The Tide of a Human

The day someone was born will be most of the time considered as a special moment and worth the celebration. It makes sense because it’s the mark of a person’s existence in this world and for many families the presence of children is a blessing. When the children grow up, most of them are accustomed to the idea that birthday is a special celebration because it’s the day they “arrived” to the world. Also, having another year added is believed as a new opportunity and new phase in life. Later on, how birthday is perceived would be varied into two major point of views, which are the basic idea of giving thanks for another year or a new phase in life and the "advance" idea of a specific moment to have fun celebrating their life. People love birthdays, they like to make it as the moment for doing something different remarkable. Thus there are many routines and habits related to celebrating birthdays.   [...] the basic idea of giving thanks for another yea...

Prayer has always been a messenger medium from us to God. Unlike million years ago in the time of the prophets, we live in an era where believer “see” with faith not eyes, thus the way we communicate with  God is through prayers not as lucky as Moses did back then with a more of face to face method which actually more convenient somehow. Prayer is so essential that in a Sunday service there's a specific prayer prosession called intercession (cmiiw) to pray for everything (asking guidance based on what the preach was about, family, people who are sick, church, student, worker, country, even single people, etc.). So yeah prayer is something very basic and important in a religion. It's so important that the phrase "the power of prayer" exists. It is powerful when it's done right, right? It makes people feel calm and secure for most of the time. Prayers are powerful because it has the possibility of being "converted" into a miracle (with the perm...

Once we are attracted to foreign language, we’ll be pulled directly or indirectly into the world of vocabulary. That leads us to our first engagement with the act of translating because starting from there we’re going to be directed to open the dictionary (online or printed). As we all know, finding the definition of a certain word in another language is one of the basic steps in learning a new language. Basically we are already used to it, it doesn’t even have to be another country’s language, the closest example is translating the regional language to the lingua franca language (Javanese to Indonesian). Sometimes we even have to translate certain words into the same language using the synonyms or rephrase the sentences to make them more clear. People also have different reasons for why they have to translate, from daily purposes, study, to work. Translating is one of those important things in life, whether it is for personal or professional use. The interesting side about translating...

Drawing is not only a hobby for me but also one of the coping way I choose to feel relieved and calm. It’s a media to express something unspokeable inside my mind. One day I want to draw something different and surreal. After I drew a beautiful beach girl, I came with the idea to draw her, the girl with balloons necklace and a crown.           She actually represented me, how I felt. I feel under pressured and got lot of thoughts. I got war inside my head and problem with this and that. There is something that is not cured yet. In this drawing, she has a crown which means she actually has power to reach her dreams. She got knowledge and will to learn more. The heart means that she cares about the people around her, the unlucky people who suffered from poverty and also animal and nature that struggle to stay alive side by side with the “growing” world. She actually has love inside her. But her lips are petrified. She can’t speak a lot be...

Hello blog world! It’s been about more than a year since I have posted anything on my blog. What should I post now hahaha.. Last semesters of college is always hectic right? I even had to add two extra semesters. Thank God I’ve graduated now! I’m officially a Bachelor of Humanities, yay! Perhaps, to start again,  I’m going to tell about my journey to graduation. I was a German Literature’s student and my thesis is about Berlin in seven German Songs from the 1980s-2013. Why Berlin? My first idea was making a thesis about the Germany’s cities that appeared in German songs. I’m curious about why did the musicians (or song writers) write these kinds of songs and how they described the cities. At that moment I was kind of in a hurry to finish my study so I want to use shorter form of literature work, and that would be from “the poetry family”. I like to read novels or roman or short stories but I was worried that I could spent too much time to read and analyse it (yeah I belong to...

Suatu hari di kelas "Neueste Deutsche Literatur" semester 5 atau 6 (lupa) kita dapet tugas buat bikin Neue Interpretation ( interpretasi baru) dari  M ä rchen ( dongeng) karya  Bruder Grimm (Brother Grimm). Kita dapet tugas untuk semacam bikin fan fiction lah . Dan inilah jadinya imajinasi anak muda yang melebar ke mana-mana dan penuh fantasi. Oh iya kalau untuk Neue Interpretation kita disuruh untuk bikin cerita baru tapi dengan bahan (tokoh, tempat, kadang alur) yang sama dengan cerita aslinya. Dan dalam tugas ini kita disuruh untuk bikin sekreatif  mungkin jadi kayak buku anak-anak. Nah waktu itu aku partneran sama Tria dan dibentuk jadi scrapbook (sayang udah dikumpulin, untung dapet A, hahaha). Walaupun sebenernya yang dibikin ini lebih pake nama versi disney nih. Oke inilah dia versi yang udah diterjemahin ke bahasa Indonesia: Versi Bahasa Indonesia PUTRI TIDUR Flora, Fauna, dan Astra saling bersahabat dan bekerja sebagai guru. Mereka tingg...

I was so thrilled when I found this book. I have read this book since I was in the Elementary school and it was like love at first sight. I kept borrow it from my school's library. This book is very cooool! But unfortunately, this book is sooo hard to find right now. This picture was an old one. I've been looking for this book for ages. I found this book in a Book Rent when I was in my first semester of college (about a year ago). Can you imagine it, It took about 9 years to finally found this book! Or maybe because I didn't take to much effort to really find it, hehehe.. I don't know if they still sell it in Indonesia or not. This one was printed in Indonesia and translated into Bahasa. Maybe they still publish it abroad but not in Indonesia I guess, so sad. This book is about a group of high school detectives. Their name is Sporty, Thomas, Oscar, and Petra (abbreviated "STOP"). Just like the other detective book, each book has difference case....