MOSQUE

Mosque
is
where you are in more than just a dome;
where believers feel at home;
where people learn God's eternity;
where the crowd search for tranquility;
where we, the sinners, seek repentance;
where we, the desperate, find back the Guidance.

©DwisRiyuka 20171108

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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_

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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_

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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_

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GROW through Life!

GROW through life. Don't just GO through life. -unknown-

Nature teaches.

It shows us how plants grow where ever they are planted to teach us 'grow' anywhere we are placed.

It shows us how sky and earth meets in mountain view we see from distance turning to be something gorgeous to teach us about diversity and unity all at once.

It shows how rain happens through cycle process, how rice take a long journey to arrive at your plate, and how our warm blanket made from flocks of far away sheep to teach us nothing is got in an eye blink, woops​ 💨 instantly right in front of us by saying avecadevra, no!

Grow, People, grow! Grow as you are banyan tree for others to shelter. Grow as you are coconut tree that every part of you is useful for other. Grow as mangrove that you protect others from danger. Grow, People, grow to be better!

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#englishcaption_nature #englishcaptionchallenge with
@oz_ahmad
@mayla_aspiya
@irkhammaulana1
@lianailyy

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FLY!

When you have shoes to walk through this far,
why not finding wings to go any farther?
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Any way you can do everything under your own steam,
still you need somebody else to reach your dream.
No matter how you can stand on your own two feet,
still you need somebody else to do something beyond your limit.
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Something that seems easy
but it's not.
Something that you really wish for
but somehow you're too confused to work it out.
Something that you actually can do well
but with partner, you can do it better.
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COLLABORATION & TEAMWORK are now the two magic words.
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#selfreminder | DR 20170810

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Ode to God

I see the crowd
adore You, My Lord
For the sun stays golden
For it sets in West behind the mountain
For it becomes Your summon

Soon after Your sky turns dark-blue
They get ready to meet You
Tranquilly
Peacefully

Millions prayers evaporate in the air
Fly high beyond Your sky
When the time comes on
Even on someday they won't know
You rain their granted wish down
as falling snow
Some are fast, some are slow.
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#DR20170724
📷 Filter: Lo-Fi 50`
📌 Loc: Candi Ijo, Yogyakarta

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SUNSET & THE FLYING KITES

Staring at sunset makes me tranquil and gives me time to contemplate. This moment is such a reminder that everything has an end, that our bright life might end with the darkness of mortality, that everyone will face death and we'll be 'the departed' surely. Isn't it so beautiful, the way God gives us a sunset to end our days? Yet, I ask myself: "Will someday I have a beautiful end like this?" An end which let me close my eyes in peace and smile with no worries.

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And watching those kites floating in the sky makes me recall what Forrest says. "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidentally on a breeze. But I think, maybe it's both. Maybe both happens at the same time." — Forrest Gump (1994)

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📌 Loc: Alun-Alun Kidul

            

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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...

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SWEET TALK

Sweeet Talk; in frame: Sintha and me

We do admit that we are completely

tiny creatures in a big big world, don't we?

That this huge man-made craft we sit on

is just a little bigger than us

and a lot smaller than the cosmos;

That we are only two of millions people

willing to have some struggle

trying to survive in this urban jungle;

That we are just vacillating dust

unseen unknown unnoticed dirt in the air

somehow polluting in toto the atmosphere;

That, yes, we belong to those living things

who suck all creature-comforts dry

exhausting the old Earth in agonised cry;

That it's only by the Almighty's mercy

we can still relish this kinda joviality

of tasting nature's charm and beauty

before we are inevitably parted by mortality.

So, convince me, dearie!

We both undeniably agree, don't we?!

©DwisRiyuka | 20170122

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IMPIAN

DREAMS
Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967

Hold fast to dreams
For 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.

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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.

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DEL: Kosakata Cuaca (Weather Vocabulary)

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DEL: Tak Tahan Lelahnya Belajar?

Jika kau tak tahan LELAHNYA BELAJAR,

kau kan tanggung PEDIHNYA KEBODOHAN.

~Imam Syafi'i

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Happy Ied Adha 1436H

#DwisEnglishLearning mengucapkan
Selamat Hari Raya Idul Adha 1436H

Semoga menjadi haji/hajjah mabrur bagi yang menunaikan.
Semoga diterima amalan puasa Dzulhijjah & puasa Arafah yang telah dilaksanakan.
Semoga barokah apa yang telah diqurbankan.
Segala semoga untuk kita semua.

Mari melaksanakan sunnah Rasulullah SAW untuk tidak makan/minum sebelum shalat Idul Adha.

#dwisriyuka #iduladha #iedadha #qurban #englishcourse #translation #translator #kursus  #les #bahasainggris

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WOLF IN SHEEP CLOTHING

SERIGALA BERBULU DOMBA
#dwisriyuka #dwisenglish
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#Repost @idiom.land
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"Wolf in sheep's clothing" is a dangerous person pretending to be harmless.

Example: Dan was a wolf in sheep's clothing, pretending to help but all the while spying for our competitors.

Origin: The meaning of this idiom relies on the idea that a sheep is a docile sweet creature, whereas a wolf is a sly, vicious animal who likes to attack and eat vulnerable animals such as sheep or lambs (their young). This idiom has been used for thousands of years, perhaps since the 5th or 6th Century BC, when Aesop wrote his fable entitled Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing. The fable told the story of a wolf who disguised himself in a sheep skin in order to trick the shepherd and remain in the sheep pasture until darkness, when he planned to feast on the other sheep in the field. The symbolism of a wolf pretending to be a sheep also appears in the Bible in the book of Matthew. It is written “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening (hungry) wolves”. #idiom #idioms #slang #saying #sayings #phrase #phrases #expression #expressions #english #englishlanguage #learnenglish #studyenglish #language #vocabulary #efl #esl #tesl #tefl #toefl #ielts #toeic #wolf

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HEAVEN KNOWS

How unpredictable!

A person

can be so lily-white as an angel,

yet can turn cruel like a true evil,

can be good, can be bad,

feels amused then confused,

gone sad after glad.

A person, like a butterfly, too

metamorphoses into something,

for better or worse surely turning.

Heaven knows the ending.

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Yang MENYENTUH Hati

Bentakan akan terlupakan,

kelemah-lembutan justru menelusuk ke hati terdalam.

Panjang kata dan omelan takkan dihiraukan,

makna mendalam di sepenggal kalimat singkat justru akan selalu diingat.

‪#AyoTerusBelajar‬

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Other Ways to Say GOODNIGHT

Other ways to say GOOD NIGHT
1. Nighty night
2. Nite-nite
3. I'll see you in dreamland
4. Sweet dreams
5. Dream of me
6. See you in my dreams
7. Sleep tight
8. Sleep well
9. Have a nice dreams
10. Have a sea dreams
11. Don't let the bed bugs bite
12. Sleep with angels

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Jokjekadah (1)

Jokjekadah...
It will be the city I can hardly forget
'coz here I've spent a lot days, good and bad.
Where guilt-free promises were spoken,
Also where the oaths taken were instead broken.

Jokjekadah...
This yarn is surely long
but it will fade away before long.
Recalling the bond which ain't last long,
I know now how blue saying "So long!"

Jokjekadah, istimewaa...

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