Rabu, 11 Juni 2014

Turbud 32015

April 3rd,  2014 we went to Bali to go for Tur Budaya of my school. i'm very excited to go to bali with a lot of friend, this must be a good vacation
We went to Bali at night train first to Surabaya Gubeng, then we went to Ketapang Harbor by bus, across the Bali Sea by a ferry and finally, after taking 1 day trip, we were arrived at Nirmala Hotel, Denpasar at dawn. Almost all of the transportation were the first time we took in our life, so we felt so excited that moment. When we arrived at hotel we felt so tierd.
The first day of Study Tour we went to Tanjung Benoa to try some watersport activities. Tanjung Benoa was so famous because of their watersport, such as parasailing, jetski, banana boat, turtle island, and many more. 
After that we went to Pudjamandala, a great praying center in Bali. Mosque, Church, Vihara, Pure, Kelenteng were in one lane without any problem. Then we went to Garuda Wisnu Kencana to see the giant statue of Wisnu riding a bird called Garuda. The statue were not completed yet, but when it finished, it can be taller than the Liberty Statue. The statue were built in Bandung. We were also played a game there. and we took a lot of picture! In the same place, we saw a Kecak Traditional Dance, telling a story of Rama and Shinta, but im not so excited about kecak dance. We finished that day by took a dinner and play game “Sing a Song” at Jimbaran Bay. we sing Clarity, Find You and a lot more song.
The second day of Study Tour we went to Penglipuran Culture Village to see how the real Balinese lived. We were also played “Selfies”, a game that brought you interact and take a picture with the local people as many as you can. Then we lunch at Kintamani International Buffet Restaurant, i ate so much food because there "all you can eat" and saw the beauty of Mount Batur. After that we went to Sukowati, the famous shopping center to buy some merchandise. Then we go back to Hotel to do “Malam Keakraban”
The last day of Study Tour we went wait for the flight to Bandung at Kuta Beach. i'm so happy with this tour. i get a lot new experience with this.

Minggu, 01 Juni 2014

Question

This is 10 question about my blog, please answer it!

1) Who is the real name of the main character of "The White House Down"?
   a) Jamie Foxx
   b) Channing Tatum
   c) Mike Tyson
   d) Jenifer Lawrance
2) Where is the White House according to the movie?
   a) U.S.A.
   b) U.K.
   c) Indonesia
   d) Uni Emirate Arab
3) Who is the name of main character's daughter?
   a) Britanny
   b) Sasha Grey
   c) Emily Cale
   d) Rose
4) Who is the name of the spartan military king who inspiring me?
   a) Achiles
   b) Leonidas
   c) Zeus
   d) Hercules
5) Where did 300 spartans war with persian army?
   a) Thermopylae
   b) Athens
   c) London
   d) Artimisia
6) Leonidas can be roughly translated as?
   a) Lion King
   b) Lion Knight
   c) Lion Son
   d) Lion Sword
7) Who is the king of persian who command the perisan army to battle with ancients creece?
   a) Xerxes
   b) Hades
   c) Abdulah
   d) Jet
8) When was Leonidas born?
   a) 540 BC
   b) 1997
   c) 519 BC
   d) 480 BC
9) Who Act as President Sawyer at "White House Down"?
   a) Channing Tatum
   b) Jamie Foxx
   c) Dwayne Johnson
   d) Vin Diesel
10) Where is the most large earthquake until october 2012?
   a) Indonesia
   b) Japan
   c) India
   d) Thailand

Movie Review



White House Down



In "White House Down," Channing Tatum plays John Cale, a Capitol Hill police officer, Afghanistan vet and divorcé. He can't make the grade of security guard for the President because he was a bit of a slacker, as his Secret Service interviewer (Maggie Gyllenhaal) reminds him. So it's a sad moment when he has to pick up his waiting daughter Emily (Joey King). Skipping over the bad news, he instead offers a White House tour. Suddenly a paramilitary force commandeers the place and threatens to start World War III. Wrong place, right time for Cale, as he becomes the de facto presidential protector after all, though in the extreme straddle position of having to cover the President and rescue Emily when she is taken hostage.

Regret is a great motivator. I'd like to have one of these guilt-driven security guys protecting me: Clint Eastwood in "In The Line of Fire" (1993) who failed to save the life of John F. Kennedy; "Olympus Has Fallen" bodyguard (Gerard Butler), who did rescue the president, but not the first lady; Channing Tatum specifically, for every "Sexiest Man Alive" reason, plus his dance-trained agility and his desire to impress and bond with his estranged daughter. 

In other near-clone comparisons, you can't help but think the "Die Hard" franchise, with its alienated kids (as in the latest "Die Hard," Emily even calls her father John for a while before breaking through to "Dad.") The "Die Hard" franchise has so run its course that the only real pleasure left is finding out how much punishment McClane can take. Cale doesn't get as brutalized by battle as John McClane, though he takes many knocks. 

In "White House Down," the wisecracks are spread out, Tatum being too much of a sweetheart type to deliver all of them. The evil computer genius who gains control of Norad squeals "Don't touch my toys." When the President and Cale commandeer the Presidential limo (quite a car chase upgrade!), and after Sawyer remembers the backseat will not be appropriate for riding shotgun, he starts shooting. "That's something you don't see every day" says an amazed aide, watching from afar. The script, by James Vanderbilt of "The Amazing Spider-Man," is hip. Bad enemy boys can be diabetic; a White House tour guide (a truly witty turn by Nicolas Wright) begs the marauders to be careful of the national artifacts.
President Sawyer, as imagined by Foxx, is a lot of fun ("I'm not doin' that shit!" he yells, watching Cale working some dangerous cables in the elevator shaft they're trapped in). Expressing a deeply humane political vision, yet with a true politician's common touch, the president also offers Nicorette most graciously. Any resemblance to the current resident of the White House is intentional. Sawyer and Cale get nearly equal screen time, bonding as action heroes together against the world.

Gyllenhaal initially strikes the right tone as Agent Finnerty, coolly turning down Cale, but watching empathetically as he exits. Note to the New Woman: it's one way to handle professional duties with aplomb while letting your nurturing side show a bit. Yet after the take-over, and in a secret bunker/War Room, she issues orders like a zonked out zombie. James Woods gives a bravura performance as her boss, the head of Secret Service with his own frightening secrets that drive the film; but even here there is a light touch, as we watch him reaching for his Lorazepam.

The special effects are scary-hairy enough to satisfy the midsummer "I wish to go to the moon" impulse. Emmerich has his regular crew on board: cinematographer Anna Foerster, and his visual effects team of Volker Engel and Marc Weiger. They deliver the swirl of terror, smash-ups and imminent disaster. CGI can be spectacular for the seven plagues; of course it works in the action film, too. For this viewer, though, the good news is there's less of it than feared, and a few touches are quite clever. An airplane demolishment takes you by surprise with a sly film history reference. 

"White House Down" is still too gun-happy, and too long, but however you feel about the Oval Office, our country, or some of the movie's jingoism, young Emily is worth rescuing. King is an actress who can show courage, loyalty and justifiable fear without ever getting maudlin, and her Emily is the true hero of "White House Down," unbelievably brave, though you still believe her. Like all kids these days, she's a whiz at technology and picture-taking even in the most dire circumstances. She makes you hopeful about the generation which will lead the country soon enough.

Minggu, 04 Mei 2014

Inspiring Story

The story of Spartan King Leonidas and the 300 at the Battle of Thermopylae in Ancient Greece


Leonidas, Spartan military king, whose stand against the invading Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece is one of the most enduring historical moments of heroism. His name in Greek (ΛΕΩΝΙΔΑΣ) can be roughly translated as "Lion's Son" or "Lion-like".

He was born around 540 B.C and was one of three sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta, who was believed to be a descendant of Hercules himself. His name has been raised to legendary and heroic status as a result of the events at the Battle of Thermopylae, one of the most famous battles of ancient history.

Around 21 years after the birth of Leonidas in 519 B.C, Xerxes son of Persian king Darius the Great, was born and later went on to become King Xerxes I of Persia himself in 485 B.C after the death of his father and go on to rule the mighty Persian Empire. Xerxes, whose name means "Ruler of Heroes", also known as Xerxes the Great, had to suppress revolts in Egypt and Babylon early on after his accession. Xerxes' father Darius the Great had previously made a failed attempt to conquer Greece at the Battle of Marathon, after swearing an oath to punish the mainland Greek city-states for supporting a revolt by the Ionian Greek cities against the Persian empire. He left the task to his son Xerxes and once the revolts in Egypt and Babylon had been suppressed, he made this task his next priority in expanding the greatest empire known at the time.

By 480 B.C, the expedition was planned and so in the Spring of that year soldiers from many nations that were part of the Persian empire such as Assyrians, Phoenicians, Babylonians, Indians, Egyptians, Jews and Arabs to name a few, marched their way across the Hellespont toward the Northern Greek city-states of Thessaly and Macedonia. According to Herodotus, our main source of these events, the army and fleet under Xerxes' command was more than two million strong. Some of the smaller northern Greek city-states such as Thessaly and Argos sided with the might of the Persian army by offering the gift of "earth and water" at the request of Xerxes. The other city-states offered some resistance, however Xerxes was victorious in these encounters and continued his way along the coast, down toward central Greece, heading toward Athens.

The Battle of Thermopylae

The news of the arrival of the Persian Army spread throughout the Greek cities, but unfortunately for the Greeks, the Spartans who were considered to be the best warriors in all of Greece were holding a religious festival, which because of this according to Spartan law, military activity was strictly forbidden, as was the case at the Battle of Marathon. The truce of the Olympic Games was also preventing the Spartans from marching to a battle as an army, however, on this occasion it was decided that due to the urgency of the situation, a small group of Spartans would protect the small pass at Thermopylae under its king, Leonidas.
So Leonidas chose 300 Spartan men with living sons to continue family legacy, as he knew he would be going to certain death because of the overwhelming odds against him and headed off to meet King Xerxes and his army at Thermopylae.

A Spartan greeting

 After refusing the offer made by one of Xerxes' ambassadors to "become friends of the Persian people" and lay down their weapons where Leonidas famously replied "ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ" (come and get them), the 300 Spartans, along with a small force from other Greek city-states held their ground at the pass of Thermopylae (translated as Hot Gates) in central Greece against the huge Persian army for 2 days, before a Greek traitor named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks and leaked information to the Persians about a hidden mountain path which led behind the Greek lines. On the 3rd day, when Leonidas found that the Greeks were being outflanked and surrounded, he ordered the Greek armies to retreat and decided that he would stay with his 300 faithful Spartan soldiers and defend the pass to the very end. A group of about 700 Thespians and 300 Thebans refused to leave Leonidas and his small army to die alone and stayed behind as well, vowing to die by the brave Spartan leaders’ side. And so they did.

The Persians eventually managed to kill every one of those men that decided to make a stand, including King Leonidas, although they suffered massive casualties, completely disproportionate to the Spartans and other Greeks. The Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae gave their life and delayed the Persians considerably, which gave the other Greek cities the time and opportunity to organise a retreat in to southern Greece and a defence against the largest army assembled, now intent on conquering the rest of Greece and open the door to expand the Persian empire in to Europe.

 

Minggu, 02 Maret 2014

January 2 until 7 2014 i went for a holiday. Iam very happy because i bored staying at bandung. i went to malaysia with my family and my cousins. on the first day, in the morning at 6 AM we went to the airport in bandung, we took off at 8 AM from Bandung to Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of malaysia. After 2 hours of flight we arrived at Kuala lumpur airport. the language is a bit diferent there i little bit confussed. from airport we went to out hotel. on the first day we just lazy at hotel and go to mall near hotel at night. 

Second day we went for a city tour we went to a lot of place at Kuala lumpur. In the morning we went to a batu caves, there are a very big gold colored budha statue and a big cave, i saw a lot of monkey there. after that we went to the petronas twin tower. first we went to the petro science there, we can learn a lot about science there just like a museum of science. when the clock is about 6 PM we go up to do 86 floor of that building. from there we can see whole kuala lumpur. they have a nice view there. 


Third day i went to Sunway Lagoon, that place is just like dunia fantasi, but there they also have a water park. so much fun there. a lot of games, i went to the theme park first at morning and after we try all games there we went to the water park. after we played until 5 PM we go to hotel again and rest.

Fourth day, i traveled from kuala lumpur to johor bahru to go to legoland! we went in morning and it takes 4 hours to get to Johor. after we arrived at johor we went to hotel first for check in and after that we went for some fun at legoland. i like the building the games the decoration there its all just like toys. the have 3 roller coster there and all is good. i played with my cousins and my brother. sadly at 4 PM rain is comming. so we have to stop and we go shopping. i bought some lego. after that we went to hotel again.
  

Fifth day we prepared to go home, we just went shopping at morning and after that we go to johor airport there. we flight from johor at 2 PM there. i was very happy went to malaysia, because i bored in bandung.

Minggu, 16 Februari 2014

Gerund and to invinitive

Gerund

1. His favorite sport is football
2. I forgot giving you my book
3. He finished doing this homework
4. She is good at dancing
5. I hate working with him
6. He likes listening to the music
7. He finished doing the loundry  
8. We talked about travelling in Bandung.
9. She considered meeting you
10. I recall trying to get the best score.   

To Invinitive

1. He wanted me to sing a song
2. She has encouraged me to do this
3. Be grateful! I invited you to play with me
4. I need water to drink
5. I was invited to come to Eki’s party
6. I want to go to the toilet
7. Nur has warned Zamal to get the paper
8. I will try to do it 
9. I promise to take her pen
10. She called to see my brother       

Next Osis Leader

Hello friends! my name is Muhammad Azhar Naufal, or people sometimes call me Ajay. I am one of the candidate for the chairman of student council in 3 Senior High School. As we know there are 2 other candidate, Zakialda Sarvi and Muhammad Nurhilman. They are such a good competitor, but i think i am better than 2 other candidates.

As we know the previous chairman has completed his word period. He and his team has got a lot of achievement, now i am here standing in front of you all to continue his work. I have a lot of program if i elected for this period.

First, my program is i will focus on developing ekstraculicular like JMD, SSR, etc. I will help them. Make the school better in the eye of public by our ekstracuricular. Like joining the championship. Second, i will make this school name more popular both in the academy and social. I will make some event, like musical concert, so this school will be seen good at social life. Third, i will make all student in this school more discipline. Both at study and personal.

Ya maybe thats all from me. I have experience as a chairman of a student council at Junior High School. So i think i will be better, please choose me if you this i am the best of 3. Thank you for your atention. "Experience is the best teacher!"