Showing posts with label english. Show all posts
Showing posts with label english. Show all posts

Go away big T
go away.... (go away!)

Go away big T
go away.... (go away!)

Go away big T, go away big T


Go away big T
go away.... (go away!)

*in a stress condition, let say, this is my coping :p
Assalamu'alaikum, everyone...

Today I will writing in English.

Why are you using English, Puti?

It because, today I didn't go to EF because of rain, huhu.

Let's start. Bisamillahirrahmanirrahim.

Same as the tittle, I will write about my friends at EF. It because this week we still learn about how to describe person.

First, I will introduce my teacher, Ms.Christine.
Ms. Christine comes from Switzerland. She is quite tall, but I think a little bit short than average people from Europe. She has a blonde hair, long blonde hair. Her eyes is brown. She has bracket in her teeth. I think she is a little overweight, ups sorry, Ms, but she still beautiful. Ms. Chris is funny person, because when she was teaching, she looks really enjoy and usually use an easy way to teach. I like Ms. Christine's teaching. I hope Ms. Christine will teach us in the next term.

Second, Dhisma.
Dhisma, the fashionable girl. I think she's around 18 years old. She is tall and has good figure (I mean proportional body). She is a model, it's a reason why she has a proportional body. Her eyes is black I think, I'm not really sure about that. Actually she is a ronin students, then she still try to go to public university. She is very organized when she talks. And she is also beautiful.

Third, Ay
Ay is second years student from UGM. She wears hijab. She's a little bit tall than me. She skinny, but has a fit body. Her eyes is black. She usually wear jeans and T'Shirt. She usually drives a motorcycle to go to EF from her university, but sometimes she drives a car.

Fourth. Wilma
She is 13 years old, the youngest in my class. She is a pianist, she has participated in some piano competition. She is a little overweight, but quite tall (it means she is taller than me :p). She has a curly hair. She is Chinese. And she still looks like a teenager.

Fifth, Julio
Julio is a men. He comes from Papua. He is a university student from Atmajaya. He's funny person. He quite tall and his figure is good. He has curly hair, but not really. His skin is tanned. He likes laughing.

I think is enough. But I still have another six friends. I too lazy to write now.

Oke. Enough for this article. May be I will continue later.
Bye-bye. Have a good night everbody :)




Sore tadi di kelas (EF) saat sesi menemukan seseorang dengan kategori tertentu

B : Would you like to visit Mars?
P : No

tiba-tiba dapet pertanyaan tambahan

B : Would you like to visit my heart?
P : " | *kena gombal sama abg, wkwkwk

*info: nih anak baru masuk dua hari, jadi emang belum tau kalo aye udah nikah ^^v
Hello...Hello, Assalamu'alaikum everybody.... How are you?

Oh, sorry because for today I using English. It because Friday is English day in my family, uyeeeh.

Long time no post, sorry again, because I must learn to adapt a new situation (again). Yes, now I'm living in Yogyakarta, in Maguwoharjo, near to Instiper. The weather is cool, maybe because of the wind from Merapi Mt. It's very different with Singapore, sure :D.

So, how's your life, Puti?

I already to be a student in EF (English First) now, an elementary 3 student, hahaha. Actually my placement test result is intermediate 1, but the teacher asked me about my confident when I speak in English. My answer is I always not really confident when I speak in English, so She placed me lower one level than the reality.And  I'm Elementary 3 Student now, :D.

As my prediction, I'm the oldest in that class. Do you know, the youngest in that class is 13 Y'O, and I'm 24 Y'O. Hahahaha.

But I'ts ok. I will enjoy it.

Oke, I think enough for today. I will make some update later. See you... Have a good day...

Wassalamu'alaikum.....
Dua hari ini lagi seneng dengerin TED talks. Selain karena mau membiasakan ngedengerin "kuliah" in English, ternyata isinya juga banyak yang inspiring. Nah, Sir Ken Robinson ini yang sedang membuat saya terkesima. Pakar edukasi dengan pandangan-pandangan yang menarik. Monggo disimak biar lebih jelas.



link asli ted talksnya di sini

dan ini juga yang kedua tentang creativity. Link asli di sini





This is my article about standardized testing. I'm still learning to write in English. Apologize if there's so many wrong grammar. If you would like to correct it, I really appreciate it. Thank you very much for your attention :). 

Every country has a standardized testing in their education curriculum. For instance, primary schools in Singapore have standardized testing that well known as PSLE (Primary School Leaving Examination). In America it is well known with NAEP (National Assessment of Individual Progress). Indonesia also has a standardized testing that well known as UN (Ujian Negara = National Examination). Why every country has standardized testing? Because is an easy way to test large number of students in a time. Also it is an easy way to get to know about ability for each student in main subject.
With the standardized testing, government will know about the quality of school from the result.  It because standardized test is designed to enable us to compare performance of students in relatively efficient way (Koretz, 2008). Is It effective way, right? But the other hand there’s a lot of disadvantages from standardized testing. First, it just measures the subject that people think is valuable to learn, like math, physic, etc. Of course there are good for students who have talents at that subject, but how about students who have art talent, sports talent, etc?
                Second, the original purpose from testing is to allow knowing about what you need to do differently or better.  So we can figure it out what they do well and what they don’t do well. Then we can push their doing something better. But now standardized testing is like a big problem for student even teacher. It is not only about you already pass the requirements or not, but it also relates with the pride and the self esteem if you can pass it or not (and this is happened in my country).
                Because of two disadvantages, our school view seems like fast food restaurant. School only focuses on the way for all of students can pass the standardized testing. Then what will happen? The students are forced to study some subjects, even their talents or passion not at there. Students must pass the standardized requirements, if they fail, they will not success in “competition”.
                While, necessary school facilitates the students to grow up their talents. It is like agricultural view according to Sir Ken Robinson. Then with testing, teacher or school will know they do well or not.  So that we just do some testing only for make a map to know what the best way to facilitate students.   
               


Creativity. Sometimes it's difficult for adult to show their creativity. I heard some conversation about this. For example in a conference, people must draw the person who is sit next to them. Guest, what will happen? Maybe all of people will embarrass by their drawing. But it's not happen when this task is do by children. At least until stupid adult make a bad judgment for them.

The main idea is we (adult) always scare with other's judgment when we want to speak about our idea. Whereas maybe our strange will be a great idea for others.

To solve this problem we know about one method was known as brainstorming. There are two rules for this. First is Don't Judge! That is don't say the idea good or bad. The other rule is go for quantity. That means is important to have many different ideas. For this way people will feel free to suggest any idea even it sounds strange.

So, let's try to be a creative person :)



In the some countries, less citizen leads government makes some policy to increase population. For example government gives some benefits if the citizen have children: incentive, their tax will be decrease (relieved), insurance for education and health, etc. The other way is government can invite foreigner to become citizen, certainly with some requirement, for instance they have good talents, they have investment for the country, they had already lived for minimum five years, they already mastery in the language, and etc.

The policy for being a citizen it depends on the government in that country. The US has a unique way for foreigner to get a citizenship. The government offers the citizenship but they (foreigner) have to register for The US military and they have to serve for at least five years in military. If they don't, then they can lose the citizenship.

This program is one way to solve the military problem in The US. The military in US has became stretched thin because it is involved in so many different place in the world. So the government attracts so many people to join in military.

However i think there are so many strictly requirement for this program. It because this program involve safety country the safety of the country. It's not as simple ly as its appearances. So, if you want to become the US citizen, you can ask or talk to the US embassy for this program, because this program it's hardly to find for the details on the internet. Remember if you join in this program, you HAVE TO BE proud and HAVE TO survive in the US military at least for five years. And  i think that is quite difficult to survive especially in the US military .

Thank you for reading my article. The source for this article is from English cafe #384. See you again :).

Assalamu'alaikum everyone, today is writing day for me. So, now I want to write about Hatfields & Mc Coys Feud. I heard this history from podcast. This feud happened in USA. It's told about two families, their names are Hatfields family and Mc Coys familiy. Hatfield lives in West Virginia, and The Mc Coys in Kentucky. They are very famous in American History because in long period they had feud. Feud is very angry fight and argument between two people or groups for very long time.

Until know, the cause that made this feud happened still didn't know. Presumably it caused by competition for authority area.This feud wasn't just "fair" competition. This feud implicated murders between each others. But there was romance in this feud, maybe like romeo and juliet.

I think this feud was bad history in United Stated. But there's always a lesson from histories. Hope there's no feud between families in the world again.

Thank you for reading. Sorry because only short article. I'm just still learning to write in English :)

Assalamu'alaikum, everyone ^0^

Now, it's time to write in English. Yes, I want to improve my english skill. It's because I don't have any english class anymore, so I decided to improve my english by self studied.

So these are my plans:

1. Every tuesday it's time to learn grammar. So I will learn from book that I have now. I have four books for learning english already. Three books are general english, and another one is conversation book.

2. Every thursday it's time for listening and writing in English. My plan is I listen a lecture or talk from podcast or bbc. Then after that i must make a summary and new vocabulary lists. I have already known about good website for listening. Cek it out: podcast (education) and bbc.

3. Every saturday is speaking day. Here are my plans:
    a. I make a presentation from the listening section, then i will present to my husband
    b. Speaking in english with my husband for half day

Yeah, hope i can do consistently my plans. If you want to correct my article in here, it's my pleasure and i really appreciate it ^_^

Then, this is my target:


I MUST GET 5.5 POINT FOR IELTS.
and SURE, I CAN DO IT :)


Today is the last day i'm studying english conversation at one school in Singapore. A lot of things i got from there. Good teacher, kind friends, but sadly i must said a little bit dissapointed with the school management and rules :(. Overall i'm happy learning at there. Because now i feel confident to talk in English, hehe. Hope someday i can join in other class at other school.

Finally, i'm gonna miss you, all :")


My teacher, Lisa and I



Minami, Miri, Monika, me, and Hyun Bin




Heiho semuaa....
Ini mau update kabar nih (padahal udah ngantuk n capek banget, tapi tiga hari ke depan bakal sibuk keknya). There're so many happened lastweek (Alhamdulillah ^_______^). Mulai deh ya update-annya.

1. Berita menggembirakan yang pertama ini adalah bahwa, suami saya tercinta (bersama tim bisnisnya) nongol di Berita Harian (koran Malay) setengah halaman penuh (page 4). Huahaha, pada heboh deh jagat per-Fb-an dan per-milistan. Ya..ya semoga ini jadi awal yang baik ya buat bisnis ini ke depannya. Semoga timnya makin solid dan produknya bisa menghasilkan profit yang besar (*Matre.com, buahaha). Kan kalo dapet profit yang besar saya kecipratan juga :p.

ini suamiku yang paling tembem di antara yang lain :D


2. Peristiwa yang membahagiakan lainnya dan bikin semangat adalah saya sangat senang sekali berada di kelas TESOL Free Elementary Program. Pasal selain gratis (*teteup), gurunya juga enak-enak loh. Ada Joy, Shanti, Jack, dan Adam. Selain gurunya yang caem abis, temen-temennya juga gak kalah seru. Ada yang dari Jepang, Iran, RRC, dan (mayoritas) Korea. Saya otomatis yang "malay" sendiri. Tapi yang muslim ada saya dan Nasy (yang dari Iran). Karena berasal dari negara yang berbeda ini maka mau gak mau kite komunikasinya lewat English. Jadi udah sama-sama paham lah ya kalo responnya agak-agak lambat atau kita tiba-tiba nyebut "wait a minute, err..what should i say.." :D. Nah environment yang kayak gitu tuh yang ngebuat saya makin PD ngomong english. Meskipun ini program gratis, tapi guru-gurunya bener2 profesional (jempol deh pokoknya). Jadi yang native speakers itu Joy dan Shanti, sedangkan yang lagi ditraining jadi guru itu Jack dan Adam. **foto menyusul soalnya belum minta sama Jack :p.

Pokoknya saya seneng banget sama kelas kemarin. Sayang saya cuma bisa join pas di tengah kelas. Tapi jangan khawatir, kata Joy and Shanti saya boleh join juga di program Free Intermediate Class, buahahaha. Seneng sekaligus deg-degan. Pasalnya pemirsa, sebenernya saya ini masih level pre-Intermediate (maluuuu.com), tapi gak apa kali ya kalo coba-coba aja, toh gretongan ini (evil smirk).Selain mau join di kelas Free ini, saya rencana juga mau join di kelas conversation. Lumayan murah bayarnya dibanding kalo harus les di ASCEND atau di British Council. Kebetulan juga passss banget lagi ada rezeki, makannya direncanakan join. Selain karena lagi semangat, saya juga berniat ngejar biar bisa ikut persiapan IELTS di ASCEND (harus minimal intermediate level or IELTS-nya 4). Kenapa saya mau ngambil IELTS? selain karena benefitnya banyak (syarat utama kalo mau ngambil certified ini itu), saya juga berencana di tahun depan ngejar beasiswa Erasmus Mundus program Early Childhood Education and Care. Yakin gak yakin bisa dapet tapi harus tetep usaha semangat dulu. Yeaaaah, mohon doanya ya kawan-kawan :D.


3. Jumat kemarin ini saya sudah mulai ikutan program buat mba-mba PLRT yang ada di penampungan KBRI. Program ini adalah program tahsin. Duh, kalo liat mereka belajar bikin terharuw :"). Pasal meskipun lagi dihadapkan pada masalah pelik (kabur dari majikan or harus berurusan sama polisi karena tindakan kriminal atau tuduhan kriminal) mereka tetep punya semangat belajar yang tinggi. Ya, setidaknya program ini bisa sedikit "menghibur" mereka di tengah apa yang sedang mereka alami. Karena di program ini pulalah mereka suka curcol berbagi kegundahan tentang beban hidup yang menghimpit.

mba-mba PLRT di penampungan KBRI


4. Yang terakhir yang mau saya ceritain di episode ini adalah bahwa kemarin saya sempet dateng ke undangan makan malem di rumah Dubes Indonesia untuk Singapore dalam rangka ramah tamah sama rombongan anggota MPR dan DPD. Mulanya saya asyik-asyik aja karena meskipun gak ada yang dikenal (secara yang kebanyakan dateng orang-orang KBRI dan orang-orang penting lainnya) toh saya bisa ngobrol sama a' Delta. Tapi bo ketika tahu kalo a' Delta harus duduk di meja utama karena mewakili ketua IMAS yang berhalangan hadir, saya hampir saja nangis di sana (cemen bener dah eyke -_-"). Masalahnya itu kan jamuan table gitu ya, jadi agak gimana gitu kalo duduk tapi gak ada yang dikenal.

Untungnya saya duduk di sebelah ketua fraksi PDIP yang ramah dan juga ibu-ibu istri pejabat yang ramah pula (istri atase pertahanan dan atase kelautan, Bo), serta beberapa orang penting lainnya. Tapi teteup ya saya "cuma" jadi pendengar setia sambil sesekali menimpali pada topik yang saya tau. Ini pengalaman kedua saya keluar dari zona nyaman setelah waktu hari pertama masuk english class juga dipenuhi ketakutan dan keminderan yang sama (buahaha). Tapi di kedua peristiwa itu alhamdulillah berbuah manis. Kalo di English Class saya jadi ketagihan belajar, kalo di acara jamuan makan di KBRI saya jadi kenyaaang karena semua yang terhidang adalah makanan yang mahal dan enaaak, buahaha.

Oke deh, berhubung saya udah ngantuk bin capek sekian dulu update-an kali ini. Tetep semangat ya menggapai cita, semuanya.... Saling melengkapi dalam doa ya....

Salam hangat dari Jurong West,
Puti Ayu Setiani

Haloooow, ketemu lagi dengan saya di acara up to date..., wkwkwk.

Apa aja yang sudah terjadi akhir-akhir ini?

Mulai ya update-annya:
1. Fiuuuuh, Alhamdulillah, kemarin a' Delta (atas nama phi decks) sudah mempresentasikan hasil pengembangan perusahaannya kepada para panelis dalam kompetisi bisnis Ideas Inc. And you know what, they got an award from Plug and Play techcenter. Awardnya berupa training selama 4 bulan di sana (Sillicon Valley, US). Hahaha, antara seneng dan khawatir sih dapet award tersebut. Pasal memang kesempatan tersebut bagus baaaaanget buat pengembangan perusahaan. Tau gak, total programnya itu seharga kurang lebih 15.000 USD (0_0), tapi booow yang jadi masalah adalah tiket dan akomodasi di tanggung sendiri (-_-"). Hahaha, gak tau deh ini nantinya gimana. Kalo kata a' Delta yang penting ada keinginan terlebih dahulu. Planning juga coba dibuat. Nah, tinggal nanti gimana Allah yang ngasih jalan.

Kalo seumpama a' Delta (n juga timnya) jadi berangkat ke sana, maka sepertinya saya akan balik pulang ke Indo. Yeay banget sih soalnya at least saya bisa banyak cari-cari kerjaan n kegiatan lagi. Tapi sediiih karena mesti LDR-an lagi, :'(. Tapi gak apa, berjuang dulu deh semampu kita, untuk masa depan yang lebih baik. Doakan ya teman-teman supaya lancar nih planning-planning kite n usahanya juga bisa sukseees ;). Oh ya mengenai kerjaan a' Delta? we'll see dah ya...ahahaha

2. Insya Allah mulai senin nanti saya akan ikutan kursus bahasa Inggris gratis di sini. So, ini sebenernya training centre buat yang mau jadi guru. Nah untuk itu diperlukan murid-murid buat diajarin, dan saya jadi salah satu muridnya, hihi. Gak papa lah yang penting bayarnya murah. Cuma beli buku n ada deposit sebesar  100 SGD untuk komitmen aja. Kalo kedatangan lebih dari 60%, uangnya bakal dibalikin sih katanya, haha.

3. Mengenai Trying to Conceive. Nothing much to do. Now, i'm on my periode, so masih berusaha deh bulan depan. Cuma kemarin abis di BBM sama ka Azti supaya cepet diperiksa aja. Jadi kalo emang ada apa-apa yang mesti di treatment biar ketahuan. Lagi mencoba planning buat periksa di NUH. Kebetulan di sana banyak dokter kandungan cewek, hehe. Cuma ya itu, biayanya bisa 3-5 kali lipat di Indo ternyata, hiks. Ah, doakan saja yang yang terbaik :).

Oh ya, tadi juga ada macam acara walimatul safarnya mba Mala yang mau berangkat Haji. Saya bener-bener baru ngerasain terharunya deh diacara macam ini. Terlebih tadi sebelum membaca surat Yasin, dengan maksud meminta kelancaran dari fadhilah surah Yasin dan Al-Qur'an, mba Mala menyelipkan doa bagi para perindu "Dzurriyah" (saat mba Mala ngomong itu, beliau menatap ke saya, boo). Saya bener-bener speechless dan terharu abis. Masya Allah, Mba Mala bener-bener perhatian sekali. Semoga lancar ya perjalanan hajinya, Mba. Saya juga berencana nitip doa yang sama untuk diucapkan di depan Ka'Bah sama Mba Mala.

Nah terus tadi ada satu  yang mak jleb yang saya peroleh dari Mba Eniz, meskipun tadi konteksnya bukan merindu dzurriyah, tapi cukup buat saya merenung. Ini tentang keMaha Sayangnya Allah sama kita. Kata Mba Eniz, kalau Allah saja memberi RahmatNya kepada orang-orang yang gak sholat, makan babi, dan tidak percaya Tuhan, bagaimana mungkin Ia akan melupakan memberi Rahmat kepada makhlukNya yang senantiasa menyembahNya. Ah, ya Gusti Allah ora sare. Allah tahu yang terbaik untukmu, Put. Sekarang tinggal sayanya saja yang mau menjemput rahmat itu atau tidak. Husnudzhon semua akan baik-baik saja. Sampai masa saya menimang jundi(jundi) yang terlahir dari rahim saya sendiri dikarenakan RahimNya.

Maka saya terharu dengan perjuangan Uni Elwis dan Uda Iman tentang penantian menjumpa Shalih dan Shalihah (kebetulan tadi mereka juga dateng dengan segala kehebohan si kembar, hehe). Ya, setelah dua belas tahun lamanya mereka bersabar dan berikhtiar, akhirnya Allah memberikan RahimNya di rahim uni Elwis.

"Dan sungguh, kelak Tuhanmu pasti memberikan karuniaNya , sehingga kamu menjadi puas" (Ad-Dhuha, 5)

Sekian update-an dari saya. Pukpuk ga usah sedih-sedih ya. Semoga ada hikmah yang bisa diambil. Dan jangan lupa saling melengkapi dalam doa ya, :)

Love,
Puti



    One day in afternoon, a lion was sleeping in The Jungle. His big head laid on his foot.  Near from the sleeping lion, A little mouse was walking. Little mouse didn’t aware that he was walking near in front of a sleeping lion.

 Then a Little mouse aware and became frightened. He run faster but because of his fear, he run go to the sleeping lion and hat lion’s nouse. 

The Lion woke up and angry. He grabbed little mouse with his claw and said “Who had dare to disturb my sleep?”. Little mouse scared and begged to lion to let him go “Please, forgive me, Lion. I didn’t mean to disturb you. I run accidentally and hit your nouse”.
 
   A little mouse begged to lion again, “Please, Let me go, Lion. I promise one day I will help you”. The lion looked at the little mouse and laughed “Hahaha, it’s imposibble that a little mouse can help the Lion, King of  the Jungle”, he said scronfully.

  “Please, Let me go”. Finally lion said, “Ok I shall let you go, but don’t disturb my sleep again”. And the lion opened his claws and let the little mouse go free.

A little mouse said thanks to lion “Thank you, Lion. I will remember your kindness. “ Then little mouse scurried away as fast as he could.

   A few days later when the lion was seeing his victim, he was caught in a hunter snare. Struggle as he might, but he couldn't break free. Then he let out a roar of anger that shook the forest, “Auuuum, Help me!”.

A little mouse heard Lion’s roar. “I Heard the lion’s roar. He is in trouble. I must go there as soon as possible”. A little mouse run. He ran as fast as he could in the direction of the lion's roar. Then he found the lion trapped in the hunter's snare.

 Lion  saw a little mouse and Said “Oh Little mouse. I glad to see you. But, Please ask somebody to help me”. However a litlle mouse said  ”Hold still, Lion. I'll have you out of there in a jiffy! I will help you by myself”. Then little mouse began nibbling through the ropes with his sharp little teeth. Very soon the lion was free.

  The lion said thank you to little mouse “I did not believe that you could be of use to me, little mouse, but today you saved my life,” said the lion humbly. ”it was my turn to help you, Lion” answered the mouse. The lion said again “ Forgive me because yesterday I had to scorn you”.  A little mouse was smilling. Finally Lion and little mouse became best friend forever.


This is my handmade. If you want it, please contact me ^^

Salam, Guys.

This is my first time writing the article in this blog with english. So, i'm so sorry if  the grammar is wrong. But i really pleasant if you are correction the grammar in this article :).

I will write short story. It's about my fear. I don't know, i always fear before do something new. I think my husband already dissapointed with my fear :(. But he's still be patient to encourage me to do something better. Ah, i am really grateful coz Allah sent him for me.

Ok, that's all that i want to share with you for the first english time. Hope the next friday i will tell you more than this :D
Huhu... entah kenapa saya selalu deg-degan kalo lagi ngomong english sama siapapun. Meskipun singapur pake bahasa melayu juga, tapi tetep aja yang namanya english itu dominan di mari.

Allah, mudahkan saya untuk dapat lancar berbahasa yang satu itu...
*aamiin
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