my motorbike. It's because I was so careless.

Today, it happened again !

At the afternoon, I took my first brother with my motorbike. We had 2 destinations. First, to buy Kebab and then to photocopy something, that's my destination. So, I took my brother to the Kebab sale. My Mom had told me before to leave him, let him wait for me when he buy the Kebab and so I could go to photocopy. I obeyed her. I left him to my destination.
After I finished to photocopy, I went back to take my brother. In the trip, an accident happened again. Like before but it's worse. I rode my motorbike to the edge of the road, but I didn't pay attention that the edge is a little lower than the main road. So, when I want to direct my motorbike to the main road, I fell. Ohh, it was when I rode it fast. My leg was hurt a little, but it's ok. But the motorbike was a little broken.
Thanks God, I could get up with my motorbike and someone helped me while the other just stopped and looked at me ! I said thank you to him then I went to take my brother.
After arrived to the Kebab sale, I told my brother about that accident. And after arrived at home, my Mom knew it too. She told me to be more be careful and don't rode the bike too left or right of the road.
Ahh, I hope, this is the last accident.

I Should be Careful

Now, I can ride a motorbike alone ! But I'm still novice to do it. So, no wonder I had a little accident because of my carelessness. This is how I became like that...

I took my friend with my motorbike from my home. My destination was to the swimming pool. I wanted to drop Cici in front of the bureau of my village. She would go home by a bus then. I intent to turn around and go to the opponent way. I was careless, I didn't look carefully at the back. Is there any vehicle past through the road or not. I just saw the road behind me for a moment. I saw some vehicle would past the road. But the stupid thing, I just turned around and past the road. I didn't that there was another motorbike past. So, we had a little crashed.
Thank God, the girl who rode that motorbike broke it, so it got slower and slower. Though my right leg was stuck for a moment, that accident didn't make any scar in my leg. I immediately said sorry to her and went away.

That accident made me nervous. I also felt stupid. So, I should be careful next time when I road a motorbike.

First Post with Happy Happening

This is my first post in my new blog...

I had a great day. I met a Muslim girl who lives in Paris ! As I remember, her name is Fauzia. I can see from her face, an Mediterranean face.
First time, i saw her after the dhuhur pray, in the school hall. I wondered, I thought she is a teacher. But when I got closer to her, I can conclude she is a visitor. Subhanallah, she is so beautiful ! he looks like Arabic people. My and my friends were curious. "Who is she??" We asked each other. In fact, we were ready to go down. But we delayed it because we were too curious. So, we asked our teacher.Mrs. Ratih, our Sociology teacher said that she came from Jordania and she is a french citizen. 'Citoyenne français !' Inas, my friend. "Rizka seneng !". She meaned that I was so glad because I could speak french to her. Then, we asked the same thing to Mrs. Dyah. But she got closer then. Mrs. Dyah told us to talk to her. But, it was only me who talked to her then. I don't know why I intently talked to her. Usually, I'm too shy to talk to a new person. I directly asked,"Are you french citizen?" She responded,"Yes". I became so happy. Imagine ! a person who like french speak with french. It's like reaching a quarter of a long trip. I know that I am still stupid to speak a new language for me : french. So, it's better to speak English. So, no wonder I just said "Bonjour" at the first time. Wow, she responded with her franch accent ! "Bonjour" With the unclear 'r' that she pronounced.
She said,"Assalamu'alaikum". I answered her,"wa'alaikumsalam". She could speak English. She asked me about my school."Do you like to be here?" I just answer,"yes". But she asked me furthermore,"Yes or no ?" Ohh, actually I didn't care such as this question. So, I just answer "sometimes no." When she asked "why ?" I said that sometimes I become bored because of many homeworks here. And so on. We said goodbye then because me and my friend should went down to our class.
I was too excited. I was afraid that I couldn't control my emotion. When I was already in my class, I told my friends. They were happy too because I was happy. Moreover, she came to my class with my teachers. Cici, my friend supported me to come to her. Of course, I came to here. She still remembered me ! Yeah, we met again. She gave her nice smile to me. At that time, resemble like before, she asked my about my class,"What is the different your class then the other?" Well, I think, my class only has one particular thing : using technology more often. But I answered the different way,"Our class is based on technology". She was in my class for a short time. Then, we would left. But it seemed I had a good reaction based on my mood and mind. I like french, so that was a chance for me. I stopped her. "Excuse-me" "Do you live in France ?". If I could, I would said," Excusez-moi. Vous habitez en France?" Then she responded ,"yes". Oh my god ! I became happier. I told her," I like french and I have an intention to go there." What a great respond ! She said,"If you come to Paris, visit me. may I have your e-mail ? So I can send you an e-mail about Paris." "OK", directly I wrote my e-mail in a piece of paper. I also made sure that I wrote my e-mail right. It's useless if I give my wrong e-mail.
So, I gave it to her. And said, "Merci beaucoup" (Thank you very much) She responded, "de rien"(you're welcome). Alhamdulillah, that's a great meeting with a sister who lives is Paris ! I can have more foreign friends :)