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Kamis, 09 November 2017
Rabu, 04 Oktober 2017
BEAUTY
"What is #beauty? How do you define beauty?" That was the question I throw to my Speaking Club last night. If I had to answer my own question, the following would be my explanation.
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In my opinion there are two kinds of beauty based on the visibility. I believe we can't deny the existence of these two.
1. Beauty for SIGHT
This beauty is obviously visible for almost everyone, the ones who can normally see. You can consider things are beautiful right when you barely see them. It depends on our eyes because, in this case, eyes are which value things. Flowers, rainbow, pretty girl, handsome boy, cute baby, natural scenery, green field, clear blue sky, twinkling stars, bright aurora, colourful nebula, the look of the earth from the space, the image of galaxy, coral reef and various fish in a sea, are examples of beauty for sight. We consider those things beautiful as our eyes are pleased by them.
2. Beauty for SOUL
This beauty is inconspicuously seen. It means not everyone can notice this kind of beauty. That is why people might value things differently. A person who help an old grandma to cross the street is beautiful to me, but another people might not value her/him because they don't see KINDNESS as a kind of beauty. A person has brilliant ideas to build a business entity and creating jobs to reduce poverty is beautiful to me, but another people might not value her/him because they don't see INTELLIGENCE as a kind of beauty. A person who give back a wallet s/he found to the owner is beautiful to me, but another people might not value her/him because they don't see HONESTY as a kind of beauty. Any pets are beautiful to me, but another people might not value them because they don't see a CHANCE TO LEARN how to love and care for them when raising it as a kind of beauty. Problems are beautiful to me, but another people might not value it because they don't see HOW it makes people grow stronger as a kind of beauty. Those are beauty for soul. We consider those things beautiful as our soul is pleased by them.
Beauty can be complicated because sometimes it's hard to define, as well as simple because we can value beauty in little things.
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📝 Written for #englishcaption_tea
#englishcaptionchallenge with
@lianailyy
@oz_ahmad
@onlylintangg
@irkhammaulana1
@naniraa_
Tea for Hectic Days
Are you kind of busy people? Do you always face hectic days that make you exhausted or even depressed sometimes? I think drinking TEA will be perfect for you, just as it's perfect to me.
Why tea?
Tea can keep you AWAKE. It has CAFFEINE too but it's not as much as caffeine in coffee. So it is still safe for your gastric if you have digestion problems.
On the other hand, tea has RELAXING aroma which is produced by certain protein. Thus it can help you reduce your tense and stress.
The last reason, tea can is one of HEALTHY drink for you. It is said that tea is good for your bone, teeth, heart pressure, immune system & digestion system. It can also prevent cancer, overweight, and stroke. That is why it is suitable for you who have tight schedule and activities. If you have healthy body, you can do any activities well.
However, being over in everything will never be good, so is drinking tea. You should drink it in proper amount of nutrition need. Some health expert states that you should not drink tea right after eating because it can absorb the nutrition especially iron (Fe) in your food. So, just give a little more time for your metabolism to digest the food you eat before you drink tea or drink the tea in another time like when you do your deadline.
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📝 Written for #englishcaption_tea
#englishcaptionchallenge with
@lianailyy
@oz_ahmad
@onlylintangg
@irkhammaulana1
@naniraa_
Philosophy of Tea
Every little thing Allah creates has philosophy in it. Today, let me try to express what I think about the philosophy of TEA.
Tea can only grow in certain climate. It requires good quality of soil & adequate quantity of rainfall. It means being SELECTIVE for where we live is quite important. We can't choose where we were born but we can choose where we want ourselves to grow. We are growing old everyday for sure, but we are not always growing better if we live in wrong environment which never let us be a better person .
The buds of tea leaves will always grow again after being picked. It means LETTING GO of something & MOVING ON are the art of living. We don't need to cry too hard for it because it's already our part of life. Just go through it.
Tea is drink for everyone. Unlike some other kinds of beverages, we can drink tea no matter what class, colour, religion, nationality, age, and gender we have. Isn't it quite good to reflect EQUALITY? We are all the same to Him. Devotion is the only thing differs us in front of Him.
Tea is a light drink you can serve in two ways: hot and cold. It reminds us that this life always has TWO SIDES STORY. We must be ready for both sadness and happiness, success and failure, and many other DUALISM.
Tea can be combined to create better flavour. You can find jasmine-tea, milk-tea, lemon-tea, herbal-tea and many other kinds. Can you see how it depicts good TEAMWORK and TOLERANCE? So can I.
Tea always brings good things in human life. The tea plantation brings good money for the owner & workers as well as good view for travellers. A cup of warm tea might be the best company for talking in person to solve problem or for warming up the coldness in a family. A glass of iced-tea might be perfect for driving away our thirst in a hot and tiring day. I believe those are message for us to BE GOOD & DO GOOD for everyone in our surrounding.
Sometimes all you need is a cup of tea. It might remind you how you should be.
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📝 Written for #englishcaption_tea
#englishcaptionchallenge with
@lianailyy
@oz_ahmad
@irkhammaulana1
@onlylintangg
@naniraa_
Rabu, 22 Februari 2017
DEL: Talk is Cheap
Pernah dengar lagunya Secondhand Serenade yang "Fall for You"?? Kalau kamu dengerin lagu itu, pasti bakal nemu frasa "talk is cheap" di liriknya. Apasih itu artinya??
TALK IS CHEAP bukan berarti ngomong itu murah. Kata murah di sini bermakna konotatif alias kiasan aja. Berdasarkan konteksnya, kata cheap menjadikan kaliamat itu bermakna "ngomong tuh gampang". Menurutku sih logikanya biar paham nih, sesuatu yang murah kan mudah didapat atau dibeli. Make sense lah ya, hahaha.
Intinya, talk is cheap itu ungkapan yang artinya mudah bicara seolah akan melakukannya tapi realisasinya belum tentu semudah itu. Ungkapan ini biasanya diucap sebagai respon kalau ada orang berjanji dan kita merasa gak percaya kalau orang itu bakal nepatin janjinya; atau ketika seseorang meremehkan sesuatu seolah apabila dia yang melakukannya dia pasti bisa.
Contoh konteks 1
Danny : "Hey sweetheart, are you still angry?"
Jill : (keep silent)
Danny : "Come on! Okay, I promise I will take you to a-week-trip in Hawaii next holiday. I will ask for some day off."
Jill : "Talk is cheap. I bet you will break your promise again and say that your work is getting hectic"
Contoh konteks 2
Henry : "Lisa, why can't you handle it? It's just something simple to do and you mess it up."
Lisa : "Talk is cheap, Henry. Try doing it by yourself."
Nah gimana? Gampang kan? Sekarang kamu bisa praktekin di percakapan sehari-harimu...
Rabu, 08 Februari 2017
(BUKAN) KAMUS BERJALAN
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Umumnya jawaban andalanku:
"You try first."
"Coba kalau menurutmu gimana dulu?"
"Kirim versimu? Nanti coba ta koreksi kalau ada yang kurang tepat."
"Yang perlu dijelasin atau belum bisa yang bagian mana?"
Ada yang kemudian balas lagi "Okay deh ta coba dulu ya, nanti benerin." Ada pula yang balas "Ayolah... aku nggak bisa." atau "Duh nggak bisa semua, makanya nanya."
Well, saya sudah gemes pingin nulis uneg-uneg ini dari dulu. Dan serius deh aku nggak bisa nulis ini dengan versi santun mendayu-dayu. Kayaknya memang harus kutulis lugas.
Entah pengalaman begini memang dialami sama semua anak jurusan bahasa sastra Inggris, pendidikan Inggris, de el el yang berbau-bau Inggris) atau nggak. Bukannya nggak mau bantu ya tapi aku (mungkin juga mewakili anak bahasa Inggris yang lain) paling geregetan kalau pada nanya bukan karena mau belajar tapi emang karena males. Keliatan kaleee. Pesan-pesan itu dari segi bahasa pun kesannya maksa, nyuruh, bukan minta tolong. Beneran deh aku pun jadi malas meladeni sebenarnya, karena aku juga sedang melakukan kesibukanku. Dipikir gampang dan cepet apa nerjemahin segitu. Nggak tahu sih karena ada sisi perfeksionis atau gimana, aku selalu butuh ngecek bener nggaknya beberapa istilah melalui aplikasi kamus Cambridge. Atau setidaknya utak-atik kalimat terjemahannya biar lebih sesuai konteks dan bahasa. Apalagi kalau memang teksnya bertema bidang khusus ya aku juga harus nyari vocab yang nggak kuhafal. Aku bukan orang Inggris asli, juga bukan orang dengan IQ super tinggi, jadi aku nggak hafal jutaan vocab di kamus ya. Bahasa Indonesia aja ada kosakata yang nggak kutahu dan hafal. Lagipula, sebagai anak Bahasa Inggris tentu aku punya tuntutan (sekaligus beban) moral buat ngasi terjemahan yang bener, tuntutannya yang lebih gede daripada anak jurusan lain tapi pinter bahasa Inggris. Kalau salah, kurang tepat, terdengar aneh, toh pasti pada protes kan??
Jadi please, tolong, kumohoooon, jangan jadikan aku kamus berjalan andalan kalau kalian lagi mendadak butuh tapi males nerjemahin (ya keleus bagian yang kalimat sederhana "Saya berpikir bahwa...." atau "Saya suka memasak" dan kalimat sederhana lainnya harus banget saya terjemahin? Nggak tahu atau pada nggak mau tahu sih??), atau kalau kepepet pas ujian langsung ngirim soal nyuruh njawabin, atau kalau mau sok-sokan ngirim chat bahasa Inggris ke gebetan, dan aneka alesan njengkelin lainnya. Please don't do that to me again! I'm pissed off. Really. Njengkelin tau...
Beda dengan yang memang niat belajar. Dari bahasa aja udah beda, jelas lebih sopan dan enak didengar.
"Mbak bahasa Inggrisnya ...... apa ya?"
"Kalau dirangkai jadi kalimat bener begini nggak, mbak?"
"Mbak tolong koreksikan kalimat saya ini bener nggak ya?" (asal nggak dadakan minta dikoreksikan berlembar-lembar hasil google translate deh)
Aku bakal lebih respect dong pastinya, apalagi kalau: "Mbak, translate di mbak per halamannya berapa ya? Aku mau minta tolong nerjemahin nih..." (eaaaa...hahaha, rejeki nih susah nolaknya).
Intinya sih, cobalah sedikit respect sama ilmu dan waktu orang lain. Ini nggak cuma berlaku buat anak bahasa Inggris aja lhoh. Pun berlaku pada temanmu yang bisa desain, bisa ngomik, bisa ini, bisa itu. Minta tolong boleh, but please respect and have a heart! Thanks.
Sabtu, 21 Januari 2017
IMPIAN
DREAMS
Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967
Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Senin, 31 Oktober 2016
DEL: Mudah Menghafal Irregular Verbs ala Dwis English
Hallo semua! Apa kabar skill bahasa Inggrisnya... eaaaa...
Dari anak SD sampe yang udah kerja atau berkeluarga pun tetap harus di-upgrade terus ya skill Bahasa Inggrisnya.
Nah, pernah nggak sih ngalamin kalau ketemu sama irregular verbs, rasanya udah susah duluan mau ngafalin gegara ngeliat list-nya yang banyaaaak banget itu. Biar nggak takut susah duluan dan insyaAllah bisa lebih gampang ngafalinnya, Miss Dwis dapat ide nih cara paling easy nih.
Ini dia kupersembahkan tips n tricks
MENGHAFAL IRREGULAR VERBS
untuk kalian semuaaa <3
Nah contohnya di bawah ini nih.
Miss Dwis bikin desain sederhana biar bisa diprint jadi cards atau mini notebook gitu.
Simple dan bisa dibawa ke mana-mana deh, kita bisa ngapain aja sambil ngafalin.
Versimu gimana? Share dong ke kita-kita...
Nah gimana? Udah dicoba? Berhasil nggak?
Ditunggu deh sharing pengalamannya di kolom komentar.
Selasa, 11 Oktober 2016
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