BOOKs REVIEW

holaaa :)
happy august to you guys!!
today i wanna post some books reviews. meskipun review nya biasa aja. etsss, ini blog pribadi jadi ini menurut opini gue ajaaa ^^

BOOK NUMBER 1

 HEX HALL - DEMON GLASS

sebenernya ini buku udah lamaaaaaaaaaaa bgt. yang baru aja udah keluar hiks :" telat bgt ya. whatever lah. buku hex hall itu bisa dibilang "gue bgt" why? karena genre nya yang roman-fantasy. epic bgt jalan ceritanya dan enjoy to read, (readable). untuk tata bahasa well, karena ini terjemahan jadi cukup bagus lah. kalo gue sih gampang ngertinya. lol

SECOND BOOK

SHIMMER

SHIMMER ini salah satu english novel gue hehe yaaa bukannya sombong tp i love learning english through novels ^^ bagus sih, buku ini mengisahkan seorang gadis yang mati trus dia ke dunia lain tapi didunia lain itu ternyata dia juga harus bekerja. pekerjaannya yaitu narikin roh- roh manusia yang masih tersesat di bumi, bujuk mereka agar mereka mau "nyebrang". unik sih. tapi sayangnya, boring -_- awalnya "keren nih" tapi ujung- ujungnya "biasa aja". why? mungkin karena konflik nya kurang "dapet" soalnya, yaaa karna awa nya aja udah fantasy bgt, jadi gue mengharapkan lebih. ternyata konflik nya cuma ada gadis yang terperangkap di bumi dengan marahnya yang luar biasa dhsyat sampe roh- roh lain iut terperangkap ke dalam "gelembungnya". okelah, kalo konflik masih bisa di oke-in. tapi cara penyelesaian konflik nya kurang greget lah. tapi yaaa bintang 3 deh. hoho

THE LAST BUT NOT LEAST

THE STORY GIRL - Gadis Pendongeng

cerita dalam cerita. buku ini ada dua jilid. dan semua nya bagus- bagus. termasuk hasil terjemahan tapi mudah bgt dimengerti. unik juga sih, like  I said, cerita dalam cerita. seperti namanya, the story girl, buku ini mengisahkan serorang gadis yang doyan bercerita. sudut pandang nya itu apa ya, pertama kayanya. soalnya disini seorang anak laki- laki yang ke rumah masa kecil ayahnya terus ketemu si gadis pendongeng ini. nah terus dia kasih tau gadis pendongeng cerita apa aja, berarti sudut pandang orang pertama ya? :D yaaa intinya, ini readable juga, udah cukup sulit dicari karna ini buku udah lama bgt -_-

okeee sekian terimakasih. mau ngerjain tugas sekolah :|

BYEEEEEEEEE and thanks for reading. 

xoxox, dina :*

 

The Beauty of Carles, Iloilo - Isla de Gigantes

Known as one of the pearls of Iloilo are a string of islands in Carles. It’s consists of thirty-three barangays with 6 huge islands and nineteen islets boasting of long beautiful coastlines.
Among its well-known attractions are a tableau of unspoiled and isolated granite monoliths named Isla de Gigantes or Giant Islands. These groups of islands are known for their magnificent massive rock formations sitting on azure waters boasting their pristine beaches.

The islands are ideal for any water activities by guests who want to discover the wonderful underwater scenery and secrets that lie beneath its crystalline waters.
If you’re searching for the greatest tropical paradise, set your sights on Cabugao islands. Immerse yourself in an oasis of natural harmony. Both Cabugao Islands offers white sand beaches without all the crowds, a wonderful spot to relieve stress, slow down and get into the groove of the real exotic heaven. Sprawl by the warm turquoise waters on Cabugao Gamay while enjoy an underground adventure in Cabugao Daku.

Tangke Natural pool is a must visit destination in Isla de Gigantes if you want a peaceful location surrounded by magnificent rocks. Situated on the southern side of Barangay Gabi in Isla de Gigantes Sur, it’s a hidden saltwater lagoon formed by a surrounding wall of granite monolithic cliffs. Swim in Tangke and gaze into the spectacular rock formations around you. The rocks covered with green floras.

Relaxed on this white sand beach, without anyone bothering or dragging you. Put aside your problems in everyday life and enjoy the nature. Water is clean and very clear, people are very friendly, plus the food is not that expensive.
The perfect time to visit here is when it’s high tide so the water is deeper. It’s a warm and relaxing seawater, you will surely be reluctant to leave.

NIVEA - mosturizer cream REVIEW

Hello guys, we're meet up again and today i'll post a beauty review.

it's NIVEA mosturizer cream. you can use it for your hand, neck, face even your foot.

so, lets begin! ;)

you can find this product in most supermarket. only for IDR 10.000 and you can get this awesome product.

its texture is creamy and so light. you can use it before you sleep, or when you are about to go out or you can apply it as a foundation. it makes your skin mosturize all day long!

it smells really nice and i love it so much!
it's a recommended product for me to you guys who has dry skin type because this product is perfectly wonderful for you to use!

English 50 – Intro to Creative Writing: Exercises for Story Writers

Basic Theory:
    What is a short story? As soon as someone delivers a definition, some good writer will write a story that proves the theory wrong. About the only thing we can say for sure is that short stories are short and that they are written in what we call prose. Some attributes, however, seem to show up more often than not.
    Short stories

1. have a narrator; that is, someone tells the story;
2. have at least one character in them;
3. have some action occur (or perhaps fails to occur);
4. take place somewhere; that is, there is a setting for the action;
5. and someone either learns something or fails to learn something (theme).

With these five characteristics in mind, we can create an almost endless supply of exercises to help sharpen our techniques of story telling.
 
Narrative Voice
    Twenty or so years ago, voice was the "rite of passage" into a successful writing career. Young writers were told that they should write until they developed their voice. The way to do this was to simply write (and read) as much as possible, having others read your work and comment on it, until your voice became distinct from others. The evidence to support this theory was generally drawn from the body of work of successful writers. Everyone agreed that you could read a Hemingway story, for instance, without factual evidence that the story was written by Hemingway, and recognize it as his work because of his distinctive voice. Faulkner provided an even clearer example of this philosophy. In more recent years, the notion that one must discover a unique voice has become a secondary issue as any number of successful writers have demonstrated that they can write in more than one narrative voice.
    Nevertheless, a narrative voice that sounds like it could be anyone's voice or is bland and boring, or riddled with pointless clichés will fail to capture and hold the reader's attention. And a voice that is inconsistent will tend to confuse the reader about the narrator's attitude towards his/her characters and the story that is being told.
NOTE: It is quite common for writers in the early stages of their careers to imitate the writers they are reading or admire most. Often we are not even aware that we are doing this when we write.

1. Locate a relatively long descriptive passage in a short story or novel that you enjoy, and write a blatant imitation. Follow the sentence structure and syntax word for word. Do this exercise for as many different writers as you can. You should write at least 250 words each time you do this exercise.
2. Use a text like Best American Short Stories, containing about 20 stories from as many writers, and write imitations of the first page of each short story in the text.
3. Write a complete short story in imitation of your favorite writer from each major historical period for the past three centuries. (Note: you can change the subject matter, sex of the main character, and other such details and still write an imitation.)
4. Locate a writer whose work you do NOT particularly care for and write a parody of the story.

Point of View     Language is always uttered from some point of view; that is, it comes from someone. Scientific writers and legal writers (lawyers, the court) may try to hide this fact by writing in a voice so passive that it begins to sound as if it were uttered from some completely impartial god outside of the human experience, but no one argues more passionately than those folks who write within these two areas.
    When writing a short story we use one of the following points of view:

1. Third Person Restricted: We recognize this from the pronouns "he" or "she." In this point of view, probably the most popular, and some would argue the most natural, all the action takes place in the presence of the character from whose point of view we learn the story. If we are taken "inside the head" of a character, it is only within this character's head. The narrator does NOT tell us what anyone else thinks or feels. This character may or may NOT be the main character of the story.
2. First Person: We recognize this from the pronoun "I." Like third person restricted, all of the action takes place within this character's presence, and we learn only his/her thoughts and feelings in any kind of direct fashion.
3. Omniscient: As the word implies, this is a god-like point of view. The narrator freely moves from one character's perspective to another. This point of view was far more popular in previous centuries than it has been in the current one, reflecting both the tastes of authors and the reading public. Using this point of view within a short story is very difficult to pull off with any success because of the space restrictions. It takes time to develop more than one character's point of view.
4. Second Person: We recognize this from the pronoun "you." This point of view is rarely used except in some experimental writing. Literally "you" means the reader, and a story told from this point of view can quickly become tiresome. Authors often, however, slip into the highly vernacular syntactical structure of using the pronoun in a casual manner—I kind of "you know what I mean" statement—because the language used to tell stories is more often than not colloquial.
5. Pure Dramatization: This really isn't a "point of view" but occasionally a writer will produce a story that is very close to a play. That is, we receive almost all dialogue and very little narration, which usually seems little more than stage direction. Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" is about as close to this as any successful short story trying to accomplish this technique.

Exercise: Take any story you have written and rewrite it from a different point of view. If you originally wrote the story in first person, try it in third person restricted. You'll discover that you need to do more than simply changing the pronoun.  You should find that it is easier to be more objective about a character you are rendering in third person. If you've written a story in third person, try it in first. This can be an especially fruitful exercise if you've had trouble making the character sympathetic.
A wonderful example of the use of point of view in a novel is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Most casual readers remember this novel as a third person novel, but it is actually told from the first person point of view. We learn everything from Nick's perspective, Gatsby's neighbor.
As a variation on the exercise, you can take someone else's published story and render passages, especially paragraphs of narrative of at least a half page in length in a point of view other than that which the author used. Once again, watch what happens to the language as you change the point of view. What is it you need to add, take away? How does this change affect the emotional relationship the reader develops with the character.
 
The T.S. Eliot/John Gardner Killer Exercise: This exercise is quite possibly the most difficult, demanding and important exercise a writer can ever do. The poet and critic, T. S. Eliot, coined the phrase "objective correlative" to designate what he believed was the most important element in writing: Rendering the description of an object so that the emotional state of the character from whose point of view we receive the description is revealed WITHOUT ever telling the reader what that emotional state is or what has motivated it.
The late John Gardner, recognized in his lifetime as the leading creative writing teacher in the United States, developed the following exercise for students:
    A middle-age man is waiting at a bus stop. He has just learned that his son has died violently. Describe the setting from the man's point of view WITHOUT telling your reader what has happened. How will the street look to this man? What are the sounds? Odors? Colors? That this man will notice? What will his clothes feel like? Write a 250 word description.

outfit of the day scrapbook - April 2014

hi hi hi, so instead of post some review or experience, i'd post some OOTD's pictures!
here you goooo!

 p.s: don't forget to share it! xox

Unforgettable Overland Tour

SABTU, 15 MARET 2014 – hari yang ditunggu akhirnya datang juga. Bagaimana tidak? Hari ini memang patut di tunggu karena hari ini adalah awal perjalanan kita menuju Pulau Dewata, Bali. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan antusiasme dan semangat anak- anak yang membawa barang- barang mereka dan memasukannya ke dalam koper tanpa kantuk, sekalipun mereka yang rela tidak tidur. Ini dia cerita kita dari awal hingga akhir, simak ya!

HARI 1: jam 4 pagi perhutani sudah di penuhi anak-anak. Ada 2 bis dari perusahaan White Horse yang menanti kita. Setelah menunggu cukup lama, akhirnya kita berangkat. Perjalan berawal dari Jakarta Timur. Aktifitas kita lakukan di dalam bis. Makan, minum, tidur, bercanda ria, dan hiburan kita lakukan.hingga malam tiba, kita masih di jawa tengah.

HARI 2: kita berada di jawa timur dan sebentar lagi akan sampai di Bali. YEAY! Kita mandi dan sarapan di jawa timur dan setelah itu kita melanjutkan perjalanan. Sekitar jam 11, kita mulai menyebrang dengan menggunakan Ferry. Pemandangan di atas ferry cukup memukau dan tidak sedikit orang mengambil foto bersama. Setelah menyebrang kita langsung menuju Rumah Makan Islam Bidadari yang berlokasi di kabupaten Jembrana. Dan setelah itu kita melanjutkan perjalan panjang ini. Hotel kita berlokasi di kabupaten Badung dan lokasi itu cukup jauh dari kabupaten Jembrana. Jadi tak mengherankan jika kita tiba di saat malam. Kamar hotel Puti Nusa Indah 2 cukup nyaman dan bersih. Dan akhirnya kita semua bisa beristirahat dengan nyaman.

HARI KETIGA: saatnya menjelajahi BALI!! Objek pertama kita yaitu GALUH, dimana kita bisa melihat hasil karya para pengrajin. Lalu dilanjutkan dengan menonton Tari Barong yang unik. Setelah itu kita makan siang di bukit Kintamani yang dingin dan lalu ke pura tirta empul, setelah itu kita mengunjungi pasar sukowati bali yang ramainya luar biasa. Setelah itu kita melihat pertunjukan Tari Kecak yang mistis yang juga merupakan penutup acara hari ketiga. Kita makan malam di hotel dan tidur.

HARI KEEMPAT: beach time! Kita menikmati pagi di pantai sanur lalu dilanjutkan ke monument bali yang panas tapi asik, lalu kita juga ke Garuda Wisnu Kencana yang sangat menarik karena di GWK ini, terdapat patung dan tebing-tebing yang mengagumkan. Setelah dari GWK kita menuju ke pusat oleh- oleh bali dan makan siang di tempat itu dan dilanjutkan ke pantai kuta untuk melihat sunset! Setelah tiba di kuta, beberapa orang mengganti pakaian nya dengan pakaian pantai dan langsung ke kuta yang memang indah. Terik matahari sore tak membuat kami berhenti mengitari pantai dan bermain pasir. Dan setelah mentari tertidur kita langsung ke krisna, pusat oleh- oleh bali yang sangat terkenal. Disitu kita bisa membeli berbagai macam oleh- oleh khas Bali dengan harga terjangkau. Lalu kita makan malam disana sambil menikmati Live Music dari Gremcya. Setelah puas berbelanja, kita kembali ke hotel untuk beristirahat. Tapi nyatanya, waktu istirahat dipakai untuk mengerjakan tugas. Anak- anak berlarian di koridor menuju kamar yang satu ke kamar yang lainnya untuk memanggil anggota kelompoknya. Dan akhirnya, semua mulai tertidur setelah jam 1 pagi.

HARI KELIMA: kita tak terlalu bersemangat hari ini. Bukan karena kurang tidur, tapi karena ini merupakan hari terakhir kita di Bali. Perjalanan di awali dengan mengunjungi Sangeh, lalu ke Danau Bedugul untuk makan siang dank e Tanah Lot. Sayangnya, cuaca tidak mendukung sehingga kita kurang menikmati Tanah Lot. Dan setelah Tanah Lot, akhirnya kita kembali pulang and say Good Bye to Bali. Kita mulai menybrang jam 10 malam dan seperti hari pertama, kita tidur di bis.

HARI KE 6: kita berada di Blitar sekarang dan kita akan menuju tempat mandi lalu sarapan. Setelah sarapan, kita semua berjalan sekitar 1.5 km menuju Tempat Makam Bung Karno. Tempatnya bisa dibilang istimewa karena memang sangat mengagumkan. Setelah itu perjalanan dilanjutkan dan saat itu kita menuju Hotel Ros-In. kita sampai di Ros-In pada malam hari dan disambut oleh anak multimedia yang sudah 3 hari disana. Dan akhirnya, setelah menempuh perjalanan yang panjang, kita bisa beristirahat dengan nyaman di Ros-In.

Hari ke 7: say hello to Jogja. Kita memulai pagi hari dengan menuju ke candi prambanan. Setelah itu dilanjutkan ke Keraton Jogjakarta dan diakhiri dengan belanja ria di malioboro. Tak lupa, kita juga mengunjungi Toko Djava dimana kita bisa membeli oleh- oleh khas jogja khususnya bakpia. Setelah itu, kita kmebali ke hotel dan menyiapkan diri untuk Table Manner. Table Manner juga merupakan makan malam kita dan berkahir jam 12. Anak- anak yang kelelahan tak bisa tidur dan akhirnya mereka berkumpul di beberapa tempat untuk bercanda ria.

Hari ke 8: last day! Kita menjuju Jakarta sekarang. Tapi sebelumnya, kita mengunjungi Candi Borobudur dan setelah mengelilingi Borobudur, kita kembali ke bis dan melanjutkan perjalanan menuju Jakarta. Kita tiba di Jakarta jam 12 malam dan akhirnya kita pulang ke rumah masing- masing setelah mengikuti overland tour yang melelahkan.

Itulah cerita singkat kita selama mengikuti Java- Bali overland tour. Kita sangat berterimakasih kepada para Guru Pembimbing dan 2 Bli kami dari Bali yang dengan sabar memandu kami di pulau Dewata. Kita berharap, kita dapat mengulang perjalanan yang tak dapat kita lupakan ini. Pengalaman luar biasa ini kkita bagi untuk adik-adik kelas yang tahun depan akan melakukan overland tour dan kami harap, adik-adik semua dapat melakukannya dengan lebih baik. Thanks and regards.

 

meski begitu, kita ga lepas dari tugas tugas

hasil belanjaan di bali.

 sunset in kuta

 sangeh view (gates)

 sanur in the morning

 Tanah Lot

CHINAVAGANZA - from PanenTour