Writing IV Class C 2015

A digital journal of Class C- Writing IVEnglish Department University of Indonesia 2015.

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If I Have A Superpower

I do really want to have a superpower. The superpower I want here is not the nonhumane superpower such as flashing through walls or being luminuous, but more to the extra ability I want to acquire.

I really want to be blunt and strict to others. I really want to be able to point out people’s mistakes and that their mistakes have led the team gone wrong. I have been dealing with this trust issue for these past few months. My deputy in BEM cannot do her tasks properly. She ALWAYS skips them and ignore everything. I do all the jobs all this time. She can go having a karaoke with her friends while I’m struggling with all FPTs I need to check. She has no idea that she ALSO NEEDS to be present in the Sidang LPJ. She has zero idea of being in BEM. However, she has made a good use of being in BEM by applying for supervisor programs and got accepted. I don’t know if I am just being salty or it’s just true. I have told this to my friends in BEM and they all suggested me to give her a letter of warning. I do really want to do that because I can’t contain this anymore. However, it’s not really legally doable. She needs to skip some more meetings and here you go a warning. 

I do really want to be blunt.

Really.

Literally.

Hang on, guys. Holiday is coming really soon

Sovia Nur Khalida

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Syeikha Annisa Marasabessy (1506751475) : Sov, I agree that we sometimes cannot express what we have to say to someone, just like in an entry you wrote on the third semester that it is hard to say no, and that regardless, we should try. I don't know what advice I should give you since this is very internal, but I only want to say, "Fighting, Sov!! I hope you can have a solution for this!!"😊😊

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Just A Short Analysis...

Perhaps this kind of writing is too heavy to be posted as a journal entry. However, I really wanted to post this, so yeah—here it goes. So, I’ve got an assignment from the race and gender class to watch a movie titled The Haunting Ground, and then read the article “Sexual Agression, Masculinity, and Fathers” Apparently, I found some interesting connection between the movie and the article. First thing first, “The Haunting Ground” basically illustrates how women (in this case, rape survivors) struglling, seeking for justice after being raped by men. All women in this documentary movie are college students of the so-called universities among the United States (there is also one university from England as well) that have become the victim of rape by college boys, who are mostly the jocks and the fraternity boys. These victims of rape have already tried to report these cases that they experienced to their college. However, what they get are mostly blaiming. The college protects these predators (rapists) and hide the rape case as hard as they can, so that their university ‘brand’ is not polluted by these negative news.

From the movie, the part that I want to highlight more is about the fraternity. The movie shows that the fraternity-associations, that each of these so-called universities have, are the biggest peer groups, I can say, among men. This fraternity shows such a very strong hypermasculinity among the members. I am going to start with the big frame of rape. According to the article that I have read, rape is basically the act of domination and violence in which sexuality become the vehicle to express it. The article basically describes more about what are the possible backgrounds that can may lead men to have the strong idea of masculinity, doing hostile to women, become dominating and agressive, and end up doing rape. In psychological analysis that are consulted from the text, it is highly known that family plays a massive role in determining the childrens’ behavior. Male children, who are experincing the absence of their fathers tend to grow as men with hypermasculinity, tend to show domination over women, and express hostile to women. Why is this happening? Because they have lost the figure who can actually internalize their masculinity, in this case, the figure of father. Later, this condition shapes “toughness” inside of them, and this is exactly the background of hypermasculinity’s existence inside these males. Also, by the absence of their father figure, they tend to form this juvenile gangs that end up teaching them the wrong male roles. This juvenile gangs, which consist of a bunch of insecure individuals, have the mindset that masculinity can hide their insecurities. This peer-group, juvenile gangs, at the end will agree that the social conquest becomes primary measure of self esteem, and this social conquest illustrates in the act of raping women. I can see that this part relate so much with the college’s fraternity. It is mentioned in the movie that the frat-boys rape women for fun, and also as a proof of their ‘man’ pride.  It is cleary seen that fraternity in western colleges depicts hypermasculinty. Not only masculinty, these rapists also usually physcially abuse the victim. This act of abusing the rape victims shows that there is the indication of misogyny, other than just hypermasculinty. The indication of misogyny, according to the article that I have read, shows through the man’s perception in which they think that they are capable of doing force over woman’s resistance, in this case when they force women to have sex with them and using violence over women to get ‘what they want’.

Another cause of this hypermasculinty that I have found within the article is also related with mother’s role in the family. One of the research in the article shows that mother holds a determining role too, not only father, so if there is a boy who experienced mother’s domination tend to perform domination among women in the future. The domination that they got from their mother somehow creates the rebellious behaviour among themselves, which can lead into the act of dominating other women and think themselves as the superior ones, are the power controller over women.

Another concerning thing from the movie is about the mens’ opinion in the movie towards rape. I still remember one of the man said, “It doesn’t mean that if a man want to have sex, and the woman says no, means that the woman is raped.” This saying-quote totally shows the image of superiority that the man has, in which they think that they are the superior ones and can do anything that they want without being blamed for their act. This quote also depicts one of the article’s idea about pathriacal society, in which women are generally objectified. This then leads into a perception that men have control over power, that they are the superior ones. Also, from here, they think that controlling over women’s body become common thing from them since it is corresponding to the culture values in general that they have grown up with, in this context, pathriacal society value.

Altogether, I think both internal and external factors matter in shaping someone’s behavior, in this case the internal factors include the parenting system and child-rearing system, while the external factors include the peer groups’ behaviours and the certain values that have grown in the society.

3rd Entry Journal // term 4

Dominick Wulandhani 1506752950

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Syeikha Annisa Marasabessy (1506751475) : Okay Nicky, this is a heavy topic. However, I find this interesting because I've watched a Korean drama titled Tunnel which is about mystery and crime. Hmm I cannot really spoil the story, but I want to say that yes, someone's behaviour is usually affected by his or her surrounding. This drama provides analysis for the crimes from a psychological perspective, so it is very interesting. Basically, it tells us that someone learns something from what he or she sees in life or experiences. Sometimes, an incorrect judgement can be made from certain issues depending on how someone sees the problem.

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Community Service: My First Time Teaching Experience

I am going to briefly share about my community service experience in teaching beginner-level english learners who are all junior high school students from SMPN 3 Depok. As we all know, this community service, provided by EWB, is one of the activity from Listening and Speaking class that all second year students need to do. At first, to be honest, I was sooo nervous when I hear about this teaching program that we need to do during this semester since I personally did not have any teaching experience before.

22nd of April was my first time teaching. Apparently, there were lots of students more than what I’ve expected. There were almost 20 students, they are all from the 7th grade until 9th grade students. I was really nervous at that time, but eventually it turned out really well. Me and my team were successfully told the story clearly and received lots of positive responses from the students. They are all fun and responsive, which made me really happy and couldn’t wait for my next sessions!

Then after that, the next two sessions also went well. The students were fewer by the last two sessions since there were no 9th graders (they were having national exam preparation and stuff). Even so, it didn’t decrease my passion in teaching them.

Apparently, last Saturday was our last session. It was kind of sad for me since I already feel myself in it. Me and my team are also already have bond with them, so it was kind of sad to know the fact that it was our last session. This experience has given me a total new perspective in teaching. Teaching is actually not that bad, and I really enjoy the time that I’ve spent in teaching the kids. I feel good that I can actually share the knowledge that I have for these people; these kids, to help them improve and become a better generation in the future.  

4th Entry Journal // term 4

Dominick Wulandhani 1506752950

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Syeikha Annisa Marasabessy (1506751475) : Hey Nicky, I was also sad when it was the last time we met them. I remembered when we were going to go home, one of the boys said goodbye to us. I bet this is how every EWB volunteer feels about parting with the kids. I don't know whether they will remember us or not if we meet again, or otherwise. I hope they will always be healthy and can achieve their dreams (remember when they told us their dreams?). Thank you Nicky for sharing😊😊

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Saturday, May 20, 2017, 06:07 pm, I’m sitting on my desk and trying to write the last journal entry of this semester. I just got home after meeting and teaching a bunch of enthusiastic kids. As you may have guessed already, they’re the kids that I did a storytelling for. I’m glad we were given this task to tell them a story and teach them a little bit of English. At first, I was not really confident to do this because I thought I was bad at storytelling. If the task was to teach maybe I would not be as nervous as I was because I had once taught English to little kids. I was also afraid that they would not listen to me and find the story boring. However, now I realized that the whole storytelling experience was enjoyable because they put all their attention to me and understood the story.

At the first meeting, honestly I felt a little bit intimidated because quite a lot of kids showed up. There were about nineteen of them. Thankfully, they were not intimidating at all. They were far from being intimidating and boring; they were actually funny. Some kid love to make jokes and it really helped to break the ice. They also listened to the story well even though some kids couldn’t understand the story right away. I personally liked the moment where we played games before doing the storytelling. It was obvious that they had a lot of fun as they rarely learn English through games. I’m glad that they could have fun learning all the unfamiliar English vocabularies because to some people English may seems like a very difficult and scary subject. At the second and third meeting, the number of kids who showed up was less than the first one. As the ninth grader couldn’t come for some reason, the rest of the kids who were overshadowed by their senior became more active and talked a lot more. They were still as enthusiastic as ever. I was relieved to see that they could understand and retell the story in bahasa. To be honest, I thought at first only the ninth graders could follow us easily. It turns out they are all very smart! and kind! and fun to be around with!

How about you Syeikha, Nicky, and Sovia? What do you feel about the whole storytelling experience?

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Anindita Larasati // 1506682401

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Syeikha Annisa Marasabessy (1506751475) : Aninn, I agree with you that the first day made us nervous. I hadn't have any experience of teaching kids other than my family, so just with the thought of thinking made me so nervous. However, those kids were friendly, and they followed the materials well. I was happy that they responded to our question well. This made me think about how hard our teachers taught us back on the day when we were still kids. They must have been happy if we answered their questions actively instead of avoiding to answer. Well, sometimes we do not answer the question because we do not have the courage to do it or probably because we do not know the answer. This taught me that we should at least answer the question according to what we know. I'd love to have another experience like this 😊😊😊

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Say “One step at a time, okay?” to me

Final week for this semester has been pretty overwhelming for me. I haven’t had proper sleep these past few days. I haven’t eaten much for I thought I had no time for it. I realized that my current lifestyle is getting worse. I’ve recently had a constant headache. I realized that my body is in dire need of rest and treatment now. For once I wondered whether it has been me procrastinating a lot; it might be true, but it might also because I tend to do less with more focus?  Perhaps I feel overwhelmed for I’ve had more complex work assigned for me. Perhaps it was true that I didn’t manage my time well. Perhaps I should have learned how to multitask. Perhaps... wait, I need to stop right here.

I chose that sentence as the title of this journal because I guess I really need someone to tell me that. In front of my face. I feel like I have no motivation to do all of this anymore, and I need someone to tell me that because that way he or she would help me remind myself to limit the burden within my mind. I feel like this has been too much but I have to face it anyway, no other choice. But then this is where I slowly try to accept the reality that I don’t live as a robot. I am a human being and I get tired whenever I work overtime. 

It’s early in the morning on Thursday, and I have one day left. *takes a deep breathe*

Astrid Restu Chaerani

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If you have never made your own bread before,

I would suggest you try at least once in your life. I feel like too many people exaggerate the difficulty level of bread-making. They made it much more difficult than it really is. When in reality, I would say that they are actually one of the most fun things you could try your oven out with. My favorite bread to bake is the focaccia. Focaccia is an italian flatbread which roughly resembles the pizza dough, just with less fancy technique and more crunch-to-sponge contrast. Focaccia is a rather thick flatbread with indents on its surface, so it could carry flavors and olive oil on it. Another thing about focaccia is that it is such a great carrier of olive oil. Olive oil is known to be an anti-inflammatory, aids to weight loss, lessens the risk of heart diseases, and-the best part- it acts as a wonderful flavor carrier. For real, though, some people even drink spoonfuls of plain olive oil everyday for just the health benefits. To make focaccia, you would need about 500g of bread flour mixed with a teaspoon of salt in a big bowl. In a glass or mug, stir together 300ml of lukewarm water, some sugar, about a 7g sachet of instant yeast, and around a tablespoon of olive oil. If you're confident, you could even eyeball these measurements. I just got them for writing purposes--I never measured my ingredients whilst baking. Usually you could mix the dry and wet ingredients right away. However, if you're using an opened sachet of yeast and want to make sure that the yeast are still alive and active, you could wait around 10 minutes and see if a foam layer forms. If so, you're good to go. If not, getting some new yeast might be a good idea. Once you have your dry and wet ingredients ready, mix them together. Starting with tossing motions to roughly mix them, and continuing by kneading the dough together until it could form a smooth-surfaced ball. It is important to remember that it's always better to have a  softer dough than a tougher dry one, so I would suggest taking a quarter of a cup of the flour mix the first time you mix, adding more and more until it's no longer sticky. I would say that it should feel like a play-doh? Dont be afraid to add a bit more water/flour to get the consistency you want, the dough should totally be under your control. Kneading the dough would eventually result in a smooth dough that springs back when poked. Once it's smooth, you can cover the bowl with a damp tea towel and leave it for half an hour until it doubled in size. Use this time to start doing your flavors. Think of your favorite flavor combinations. My all time favorite would be tomato, basil, and garlic. I would just do a quick chopping of the ingredients and pour them into a bowl, adding olive oil along with it. Once doubled in size, you could take the dough out into a floured surface and knock some of the air out. Grab a baking tin and sort of position the dough until it fills the tin. Then take your fingers and press random dents into the dough. Take your herb oil and pour it over the dough, making sure that it gets everywhere. Once all of that is done, you could start heating the oven while proofing the bread for another 20 minutes. After the 20 minutes, gently place your dough in the oven and bake for around 20 minutes. Remember to take the bread out while it was still hot. This is because a hot crunchy-crusted bread means a bread that could suck up any kinds of moisture or flavour poured their way. This stage would be the best time to pour more olive oil into the bread. The pouring of cold oil onto the bread allows for a crispy crust which has this unique sensation I coulf only describe as "a lot like a deepfried snack". Once that's all done, you'll have all to yourself, the gorgeous bread with crunchy crust and spongy soft center. While I was in Rome, I had to run into a bakery to find a toilet. After coming out, I smelled the best scent I have ever smelled in my whole life. It wasnt vanilla, or cinnamon, or anything like that. It was just the smell of freshly baked bread with hints of other flavors, but mostly olive oil. It was just the best thing I have ever experienced, I really hope you'd try eating, if not baking, this kind of bread sometime in the future as it truly is amazing. Ken Rahmalia 1506728705

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Got any Baygon?

Go to hell cockroaches.

I —Sonia Tinshe, born in Jakarta, December 11th 1997— hate (and scared of) cockroaches so much. I think most people would feel the same way about this creature. However, I feel like I have a deeper and much intense fear of cockroaches. The story began about almost three months ago. I was cleaning my super messy bedroom when I notice some creepy skin residue that you would find after an egg hatched. You know, like when those baby alligators hatched and their egg turn into a skin like residue? I had an instant bad feeling when I saw them in my book shelf. Fast forward to two weeks after I discovered those hatched egg, I felt something moving inside my blanket when I was looking through my instagam. Reflex, I jumped out of the bed and found out that it was a cockroaches that was running through my legs. I didn’t kill it because it disappeared too fast, too bad. Since that night, I’ve been living in a constant fear.  Dang, I’m still scared remembering that night. After that night, every time I wanted to sleep I would have to remind myself to stay calm but still it’s not easy. I would also hear like tiny little legs running through my bookshelf as if it’s mocking me. I would also smell a very bad odor that I knew belong to that annoying creature and do nothing besides feeling scared. The cockroaches is very cruel you know. Why did they come to my room? Why did they hatch in my bookshelf? I hate them so much.

However, something terrifying yet satisfying happened yesterday. I was working on my assignments when I hear those legs walking through my books. I know that this is my moment to fight back. They can’t just scared me like that, I have the rights not to be scared. Finally, I looked for a courage and ask her if she’s ready for this moment. The courage said that she’s never been more ready. Through the approval of my courage and the support of my dignity, I decided to kill that cockroach. It was not easy though, I have to fight a winged cockroach for my freedom. He or she did put up a fight. But, nothing can beat the power of a scared girl. I WON!! I KILLED THE COCKROACH!! I was flippin happy, you know. But, lilt did I know that because of that cockroach I will live in constant fear. It turns out that the cockroach has a family, and her or his family is seeking a revenge on me. Every night, the family will come and scare the crap out of me. And still up until now, I AM STILL SCARED!!!

Sonia Tinshe, 1506719386

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Visiting Macau

At the end of April, I visited Macau. This city reminded me of Batam. They have their own authority to be an independent region, but they are still under the China government. When I arrived at the port of Macau, I found many signs that were written in Portuguese. 

I was not surprised, because Macau in the past was colonized by the Portuguese. The city architecture was also influenced by Portuguese architecture. The people of Macau seemed politer than people in Hong Kong and Shen Zen. Most of Macau’s people work as gamblers. Almost 70% of the city’s income comes from the casino industry. They really love playing casino. Surprisingly, Macau has the biggest casino industry in Asia which makes it the “Las Vegas” of Asia. 

After I arrived at the port, I went to the ruin of St. Paul. It was a church that had been burned 3 times by accident, leaving only the remains of the gate. I took some photos in front of the gate, just for my Instagram feed. I stayed there for only 15-20 minutes, because it was crowded. Then, we went to buy egg tart. It is made with original recipe from Portugal. The taste? Very delicious and crunchy! As the time went, we also visited some handicraft and souvenirs shops. I was not interested in them, because I was so tired, and I had twisted my ankle. I fell asleep in the bus. Suddenly, when I woke up, I saw many big buildings with glowing signs everywhere. The city was covered by rainbow glowing light. My tour guide said that every hotel in Macau has a casino to attract tourists.

I was amazed by what I saw. I thought it would be nice if I took some photos of the casino building. Unfortunately, my father asked me to take our baggage first before I could take photos. I was annoyed, because I did not want to lose the chance to do some photography. I looked checked my phone, it was 11 PM. The city was very quiet, but there were many supercars like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, etc. going by on the street. Also, there were people wearing tuxedos walking into the casino. All buildings in the city turned on their lights. It was so spectacular.

Muhammad Affan / 1506752982

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Saturday, May 20, 2017, 06:07 pm, I’m sitting on my desk and trying to write the last journal entry of this semester. I just got home after meeting and teaching a bunch of enthusiastic kids. As you may have guessed already, they’re the kids that I did a storytelling for. I’m glad we were given this task to tell them a story and teach them a little bit of English. At first, I was not really confident to do this because I thought I was bad at storytelling. If the task was to teach maybe I would not be as nervous as I was because I had once taught English to little kids. I was also afraid that they would not listen to me and find the story boring. However, now I realized that the whole storytelling experience was enjoyable because they put all their attention to me and understood the story.

At the first meeting, honestly I felt a little bit intimidated because quite a lot of kids showed up. There were about nineteen of them. Thankfully, they were not intimidating at all. They were far from being intimidating and boring; they were actually funny. Some kid love to make jokes and it really helped to break the ice. They also listened to the story well even though some kids couldn’t understand the story right away. I personally liked the moment where we played games before doing the storytelling. It was obvious that they had a lot of fun as they rarely learn English through games. I'm glad that they could have fun learning all the unfamiliar English vocabularies because to some people English may seems like a very difficult and scary subject. At the second and third meeting, the number of kids who showed up was less than the first one. As the ninth grader couldn't come for some reason, the rest of the kids who were overshadowed by their senior became more active and talked a lot more. They were still as enthusiastic as ever. I was relieved to see that they could understand and retell the story in bahasa. To be honest, I thought at first only the ninth graders could follow us easily. It turns out they are all very smart! and kind! and fun to be around with!

How about you Syeikha, Nicky, and Sovia? What do you feel about the whole storytelling experience?

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Anindita Larasati // 1506682401

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The Reason Why I Love Slime

I have been asked a lot of time before as to why I love slime so much. A lot of people think that I am weird and a little bit childish for liking a child’s toy. The main reason for my love towards slime is because it helps my anxiety. Slime is basically a stress reliever toy. A lot of people often find slime to be kind of satisfying, whether it be the video of the slime or playing with it. I often find myself opening Instagram to watch 60 seconds slime videos when I feel a little bit anxious and it works wonderfully. For the videos itself, it’s not so much of how the slime looks, but more of the sound that slime makes when it is being played. Slime videos are big thing in the social media nowadays. Slime videos are considered an ASMR videos which stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. It is described as a physical sensation of tingling which brings pleasurable feeling, making the hearer relaxed. The sound of slime is a part of ASMR trigger. ASMR triggers are a certain sound what give tingling sensation. I don’t know about the whole tingling thing, but I do enjoy the sounds of slime so much. What I have noticed is that when I am playing with slime or watching slime videos, I am not thinking about things that makes me anxious, so I guess in a way, playing and watching it can take your mind off of things. So there you have it. That is my reason as to why I love slime so much.

Talyta Chita Rumpoko 1506752912

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How to Make a Fluffy Slime!

If you guys haven’t noticed, I am a little bit addicted to slimes. One of my favourite types of slimes is fluffy slime. Just like the name, the slime is fluffy, soft, and have a cloud-like texture. It is also very simple to make. The recipe is similar to a basic slime, it only needed a couple more extra ingredients. What you will need to make this slime are a bowl, something to mix with, a glue (duh), water, foaming hand wash, a foaming face wash, lotion, shaving cream, and an activator. To make the slime you need to pour in your desired amount of glue (I usually put in about a cup) and a teaspoon of water. Next step is to add  a couple pumps of foaming hand wash, a couple pumps of foaming face wash and a touch of lotion. Mixed after everything is well combined. After that, you can add the shaving cream (this is my favourite part). Add about a dollop of shaving cream. The more you add the shaving cream, the fluffier the slime will be. After mixing the mixture thoroughly, you can add in your activator. I honestly prefer the borax solution, but you can use whichever solution you have at home (liquid starch / detergent or contact solution + baking powder). Add in A LITTLE bit at a time. Too much activator will cause your slime to harden and not stretchy , which you don’t want. Stir your slime until the slime formed and no longer touching the side foe the bowl. Next, you want to knead the slime until the slime is no longer sticky. If the slime is not that stretchy, you can add more lotion. If the slime is still sticky, you can add more activator. Store your slime in an air-tight container. And your done! Your slime is ready to be played with. It is so much fun to make and such a nice stress reliever toy.

Talyta Chita Rumpoko 1506752912

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How to Restore Broken Compact Powder

               Nowadays, all women are usually using make up. They need to use it to make themselves look more beautiful. They feel more confident if they use make up, because make up could recover all black dots or any pimples. However, they often have troubles in their makeup kit, especially when it is broken. If the compact powders or eyeshadows fell down hard, it could easily broke. Most women worried about it. If it happened, they would be very sad, because they think that they wouldn’t be able to fixed it. In addition, it would be too bad if it should be thrown away. However, it can be fixed. And now, I want to tell you the easy way to fix your broken compact powder and eyeshadow.

               Before we start to fix it, you need to prepare these things; a few rubbing alcohol, a small spatula, and a sheet of plastic wrap. The first step is that you need to take all the broken powder, and put it into the original container. After that, put the plastic wrap above it, and start to smash it with spatula until all the powder crushed smoothly. Next, pull out the plastic wrap, then add a few drops of the rubbing alcohol into the powder, and start to mix it with spatula or your finger. Mix it until you can feel that it is equally smooth. The last step is you only need to wait and leave it for one day until the alcohol has dried out. And fulla! Your make up will back to normal without any smell of alcohol, and you can use it again!

               This simple steps will help you to restore your make up easily. If you have already fixed it, you can reuse your make up again, so it would be useful without waste it. Also, you don’t need to spend too much money to buy the new makeup. Give it a try! Good luck!

 Larisa Indriani Putri

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Produce 101 Season 2: A Survival, Reality Show

              Hello everyone! It’s me again, Syeikha. I’d like to tell you my favorite TV show for the last several weeks. On this Friday, the next episode of Produce 101 Season 2 will air. I didn’t really watch all episodes one-by-one, but I followed the program on Youtube. Basically, I only looked for the performances from each group in every episode. It was a very good way to judge them fairly, I think, since I could be very objective of seeing each member’s skill and talent. I said it that way because the editing in the show matters so much to lead the audience’s views on those trainees. You might wonder, “What’s this show about?” Okay, let me explain a bit.

               Produce 101 is a survival, reality Korean show of choosing 11 out of 101 trainees to make their debut in the music industry and perform within a year period after the show ends. Originally, this show consists of female contestants in the first season, but it tries the male version, so yeah this is the season 2. This is a very big chance for the trainees whose companies are neither big nor known. If they could stay until the last episode and become one of the members to make a debut, they will be very popular like IOI, the group who made its debut from the first season. Why can this happen? It’s simply because of the voting system. This show is famous internally (in Korea) and internationally (for K-pop fans). One of the major reasons people watch it is because of the success of the first season. In the first season, international fans could vote for their favorite trainee, yet now, the show will not count the international votes. The voting results differ so much from the previous to this season that the numbers of vote become bigger as the show is watched by more people. I take an example from the first elimination in both seasons: the trainee who was placed first in the first and second seasons got 559,694 votes and 1,044,197 respectively. The difference is big, isn’t it? It’s two times bigger. You can see that this season is more popular considering the high votes despite only Koreans can vote.

             I have already watched the first one although I didn’t watch the determining episode because I imagined it would be sadder to watch the trainees who were only a-step-away from their debut throughout the show. However, I still planned to watch the second one fully after the finals end, but maybe I will skip the same part as the part I skipped in the first season. Unfortunately, there are only 11 episodes to decide who will be the chosen trainees, so we can only get several performances. As far as I have watched, the performances are so good. Back to my introduction topic, if we watch performances without knowing the performers’ characters or whether they work hard or not, we will judge them precisely on how well they are on stage. I can say that almost all contestants in this season are qualified to be the 11 trainees-to-make-debut.

            I will now talk about my favorite stages in season 2 so far. These teams that I am going to mention are given names based on their performance songs. First of all, I really like Call Me Baby team 1 especially the rap part which is so interesting. Then I like 10 Out of 10 team 2 which is like a Taekwondo-dance performance, and Boy in Luv team 1 and 2. Those are from the first group mission of the show. I think I watched the others also, but those four performances caught me the most. From the second mission, I like Right Round team, If It’s You team, Playing with Fire team, and Get Ugly team. I got my eyes on many trainees, and I’m looking forward for their next performances. I can’t really choose whom to vote because I am confused (well, international fans cannot vote), so is Korean audience. It is shown from the voting results every week that the results are not stable. The first season showed stability in results between the first and second place that those trainees would only compete with each other for the first place. Meanwhile, we cannot really predict the results in this season. In fact, the first-place trainee on the first elimination moves down to third place in the 6th episode, whereas the other trainees move up and down. Who will be the trainees that make their debut? Let’s just wait and see.

Writer:

Syeikha Annisa Marasabessy

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4th Entry (4th semester)

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Community Service: My First Time Teaching Experience

I am going to briefly share about my community service experience in teaching beginner-level english learners who are all junior high school students from SMPN 3 Depok. As we all know, this community service, provided by EWB, is one of the activity from Listening and Speaking class that all second year students need to do. At first, to be honest, I was sooo nervous when I hear about this teaching program that we need to do during this semester since I personally did not have any teaching experience before.

22nd of April was my first time teaching. Apparently, there were lots of students more than what I’ve expected. There were almost 20 students, they are all from the 7th grade until 9th grade students. I was really nervous at that time, but eventually it turned out really well. Me and my team were successfully told the story clearly and received lots of positive responses from the students. They are all fun and responsive, which made me really happy and couldn’t wait for my next sessions!

Then after that, the next two sessions also went well. The students were fewer by the last two sessions since there were no 9th graders (they were having national exam preparation and stuff). Even so, it didn’t decrease my passion in teaching them.

Apparently, last Saturday was our last session. It was kind of sad for me since I already feel myself in it. Me and my team are also already have bond with them, so it was kind of sad to know the fact that it was our last session. This experience has given me a total new perspective in teaching. Teaching is actually not that bad, and I really enjoy the time that I’ve spent in teaching the kids. I feel good that I can actually share the knowledge that I have for these people; these kids, to help them improve and become a better generation in the future.  

4th Entry Journal // term 4

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Just A Short Analysis...

Perhaps this kind of writing is too heavy to be posted as a journal entry. However, I really wanted to post this, so yeah—here it goes. So, I’ve got an assignment from the race and gender class to watch a movie titled The Haunting Ground, and then read the article “Sexual Agression, Masculinity, and Fathers” Apparently, I found some interesting connection between the movie and the article. First thing first, “The Haunting Ground” basically illustrates how women (in this case, rape survivors) struglling, seeking for justice after being raped by men. All women in this documentary movie are college students of the so-called universities among the United States (there is also one university from England as well) that have become the victim of rape by college boys, who are mostly the jocks and the fraternity boys. These victims of rape have already tried to report these cases that they experienced to their college. However, what they get are mostly blaiming. The college protects these predators (rapists) and hide the rape case as hard as they can, so that their university ‘brand’ is not polluted by these negative news.

From the movie, the part that I want to highlight more is about the fraternity. The movie shows that the fraternity-associations, that each of these so-called universities have, are the biggest peer groups, I can say, among men. This fraternity shows such a very strong hypermasculinity among the members. I am going to start with the big frame of rape. According to the article that I have read, rape is basically the act of domination and violence in which sexuality become the vehicle to express it. The article basically describes more about what are the possible backgrounds that can may lead men to have the strong idea of masculinity, doing hostile to women, become dominating and agressive, and end up doing rape. In psychological analysis that are consulted from the text, it is highly known that family plays a massive role in determining the childrens’ behavior. Male children, who are experincing the absence of their fathers tend to grow as men with hypermasculinity, tend to show domination over women, and express hostile to women. Why is this happening? Because they have lost the figure who can actually internalize their masculinity, in this case, the figure of father. Later, this condition shapes “toughness” inside of them, and this is exactly the background of hypermasculinity’s existence inside these males. Also, by the absence of their father figure, they tend to form this juvenile gangs that end up teaching them the wrong male roles. This juvenile gangs, which consist of a bunch of insecure individuals, have the mindset that masculinity can hide their insecurities. This peer-group, juvenile gangs, at the end will agree that the social conquest becomes primary measure of self esteem, and this social conquest illustrates in the act of raping women. I can see that this part relate so much with the college’s fraternity. It is mentioned in the movie that the frat-boys rape women for fun, and also as a proof of their ‘man’ pride.  It is cleary seen that fraternity in western colleges depicts hypermasculinty. Not only masculinty, these rapists also usually physcially abuse the victim. This act of abusing the rape victims shows that there is the indication of misogyny, other than just hypermasculinty. The indication of misogyny, according to the article that I have read, shows through the man’s perception in which they think that they are capable of doing force over woman’s resistance, in this case when they force women to have sex with them and using violence over women to get ‘what they want’.

Another cause of this hypermasculinty that I have found within the article is also related with mother’s role in the family. One of the research in the article shows that mother holds a determining role too, not only father, so if there is a boy who experienced mother’s domination tend to perform domination among women in the future. The domination that they got from their mother somehow creates the rebellious behaviour among themselves, which can lead into the act of dominating other women and think themselves as the superior ones, are the power controller over women.

Another concerning thing from the movie is about the mens’ opinion in the movie towards rape. I still remember one of the man said, “It doesn’t mean that if a man want to have sex, and the woman says no, means that the woman is raped.” This saying-quote totally shows the image of superiority that the man has, in which they think that they are the superior ones and can do anything that they want without being blamed for their act. This quote also depicts one of the article’s idea about pathriacal society, in which women are generally objectified. This then leads into a perception that men have control over power, that they are the superior ones. Also, from here, they think that controlling over women’s body become common thing from them since it is corresponding to the culture values in general that they have grown up with, in this context, pathriacal society value.

Altogether, I think both internal and external factors matter in shaping someone’s behavior, in this case the internal factors include the parenting system and child-rearing system, while the external factors include the peer groups’ behaviours and the certain values that have grown in the society.

3rd Entry Journal // term 4

Dominick Wulandhani 1506752950

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Sharing is Caring part 2

Yesterday was my last visit to Saungelmu. It was pretty sad because I found happiness when I shared laughter with them. I found my happiness when I saw their spirit to learn new things. I found happiness when I talked to them. I found my happiness when they respond and put their attention on me. At first, we reviewed what we have taught to them so far. Surprisingly, some kids have still remembered the vocabularies that we have learned so far. Then we decided to draw. They seemed very happy. They use their imagination to color the drawings. It was beyond words to see this activity. I talked to the new member of the kids (I did not meet her on our first meeting). Her name is Devi. She talked a lot. She asked a lot, but she was not annoying so I did not upset at all. When we were talking about Hello Kitty, we asked them ‘can you guess what animal Hello Kitty is?” and they all answered “Cat!” very good, kiddos! But then Devi called me and whispered “Kak Icha, isn’t Hello Kitty means Hello Devil?” wait.. what? I was quite shocked because it is nonsense that Kitty means devil… so I asked her “No, Kitty means Cat. Where did you get that?” she replied, “my friend told me. so she was lying to me, right?” I laughed so hard and said, “yes.. she fooled you, Devi.” We both laughed. Ah, and Almira was there also! Then, the time went by so fast and we did not realize that it was already 5 P.M. honestly, I was sad because it was my last visit to Saungelmu. I love the kids a lot. When the class finished, Devi and Almira came to me and suddenly hugged me. They said, “Kak Icha, see you next time” I was touched and almost crying… I am very grateful to get a chance to know all of them. I taught them English, they taught me how to be grateful. See you next time kiddos! Don’t stop chasing your dreams because dream do come true.

“never get tired of doing little things for others, sometimes those little things occupy the biggest parts of their hearts” -unknown

So here are pictures of us on our last visit to Saungelmu!

they made us this:”) 

Annisaa Hasna Khalishah

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Sharing is Caring part 1

You may think I am careless, but actually, I hardly find time to volunteering myself to do public service. Until… Listening Speaking final project.

Deep down inside my heart, I think the true happiness is when we share and giving to others. This semester, I got a chance to volunteer myself doing a storytelling to those unfortunate children. I got Saungelmu as my site. The first time I got there, I actually pretty shocked because the place was dirty and it was in a dense settlement. However, it did not stop the excitement of mine to teach those kids. When I met them, excitement level increased until 100%. They were very young and smart. I really adore those kids. It did not take long for me to actually getting known each of them. I easily remembered names & faces, so it was easy to closer to them. There is this one child named Almira, who is very cute and young. She was only 6 years old. She talked much and every time I played around with her, she responds me with a flirtatious smile. There is also this annoying boy named Karno, but he respected me every time I tried to catch all these kids attention. There are also Rian and Dimas who liked to tease the others. Then, the two young girls named Tari and Siti who is very talented. They were the smartest among others. They were very quick to receive the lesson from us. I saw them like they had a passion for learning, especially learning English. I was touched with their ability to understand the new vocabularies that were given by us. I deeply in love with them at the first sight.

Here is the picture of my group (me, Affan, Tria, Kenny) on our first visit featuring the other group, Eddel Kamila Alya Mei.

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