Week 4_Poverty in Indonesia

Poverty is exist everywhere and anytime that we could not affort since the old days. Let's say World War. Not long after The First World War (1914-1918),   there was Global Financial Crisis, known as The Great Depression in 1928. It needed several years to recover the crisis, unfortunately before it recovery perfectly in 1939-1945, The Second World War happened.

http://uspolitics.about.com/od/economy/tp/what_caused_great_depression.htm

In Indonesia the Second World War happened in 1942-1945. Beside Indonesia should defend their independent, they also had to defend from poverty.

Another tragedy happened again in 1998. It became the worst tragedy in Indonesia because of the monetary crisis. It was known as Kerusuhan Mei 98 or Tragedy 98. These days there were a lot of people died. During those days criminalize, pengangguran, poverty, social gap were increasing quite high. The worst thing was, when Indonesia really needed a wise leader, there was only KKN (Corruption, colution and nepotism) everywhere. It needed several months or even years to recover the crisis. In my opinion actually there still a lot of effects because of that crisis. Not only financial but also moral of the people are decreasing. Unconsciously, because of KKN is quite commond today, slowly it become one of our cultures; starts to change bad thing become good things and good things become bad things.

That is way, we as young generation should very careful and always think twice or more before act wisely. And the most important thing is obey your parents.

Week 3_Learning Academic English

Learning Academic English is not easy for me; even Bahasa is not always easy to learn for me. Each has its own rules to make a paragraph, essay, report etc. However, difficult things do not mean that it cannot be learnt; it just needs persistence and discipline.

Academic English is a very important subject because it teaches and helps us to increase our understanding, reading, speaking, and writing skills. We started learning from the smallest step such as phrase, paragraph, main idea, summarizing and reporting. Those are the things which we should master very well. It will be needed in any kind of industries. 

Week 2_Learning English as a Second Language

Language is very important thing in our life, especially when we are in our world become smaller and smaller. People can visit any country easily. Therefore, we need a system that can make us have good communication: International Language(s). In 1924 the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA) was established. In 1827 ‘Solresol’ became an International musical language and for nowadays there are several International Languages such as English, French, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. We have to mastering at least two languages: your mother tongue and English, it is better if you can speak more than two languages. So wherever you go, you can communicate easier rather than if you cannot master International Languages. And I think, because of there are a lot of countries use English as their national language, so the first language that you should mastering for your second language is English, then if you live in Asia, Australia, or America; according to my opinion, make Chinese as your third language that you should learn, after that French, Russian, and Spanish. But if you live in Europe or Latin America, I think it is better if you learn Spanish or French (if you are live in politic world), after that Chinese and Russian. 

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To help you balancing your work-life, these are five tips for keep balancing between work and life. Firstly, make downtime into your schedule. Make your own time management. Secondly, drop activities that sap your time or energy. Trying to minimizing the unnecessary things from your habit activities, such as gossip and hang out with someone; and do any kind of sports. Thirdly, rethink your errands. Time is money. You have to spend your time carefully. For example, you want to go overseas and you have to book the flight ticket. Think it twice or more what should you do to save your time. Now because of the internet, there a lot of things can be done by online. So, what you should do is a simple thing: just book the ticket by online. You do not need to go to the agent. Or another thing that you can do is maybe you can call the service centre from your airline and booked the ticket. Fourthly, keep your body moving. Take the stairs is better than take the elevator or lift. And the last one is, remember that a little relaxation goes a long way. Your brain and your body need to take a rest from the stress. Those things are the tips which will help you to keep your work-life balance.

□   References: http://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/5-strategies-for-life-balance?page=2

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These are five tips for keep balancing between work and life. Firstly, make downtime into your schedule. Make your own time management. Secondly, drop activities that sap your time or energy. Minimizing the unnecessary things from your habit, such as gossip and hang out with someone; and do any kind of sports. Thirdly, rethink your errands. Time is money. You have to spend your time carefully. For example, you want to go overseas and you have to book the flight ticket. Think twice or more what should you do to save your time. Now because of the internet, there a lot of things can be done by online. So, just book the ticket by online. You do not need to go to the agent. Or maybe you can call the service centre from your airline. Fourthly, keep moving. Take the stairs is better than take the elevator or lift. And the last one is, remember that a little relaxation goes a long way. Your brain and your body need to take a rest from the stress.

□   References: http://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/5-strategies-for-life-balance?page=2

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Do you feel that you are fit enough? Are you getting cold or fever easily? If you do not, that means you are great but if you do not that means you have to more pay attentions of your body.

Nowadays, there are a lot of people who can getting cold or ill easily, especially especially when the weather is completely hard to be predict because of the global warming. Generally, people are very busy with their own business. Parents work so hard to get a cent of Rupiah (in Indonesia), students study so hard to get a good score. Parents work so hard to get money, students study hard to get good score. Even sometimes, they forgot to do the things which is very important to their own body or maybe they do not forgot instead of they ignore this important things. For examples, they do not have enough time or they do not want to take breakfast in the morning because of they wake late or they do not use to breakfast. They do not have enough sleep. They work or study until midnight and wake up very early. They do not want or not have enough time to do any kind of sport. They do not have enough time for their family. This is also may cause a conflict between their own selves or between the family member itself.

"A lot of people are having a more difficult time finding balance in their lives because there have been cutbacks or layoffs where they work. They're afraid it may happen to them, so they're putting in more hours," says psychologist Robert Brooks, PhD, co-author of The Power of Resilience: Achieving Balance, Confidence, and Personal Strength in Your Life. 

Therefore, we have to manage our time well and trying to balance our life between working, studying and life.

Week 1_Traffic in Jakarta

Traffic in Jakarta is very terrible. I spend my half day useless just because of the horrible traffic.Have you ever heard or maybe watched ‘Dragonball’ and they has their special energy attack called ‘Kamehameha’? Sometimes when I was bored, I wonder if I was a girl who has that energy attack, I will attack all the people, all the cars away with my ‘Kamehameha’.  Sadly, it was my imaginary. So, we have to face it with smile because if you do not, do you want making yourself to be angry all the time? Because there is no a day, even an hour ‘Jakarta without traffic’, unless Jakarta at midnight or Jakarta in the very early or in Lebaran holiday. I love Jakarta at those times.

Beside everyday Jakarta become more crowded and crowded, Jakarta also become hotter and hotter. I cannot imagine what will happen, let’s say for the next 20 years. Therefore, we should join the ‘go green’ program to help our world for the global warming.