Monday, June 2, 2014
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Bali Journal



On 3 April 2014, My school held a cultural trip called "Turbud". The trip's goal is to study the culture of Bali and for the whole #32015 to be one. Me, My friends and My school to went to Bali and I'm very happy because it was the first time that I went there with my friends. The journey to Bali takes nearly 36 hours. 


We went to Bali by Train that called Turangga. We arrived at Gubeng Station in Surabaya at 8 AM. After arrived at Gubeng Station, We continued our trip with a bus. At 8 PM, we crossed to Gilimanuk by ferry. After that, we continued our trip to Nirmala Hotel Denpasar. At 12 AM we arrived. It was so exhausting but it was fun.


On the first day, we went to Tanjung Benoa. There we can play water sports. I had pictures there with my friends too. I played banana boat, flying fish, and many more. I want to try out the paraglyding but it was too late

We had lunch there too. After we finish play watersports, we went to Pudjamandala. It was a place that we can see 5 majority religions in Indonesia. After that, we went to GWK. It is statue complex that called Garuda Wisnu Kencana if all the statues is done, it will be the highest statue in the world, so we can see them from the Airport, Kuta, and Denpasar City. But unfortunately the funding to the project is stopping, they say. The GWK project is have been long suspended because the 1998 financial crisis. But now, in some places there, the project continued again. After seeing the statue and taking pictures, we play a game about finding all clues and guessing what is that. Our class XI IPA 4 won and we got prize money. After that, we watched a traditional dance from Bali. The stomach is crouchin we headed to Jimbaran Bay to eat dinner.The dinner was amazing because it has a beautiful view of the ocean. There also some performance from our friends.

In The second day, we went to Penglipuran Cultural Village. There we can see the ancient and traditional Bali Village. After that, we went to Kintamani. The breeze and the food makes it very exciting and the journey there is amazing. After finishing, we went to Sukawati. Then, We headed back to the hotel for the night event called 'Makrab'. It's actually the . We had some performance from our friends and its very exciting and emotional.


The last day, we went to Pandawa Beach. In the way there, we had an accident. Our bus crashed a motorbike. So, we join with the other bus to get there. Pandawa Beach is a new beach that previously blocked by hills. There we had tug of war game, athena soccer beach edition. Again, we win the tug of and get prize money. After that, we headed to Krisna shop. I bought some milk pie that is very popular from bali. Some of my friends including me went to Kuta Beach. We must ride a elf car to there because bus wasn't permitted to go there. Then we go to beachwalk, hard rock cafe and the Mc Donalds there is very delicious i feel like want to eat again and again. I think its becaus at Bali. After that, we directly go to I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport. We depart with AirAsia plane A320-200 at 5.30 PM. It was hell of journey and for the record its awesome. THANK YOU #32015!
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
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Questions "About Me" post

My name is Ferdi Endinanda. I was born in Pekanbaru, 10th March 1997. I'm the fourth child. I live in Bandung with my mother. My father works at Jakarta.

I graduated from kindergarten named Cendana Rumbai, SD Cendana Rumbai, SMP Cendana Pekanbaru. And now, I’m a student of SMAN 3 Bandung. First time, I thought I would be very busy with homework here and just study study study. And... it’s true, but I’m also busy with extracurricular and organization. And also there's a lot of fun here, because my friends dont just study too hahaha. SMAN 3 Bandung have a lot of extracurricular, and I decide to join Association of Nature Explorers Jamadagni and KOMISI 3. I found a lot of fun there, joining extracurricular is like refreshing. In those organization i feel like having another home.


I focus more on Jamadagni, because there i got a lot of things like learn to be responsible, appreciate friends more, having good mental and many more. I admit that in Jamadagni i got a lot of things. 
I was just recently from Mount Semeru on an expedition about the trash that is on the mountain, especially the campsite. You can see more on our website. Click Here.







My hobby besides hiking is playing billiard, hangout with my friends, or just sleep along day.

Now, I would like to tell you about my family. My father worked at Jakarta as a oil engineer consultant. His name is Ir. Fuaadi Ibrahim. My mother was a chemist after her college but after she had children, she became a housewife. Her name is Dra. Ernani Burhanudin. My brother, Pinto Fernanda and my first sister, Renokanti Riananda already worked at Jakarta. My second sister, Lasti Erfinanda is still in medicine school at Germany.

Last, about my weakness, I'm a very very lazy person. I'd rather play with my friends than studying, but study is important so i still study to fix my score in school. My strenght is friendly, organized, a good listener, and hardworker.

 
Question

1. When Ferdi Endinanda was born? 
A. 11th march 1996
B. 10th march 1997
C. 11th march 1997
D. 24th may 1998
E. 2nd june 1995

2. Where Ferdi Endinanda was born?
A. Bandung
B. Palembang
C. Pekanbaru
D. Balikpapan
E. Bali

3. Where does Ferdi live? 
A. Bandung
B. Palembang
C. Pekanbaru
D. Sotobali
E. Balik Papan


4. Ferdi is student of.....
A. SMA BPI Bandung
B. SMAN 3 Bandung
C. SMAK Dago
D. SMAN 1 Bandung
E. SMA Taruna Bakti

5. What Ferdi's Father job? 
A. An Engineer
B. A Police
C. A Rockstar
D. A Doctor
E. An Artist

6. What's Ferdi's hobby?
A. Playing football
B. Watching TV
C. Playing playstation
D. Laughing
E. Playing with friends

7. What is Ferdi's extracurriculars ?
A. BM and NK
B. Jamadagni and KOMISI
C. NK and TsT
D. SPeD and KANST
E. SSR and MK

8. Did Ferdi love his the extracurriculars?
A. He really love It
B. He dont like it
C. The extracurriculars is boring
D. Its just for a title
E. Its for a grade


9. What an organization Ferdi's join except the extracurriculars?
A. Motorcycle gank
B. Natural Explorer Organization
C. Family of the Mosque
D. Mafia
E. Drugs cartel

10. How is Ferdi's expectation first time at school?
A. Would've been very busy with homework
B. Would've been very easy
C. Would've been bored all time
D. Would've been lots of competition
E. Would've been very hard till drop

Monday, April 21, 2014
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Inpirational Story

MY STORY

I grew up in Harlem, which was an unlikely place to find a private Black tennis club. In 1940 at the age of ten, while walking past the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club at 149th street and Convent Avenue, a voice in the doorway said, "Hey kid, want to run balls for this match?". My answer was an immediate "Yes", for I had always wanted to see what was on the other side of that fence. It so happens that the American Tennis Association (ATA) was conducting their annual National Championships at the club. Once inside, it was like Alice In Wonderland to me. They had a club house, five red clay courts and a junior program. That's the day I fell in love with the world of tennis, which as I would later find out guided my life.As I ran around the court picking up the balls, I noticed that the players would shake hands at the end of the match, even though they had been fierce competitors a moment before. I understood later that good competition and sportsmanship was not just about who won and who lost, but also had to do with the quality and determination of how each played the game. Did they give it their all and play near their full potential? Were their calls honest, even on important points? Did they learn something about themselves, as well as, their game? This would be only the first of many lessons tennis, and it’s environment would teach me. Finding the answers to these questions would be an invaluable lesson in the years to come.My eagerness and desire to learn the game eventually earned me a membership in the club. As I got to know the members, many of whom I considered the Black middle-class of the day, and listened in on their conversations, their words and stories, indicated that there were no short cuts to success, either in tennis or in life. They talked of the importance of getting a good education if you wanted a job with a career. They said that tennis was a game for honest people because you had to continually execute the basic techniques of the game, such as watching the ball on contact, or making sure you completed your follow-through on your ground strokes. Respect for those who came before you also was essential, they said, because they had both seniority and experience over you. I over-heard them say that discipline came from hard work and diligence, and that with each act you perform you are putting your own signature on it. As I look back now, I realize that a blueprint for living was beginning to take shape in my mind.As my game improved I became aware that tennis was not only a game of sets and matches, but in reality a game of points, with each point having it's own scenario and meaning. Although speed and strength may have its own merits, competitive tennis is at least 50% mental. Fortunately, for me many of my matches were to be won on my ability to concentrate for the entire time it took for the match. A fire-cracker could go off next to the courts and it wouldn't bother me. But my biggest mental weapon however, was my determination to win. Being down a set just made me more determined to hang in. Later on I would find this attitude indispensable in the world of business for too many people limit their challenges instead of challenging their limits .As a result of my accomplishments in tennis I got a scholarship to Tennessee State University, where I had to manage the dual roles of athlete and student. Remembering the sage words of getting a good education in order to get a meaningful job, I managed to graduate with a 3.5 average, and in 1955 get selected to "Who's Who In American Colleges and Universities". The experience of traveling, both for the team and on my own after graduation, gave me a special kind of enrichment.Fortunately, tennis took me all over the world. From the ATA Championships in Wilberforce, Ohio where I was fortunate to win it’s Championships a grand total of 11 times, to the US Grass Court Championships at Forest Hills, the All Bermuda Tournament, Wimbledon, the British Hard Court Championships in England, the German Nationals in Wolfsberg Germany where incidentally they make the Volkswagon car. Tennis became my love and passion, and opened up the whole world to me. There's no experience like seeing different lands and meeting people of diverse backgrounds and cultures. Tennis taught me never to change a winning game, and experiencing people of diverse backgrounds taught me what a great value there is in respecting each other's differences. After all, where would the world be if we all thought or acted alike?The long arms of tennis once again caressed me when a tennis contact of mine arranged a job interview for me with IBM. I would stay with them for the next 27 years as a systems engineer and education producer. After an early retirement from IBM, I was fortunate enough to be appointed an Assistant Commissioner in the NYC Parks Department during the Dinkins administration. As you can see so many of the lessons and contacts that I received from tennis transcended into the world of business. The matches I won because I refused to give up, or the patience to focus for an entire match had all prepared me for this other competitive world. Patricia, my beautiful and loving wife, who I had met earlier in my tennis days at a tournament in New Haven, but didn’t meet again for some 30 plus years, was another wonderful blessing of tennis. That's why I feel so strongly that the many experiences, lessons, and contacts we encounter in sports can go a long way in filling out that blueprint called life. It goes to show you that experience is not necessarily what happens to a person, but what they do with what happens to them.
Monday, February 24, 2014
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Movie Review - John Carter

John Carter (2012) Poster 

Edgar Rice Burroughs, who is the nephew of the rebel widower veteran of the Civil War and gold hunter John Carter, has to attend the funeral of his uncle after his sudden death. He receives from John Carter's attorney his diary and weird instructions to be followed, and Edgar immediately starts reading the journal. In 1868, the Colonel Powell tries to force John Carter to join the army to fight against the Apache and arrests him. However, John Carter escapes and Powell chases him. They are attacked by the Apache and they hide in a cave. They are surprised by a Thern and John Carter kills him, and the alien's medallion transports John Carter to Mars. John has the ability to jump high and has his strength increased due to the gravity of Mars. However, he is captured by the Tharks and becomes their prisoner. He learns that Mars, called Barsoon, has been at war for thousands of years between the Helium and Zodanga, and this war is destructing the planet. The evil leader of Zodanga, Sab Than, has received a powerful weapon from the Thern Matai Shang. However, Sab Than proposes peace if he marries the Helium Princess Dejah Thoris. However, John Carter and Dejah Thoris fall in love with each other, and he decides to help the Helium people against the Zodanga people. But Matai Shang sends John Carter back to Earth and his last chance to return to Mars depends on his dear nephew's attitude. 



Cast overview, first billed only:
Taylor Kitsch ...
Lynn Collins ...
Samantha Morton ...
Willem Dafoe ...
Thomas Haden Church ...
Mark Strong ...
Ciarán Hinds ...
Tardos Mors (as Ciaran Hinds)
Dominic West ...
James Purefoy ...
Bryan Cranston ...
Polly Walker ...
Daryl Sabara ...
Arkie Reece ...
Stayman #1 / Helm
Davood Ghadami ...
Stayman #3
Pippa Nixon ...
Lightmaster




























































Sunday, January 26, 2014
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THE DREAM (drama)



Cast of Characters

FARHAN ICHSAN – lost person with only an address and no memory of anything else

GEMA AKBAR – a person to be feared who is the only one who can guide FARHAN

FEBBRY ANDIKA – a friendly and concerned person who befriends FARHAN

ELLANIA R. – an angry individual who is annoyed easily

FERDI ENDINANDA – quick to get into other people’s business

FADHILA DEWI – complains about everything and everyone

DINDA RISZA – an overly friendly person who is upset by harsh words

INSANI RAMADHAN – willing to cast a dark shadow on any situation



Scene 1

(Farhan is suddenly awake, he’s afraid, he run to knock Gemma’s bed, he’s lost. He don’t know any way to home)

GEMA:Who's that? What's with knocking my bed?

ELLA:Quiet!

GEMA:You quiet yourself.

FARHAN:I'm sorry. Please go back to sleep.

GEMA:Don't you start telling me what to do. You done plenty already.

FARHAN: It was an accident.

ELLA:Will you shut up?!

FERDI: Who's yelling?

FADHILA: Hey, man. Go to sleep. There's other people around here you know.

GEMA:Yeah, I know. So shut your trap.

FARHAN: Please, all of you, go back to sleep.

FEBBRY: Who's the fancy talker? I bet he wears a tie?

GEMA: I don't see none on him. He lucky. I would a used it to strangle him.

FARHAN: I'm sorry. I just need a place to sleep.

GEMA: There ain't none here.

FEBBRY: You got two blankets. Why don't you give him one?

GEMA: What with you? You take a liking to him?

FEBBRY: Well, he ain't got no tie.

GEMA: And I ain't got no blanket. So go somewhere else.

FARHAN: I'll go. It's okay.

DINDA: You can always sleep in this blanket, I got two blankets anyway.

INSANI: What're you talking about? You always feel cold. You're the one who needs two blankets.

DINDA: Careful what you say, I might cry.

FADHILA: Oh, man. Last time she cry, she wouldn't shut up all night.

FARHAN: Everyone, please. I didn't mean to cause so much trouble.

GEMA: You too late. You already did. Now, you have to pay.

DINDA: (Almost a whisper) Be gentle with him.

GEMA: Shut up, woman!

ELLA: Why don't you?! I'm tryin' to sleep here.
(Silence. GEMA crosses to ELLA's ad he point at him) What do you want?!

GEMA: No one mouths off at me.

ELLA: Too late, I already did. (In a quick motion, GEMA tips the blanket, kicks ELLA, and pins him to the floor with his foot. FARHAN tries to escape during this but is caught by FERDI and FADHILA. FERDI and FADHILA push FARHAN roughly into a sitting position on a blanket. Once again everything is still again)
GEMA: What you say to me, girl?

ELLA: Nothing, nothing at all.

GEMA: And what you say to me later?

ELLA: Nothing.

FERDI: (Holding FARHAN) We got this one.

FADHILA: What you gonna do with him?

GEMA: (Crosses to FARHAN, grabs his face roughly and makes FARHAN look up at him) Does I scare you?

FARHAN: (Softly) Yes.

GEMA: (Smiles, still holding him, looking into his eyes) It's that look I love. I loves it more than women. And you's got it. (He roughly releases FARHAN. Others leave him alone and go to the corners to converse. GEMA sits on his blanket. FEBBRY goes to FARHAN)

FEBBRY: Hi, there.

FARHAN: Hi.

FEBBRY: My name's Febbry. (Holds out hand. They shake)

FARHAN: Farhan.

FEBBRY: I think Gema is very nice person.

FARHAN: I think you're wrong.

FEBBRY: He's not as bad as he looks. He's really a pussy cat deep down.

FARHAN: Yeah, with long claws, long teeth, and rabies.

FEBBRY: Oh, you’re funny. We can be friends.

FARHAN: Where am I?

INSANI(Joins them): You're down, man. You're at the end of existence.

FEBBRY: He exaggerates.

INSANI: You eg-za-der-dates if you's saying otherwise.

FARHAN: I was told to come here. At least, I think so. (Takes out paper) Here's the address. (FEBBRY is silent when he sees paper)

INSANI: That's bad man. Real bad.

FARHAN: What?

INSANI: That place.

FARHAN: Then this isn't it?

INSANI: This place is far from it, man. This is Disneyland to that.

FARHAN: Maybe I shouldn't go.

FEBBRY: You have to.

FARHAN: Who will take me there, then?

FEBBRY: Gema can take you.

FARHAN: Gema? Why him?

INSANI: That's a bad place. Only Gema goes there. (To FEBBRY) They say he's from that neighborhood.

FEBBRY: If that's possible.

FARHAN: Can it be that bad?

INSANI: Where you comin' from, man? Don't you know nothin' about this neighborhood?

FARHAN: This is all new to me.

INSANI: It better be unnew and fast or you's gonna lose yourself here.

FEBBRY: That place where you're going...

FARHAN: Yeah?

FEBBRY: It's dangerous... cops don't even go there.

INSANI: And when Gema goes, he don't bring no one back.

FEBBRY: You didn't have to tell him that.

INSANI: It's the truth, isn’t it?

FARHAN: I'm free, aren't I? I just won't go. I'll stay here. That's easy enough.

INSAN: You forget. Gema won't let you. You're stuck.

FARHAN: Damned if I do, damned if I don't.

INSANI: Hey, he catches on quick.

FEBBRY: Not quick enough I'm afraid.

FARHAN: Won't Gema help me through?

INSANI: Gema? Help? Those words don't go, man. Gema would sooner see you hurt than helped. That's his way.

FARHAN: I may as well go alone then.

FEBBRY: Gema would go anyway. It’s his job. You may as well go with him.

INSANI: You stick with Gema in that neighborhood, man. You'll be glad you did. With them the way they are there, he'll be your best friend.

FARHAN: I don't understand any of this. What is this stupid address? I don't want to go, but what else can I do? There's nothing behind me. There's nothing here. The only thing I have is this address.

INSANI: Keep what you got. It could be worse… but not much. (Moment of silence. GEMA gets up and puts on a jacket. GEMA crosses over to them. INSANI sees him and crosses away. FARHAN and FEBBRY notice GEMA when INSANI leaves)

GEMA (To FARHAN): You coming?

FEBBRY: You'd better go.

GEMA: Show me your paper.

FARHAN: Paper?

GEMA: (Louder and sharper) The address!

(FARHAN quickly gives it to him)

GEMA: (Laughs darkly) Bad place. What's a fancy talking little wuss like you doing in a neighborhood like this?

FARHAN: Someone gave me the address. I don't remember them saying anything else.

GEMA: Probably better that way.

FARHAN: What is this place anyway?

GEMA: That depends on you.

FARHAN: What is that supposed to mean?

GEMA: (Laughs) You see. What that they say. "Patience is a..." What's that word?

FARHAN: "Virtue."

GEMA: Yeah. You got to get yourself some of that.

FARHAN: I thought I had plenty before this.

GEMA: You find you got a lot less after. It’s time

FEBBRY: (Goes up to FARHAN) Keep safe.

GEMA: I ain't got the time!

FEBBRY: You'd better go.

FARHAN: Good-bye. Perhaps I'll be back this way again. (FEBBRY smiles sadly)

GEMA: You comin'? (FARHAN follows GEMMA,  FEBBRY watches sadly. INSANI glances reluctantly, but turns away. Lights fade to black)

(Finally GEMA leads Farhan to his home and Gema disappear right away. Farhan watches himself sleep on the bed, he stares quizically then sleep upon his body)

FARHAN: (wakes up with sweat and breathes pantingly) Oh! Thank God it was just a dream.