My Favorite Songs

                Listen a song can make us feel better. It can make us have a new spirit, can make us remember about our memories, and can make us more relaxed. Today, I will tell you about my favorite songs.

                I love one of the Avenged Sevenfold’s song was titled Dear God. It told us about the repentance of a man who had lost his soul mate. He asked God to hold her soul mate when he wasn’t around her. He apologized for his mistake because he left her. He wished she came back to him again.

                I love Imagine by John Lenon too. Avril Lavigne had arranged this song in 2004. Actually I heard this song for the first time in Avril’s version. I loved the meaning of this song. This song hoped us to live in peace. The writer of this song asked us to imagine about the peaceful life when we care each other. John hoped we will make this world more beautiful and peaceful.

                Flying without Wings from Westlife is one of my favorite songs. This song told us about the magic of love. Love from our beloved friends, soul mate, or family can bring a joy for us. It make us can fly although we haven’t wings.

                The other song that I love is What I Want Is What I Got from Westlife too. This song makes me found a new spirit to reach my dreams. The best lyric from this song is ‘life is too short to hold back, I won’t live in the past’. I think it’s true. I won’t live in the past. I won’t repent my failed life. I won’t sink away with my past.

                Songs make our life more wonderful. We could learn from the songs that we had already listened.

New Vocabularies

Repentance: the fact of showing that you are sorry for something wrong that you have done. (N)

Apologize: to say that you are sorry for doing something wrong. (V)

Imagine: to form a picture in your mind of what something might be like. (V)

Sink: to prevent somebody or somebody’s plans from succeeding. (V)

Failed: not successful. (Adj.)

My Little Brother

                I have two brothers. They are Bayu and Vivran. Bayu is my older brother, and Vivran is my younger brother. Today, I want to tell you about my little brother, Vivran.

                His full name is Vivran Triana. He was born in Jakarta on May 28^th, 1994. He has dark skin and slanted eyes. His friends said that he always laugh with closed eyes. He is so tall for me although he is my younger brother. He is around 180 cm, and I’m just almost 165 cm. So, when we are walking together, some peoples guess that he is my older brother. Wow, so pity I am.

                Sometimes, I think Vivran is a spoilt boy. If he wants something, he must get it. If he doesn’t get what he wants, he can be quite angry. But, he is a volatile person too. So, his anger isn’t been for a long time. I try to understand about it. I think he spoils because he is the youngest children.

                He is a bit happy go lucky and doesn’t think about the future. He just let his life flow. He always says that this life was so difficult and hard, so he didn’t want to make it more difficult.

                He is always in a playful mood. He likes to gather with his friends. He loves football so much, so he always invites his friends to play football together. He plays it almost every day. Sometimes he hires a football field to play it with his friends.

                He is my lovely brother. I really love him although he is spoilt. And I hope he will be a good football player. Amin.

New Vocabularies:

Spoilt : rude and badly behaved because they are given everything they ask for and not enough discipline. (Adj.)

Volatile : quickly changing moods. (Adj.)

Happy go lucky : not worrying about what might happen in the future. (Adj.)

Playful : full of fun. (Adj.)

Hire : to pay money to borrow something for a short time. (V)

My New Year's Eve

              Yesterday is the last day in 2010. Everyone had some plans to spend their times in the last day in 2010. Some of us went to Puncak, went to the beach, or did a small party. And how about me? I didn’t go to Puncak, nor did I go to the beach. I didn’t have a small party too. So, I spent my New Year’s Eve with my beloved friends.

                At 4 P.M., Any, Nilla, and I went to Giant Bekasi. After we had gone sightseeing in that mall, we decided to go to the restaurant. We chose Steak 21 as our place to fill ourselves. After that, we went to the cinema in the fourth floor. Actually, we didn’t want to see the movies any more, but we hadn’t another choice to spend our New Year’s Eve. So, we chose a horror movie to lose our boredom in the New Year’s Eve. Firstly, we thought that the movie which we had chosen, Pocong Rumah Angker, would be so bored, but we were wrong. It was the interesting movie. We could laugh and felt scared when we were watching that movie. In other words, we enjoyed that movie.

                Although I just spent my New Year’s Eve in mall, but I still felt so happy. It is because I spent my time with my beloved friends. So, how about yours?

New Vocabularies

New Year’s Eve : 31 December, especially the evening of that day. (N)

Beloved : loved very much. (Adj.)

Sightseeing : the activity of visiting interesting place. (N)

Decided: to think carefully about the different possibilities that are available and choose one of them. (V)

Fill : to make yourself fell unable to eat any more. (V)

Boredom : the state of felling bored. (N)

My New Niece

                Today, I’m going to tell you about my new niece. She is a cute baby. She is the daughter of my cousin. She was born last week, on the 19^th of December, 2010.

                In the afternoon of last Sunday, my cousin called me. He asked me if I could go to the hospital because his wife had felt the contraction. Actually I was confused because I had many assignments that I hadn’t done. But I promised that I would go to the hospital soon.

                After took a bath, my mother and I went to the hospital. We rode a motorcycle. I still confused with my assignments that I left, but my mother had been trying to convince me that I would repent if I didn’t go to the hospital.

                When I arrived in the hospital, my cousin’s wife had borne. She bore a cute daughter. Diana, who is their first daughter, started to show her jealous. She didn’t permit her father to see the baby. Wow! It was so funny for me.

                My cousin’s wife asked me whether I had found the name for her baby. Then I showed her three names which my friend had looked for my new niece. These are my options: Khansa Haura Aniqah, Caliana Zhaafira, and Zara Alifiyyah Hasya. My cousin’s wife chose the second name, but my cousin chose the first name. So I had an idea to combine the names. Finally we named my new niece Caliana Haura Zhaafira. It meant a kindly princess which always be given the fortunate.

                It was our beautiful day. We hope that Fira will make our life more beautiful. Amin.

New Vocabularies

Contraction : a sudden and painful tightening of the muscles around a woman’s womb that happen when she is giving birth to a child. (N)

Repent : to feel and show you are sorry for something bad or wrong that you have done. (V)

Borne : to give birth to a child. (V)

                (bear- bore- borne)

Looked for : to try to find somebody or something. (V)

Fortunate : having or bringing an advantage, an opportunity, a piece of good luck, etc. (Adj.)

               

FANBOYS

1.       Bayu watched TV alone, for his wife went shopping.

2.       Bayu likes watching TV, and his wife likes shopping.

3.       I didn’t care with whatever he said, nor did I care with whatever he did.

4.       We lived in the same street, but we have never seen each other.

5.       All of the students should study harder, or they fail the National Examination.

6.       Bayu has a good job, yet he never seems to have any money.

7.       It was rain heavily, so we didn’t come to the meeting on time.

My New Idol

I have many idols in my life. But I’m a person who is easily to feel boredom. So I always have a new idol every month. And for now I really love Avril Lavigne and her songs.

Avril is a creative singer. She writes almost all of her songs. Nobody’s Fool, Why, Alice, I’m with You, Complicated, Don’t Tell Me, My Happy Ending, Girlfriend, and Fall to Pieces are some of her songs which she had created.

 All of her songs make me found a new spirit. When I’m down or bored with my activities, I always listening her songs. After I listened her songs, I feel better.

Her songs are easy listening and easy to digest for me. I could get the point of her songs although it was my first time to hear that song. Commonly I couldn’t understand the meaning of a song when I heard it for the first time. So I think it was so amazing for me when I’m digesting her song. I think Avril has a good pronunciation, so that I can hear her songs clearly.

She is a philanthropist singer. She helped Burma with her campaign, and she joined with an organization to support and help AIDS victims. She also had recycled Knocking on Heaven’s Doors for remind us about the starving of African.

Avril is my idol now. She is a perfect singer. She is creative, beautiful, has good pronunciation, and her songs make me have new spirit. 

New Vocabularies

Boredom: the state of feeling bored. (N)

Bored: feeling tired because you have lost interest in somebody or something. (Adj.)

Digest:  to think about something so that you fully understand it. (VN)

Philanthropist: a rich person who helps the poor and those in needs. (N)

Campaign: a series of planned activities that are intended to achieve a particular social. (N)

Victims: a person who has been attacked, injured, or killed as the result of a crime, a disease, etc. (N)

Recycled: to treat things that have already been used so that they can be used again. (VN)

Have Fun at Dufan

               Today, I’m going to tell you about my happy holiday at Dufan. Dufan is one of tourist area which is located in North Jakarta. I went to Dufan on the 9^th of December, 2010.

                I went to Dufan with my classmates. They were Wiwit, Nabila, Anis, Novi, and Ami. We gathered at Anis’ rent house. Then, we went to Dufan by bus. It was around 9 A.M.

                We arrived at Dufan at 10.30 A.M. But Dufan would be opened at 11.00 A.M. It means that we had to wait for 30 minutes again. So we used that time to take some of pictures. At that time, Wiwit and I took a picture with a funny clown. 

                When Dufan’s gates had been opened, we made some rows soon. There was no very long queue, because actually we went to Dufan on Thursday. We just queued up for 10 minutes before we entered and could play all of the playthings at there. We played Kora-kora, Hysteria, Niagara, and Perang Bintang. After that, we took a rest for an hour to eat. Then, we are going on the next plan. We visited Rumah Miring, Rumah Sesat, and Istana Boneka.

                It was my happy holiday. Although I felt so tired, I was so happy to spend my time at Dufan.

New Vocabularies:

Tourist area        : part of a place to travelling for pleasure. (N)

Clown   : an entertainer who wears funny clothes to make people laugh. (N)

Gate      : a barrier like a door. (N)

Queue  : a line of people waiting for something. (N)

Queued up : to wait in a line of people in order to do something, get something, or go somewhere. (V)

Tired     : feeling that you would like to rest. (Adj.)