Quite a course!

I was glad that I read some of the required reading materials for today's course. I found this unit course interesting as well as very useful. I wrote down on my profile sheet that I would like at the end to be able to create a good worth implementing curriculum. I did mean it.

My lecturer was very kind and clever. He was good at explaining the lecture and patient enough to listen to students' views and comments. He didn't claim students wrong instead encouraged them to freely express their thoughts. I noticed that my lecturer was well prepared and much better from my previous ones, yet this was still the first meeting and probably it was too early to judge.

Overall, during the class, I was happy and could follow the flow well.

till next time

Wanna be the biggest loser?

What an interesting title when I saw the tv ad 'big loser.' I firstly wondered what that would mean? Had people already lost their mind of competing to be losers than winners instead? What on earth did it mean?

Finally, I watched the series and felt more to sympathetic than confused. Good for them who keenly tried to be the biggest losers, 'go on' I whispered almost to myself.

There were some couples of very fat people competed to lose fat or more appropriately to gain ideal weight. They did sacrificed many things from time, hobbies, habits, appetites, and so many other things I might couldn't imagine at the moment.

Congratulation for those who finally or could I say half the program, had lost up to 42 kg of their fat. (:

So, do you wanna be a big loser???

First day of first lecture

It's not exactly what I expected before attending the lecture, but to be honest it was awful and I was a bit lost during the lecture. I already read one very important article for today's lecture, the lecture slides and some hints from the unit guide, but from what I understood, it was a confusing lecture. I sometimes lost listening to the speakers' accent and words, most probably because they spoke real fast with some very often new vocabularies.

I could hardly understand the talk' ideas of the three workshop speakers, and I couldn't judge whether other students experienced the same as me, I kept silent. After an hour workshop, we proceeded to the lecturing room and were divided into three groups with different particular lecturers. It was obvious that the three group lectures were all about research, yet with their own very specific study. In my case, I chose the reading, interpreting and communicating research instead either t the qualitative or quantitative ones.

Time went so fast and the first confusing lecture finished earlier thirty minutes from the allocated time. It was quite benefited me because I could rush home for dinner and avoided getting home dark. Luckily, this autumn the sun really set around nine pm. The class dismissed after my lecturer, Mrs. Mary Lou gave tasks to do for the following meeting.

Though my first day lecture was not at all amazing but confusing, I could say it was because it was the starting point for more confusing lectures to come. So, I better keep myself aware and be ready for the coming lectures. I still remember filling the form my lecturer gave the class with a commitment to study more diligently and read a lot. I'd like to commit on doing that, I do hope and will really try.

aku mulai menyukainya

Hari ini adalah hari yang sama untuk pelajaran yang sama tapi hari ini aku menemukan sesuatu yang baru. Hari ini dia lebih memperhatikan aku. Dia menghampiri aku dan berbicara padaku. Dia membuat aku lebih yakin akan apa yang sudah kuketahui dan yang harus aku ketahui lagi. Ternyata dia sangat baik.

Setelah waktunya pulang, satu persatu kami mulai meninggalkan kelas, dan dia melambaikan tangannya padaku. Aku tau ada yang berubah dari dirinya atau apakah itu hanya perasaanku saja?
Tapi dia memang melambaikan tangannya padaku. Jadi aku tau itu adalah pertanda baik. Akupun lambaikan tanganku dan tersentum manis padanya.

Aku tau, aku mulai menyukainya. Semoga aku semakin menyukainya sehingga minggu-minggu depan, pada hari yang sama, waktu yang sama, aku menjadi lebih semangat untuk belajar.

Semoga!

Breaking Dawn

I finished reading 'Breaking Down', the 754 pages of Stephenie Meyer bestselling novel of Twilight yesterday morning. I couldn't believe I just did it since the first time I saw the very thick book I felt a great refusal inside me. It took me quite sometime to get back to it for I hardly like thick book. Yet, once I understood the chain of the stories, I couldn't help myself for a desire to keep reading and reading it. Luckily I could manage to sleep at night, I used to keep awake to finish reading a novel when it was just my taste. It took me three days, however, to completely finish the reading since I must also do some other stuff apart from reading it.

The novel was amazingly interesting, to stand at a point of self satisfaction and not to relate it to any logics or beliefs. It's amusing since Stephenie really gave what readers exactly wanted, some swift thoughts that sometimes startled readers but finally gave even more than what readers expected at the first place. A really nicely arranged thought for a happy ending story. Looking back to the characters in the story, I found they're quite related to modern society in the current era. Some sort of thought came to my mind while reading the novel for I also calculated what might appear just afterwards. A bundle of astonishment came up, smile turned up, and my eyes widely opened for my great interest in the way the characters piled up relationships among different families' backgrounds.

Finally, I could fee that peace was above all. Only holy tender hearts could raise the peace in the middle of the terrified horror of war and doom. I loved the characters of peace lovers and praised them for their strong commitment in defending their pure loveable intention in any circumstances. That's really a great point I found, at the moment, that amuzed me since I firtsly devoted my time for reading the four series of Stephenie's novel; twilight, new moon, eclipse, and breaking down. What an achievement. Well done!

Just a day!

Once I was wandering in the busy noisy town nearest to my resicendency looking for nothing and aftering for none. My feet led me the way through to passing some elderly people who were amazingly appeared so strong in their eighties or nineties. Tidily dressed, they walked and chatted along with their mates seemingly so overwhelming in their hissy conversation to my ears. I smiled and so happy for them that they were enjoying their oldhood. Very rarely could I see this simialr view in my country of origin.

I passed the view hesitantly towards the corner of the town where the local public library situated. I observed the small park in front of the library and noticed some kids playing joyfully under their parents' obvious protection. I recalled a memory when I was a kid and found none like what I saw. A little disappointed but it's useless to do.

Carefully I returned my loaned books and thoughtfully I chose some novels of my interest from the shelves to spend with in my long coming days. That'd be great to spend sometime in the library but couldn't resist my longing to walk more the town, a bit of exploration taste. Hurriedly I brought myself out of the room and hinted to the north. That was a new road for me that day. I should walk farther that day so that I felt at least exploring something.

So glad that my day was a lot different from the day before. I met some nice smiling faces and sweet mumbling baby faces. After all, that was just a day!

Dainang

Da nunga lobi opat bulan au borhat manadinghon huta ni dainang, huta hatubuan jala huta ingananhu magodang. Ai tung masihol situtu do rohangku sai ingkon mulak tu huta maraehon hatubuan ni Jesus jala taon naumbaru 2010. Alai marboa bahenon ma, ai apala ingkon songonon ma haroa i taon on. Sai gomos pe au martangiang ale inang na burju asa horas jala sehat situtu hamu di huta suang songoni da amang dohot sude angka ibotokku, angkangku nang anggikku.

Molo taringot tu pangalaho, ai molo au da na anak na burju benna molo huingot najolo ai apala na jugul si tutu do au jala maol disuru karejo dijabu. Sai holan na modom do au molo nunga songon na adong karejo na lao siulaon. Alai di nahajugulonhi huboto do dang hurang saotikpe holong ni da inang tu au. Dang hea apala huboto na au pe holong hian do marinang molo so marsahit da inang piga-piga taon na salpu. Ai disima huboto ai aha pe ingkon baenonku asalma sonang da inanghi. Sahali, di na marsahit da inang, tangkas dope huingot, sada pangidoan ni dainang asa unang be arop rohangku ingkon marsikkola tu luat na dao. Hupapos do raha ni dainang jala marjanji do au dang lao be au manang arop be rohangku ingkon marsikkola tu nadao. Molo huingot hatangki saonari, ai olo do mengkel au alani saonari au nunga be di luat na dao.

O alogo ombushon majo sihol ni rohakkon tu dainang, amang, dohot sude keluarga di huta. Sai tung paboa ma ai na masihol si tutu do rohangku alai marboa bahenon ma ai ingkon marsingkola majo au saonari jala dao sian nasida. Sai adong do tingkina ingkon pajumpang muse jala dibagasan las ni roha. Sai Tuhani ma tongtong na mangaramoti sude hita manang di dia pe.