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Monday, is the day when everybody wake up from a long rest in weekend, so do I. I have a class in Monday, so I have to wake up and study. In my sixth semester of my study in English Department Universitas Gadjah Mada, I take a creative writing class. The lecture is Mas Dalih, an Indonesian travel blogger. As a travel blogger he often leaves the class and travel to a new place. He had been in Bali in last two weeks, so he got his friend who called Mbak Abmi take his place to teach us. She ever taught us in a week before and played us a movie about how should we deal with plastic bags, BAG IT. I had the review of this film in my previous post. But this Monday, she brought a guest. When I went to the class I saw a black-long hair beautiful man smiling to me. I was wondering, who was the beautiful creature with such pointed nose and proportional body. This man sat in the corner of the classroom. I talked to my friends about this stranger, and in the edge of our curiosity, my mind ...

Kim Yee Soul, a Korean who studies in English Department Universitas Gadjah Mada. She was a newbie painter when she was 4 years old. She paints what she wants. Everything she wants running in her head and she just put it to a paper or canvas. One of her painting is about a girl wearing red Adidas jacket and some sunflower in the left side of the girl. She paint the girl by seeing the photograph she took randomly from internet, she is really like to use copy technique, which she has to do just take a photograph from models or things she met and she will draw a painting from the photographs. In addition, she also likes to pick randomly a picture from internet and draw it. When I asked her why she like to take a photograph before paint something, she talked about the memories, because she loves travelling, she does not want to loose any memory of what she likes when she is in a new place. Combination between a girl and some sunflowers make it a unique painting. Some sunflowers s...

There are many ways to express opinions or even explore ourselves. One of them is by stating what we think and feel through writing. Sometimes we are quite satisfied to keep our thoughts or ideas of our own, but it would not be wrong if we try to share our views with other people by publish it. In Indonesia, the publisher who received the writings in English language quite a lot, namely: 1.    THE JAKARTA POST Address: Jl. Palmerah Selatan 15, Jakarta 10270, Indonesia Telp: (021) 5300476, 5300478. Fax:  (021) 5492685 Email : editorial@thejakartapost.com , opinion@thejakartapost.com , jktpost2@cbn.net.id , editorial@thejakartapost.com , sundaypos@thejakartapost.com , features@thejakartapost.com 2. THE JAKARTA GLOBE Email: newsdesk@thejakartaglobe.com, ben.otto@thejakartaglobe.com , thomas.hogue@thejakartaglobe.com 3. TEMPO ENGLISH Email: agustina@mail.tempo.co.id , yismartono@tempo.co.id , tempo_english@yahoo.com 4. THE INDONESIAN TIMES Address: Jl...

What your first impression once you meet a transvestite, known as waria? Afriyani – a teacher “I was confused to make an impression. Transvestite was full of ambiguity, especially if he wants to go in the toilet, the toilet entrance of woman or man. They also confused in choosing boarding houses, in boarding house for girl or boy.” Annisa SP – a college student “Fear and scary when I first met transvestite.. But now pity, because maybe they're so out of economic necessity or influenced by their environment. “ Yes. I felt the same too.  I felt confused and frightened when I first met a transvestite. However, I ever had a chance to know better about transvestites when I was in elementary school. Her name was mama Jensen or Jenny.  She is one of my mother friends. I went to her salon often, just to make sure, was she real? Or it just my imagination character that I used to create in my childhood. She is. Once she knew me went through her house, I felt scared, but ...

Bag it? What is it? Story about an unique, hillarious, expensive and tottaly amazing bag? NOPE!! BAG IT means to put in a bag or to stop doing something. Know, I do not want to talk about things I should put in my bag in every single day, but I would like to talk about more ACTION to stop doing a thing, which is to stop using PLASTIC. Last week, one lecturer played a video about BAG IT. A documenter movie made by by Suxan Beraza featuring Jeb Berrier. The movie tells us about plastics and papers bag. The story began with Jeb Berrier questions of the using of plastic bag. People use plastic bag in many conditions, such as when shopping, buying groceries, buying medicine, and buying many stuffs which always covered with plastics. People can keep plastic bags they get from the supermarket or the store, but when people get a lot of plastic again from the store, what will people do with the many plastics they have?? Keep it? Or just throw it away? Wait!! Is that really? Plastic ba...

Two o’clock in the afternoon, sunny but gloomy. My lecture of creative writing class asked the students to go out and grab some lunch or brunch. “Yes!!”, I said aloud. “I wanna eat “cilok”, a ball of starch which is chewy with added spices like peanut sauce, ketchup and spicy sauces”, I talked to my friend spontaneously. “Cilok” roundly shaped like a meatball, but has different base ingredients. There are eggs or minced meat in it; because it is made from the starch as the base material “cilok” has chewy taste. My friend and I decided to go to PUJALE (Pusat Jajanan Lembah) Universitas Gadjah Mada, a place with many food and beverage sellers. We went downstairs from the third floor, pass the Psychology Faculty, and take a shortcut to PUJALE through Philosophy Faculty of Universitas Gadjah Mada. In addition to the faculty of philosophy is a shortcut, another reason why we chose the path was the atmosphere. Through the faculty of philosophy, the gentle breeze hit our faces whi...

Kutulis surat ini kala hujan gerimis bagai bunyi tambur yang gaib, Dan angin mendesah mengeluh dan mendesah, Wahai, dik Narti, aku cinta kepadamu ! Kutulis surat ini kala langit menangis dan dua ekor belibis bercintaan dalam kolam bagai dua anak nakal jenaka dan manis mengibaskan ekor serta menggetarkan bulu-bulunya, Wahai, dik Narti, kupinang kau menjadi istriku ! Kaki-kaki hujan yang runcing menyentuhkan ujungnya di bumi, Kaki-kaki cinta yang tegas bagai logam berat gemerlapan menempuh ke muka dan tak kan kunjung diundurkan. Selusin malaikat telah turun di kala hujan gerimis Di muka kaca jendela mereka berkaca dan mencuci rambutnya untuk ke pesta. Wahai, dik Narti dengan pakaian pengantin yang anggun bunga-bunga serta keris keramat aku ingin membimbingmu ke altar untuk dikawinkan Aku melamarmu, Kau tahu dari dulu : tiada lebih buruk dan tiada lebih baik dari yang lain …… penyair dari kehidupan sehari-hari, orang yang bermula dari kata kata yang bermula...

Yogyakarta- “You can ask me about everything terrible that had happened, but I surely do not want to experience it again, and I just want to erase it from my mind!” a girl in about 20 said it loud. She was a friend of mine. We learned together in English Department 2010 Gadjah Mada University. I asked about her shocking experience in the past. Then, she talked about her experience in 2010, during Merapi Eruption. Merapi Mountain October 2010, there was an eruption of the most active volcano mountain in Yogyakarta which named Merapi Mountain. Merapi is an active volcano mountain which erupts periodically, almost every five years. The October 2010 was the most overwhelming eruption. It was because the eruption caused many terrible damages in some places around Merapi, such as Yogyakarta, Magelang, Klaten, and it reached also some cities in East Java and West Java. In order to that, there were many victims from many categorizes of people. One of them is a student of Gadjah Ma...

Hi there! me? *w andering how could it could be* H i , me! N O , NO , i'm not me, my name is .. .. (interupting) you are me! you said it! off course i'm not you, and i'm not me, but i'm myself hey, why are you talking to me? w hy not? w hy you? you're just  -- a paper doll y es I am. and you don't have mouth to speak yes I am and you don't have heart too am I the one who don't have heart? o bviously yes! why you say so? because you are - not living things - but I'm here in front of you, you can hear me, and I am ALIVE ! how can you alive? you are just a paper doll of mine! w hat you say? I am a paper doll w hat was I made from? paper , you think?! what paper made from? p ulp! what pulp made from? wood grain i think and wood grain come from? t rees!!! am I look so stupid?? ...