DEWA ATHENA

DEWA ATHENA

Yeahhh..... Finally we got the long holidays. The holidays started from   Monday March 7^th 2016 until March 14^th 2016. After tired days in school, finally we can rest from activities in school such as homeworks, test, and many more. We got the holidays because 12^th grade students were doing the exams, so we got 1 week holiday. But, we couldn’t free from homeworks because the teachers always give many homeworks for holidays. Not only that, in this holiday we must prepare ourself for Mid Semester Test that would be held at  March 17^th 2016 until  March 23^th 2016. Well... we must prepare for our hard schedule. But in this holiday, school conduct the sport events called DEWA ATHENA.

DEWA ATHENA is the sport competition for 10^th grade and 11^th grade. This event held from  March 10^th 2016 until March 12^th 2016. This event took place at Bali Field, also at Bali Street. There were some category for the competition such as futsal, basketball, volleyball, badminton, dodgeball, chess, tug of war, estaffet run, and gobak sodor (traditional games).

On the first day, at 07.00 a.m., there was an opening event. All of participant that included of 10^th grade and 11^th grade students gathered at Bali Fied. The event is opened with marathon run. It was not far. We ran from Bali Street, Belitung Street, Sumatera Street, Jawa Street, and back to Bali Street. The students wore the class jersey that they ordered before.

After marathon run, the commitees prepared the competition. I didn’t remember all of the schedule, but I’m only remember the schedule of my class. The first competition that my class took is  gobak sodor. In this game, there were two teams that included of 10 persons. Attacker team needed 10 persons and defender team needed 5 persons. The game included two match. In two match, two teams had attack and defend chance. The defend team must try to touch the attacker. The point that the gained were from the number of attacker that could escape from the defenders. I played this and our class (X IPA 1) lost from X IPA 7.

The next competition was estaffet run. The participant included 4 persons, 2 boys and 2 girls. The particpant must run surround football field. My class, X IPA 1 versus XI IPA 2. My friends ran very fast so they won. X IPA 1 advanced to the next stage.

The next competition was tug of war. The number of participant was 10 persons, included 5 boys and 5 girls. Our opponent is XI IPA 1. One game included 2 match. If one team win, they get one point. If the score was draw, there would be one match again to decided the winner. My class could win with only 2 games and advanced to next stage.

The next competition and also the last competition in first day was dodgeball (boy). X IPA 1 versus X IPA 6. The match were very sharp. Each teams played very hard. And the result was my class won again !!!

Second day, the first competition for my cass was dodgeball boy. The opponent of our team was XI IPA 1. They played so great and they could beat our team.

The next competition for my class was estaffet run. In this stage, my class’s team versus X IPA 5. We won again and advanced to the next stage to competited with the winner of another battle. I forgot who were them but my class’s team lose from them.

The next competition was basketball. Each team include 3 boys and two girls. That was not include with reserve players. My class’s team was beaten by their opponent, X IPA 8 with the score, 10 – 2.

The next competition was chess. Our class sent Ghifar Akbar Iftinan as the participant of chess. His ooponent is student from X IPA 4. He could win against his opponent.

The next competition was tug of war. The next opponent was X IPA 5. We won very hard from X IPA 5 because their teamwork is very good. But finally, we could win with the score 2 – 1.

The next competition was volleyball. I was not watch my class’s team, but they could win from their opponent and advanced to next stage.

The next competition were badminton double girls and badminton double boys. Both of them could win form their opponents. On the top of that, badminton double boys team of my class could beat the team from XI IPA 7 with the marvelous score, 21 – 2, 21 – 5.

Ohhh, I forgot. There was also competition for my class in the category of Dodgeball girls. I didn’t watch them but my friends told me that they won that game.

Finally, the third day also the last day. The first competition was futsal girls. The opponent was XI IPA 8. Maybe because the players that didn’t gather soon, so the team only has 5 players and didn’t have reserve players. Our team were beaten with the score, 2 – 0.

The next competition for my class is chess. I didn’t watch Ghifar in Chess game but my friends told me that he lost from student of XI IPA 6.

The next competition was tug of war. Some players weren’t come to this event so I decided to join the team. Battle against XI IPA 8 was not very hard so we could beat them.

The next competition was Futsal Boys. Our team would be battle against futsal team from XI IPA 7. The team of XI IPA 7 had the good players so they could beat our team with the score 2 – 0.

Finally, the event had finished. The final round will take place at April 2^nd 2016.

Education to Build a Better Future for All

Education to Build a Better Future for All

Zaki Anwar Farizan

We lived in a world that so many people live there. Approximately billions years ago, the human lived in the stupidity. They have a lifestyle like the animal style. They eat the meat without cook before, hunt the animals with the very simple tools that made from stone, and many more. From there, it is the first knowledge in the world. Then, the new era begin. The knowledge always improved by the next generations until now. Now, the knowledge improve very widely and the people think that the knowledge don’t be lost because from the knowledge, the technology always improved. So the people try to teach the other people about the knowledge. From there, we can conclude that education is a process where the peoples sharing about everything that they knows. From the education, people who are stupid become smart. The world needs the smarts people to change the world from primitive era become modern era.

Beside the knowledge, the education always improved too, especially in the system of education. Long time ago, the people think how all of the people can be smart, but the numbers of people is so many. So they make the school. In the school, the people can study together in a class. The participant of the school called as student. They will teach by the people who called as teacher who has the knowledge more than the students.

In this era, I am a student of Senior High School. So I feel the atmosphere of school for almost ten years, so I know the system of education in Indonesia. In the 1^st grade of Elementary school, I started the school.  I learn over 10 lessons in the class, so from the basic, we started to be saturated and bored in the school. For example, every student has the different talent. There are my friend who likes cooking, counting, writing, sport, and many more. But,in the school, we learn about many lessons that we don’t interest. When I was  Junior High School, there is my friend that has interest in sport and drawing. But, in the class, he always mocked by his friend because he always get the bad mark for math. It’s the first problem of the system education in Indonesia.

The second problem is homework. Teacher sometimes give us the the homeworks. It’s usual in my school. But, many teachers give us many homeworks. Imagine, if we study 16 lessons every semester, let’s think about our pressures. Every homeworks must be ready for next week.maybe the teacher think that they give us homework order to the students always study in their home. But, we feel that many homework make us very stressed. The homeworks don’t make us smart, but make us so tired and we don’t notice about our health and make us become sick.

The third problems is ranking system. There is the rule that every class must sort the students from the 1^st ranking that has the highest marks in class to the last student that has the lowest marks in the class. It makes the highest the 1^st rank receive so many praises from  teachers, friends, and many more. But, the students who is the lowest ranking in class, he/she can become very shy to his/her friends. Usually the lowest ranking students get mocked by his/her students, teachers, and get anger from his/her parents. It can make he/she become not confident in every time. The lowest rank student feel that he/she is the stupidest student in the class. So he/she will feel very stressed and he/she can give up for every condition.

So in my mind, I ever think about my dream education in Indonesia. I wish that the students can choose their lesson themself. The lessons can adopted from the talent of the students. If it happens, the student who likes sport don’t need to learn about Physics, the student who likes music don’t need to learn about Biology, and many more, so the student can develop him/her talent. Beside it, I wish that the lessons we learn is less than 10 lessons in order to make the student can focus to him/her talent.

One of the biggest problem for the students in Indonesia is homeworks. I wish in the school, the teacher seldom to give the homeworks. If the number of homeworks are few, the students can focus to do the homework so they can understand about the content of lessons.

I wish that in the school, there are no ranking system in every class. It can make the equality of each students so there are no differents from each students. So if one student get a bad mark, he/she don’t need to give up, but he/she must try to get the better mark next time.

In Indonesia, we have the big problem in education, especially for the system. So I have an idea for the government to fix the system. It’s never too late to give the change to the education. If the education can be better than now, I believe that the next generations will become better from the previous generations. They are the next leader for Indonesia to lead this country to glory.

From the text above, we can conclude that education is very important for the world. If there is no education, the world will fall on to the stupidity. Because of this, this country need the good educations to produce the great generations that can be the next leader for this country.

My Holiday

My Holiday

On this day, December 23^rd 2015, we finished study at first semester in 3 Senior High School Bandung. My mom and picked up the report of my progress in study at school. At first, I fell very nervous because I think my result of study is bad. But, when I looked my report, I feel happy because the result is good. After receive the report, we came back to my house. My parents were very busy because in the night they would go to Saudi Arabia to do the umrah.

In afternoon, my big family came to my house to accompany my parents to PUSDAI mosque because the travel agency prepared the bus to Soekarno – Hatta Airport. We went to PUSDAI mosque at 06.30 p.m. My parents brought many luggage. We arrived at PUSDAI Mosque at 08.00 p.m. There so many people came to PUSDAI Mosque. The crew of travel prepared for the travel. They carried the luggages of the passenger. After that, the participant of umrah gathered inside the mosque to receive the provisioning. My family and I (except my parents who were the participant) joined the gather people inside the mosque. At 11.00 p.m. , finally the participant of umrah started to go to Soekano – Hatta International Airport. After that, my sister and I were accompanied by my aunt to my house. So, my sister and I would stay in the house for 10 days without my parents for the first time !!!

We arrived at my house at 12.00 p.m. After locked the gate and the door, we prepared to sleep. But I couldn’t sleep for 2 hours so I slept at 02.00 p.m. Next day, I woke up at 05.15 a.m. After I woke up, I did the Subuh prayer. After that, I did my works that my mom prepared before she went. I opened the cover of bird cages, so the birds received the sunlight.

We  started to live without my parents in my house, only with my sister. Luckily, before my parents went to Saudi Arabia, they ordered a maid to take care us in the house. Everyday she cooked the foods for us so we wouldn’t hungry. But, for the houseworks, that’s our tasks, such as mop floor, clean the dishes, clean the bird cages, and many more. We usually did the tasks before, except clean the bird cages. For the first, we felt disgusted because there were so many bird’s feces in the cages. But, slowly we accustomed to cleaned the bird cages.

In the night, my uncle came to my house. He planned to stay for 4 days because the next day my uncle had to work in his office. So every night, my uncle always take me and my sister to the restaurant to dinner. We are very happy because we can eat for free. My uncle always treat us so we can save our money.

At Sunday, my uncle come back to his house because the holiday of his work is end. At Monday, my cousin come to our house to play together with us. He come to my house with many foods, especially snack. But we decide to take lunch near my house. We eat meatballs together near my house. After that we buy the foods again. Then, we back to home. In the evening, my aunt come to my house to take my cousin back to their house.

At Friday, finally, my parents back to Indonesia after go to Saudi Arabia to umrah. My family and I pick up my parents at PUSDAI after pray Jumat. There so many people wait their family who go to Saudi Arabia too. After wait for 30 minutes, the participant of umrah arrive at PUSDAI. Finally we meet my parents again. My parents bring many souvenir, such as chocolate, wall decoration, zam – zam water, and many more. After that, we come back to home.

Alas Kedaton

Alas Kedaton temple is a megalithic sacred Bali Hindu temple relics of ancient times, Alas Kedaton temple located in the middle of the Alas Kedaton monkey forest, precisely in the village of Kukuh, Marga district,Tabanan regency. Alas Kedaton temple or Pura Dalem Kahyangan Kedaton is located approximately 35 kilometers from the city of Denpasar Bali.

Alas Kedaton temple was built by Mpu Kuturan or Mpu Rajakertha during the reign of King Cri Masula Masuli, according to the inscription of Sading village, Mengwi, Badung Regency mentions that King Cri Masula Masulistart reigning in Saka 1100 (1178 AD). The inscription put on the Saka 1172 (1250 AD) which also mentions that King Cri Masula Masuli ruling in Bali island for 77 years, which means the government ended in Saka 1177 or 1255 AD. The position of Alas Kedaton temple is facing towards west and has 4 gates as entrances and exits of the temple, this shrine has a unique yard, the position of inside yard (in Balinese called Jeroan or Utama Mandala) is lower than middle yard (in Balinese called Jaba or Madya Mandala), unlike other temples in Bali which normally has a inside yard which is higher than the middle yard.

The ceremony of Alas Kedaton temple is in Anggara Kasih Medangsia (Balinese Calendar), 10 days afterKuningan day. Unlike other temples, other uniqueness that can be encountered in this temple is during the ceremony may not use incense and Kwangen during worship. Similarly, the use of Penjor, when the ceremony performed at Dalem Kahyangan Kedaton temple we will not found Penjor like other temple ceremonies in Bali and this is also something that is unique. The ceremony should be finished before sunset because they are not allowed to use lights as a means of confinement using fire, when the ceremony is completed, will be followed byNgerebeg tradition. Ngerebeg means run with spears, Tedung (traditional Balinese Umbrella), and some leafy tree branches. Everyone cheered and shouted with joy to follow this ngerebeg tradition.

Alas Kedaton temple located in a forest inhabited by thousands of monkeys and hundreds of big bats. Monkeys in the Kedaton forest are very friendly and very close to the visitors as they always feed them with nuts and other snacks, but caution should still be taken care of even though they are very friendly but sometimes they can also attack when they feel disturbed. Alas Kedaton Holy Monkey forest is one of the famous monkey forest in Bali island.

Saparua Sport Center

Saparua Sport Center is the place for sport activities. It is located at Saparua Number 2 Bandung, near Maluku Park. Now, the capacity of Saparua Sport Center is 4.000 persons.

GOR Saparua was established in 1969. At first the building was intended for a boxing match

Saparua Sport Center was used for music consert at 80’s. Fariz RM, Vina Panduwinata, and Cockpit ever did the consert here.

In 90’s, Saparua Sport Center often used as the place of rock concert. Many rock band who were born in Saparua Sport Center, such as PAS Band, Koil, Burgerkill, and many more. The most succesful concert that took place at Saparua Sport Center such as Hollabalo (1994), Bandung Berisik (1995), Bandung Underground (1996), and Gorong-Gorong (1997). However, because of the interest of the audience who wanted to present in every concerts, made Saparua unable to accommodate the number of audience who increased fastly. The community of underground music searched the place that could accommodate more people. Finally, they found Dago Tea House.

Recently, Saparua Sport Center becomes a place for people to do sport. Many people start the day with a workout in the morning here. Sometimes, students and athletes exercise in Saparua Sport Center. Saparua Sport Center has indoor and outdoor buildings. There are some sport facilities, such as jogging track, basketball, wall climbing, voleyball, badminton, and wheeling area for sport, such as bicycle, skate board, inline skates, and many more.

The area of Saparua Sport Center is pretty cool with lot of the shades trees overshadow the sport arena. The parking area is enough extensive.

Around Saparua Sport Center, there are a lot of food vendors with the carts sell foods and drinks. It makes the visitors of Saparua Sport Center aren’t difficult to find the food. Foods and drinks are so delicious with the low price. However, the culinary tents use large area of the pavement which actually intended for pedestrians.

Crossword Puzzle

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My School Life

As my previous post, my name is Zaki Anwar Farizan. I study at 3 Senior High School, one of the best school in Indonesia. It is located in Belitung Street 8, Bandung, West Java. My school has a neighbour school, it’s name is 5 Senior High School. No conflict between 3 Senior High School with 5 Senior High School. We always study in peace and never conflict.

In this post, I will tell my school life in 3 Senior High School. As normal school, there are many homeworks, test, and quiz come together. First, I am not habitual with the atmosphere of the school. But slowly, I can adapt myself into the school atmosphere. Each day, each lesson, we always get homework. The hardest day ever in the school is 3 test and one homework. Fortunately, in my school, there is a library that has many books so we can easily get the references for study.

In my school, the tests are very hard, especially math and science (biology, physics, and chemistry). Maybe the easiest lesson that I mention is biology and the hardest is physics. In Junior High School, I learn physics just about counting and few theory. But, in Senior High School, I learn about how to analyze the nature phenomenon from the physics side. I think it is very hard.

The hardest challenge I passed is Mid Test. The Mid Test held from Monday to Monday again. We do the tests of 12 lessons in my school. Each day, we do 2 tests.

We can refresh our brain with the extracurriculars in my school. The students that interest in sports can join BM3 (Belitung Muda 3), UBBAS3 (Unit Bola Basket3), BC3 (Badminton Club 3), and many more. The student that interest in music can join MK3 (Musik Klasik 3), BAND3, and many more. I just join 2 extracurriculars because I adjust with my extra lesson and study time. There are DKM (Dewan Keluarga Masjid) and Trilogi.

                In my school, there are many events that can refresh too. One of them is Gamarvani Festival that I tell on another post. 3 Senior High School always hold festival every year. Last year, the name is Matswapati and this year the nameis Gamarvani. There are so many performer in Gamarvani. The guest star is Adera and HiVi! There are the famous singer in Indonesia.

              Next week, we will do the examination for 8 days.

I’m so happy to  study at 3 Senior High School....