Week 11_Classic Music

"Eine kleine nacht mittag" who does knows this music? This is one of the popular classic music. "Eine kleine nacht mittag" is composed by a well-known composer from Salzburg, Austria named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who has already performed his violin and keyboard talent in front of the royalty since he was five. He begin to composed in the very early age;
he composed a lot of classical music included symphony, concerto, chamber and choral.
In18th century, beside Mozart, there was still many of great classic composer who was born here. Two of them had quite close relation with Mozart were Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven. Haydn was Mozart close's friend and Beethoven as a younger musician, he studied to Haydn and Mozart. Both of them also became a great classic composer; moreover, for Haydn, there is a well-known nickname as "The Father of Symphony" and "The Father of String Quartet"."Music Piece " is one of the classic music which was composed by him and "Ode to Joy" is composed by Beethoven. Actually, this music was presented to Napoleon Bonaparte but he canceled it because Beethoven was disappointed with Bonaparte action. He became arogant after won many battles and when the pop wanted to put the crown on his head, he rejected and asked to do it by himself.

Week 10_Student's Job

What do you think the first thing that you should do as a student? Moreover you study in an international university which is very expensive; it is not easy to get jobs nowadays, there must be a lot of sacrifice that your parents made to get money. Every parents always do the best for their children, so that every children must do the best for theirselve and their parents too. Parents do not afraid to work until the end, even they know that their body are not be able to do as good as when they are in younger age. Thus, we as a student has to study very hard and do the best. Results are not important as long as you have already tried your best. Maybe you got B+ on your final test but you have already tried your best during preparation while you should take care your counsin in a hospital because of car accident. The most important thing here is do not ever afraid to be failed and never give up.

Week 9_Live In

What is ‘Live In’? ‘Live In’ is a program for people who live in a city; where we go far away from home, usually is a small village and stay with local people in a specific time. The purpose is to learn the way they live so that we can be more grateful and always has good respect to each other. Every year, social gap is increasing and nowadays there is a huge gap between the poor and the rich. It also getting worse because there are a lot of people that too busy with their own business and almost forget everything that is much more important than money: family, moral, culture, etiquette and ethic. One of the ways to overcome this problem is participate in Live In program. There are a lot schools or universities do this program. Schools and universities want to help their younger generation to open their mind and show the real life. If you really participate in Live In program, you can learn so many things. This can be learnt if we are modest, want to learn and open your mind. 

Week 8_Effective Communication

Communication is a massage from a communicator to a communicant that can be happened for at least two participants. Communication must be effective to avoid misunderstanding. There are five steps in communication process: sensing, interpreting, feeling, intending and expressing; which also include empathy and sympathy.

Five technics that we can use in effective communication:

1.    Good listeners.

2.     Use your wise to react your opposite communicator.

3.     Find your similarity (es) with your opposite communicator.

4.     Do not monopoly the communication.

5.     Avoid debating with your opposite.

There are four basic of personalities:

1.       Choleric               : direct, focused, tough, analytical, logical and strategic. 

2.   Sanguine          : spontaneity, optimism, enthusiasm, high energy, mental flexibility, novelty seeking, impulsiveness and curiosity.

3.        Phlegmatic        : nurturing, sympathetic, agreeable and emotionally expressive. 

4.       Melancholic       : tend to be calm, loyal and orderly, just as their personality name sounds.

http://www.askwomennet.com/different-types-of-personality.html

Three basic communications styles:

1.       Aggressive.

2.       Passive.

3.       Assertive: the most recommended. Know when we need to be aggressive or passive.

http://www.angelfire.com/az2/webenglish/commstyles.html

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/sba/comm_style.htm

http://www.cedanet.com/meta/communication_styles.htm

Week 7_Tongue Twister

A tongue twister is a difficult phrase, sentence or rhyme to speak and have similar sounds. You have to repeat it several times to get a nippy tongue. ‘Practice makes you perfect’.

Tongue twister helps us to avoid mispronouncing when you speak something, especially when you speak in front of a lot of people. For examples, when you present something, give a speech, broadcasting something in radio or in television.

I have some tongue twister’s examples:

A tree toad loved a she-toad Who lived up in a tree. He was a two-toed tree toad But a three-toed toad was she. The two-toed tree toad tried to win The three-toed she-toad's heart, For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground That the three-toed tree toad trod. But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain. He couldn't please her whim. From her tree toad bower With her three-toed power The she-toad vetoed him.

http://www.twisterking.com/a.php

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/funny_tongue_twisters.html

Other sources: http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/index.htm

http://thinks.com/words/tonguetwisters.htm

Week 6_Social Grace

Social Grace is a skill which we needed to interact in social life. It includes manner, attitude, etiquette and ethics. Etiquette is referred from French; “Etiquette” means attitude guidelines.  It was known since King Louise XVI era. He and his wife, Marie Antoinette liked make parties. Therefore, to make the parties work smoothly, they needed rules which now we know as Etiquette. Ethic is referred from Latin, “Ectica” means moral philosophy that also include culture and religion. You have to always try to please somebody. Why do we need to please somebody? It’s because, we need good reactions from people who make contact with us which called, action reaction. How can we get that habit? You can get it from reading books, experiences, ask the expert or somebody that more competent in that problem than you. Over more, it can be better if you can practice it in your life. Try from the simplest thing such as, try to be friendly, say thank you when somebody helped you, say sorry when you hurt somebody, help others who need help.

If you can do that, you’ll be a great person and everybody will respect you. 

Week 5_Corruption

I think corruption is quite common nowadays, but do you understand what corruption is. Generally, people think that corruption is taking others money for individual pleasure, while the real meaning is taking anything illegally for individual pleasure; so it can be anything such time corruption.  

Money corruptions, I believe that every country has percentages of corruptions. Moreover, now the economy is harder and harder than before. There are many factors that can support people to do money corruptions from inside and outside; for inside there is the moral and for outside: numbers of family responsibilities, the effect from family, friends or environment, insistency, etc.   

Unconsciously, we often do time corruption which known as “ngaret” in Indonesia. It usually happens in Multi-active culture countries such as Indonesian. For example, a meeting start at 07.00 but on the expected time, there is only a few people who came on time while the others still on their own business; so the meeting can be delay until 08.00 or maybe 08.30. Look, how pity it is! Time was spent useless. “Time is Money”.

We as young generations has always to try not to do corruption even a little because when we do a little corruption and we ignore it, it can inveterate and grow become one of our habit or in big scale, our culture. If that habit has already become one of our cultures, it is hard to correct.