Semarang Tangguh, Aman dan Tertib
“Me Time” in Jogja (Piknik itu Penting)
Kembali ke Taman Pintar, ada satu tempat yang menarik perhatianku, yaitu planetarium. Aku langsung membeli tiket dan menikmati tayangan tentang tata surya di planetarium. Aku bersyukur aku bukan orang yang sama sekali asing dengan dunia sains, sehingga aku bisa menikmati tayangan ilmiah tentang astronomi tersebut. Aku sempat terharu melihat tayangan di planetarium. Aku kembali diingatkan bahwa alam raya ini begitu besar dan manusia bukanlah apa-apa melainkan sebuah noktah di antara begitu banyak bintang di jagad ini. Umur manusia tidak akan cukup untuk melakukan perjalanan antar bintang demi menemukan singgasana Tuhan. Belum tentu pula kita akan menemukan-Nya dan bertemu langsung. Tuhan ada di dimensi yang berbeda dengan makhluk, cukup itu saja teori sains yang perlu kita ketahui tentang Tuhan. Bahkan teori relativitas termutakhir pun tak akan pernah dapat menjelaskan dzat Tuhan secara tepat. Pengetahuan manusia terbatas, pengetahuan Tuhan tak terbatas.
Selain masuk ke gedung planetarium, aku juga masuk ke gedung lainnya yang menyajikan pameran berbagai eksperimen sains. Naik ke lantai dua, ruang pameran lebih banyak menyajikan tentang budaya Indonesia serta industri seperti perminyakan dan listrik. Di sana aku berpikir, sebenarnya bangsa Indonesia bisa menjadi hebat bila kita mau lebih berusaha karena kita punya sumber daya alam dan budaya yang kaya.
Lanjut jalan-jalan menyusuri Taman Pintar, aku menemukan bioskop 3D. Sebelumnya aku belum pernah nonton bioskop 3D. Ingin beli tiket, tapi pikir-pikir dengan budget. Maklumlah anak kos. Akhirnya setelah menimbang-nimbang, kuputuskan untuk beli tiket. Uang bisa dicari lagi, tapi kesempatan untuk mendapatkan pengalaman baru belum tentu datang dua kali.
Aku menyempatkan masuk ke museum. Di sana ada barang-barang serta foto-foto bersejarah tentang Indonesia mulai dari zaman penjajahan hingga masa kepresidenan SBY. Sungguh bersyukur aku hidup di zaman sekarang saat sudah bebas dari penjajahan –mungkin-. Penjajahan secara fisik iya, tapi secara teknologi?
Piknik ini tidak hanya menyegarkanku lagi dengan menyelami kembali dunia sains yang begitu aku sukai, tetapi juga membuahkan inspirasi dan memperkaya pengetahuan. Semestinya, piknik tidak hanya bikin senang, tapi juga bikin pintar. Menurutku, orang Indonesia perlu dibiasakan untuk piknik ke tempat yang menyajikan ilmu pengetahuan, tidak cuma berwisata alam. Yang paling penting, jangan mengotori lingkungan dan nikmati piknikmu. Jangan hanya memikirkan selfie. Turn off your camera.
Yang jelas, ke mana pun destinasi pikniknya, asalkan dinikmati tentu dapat menjadi sarana untuk menyegarkan pikiran dan me-recharge semangat sebelum kembali ke rutinitas sehari-hari.
Kalau tadi adalah cerita tentang piknik saat di Jogja, sekarang bagaimana kalau ada kesempatan ke Bogor? Hmm… Wisata alam sepertinya menarik. Air Terjun Bidadari pasti akan menjadi destinasi wisata alam yang memorable. Keindahan air terjun yang alirannya terlihat seperti bentangan kain yang menjuntai dari puncak hingga ke dasar air terjun begitu memikat. Selain Air Terjun Bidadari, ada satu lagi tujuan wisata yang sejak dulu ingin aku datangi, yaitu Taman Safari di Cisarua. Waktu SD aku pernah ke Taman Safari, tetapi yang berlokasi di Prigen, Pasuruan. Pasti seru kalau bisa menikmati lagi sensasi masuk ke area satwa liar dan melihat mereka dari dekat, hanya berbatas kaca kendaraan.
Liburan selama lebih dari satu hari di Bogor tentu lebih nyaman bila menyewa penginapan daripada tidur di kendaraan. Apalagi jika untuk sampai ke Bogor harus menempuh perjalanan jauh yang melelahkan. Kalau soal penginapan, Hotel Padjadjaran dapat menjadi satu pilihan bila ingin mencari tempat menginap yang nyaman saat piknik ke Kota Bogor. Lastly, enjoy your picnic to the fullest.
Ini bukan promosi merk ya, cuma pengen unjuk gigi hasil jepretan. Iseng-iseng nyoba fotografi pakai kamera SLR punya temen. Kali aja ada yang tertarik ngebantuin mengembangkan bakat. *ehem,taulah maksudnya....
Foto diambil dari jendela sebuah vila di daerah Kaliurang, Jogja. Food mode: warm.
Pengen banget nyoba dunia fotografi tapi nggak tau mesti mulai dari mana.
World of Social Media
We can’t deny that social media takes many portions in ourlives. Social media wasn’t really a big thing in past 10 years ago. Something like Mig33, MSN and so on weren’t essential for our daily activities. But, nowadays, we can see so many people are attached to social media. Some of them even make a living from it. Such an improvement to say that we can earn money by just sitting in front of computer doing things like uploading and posting for example. Many jobs can be done more easily by connecting to social media such as having a chat through Skype with overseas client rather than having a meeting in person. I myself do admit that I get so much eases by the existence of social media. I can contact my old friend easily by searching it on the search bar of my social media page. I can join some groups to get information about my interests such as music, books or upcoming events. I can also know about the newest update of my friends by seeing their photo upload on their timeline. However, the euphoria of using social media doesn’t always give you comfort. I personally feeling uncomfortable when my friends looking at their smartphones more often than looking at me when we are hanging out. I feel like their virtual world is more important than me. So, based on that experience, I try to leave my phone at home when I’m going out with my friends. Of course if it doesn’t take hours to go with them. I bring my phone when I go out for hours cause I need to contact my parents. I watched a video on Youtube recently about how we could miss something in ourlives if we look at our gadget too much rather than facing the real world. It was about how we can’t build a good communication and we will loose the chance to meet someone important in ourlives if turn our faces too much to our gadget. Based from those, I want to decrease the use of social media if it is not for an important thing. I want to keep my privacy by not posting too much things about my life. Because once I upload, people from all over the world will know about my profile. We have to be wise in using social media so that it won’t harm ourlives.
Tugas B. Inggris 4 Okt 2012
Intruksi:
Eksperimen 3: Jaringan dan Sel Hewan dan Manusia
Praktikum 1 Bio: Sel Tumbuhan
Example of Speech
Good morning, my honorable the judges and all participants. Let me introduce my self. My name is Shinta Ismi and I’m from 1 Demak High. Before I deliver my speech, let us thanks almighty Allah SWT. Because of His blessing, we can be here joining the speech contest with a good condition. Also, let’s not forget to always keep our hope for our Prophet Muhammad SAW’s help in the doomsday.
Ladies and gentle men, in this chance, I choose “Prevention of Drugs for Teenagers” as my speech title. Now, let’s see the hot news in our nation. Some moments ago, our government held an event in Jakarta with a purpose to keep the young generation from the attack of drugs. The reason to hold this event is because the drugs become more exist in teenagers’ life. But, the existence of drugs is not in the right way. It even can destroy teenagers’ life. How can? Before I explain it, I want define what drug is first.
A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that when it is absorbed into the body of a living organism alters the normal bodily function. It also has a tendency to make the users become addicted to it. Truly, the uses of drugs in “medical world” are for diagnosing, curing, mitigating treatment or preventing from disease in man or animals. But, the truth is not only medical staffs that use drugs, but teenagers are also using it. Not for medical purpose such as to heal themselves from disease, but just for fun! That’s why I said drugs can destroy our young generation.
I’ll give the example. Ladies and gentlemen, you must know Putri Ariyanti’s case, right? Putri, the second president’s great grandchild, was grabbed to the police office. She was positively using drugs. Now, she has to free herself from drugs addiction. She still young, but she can’t enjoy her teenage life because of drugs. It’s pity, isn’t it?
Ladies and gentlemen, drugs have three main bad impacts for us. First, physically, organ system will be damaged, especially kidney and brain. No longer after that, some diseases will occur. Such as heart, skin and lungs disturbance, headache, even HIV / AIDS. Second, psychologically, drugs will make us unconfidence, difficult to concentrate, agitative, nervous and finally, drugs pull us to kill ourselves. Third, socially, drugs will change us to become anti social.
Based on those impacts, this nation has to remote the young generation from drugs. There are some ways to free the teenagers. We will find it after we know the reason. Now, the question is why do some teenagers use drugs? The answer is it can be caused by broken home, religious value degradation, influence from mass media, friendship, environment, less of activity and economic problem which can lead the teenagers into stress. Those are complicated things for teenagers who are still labile.
To prevent them from joining into the wrong way of life, we have to teach them about religious value. So, they can realize that they have the God who always be with them. Teenagers also need conducive situation. They should be kept out from stress. One way they can do is joining useful activity. Such as extracurricular or happy working for working teenagers. Family and friends also have important part to form teenagers’ personality. Make friends with a drug user will lead us to use drugs, too. So, family and friends should support the teenagers to choose good environment.
But, the most important thing we have to do is to give them attention. Ladies and gentlemen, teenagers need to be noticed and I represent all teenagers want to say that we want every people to confess our existence, we want you all to trust us and believe that we can do good things. Unfortunately, some of us are less of that attention. They fell to that darkness. So, what can we do? First, send them to rehabilitation centre to free themselves from drug addiction. Second, prevent them, so they won’t go back to use drugs again.
Ladies and gentlemen, drugs are so dangerous if it is not used properly, especially by teenagers. There are many bad impacts for their life. But, for every problem, there are always the solutions. The most important thing we have to do to keep our young generation from the dangers of drugs is by accompanying them to live in a good way.
The judges and all participants, that’s all I can say. Hopefully, it can be a good beginning for a better life in this nation. Thank you very much for your attention. Good morning.
Kebahasaan: Memperkenalkan Diri Sendiri dan Orang Lain
Pola kalimat untuk memperkenalkan diri adalah:
(Subjek)+
Contoh:
a. Watashi wa Minami desu. / Saya Minami. (Memberitahu nama)
b. Watashi no namae wa Minami. / Nama saya Minami. (Memberitahu nama)
c. Watashi wa kokousei desu. Saya seorang pelajar SMA. (Memberitahu predikat)
d. Watashi wa juu ichi-nensei desu. / Saya kelas sebelas. (Memberitahu predikat)
Pola kalimat yang kedua adalah:
(Subjek)+
Contoh:
a. Watashi wa SMAN 1 no Tanaka desu. / Saya Tanaka dari SMAN 1. (memberitahu nama)
b. Watashi wa SMAN 1 no seito desu. / Saya murid SMAN 1. (Memberitahu predikat)
Sekarang kita praktekkan cara memperkenalkan diri sendiri dengan contoh berikut:
Miura : “Minasan, hajimemashite. (Watashi wa) Miura desu. Watashi wa SMAN 1 no seito desu. Juu ichi-nensei desu. Douzo yoroshiku.” (Teman-teman semua, perkenalkan. Saya Miura. Saya murid SMAN 1. Kelas sebelas. Salam kenal.)
Kata “hajimeashite” digunakan untuk memperkenalkan diri kepada orang-orang yang belum pernah ditemui sebelumnya. Contohnya murid pindahan. Dia menggunakan kata “hajimemashite”ketika memperkenalkan dirinya kepada teman-teman barunya.
Oh ya, ketika memperkenalkan diri kita sendiri, kita tidak wajib menggunakan kata “watashi wa” untuk memebritahu nama kita sendiri. Karena subjek yang memperkenalkan diri sudah diketahui. Cukup nama saja ditambah kata desu.
Memperkenalkan diri sendiri sudah, sekarang bagaimana cara memperkenalkan orang lain?
Caranya sama dengan saat memperkenalkan diri sendiri, tetapi kata subjeknya diganti “
Contoh memperkenalkan diri sendiri:
Watashi wa Minami desu. (Saya Minami.)
Contoh memperkenalkan orang lain:
Kochira wa Minami-san desu. (Ini Minami.)
*Saat menyebut nama orang, gunakan kata “-san”.
Nah, sudah tahu cara memperkenalkan diri dengan bahasa Jepang



