Make Some Resolutions for 2008

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2008 had comes, and it’s time to make resolutions! Have you ever make a resolution for the New Year?

The Director of Management Institute and Developing of Human Resource “Performa Optima” Bandung, Mohammad Ridwan reveals some tricks in order to make resolutions, plans, or commitments in the future. He gives “SMART” technique that is able to use for general. SMART is stands for Simple, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time Bounded.

Ø Simple, it means just make a simple resolution, don’t too bombastic or difficult. The example of ‘bombastic’: “I want to buy an apartment”. But, for daily you still beg some money to your parents. The example of ‘simple’: “I’ll got exercise 2 times a week”, because during 2007 you just got exercise 2 times a month.

Ø Measurable, it means that the target, which has made must be something measurable. The example of ‘immeasurable’: “My life will more healthy or better”. The example of ‘measurable’: “I will lose my weight 5 kg.”

Ø Attainable, the example of ‘unattainable’: “I will lose my weight until 40 kg”, but that person has weight 100 kg. The example of ‘attainable’: (student) “I’ll be the first winner next year in my class”.

Ø Realistic, it means… ya… just be realistic! The example of ‘unrealistic’: “I want to be a president”, but that person as long as he lives doesn’t active in any organization. The realistic desire is a target that actually appropriate with your job or your interest.

Ø Time bounded, this point is the most important. In order to make resolutions, also input time bounded for reach it. For example, lose your weight 2 kg could be reached at February or March.

To remember your resolutions, it’s better to write it on paper, notebook, or diary. You can also adhere it on refrigerator, on bedroom’s door, etc. it can motivate or remind you about something that you must be pursuit.

So, have you make some resolution for this year?

Make a Good Wall Magazine!

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Make an eye-catching wall magazine actually being first effort so that people want to read it. It’s not wrong if you want your class wall magazine as a place for narcism. Precisely if you fill your wall magazine with more info or story from your class, it will be more interesting too.

Do you need some tips to make a good wall magazine? Here they are…

1. Fixed the exact theme with your class’ condition. Try to make something that can make you and your friends say, “Gosh… this wall magazine is cool!”

2. Prepared all of the materials and equipments for adorning wall magazine. If you don’t have a special budget for wall magazine, it’s better for you to beg some money from your classmate.

3. Started to study about journalism. Read many newspaper and magazines so that you can learn their process and style of writing. You don’t need to use the formal language and complicated.

4. Prepare a digicam (digital camera), so if sometimes there is a unique event in your class or your school, you just take the picture, don’t you? You can also use the camera from cell-phone.

5. Tell to all of your friends that they able to send a greetings, request, even love letter on wall magazine!

6. Also make an interview with all of the extracurricular and teachers. The news about exercise schedule, task, examination result, can you adhere on wall magazine.

So, from now on, don’t just cut-adhere-adorn your wall magazine!

Good luck!

How about your wall magazine in your class?

Raise Your Spirit for Study!!!

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Lazy… lazy… lazy… have you ever feel so lazy to study?

Lazy is a ‘virus’ that always alights on students. Maybe you often feel it. Especially when you get study. You just see the math book; eh… your eyes directly feel asleep. It’s different if you watch on TV. Your eyes as if being your friend. Is it strange?

Hm… so, how to ‘heal’ this ‘virus’?

1. Just arrange your time well. Don’t ever waste your time. Make a priority for study.

2. Use healthy life’s pattern. Have enough sleep (among 6-8 hours), frequently exercise, and avoid hi-fat foods. Not must luxurious food, simple but healthy. Always remember “Mensana is Corpore Sano”, it means in healthy body there is also healthy soul.

3. Make a daily activity schedule, so all of your activity can be planned well.

4. Just study with the right manners, are, pray before get started study with the honest aim truly; be concentrated while study; when you come feel bored, stop it for a moment, you can watch TV (min. 10 minutes), stand up, relax sit, walking around your house, or also just moving your body. After that, study again softly.

5. Chose the right time for study. Early evening is suitable for lesson like biology, history, PKn,etc. And early morning is suitable for calculation lesson. Study with step-by-step. Remember! You able because usual.

So, always keep your spirit for study and don’t often complain to yourself…

Take Care of Pets

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Have you ever raise a pet? If you don’t, I have some tips to take care of pet. Here they are…

1. Choose the Precise Pet

You must know your personal taste to animal. What do you like? Soft fur and comfortable when you embraced? Choose cat. Do you like seeing something beautiful without need to touch? Buy an aquarium and fill it with fish.

2. Don’t Buy “A cat in the sack” (kucing dalam karung)

This proverb could be literal or also connotation. Before you buy a pet, you must check it. Do the pet is health or not? You must check too the pet is not ‘a stolen goods’.

3. Grow up The Pet from Baby

It easier for you to form the personality of pet if you raise it from baby. You can program your pet to be your dreaming pet.

4. Know the Treatment!

You must really know the characteristic of the pet. How to watch over its health; the feed; the clean; and the attention from you. Especially for health, you must always check up your pet in order to keep your pet from viruses. Take care as well as possible. Not too be spoiled and also not to be tortured.

5. Don’t Get Too Emotionally Attached with Your Pet

There is a person who take care of pets really love his/her pets. When the pets passed away, that person really sad—more than passed away by his/her brother/sister. The behavior like that is quite not healthy. Even though you really love and care with your pets, just remembers: they’re pets. They can’t give feedback as same as human. That’s it.

And remember, being person who take care of pets, you must responsible; it means you must able to treat your pets without loss yourself, the pets, and the others.

Do you have a pet?

To be the Big Ten of Short Story Competition

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(It was happen when I 2^nd grade)

One day, my Bahasa Teacher when I first grade—Mrs. Neulis—told to me that there was a short story competition by Balai Pustaka Bandung for all youth at West Java.

I thought, “Hm, it’s interesting. I want participate!”

I told about the competition to all my friends at XI Science 4 and XI Social 2. They were interested too.

My short story’s title was ‘Revolusi’ (Revolution). It was tells about the boy who wanted to be a hero for himself and his country with upright the justice and beat the bad people like corruptors and the bad civilians.

Three months later, I asked Mrs. Neulis about the winner. And she told me that I got the 7^th rank at West Java.

Oh my God… I was really surprise because my friend’s short stories were better than mine. How could my short story could be included the big ten?

After that, I more and more spirit to write another short story. Of course must be better than before... eventhough I was not included the big three.

Book of Memorial,,,

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Definitely, you have ever think that book of memorial (buku tahunan/buku kenangan/buklet) is not important, because, besides the price is expensive, the cost of production could be more expensive.

But… do you know? Book of memorial is the last medium for you to prove that you were exist at your school, even though you’re not famous or didn’t have an important title at your school. So, you must pay attention to your book of memorial.

How to make a good book of memorial? Hoho… you also must pay attention to these points:

Ø Class Profile’s Materials

1. It’s better if your profile’s materials not contain that unregarded with our norm. Your profile’s class will describe your school, so it’s better if the contain permanently protect the good name of your school.

2. Choose the best quality picture or photo, because it’ll increase the quality of picture when it printed.

3. Choose the pictures sufficiently, because a number of photos must be appreciated with allotment pages that are given by the committee.

4. The personal data like telephone number, addresses, e-mail addresses, are important data that you must pay attention carefully. It’s better if this data not written by handwriting for avoid error lecture.

Ø Layout Design

· Firstly, you must know the measure of book of memorial that will make. There are designed portrait and landscape. Usually, there is always use standard measurement like foolscap-size, A4, A45, etc.

· Secondly, design process. You’re able to design manually or digitally. Manually, you can take pictures from magazine or book and cut it off. After that, you can get if for decoration or ornament on page design. Digitally, you can use some processor picture programs, which like Corel Draw, Corel Photopaint, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and another graphic program. Before tricked by computer, the design materials need to transferred to computer by some equipment like scanner and saved in digital file picture.

· Last, this digital technique has a lot of profit than manual technique. With digital technique, you can fix the photo’s color, better for cutting photo, and able to repair the quality of photo, and also add some effects that you can’t get with manual technique.

Good Luck!

To be the 3rd Winner of Story Telling Competition

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Actually, I just tried participating this competition without preparation. Surprisingly, I could included to be finalist with my story, “Patrick’s Secret Box” (probably you have watched it in your television).

In final, I told the chosen story from the judges. The title of the story was “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”, a Norwegian folk tale. It was tells about The Three Billy Goats Gruff that wanted to eat the grass at the meadow and decided to cross to the fat side of the stream where the grass stood tall and juicy. But first, they had to cross the bridge, and under the bridge there lived a great ugly Troll which very wicked and wanted to eat The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Then, the announcement…

Judges: “For the 3^rd winner… is… Maulana!”

Maulana: “Alhamdulillah…!" (Hyperbole)

The 1^st winner was Endah (my classmate) and 2^nd winner was Amel (my junior).

Although I couldn’t be the 1^st, I really graceful to My Lord that I could be the 3^rd winner and got some prizes. ^^