My truly role model.

My teacher told me to have an interview with someone who inspires me and post it on my blog.
I never interviewed this person before, officially. But this person is one of a kind, he's my father.
His name is Ayi Wahid. live in the village, he was born from two farmers with 10 children. he's the last child. there were only two of them who was going to school. My grandfather told him to help him at the rice field, but then he said that he wants to be like other kids, go to school. So then he went to elementary school with his limitedness. uniform, books, and bag, they were all secondhand from his neighbour. but then he never whining why and how, he just went through it with happiness.
I remember the part when my dad told me the time when he got home, There was only 'sambal' in the table. No rice or side dishes. He took it and go to the farm near his house, He pluck some kind of leaves called 'lalapan' and eat them in that yard. He told me it was clean that time. no car or motorcycle, no industry, so we dont have to worry about its freshness.
In the afternoon he always went playing with any other kid. Play football in the field, got dirt, jump to the river and carried away of the flow, that were his games.
If the did anything wrong, my grandfather ran chasing him and he jump to the Citarum river and got carried away so my grandfather could not catch him.
In the middle school, he started to change his habit. He studied a lot. He always had great score in Math and Physics. when the examinations came, he always being a tutor for his friends.
Afterschool, when everyone got free to play guitar, band, or something, he locked himself in his room, with the limited light, he always study until night. For references, he always borrowed his brother's textbooks that was in the high school. Only got rest when praying or dinner, if there was a dinner.
But then it all payed off. He got great score on the national exam. His uncle in Bandung told him to go to Bandung and study there. Without knowing where and how Bandung was, with a few cash, he went there to get a better life.
Got in Bandung, he didn't know where high school he wanted to enter. His uncle recommended him to apply in SMAN 2 Bandung. He applied and accepted. Among his new friends, he didn't know anything, even about sausages, he didn't know it at all.
He got accepted in Mathematics Faculty in UNPAD. He got a lot of scholarships to fulfill his needs.
Again, he got a high score when he graduated.
His journey didn't stop, he went throught every hard times, ups and downs. I know it's hard for my dad when my mom passed away (even now he got married again and I'm happy for him) and he got a work termination from his office. I remember when he went to Jakarta to get a job, he always called me on the phone and I always ask for anything like Peterpan's CD, or Ungu's, and he bought me a-5000-CD, but I still got happy. He always told me to study hard and he always put his lips on my head and pray for me everytime he have to go. If I made mistakes, he didn't do anything but starred at me and goggling his eyes, that was scary.
But I know exactly why he did that. To make me be a better girl,
I'm so glad to have a kind of dad like him. He told me that money and glamorous don't make us people, they are determination and willingness who make us. We have to be brave and be careful at time same time, we have to work hard and pray at time same time, and we have to be happy and grateful at the same time.

Yellow - Coldplay

I want to talk about one song and i'm sure you know about this song. it's called Yellow by Coldplay.
Yellow was a song in their debut album, Parachutes (2000). The song's lyrics are a reference to band vocalist Chris Martin's unrequited love.

The history of making this song was so simple. One night after finishing recording "Shiver", the lead single of the album, the band took a break and went out of the studio. Outside, there were few lights on and the stars in the sky. He told the band to look at the stars, which they did. Vocalist Chris Martin was inspired by the sight and the song's main melody At first, Martin did not take it seriously, but then Martin's idea worked out when he had developed the tempo of the verse. When guitarist Jonny Buckland started playing it and supplemented it with his ideas, they had created the riff.
, consisting of a chord pattern, popped into his head. 
While composing the song's lyrics, Martin could not find the right words. He was thinking of a specific word, which he deemed a missing key word in the lyrics, to fit the song's concept. He looked around the studio and found the telephone directory Yellow Pages, which happened to be situated nearest to him. Martin later titled the song "Yellow" as a reference to the directory. The lyrics progressed from there with the band collaborating. Bassist Guy Berryman came up with the opening line "Look at the stars". That night, having quickly composed the song, the band recorded it.

For me this song was so nice. The lyrics is simple but yet meaningful.

Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah, they were all yellow.

I came along,
I wrote a song for you,
And all the things you do,
And it was called "Yellow".

So then I took my turn,
Oh what a thing to have done,
And it was all yellow.

Your skin,
Oh yeah your skin and bones,
Turn into
Something beautiful,
You know,
You know I love you so,
You know I love you so.

I swam across,
I jumped across for you,
Oh what a thing to do.
'Cause you were all yellow,

I drew a line,
I drew a line for you,
Oh what a thing to do,
And it was all yellow.

Your skin,
Oh yeah your skin and bones,
Turn into
Something beautiful,
And you know,
For you I'd bleed myself dry,
For you I'd bleed myself dry.

It's true,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine.

Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And all the things that you do.

Source : Wikipedia & Youtube

Aurora Borealis

An aurora is a natural light display in the sky (from the Latin word aurora, "sunrise" or the Roman goddess of dawn), predominantly seen in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions. Auroras are caused by charged particles, mainly electrons and protons, entering the atmosphere from above causing ionisation and excitation of atmospheric constituents, and consequent optical emissions. Incident protons can also produce emissions as hydrogen atoms after gaining an electron from the atmosphere.
A full understanding of the physical processes which lead to different types of auroras is still incomplete, but the basic cause involves the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth’s magnetosphere. The varying intensity of the solar wind produces effects of different magnitudes, but includes one or more of the following physical scenarios.

1. A quiescent solar wind flowing past the Earth’s magnetosphere steadily interacts with it and can both inject solar wind particles directly onto the geomagnetic field lines that are ‘open’, as opposed to being ‘closed’ in the opposite hemisphere, and provide diffusion through the bow shock. It can also cause particles already trapped in the radiation belts to precipitate into the atmosphere. Once particles are lost to the atmosphere from the radiation belts, under quiet conditions new ones replace them only slowly, and the loss-cone becomes depleted. In the magnetotail, however, particle trajectories seem constantly to reshuffle, probably when the particles cross the very weak magnetic field near the equator. As a result, the flow of electrons in that region is nearly the same in all directions ("isotropic"), and assures a steady supply of leaking electrons. The leakage of electrons does not leave the tail positively charged, because each leaked electron lost to the atmosphere is replaced by a low energy electron drawn upward from the ionosphere. Such replacement of "hot" electrons by "cold" ones is in complete accord with the 2nd law of thermodynamics. The complete process, which also generates an electric ring current around the Earth, is uncertain.
2. Geomagnetic disturbance from an enhanced solar wind causes distortions of the magnetotail ("magnetic substorms"). These ‘substorms’ tend to occur after prolonged spells (hours) during which the interplanetary magnetic field has had an appreciable southward component. This leads to a higher rate of interconnection between its field lines and those of Earth. As a result, the solar wind moves magnetic flux (tubes of magnetic field lines, ‘locked’ together with their resident plasma) from the day side of Earth to the magnetotail, widening the obstacle it presents to the solar wind flow and constricting the tail on the night-side. Ultimately some tail plasma can separate ("magnetic reconnection"); some blobs ("plasmoids") are squeezed downstream and are carried away with the solar wind; others are squeezed toward Earth where their motion feeds strong outbursts of auroras, mainly around midnight ("unloading process"). A geomagnetic storm resulting from greater interaction adds many more particles to the plasma trapped around Earth, also producing enhancement of the "ring current". Occasionally the resulting modification of the Earth's magnetic field can be so strong that it produces auroras visible at middle latitudes, on field lines much closer to the equator than those of the auroral zone.
3. Acceleration of auroral charged particles invariably accompanies a magnetospheric disturbance that causes an aurora. This mechanism, which is believed to predominantly arise from wave-particle interactions, raises the velocity of a particle in the direction of the guiding magnetic field. The pitch angle is thereby decreased, and increases the chance of it being precipitated into the atmosphere. Both electromagnetic and electrostatic waves, produced at the time of greater geomagnetic disturbances, make a significant contribution to the energising processes that sustain an aurora. Particle acceleration provides a complex intermediate process for transferring energy from the solar wind indirectly into the atmosphere.

 (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora)

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People work hard recently. Man or woman, they work day and night for their needs.
Do they have time to wash their favorite shoes?
I guess they must be too tired.
So I'm thinking about to make a kind of inovation from a laundry.

Come and feel the satisfaction!

Let's See What I've Got This Holiday...

This holiday, I didn’t come anywhere because my dad was so busy with his job and my mom was sick. So I spent my one week with finished my collage project. This might be look standard, or somehow, bad. But, I am so happy with my “creature”.

Well, at Sunday, January 4^th, I went to Grafika Cikole with my friends to do our English project. We made a “Snow White and The Huntsman”’s short movie. We rented a little cottage there and we also rented a costume for Snow White, the Queen, the magic mirror, and properties for the Huntsman. It should be 9 of us but one of us didn’t come so we were just 8, 6 girls and 2 boys. We started to take a shoot at about 2 p.m, then sadly the boys should go home at 6 p.m., so there were 6 girls only in that cottage, lil bit creepy but what should we do?

the view

Our cottage

So after Maghrib we went out of the cottage and looked for something to eat. And we only found fried rice. I got something to learned about.  The fried rice was 12k rupiah and 15k rupiah if you want additional egg. Two of my friends pay together and the total was 27k. they paid, and the seller said “how much the change?”, so we replied “23 thousand”. And when I wanted to pay for mine, it was 15k rupiah. I gave the seller 50k. you must see how he (the seller), count for change. He made 50k into fractions of 10k and 5k. he took the 15k, and the rest, he gave it to me. 

sorry for the bad ilustration.

It was so sad how this man couldn’t count well. Maybe it’s not only him, maybe some of people in that area do the same as he did. Alhamdulillah I still have spirit and money (from my parents of course) to go to school.

When After ate, we go back to the cottage and made a camp fire, and we finished our shoot. We finished it at about 11.30 p.m and it was so exhausting. The next day we took for some scene and we laid in our bed because we were so tired. At 10 a.m. we checked out early and we took some photos until about 11 a.m. the we went back to Bandung by Chacha’s car. We put in SMA 3 and in there I was took by my junior high’s friend to go to Jonas Banda. In there we were take photo with our pinky jersey.

We are called "K.I.B", we were had an idea to made that jersey because we often have a 'futsal' match, and alhamdulillah we always win :')

In January 9th, me and K.I.B made a birthday surprise for the four of us. They were Uli, Davy, Rasyid, and Kukuh. Davy was had a birthday in Desember 29th, Davy in Desember 31st, Rasyid in January 9th, and Kukuh in January 12th (we celebrate him early xD).

SO SORRY FOR MY FACE XD

I don't know how I could tell you this but i'm so in love with them. We were busy struggling for the national exam but i dont know, we still had time to be together, we spent our time even it was just a kind of 'botram' at break time in front of the class, changed the class into the karaoke room and we sang together. We have had our smile, laugh, anger, tears, tired, we through it all. it was only a year with them but it feels like i've been know them all since i was a baby :")

ok back to my journal...

In January 10th, I went to Hanamasa with those thingy. The boy in the center, he 's Rasyid. Yes, the birthday boy. He treated us, Thanks, bud.

And yes, if you finished read this, it means my journal has done.

The Legend of Telaga Warna

Long long ago, there was a kingdom in West Java. The kingdom was ruled by a king named His Majesty Prabu.

Prabu was a kind and wise king. But it was a pity that Prabu and his queen hadn't got any children. The queen often cried. That was why Prabu went to the jungle. There he prayed to God every day, begging for a child.

A few months later, the queen got pregnant. Nine months later, a princess was born. Prabu and Queen loved their beautiful daughter so much. They gave whatever she wanted. It made Princess turn into a very spoiled girl.

One day, the princess celebrated her 17^th birthday party. Many people gathered in the palace. Then, Prabu took out a necklace which was made from gold and jewel.

"My beloved daughter, today I give you this necklace. Please, wear this necklace," said Prabu.

Telaga warna

"I don't want to wear it! It's ugly!" shouted the princess. Then she threw the necklace. The beautiful necklace was broken. The gold and jewels were spread out on the floor. Everybody couldn't say anything. They never thought that their beloved princess would do that cruel thing. In their silence, people heard the queen crying. Every woman felt sad and began crying, too. Then, everybody was crying. Then, there was a miracle. Earth was crying.

Suddenly, from the underground, a spring emerged. It made a pool of water. Soon, the place became a big lake. The lake finally sank the kingdom.

Nowadays, people called the lake ^"Telaga Warna". It means "Lake of Color". On a bright day, the lake is full of color. These colors come from shadows of forest, plants, flowers, and sky around the lake. But some people said that the colors are from the princess's necklace, which spreads at the bottom of the lake.

Macchu Picchu

Have you ever heard about Macchu Picchu?

Macchu Picchu, or Macchu Pikchu, or also called ‘Lost City of the Incas’ is an area which is become the heritage of Inca Kingdom. It is the ruins of the Inca Kingdom. It is 2350 m above the sea level and located in Urubamba in Peru, South America.

Built in the 1450’s, and left a hundred years later when Spain came and defeated them. This site was once forgot by the international, but not by the local people. Time by time, in 1911, this site was found and brought to the world by an archaeologist from Yale University, Hiram Bingham III. From that time, Macchu Picchu became an attraction of the tourist whether it is local or foreign tourists.

Macchu Picchu was built with old Inca style. Its main building are Inti Watana, The Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. According to the history, these buildings were dedicated to their sun God.

Inti Watana

Room of the Three Windows

Temple of the Sun

Macchu Picchu was accepted by UNESCO and became one of the world’s heritage in 1983. It is also became one of the new 7 wonders of the world and got almost 400.000 visitors in 2003.

A great and amazing structure like this must be taken care of. Not only by the officer or by the UNESCO, but also us, the visitors. At least we know such a site like this so this will never be destroyed, or worst, forgotten.