10 Multiple Choice Questions From Aliyya's Blog

No. 1-2 are from narrative text “The Princess and The Pea” 

1.       Why did the queen put a pea under the matress?

a.       She wanted the prince to marry the princess soon

b.      She wanted the princess to eat it

c.       She wanted the prince to find it

d.      She put it as a sign that the prince would getting marry

e.      She wanted to know if the princess is a real princess

2.       The moral value of the story is...

a.       Don’t be such a greedy

b.      If at the first you don’t succeed, try try again

c.       Just be yourself and someone will love you just the way you are

d.      Be brave

e.      Don’t knock at someone’s gate when it’s rain

No. 3-5 are from amazing place text “Cassa di Giulietta”

3.       Where’s the location of Cassa di Giulietta?

a.       Verona                                        

b.      Venezuela

c.       Roma

d.      Newcastle

e.      North London

4.       Why do people write their names and their beloved ones on the walls of the entrance?

a.       They want a reply from Juliet

b.      They will get money from the government

c.       They want a reply from Romeo

d.      Many of them believe that it’d give happiness in their futures

e.      Many of them believe that it’ll make their love lasts forever

5.       What’s the title of the movie that adapt Club di Giulietta as it subject?

a.       Club di Giulietta

b.      Romeo and Juliet

c.       Letters to Juliet

d.      Cassa di Giulietta

e.      Letters from Juliet

No. 6-8 are from Biography “Andrea Hirata”'

6.       Where’s name Andrea came from?

a.       It’s taken from the name of the village

b.      It’s taken from the name of Andrea’s mother

c.        It’s taken from the name of a woman who’d kill herself if her favorite singer doesn’t reply to her letter

d.      It’s taken from the most famous singer in Andrea’s mother era

e.      It’s taken from the favourite character in a movie that Andrea’s mother like

7.       Which book that told Andrea’s college life and his backpacking adventures?

a.       Padang Bulan

b.      Laskar Pelangi

c.       Sang Pemimpi

d.      Maryamah Karpov

e.      Edensor

8.       Where’s Andrea live now?

a.       Linggang, Belitong

b.      Gantong, Belitong

c.       Jakarta

d.      Bekasi, Jawa Barat

e.      Bandung, Jawa Barat

No. 9 and 10 are taken from natural phenomenon text

9.       When does a lunar eclipse occur?

a.       When the sun, earth, and moon are aligned with the moon in the middle

b.      When the sun, earth, and moon are aligned with the sun in the middle

c.       When the sun, earth, and moon are aligned with the earth in the middle

d.      After the solar eclipse end

e.      Before solar eclipse occur

10.   The measurement of lunar eclipse’s darkness is called...

a.       Andre scale

b.      Danjon scale

c.       Lunar eclipse scale

d.      Solar scale

e.      Moon eclips scale

Andrea Hirata's Biography - My Inspiring Person

Have you ever watched or read "Laskar Pelangi" (International title: The Rainbow Troops)? If it yes, then I'm sure you've heard about him. Yes...he's the man behind the story, Ikal, whom I really adore.

And if you haven't read it, then YOU SHOULD.
“A book that not only warms the heart and lifts the spirit, but excites the mind as well. Truly, a page turner like no other. Once you start reading about these terrific kids, the ‘rainbow troops’, and their extraordinary young teacher, you just won’t be able to stop.” – Kate Veitch, the Author of “Listen” and “Trust”

ANDREA HIRATA

Andrea Hirata is one of my favorite author. He’s known as best-seller novelist by his “Laskar Pelangi” tetralogy and later “Padang Bulan” dwilogy. His first novel, Laskar Pelangi, has been released into film internationally titled “The Rainbow Troops” in 2008, both of them has scored remarkable records in Indonesia’s book and movie industry as a biggest hit of all time.

Andrea Hirata Seman Said Harun was born in Gantung, Belitong on October 24th of 1982. He's the fourth child of his family. While he was young, his parents changed his name seven times. They eventually settled on the name Andrea, while Hirata itself was given by his mother. It's taken from the name of the village.

"Andrea is taken from the name of a woman who's determined to kill himself if his favorite singer, Elvis Presley does not reply to the letter," said Andrea.

Andrea wrote ‘Laskar Pelangi’ as a his childhood memoir. Born and raised in Belitong, an island with a long history of tin-mining, Andrea portrayed his childhood story as a story of a marginalized people. Indeed, Belitong is a portrait of a beautiful island which later got impoverished by destructive effects of mining. “Laskar Pelangi” is a story of little Andrea with his childhood friends and teacher struggling for education and better life among the marginalized island and society.

His bittersweet struggling for education has actually made remarkable results. He got Bachelor degree in Economic from Universitas Indonesia, then continued and got his double Mater degree in Economic Telecommunication from Sorbonne University and Sheffeld Halam University, UK.

“Laskar Pelangi” tetralogy is actually the memoir of his life. If Andrea revealed his childhood in “Laskar Pelangi,” his adolescence memoir told in the 2nd book titled “Sang Pemimpi (The Dreamer).” Later, he told us about his college life and his backpacking adventures in his 3rd book “Edensor,” and finalized the story in the 4th book titled “Maryamah Karpov – Mimpi-mimpi Lintang.”

Claimed himself as a science-freak, Andrea is now undoubtedly one of the shooting stars in Indonesian literature. Before his books published and the book-based films were launched, there were no record that a literature book can reach million sales in Indonesia and a national film can withdraw million viewers. By these achievement, Andrea Hirata has made significant contributions to the development of Indonesian literature.

Andrea now lives in his hometown village, Linggang, Belitong and is pioneering to develop one of his dreams – making Belitong as a literature village and promoting tourism by arranging Laskar Pelangi Festival coming up on November 1st – 30th, 2010.

The "Laskar Pelangi" novel is also being published in another countries like Brazil, Japan, America, etc.

Spanish version

Brazil version

American version

I'm fascinated by his capacity of write, his struggle and hardwork. I just hope we can have great spirit and may follow our dreams like him.

Opening of Dewa Athena VI

Yesterday was the opening of DEWA ATHENA VI. It's a sport competition of X and XI classes in SMAN 3 Bandung. The event started at 8.30 am but I didn't make it in time because on the last night, i got sick and hadn't sleep well. So my classmates took a picture without me :(

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Our class's nameplate

The event took place in Lapangan Bali. Once I arrived there, Lapbal had already full of students. Then the opening ceremony started. The hosts read the matches schedule. My class, SepedaKlasik (Sepuluh Ipa Dua Kelas Asik) had two matches in a day. That was Futsal Putra vs Poseidon 32015 and Basketball match against Keparat 32015. 

A match between Belitung Muda Wanita 32015 and Belitung Muda Wanita 32016 openned the event.

The score was 3-0 to BMW 32015. A goal was scored because of penalty, a player of BMW 32016 touched a ball with her hand then gave a penalty to the opponent team. 

At about 9 am. There's a Futsal Putra match between SepedaKlasik 32016 against Poseidon 32015. My class sent Ipin, Thariq, RBM, Adzana and Yulio as a goalkeeper. The match was really fierce. Both teams played very well. Poseidon was the champion of BM Cup last year, they had so many great players, but good thing is in first 20 minutes, my class had a succesfull draw 0-0 with Poseidon.

In last 20 minutes, Almi replaced Thariq to play. All of sudden, RBM got injured, he lied down on the field. But then he got up again and the match continued. Poseidon scored a goal. The match was finished 1-0 to Poseidon. Though we didn't get any point, I still felt pleased because they had did their best and played really well :) 

SepedaKlasik's next match would be held at 1 pm, we still had much time left, then my friends and I, went to Bazaar. We ate and had some chat there. At 12.30 am, we got prayed at Masjid TNI, it's a mosque across SMAN 3 Bandung.

At 1 pm, my friends and I went back to Lapbal to watched our class played basketball. We waited some minutes before the match got started. We sat beside the basketball field. My class sent Andita, Almi, Ipin, Ilham and Yusuf on the first round. The opponent, Keparat 32015 played so good. In first 10 minutes, we left behind. But then Ipin scored some points for us and it catched up our team.

In second round, Yusuf replaced by Xena, and there was a turnover in our opponent team too. Both teams kept attacking. And suddenly, Ilham's injured. He walked to supporters place and took off his shoes. Apparently, his foot fingers got blooded. It's because his nail was too long and got trampled by another player. So, Thariq replaced Ilham. We called medical team and got some medical treatment for Ilham. The match continued. It finished 22-20. Victory for SepedaKlasik! 

Sepeda Klasik 32016 vs Keparat 32015

The event was closed by BM Cup, Siti Djubaedah 32016 vs Sparta 32015, it finished 5-1 to Sparta. It's the last match over all. Yeah, it was a tiring but happy day. Thanks Sepeda Klasik! Hopefully we can get better in the next matches. And the most important thing is to light up solidarity in our class. UBI CONCORDIA! IBI VICTORIA! HEN...SHIN! :-D

Last Holiday

Hola! I'd like to tell you how my holiday went on. Not the full story, because mostly I spent it lazily at home. So, I'll tell the most interesting parts (tbh it's not so interesting, really). But I really love my holiday! The way my days went on without school and any homework... That was like paradise ~.~
Hehe enough... now let the story begin.

On the first day of my holiday, I went to school to gave the "Kontrak Kredit" forms to my homeroom teacher, Mrs. Budiarti. I went to school with my dad. We went from Majalaya by car. It took about 2 hours to got to my school. And believe it or not, I filled up the form in my car. I was confused about the added sks, I couldn't decide fast, my father even got annoyed because I asked him so many times about it. Finally, after a long thought, I took only one added sks, it's Gamtek.
When we arrived at school, the first thing we did was stood in line and paid my sks's. Then, I gave the form to Mrs. Budiarti. Because I still had an appointment with my friends from Junior High School, and I didn't want my father wait for a long time, I let my father came back to Majalaya first without me. And after I met my friend, I came back to home by an elf car (it's a public transportation from Kalapa to Majalaya) at 4.30 pm. The public transportation took time for "ngetem"(waiting for passengers) reaaaaaalllllyyyyy long. So I arrived at Majalaya on Ba'da Isya (it's about 8 pm) and got picked up on terminal by my father and my little sister, Aliqa.

On December 29th, there's a match between Newcastle and Arsenal. I was so excited about it. It took place at Newcastle's stadium, St. James Park. It ended 0-1, victory for Arsenal! The goal scored by Giroud as Arsenal returned to the top of the league. Newcastle stay locked on 7th, 11 points off the pace. I was so happy back then :D 

L to R: Santi Cazorla, Olivier Giroud. Behind: Mathieu Debuchy :p 

On the first day in 2014, I was having some fun with my cousins. We made some cakes. Unexpectedly, my little boy cousin was very excited about it. He and I bought the materials for making it. We went to baking-materials-store by motorcycle driven by my cousin's housekeeper. We bought some materials like flour, baking soda, butter, paper cups, etc. Unfortunately, the paper cups's size weren't as same as the cake's molds, we only filled it until it half-full. So the top of the cake still inside the paper cups. (I've inserted a picture below)

Sorry if it wasn't that nice :p

The next day, My family and I went to waterboom in Kampung Gajah. Before we entered the waterboom, we rid a kind of openned-car (?) first.

This is me and my cousins riding an openned-car (?)

Honestly, I didn't enjoy swimming there because it was so crowded and the weather was super hot, it felt like my skin burned out :p
But still, I played the most big water slide there, Tornado many times. That was real fun. Hehehe.
After that, we went to The Ranch. We ate and played there. I rid a horse, played Flying Fox, and trampoline (trampoline is scary #fyi). Before we came back home, I bought a pretty little cactus. 

(And now, the little cactus has gone because I didn't took it back after doing some biology experiments at school. :-( )

Yeah... I think that's all for me... now my fingers has getting weary (?) 
And always, I'm really sorry if my grammar isn't good. 
TSCHUS!!!

Cassa di Giulietta (House of Juliet), Juliet's Wall, and Club di Giulietta

Hello! Today I'd like to post an article about Juliet's house. I think many of you has already know who's Juliet and her romantic story....Romeo and Juliet. Everyone knows the basic plot of this story -- boy and girl fall in love and die in the end. Some other stuff you should know is this: In this story there are two families, the Montagues and the Capulets. They hate each other. Romeo is in one family and Juliet is in the other. So they have a "forbidden love" because the families hate each other but Romeo and Juliet love each other. This play is one of Shakespeare’s tragedies. The whole story takes place in the city of Verona, Italy.

House of Juliet

Cassa di Giulietta
In Verona, a house claiming to be the Capulets' has been turned into a tourist attraction. It features the balcony, and in the small courtyard, a bronze statue of Juliet.
It is one of the most visited sites in the town. The metal of its chest is worn bare due to a legend that if a person strokes the right breast of the statue, that person will have good fortune.

Juliet's Wall

Many people write their names and the names of their beloved ones on the walls of the entrance, known as Juliet's wall. Many believe that writing on that place will make their love everlasting. After a restoration and cleaning of the building, it was intended that further writing should be on replaceable panels or white sheets placed outside the wall. It is also a tradition to put small love letters on the walls (which is done by the thousands each year), which are regularly taken down by employees to keep the courtyard clean.

Club di Giulietta

Since the 1930s, letters addressed to Juliet keep arriving in Verona. As of 2010, more than 5,000 letters are received annually, three quarters of which are from women. The largest single group of senders are American teenagers. The letters are read and replied to by local volunteers, organized since the 1980s in the Club di Giulietta (Juliet Club), which is financed by the City of Verona. The club has been the subject of a book by Lise and Ceil Friedman and is the setting for a 2008 book by Suzanne Harper and a 2010 USA movie, Letters to Juliet.

#fyi I've watched Letters To Juliet. It's so breathtaking. A-must-watch-one. 

For further read about Juliet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliet

Announcement

To: All Students SMAN 3 Bandung

To face the National Football Day, our school will prepare the School Football Team.
For this purpose, we're going to make a selection to find our school's best athletes.
Each class should prepare a team and attend the program.
Each team must consists of 15 players. 
Registration will be with Mr. Doni on February 1 until February 10.
Thank you for joining.

Approved by
Headmaster of SMAN 3 Bandung


Mr. Encang



Bandung, Januari 31th of 2014
Committe,


Mrs. Wiwin

Lunar Eclipse - Natural Phenomenon

Have you seen a phenomenon called Lunar Eclipse?
Yap! 
me too! 
I've seen it already about twice and I think it's good if we know what Lunar Eclipse actually is. 
Sooo.... I choose Lunar Eclipse as my natural phenomenon task.

A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly behind the Earth into its umbra (shadow). This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned (in "syzygy") exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, a lunar eclipse can only occur the night of a full moon. The type and length of an eclipse depend upon the Moon's location relative to its orbital nodes.

Lunar Eclipse occurs with the Earth in the middle

Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a certain relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of the Earth. 

A lunar eclipse lasts for a few hours, whereas a total solar eclipse lasts for only a few minutes at any given place, due to the smaller size of the moon's shadow. Also unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to view without any eye protection or special precautions, as they are dimmer than the full moon.

April, 15 2014 Total Eclipse

December, 21 2010 Lunar Eclipse

    

      DANJON SCALE

There's a scale made by Andre Danjon that measures the darkness of Lunar Eclipse

Danjon Scale

L=0: Very dark eclipse. Moon almost invisible, especially at mid-totality.

L=1: Dark eclipse, gray or brownish in coloration. Details distinguishable only with difficulty.

L=2: Deep red or rust-colored eclipse. Very dark central shadow, while outer edge of umbra is relatively bright.

L=3: Brick-red eclipse. Umbral shadow usually has a bright or yellow rim.

L=4: Very bright copper-red or orange eclipse. Umbral shadow is bluish and has a very bright rim.

LUNAR ECLIPSE PAINTING

Painting by Lucien Rudaux, showing what a lunar eclipse might look like when viewed from the surface of the moon.

LUNAR ECLIPSE IN MYTH AROUND WORLD

There's some myth about Lunar Eclipse:

 

• In Africa, there's a myth says that the sun and the moon are fighting during an eclipse, and the people encourage them to stop.
• The Hupa, native American tribe believed the moon had 20 wives and a lot of pets. Most of those pets were mountain lions and snakes, and when the moon didn't bring them enough food to eat, they attacked and made him bleed. The eclipse would end when the moon's wives would come in to protect him, collecting his blood and restoring him to health.
•  Ancient people believed that the sun eclipsed due to a dragon that swallowed it.  

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse
http://kaheel7.com/eng/index.php/astronomu-a-space/433-secrets-of-the-sun-and-lunar-eclipses
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140413-total-lunar-eclipse-myths-space-culture-science/