Space Settlement
My father was one of the first men
who mined the moon for materials
(How I loved to say their names when I was young- aluminium, titanium, iron, silicon) to make gigantic tubular wheels that weightlessly
For ever float revolving gently in the vastness of space
When I was ten, my father came to live in this space settlement
What a joy, what unbridled pride my parents felt to be among the chosen
To be ole saviours of the human race
Supplying it with solar energy, essential
As its precious stock of oil and coal ran out.
My only brother and I, we did not doubt we would be happy here.
We were the chose children of chosen parents.
Near the low gravity hub of the wheel
The sapphire swimming pool was our perpetual delight
Diving , we fell slowly, light as winged seeds,
Performing effortlessly aerial acrobatics
No Earth-bound Olympic Champion could ever rival.
From the bottom pushing off we dived upwards exulting
Emerging like dolphins, frisky as flying fish.
For a year or more we never wearied of our aquatic games
Then suddenly without apparent reason, we did grow weary.
Each day the same hours of reflected sunlight the same temperature each night,
Each day not even a breeze. And worst of all no sky, no clouds,
No beast bird butterfly. The same dull food each day-
Wheaten bread maize, fish, rice, vegetables, soya beans.
I began to hate my new friends, even my own brother.
We were always quarrelling.
I longed for my old friends, to play the games we played.
Talk about familiar things and happenings.
Longed, Longed for my farmer life.
Exiled for ever, I can never return.
Each night now I dream I am home again.
OPINION:
New life is wanted by anybody but it doesn’t mean it can be enjoyed b them. Although you have everything you need but you are separated from other humans, you will feel that you are life is isolated. It will be colourless and hopeless because human are social creature. They need to interact and socialize with other human. Life is not only for what you have but also for what you enjoyed. Happily life means what you create not what you have.
But overall this poem is a good poem
Senin, 24 Mei 2010
Space Settlement
May 23 Diary
May 23, 2010
Today I went to Jakarta to see some exhibitions about furniture. It was a long and boring trip that we had. We spent for about 8 hours there. Going to the exhibition is really boring and tiring. We went to the exhibition from 12 o’clock till 6 o’clock after that we had dinner in Chinese Restaurant and came to Bandung.
May 22 Diary
May 22, 2010
Today I woke up early in the morning and had a private lesson… After my private lesson was finished about 2 o’clock I went to Monique’s house to do our computer assignment. We did it seriously and we enjoyed it. After we finished it, I went and got ready to go to Tony Roma’s to meet my old friends from SMN. We gathered at Tony Roma’s at about 7 pm. We had really enjoyed it. Laughing and talking cheerfully. We had talked a lot even unnecessary things because we had not met each other for a long time. We finished having dinner at Tony Roma’s at about 9.30 pm. Today was a long and tiring day but I felt really excited.
Prediction Life in 2025
In this essay I would like to tell you about my prediction life in 2025. In my prediction there will be negative and positive sides. I believe the worst thing is about global warming.
In my prediction the positive side is there is going to be a modern new things and later there would be things that make our life easier both in the way of communicating and living. Maybe there will be a robot that helps us clean our house which in cheap budget? Or maybe there is a touch screen table? Or flying cars? Or in 2025 we can have a trip to Mars, Venus, or even Saturn? But behind all this positive prediction, there must be a negative side.
Global warming is going to be the worst problem. Ice melts in very rapid speed, flood everywhere, earthquake, volcanic eruption. Beside that there will be water crisis which would bring the land to drought. After the land is drought there would be famine everywhere because there are no fertile lands to grow crops.
All that negative side could happen! Imagine if you have no water to bath, no water to drink. Do you think you can survive with that condition?
Some impossibilities living in 2025 is:
-We can't see the endangered animal
-We can't breathe the fresh air because it is all polluted
-No traditional things
-Not much forest we can see
For me life in 2025 would get worse. Perhaps my prediction is wrong. In fact life in 2025 is much better than now. Some predictions can be right or wrong. I’m just trying to say whatever the condition is in 2025 we just need to be ready and prepared!
Rabu, 28 April 2010
Reported Speech
A few days ago, Mr. Zhou asked Mrs. Zhou if she would like to go to town with him. They could go at about ten, after he had finished putting up those shelves. Mrs. Zhou said that that was fine because she had some house cleaning to do but she would come along. She told him that she had to get Weiwen a present for his birthday and a pair of shoes for herself. She then asked if they could leave a little later than ten, because she needed to finish the washing and cook lunch for Weiwen.
Mr. Zhou protested and said that she did too much for that boy. He also asked if he was old enough to get his own lunch. He argued that when he had been Weiwen’s age, his parents had expected him to do his share of the housework. Mrs. Zhou said that had been 20 years ago. Things had changed since then. Mr. Zhou added that he agreed with her and said that they had changed for the worse and commented that children had become spoiled and had too many things and they didn’t appreciate their parents. Mrs. Zhou disagreed and said that Weiwen is a sensitive boy who gets easily upset but he does appreciate them. Mr. Zhou added that when they buy him toys and said they would go to town at eleven, if it suits him better.
Trip To Singapore
An Unforgettable Trip to Singapore
On Tuesday we, 7A gathered at school at 7.00am for briefing before going to Singapore. We began our trip going to Jakarta at 08.00am. Arriving at the airport we had our lunch at Hoka-Hoka Bento then we went to the gate. We were a bit late to get on the plane. It took one and half hour getting to Singapore. When we had arrived in Singapore we were pick up by the travel agent there. They brought to the dormitory of Anglo-Chinese School, where the boys were staying. While the girls were stay at Riders Lodge Hotel.
The next day we had to attend some classes in ACS. We were divided into several classes and I was in the 2.10 with Elvin and Yuthaya. The first class was Literature. They were learning about extract and finding the characteristics of the characters. They were so active finding for the answer. The next lesson was Math. They are learning about standard form. They were playing games to make themselves understand more about standard form. After that the class was over because they had to support their classmate in the tennis competition.
On the 3rd day and the 4th day we were learning at ACS again. The 3rd day subjects were: Living Science, Language Art, and Chemistry. The 4th day subjects were: History, Living Science, Art and Music.
On the 5th day the travel agent were taking us around Singapore they brought us to China Town Heritage Center, Merlion, Marina Barage, Science Center and Omni-Max Theater. At China Town we were learning how the past generation lived in Singapore. While at Merlion we were taking a class picture. At Marina Barage we learnt about the water reservoir that links to Geography. At Science Center we learnt about science and at the Omni-Max Theater we watched a movie called underworld. The Omni-Max Theater is so huge with their world’s biggest screen.
On the 6th day we were going to Botanical Garden to see various plants. After that they were taking us to Sentosa Island. First we went to Images of Singapore where we could see about the past. Then we went to Universal Studio. Monique, Kenny, Josef, Ivan and I were playing Mummy!! We played Mummy 7 times. Mummy is a kind of jet coaster. We were very playing excited playing the game.
On the last day we went to the zoo. To see a variety of animals. Then we went to airport to get back to Indonesia. That’s all that I can share with you about my trip to Singapore.
Senin, 22 Maret 2010
Rabu, 10 Maret 2010
The Death of Dulmatin
Densus 88, the Indonesian anti terrorist team, had killed Dulmatin, an international terrorist during a police raid in Pamulang, Jakarta on 9 March 2010. This Arabic Javanese was wanted for the 2002 Bali bombings which took the lives of 202 people, mostly foreign tourist. He was a senior figure in Jemaah Islamiyah and was one of the most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia.
He received training in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and was believed to have been the protégé of Azahari Husin. Under his guidance he became an electronic specialist and expert bomb maker. Together with Azahari, he assembled cars bomb use in the 2002 Bali Bombing and set them off with a mobile phone.
Allegedly, he provided explosive expertise and training to other militants in the Philippines since 2003 and was involved in exchange fire with the Philippines’s military in January 2007 on the southern island of Jolo in which radio intercept and human intelligence indicated that he was wounded.
Under the Reward For Justice Program, The United State offered a 10 million for his capture.
Source: Wikipedia [10 March 2010]
Kompas [10 March 2010]
Rabu, 24 Februari 2010
Famous Inventor
Thomas Alva Edison is one of great inventor of all time. I believe that all of you know him. He is the one invented the light for the world and electricity. Imagine how smart he is? I believe that he is a patient, smart, diligent person and also he struggle for his life. And the most important he never give up even though he fail so many times in his experiment to invent lamp and electricity.
Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan Ohio on February 11, 1847 he was an American inventor, scientist and businessman. He studied in the School of Natural Philosophy and The Cooper Union. He had a hearing problem that causing deafness. When he was a child he sold candy and newspapers on trains running from Port Huron to Detroit, and he sold vegetables to supplement his income. When he was teenager he became a telegraph operator. On December 25, 1871, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell, he had three-children. On February 24, 1886, at the age of thirty nine, Edison married 20-year-old Mina Miller in Akron, Ohio, she was the daughter of inventor Lewis Miller. They also had three-children.
Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey. His first invention was phonograph. Then he built a laboratory named Menlo Park in the same city. The laboratory then became the center of many inventions done by Thomas himself and together with some of his friends. From this lab he invented carbon telephone transmitter, which was next very important part for the invention of telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. But the most important invention he made in this lab was the invention of the light bulb in 1880. After that, he formed Edison Electric Light Company in New York City in 1878. Besides, he was granted the patent of the first Kinetograph, the motion picture camera.
Thomas Alva Edison dedicated his entire life for enlightening the world by his inventions. He struggled hard for human beings and this world. Although he faced so many failures in the process of inventing, he kept going on until he became successful. On October 18, 1931 he died of complications of diabetes.
Selasa, 23 Februari 2010
Appeal Letter
I apologize for worrying you on this subject, but a serious illness has exhausted our reserve fund and I am finding myself in difficulties at the moment. If you could possibly let me have hundred twenty or hundred twenty-five pounds for three or four months, it would see me safely around the corner and relieve my mind of a great strain. I have tried my brother John, but with his condition, he has no margin and cannot help me now. My sister's recovery is essential.
Don't hesitate to say "no" if you really cannot do it- I am sure you will if you can.
Laurentia Michelle
Senin, 25 Januari 2010
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