New Students

Well, it's May already! So, it is the time for Preparation Class (PC)! Most of us, me and my friends, want to know them, and we hope that they will be a good new friends for us. I hope they are not annoying

My New Guitar

I've got my new guitar about 4 months ago. It is a nice guitar. It's APX500(Yamaha). I love to play it, almost everyday I always play it. The sounds are great. And I also love it's design and body. It's a cool one for me. The length is about 1 meters. It is an acoustic electric guitar. I play it using my pick. And for me, the sounds are greater if I use my pick. It has 5 colors actually, the red one, blue one, yellow one, black one, and the brownish one, but I bought the yellow one. It has 6 strings and it also has a tuner on it. The body is soft, and it isn't easily broken after hit something.

"Bleeding!"

That sentence is still in my head until right now. The story began when I was still on the 2nd grade. I played with some of my friends. We ran and laughed together on the break time. Suddenly, something happened. I ran and my friend, Elshaan, stubbed me accidentally, and the other, Matthew, who was running, suddenly collided with me. I fell down and my forehead hit the paving block. My friends turned me and Elshaan said, "Bleeding!". Yes, my forehead was bleeding after hit the paving block. My friends woke me and tried to find help. My PE teacher was walking and shocked when he saw me with a forehead that full of blood. Immediately, he toted me and ran to brought me to the Medical Center. There, the nurse immediately closed the door and locked it, while a lot of students knocked that door, tried to come in and see.

You Can Do It!

"There's nothing that you can do, that can't be done", said The Beatles on their song, "All You Need Is Love". Yes, that's right. You can do anything. Anything is possible. If you want to, you can. "Yes we can", said the U.S. President, Barack Obama. For me, in music that "law" also used. In this modern life, if you want to learn a song (in this case in guitar), you can search for the tab on the internet. And it almost serves us the tab that we're looking for, so you can start to learn and play it. But, sometimes, the internet doesn't have any tab for that song. So what you've to do?

Bruce Lee Moves

Hey, guys, I think that you've already known Bruce Lee. He was a Chinese American actor and Hong Kong actor and also the founder of the Jeet Kune Do. He moved very fast as Jackie Chan said, "When Bruce Lee kicked, you don't shut your eyes. Because when you shut your eyes, you cannot see Bruce Lee kick it´s so fast! Human beings cannot move like cartoon [sound effects], that´s the fastest you can be. Even Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, their punches are fast, but you still can see [them]." For the evidence, you should go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBxqptNa6-8...

Nowhere Boy

It's a British film, directed by Sam-Taylor Wood. It is a film contributed to John Lennon, and was released on 8 October 2010, only one day before John's 70 birthday. It is a film about his teenage and the background of the richest Rock n' Roll band in the world, The Beatles. Aaron Johnson played as John Lennon, and I think that he did it great. He really looks like John in that film, and his voice is nearly the same for me. It's a good film, and you must watch it! I've been watching it for about 3 times.

Soccer

Soccer is my favorite game since I was 5 years old. Soccer is quite interesting for me, we must play this game with all parts of our body, but not with our hand (except goalkeeper). The objective is to make as many goals that we can score, so we can win the game. Soccer is a bit hard for beginner, because they need to learn from the basic until the advanced skills. The rules of this game are a lot. For example, you can't touch the ball with your hand if you're not a goalkeeper.

"Your Old Friend is Here!" Background and Expectation

Maybe, a lot of you, readers, are wondering about the background of the story "Your Old Friend is Here!". This story was not made simply, but also not too complicated. Well, to make it more interesting and unusual, I made this post and provide those information in the form of a short interview. These are some questions which are related with the story, "Your Old Friend is Here!". These questions and answers are talking about the background of the story, the expectation of the writer, etc.

Your Old Friend is Here!

                It was a sunny day in Birmingham, England. Everybody was busy with their own business, while the little George was playing in his uncle’s farm. “George, I have to met Mrs Clarkson in the town square, just wait here until I come back and be ready to go home. OK?”, his mother said. “OK, Mom!”. George replied. George ran with his friend, Pete, through the farm, and suddenly Pete pushed George accidentally. George’s head hit some pebbles and bleeding. Pete ran and told George’s uncle, Mr Anderson. “Let’s bring him to the hospital!”, he told his servants. After the doctor and the team worked for some time, the doctor came out from the room. There, George’s mother, Pete, his uncle and aunt had been waiting. “How is he?”, asked her mother. “Madam, I have to tell you, he lost his memory”, the doctor replied with low voice. “Please, don’t come in first. He will be shocked. Wait until I ask you to”, he continued.

An E-mail for Greenpeace Action Group

I would like to introduce myself first, I'm Jonathan Valentinus, 13 years old. I'm a student from SMPK 1 BPK PENABUR, Bandung, Indonesia. I have read your advertisement on the internet about donating for our environment.

Honestly, I am interested in protecting our environment. That's why I want to join your program. So, I think I would like to donate as much as I can for our goods. In my opinion, we are too selfish, as a human. Most of us only care about profit that they can get. So, they chose their own way, such as illegal logging, etc. That's why our environment is damaged. We need to protect them, before it's too late and make us suffer. For example, in Indonesia, there is a scandal on environment which has been going on for about 6 years, Lapindo mud. It has suffered a lot of people and still going on until this time. The government are less concerned on this scandal. It is almost being forgotten.

Four Days in the Life

Well, Anglo Chinese School is a big school, the tour guide said that it's one of the best school in Singapore. Monday, 11st of April, 2011, was the very first day for me to see that school. I and two of my friends, Owen and David, were fixed together in the same class, 1.11 Timothy. We had a lot of friends right there, they are friendly to us from the very first day, especially the chairman of that class. The three of us studied there, we followed the school from 07:30 until 02.40 A.M. The classmates helped us when we were there from Monday-Thursday. They always gave us their best, also the teacher, they're nice to us. Well, I would like to say that I enjoy my time there. We didn't have any homework/test like in Bandung, hahaha..It was very exciting, so we could enjoy our trip.

I met the Merlion!

Everybody were ready, and I could see some of us were laughing, smiling, and the others were still in a sleepy face. We came into the bus and left our school at around 3 A.M. In the bus, we were given snacks. After I finished eat 'em, I putted on my iPod and started to listen to it. On the way, I saw that the highways were dark. We arrived in Jakarta, at around 5 o'clock in the morning. We took all of our belongings out from the bus and entered the airport for check-in, etc. After that, we were given our passport by the teachers, we had to keep it. We waited for sometime, and it was our time to boarding. We used Air Asia, where were we going? It was Singapore. Most of us couldn't sit well during the flight, some of us walked constantly. As soon as we landed in Changi Airport, we took our baggage and some of us, including me, bought a SIM-card to be used in Singapore.

At Dawn..

April 10th, 2011, it was around 2:20 A.M., everybody still lied on their bed, but I didn't, I woke up, washed my face, and then brushed my teeth. I changed my clothes, and used my socks and shoes. It was the day when it began. I started to check my belongings and found that there was nothing left. So, I was ready to leaving home and moving. My father drove me to school. Bandung was still dark and quiet that time. When we arrived at school, I opened the door and stepped out from the car, carried my backpack, also brought my suitcase. There, I met my friends, from my class, 7A, and two classes next door, 8A and 7B. We were ready to go to Singapore!

"Yellow Submarine" Remake

In August 2009, it was reported by Variety that Disney and Robert Zemeckis will remake "Yellow Submarine", a film 1968 British animated feature film based on the music of The Beatles, with a 3D computer animation. It  is hoped that it will be released in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. About one month later, on 11 September 2009, Disney and Apple Corps Ltd. officially announced the remake at the inaugural D23 Expo. Some of the Beatlemania thought that it's a bad idea. After long time no news, suddenly, Disney dropped out of the project, they don't want to continue it anymore. They announced it on March 14, 2011. It's a shocking news for me. I was happy when I saw that they would like to remake it and make it with a 3D computer animation. But, suddenly Disney dropped out.

Pepperland - George Martin

Well, a few days ago, I listened to a song called "Pepperland - George Martin". It's an instrumental song, and I found something, it's nice. In that night, I listened to my iPod, and it's been a long time I'm not listening to The Beatles. So, I chose to play their songs, because I have all of their songs from every album. And then, I chose the "Yellow Submarine" album, and started to listen. When I listened to that song, I started to like it. I want to play it, but when I browse the net, I found nothing, there is no tabs of that song. Well, I have to learn it by myself, but I don't have time to do it right now, maybe later..

Boring

"Today I don’t feel like doing anything
I just wanna lay in my bed"
- The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars


Well, it's a boring day for me, it's nice for having a long holiday, but I have nothing to do...

The Legendary Barney

Maybe you won't recognize him. Actually, he's just a fictional character in "How I Met Your Mother?", a TV-comedy program in CBS. I like his habits. He likes to say a lot of things, such as "WADDUP?", "I'm awesome", "Suit up!", "It's gonna be legendary", etc. It's funny, and sometimes I like to follow his habits with my friend. Well, it's exciting..

Impression on Sungha Jung

Well, I just watched a young guitarist on Youtube, called Sungha Jung. Maybe some of you have already knew before about him. He's a Korean. He was born in 1996, and if I'm not mistaken, he learned guitar at the age of 10. Now, he's famous enough. He has been playing in a lot of concert, one of them is a concert with Mr. Big. The first video that I watched is I'm Yours, when I saw it, I got impressed on his talent. For me, that's really cool. After that, I tried to play it like what he did, but as you know, it's quite hard. I hope someday I can play like him, even better than him. And there'll be SUNGHA JO! Hahahaha..XD

April Mop/Fools Day

On the first day of April 2011, as you know, it's April Mop, or also known as April Fools Day. Usually people get fooled by someone, or the opposite of it. I always want to take part on that day also. But, for me, the last April Mop wasn't special and it was quite boring for me. I couldn't fool anybody. When my friends asked me to help them, I was so interested. So, I helped them, but until the night, that people didn't give any respond to us, so I conclude it as a FAILURE..

Honk For Japan

Several weeks ago, I just watched a video produced by Nigahiga. The video called "Honk For Japan". This time he doesn't make a funny video, but he makes quite serious one, it's caused by it talks about natural disaster. His friends followed him went to the street. They wrote, "Honk if you Love JAPAN", "Love JAPAN", etc. And every time someone honks, Ryan will donate $10. In the end, he donates $600. He also gave the evidence that he really donates it.

Fukushima 50

It's a trending topic right now, Fukushima 50. Yeah, I read about that on today's newspaper. When I read about that, I feel something, that I can't express what is it. I thought, "God is great. He has gave this world a lot of brave people, and He also gave us 180 to 200 angels to help this world". They're our hero right now, they are very brave, as they're ready to face their deaths/dangers for our safety. They're not only heroes for Japan, but for this world. They decided to enter the radioactive area, and they will try to fix the condition there, close the leakage, etc. that caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The 180-200 person will be divided into 50 person shifts. And they knew one thing, if they do it, they will die or being defect till the end of their life. I think,

Controversy on Speedy

Some of my friends asked me, "Hey, do you use Speedy to get online right now?", and I told them that it is right. And they started to complain, because the Speedy can't run on them, but I can browse the net using Speedy. "How lucky I am", I thought. Hahahaha, as some of my teachers said, "Don't be envy with your friends, if they're lucky, that's your fate". I think they, my friends who can't browse the internet using Speedy, you have to listen and remember it, hahaha..Have a nice day, guys!

New Paper

Today, I think want to make a book, but the idea is still not clear. Maybe, it'll be about sport, I hope I can write up to 100 pages (I know it's really hard). Huft, hopefully it's nice and inspiring...

Google Translate Beatboxing

You might be wondering about this title. Yeah, Google Translate can do the beatbox. How to prove it? It's easy,

1) Go to Google Translate

2) Set the translator to translate German to German

3) Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch

4) Click “listen”

5) Be amazed :)

In fact, the "listen" button on the right side will change into "beatbox" button. If you're lazy, just click here and it will be done for you. Enjoy!

Special Thanks to : Geekosystem,

for the info

Hint : If you want to make your own beatbox, but you don't know what word you must type to make it, just click this link. 

Waiting

It seems that everybody will agree with me, waiting is suck. Right? I always think about it, almost. Now, I have to wait for my new guitar. Finally, I will get a new one. It's SFX5(hopefully), do you know about that guitar? It's an acoustic electric guitar, as you can see from the name(if in an acoustic guitar's name, there is word "X", it means the guitar is an acoustic electric), but I have to wait. I will be pleased if I get that guitar, that guitar also have tuner on it. I hope the time will passed quickly.

My Friends

I have a lot of friends in my class. The tallest is Aldwin Jonathan Ryanto, he looks like a Korean actor. I have a band, which including David Jeremy Tirta, Matthew Tanaya, Philip Alexander, and Aldwin. The leader in my class is Tamara Cynthia Chandra, I am the vice leader. The treasurer is Frida Carolina and the the secretary is Jessica Felicia Ang, while Sophia Amanda is the vice secretary. The first in our class is Claudia Cheryl Wijaya and Carlos Owen Setiaputra. I have a new friend from Garut, his name is Yosafat Chandra. I also have another friends, their name are Stefani Anugrah, Felia Alvina, Felicita, Jeremy Owen, and Andre Wijaya Ruslie

BIG Mistake

On the 13th of February, I just made a big mistake. I was ready to watch a film called "Across the Universe", which includes a lot of The Beatles's songs. At 10 p.m, I turned on the TV. But it's Twilight, not Across the Universe. Oh, I felt so confused, because when I saw the commercial, it said it will be held at 10 p.m of February 13th. So, I thought, maybe I just mistaken on it, maybe it will be held on the next day, February 14th. On the next day, I searched on the net, when it will be held. Oh no! It says it was held on the February 13th, but on the other TV channel. I felt so disappointed, and now I want to watch it on the internet..Another lesson for me, haha..

Straight No Chaser Virus

Oh no! I got attacked by SNC's(Straight No Chaser) virus! Do you know what is Straight No Chaser actually? "Straight No Chaser (SNC) is the name of two related but separate a capella men's singing groups. The Indiana University amateur college group now known as "Indiana University's Straight No Chaser" is composed of 10 to 12 undergraduate men whose lineup changes every year. The professional group, known simply as Straight No Chaser, is composed of former members, mostly original members, of the college group. In 2006, a 1998 video of "The 12 Days of Christmas," gained widespread popularity and subsequently led to a five-album record deal with Atlantic Records in 2008. The YouTube video has been viewed by more than 12 million people, including the chairman and president of Atlantic Records, Craig Kallman, who arranged the five-album recording deal", I got it from Wikipedia.

Chinese New Year with My Family

On the 3rd of February, 2011, I went to Cipanas with my family to visit my grandma in order of the Chinese New Year. We left our home at 7 in the morning and picked up my aunt. We arrived there at 10 a.m., and we went to my grandfather's grave. After stayed there for a while, we went to my grandmother's house. There, we said "Kiong Hee" to her, and we told about our condition in Bandung.  Just a few moments later, we bought 3 cups of noodle and ate it. I think that's a nice one. We stayed

My Computer Lab Right Now

Actually, I have post about this in this blog, but I have to..I think maybe it's more cooler now because my teachers have turned on the AC. And now, I become more familiar with this lab..

My Experience in Mini Lab

Today, we are using our new mini computer lab in SMPK 1. It's a small one, we must share this small room for 19 person! But, I think it's OK..

Holiday

From 18th December 2010 until 4th January 2011, SMPK 1 BPK Penabur having a long holiday for the end of the first semester. On holiday, I went to Blora, a small city in Central Java, and also Surabaya, the capital of East Java, to visit my brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, and also my grandpa and grandma from my mother. I went there with my family on 28th December 2010 by plane. We arrived at Surabya around 11.30 am, and picked up by my uncle, auntie, and their daughter & son. Then, we