The Baby Steps to Save Our Earth

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Don’t ever think that your baby step influential nothing. Because, the big problem likes global warming, truly is the accumulation impact of individuals. Let’s pay attention the points that can we do for the mission for minimal of green house effect.

1. Bring Your Own Fabric Bag

Probably, we still hard to say ‘no’ to product that uses plastic. But, minimally you can reject plastic bag when you going to shopping anytime anywhere. How to? Always bring your special own fabric bag. This campaign of decreasing plastic bag is also being popular by Anya Hindmarch., an England designer. She works together with organization “We are What We Do” design a canvas bag with tagline “I’m not a Plastic Bag”.

2. Green Transportation

If the distance isn’t too far, it’s better for you to walk or use your bicycle! Or use public transportation. Besides able to decrease traffic jam, it’s also can minimal for vehicle using. It means decreasing CO₂ emission.

3. Choose The Product that Friendly for Environment

Obviously, throw the trash into the garbage is not enough because the trash truly can be recycled. Recycle a newspaper stack until 1,2 meter already able to save our big tree! OK, maybe you still hard to do it. So, choose the products that friendly for environment.

4. Plants Tree!

What’s tree do you like? Just plant on it at yard of your house; so that the carbon in air can pull back. Don’t forget, use tissue and paper as less as possible. This is one of efforts for save the tree.

5. Switch Off!

Switch off your lamp (or you can change it into CFL Lamp because more economical up to 60%). Don’t leave the DVD player, computer, or TV with stand by mode.

6. Decrease AC

Use a fan, or open your window for circulation because AC is dangerous sometimes. Besides that, wind and sun’s heat is better than use dryer cloth machine that can produce a lot of carbon emission.

7. Join for Campaign

Don’t be so doubt to join in campaign of green house anticipation! For example, with write or talk in forum or media. Or you can join into organization like Greenpeace, WWF, Walhi, etc.

Let’s become part of the movement to prevent global warming.

Because if we’re just wait and see and do nothing, maybe we’ll wake up one day, but it’ll too late!

How to be Healthy in 10 Steps

Ten steps to make your health better:

1. Eat the nutritious food everyday.

2. Exercise minimal three times a week in the morning

3. Don’t smoke!

4. Don’t eat too many foods!

5. Avoid hi-fat foods

6. Always take a bath twice a day

7. Don’t drink coffee too much

8. Always check your health to doctor

9. Sleep enough

10. Keep to clean of our environment

Ready from Now for UAN!

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UAN… what your reaction if you hear, read, or say it? Happy? Afraid? Or make you crazy?

Huehehe… don’t be afraid or nervous because I have some strategy for us to pass UAN without study all day long.

1. Stronger your will that you extremely want to pass UAN

2. Just positive thinking, guys! Delete your negative thinking in your mind and change it with positive thinking. For example, change the words, “I can’t do it” into “I’m sure that I can do it”,

3. Follow the positive suggestion. You able to look for an environment that can motivate you for success, not make you down,

4. Manage your time! Don’t tow study until the time for UAN just one week left or one month left,

5. Read and use your potential. Only people who able to know their potential that can be a winner,

6. Keep your health, well exercise, enough sleep, eat more nutritious food,

7. Don’t forget to pray! As strong as you work, only God the Almighty who decides.

Then, let’s try those strategy from now on! Insyaallah we can pass UAN and SPMB.

KEEP STRONG!!!!

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?

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!

Special Soto Noodle ala Ranna

procedure

You need:

- Kettle

- Stove

- A Soto Flavor Noodle

- An egg

- A bowl

- Chili Sauce

- Soy Sauce

- Water

- Fried crispy onion

You should do:

1. Boil noodle into 400 cc (2 glasses) of briskly water and simmer for 3 minutes

2. Pour the seasoning, chili sauce, and soy sauce on a bowl while noodle is being cooked

3. When the noodle almost cooked, add an egg. Stir it slowly

4. After it cooked, take noodle + egg and pour it into the bowl, mix well

5. Spread fried crispy onion and voila… your special soto noodle ala Ranna is ready to be served.

Good Luck!

How to Dribbling Well

procedure

To be a good football player, we must master the basic technique of football. One of them is dribbling technique.

And… how to dribble well? Here is the tip!

You need:

1. A soccer ball

2. A pair of Football shoes

3. Large place (court/ yard)

You should do:

1. Make sure that the ball is half meter in front of you

2. The ball is dribbled by front foot, touch softly

3. Don’t to hard! You will loose your control and the opponent will steal the ball easily

4. And don’t dribble too weak. If you do it, the ball will be harder to control

5. Always focus to the ball, opponent, and your friends

6. If the opponent tries to stop us, try to control the ball well

7. Try some tricks to pass the opponent

8. Pass the ball to your friend who has good position

9. Move to the good position after you pass the ball.

I hope this tip can useful for you who like to play football.

Bravo Indonesia Football Club!